"I can't believe I'm coming back here..." She muttered in the passenger seat next to me.

We had pulled over onto the edge of the small, mountain road. Where we stopped, we could see the town nestled into the valley. It had been a hard decision to come back to her home. She never really spoke about the town she grew up in, just that she never wanted to come back.

Taking her hand in mine, I offered her a smile. "I know. It's only for twenty-four hours, and then we leave." It was meant to be a short trip. Afterwards, we'd have a vacation, and I was going to propose. We would live our lives together and never need to return.

She shook her head. "You don't understand. The whole town is ... backwards. It's like the suffrage movement never happened here. Fuck, a man being alone with a woman without her father's consent isn't a law, but the police will still be called. You don't know what we're going into and... Fuck, the town decency laws outlaws smoking just for women..."

This is just one idea for the RP centered around this town, this one and more are outlined below. Misty Hollow is an isolated town in the US, surrounded by mountains on all sides. One road leads into the town from the Southern side of town. The East side has one large river, with one river winding eventually out towards civilization. Between them, one lone train track carving it's way through the mountains to find the world outside.

The town itself is not large, maybe a ten thousand people at most. There is no college or a university here, school generally ends with High School, unless you choose to leave that is. Only three farms run throughout the outer edges of the town, the chief suppliers of food and labor in Misty Hollow. There's one ski resort for the small amount of rich tourists that choose the difficult methods of getting to this picturesque village.

Most of the buildings are old. Antique old. Historical Foundation old. Old, like their traditions. Old, like their values. A town whose roots run deep, not just into the soil, but also into the hearts and souls of the people who live in Misty Hollow. All fed by something that was summoned long ago, and has grown older and stronger along with the town itself. An entity that keeps the town alive, flourishing & fertile as long as everyone falls in line...

I have a couple of ideas for the role play, :

1 - This first idea plays off of the intro I wrote above. The FMC is originally from the town, and managed to escape, but now that which controls the town has orchestrated her return. And it will do everything it can to keep her here.

2 - This idea has both the MMC and FMC entering the town together, neither being from the town. This is just the two of them moving in... ANd getting infected together by the town itself.

3 - Different option to both, maybe it's the MMC whose just moved into Misty Hollow, and our FMC and town itself is guiding him into being something that the creature within the town would be proud to have as one of it's citizens.

4 - An inverse of the above, the MMC is a citizen of the town, maybe someone who left and saw some of the world before returning. Versus the FMC who is just moving into the town.

5 - A fun alternative to 4, maybe the MMC left the town, and the FMC has grown up there. My leaving inspiring a rebellious streak within her and other children in the town. Perhaps my leaving, as the heir apparent caused a huge mess of drama throughout the whole town of Misty Hollow. And now that I've returned... ... Things get a lot more interesting.

One of the things I'd like to explore within this RP is the idea of 'Power Through Submission'. As your character submits to mine, and falls in line with whatever 'thing' is filling the town with it's power, she gradually gains magic of some kind. We could go full witchy, able to brew potions and cast spells, or perhaps she just gains some unnatural abilities (Enhanced luck, amazing intuition, etc). Either way, the more she succumbs, the stronger she is... at the direction of the man who owns her.

I hope some of this may have inspired somethign in you. I'd love to hear any ideas you have as well!

[M4F] Misty Hollow : A Traditionalists Utopia With Something Lurking Underneath ...