Post by HG Member on Mar 16, 2012 10:26:04 GMT -6
Hell's Garden is a free-form horror/fantasy role play site based in the near future.
~2005~
Hell’s Garden was originally known as Eden, a beautiful place to live. Its populace was plentiful and happy; it truly was the ideal place to live. When the government came though, all of this began to change. Curfews were instituted and their only excuse was the streets were not safe at night. In truth, the government was there for a much more sinister purpose. Sensors had picked up on unusual fluctuations in supernatural activity; they had come to investigate only to discover that Eden, particularly the garden located in the center of the city, was linked somehow to another realm. It explained many things, for decades people had lived there with no illness, their lifetimes extending well over one hundred years. Their religion within the city could not be named for they believed in no God but, their prayers to their ancestors were a daily objective. Many spoke of seeing and hearing the dead loved ones, and the government found out just how true these claims were. It was then, that the government started their project, called Project Split.
~2012~
Years later, the government made a breakthrough on their project. By this time the people of Eden had grown comfortable with their presence and no longer paid heed to their warnings and threats. On the night of a lunar eclipse the government made an attempt to contact this hidden realm through the garden within the city. Using technologies that were unknown to man, they managed to split open a gateway. This is where everything went wrong. They failed to communicate with anything or anyone, the gateway did not stay open long, and upon closing it let loose a shockwave that incinerated everyone around it. Within the hour, calls to the police station were no longer making it through the jammed phone lines. Creatures, demons, and things of myth had begun appearing all over the city. People died, quickly. Six hours after the incident it all stopped, nothing else appeared and no one else died, by this point the city’s population was nearly wiped out. No one knew where the creatures had went, none of them looked human when they appeared all over the city and now it was like they had just disappeared.
~2025~
Now the city has been renamed Hell’s Garden, in memory and recognition of the fact that the garden was a gateway to more than just another realm. It took years, to rebuild and then study what exactly had happened. The only logical explanation was that this realm was where everything from your nightmares and dreams lived. The initial creatures to come through during the split were without a doubt demons, and many believe they still live there, disguised as humans. Many things appear randomly all over Hell’s Garden at random moments in time, nothing human, but what has been found is they are from all different corners of myth. Demons, mythological creatures, beings from the future, anything a child’s mind could imagine have come through to Hell’s Garden. The most terrifying aspect of the split, was shortly after the people and things that reside there found out, straying too far from the city resulted in death. No one could explain it, people would just fall over dead with no medical explanation. Many believe that they garden had laid claim to their souls, your body could leave Hell’s Garden, your soul and any that you created, were trapped there, forever.