Silent Hill is a world of nightmares existing under an unsuspecting town.
Silent hill exists to draw and trap more individuals, expanding the pool of psyches at its disposal and therefore strengthening and growing. Silent Hill draws those with darkness in their hearts (the mentally unstable, the guilty, the grieving) to further twist itself around the terrors of its visitors. Silent Hill is a place where the mind can escape the body into a verity of worlds created by an accumulation of psyches , thoughts, feelings, and mockeries of the physical world (admittedly Alyssa did play an awfully large roll in bringing it all together to form Silent Hill as it is known).
Silent Hill is a place haunted by memories, and traces of people. Not ghosts exactly, but parts of minds, disturbing reenactments of events and horrifying entities that once may have had human bodies, or maybe they are just nightmares, hallucinations, physical representations of inner turmoil given life and form. All of the above can co-exist in Silent Hill. The fears of characters, become tangible, the inner demons roam freely on the outside taking on terrible guises independent of those who once held them, maybe even for hundreds of years. This reality is pliable to the minds, beliefs, and expectations of the living that inhabit it. The imagination of the characters can mingle, or be forced separate. One characters perception of reality can superimpose onto anotherâs by crossing over. Some nightmares are more powerful than others are. Reality may become different by perceiving it that way, innocent may become monsters in the dark.
In game
The characters will meet each other in silent hill and try to survive. A player may only kill off anybody except the primary protagonists belonging to the other players.
Here is a sketchy character sheet. He is much more intricate than what I have here, but everything will be revealed as the RP unfurls. Hopefully. Players are encouraged to come up with their own character sheets, and make them, should I say, mysterious? Put whatever information youâd like on them.
Name: Arthur Elkloy
Age: 32
Appearance: Pale skin, black hair, small jaw, 5â 11â. Muddy dark green eyes, somewhat slender nose, some stubble forming. Between medium and light frame. Light but bulky corduroy jacket, grey slacks, blue polo shirt.
Occupation: Case worker for the mentally ill and mentally impaired.
Favorite color: sky blue, and cloud white.
Fears: being alone with someone, being in a confined space with someone.
Reason for being in Silent Hill: A client with no living relitatives fled from an assisted living home to Silent Hill.
Darkness: Traumatic childhood. History of insanity in family. Murder.
It would be appreciated and preferred if a player chose to be The Observer: Most likely a child in Silent Hill who is pure, lacking inner demons, and therefore able to see and recognize the all the monsters belonging to all the characters, even when a majority cannot perceive them. The Observer would be able to distinguish between a ârealâ monster and one who appears to be a monster. Of course an animal that has a hallucination of a monster superimposed over it may very well engender a monster from the observerâs psyche. The Observer may even be the client and patient Arthur Elkloy is looking for.
Silent Hill will be trying to corrupt The Observer to gain the power of her (or his) psyche, which would be especially potent. Corruption may involve such things as persuading, or forcing the child to commit murder. The power of The Observer would likely involve manipulation of Silent Hill, for example traveling freely throughout it and all its worlds, warding off the darkness of the other world, maybe transforming into a monster, or angel, herself. The details will be up to whoever chooses to be The Observer. This character would give a focus to the game.
A player may choose to be a particularly prominent monster in Silent Hill instead of a person.
Have fun, and good luck. Remember: try to stay calm.
