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 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:02 pm
Insanity
What is insanity? One might define the state of being insane as "not sane", but how does one know when one is insane or sane? Where is the line that divides the two? What is the line that divides the two? More importantly, is there actually a line that divides them? No one knows the answer. The answer itself is unclear. Failing to be a deep shade of black or a pure and clear white, the answer colors itself grey, causing confusion. Is grey black? Or is it white? Or is it simply a mix of the two? No one knows.
Welcome to Room #21. A special room. Built specially for people like you and me. It's a wide room, enough to fit some 20 people. Beds are filed side-by-side in a neat and organized manner. As if they were waiting. Waiting for you. They call out to you, desperate. Even if you aren't mad now, you soon will be if you continue to stay here.
Why are you here? There are many possible reasons. Perhaps you really are insane. Perhaps you have been forced here due to some conspiracy. It could be that those jealous of you seek to rid themselves of you. Or it could be something darker and deeper.
In front of the room is a door. The door you came it. It remains locked all the time, unless it is mealtime or unless a new "friend" has come to join you. On the back of the door, however, is another door. It remains ignored by all. All know of the door. But no one tries to escape. After all, surely, that door must also be guarded too.
Imagine your surprise when you push the door, and it opens easily, revealing a gaping tunnel, like a maw of a giant beast, ready to swallow you. You don't know what lies beyond. You might not even want to know. However, you are sure of one thing. The tunnel leads to a way out of this cursed place. Or so you think. No one knows, for the blueprints of the asylum do not acknowledge the existence of the tunnel.
The tunnel could lead to your death. But you must now consider. Is it a worse fate to die, or to go insane? The worst the tunnel can do to you, you reason, is to kill you. Staying here, you are bound to go insane, and you are sure that insanity is a fate worse than death. So comes the question. Will you take the gamble? Is it worth your life? Will you choose to struggle until you die or are freed, or will you choose the bliss of being embraced by insanity?
The choice is up to you.
Once again... Welcome to Room #21
1. Insanity
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Background Information
5. Profiles
6. Current Happenings
7. List
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:07 pm
Table of Contents
1. Insanity
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Background Information
5. Profiles
6. Current Happenings
7. List
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:03 pm
Rules
01 _ Literacy is a must. I don't mean just using capitals and all that. Good grammar, properly divided paragraphs and all that.
02 _ Keep the violence under PG-15. Like, you can use gore and stuff, but don't overdo it.
03 _ Stay true to your character. Act the way your character would act. You should know your character. You created his or her personality.
04 _ Be active. Not active as in ten posts a day, but at least one every two days wouldn't hurt.
05 _ Romance is okay, but don't overdo it. After all, where would you find romance in an asylum?
06 _ Swearing is allowed. Just keep it under control.
07 _ No weapons or anything of that sort. This isn't a battle roleplay. You may have a sharp stick, but that's not going to help... much.
08 _ You are not God. No one is God. You are not all powerful. You cannot kill people in one hit, nor can you suddenly avoid every single attack that comes to you.
09 _ Do not control the characters of other people without their permission.
10 _ Humor is good, but be realistic. Do you think a lot of people would be laughing when they're trapped until who knows when in a room?
11 _ To prove that you have read the rules, title the Private Message as "Maggeh in Insanity" and color the font of your Private Message in red, indigo, brown, dark blue, violet, orange or olive.
12 _ Not actually a rule, but I'd appreciate it if people used size 9 when posting.
13 _ Private Message me the profiles, don't post them here.
14 _ When using Out Of Character speech, use [[]], (()) or {{}} symbols.
15 _ Read all rules before sending me the Private Message.
16 _ No one-liners. Please, at least one paragraph.
17 _ I don't want a 5 page essay, but at least make the profile decently long.
