You will notice that the start up post is formatted in a different way to previous versions of dare or other roleplays. This will be a reoccuring theme throughout DARE revival. This version will all be a little different. Please read the start up prompt to understand your characters current stance. You may post starters using the same old darestarter tag. Nothing has changed. Please go to the housing list and follow everybody, otherwise, you may post starters in the tag from now set on the Morning of Sunday 18th. Please remember, for those of you who were not involved in dare 1.0, this is a boarding school and most of these students do not leave at weekends.
There’s something wrong with your school. Ever since you can remember the teachers have been a little bit off. The headmaster never seems to get to the point. Even the other teachers stay out of his way. Him and his limp. The mayor hangs around the school breaking into a sweat and everyone knows it’s over something besides his kids. And the noise -- the God damn whirring noise -- it keeps getting louder. The more time passes the worse it gets. Everyone can hear it, everyone knows it’s there, somewhere beneath the floor of the main school house something is going on and nobody seems to want to tell you what. This wasn’t in the brochure.
Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved. But nobody told you that, did they? The great debate of whether or not you should dig up the answers is the only thing that’s ever pulled together your peers and one night when you all band together to go on a hunt you find yourself standing outside the door to the basement. A hidden world. Pictures of people you thought you knew as teachers as students, the sound louder than ever, like it’s about to explode. That blue light beneath the door is equal parts terrifying and amazing. Some want to know what’s behind the door and some want to leave. Secrets are dangerous.
Nobody gets to make that call. The Mayor appears and suddenly you know that you’re going to be in big trouble. It’s only a matter of time before the head master hears, everyone knows that bad behaviour gets punished, but you can’t help but wonder, even if you shake it off, what the hell is behind that door?
SUNDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2016, 8AM.
The way you felt, your escape plan, the way out.
There’s only six days before your parents come pick you up but the Christmas holidays won’t last forever. This problem isn’t going away. Especially not this Morning.
Read about it beneath the cut if you DARE.
WARWICK -- You’re in the deep. You’re bound to get caught.
Harry Sinclair
You’re freaking out. You might be able to watch your peers slip through the gaps but you won’t get off lightly. Everything you’ve ever got was taken with a pinch of salt. Calm down. Do you know how to do that? Don’t cry. You’ve got that one nailed. You don’t need the answer to a mystery, you already know too much.
Tristan King
It wasn’t even your idea, was it? Stupid little kids running around in the dead of the night. You tell yourself you want the satisfaction of pissing off your Uncle to avoid admitting that you’re actually scared. You’ve never seen his eyes look as dead as you do this Morning when you bump into him on the way to the bathroom.
Sebastian ‘SJ’ Johnson
It’ll probably be fine. You get up for your Morning run with that in mind and grab a glass of orange juice at 5am with a smile on your face. Come on, SJ, think positive, what’s the worst that could happen? Fifth House. It sends a shudder down your spine but you shrug it off, you won’t say a word if nobody else does.
James Lawton
Not much gets to you but you don’t sleep a wink. In between the haunting thought of punishment that you promise everybody that will listen (and even some that won’t) you don’t care about and the memory of that slip of paper in your hand, “I don’t know, jeez, it’s just a piece of paper, look,” you don’t sleep a wink. You’ve never seen a man look as haunted as the Mayor in that moment.
Kenilworth -- Maybe your house Mother will protect you.
Poppy Stevens
It was all your fault, you were the driving force, the one desperately throwing herself at locked doors for answers, but you won’t say that. You know your Father will be calling you a thousand times to tell you what he thinks about you nosing around but you don’t care, you’re going to continue to push for answers -- no matter the consequence. Even if you don’t know why.
Daisy McClain
What was a bad plan turned into a terrible one but you don’t admit that. Between Poppy and Tyler you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Your head is just about to explode clean on your shoulders and the thought of the headmaster being involved is only making it worse. Who cares if you have leniancy in your house, you’re living in the real world. Or so you say.
Carrie Aldridge
It was a good night. You don’t know why everyone else is whinging, you’ve wanted to get closer to the answers for a long time now, you just needed someone else to figure it out too. While everyone else is worrying about punishment you’re only daydreaming about what’s behind that door. Not for long, though. It’s time for a new plan.
Erica Hanson
You weren’t even there. Well. Not exactly. You were about a minute behind everyone else playing it cool, pretending that you weren’t even following the crowd when that was exactly what you were doing. You’re telling yourself you’re not afraid now, blaming them. God, this is why you spend most of your time alone!
Dudley - Well, what’s the worst that could happen?
Luke Brady
You’re peeing your pants. Not literally. Probably. You know that if anyone asks then your tongue will be wagging before your brain has figurd out what you’re saying. You’re trying to compose yourself for the sake of everyone else but you’re pretty sure that when a weird blue light is making a huge sound it can only mean one thing... Aliens. Probably.
Nathan Kigonyi
That’s it. You’re not happy. You’re especially unhappy that it was your ‘Father’ who was skulking around school grounds with no explanation. Never in your life have you been so utterly confused, never have you doubted him, never have you considered that he wasn’t anything but the boring run of the mill nervous Dad he was but now... What’s his connection to Whittemore?
Jude Tyler
It doesn’t make sense. That’s about the long and the short of it for you. If you hadn’t been dragged by SJ then you would of much preferred to stay in bed in your pyjamas and if you had the choice then that’s where you would be right now not wondering what terrible excuses everyone else will have.
Maxstoke -- She probably won’t notice you were gone.
Emma Pope
You’re annoyed at Poppy, you’re annoyed at Daisy, you’re annoyed at SJ. Actually, who aren’t you annoyed at? Whatever is behind that door is obviously there for a reason. You’ve never cared much about what the teachers are hiding with their awkward glances and from what you’ve seen so far, you aren’t going to start now if possible.
Violet McClain
It’s like you should be worried about all of this but you’re not. You’re too bitter to care that this could be something big. All you’re seeing is a new reason why your family is falling apart, a new reason why you can’t believe anything anyone says. Suddenly you’re coming up with theories that don’t even make sense to excuse the fact that you’re struggling to care.
Aimee Peterson
Stress, why be stressed? After all, this isn’t your fault, is it? You’re not the one hiding things, are you? Everyone else seems to be missing the gold mine that this secret could be. When rich people want to keep something hidden then they pay big and you intend to find a way to get to that end goal. You’ll let everyone else do the hard work.
