# Holloway
(Text-based sandbox RolePlaying with me as the main ST/curator)

* Genre – mystery, horror, drama, investigations, noir, urban legends, romance  
* Era – 2010s; U.S. southern coast (Louisiana) with an alternate history branching off in the 1940s  
* Inspiration – Generation V, noir vibes, Stranger Things, True Detective, The Covenant and Ready or Not, American Horror Story, Supernatural, Anne Rice, etc.  
* Format – text on Discord, game language is English. We only recruit adults (18+) to avoid any potential awkward situations. Best - 26+.
* System – Abyssal Wake: a compact, very lightweight homebrew engine in test mode; specific parts may change as the game goes on.  
* Who can you play? A Holloway University student, a full-time or visiting professor, a member of one of the families, doctors and scientists, visiting detectives, priests, government agents, and so on.

**Setting:**
* Private Holloway University has just been built. It consists of four campuses, each with its own tone and set of themes, both for internal play and for interactions between campuses.
* On the outside – prestige and discipline.
* On the inside – questions not everyone should be answering.
* Should you expect magic and the supernatural? Yes, but everyone starts out as ordinary people.

**Who we’re looking for:**
* Players who enjoy mystery, investigations, and social scenes  
* Short, meaningful posts and a steady pace. Please warn about pauses in advance. We don’t drag scenes out.  
* Respectful, easy to talk to, ready for team play  
* Age – adults only (18+, ideally 26+)

**What we play:**
* Life beyond the supernatural – clubs, archives, night shifts, field trips, romance  
* Investigations – disappearances, strange grants, quiet scandals  
* WHAT-IS-HAPPENING-TO-ME?!  
* Edges of reality – what manifests where science collides with the unknown  

**Agreements & safety:**  
The baseline tone is serious, without exploitation and without shock for the sake of shock. Medical and criminal details are used in moderation. Romance is only by mutual agreement. We use a simple boundaries form – you note what is acceptable for you in a scene and what must remain “off-screen.”

Disclaimer: we don’t play schoolkids. Holloway is about adult characters. Zero tolerance for toxicity.

# Holloway University – what kind of place is this

A private university with four large campuses on the southern coast of the United States, overseen by four Founding families. Young in years but ambitious in scope. The architecture is mixed: classic red brick, new glass-and-concrete buildings, fragments of an old fort and port facilities. 
People talk about Holloway as a quiet, elite institution. Reports, forms, and etiquette are the norm. Funding comes from donors and trusts. In the press, the university is linked to port facilities, clinics, and environmental projects. Scandals don’t come to light – or quickly sink under paperwork.

But why? Is there something wrong? No one talks about it.

To join the game - enter https://discord.gg/rolecult and go straight to #Join-roleplay channel for the needed button! Nothing more is required - it will tag you in the needed channels and will give roles and instructions!

Place of Mystery, Horror and Romantic Drama