Most people have craved silence at least once in their lives. When everything gets too loud and too overwhelming, there is no more comforting thought than a quiet place to reset, to have nothing but your own thoughts to disturb the peace.
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However, there are different kinds of silence. The most terrifying is one that we all hope will be left only in the most unsettling of our dreams: running, but your legs are too slow, nearly impossible to move, screaming, but unable to make a sound.
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Fourteen people, who have let go of reality.
Their parents watched them with unease and concern as slowly, the teenagers started to release their hold on their existence. With nothing tethering them, they floated, like balloons cut free. They stopped attending school, seeing other people, some even stopped talking.
These fourteen people don't know each other. They have walked different paths of life, in different places. Different things plunged them into this pit of emptiness. They only have two things in common.
One: They all feel the silence pressing in the inside of their skulls. There is no noise, but it screams that there is no point anymore.
Two: They have all been sent to the Mindfulness Retreat, a pretty name for a pretty place in Washington State, tucked away in rainy hills and fields of wildflowers. Picturesque, with large log buildings and ample space for the imagination to run wild.
It is not a summer camp. These people have been sent here in the middle of the school year because they weren't getting anything done in school anyways. Some of them are being pulled out of the psych wards that tried to manage the emptiness with medication. It is a last-ditch attempt by their guardians to get back the children they remembered.
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It starts out, if not quite peaceful, quiet. Nobody has quite snapped out of the stupor that got them sent there in the first place. So when the first of them hear the voices, they don't question it immediately, Even when they do, they're not sure they should share.
But soon enough, it's all of them. Every one of the fourteen occupants of Mindfulness Retreat hears the whispers of stories dying to be told. The rich history that this place has is not one that anyone would have anticipated, but it might lead these teenagers towards a future where they really can fill the voids that they thought would swallow them whole.
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THIS ROLEPLAY WILL INCLUDE SUPERNATURAL THEMES, BUT ALL OF THE ROLEPLAYABLE CHARACTERS ARE HUMAN.
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Requirements to enter:
Must be literate (at least three paragraphs with a minimum of 4-5 sentences each, with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Typos happen to everyone and that`s of course fine, but please put in an effort for quality.
Must update at least once a week. If something will keep you from doing so, please alert me ahead of time.
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Character requirements:
Your character must be between the ages of fourteen and nineteen. You may select their backstory, as long as sensitivity is used to any conditions or experiences that you decide your character has been through. Please keep it realistic: these are regular humans.
Please format your posts like this:
CHARATER NAME - TIME OF DAY - LOCATION
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THE AVAILABLE LOCATIONS:
Early on: Character's Home, Other Character Residence, Arrival at Camp
After we begin: At camp until other events begin
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Day Weather: 
