Since then, they have never returned.
The manor was turned into a hotel, keeping its place on the cliff high above the town, attracting visitors from all around the world. Some come to run away from the world, others to admire the view and service. Some wish to be the ones to put some light on the old mysteries, and some believe in stories of creatures and beings haunting the hotel and the area around it. When the mists come in the late summer and the cliff is cut off from the town beneath it as if it suddenly rose to float on a cloud, it is told that the old portraits come to life, all signals are lost and death and pain await for those who try to leave the manor... and the ghost of Cassandra Winfield still walks in the gardens, calling for young women and children to come join her in a game. Those who do, the story says, are never seen again.
This year, the Silver Wind Hotel is especially well visited, and the reason lies in another mysterious tragedy; a month ago, a woman of around Cassandra's age was found in the room she'd been renting, dead without a trace of any sort of trauma to her body or mind. Inevitably, it attracted the investigators and those curious to connect it to the past, priests who spoke of the devil in the manor's walls, adventurers and snoopers, eccentrics and artists - as well as, of course, those strayed from the roads due to the thickness of the mist: strangers no one knows anything about, scientists or travelers without particular destination, even families.
Some know of the stories, some are yet to find out - but all of them now have no choice but to be a part of this story themselves, for even if they try to leave, they will be turned back by someone of the staff. And told they should consider themselves lucky one of them got to them before someone - or something - else did.
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Welcome to official Storybook of the month of March!
Jump in at any point, submit a character via the form on the side and start discusing the possible turns this story might take.
While this Storybook has elements of mystery and horror, its point is primarily to create a character-driven story of mixed genres, hence don't hesitate to make your character a mad scientist, time traveler, ghost, a wizard or whatever comes to your mind - do make them look human, though, at least at first, as we are in the real world and no one knows other people's secrets.
Seeing as the hotel is cut off from the rest of the world now, its staff will see to host dances and different activities to entertain the guests, but apart from that as some possible plot points, we'll strive to create the story primarily from character relationships and personalities we cook up.
You can use this template to write your character's profile, but feel free to modify it as you wish or use a free form as well. You can add more secrets or whatever to your profiles later if you get an idea during the story, in which case just tell us in the DT about those changes when you make them. Also, do keep in mind that, while we as writers can read each other's profiles and know some secrets, our characters would most likely know nothing about each other at first.
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You can use these as a sort of guide - the staff being self explanatory, guests the ones who are for one or another reason already living there at the start of this storym and newcomers those just arriving to the hotel.
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