Welcome to Hickstead, home to both Seven Oak Stables, and Blue Acre - two rival stables. Both offer opportunities for their clients to reach the highest level of excellence. Each stable differs from the other, so choose wisely and never forget, loyalty is everything... Meanwhile as the stables battle it out, there's trouble brewing at the university. Be careful, if you don't pick a side you may get caught in the cross-fire...
This is an chilled out rpg with a super friendly and relaxed atmosphere! Remember to sign up with your characters full name in all caps and don't forget to do your claims! Thank you and Welcome, we've been established since 10th March 2009 but unfortunately have had to close guest view of our boards due to multiple sites ripping off our hard work, such a shame! Come chat to us in Discord before joining if you like!.
heather was more than ready for this day to be over. it had started out bad and had just gone from bad to worse. it was like the universe had conspired for her to have everything go wrong. she'd had to borrow her brothers car that morning because hers has decided not to start, her professor hadn't liked one of the photo's she'd submitted for an assignment so now she either had to take another one or try and find another one she'd taken that suited what it needed to, she'd spilled her coffee all over her jeans at break and hadn't had time to change out of them or go home to get another pair because of course it had to be the day with the heavy class load and then she'd discovered that she'd left a whole book at home and couldn't get the feedback she needed before submitting what she'd written. she was looking forward to getting home, taking the longest bath on record, ordering pizza regardless of what was on offer for dinner and then drinking hot chocolate till the cows came home.
stepping out of the university doors she frowned and sighed when she was it was raining. well that was great. the sun had been shining half an hour ago. she pulled her jacket up over her hair as much as she could as she ran across the parking lot, thanking god that she'd at least made the smart choice to wear sneakers that morning. as she reached the car she threw her book bag into the car and was about to throw her purse into the front when she spotted something she didn't want to spot on a million years. a flat tire. she could have cried, right then and there she could have curled up into a ball and laid there till time ended. she let out a frustrated noise instead and moved to the boot, grabbing the jack out and hoping she remembered everything from when caleb had taught her to change a tire. she dropped to the floor carefully, kneeling next to the wheel, the rain falling heavier now, the water soaking through the knee's of her jeans as she fiddled with the jack, trying to find the right spot to put it.
dropping her camera light onto the kitchen counter, heather glanced around the house quickly and wondered why it was so quiet. there should be at least three people cluttering up the place by now. unless plans had changed and she was on her own for dinner. she hoped not, not that she couldn't eat alone it was just nice not to. taking off her jacket she tossed it across the back of one of the kitchen chairs and she brushed some hair back from her forehead. she heard a small cheer from the backyard and she smiled as she went to the window. if dean was around, then that would mean at least hayden or dustin were about the house somewhere. she headed out the back and watched dean kick the ball towards the little set of goals he had. "you're gonna be a football player when you grow up?" she asked as she walked over to him.
he abandoned his game, for at least a few moments, to run over and greet her and she scooped him up into his arms, grunting a little as she did. "your mum needs to stop feeding you." she said as she tickled him lightly. over his giggles she heard voices coming from the garage at the back of their garden. So that's where they were. heather was about to set dean down and play ball with him again when something in the tone of the voices changed and she stopped to listen for just a second. she didn't often eavesdrop on her siblings, but she did when it sounded like something was wrong. and as someone who was well used to getting bad news about her family, she was attuned to picking it up. she set dean down and ruffled his hair lightly, "how about you go in and watch tv? while your mum and dad aren't watching." she said with a small smile as she watched him run inside to the coveted tv. crossing the garden she stood in the doorway to the garage, resting a hand on the frame of the door as she laid eyes on her brother and his partner. "what's wrong? where do you have to come back from?"
Since have humans walked the earth, so have other creatures; creatures that most believe to only exist in myth. Creatures like vampires, demons, werewolves, witches, shape-shifters, fairies, and elves. It’s not really known which came first, for it was too long ago to remember and anyone alive then is now dead, and they didn’t even leave a ghost for anyone to ask. Ghosts weren’t around since the beginning, they came after the first person died (human is what is believed). Though not everyone or everything that dies becomes a ghost, only those who choose to, become one. Choosing to become a ghost is rare, most don’t choose that path for themselves, but even rarer than that is the times when all the species have gotten along. To this day, there have only been three periods of time that there has been peace between them all. The most recent of those three periods was just around 500 years ago, when a special school was built for all the species to come and learn at. It was built as a kind of peace treaty among the species, a place for them to all live in harmony, for a certain period of time at least. The school was called Forevermore Academy.
The peace treaty didn’t last for that long though, soon the kids in the school were fighting which broke the treaty. The teachers tried to bring the students back together, but they did so in a way which some believe made things worse, while others think it was genius. They deiced to get a group of students, at least one from each species, even a ghost, and have them kill off the trouble makers, in whatever way that they pleased. And they wouldn’t get in trouble for it. It was suppose to make the students stick together so that they wouldn’t be the ones killed off and to stop the ones causing trouble among the species, and in a way, it worked. But like all things, nothing works out exactly as planned. Some kids decided to fend for themselves and actually started causing more problems, but they were quickly killed off. The group of kids in charge of the killings fashioned themselves the name of ‘The Execution Squad’.
Since then the killings have turned into more of a game, and there is always and Execution Squad roaming the halls, but no one ever knows who they are. If someone does find out one of their true identities, they are either killed or scared into not telling anyone. Though the only ones who ever find out are ones that actually survive the game, since that’s what it’s been called for a while now. It’s a game for those that don’t value living, who are causing too much trouble, or someone on the Execution Squad just doesn’t like, play for their life. It’s extremely rare that someone survives the games, for they normally have to do something that they would never want to do and they die instead of doing whatever it is that they don’t want to do. Humans tend to die the most though, for they are the ones normally chosen, even if they do make up the smallest percentage of the school.
Everyone knows about the games, even if it’s not something they tell you upon arrival. And it’s definitely not in the little school pamphlet that you get when you enroll. No, they want people to come to their school, and telling them that they might not make it out alive isn’t a way to get them to come to the school. Here at Forevermore Academy, it’s a whole different high school. Its life or death, and you might just be stuck here forevermore. [/size][/blockquote]
