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What's the concept of this game? What sets you apart from other conceptual Silent Hill games on IJ and DW that weren't successful?

Well firstly, I want to say I think a lot of these games fail because there's no build. You stick your character in a survival horror setting like Silent Hill and it gets boring real quick. It doesn't translate very well to a written roleplay. Yes, in a game it's fun for your character to start surviving from the beginning but that formula works for a video game or even a movie. In roleplay we need a slow burn, we have to have a slice of life element for a survival horror written game to see any success. Our characters, even the canons, I believe have to experience a good life before being thrown back into the eternal quagmire that is Silent Hill or at least be thrown in there the first time.



It was obvious from the first game that people like Cybil Bennett and Dahlia Gilespie knew the town could be a real place, without the foggy world and hell worlds. It was only recent that it was happening. In the second game with little Laura it's been heavily theorized she saw the town for what it was to her, desolate and lonely save for the few people that were there. However, I theorize the Silent Hill has always been full of people and on the real plane of existence it has a real life going on, with actual people that town feels doesn't deserve punishment as of yet or Alessa's incident hasn't taken place in a long time. There were talks of disappearances in one of the games from what I remember from people missing near by the town and around the town itself.



Basically when it comes down to it we'll be experiencing ARC I: THE NIGHTMARES - where our canons are here as if they have always lived here, including people like Travis Grady and Heather Mason or even Walter Sullivan. You'll be providing backgrounds that the town has made up for them, but eventually or even now they'll be experiencing nightmares and dreams about the their real pasts having to do with their real lives and Silent Hill experiences.



This will go into some time before they start, do not worry, they will in eventual experience the other world and other such planes of existence within the town. We are not a Silent Hill game without those core elements but in the mean time it's time for character development through dreams and other experiences, relationship development and keeping things low key until that appointed time in the game.



How do the nightmares and dreams work though?

Through narratives at current, or even a character visiting your character's home and waking them up from a nap or their nightly sleep. Or even falling asleep somewhere like a diner or movie theatre and being woken up by someone while in the middle of the visual sleeping time.



When does the second arc start? Dream sharing sounds interesting.

Give it a month or two, it also depends on how many characters and players we have. I don't want to move it along too slowly or too fast, we want a burn here so characters feel like there's something to cherish and lose when the game progresses.



Do we only play canon characters? Can I play an Original Character?

You are more than welcome to play an original. Not everyone into the Silent Hill concept feels they would be good at portraying a canon based character, rather Silent Hill or a panfandom canon. We welcome characters that are completely original on your part, we only ask that you ask others if you tend on having them related to characters within the games. Considering this is kind of a 'redo' for canons, I'm sure they won't mind 'false' familial and friendship connections that weren't in their lives before.



Do we have to keep the same relationships from the games for canons?

Absolutely not. If you feel ties should be severed between Alex and Joshua Shepherd, the brothers, or Harry and Heather Mason, the father and daughter, or Mary and James Sunderland, the husband and wife? Be my guest and sever those ties. It makes no sense to keep them concerning the circumstances but! it would make sense for them to develop a relationship of some sort over time. The town keeping connections going like that, of course.



Do we have to keep characters romantic/sexual preferences?

Absolutely not. I don't see why the town wouldn't have changed that on them.



I don't like something about my canon! Can I change it? How does this work exactly?

Let's put it this way. You can change it for their false life in Silent Hill by rewriting their history but whatever it is, is canon in what happened in their true lives. So James did smother his wife to death, rather you like it or not. It's just the town is up to no good right now and it'll be a long, long moment to see what that is.



Are the movies canon here?

This is hard to describe, but no, they are not canon even though I enjoyed the first movie. However, you can play characters like the female!Harry from the first movie, or even age down Vincent Smith if you wish to be Heather's boyfriend or something. Anything is possible in the game's current setting. Actual Harry would still be playable though.



Can I play a another fandom character?

Hm... that's a tough question. I considered making this entirely panfandom but what I'll do is like the games I've seen in the past have all done so far, feel free to bring in a fandom character from another source of entertainment, however their actual world must make sense to Silent Hill's world or must be reimagined for their actual canon life, while their false life must also be somewhat different from their 'canonical' pasts. For example, there are no superheroes in this world, therefore Marvel and DC characters would have to be reimagined. So while you play Tony Stark, who is a genius who builds weapons for the military and such, he has probably never had anything more than the conceptual design for a suit of armor to fight with. He'd a be good character to use here, his guilt in selling weapons world wide to hurt as intended would eventually catch up to him. or hey Bruce Wayne as a hardcore detective, who feels it's his fault his parents died and may have killed the wrong man later who he thought killed his parents.



How many times can a PB be used before you decide it's time to retire it from anyone else using it?

Up to three times. Some faces are in a lot of popular fandoms, so we have that to think about but someone might use them for their OC too. However, once an OC has used a fandom face, then no more OCs will use them. They'll only be available for fandom characters that the face has portrayed.



You mentioned something on the holds page. Will I have to write two histories?

