A Sin of No Name

Ardent

your blood on my teeth
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Posting Speed
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Online Availability
12NN-4PM, 7PM~
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Genres
Horror, Dark Fantasy, Modern
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    Highland, UT. 1879

    Night was falling in a big damn hurry.

    The sun lay cradled between the county's twin plateaus. The streets of Highland began to empty out as half a dozen citizens moved about, each one hurrying off to their own homes. All but the town postman, who watched as well as he could from his office window. He couldn’t help but feel a stroke of resentment towards them. It should’ve been him rushing home before dark, not them. But when the sheriff asked a favor of you, well…

    A black typewriter lay at his desk in front of him. The keys started to blur together as he fought feverishly with his thoughts, with the implications of what he was doing. He was tired, but the encroaching dusk kept him alert. Every once in a while he thought he heard a scratching at the door, and he would spin around, thinking something had gotten through his makeshift barricade. It had reduced him to a bundle of nerves. He took off his spectacles and rubbed away at the fogged up corners with the end of his sleeve.

    "Short and simple, Stafford,” He muttered to himself. “Don't buck around with it."

    The sun dipped lower. Sweat beading at his temple, the postman glanced out the window. Whatever signs of life had been present before had whittled down to a lone man with a rifle pacing leisurely about the street, a thick stogie jammed between his lips. A whistle echoed about listlessly. The men's eyes accidentally met.

    It was not pointed at him, but the postman still felt the phantom press of cold metal against the back of his neck. Blanching, he quickly broke eye contact and stared down at the unfinished work in his typewriter. Two lines of text were all he’d written; it would not do. He had to finish before the sunset.

    His fingers lifted. The man with the rifle exhaled, cigar smoke billowing away in the wind.

    Clack clack clack clack. Clack.
  • Easy work and high pay. Enough land to rival farming opportunities in Oregon. It was the post-war promise of 40 acres and a mule, polished and remade more than ten years later.

    Funny; in all their years of travel, they had never heard of a town called Highland.

    "Must be fairly new, I reckon," mused the man nailing up the ad, his eyes dutifully tied to his work. With a small scratch of his chin, he added that transport to Highland would be paid by the mayor himself, and, in tandem, all eyes turned once more to the ad.

    Send letter express to Mayor Briggs.

    It was almost too good to be true.

    Written by: @Kuno
    Coded by: @Adrian


Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller, Supernatural, Historical, Mystery
Posting Expectations: Adept
Posting Speed: Semi-weekly

Let us know if you're interested below!
 
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Yes? Looks interesting
 
Looks cool.
 
Hi everyone, and thanks for the interest! Discord link will be up soon, shortly followed by the sign-up thread. In the meantime, feel free to leave any questions or concerns here!
 
Hi everyone, and thanks for the interest! Discord link will be up soon, shortly followed by the sign-up thread. In the meantime, feel free to leave any questions or concerns here!
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I've got to say, that coding is beautiful.
 
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I'm down, Got a character ready and everything :D
 
@Ur Degaton @Youreverydaywildchild @Ariel @Red Thunder @XIII @Kyatto

The sign-up thread is open! Please feel free to leave any questions you may have on this thread or in the discord. A discord link is included in the title post of the thread and will be updated daily. Thanks everyone for the interest :^)

(oh yeah, Lore thread is coming shortly too. I type slow)
 
Boi! That coding just took out the sleeping cowboy inside of me!

*whips out gun* Not so fast, buster! Where's my partner?

*nibbles a string of hay with a badass cowboy serious expression*
 
You can thank the wonderful @Adrian for the lovely coding! He did a great job :^)
 
He sure did. He got godlike cowboy coding moves.
 
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*silently chants* I don't need another rp, I don't need another rp, I don't need another rp...
 
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*silently chants* I don't need another rp, I don't need another rp, I don't need another rp...
I fell you so deeply... My heart and soul go with you. *sobs while saluting*
 
This looks promising.