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ROSENBLUM HALL TDM
(‘S TEST DRIVE MEME)
Welcome to the Test Drive Meme for Rosenblum Hall, the first of (hopefully) many rounds of Murdergames… With A Twist! More information on the game can be found here, and more info on the setting can be found here! This is a space for trying out characters and seeing ways you can incorporate them into the setting and into CR with other players! Please do note, as a reminder, that you must be part of Lyndon (
When leaving a toplevel, please try not to leave it at just starters! Instead, give people interested in responding whatever details you’re figured out or want to try out for your character that other students might know or want to engage with! Remember, ooc communication is the key to making this go smoothly, so make sure that you are in communication with other players as needed! But feel free to also use this as an avenue to try things out before you finalize your AU for the game itself!
Now, let’s talk prompts. While the map of Rosenblum Hall itself won’t exist for a little while yet, you can anticipate things like a greenhouse or a library - the rooms are going to start out simple. If it might be in a fancy old mansion house, it might just be in Rosenblum Hall!
1 - Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Welcome to your winter break! Sorry for the last-minute notice, but due to emergency weather damage to the usual hall for the break, you’ve all had to pack quick bags of personal items and head to Rosenblum Hall for the next couple weeks while this sudden storm of the century comes in! At least it’s supposed to quiet down in a day or two?
You have some time to get settled into your room now, at least, even if the halls are way creepier here than in the main dorms, all wood panels and antique carpets and whatever. The rooms themselves are actually pretty nice, with big canopy beds and old timey writing desks and… a portrait of the school’s founders watching over you while you sleep. Hm. That’s a problem for nighttime.
If you’re looking for warmth during the storm, though, that’s going to be the halls and the common area with its fireplace. So instead of hanging in your room, maybe go see who else was unlucky enough to get caught in this freak storm situation. After all, the new guidance counselor who’s supposed to watch over you guys is still apparently getting the move reported and settled, so until she arrives and you actually meet her, you’re all unsupervised!
2 - It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate.
So you’ve gotten settled, and then almost certainly immediately unsettled by the whole uh. Murder thing. And the fact that the same day is looping, which means the storm outside is unlikely to let up. But no one’s actually taking this murder thing seriously, so it’s probably fine? Yeah. Probably fine.
Anyway, now is the time for getting up to teenage shenanigans, or at least trying as best you can given the situation and the location. Good luck! And remember, going outside may not be forbidden, but for your own safety it’s best to stay inside, the storm gets wilder and stronger the further you stray from the Hall.
3 - I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Hm. So the mysterious voice from the loudspeaker’s given you a motive. That’s not ideal in terms of interpersonal tension! How’s it going? How’re you holding up? Is it time to get into a fight about it?
4 - Wasn’t it just a story-book over which I had fallen a-doze and a-dream?
Uh-oh! Someone’s dead! That’s not ideal! Are you investigating it? Are you the one who did it? Is this your first time seeing- I mean it’s probably your first time seeing a dead body, but are you just gonna stand there are you gonna step in and handle it?
5 - If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.
And, a trial later… for now, even though you’re a couple students lighter, the group is safe. Time to rest, recuperate, and maybe try to put some kind of gathering together? The only way forward is together, after all - unless, maybe, you’re already making plans for the future.
6 - Last night I dreamt I went to Rosenblum Hall again…
Or make your own fun! The game concept is your oyster.
Tiera Finley | Original Character
Tiera is a senior here on an athletic scholarship, whose arrival was heralded by her adoptive father, Jann, moving into town and setting up a shop. She helps there over break often, and if you're a friend of hers she might offer discounts or samples. If you've snuck into the forest you've probably run into her there at some point-she certainly seems at home in the trees. She's mostly noverbal, and uses a communication app on her phone to communicate when necessary, although she also conveys a lot through body language and various other sounds. The app uses basic vocabulary and isn't quite grammatical, but she's been here long enough that anyone who's interacted with her will know how it works, and probably also that she has more complex thoughts she's only scratching the surface of. She can be stubborn and competitive, but also fiercely loyal. If you've managed to packbond with her she'll be your friend for life.
1. Bid the forest floor goodbye
[Tiera wasn't supposed to be here over break. But Jann got a call about a customer who wanted a delivery far enough to take a day or so, and she told him she could wait. Almost immediately after that, the storm blew in. She's very unhappy to be trapped, looking very much the proverbial caged bird as she alternates between gazing sadly out the window and curling up by the fireplace. Still, she's open to conversation. If you're close, she might even offer you a slice of jerky from the bag she's slowly nibbling from. And if you ask what she's worried about...]
Jann. Drive far. Not know safe, danger. [There's a pause as she considers, before finally and slowly pressing the last word.] Dead.
2. Chase the wind
[Tiera's not stupid. She knows the implications of the photograph she's been given, showing Jann sleeping in a hotel bed, the angle suggesting that it's been taken from quite close-up. She doesn't even need to listen to the loudspeaker babble on about "what a shame" it'd be if no one took the bait, and someone got hurt...
She turns and marches away as fast as she can, although people will hear an anguished screech and then the crash of something being pulled to the ground. If anyone goes after her, they'll find her standing over one of those creepy portraits, her fingers bleeding as she stomps on the frame and tries to rip the canvas apart.
Or you can find her later by the fireplace, fingers bandaged roughly, slowly throwing bits of frame and canvas into the flames.]
3. Take to the sky
[Well. Coriander Bliss was always fiercely protective of her family, and she always said the Bliss line was one of both the greatest blessings and the harshest curses. Tiera supposes it's a harsh blessing she decided to poison only one of the snacks she offered. Still, it's chilling to think that someone they all implicitly trusted, someone they took food from freely, could have betrayed their trust like that.
There's still a plate of snacks put out, that Cori must have prepared before going into trial. But Tiera is just sitting by them, not taking any but not moving away either. Finally, she takes out her phone to ask whoever's nearby a question.]
Think safe? Feel safe? [After all, even if intellectually there's no reason for further poison, that's not how the mind keeps you safe.]
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[Rosetta did take one cookie, but she hasn't eaten it, instead just fidgeting with it. Crumbs start tumbling down onto the plate in front of her.]
I want to, but nothing feels safe right now. If she could do this, who else could?
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Speaker use many tricks. Some reward, some punishment. Speaker know secrets. Now less students, more hard watch everywhere. [There are many ways to push people to kill, but each time the motive has managed to convince at least one person, unfortunately. And it seems like whoever's behind it knows how to tailor those motives.]
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Not know loop only here, or everywhere. But sure loop here.
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