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Here all things shall end...
Silence; no mortal shall bear...
Shadows in the dark...
It was a haiku, albeit an ominous one. A young boy sat near the bookshelf from which he had pulled the dusty old tome. He flipped through the rest of the book, but the long paragraphs and small text were a bit much for his 7-year-old mind to focus on after the strange book's introductory haiku. After what seemed to him like an eternity of contemplation, he risked to read the peom aloud...
Immediately, tremors occured across the world, causing widespread panic, including this child in Sootopolis City. These tremors centered on Mt. Moon and Cerulean Cave in Kanto, the Ice Path and Mt. Silver in Johto, the Cave of Origin and Meteor Falls in Hoenn, and Mt. Coronet and the Celestic Town Ruins in Sinnoh. For several days afterwards, an ominous mist rose from these caves; it seemed that a calamity was nigh. None came. The mist receded, and several experience spleunkers soon gathered the courage to check the caves. Oddly, they found nothing amiss. The ordeal slowly disappeared into memory.
As for the boy in Sootopolis City? Fearing the book and its powers, he took it from the library and hid it in his home, lest someone else find it. He never spoke about the book to anyone. At last, he too began to forget...
One by one, the explorers who investigated the afflicted caves fell ill. One night each month, another of them would fail to wake. It was not death; the slipped into a comatose sleep that nothing would seem to wake. This continued until each of the explorers had fallen. A curse? Perhaps...
Seven years later, an Oreburgh coal miner found a strange black plate in the earth. He read aloud, unaware of the suffering he would cause, the white text engraved in the back of the plate:
"Here all things shall end...
Silence; no mortal shall bear...
Shadows in the dark..."
The tremors began, as though a seal had been broken. Across an ocean, a teenage boy dashed horrified to his home to dust off a long forgotten book. It seemed old wounds had been opened...
Rules for "Shadows in the Dark":
Long ago, I said I'd make an RP when I got in touch with my creative side. Here it is, with some uncreative rules.
1. No godmodding.
2. No death of players.
3. Minimal swearing.
4. Please have some discernable ability to write. I will decline you if I can't read your sign-up.
5. As much as I hate it, I'll have to enforce the "4-line rule." No excessively short posts.
The "nonrules":
These are things you can do, that people might be unsure of.
1. Feel free to put up a sign-up anytime. I'll accept new players at any point in the RP.
2. You can try to bend the plot in your own way if you think you can. Just make sure you don't control other players.
3. You can have a battle with another player, although it's hard to get four lines that way.
4. I will not require an RP sample. If you think including one will help you get accepted, be my guest.
Sign-up
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Hometown:
Current Location: (where you are at the start of the RP)
Appearance:
Personality:
Background:
Misc: (any extra info)
Pokemon: (include just a list, or full blown profiles for your Pokemon. Up to 3, go crazy with it.)
I'm going to put up my sign up separately, since I'm automatically accepted.
Current Player List. If you're not on here, DON'T POST ANYTHING BUT A SIGN-UP!:
HoundoomOfTheDarkness
Hiro Scout
chomp
Fallen Angel_Messiah Of Black Roses
Darkjagwar
Mew three
Rukia_The_Fire_Pokemon_Trainer
ThatInsaneKid
Manaphy1128
~Rose Reaper~ (However, your tiny font may make it difficult to keep your posts long enough.)
Silence; no mortal shall bear...
Shadows in the dark...
It was a haiku, albeit an ominous one. A young boy sat near the bookshelf from which he had pulled the dusty old tome. He flipped through the rest of the book, but the long paragraphs and small text were a bit much for his 7-year-old mind to focus on after the strange book's introductory haiku. After what seemed to him like an eternity of contemplation, he risked to read the peom aloud...
Immediately, tremors occured across the world, causing widespread panic, including this child in Sootopolis City. These tremors centered on Mt. Moon and Cerulean Cave in Kanto, the Ice Path and Mt. Silver in Johto, the Cave of Origin and Meteor Falls in Hoenn, and Mt. Coronet and the Celestic Town Ruins in Sinnoh. For several days afterwards, an ominous mist rose from these caves; it seemed that a calamity was nigh. None came. The mist receded, and several experience spleunkers soon gathered the courage to check the caves. Oddly, they found nothing amiss. The ordeal slowly disappeared into memory.
As for the boy in Sootopolis City? Fearing the book and its powers, he took it from the library and hid it in his home, lest someone else find it. He never spoke about the book to anyone. At last, he too began to forget...
One by one, the explorers who investigated the afflicted caves fell ill. One night each month, another of them would fail to wake. It was not death; the slipped into a comatose sleep that nothing would seem to wake. This continued until each of the explorers had fallen. A curse? Perhaps...
Seven years later, an Oreburgh coal miner found a strange black plate in the earth. He read aloud, unaware of the suffering he would cause, the white text engraved in the back of the plate:
"Here all things shall end...
Silence; no mortal shall bear...
Shadows in the dark..."
The tremors began, as though a seal had been broken. Across an ocean, a teenage boy dashed horrified to his home to dust off a long forgotten book. It seemed old wounds had been opened...
Rules for "Shadows in the Dark":
Long ago, I said I'd make an RP when I got in touch with my creative side. Here it is, with some uncreative rules.
1. No godmodding.
2. No death of players.
3. Minimal swearing.
4. Please have some discernable ability to write. I will decline you if I can't read your sign-up.
5. As much as I hate it, I'll have to enforce the "4-line rule." No excessively short posts.
The "nonrules":
These are things you can do, that people might be unsure of.
1. Feel free to put up a sign-up anytime. I'll accept new players at any point in the RP.
2. You can try to bend the plot in your own way if you think you can. Just make sure you don't control other players.
3. You can have a battle with another player, although it's hard to get four lines that way.
4. I will not require an RP sample. If you think including one will help you get accepted, be my guest.
Sign-up
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Hometown:
Current Location: (where you are at the start of the RP)
Appearance:
Personality:
Background:
Misc: (any extra info)
Pokemon: (include just a list, or full blown profiles for your Pokemon. Up to 3, go crazy with it.)
I'm going to put up my sign up separately, since I'm automatically accepted.
Current Player List. If you're not on here, DON'T POST ANYTHING BUT A SIGN-UP!:
HoundoomOfTheDarkness
Hiro Scout
chomp
Fallen Angel_Messiah Of Black Roses
Darkjagwar
Mew three
Rukia_The_Fire_Pokemon_Trainer
ThatInsaneKid
Manaphy1128
~Rose Reaper~ (However, your tiny font may make it difficult to keep your posts long enough.)
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