BlackWeb

[Verdance he/him]

It is a dim night. Not dark or stormy, the moon lights up the scenery outside your window quite well, but you are exhausted after a long day. You open a secure private browser, the process taking an irritating amount of time, and log onto a secret forum, BlackWeb. Nothing much has happened since you last visited, except a user you don’t recognize, anonymous account 228B22, has posted a new thread.

”Horror. It has a bad reputation, like metal or certain corners of the internet, but there are certainly pieces of art from the genre that are worth your time in some sort of way. What media from the horror genre abroad has struck you, whether good or bad, profound or shallow, terrifying or unsettling? Discuss.”

[Usseewa ✾ She♡Her ✾]

2 minutes ago, Verdance said:

It is a dim night. Not dark or stormy, the moon lights up the scenery outside your window quite well, but you are exhausted after a long day. You open a secure private browser, the process taking an irritating amount of time, and log onto a secret forum, BlackWeb. Nothing much has happened since you last visited, except a user you don’t recognize, anonymous account 228B22, has posted a new thread.

”Horror. It has a bad reputation, like metal or certain corners of the internet, but there are certainly pieces of art from the genre that are worth your time in some sort of way. What media from the horror genre abroad has struck you, whether good or bad, profound or shallow, terrifying or unsettling? Discuss.”

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So, do I make up horror or talk about real horror? I can't really do the latter cuz I don't know much

edit: do I talk about like movies or whatever?

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Usseewa

[Verdance he/him]

1 minute ago, Usseewa said:

 

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Either. Maybe wait for someone else to discuss. Your character doesn’t need to know anything about horror, the only information you must have to participate is that he or she or they use BlackWeb. If no one else interacts, feel free to make something up.

in the meantime, mind describing the fictional area your character is at?

 

[GG0z He/Him]

Cooper opened his browser on his phone. What better place to be on BlackWeb than in an empty, dark park? He sat down on a rusty old bench, looked at the long shut down fountain beside him, and clicked on the hidden bookmark taking him to the secret forum

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this good?

 

Edited 19 hours ago by GG0z

[Aeoryi she/her]

Brushing her hair aside, a petite girl dressed in black tapped furiously at her phone. 

"idk who you are" she typed out, "but there are definitely horror elements that make a good story." She continued this train of thought into her mind, before continuing to type away. "Most horror games and stories tend to be from a first person POV, but the thing that does it best has to be Réalisez-Moi." 

She glanced it over once again, then posted it. Her username, Bellstrum, displayed next to the forum post in her vivid green "community supporter" color. It wasn't related to her real name, Nora, but it was almost signature to her at this point. 

She let out a sigh of relief, then put the phone face down in her lap and yawned.

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Yes that is a fake story

 

[Usseewa ✾ She♡Her ✾]

Ash sits alone on their bed with the lights off. Outside, they can hear an occasional car pass by, though those are infrequent. Ash technically lives in this apartment with their parents, but they... aren't around much, and tonight is a night like all the rest.

Ash sighs, then groans, then rolls off their small bed—not minding the pain from hitting the uncarpeted floor—and searches in the moonlit darkness under the bed for their laptop. Their fingers find the clunky machine and they drag it out, and—lying on the floor—open it.

It takes several minutes to start up, and the fan goes on and off. Ash has to restart the whole process as they plug it in—the thing died as soon as it turned on, of course.

Once it finishes, Ash types in their password and opens up the private browser. They know their parents check their search history. If they... have the time or care to...

Ash shakes their head and logs into the forum. They found it all that time ago, and... it's become a solace, these past few years. There's a new post by some sketchy user—well, as sketchy as one can be here. "Horror. It has a bad reputation..."

Ash—here, NotAfraid07—reads the post, but doesn't reply. They don't usually like being the first to post; they're more of a... lurker.

Edited 19 hours ago by Usseewa
Added username and SPAG stuff

[Aeoryi she/her]

3 minutes ago, Usseewa said:

Ash sits alone on their bed with the lights off. Outside, they can hear an occasional car pass by, though those are infrequent. Ash technically lives in this apartment with their parents, but... they aren't around much, and tonight is a night like all the rest.

Ash sighs, then groans, then rolls off their small bed—not minding the pain from hitting the uncarpeted floor—and searches in the moonlit darkness under the bed for their laptop. Their fingers find the clunky machine and they drag it out, and—lying on the floor—open it.

It takes several minutes to start up, and the fan goes on and off. Ash has to restart the whole process as they plug it in—the thing died as soon as it turned on, of course.

