#shadowadminnotes

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Hey everyone--

These past few weeks, Admin Eden has dealt with the loss of a close family member. This turn of events has led her to being unable to run and participate in this roleplay.

Both Madi and Eden have put their souls into this roleplay and have been so blessed with such amazing and dedicated players. It’s with a heavy heart we are closing this roleplay. We may reopen in the future, but given the family tragedy, Admin Eden is really struggling to balance the internet world with her family world.

Players are more than welcome to continue writing on the dash, but the main is closed. We will not be accepting new apps nor doing activity checks. Thank you again for an amazing ride, hopefully we can all write again together soon.

All the best,

Admins Madi and Eden

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Hey everyone!

Players, if anything big happened with your character during this past full moon, please message the main. We have a list right now of a few characters who had messaged us about their plots but would like to hear from everyone who had something stand out to them this past plot drop!

Madi and I are working on an event recap for the full moon and intend on posting it this weekend. So please message the main ASAP to be included in the recap.

Thanks lovelies!

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Hey everyone! Just a little reminder that the Shadow Falls Winter Ball Event has begun! For more information about the event, please click here.

We’re also doing acceptances today! We already have an awesome app in our box and we would love to see some more. It’s a great time to join because this event is full of fun and a great way to introduce your oc to the town. Check out our plot, our species list, and more!

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Elise Kovack’s faceclaim has changed from Bridgit Mendler to Shelley Hennig.

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Hello everyone!

Good news-- I (Eden) am back in the United States! As a few of you know, I spent the last 13 months working in Japan. My contract ended and I am starting a new job in the U.S. But I have a break for the holidays.

So, that means I’m back at adminning and will be active on the dash once more. Very excited to be back. We have a lot of exciting things coming up, including a Winter Ball Event, a Secret Santa activity, and a Full Moon plot drop. So please check us out and reach out for plots.

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And the fire fades away

Fear begins decay

It’s almost a new day...

After the helicopters carried away the super-siren Logan and the bodies of James Armstrong and Skylar Monaghan, the little, once quiet, town of Shadow Falls starts to put the pieces back together.

The following information is known OOC. Characters in play do not have this information unless it was given to them during the event in play or stated otherwise in the recap. This is to inform players of secret information happening in the world of the roleplay and to anticipate further plot drops or contribute ideas for plot drops down the line.

So, what happened? Why did it happen here?

Who was responsible for the contaminated blood?

The blood tablets were provided by a private conglomerate known as the Hamlin Group. You can find more information about them {here}. They have been working to create a commercialized, mass-produced blood substitute and were debuting a sample batch to a few locations nationwide during Halloween events to test consumer responses. Unfortunately, the batch sent to Shadow Falls had adverse side-effects after a few hours from consumption. Those who were declared, therefore wearing government-issued daylight rings, were simply made ill and docile. Those who were undeclared, and therefore had to find black market daylight rings, suffered illness but were closer to a feral state of mind. The illness sparked a need to feed to counteract the infection, allowing them to heal from the virus faster. It was a natural reaction to combat the foreign virus.

The government-issued rings are laced with a chemical to encourage docility and self-control. This is to help control the vampire population and minimize attacks or overeating. The black market rings, however, do not come with this chemical and leaves vampires in a more natural state, allowing more space for their predatory instincts. Your character may notice the difference in vampire reactions to the tablets. It’s likely (and encouraged!) that characters will start to speculate why some reacted violently while others remained in control. However, unless investigated properly, no one would immediately think it had to do with the daylight ring differences. If you would like to further investigate this plot and have your character research this mystery, please message the main.

Who were Logan Delaney and Skylar Monaghan?

Not much is known about the personal lives of these individuals, but they were volunteer test subjects for a study done by the Hamlin Group. The Hamlin Group has been secretly branching out beyond consumer goods for both human and supernatural customers, and been working on providing goods and weaponry for the government. Part of their research had been to create a serum to create super-soldiers.

