=∞ | aequalis infinitum (interest check/sign-up thread)

It is 2022.

In a small town in Pennsylvania, something otherworldly has taken control. The once populated locale, famed for its circular structure and central tourist hotspot Hush Lake, has become a ghost town and avoided area for 20 years. Malrick is lost, with all curious persons who enter the town's limits disappearing as soon as they cross its borders.

Men, women, children, doctors, firefighters, military, tourists. All who enter are never seen again, with no trace of their existence. The streets are empty to outside observers, but the vacant stores are still stocked with goods. The roads have no cars, and not a single living thing beyond the grass and foliage is present.

A great Entity has arrived. Capturing the town, enslaving its residents. Turning the dead into undead thralls; dangerous and insane but trapped in unending grief over their past lives. In an invisible slipspace beyond the town's borders, the sky is blood red and the ground is dry and dead. The rain falls black as soot, corroding whatever it touches and reanimating corpses that are drenched by it. The dead cannot die, and rise up no matter what attempt is made to ensure otherwise. On the outskirts of this inescapable parallel world, a handful of brave survivors huddle in abandoned buildings and try to sneak past these undead Sorrows to gather supplies. But near the centre of the town—near Hush Lake—reality breaks down and logic ceases to be.

The Entity resides beneath Hush Lake, having corrupted its waters into undead-spawning Rot. The Entity known as 'Mother', who speaks in dreams to the living and the dead alike. The Entity who issues out her siren's cry, calling for the dead to bathe in the lakewater. To ascend, to become devoted to her. To become her children.

But there are still survivors on the outskirts.

They are few. They are scattered. They are hungry, they are tired, they are desperate, and they are in anguish. But in all of them who keep fighting to stay alive against the undead hordes and the great Entity, there is a hope. A chance to fight, to win—to reclaim Malrick and escape this twisted hell of a town.

This hope is all anyone has, and all that keeps these survivors going. The opportunity to kill the unkillable, and finally put down a cruel god.

Aequalis Infinitum (stylised as =∞) is a survival horror RP set in the circular town of Malrick, which is currently being trapped in a hellish slipspace by a cosmic entity beyond human understanding. With the undead hordes roaming about unable to be put down, this RP will be mostly focused on the constant scramble for survival in an unrelentingly oppressive environment, and the bonds that may be forged between people in their fight to get through each day alive. There are no superpowers, paranatural origins, or advanced technology to save the player characters. All they have is their wits and their sheer grit to live; along with whatever one can feasibly salvage from the urban jungle that is Malrick while having to constantly duck past the vast crowds of walking dead.

This RP will contain likely disturbing imagery and surreal cosmic horror, as well as generally be rather grim and oppressive in tone. However, I intend to have moments of brevity that won’t undercut the severity of the situation, and hope that the solidarity of the people who stick together will be enough for them to push through and achieve the impossible. The ultimate goal is to somehow make it to the central lake of Malrick to find and kill the god imprisoning the town. That means making it past not only the undead, but whatever reality-breaking anomalies that linger in the territory of Hush Lake. You’ll need some extraordinarily hardy or insane people to even begin to pull this off, so if you come into the RP with the intention of doing so then bear in mind that even if your character is the toughest sonuvabitch this side of Pennsylvania it will still take a lot of effort just to gather enough resources. Especially if other players and NPCs are similarly battling for supplies.

Character death will only be possible with given permission from the player controlling said character, but mild to moderate injuries remain under my jurisdiction. More severe and disabling wounds will have to be agreed upon as they come, since they could impede the capabilities of a given player character and affect future encounters potentially permanently.

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Edited by Enirboreh on Jun 12th 2022 at 11:33:59 AM

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