Everyone loses contact with someone or something every once in a while. You might be in the middle of an important cell phone call while driving down the road, and then BAM! You enter a deadzone/crash into something because you weren't paying attention to the semi driving down the opposite side of the road. A certain plane may go missing, and when all attempts to contact said plane end up instead contacting "hiss city," authorities will do everything in their power to figure out where 300 or so people just went and why they have gone missing. Well, what happens when a town goes off the map?
You might be asking: "what the hell is Cylarn talking about now?" Well, in this story, instead of a plane or other item going off the radar, it's a town that seems to go missing. The town of Holliman, NC, is an unremarkable little town located near the NC Research Triangle, the suburban town catering mainly to researchers and their families. In the middle of May of 2012, a seemingly unnatural phenomena has overtaken little Holliman. A dense, massive cloud of fog has engulfed the entire town up to its limits, obscuring views from land, air, and even space. Communications to and from Holliman have also been affected, and no word has left the town since the day the fog rolled in. To make matters worse, the authorities report that no vehicles or people have been seen leaving the town as well. In an attempt to figure out what has been going on, the Wake County Sheriff's Department dispatched 4 deputies in order to get down to the bottom of the situation.
It's been one week since those deputies last reported in, when they were just entering the town limits. The state is now overwhelmed with news about the unnatural situation, with many theories as to why a town of 1,000 people has seemingly slipped off the map without a trace. With people demanding action, the Governor and the Adjutant General have decided to take action, putting together a task force in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. The creation of Task Force Searchlight has heralded the beginning of Operation Factfinder. Comprised of several NC Army National Guard units as well as a small component of federal government employees, civilian experts, and foreign observers, the battalion-sized force has been supplied with an array of equipment and a blank check in order to uncover what truly happened in Holliman. What they are about to face is something that no human should ever encounter.
Yup, this is like The Mist, but not really. This RP is still in the developmental stages, and I am looking to gather up assistance with the RP and/or tags from interested RP'ers. On the subject of what we are going up against, I have some ideas, though I wouldn't mind crowdsourcing some suggestions. I was thinking of some sort of Lovecraftian evil or something reminiscent of Silent Hill, though I'd like to get a few more suggestions before putting up a poll and getting the formal OOC set up, along with player applications.
