Angeles School for the Gifted had a sinister past. It started as an asylum, of course, like most old buildings with sprawling grounds and too many rooms did. Angeles Asylum was one of the first hospitals for mental illness in Los Angeles County, nestled just at the foothills of Angeles National Forest. Later, it was used for TB patients. It briefly went abandoned before being bought out by a large scientific corporation with strong government ties, known as Olympus Dynamics. It was created for one thing, and one thing only - to study and, hopefully, weaponize a new phenomenon: Mutated humans.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Olympus Dynamics rounded up any individual it could find that had whispers of special abilities, and brought them to the asylum. There, they would undergo testing, treatments, experiments, the kind of things you'd see in movies and hear about in horror stories. The kinds of things you couldn't believe your government would do, but did. Eventually, the mutated humans being experimented on rose up and took over the facility, kicking out the scientists, nurses, and whomever else wasn't firmly on their side.
For a few years after that, they rebuilt. Everyone agreed about one thing: they needed to find others like them, help them, train them and give them a safe place to be and grow. The world was not a kind place, and they still didn't know anything about mutant-kind. Unfortunately, there was a division, and the survivors of the Angeles uprising split into two groups - The Pantheon, who believed in exposing mutant-kind and unrestricted freedom, ultimately absolute dominion, for powered people. They felt that was the answer to their mistreatment and oppression. The other, the Angeles School for the Gifted, who saw the continued need for secrecy and envisioned freedom as a quieter, gradual, and less explosive thing to obtain.
Today, the Pantheon is still underground, gaining momentum and attempting to find their freedoms. They are largely centered in LA, using the Pantheon Wellness Retreat as their front. The Angeles School is also active, seeking out and recruiting students, teachers, and other staff of all kinds to help raise the future generation of mutants, in hopes that some day the world will accept them.
Angeles is a fictional, original character mutant-kind game heavily influenced and inspired by old school X-Men/Brotherhood games and former games Willowbrook and Crestwood.
Humans have always been problematic creatures, no matter where they go… trouble just seems to follow. And throughout human history, trouble has followed plenty of times. In the year 2186, trouble hit its precipice. We had explored the solar system, we were close to breaking interstellar travel out of the box, we were damn sure aliens were out there. But advancement always came at a cost - jealousy and the want to be first.
3 stations orbited Earth and a colony was thriving on Mars. They were the only reason humanity survived.
You’ve all heard it enough times, nuclear fallout is a bitch and it doesn’t go quietly into the night. It wasn’t just one event, but it never is just one - is it? Not in reality. It took the world about 9 years to fully knock itself off the map. It went in bits and pieces, more people flooded to the skies and eventually… most of everyone in orbit used the fledgling interstellar tech to get away. Far away.
Generations later, they returned. It took almost 560 years for people to inhabit Earth again. Something about going home spoke to some people. But Earth was changed, it wasn’t whatever they left behind. That was 90 years ago, and now? It's kinda like the wild west, except you won’t die of dysentery. At least, as long as you aren’t a dumbass. Plus, you can go to space! How cool is that? The spacers are kinda different though. May as well be a whole other world for you to explore.
"One, two, she’s under you.
Three, four, don’t touch the floor.
Five, six, the rot still sticks.
Seven, eight, don’t open the gate.
Nine, ten, she walks again." ~Kids singing around Ruin
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Welcome to Ruin Holler, if you’re the sort who loves spinning stories 'round a good fire, welcome home. We’re just a tangle of folks makin’ mischief and meaning in a world stitched from dreams and old dirt. If that calls to you—don’t matter where else you roam—pull up a chair. We’ve been waitin’.
Chicago, 1921. A city choked in sin, an atmosphere so alive it assaults your senses. Whiskey mingles with coal dust in the back of the throat, dust and smoke drift in the air, smoke and a bad name lingering on the tip of your tongue. The air is loud with the sound of progress, giving away at night to the new music they call jazz. It’s a frantic soundtrack, a fever dream, sometimes punctuated with the sound of gunfire. Around any given corner you might find a hustler, a secret speakeasy, or a dame with eyes that tell a thousand stories. The gangs run the town, their unspoken rules a language everyone understands. To them, prohibition was a blessing. Empires are built on booze, blood, and broken promises.
It’s not easy, when justice itself is as watered down as the hooch. With the cops in on the take, what’s an honest man to do? It doesn’t help that the windy city’s most notorious mobster has a set of fangs fit to rip your throat out. There’s more than one underworld in Chicago; the one found with a password at a back alley door, and one more intangible. The secret world, perhaps a secret ancestry held close to your chest. To the supernatural population of the city, the gangs hold more temptation than most. The mob offers protection. More than that, it offers community - a sense of belonging perhaps you have never known.