While supernaturals are allowed to serve in some branches of the military in the United States, others have more or less power in foreign militia. In order to compete with foreign militaries, the United States secretly commissioned the Hamlin Group to create sample soldiers derived from the genes that made up organic supernaturals. They had been working on a serum for decades, starting with the one developed by Dr. Quinten Huskby that spawned sirens and harpies. Over the years, they were able to develop two separate batches that could turn humans into modified versions of supernaturals. Logan and Skylar were part of the third batch that were promised to be stronger than any supernatural of the species they were derived from. Skylar was derived from the werewolf gene and designed to be stronger than the most powerful wolves: alphas from long lineages of alphas. Logan was a modified siren, a strengthened and focused genetic make-up. He was designed with his abilities to leave humans unaffected but to target supernaturals. Only his powers still do not work on those with the siren or harpy gene, which the Hamlin Group is looking to remedy so that other sirens and harpies will too, be affected.

Why did Logan use his song to draw people into the lake?

Logan and Skylar were sent into Shadow Falls to test their abilities in a contained town and pull potential test subjects for future scientific endeavors. Logan was testing his song and creating a distraction for Skylar to finish his part of their mission.

It was to see how wide a net his abilities would cast. They were able to confirm a batch of randomized humans were unaffected by his song, but sirens and harpies were also unaffected. It also allowed for enough chaos for Skylar to isolate local alpha, James Armstrong.

What was Skylar’s mission?

The only way for Skylar to test his strength and abilities was to go against an Alpha with plenty of experience. The Armstrongs had been pack-minded and on the record since the 1800s, and had an alpha bloodline since the early 20th century. James was an ideal target to take down and see if he could overpower. There was a second part to his mission as well:

Should he succeed in overpowering James, Skylar was to inject James with an anti-supernatural serum. This is a remedy to cure the supernatural gene and is in its early stages still. They did not know its adverse effects, but decided it would be a good way to gain a specimen and do an autopsy to determine a cause of death to improve the next serum batch. Once James was injected, his body had a negative reaction and his body was left limp. Unfortunately for Skylar, he met an unexpected end at the hands of Kelsie Woods, who found him standing over her fiance’s body. She used a silver bullet laced with wolfsbane that she acquired illegally by Order of the Unseen member, Nikolina Skala. The combination of a werewolf’s true weaknesses was able to kill Skylar on the spot, thus demonstrating a flaw in his modified gene. 

What is happening with the Armstrong pack now?

When Skylar defeated and injected James, the title of alpha passed down to him. However, when Kelsie shot Skylar, she took the alpha title from him. Kelsie Woods is the new alpha of the Armstrong pack. Nicholas Robinson still holds his position as a pack beta and it is rumored that James Armstrong’s mother, Dianna Armstrong, is coming back to play a more active role in the pack in order to ensure its survival. The pack is still intact, but it grieving and reeling from the loss of their former leader.

What is happening with everyone else in town?

People are still recovering from any injuries or traumas they’ve endured from the event and trying to find their normal again. Several town residents have picked up their things and left. The Munroe family, who had always lived in the political middle when it came to supernatural versus human conflict, decided to wasn’t safe to keep their family in Shadow Falls and moved away. Tegan and Alexander Matheson followed suit, opting to find a new city to start anew and live a peaceful existence. Nina Skala took the first mission from the Order of the Unseen she could get her hands on and fled town.  In the aftermath, Mateo San Roman and his niece, Renata, also left for their own safety.

The Mayor released a cryptic statement, claiming the police in town were investigating to find who was responsible for such a madhouse. The Hamlin Group, because their name was tied to the blood tablets, footed any hospital bills of victims from the faulty product. They also sent gift baskets, large-sum gift cards, and, depending on the extremity of the case, awarded victims with a large sum of money to keep quiet (about $5,000.) As for the Siren on French Broad, there is no evidence or inklings to tie the Hamlin Group to the incident. As of now, local authorities are suspecting the Four Horsemen because higher-ups continue to push that narrative, despite a lack of evidence. Additionally, if your character is law-enforcement, they might be investigating this incident and find themselves gaslighted by NPC higher-ups. If you would like to explore this plot, please message the main for more details.

