Wow. I go off to work for a few hours, and you guys come up with a bunch of great ideas! Now, to sort everything proper and respond to it one by one:<br/><br/>1) Trophy Room: Definitely. I'm thinking it could be either down one of the many hallways that snake out from the main ballroom, or it could even be a subsection of the main room. While there would be around 10-15 personal items that represented the former masters, there shouldn't be more than that, despite the age of the house. AND the former masters themselves did not put it there when they left. Once you control the house, you don't just turn around and "leave". So, the trophy room is the mansion's little way of remembering, and it chooses the one item it thinks represents the former master best, and displays it.<br/><br/>Items range from toys, to photographs, to books, to guns, and there's even one severed head, withered past the point of identification.<br/><br/>2) Mood: I'm pretty sure you can tell by now, but I'd like to aim for a very gothic feel to the roleplay. Not gothic as in angsty, but more along the lines of Edgar Allen Poe, my absolute favorite author. I won't go over the top with the gore, though if someone dies, their exit will be portrayed accordingly. Personal madness, paranoia, with a touch of supernatural, love, hatred, all swirled together in this tale of a dance at the end of all worlds.<br/><br/>3) Anyone has any side plots you want established, feel free to PM each other and me with the overall idea. My character may or may not be participating in every plot, but I like to know what's going on. I absolutely love connecting character plots together to cause tension, drama, conflict.<br/><br/>4) The first IC thread will go up by today. It will have all the areas mentioned in the first post smushed together, breaking them apart into separate threads only if we get enough people and plots running. Also expect me to update the first post in this thread with all the information here, and reorganize it so that anyone who comes into the story late can catch up.<br/><br/>That's all for me. Peace out!