The Spirit Gate Inn: A home for displaced mythical

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Currently I am going to close this to people who have not already expressed interest in the thread. If there is an opening, this message will self-destruct disappear.

Here is the IC thread.


Story: A small group of humans and monsters band together to keep the inn running and try to re-establish the power of Guests (monsters/spirits).

Setting: A magical realism world that's a modern alternate version of Japan. Pretty heavy Japanese mythological influences, but the inn and to a lesser degree the world can have other influences. There are special "doors" in the real world that let the inn guests come and go, but humans have to get special permission or accidentally use one the same time as a Guest. Doors can be windows, doors, ponds, trash cans, and your mom things like crawling under the right desk.

Premise: Parallel to the human world, there's a spirit world with a giant fucking inn that houses all manner of mythical creatures, spirits, and whatnot. Why? Humans and large-scale industrialization have squeezed the mythical folk out of their homes. With cell phones and street cameras, they can no longer hide and can't risk being seen or recorded.

Now, with the inn getting crowded, they have to figure out how to get people to believe in them and their power again without getting "caught" and forced to integrate with humans (in other words, their power lies in being known, but untouchable and unfindable). So a human or two seeing them is fine, but fifteen seeing them and them being recorded is not.

How do they get around unseen right now? Human suits (note: usually not made from real humans).


Rules: 1. I only need 4 humans. If you play a human, you can also play a monster at full or part-time. You can have no more than 2 characters to start with, but you might be able to add more later.
2. No godmodding, Mary-Sueing, or making things terribly convenient. Life is inconvenient for everyone, even spirits.
3. If you're not posting with the flow of traffic, you'll get one or two warnings and then your characters get dropped. PM me if you've got some major meltdown happening and we'll make arrangements.
4. If you're being a jerk to me or anyone else, or disobeying site rules, you get booted. Keep the adult bits within your age group and in the appropriate places.
5. Please avoid generic or oft-used creatures, or half-human hybrids. So no vampires, fairies, general ghosts, werewolves, etc. I am looking for creatures like yurei, wendigos, tengu, thunder birds, cecaelia, etc. Please no sexy catgirls, etc.
6. Posts should be a solid two or more paragraphs barring special circumstances.

Once I get a good number of posts, I'll start accepting people and get the IC thread up. You'll see the link here when it's ready.


Characters so far:

Mayumi the human

Eira the yuki-onna

Yamasato the tengu

Slyphie the mermaid

Chirra the swiftcat

Chrysa the forest nymph

Hana the human

Miriya the bakeneko

Tibbs the tanuki

Tamashi the onibi

Inushiro the inu yokai

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Age:

Physical Description (if no image):


Occupation:
Hobbies:
Personality:
Likes/Dislikes/Fears:
History:




For Guests/spirits/monsters:

[Picture]
Name:
Type of creature:
Preferred food:
Other habits/traits:


Hobbies:
Personality:
Likes/Dislikes/Fears:
History:


[Human suit image]
Human occupation (if they have one):
Brief bio on human disguise

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@Sasha Bliwas it's okay for this post, but for the next ones make sure you're doing the equivalent of two pretty decently sized paragraphs, so a little longer than what you've got now :)
yeah sorry that was the only way I knew how to bring him in so, I'll go longer next time
 
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Been a bit busy... will post soon as I can.
 
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Shall post soon as I can!
 
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Hi all, I'll be posting Friday in case anyone has been wondering where I've been; I've just been temporarily waylaid by pre-semester shenanigans and family drama. Next week is the beginning of our semester so another post probably won't happen until the end of that week and it may be short, but that's a temporary thing.
 
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Hey guys, I'm really so sorry about this, but I think I've taken on a little too much lately, and I'm going to have to drop out of this roleplay. I really apologize, it's been... crazy.
 
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@Midian could you please tag who you were interacting with, because I'm not sure weather or not the mermaid you were talking about is mine.
 
Hey Sasha, good question! I try to interact with everyone's characters as much as possible in the story, so if it's a character (like the mermaid) that you play, it's yours. It would get pretty redundant and time-consuming to tag every player every time I post since (just about) every post is including all of them in some way. It's very okay if you guys want to tag when you post, but it's not my thing and regardless of whether or not someone is tagged in a post, I hope everyone is reading all of them and staying caught up anyway :)

But in short, yes. That's your mermaid ^_^
 
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Hey Sasha, good question! I try to interact with everyone's characters as much as possible in the story, so if it's a character (like the mermaid) that you play, it's yours. It would get pretty redundant and time-consuming to tag every player every time I post since (just about) every post is including all of them in some way. It's very okay if you guys want to tag when you post, but it's not my thing and regardless of whether or not someone is tagged in a post, I hope everyone is reading all of them and staying caught up anyway :)

But in short, yes. That's your mermaid ^_^
well she's not even at the inn yet so that's why I was confused.
 
Oh, I see now! I thought the end line of "going to the inn" was an indication they were headed there and would be there for the next scene. I'll go in and edit my post
 
Sorry, It might be a while.
 
Work has be really burnt out at the moment.
I'm hoping that after I get some dinner I might manage something, but we'll see
 
@Roose Hurro - there you go. i hope it's enough to work off of. :)

I'm waiting on @DANAsaur before I can write Eira's next bit though
 
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