That wraps up our first plot-heavy event! We hope you feel inspired to engage in major plot-driven threads and plots with your characters. If this event inspired ideas for future ideas, canons for the world our characters live in, or ideas for smaller plots, don’t hesitate to message the main. Check out the gossip blog for a comprehensive recap of smaller plots and happenings with each character! Additionally, please check the OOC blog and be sure to take our post-event survey we will be posting soon. 

Thank you everyone for participating in the event and making new connections. We hope you had just as much fun as we did!

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Hi guys! We updated the map and added two new locations! The first is a human night club named the Ace of Spades. Any species can go, but it’s a place that tends to cater more to humans. And the second, is a public pool that ��the mayor’ and town hall created using some of the contributions from the Crown of Shadows Charity Auction with the rest of the contributions going to Solar Panels around town. We thought these additions could be a fun expansion to our town and could be a cool way to showcase how your characters actions and contributions can directly impact the world they live in. So, feel free to go check them out!

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Hey everyone,

The RP is going through a shift in administration, but in general, things will be going the same! Becca has left an awesome legacy and we wish her the best with her exciting real life opportunities! 

We’re still so excited for our October Halloween event and the event is still prepared but we are still accepting plot suggestions, ideas, and if you want your character involved in a big way, please message the main! We plan on posting more information about it in the follow weeks.

Another new thing: we’re welcoming a new Admin! Admin Madi will be on shortly to introduce herself. I wanted an Admin in the other part of the world (i.e., North American given I live in Asia) and Madi has been an Admin before as well! I think this is going to be a positive movement for the roleplay and I’m excited to start this new chapter with you all!

-Admin Eden

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Don’t mind me! I’m just freaking out about how incredible you guys are. I just did an activity check and it’s crazy to me that almost every single member in this rp, outside of hiatuses, are typically on within a day. I just wanted to thank you all for being so awesome. I know Eden and I are so proud to be part of such a fantastic and inclusive group of writers and this is just an appreciate post for all of you. We love you guys!

Also, I know a lot of our spots are almost filled up, but we’d love to have a few more succubus/incubus and human apps before we add more spots! And remember, we have full moon starter prompts once a month, where you can trigger or turn your characters to whatever you would like if you chose to have a human :)

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Hi guys!

This is hopefully going to be a really exciting admin note, but, as many of you already know, based on your votes, the dates for our Halloween themed event will be from October 8th to the 20th! We know that is still over a month away, but we, the admins, are starting to get prepared for it now. This event is going to be a plot drop filled event which we hope will, not only expand the world in which your characters are interacting in, but, also, give you guys some fun added drama. 

But, we need your help. 

We will be bringing in *drum roll please*, not one, but two temporary villains for this event. One who seems to be calling the shots and the other who will be an accomplice of sorts. We already have one of the villain spots filled. But, we’re posting this on the main to see if any of you would like to play the second spot? A couple things you should know about these temporary villains are that:

They will be brought in sometime during the event with the account links to follow being posted in one of the plot drops

These two characters will be in play for the duration of the event where they will either be killed in play during the event or will disappear after the event ends to potentially be brought back in during a future event

These characters are temporarily. There sole purpose is to stir up drama and add to the plot/world of the RP. So, they will not be allowed to be in play after the event is over unless to wrap up existing event threads.

If you are interested in playing this type of character, please shoot a message to the main! It’s that easy. Just let us know that you are interested. But, also, note that because this character is so crucial to event, we will not be picking who will play this character on a first come, first serve basis, but based on the ideas you bring to the table for them (which character best fits our existing event details) and your current activity.  Also, note, that if you send us a message saying that you are interested, we might not get back to you for a week or two, because we want to, first, make sure that everyone who is interested has reached out to us, before we start deliberating who should play this spot. 

