User blog:EvilhariboMadness/Something Dark is Coming



Hello DARPians! I’ve gaythered you all today to discuss the next chapter of AI’s expansion plans! Now you’re probably thinking another expansion? How? What? Yes! The tea is, is that this expansion is designed to run alongside the Triwizard Tournament expansion and lead into further expansions down the line! In this blog I’ll be detailing all the basics you need to know and give you all the chance to be involved!

What Is It?
Well, first of all, it’s no secret that here on DARP we like our angsty storylines and expansions - there’s definitely a craving for it. In the past we’ve had our infection expansions to kill off our chars (another favourite pastime of DARP), an aspect I personally believe we’ve exhausted, and where can we go from there to create another character killing expansion? Serial Killers. That’s right, serial killers!

This expansion will work like the infection expansions did in terms of giving users an opportunity to permanently get rid of any chars and inject some angst into their plots and ships! It’ll be a great opportunity too for some character control! For an expansion like this, the more users who sign up characters to perish, the better!

There’ll be five serial killers (the four members of AI and Vic) each who’re hiding in different areas of the wizard society waiting to strike and rack up their kill count. That coworker you’re getting friendly with might just be the last person you see, so keep an eye out! These five serial killers each have varying motive but are working together to terrorise the society. There’ll be a section detailing them better later on in the blog!!

How Does This Tie Into The Triwizard Tournament?
So as I mentioned earlier, this expansion will be running alongside the Triwizard Tournament as well as leading into future expansions that have yet to be announced, so make sure to be on the lookout for those!

How will this work? Throughout the year there’ll be murders that take place. All of these murders will happen in London, Lincliff City and Hogsmeade and will be predominantly adults (students may be victims but AI will figure this out). As the year goes in there’ll be more and more murders and, come summer, the murders will be increasingly frequent.

From an IC perspective, the only thing the students will know is that there is a series of murders going on. Since it won’t be until the beginning of the summer that people connect all the dots and realise that all of the murders are related and aren’t just an increased frequency of fights (something that could be explained IC through the hosting of the Triwizard Tournament), the students will just have to gossip about all these cases. Theories amongst them are allowed but no student would know that they are connected nor the work of serial killers. Likewise, the students wouldn’t know anything about the identities of the Serial Killers as they are isolated from them.

Adults, on the other hand, may have their suspicions but, like the students, they would be mostly in the dark and would have to theorise and gossip at most.

Naturally this should induce a hysteria as the increasing amount of murders during an event that has brought those from France and the US to Britain would be concerning.

The Serial Killers
As mentioned, there will be five serial killers in total, each working together with one another to induce fear and ensure havok on the wizarding society of Britain.

For a context on the killers themselves, the five of them had met down Knockturn Alley through shopping and grew to be a close circle of friends despite their varying ages. Each of them had a desire to be something great and it was during a brainstorming on how they could achieve such a status that the prospect of being the greatest murderers the wizarding world had seen was suggested. From then on, the five committed to the idea, remained close to one another but were meticulous enough to cover their tracks. This involved no longer speaking to one another in public for extended periods of time, potentially showing a redemption away from the dark arts and getting jobs in society itself.

Please see the table below for information about the killers!

Sign-Ups
As this is an expansion that, whilst is part of a greater storyline, does deal with getting rid of characters - AI suggests that you all sign up characters you don’t want anymore to give them the best send-off possible. Please be warned, however, that these characters won’t be able to come back from the dead (not as humans, *stares at the Schmidts*) as they will be, well, viciously murdered. Sorry!

For students please use this format when signing up people; Name, Age, School (feel free to have some Ilvermorny/Beauxbatons students included!)

For adults please use this format when signing up people; Name, Age, Occupation

Adults


If you have any questions, please leave them as a comment below or owl myself or Brocky and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!