Things to Note & OOC

Alice Is Missing is a silent role-playing game, intended to be played in-person, though on the phone with your group. It’s intended to be played over the course of 2-3 hours, with 90 minutes of that being in-character play.

We can’t do that. So we’ll try for the next best thing.

I intend for this game to be played over the course of 30 days. 90 minutes divided by 3. With the timed prompts (90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 45, 40, 35, 30, 20, 10) also being divided by 3 and posted on a corresponding day.

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We are here to find Alice. Feel free to make things up on the fly, lean into your drives, and a look for ways to make the game more fun for you and others!

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Tuesday, December 19th: The day Alice was last seen.

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Thursday, December 21st: Two days since Alice has been seen.

Silent Falls is a small coastal forest town in the heart of Northern California. It's quiet here, and since the recession a few years ago, people are not as friendly as they used to be. It's been a rough few years for everyone.

The major high school in town, Franklin Academy, lies nestled in the wooded hills on the east side. It's the last day before winter break, and students shuffle down the hallways, dusting off a light powder of snow from their jackets. It's cold today.

Down the main corridor, past the barren trophy case and peeling Franklin Academy decal plastered on the wall, hangs a bulletin board. A cluster of students are gathered at it, and around the edges we see old posters for student body elections, sign ups for football next year, and reminders about the upcoming senior ball littered about like mousetraps. But as the students part, you see the flyer they were all huddling around.

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Today, Friday, December 22nd: Three days since Alice has been seen. And Morgan Bridges is back in town.

There is a lot going on in the game to get stuff started.

Is there any way we can get a check list of what we need to do?
I feel like I am forgetting something already.

Good question.

Each player needs:

• A character sheet, with a picture. (For posting in game.) - Done.
• To answer their background prompt about Alice. - Done.
• To answer their secret prompt. Done. (Maybe!)
• To write a voicemail. - Done.
• To write a quick bio detailing one of the suspects. - Done.

• To assign relationships to two other characters.

• To assign relationships to two other characters.

Yeaaaaah, I'm dragging my feet there. Probably tomorrow I'll knuckle down and slap my phone screen till teenage angst says things!

Relationships between characters have no mechanical function in this game (like 99% of the stuff in this game.)

It’s purely for flavor or to give you something to work with. It people are really drawing blanks with it, then let it emerge in play!

I believe I am fully submitted and ready. Anyone having struggles? I'm sure we can help if so.

I won't be able to get to the relationship stuff until layer today.
I have an out of town funeral for my uncle today.

It’s Saturday, and everyone except for Morgan (me) knows that Alice was last seen three days ago and is considered missing.

The rules sorta say we wont find the phone without a card that says we do. So I just made up why we cant just go find it. Honestly I have no real clue about the "Find Phone" feature.

Yeah, it also came up in the last game. One of the players said they found her phone but the card didn’t come up. We can just roll with it. I’ll guide us through the prompt cards as we go, and make sure everything is straightened out!

Lol again the rules say we wont find the car without a card for it. Guess I see why they mention those two things specifically.

Fortunately, iirc LoJack is a service. We can just say they couldn't afford to LoJack the cars. Easy peasy. Lol

They should have set the game in the 2010s when less of those services where a thing (I think)

The original LoJack system was invented in like 1979. It's been a thing for decades.

I grew up broke, and legit never heard of this service. Maybe it's more a regional thing? Definitely they won't have it on any of their vehicles. Come to think of it, none of mine have OnStar either.

I added a little to the end of the post. Hopefully that addresses it well enough. I have no clue about that service really lol.

I really don't have much to add..

How do the Clue Cards work?

Clue Cards are set to trigger at regular intervals. The first one will be sent out today. I’ll send the prompt to someone, and they’ll inject it into the story in a way that seems natural to them!

Hopefully that spurs roleplay on for another while, until the next prompt drives us forward again.

If things start to slow down, then I’ll simply push up the next prompt so we don’t lose interest. That, or people can announce ‘I’m going to go look for her at XYZ’ (one of the five locations we have for the game!).

If someone does that, I’ll draw out a card that tells them what they find, which will hopefully drive roleplay forward too. In the last game, I think only one person did this one time, and they found a gun!

Steven has elected to check the Boardwalk I think. Other than that, I know we are sorta waiting on the first new info.