Once it finishes, Ash types in their password and opens up the private browser. They know their parents check their search history. If they... have the time or care to...

Ash shakes their head and logs into the forum. They found it all that time ago, and... it's become a solace, these past few years. There's a new post by some sketchy user—well, as sketchy as one can be here. "Horror. It has a bad reputation..."

Ash reads the post, but doesn't reply. They don't usually like being the first to post; they're more of a... lurker.

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can my character PM yours? Would they be active enough overall?

 

[Usseewa ✾ She♡Her ✾]

Just now, Aeoryi said:

 

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Overall, yes.

I mean it depends if school is out or not, @Verdance (for the characters)

I haven't yet decided if they're hyper-active or just a "check the forum a few times a day or spend hours when depressed/bored" type of person but yeah we can see

would that like be in actual PMs?

 

[Aeoryi she/her]

2 minutes ago, Usseewa said:

 

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In-thread RP PMs

Nora couldn't last even five minutes without having to look at her phone. It wasn't common that people found their way to blackweb. 

She opened up her previous PM with NotAfraid07, or "Nalfred" as she called them, and started typing away again. 

nalfy, I know you're watching. any thoughts? haven't had a new user join since... Fell, I think? Haven't had as much controversy since Fell either. Besides, why would anyone come to blackweb to ask for horror recs lol?

She hit send.

[Usseewa ✾ She♡Her ✾]

2 minutes ago, Aeoryi said:

 

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srry ima hop off but ill respond tomorrow when i can

i like what you did, id never thought of that lol

 

[Verdance he/him]

26 minutes ago, GG0z said:

Cooper opened his browser on his phone. What better place to be on BlackWeb than in an empty, dark park? He sat down on a rusty old bench, looked at the long shut down fountain beside him, and clicked on the hidden bookmark taking him to the secret forum

 

It’s a warm summer night, and cooper can hear the silence singing over the violins of crickets and bass of bullfrogs.

10 minutes ago, Usseewa said:

 

School is out for Ash, and the house has never been so quiet. Comforting, but quiet.

23 minutes ago, Aeoryi said:

Brushing her hair aside, a petite girl dressed in black tapped furiously at her phone. 

"idk who you are" she typed out, "but there are definitely horror elements that make a good story." She continued this train of thought into her mind, before continuing to type away. "Most horror games and stories tend to be from a first person POV, but the thing that does it best has to be Réalisez-Moi." 

She glanced it over once again, then posted it. Her username, Bellstrum, displayed next to the forum post in her vivid green "community supporter" color. It wasn't related to her real name, Nora, but it was almost signature to her at this point. 

She let out a sigh of relief, then put the phone face down in her lap and yawned.

 

At the bottom of the screen, the “now viewing” indicator, which only lists three users, Bellstrum, NotAfraid07, and [ @GG0z mind providing a username?], suddenly ticked up to four, though no username appeared. After a few seconds, it ticked back down to three. This wasn’t necessarily alarming, anonymous users or moderators technically didn’t have usernames and a moderator would most often use an anonymous account to scan the forum with a but more privacy. Still, several of the other users still found the anonymous accounts a little creepy. Best forget that happened.

[Deception He/Him]

A boy opens his computer and boots up a VM, 4 different VPNs and a custom proxy server for extra safety before logging into BlackWeb. Everyone here just knows him by his username, Deception.

His signature contains hidden links to who-knows-where, so if you were to accidentally click under his message, you would probably end up with his spyware on your device. Everyone knows to avoid putting their mouse or finger in the general area, but sometimes people mess up. It never goes down well when they do.

He types out a short message: Horror is only good when the characters all end up dead in the end.

He hits the post button, the message taking a second to pass through all of the filters before escaping onto the forum, with the deadly signature underneath.

Spoiler

Ye ima really lean into the scary roll here lol

 

[Aeoryi she/her]

6 minutes ago, Deception said:

A boy opens his computer and boots up a VM, 4 different VPNs and a custom proxy server for extra safety before logging into BlackWeb. Everyone here just knows him by his username, Deception.

His signature contains hidden links to who-knows-where, so if you were to accidentally click under his message, you would probably end up with his spyware on your device. Everyone knows to avoid putting their mouse or finger in the general area, but sometimes people mess up. It never goes down well when they do.

He types out a short message: Horror is only good when the characters all end up dead in the end.

He hits the post button, the message taking a second to pass through all of the filters before escaping onto the forum, with the deadly signature underneath.