These streets, no stranger to violence, have grown increasingly fraught as of late for your kind. The prohibition agents seem to have a license to kill, and along with those who sell illegal liquor, some agents have a secret target in their sights. It’s easy to blame a murder on the mob. For the feds, it’s easy to make a person disappear. It helps that the secret agents infiltrating the ranks of the prohibition officers don’t see their targets as human at all. They have a mission of their own: eliminate the supernatural threat. Under the veil of chaos of the cityscape, who would ever question it?
It’s more important than ever to find sanctuary, and from that collective wish on a thousand lips your invitation to the Hotel Cardea arrives. Only accessible to those in on the secret, you can’t help but wonder, is there such a thing as safe haven in a town built on sin? The lakefront shimmers like a mirage, bringing to mind something clean and safe. In Chicago, you either swim with the sharks or you’re lunch.
An urban fantasy game for original characters. Now accepting holds & applications. We have a room waiting for you.
Frenzied vampires, hungry primordial Fey, and buildings that just hadn't been there the other day. Just another day in the neighborhood, a horrifically blood curdling scream away in the neighborhood, but there's also really good coffee in the neighborhood - won't you be our neighbor?
Welcome to Ruin Holler where things go more than bump in the night and sometimes you wake up realizing that a church that never existed has been erected and the Pastor is only asking for a little blood this month. Not the full 10% tithe.
The Angeles School for the Gifted has a dark history. Originally an asylum, it later housed TB patients before being abandoned and acquired by Olympus Dynamics—a government-linked corporation focused on studying and weaponizing mutated humans.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Olympus Dynamics captured individuals with special abilities, subjecting them to brutal experiments. Eventually, the mutants revolted, took over the facility, and sought to create a refuge for their kind.
This led to a split: The Pantheon, advocating for open exposure and absolute freedom, and the Angeles School, favoring secrecy and gradual acceptance. Today, the Pantheon operates underground in LA, while the Angeles School recruits and trains young mutants, hoping for a future where they are accepted.
When mutantkind is ready to make its mark, what side will you be on?
GAME OPENS FEB 28TH!
Angeles is a fictional, OC mutant-kind game heavily influenced and inspired by old school X-Men/Brotherhood games and former RP games Willowbrook and Crestwood.
Ruin has been living the same year for the last ten years. For a decade the people of Ruin Holler have not aged past their 2014 age. Technology has not evolved past 2014. There was an economic boom in the early to mid 2000’s where many diverse families found the little holler and made it their home creating new businesses and a flow of cash that allowed the Mayor to build the town up with building and infrastructure updates.
As with any small town, if you scratch just past the surface there are far stranger things at work in Ruin. Fairy Magic, Old Magik, and the dark interweaving of Ichor can transform even the most innocent things into something sinister.
Welcome to Ruin Holler: An Enclave for the things that do more than go bump in the night.
The Forge is an original character roleplay set immediately after a plane crash on a (supposedly) deserted island. Over the course of gameplay, characters will develop preternatural powers, as well as begin solving the mysteries of the island...
The Forge is not based on the television show Lost, but may at times feature homages to and inspiration from various stranded fiction. If you like shows like Lost, Yellowjackets, The Wilds, or From, this just may be the place for you!
No Name Nowhere is a supernatural rp set in a town cut off from the rest of reality. Shit is weird and doesn’t make sense but it’s the charm that catches you by the pants. We are open lore! You can play a vampire or a unicorn or a goblin! Have you ever wanted to be a leprechaun? Well, here you can! Nice admins, easy activity checks, creepy 90s vibes and more.
Are you interested in a supernatural GPSL? We're starting a crossover between True Blood/Bitten. All the information can be found at the website - crescenthollows.
The application is easy. All players should be over 21. There is a max of 3 characters per player with a cap of 25-30 muses.
You are alone. Your people are alone.
Or maybe they aren't...
Lonely Planet is a panfandom set in the 28th century in upstate New York. When you arrive, you may notice things are a little ruinous around you and... well, the pretty wonky weather episode don't make it much better from there.
There's a little bit of the supernatural, a little bit of surprise, a little bit of mass scientific fallout. Like mutants? We've got you. Like missions? We've got you. Like political intrigue? Might just be a little of that.
Missions are run on a DnD-style system and happen monthly (usually twice a month, depending on plot). There are social events for those so inclined. A very friendly bar owner who likes to throw lots of parties and singles events. You could say there's a little bit of everything, as long as you're okay with the occasional plot twist! OCs are allowed. Minor characters require mod approval.
A supernatural slice-of-life writing game where humans have suddenly discovered that beings from fictional media actually exist and some of the supernatural community has found themselves in the precarious position of being caught on camera.
How are all these individuals coping and living together? What is the remaining, undiscovered supernatural community going to do?
mistwick is centered around the witches and humans of the University of Mistwick, as they deal with the consequences of the town's failing magic. There will be an overarching plot of discovering why the leyline is failing, however the main focus will be on the everyday issues arising from the failing magic, and the magic becoming harder and harder to hide from the human population. How will discovering magic, or being outed as a witch, change your relationships? And what else might you uncover about yourself, or your family, as the mystery of the ley line is uncovered?
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