🩸 SETTING: 🩸
In order to maintain separation from the canon of The Vampire Diaries so as to help those who are not immersed in the character lore of the show and/or books, while leaving room for those who are fans to play with show mechanics, the Event will be set in an alternate version of Hogsmeade; Scotland’s answer to Mystic Falls, if you will! There will be an array of key locations for you to play in, but for the most part it is just a little town in Scotland with a history of being home to supernatural creatures.
🩸 THE BLACK FAMILY: 🩸
The Black Family are not the Originals, but they are something of a pillar of the supernatural community, and one or two of them has always been in residence in the large manor house outside town that they have called home for… many years. There are many generations of the family, and they are principally a family of witches; but the core, and commanding family structure is made up of members of the family who were born as siphon witches, and when they were at an age where they felt ready, were made vampires, and so became Heretics, or witch/vampire hybrids.
The oldest of them is Arcturus Black, who was turned almost 900 years ago in what would become modern day Korea, while the Originals were still hiding from their father. The youngest current Heretic is Narcissa, who was turned almost two centuries ago.
The plan is that on the night of Halloween, Regulus will join the ranks of the vampires who raised him, and also be turned into a vampire, able to use magic as and when he pleases by using himself as a magical conduit. The celebration happens every year; but with the induction of a new family member being so rare, this year there are more supernatural guests than usual filling Hogsmeade for Halloween, with intentions both good and… less than good.
🩸 TIMELINE: 🩸
While we engage in the Event, it is our intention that THREE IN GAME DAYS should equal ONE IRL WEEK. This will give everyone plenty of time to respond and react to plot events as they unfold! If it seems like things are moving too slowly, we will of course readjust, but while discussing this seemed to make the most sense for moving us along while leaving enough room for everyone to explore the plot as thoroughly as they please.
To help us to keep track of this timeline, your illustrious prefects will be putting together an interactive calendar, and we will be asking that whenever you start a new thread, you make a note of the day the thread is occurring at the beginning! We will do our utmost to keep the calendar up to date with events that happen on each day as we progress.
🩸 INDIVIDUAL PLOTS: 🩸
We encourage you to start talking about relationships with other characters, and considering things you might want to explore with your characters for the event; but we ask at the same time that everyone come into this looking to interact with as many different players and characters as possible.
The Event will commence from the 1st of October, so there is plenty of time to claim characters. Everyone will be allowed to take TWO CHARACTERS; we ask that you limit yourself to one main canon character, until the final week before the Event kicks off, at which point if there are main canon characters still unclaimed you will be welcome to claim them as your second character. Otherwise, feel free to call dibs on minor canon characters and OCs as you please.
In the coming days once signups are open channels for the Event will start to go up, both to note claimed characters and make room for you to ask questions. A more precise premise will be posted in the coming weeks.
We’re very excited about this AU, and hope you are too!
🩸 Your Humble Prefects 🩸