1. Insanity
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Background Information
5. Profiles
6. Current Happenings
7. List
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:22 pm
Background
Room #21
Room #21. The room from which you start. Those who come in can never come out... or so it was thought. With the recent discovery of the door, debates have arised among the sane residents on whether to try escaping through the door or not. The room itself is moderately wide, with white walls, although there is a suspicious red stain near the door. The light is always on, shining a sickly green, making anyone who enters the room feel ill. The beds are filed side-by-side neatly, as if the residents are some toys to be organized. The insane claim that the beds speak out to them, but the sane sweep such notions to the side. The room is empty of entertainment - there are no books, no televisions and no music to comfort the desperate dwellers of Room #21. Is this the room in which you will spend your life?
Tunnel
Life, death, freedom, prison, heaven... or hell. Where will this tunnel lead? Does the tunnel even exist? Or is it a figment of imagination resulting from madness? Nothing is known about the tunnel, but those who are determined to leave believe firmly that the tunnel leads to outside the asylum, where they may join their loved ones once more. Will you attempt to enter the tunnel? Will you have faith?
Conflict
Among the sane residents of Room #21, there is a debate resulting from the back door of the room. Will you go out and seek freedom, or will you seek safety in the walls of Room #21? While there are those who say that dying is better than being insane, there are also those who say that life is more precious, and that they will retain their lives even if it means going mad. The tension is high, and some fights have already broken out, the last one nearly resulting in severe injury. Which side will you choose? For while you are sane, you still grasp in your hands the freedom of choice...
Insane
Blissfully free from the fighting among the sane, the insane live their own life. Unaware of the concept of right and wrong, good and bad, safety and danger and most of all sanity and insanity, the mad residents of Room #21 go about living a dream. They manage to entertain themselves in simple ways - playing with their hands, drawing on the floor or talking words that no one understands. Ignorance is but a bliss...
1. Insanity
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Background Information
5. Profiles
6. Current Happenings
7. List
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:53 pm
Profiles
Who are we? Why are we here? What is our ultamite purpose in life? Not many know the answer. Perhaps no one does. But it is clear that we know ourselves enough to introduce ourselves to others. Unless, of course, we've been taken by insanity. Then we know everything yet nothing. However, even if we go insane, one thing remains clear. We are who we are. Nothing will change that.
Name: Name of character?
Age: Age of character?
Gender: Gender of character?
Appearance: Appearance of character? Links are preferred.
Personality: What is your character like?
Side: Room #21 group or Tunnel group?
Reaons: Why do you choose your particular group?
Sanity: Sane or insane?
Reason: If insane, why and how?
Biography: History of your character?
1. Insanity
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Background Information
5. Profiles
6. Current Happenings
7. List
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:59 pm
Current HappeningsPast. What is our past? What has happened to us? What foretells the horrors that will befall us? The Record Book keeps track of everything that has happened, allowing us to remember what is truly important.Day Zero Night: Cedric awakes from a nightmare, waking a few patients up. Discussion arises on the "door", causing an argument between Ankah and Mira. Argument ends, and all resume sleep.
Individual Activities: Cedric goes crazy with tea and crumpets. Bess talks to a pillow. Mira dreams of books, flowers and the "door". The weather in Room #21 is fine, with a chance of mild rain. Trey takes pills to help him sleep. Ankah lifts here middle finger to Mira. Wynn fakes sleep. The former President of the United States is mentioned.
Characters Involved: Cedric, Ankah, Bess, Mira, Trey, Wynn
1. Insanity
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Background Information
5. Profiles
6. Current Happenings
7. List
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:32 am
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:05 pm
[[Roleplay shall begin when we have around 6 or 7 characters. Either that, or it will start next week Monday. Whichever comes first. So please don't post yet.]]
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:36 am
[[We now have 5 people in the roleplay. Roleplaying will start today evening. I shall make the first post sometime then. Thanks to everyone who joined and remember, you can still join after the roleplay has started!]]
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:00 am
Day 0
"Mr. Cedric, it's so hot in here. Mr. Cedric, help!" pleaded a child - a young girl around 8 or 9 - desperately. Next to the girl was her younger brother, a boy around 5 or 6, clinging to her, trembling with tears in his eyes. And fire. There was fire. Burning brightly, sparks flying in the air, furniture falling. Nearing on the two children. And Cedric could do nothing. He dared do nothing. He loved the fire. If the fire wanted the children, he would give it the children. For the fire was his life.