Last, but not, least, if you want your character to be triggered or severely injured, or have any major plot related stuff your interested in exploring with your character, you’re welcome to send us a message now so that we can start tying it in to the event and villains stories/backstories. But, you do not have to. You have all of September and into October, to figure out things such as that.

Thank you all for bearing with us and sorry that this message was so long. But, we hope you are getting as excited for this event as we are!

Love, 

Your Admins 

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Hi guys! 

You all have made this such an amazing first week. We just wanted to reach out to you, thank you all for being so awesome, and tell you a little bit about some of the fun added features we have on the main just in case you haven’t gotten a chance to look at them yet.

If you haven’t seen the Gossip posts starting up check them out! We have two lovely gossips whom we’re very excited about! And we will be starting up our confessions/inspiration blog soon, so stay tune for that.

We have a Town Bulletin board which you can find here. This is an interactive in character way for you to all explore more of the Shadow Falls world. You can post information about your job, post flyers, if you character lost a dog, if two characters are sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G  etc. Think of it like an actual town bulletin board. And just remember to click save after you’re done adding something to it, so that we can all see it.

We have a Supernatural Slang page which can be found here. We want this world to have some of it’s own terminology. You do not have to use it. But, similar to some of the different terminology used in shows like True Blood, we created this page as an added writing resource for you all, so that each species can have certain slang words related to them. If you come up with your own terminology or want to add to this list please shoot us a message and we can add it for you.

We have a in character Town Laws page which can be found here. Since this is a world with it’s own laws on what is permitted for different species, we thought it might be helpful to lay them out for you. Again, if you come up with an idea you think might make a good addition to this list please feel free to let us know.

We, as admins, want this world to be as collaborative as possible. This isn’t just a world we created. It’s yours now too and we want you to feel a part of it! Keep interacting with each other on the dash and feel free to explore these other pages on the main. 

Thank you once again! You all are wonderful.

Love,

- Your Admins <3

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Hi! I just want to thank all of our wonderful new members! I know we just opened, but all of you have been so amazing. We couldn’t ask for a better bunch and we’re so ecstatic that you have chosen to join our community! We will be posting our first prompt either later today or tomorrow. So, stay tune for that and, if anyone is stumbling upon our page for the first time, welcome! We’re going to be doing rolling acceptances for the rest of the week, so come check us out.

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Hi Guys! 

As this event wraps up and nears it’s end, we just wanted to reach out and ask if anyone had a plot about their character and another character being on the ferris wheel together to watch the fireworks, if you could send us the names of those pairings to the main? Just send an ask such as “Fireworks: Ella & Silas”, so we can keep it on record. 

To jog one’s memory, there were multiple different locations to watch the fireworks at the end of the event at, but if you and another character decided to watch the fireworks together on the ferris wheel (instead of the other locations), rumor has it that the two of you will be bonded for life for good or for bad. So, we just want to keep a list of those pairings for a potential future event or plot related thing!

If your character wasn’t on the ferris wheel during the fireworks, feel free to completely ignore this request. 

Thanks once again for an amazing event guys!

Love,

-Your Admins

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Hi guys! 

It’s Becca <3 I just am writing to tell you all that I love you guys so much! I never thought I’d be part of starting or creating anything like this and I’m so happy to get to say that I was! That being said, I, unfortunately, am going to be stepping down from my position as admin and leaving the rp. I just think that it’s in my best interest to take a step back. I’m so proud of the amazing characters you all have created and the community we all have built together, but I need to put my real life and mental health first. I hope you all understand. I love you all and love this RP so much. I wish you all the best and I hope you stay in touch. 

And, to Eden, I know we already discussed my leaving, but I can’t wait to see what you do with the RP! I’m sure it will be spectacular!

Stay in touch <3

    - Becca

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We have upped the slots on the app count, so now every species is open again! Come check us out. We are an established supernatural town rp and we have a bunch of different species from vampires and werewolves to succubus and sirens.

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 @astridxreyes Astrid Reyes’ FC has been changed from Shay Mitchell to Vanessa Hudgens.