If you're aping a Silent Hill character, I only need their false reality history but if you're apping an OC or another canon character from another source, then I need two brief synopsis: their reimagined canonical history/actual past, and their current life situation in the real world of Silent Hill. This one is the false one however. You only need to give a set of facts or a brief synopsis, you're allowed to have mystery.



Do we need PBs for illustrated/video game characters?

I may take a vote later, but I'm allowing a mixture of real life faces and cgi faces. You're allowed to use artwork and icons from the games itself, because it is very realistic looking but please have a human
playby, so people have a visual incase they have a hard time imagining it better. Anime playbys and such need a human playby period, please don't use cartoony or anime faces. Artwork is acceptable as long as it's well done and realistic.



What about characters that are too young to be played? Like Joshua and Laura?

Age them up all the way to 18-23. They still must be young but they can't be elderly or even middle aged.



What about dead Characters?

They're alive here. You can play Lisa, Cybil, Jasper from the sacraments of SH4. Anyone that has previously been dead, is now alive.



Mary and Maria is quite the pickle of who to play? Can I play one? Can someone play the other? Or do you consider them one person?

I don't consider them the same person at all, or even Mary's alter ego. I'm allowing both to be played entirely. So pick and choose which one you want. Because one is from James' fantasies, while the other was his real life fantasy. IMO, Maria had a life of her own after some time, especially with one of the endings that happens in SH2. You can even take her home!



Heather, Alessa or Cheryl? Who do I choose?

Honestly, the town is wonky. Choose one and let two other people pick the other two. While they are reincarnations of Alessa, it's possible they're their own beings by now. Talking about Heather and Cheryl, at least in this scenario.



Argh! What ending is canon for my character? Do you have a preference?

I have no preference for endings. Pick one, all other characters from your game must follow suit. Sometimes, the ending you choose does not reflect on the other canons though, so I wouldn't worry too much. For example, no matter what ending you choose Angela from SH2 is still ascending those stairs forever and apparently dead. It does not affect her at all rather James drowned or he left with Laura. Or what ending you choose in 3 really doesn't matter either to be frank. They're too similar to matter. Ah, we do have a ending you can't choose, the bad ending in Silent Hill 4. Why? It affects the whole world at large. So, no, don't choose that one.



Do I need to be around all the time to experience the storyline?

No, not at all. You have a real life, I have a real life. Real life comes before writing characters and stories. However, I do expect activity and active participation in the game. Please understand, if you don't think you have time to dedicate to the game, pass on until you are able too. I'm sure you're an adult and you know what that entails. Otherwise, even the mod is willing to backtag with you if you need them for storyline purposes for your character's development.



How do you feel about transgender and non-binary characters in game?

Whatever you wish. I'll even have a designated section for them on the holds/taken pb pages. Though it'll be more than likely that transgender characters will be considered among the male and female sections instead and non-binary will have their own sections.



Are there any games you don't consider canon?

Silent Hill 6, But I'll take the damn characters anyway because they grew on me.



Can I play pyramid head?

No. He is mod operated and may only make appearances for certain circumstances, much later on.



Do Originals get just as much coverage as Canons?

Yes, they do. Don't worry about your original not mattering, because they actually will. They are just as important to the plot as the canons. I promise.



Are all locations the same as they are in the games?

It'll depend, I've added a few locations to liven the place up. I'll have descriptors for the locations for their real life counterparts, so you know what to expect when you use them.



Do all characters have to have a bad past where they've done something wrong in order to experience the hell world/otherworld later on?

Hm.... yes, and no. A guilty conscious that needs relieved is usually someone who will be 'punished' by Silent Hill in some way. So say your character accidently ran over deer, they're actually a animal rights activist and a vegetarian. They feel they deserved to be punished and even years later they haven't gotten over it. Let's say another time they ate chicken because it was all they had in the house and it was their roommates, more guilty conscious. Basically whatever their feeling guilty about, if they feel they're a murderer in some way or have done a lot of wrong, even if not a murderer, it'll manifest later into something someway, somehow.



I realize that this sounds stupid, but I always figured Silent Hill punished based on a guilty complex rather than reaching out because it feels it's a judge. Pyramid for James is an indicator that he was punishing himself with the town's help, rather than the town deciding it was god or a grand jury in some way. At the end of the day, James was his own punisher, not the town itself. Same could be said for Angela too. Victims of sexual abuse often blame themselves and despite the fact that she had no choice but to kill her father, she still felt at fault. Eddy must have liked dogs even though it was being mean to him, he felt like he needed to be punished. Ontop of this, he likely had homicidal thoughts from everyone making fun of him, so he felt guilty like he would eventually kill which is what happened with James. He tortured himself and made himself paranoid in hindsight.



What we see on the surface, is never how people are truly deep down. Therefore, think of any situation where your character hasn't been the worse person on the planet and yet continues to feel guilty over despite that. Another good idea is being an eleven year old that drove someone in their class to suicide, so they've felt guilty ever since. You were a child, but ever since, you can't stop thinking about it. Most situations are viable. I just wouldn't go for something like You stole a clown's nose at the circus and made a child cry because he realized Bozo the Cosmic Clown wasn't real. Silent Hill doesn't feel this is lesson you need to learn. Unless... you're always torturing children for some reason because you want to feel big and bad. Who knows.
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