The girl screamed as the fire crept up her dressing gown, and held her brother, as if to protect him from the flames. The boy, paralyzed with fear, could only look at Cedric with tears rolling down hsi eyes. The sight of the child's stare pierced Cedric. There was no malice in the eyes of the child, just a plea for survival. There was no blame, simply innocence, innocence that would soon be lost in the swirling inferno. As Cedric watched, the blaze errupted for the final time, causing him to step back. And as Cedric ran out of the house to watch the glorious flames eat away the house, only one word was in his head. The last word that the girl had muttered before being lost in the flames.
"Help..."
"ARGH!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!" shouted Cedric, sitting up on his bed in fear. Sweat rolled down like a flood on his back, and he gasped for breath, holding his head in his hands. It was the dream. It was alway that dream. "God, I'm sorry..." weeped Cedric. The children would always haunt him. It was his punishment. It was his sin.
Looking around, Cedric was relieved to find that all of his inmates were still sleeping. Being an asylum, people were used to screams in the night, and most had learned to tune it out. An immunity, of sorts. However, Cedric had no intention of going back to sleep, so he decided to have a talk with one of the inmates. Picking up his pillow, he threw it in the direction of Mira Laken.
"Mira, wake up. I have to talk to you."
[[Whoot! We start off with a dramatic entrance!]]
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:15 am
Bess Laurence tossed around in her sleep. She could hear voices.... Wait! Bess woke up, looked around Room #21, and sighed with relief. It had just been Cedric screaming.
"Eh, he probably had a nightmare or something..." she muttered to herself, before crawling under the sheets on her bed in a vain attempt to get more sleep.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:41 am
Trey had been sleeping a dreamless sleep, content. He usually had nightmares, so this kind of sleep was precious to him. Then the scream pierced his ears. He tried to pretend he was still asleep, but he was aggravated.
Finally, he sat up. "Hey, try not to scream so loud, alright? Sleeping is like a sanctuary, where you shouldn't be bothered unless necessary," He said groggily. When he woke up, it was a while before he was functional. His brain couldn't process anything. It wasn't until after he drank coffee, or had been up for two hours, that it could.
He fell back on his bed, staring at the ceiling. It wasn't long before he heard a buzzing sound, and his head started hurting. This happened very frequently now, and it was not pleasant in the least. It had started about six weeks ago. He used to scream when it happened, but he had gotten used to it. It still hurt as bad as ever, though.
After he couldn't bear it anymore, he sat up. "Where'd I put the aspirin...?" He looked through his drawers until he found it. After taking the pills, he got back in bed, hoping that it would not only numb the pain, but help him get back to sleep, as well.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:05 am
Mira was sleeping peacefully for once. She was having a wonderful dream about a nice meadow, stacked with books and flowers.
That is, until she was hit by a pillow.
"Ow! Wha-?" she said groggily. She sat straight, and saw Cedric looking at her in the bed next to her. "Cedric, what's wrong?" she said, kind of irritated, but worried nonetheless.
((Phew, forgot to post in 9. Sorry Mags!))
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:10 am
Bess started talking to her pillow, asking it how the weather was. When she shook her head and realized what had happened, she was relieved that her voice had been muffled by the sheets.
"So... How is everyone?" Bess asked as she crawled out from under the covers. Everyone seems to be waking up, anyway...
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:09 pm
"Oh, sorry, old chap." apologized Cedric to Trey, before realizing that Trey's attention had been directed elsewhere. He hadn't thought that others would wake up. Then, he realized that Mira had woken up, and began to explain his worries to her.
"Well, old bean, I've been having those... dreams again. The one with the two children that were burned. Do... do you think that, perhaps, I am going mad? It's been bothering me over and over. They keep on coming. I'm afraid that I-"
Cedric paused, when a small muffled voice appeared from the bed that contained Bess. She seemed to be talking to either her pillow, her bed or her sheets. He turned to look at her, as she crawled out from her bed.
"Oh, jolly well, Bess." answered Cedric. "Fine weather today, isn't it?"
[[Because all the patients in Room #21 have been there for some time, let us presume that they are familiar with each other.]]
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