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Ye ima really lean into the scary roll here lol

 

"@288B22 Don't mind edgy "decepticon" here", Nora wrote, "He's just trying to get you to click on the links in his signature, because he's too stupid to figure out how to hyperlink it in text instead. Just go to user settings and disable signatures- trust me, it'll be better for you"

She sat back in her bed. It was super comfy for some reason, and was kinda cool, like the kind you only get by doing a lot of work first before actually trying to rest. 

"Jee, I hope this guy's the new Fell," she said softly to herself, "We really need some more spice on these boards."

[Verdance he/him]

@anonuser288b22’s username appeared at the bottom of the screen. A minute or two later, a post loaded in from the user, quoting Deception.

Horror isn’t necessarily edgy, it read. Robert W. Chamber’s The King In Yellow is a set of related horror short stories told in more of a style of the romantic period, with themes of insanity, edenic loss of innocence, and unspeakable evil. In many of the stories, however, there is some form of a happy ending. 

[Deception He/Him]

Ok, so we all know about my signature? Well, deal with this.

An account called IQWT587 randomly joins and starts posting seemingly empty messages, that are actually full of tab characters hyperlinked to ...u guessed it... more spyware. It posts really fast - too fast for anyone to communicate properly on the forum without having to scroll through 5 pages of sketchy posts every time.

[Verdance he/him]

2 minutes ago, Deception said:

Ok, so we all know about my signature? Well, deal with this.

An account called IQWT587 randomly joins and starts posting seemingly empty messages, that are actually full of tab characters hyperlinked to ...u guessed it... more spyware. It posts really fast - too fast for anyone to communicate properly on the forum without having to scroll through 5 pages of sketchy posts every time.

@dejavu, 288B22 posts, pinging a moderator. Fairly quickly, an anonymous account appears, tracks down the IP address of the spammer, and bans all user connected, then adds the Deception account to a specific “monitor” category to allow limited access to the site.

[Deception He/Him]

Just now, Verdance said:

@dejavu, 288B22 posts, pinging a moderator. Fairly quickly, an anonymous account appears, tracks down the IP address of the spammer, and bans all user connected, then adds the Deception account to a specific “monitor” category to allow limited access to the site.

Ok fine, I'll stop. Don't put me in that monitor thing again, please, posts Deception, jumbling up his VPNs enough to break the monitor tag.

[Aeoryi she/her]

1 minute ago, Deception said:

Ok, so we all know about my signature? Well, deal with this.

An account called IQWT587 randomly joins and starts posting seemingly empty messages, that are actually full of tab characters hyperlinked to ...u guessed it... more spyware. It posts really fast - too fast for anyone to communicate properly on the forum without having to scroll through 5 pages of sketchy posts every time.

"Dude, actually just $#%! off," Nora wrote as Bellstrum, invoking the swear filter whilest quoting Deception,"If you want to be a useful hacker, maybe stop posting links on the world's most obscure message board and look at something like, idk, a fan-made discussion board for a well known fantasy author or something. Or maybe try to be less irritating with your methods"

She watched as what she presumed was the anti-spam quickly deleting all of the posts made by this new user while she was typing it.

6 minutes ago, Verdance said:

@anonuser288b22’s username appeared at the bottom of the screen. A minute or two later, a post loaded in from the user, quoting Deception.

Horror isn’t necessarily edgy, it read. Robert W. Chamber’s The King In Yellow is a set of related horror short stories told in more of a style of the romantic period, with themes of insanity, edenic loss of innocence, and unspeakable evil. In many of the stories, however, there is some form of a happy ending. 

"Why'd you come here?" Bellstrum replied, quoting the post from the newcomer, "What brings you to Blackweb?"

2 minutes ago, Verdance said:

@dejavu, 288B22 posts, pinging a moderator. Fairly quickly, an anonymous account appears, tracks down the IP address of the spammer, and bans all user connected, then adds the Deception account to a specific “monitor” category to allow limited access to the site.

Before sending, she notices this, but doesn't comment on it. "Maybe it's just another Fell alt." She muses to herself.

[Through The Living Star She/Her]

Addie took a seat at her table, pulled out the old computer her parents had bought her for her birthday, and logged in, several of the keys sticking as she did so. She didn't get on the computer for much besides homework, but maybe... Maybe something had happened on the BlackWeb. 

She quickly signed in to the mysterious forum, her username, Greenskies, appearing off to the side.  

She checked over each of the forums she commonly commented in, finding most of them not responded to yet. 

After a moment, she notices that something has changed. A new forum. Intrigued, Addie clicked on it. It appeared to be some kind of thread about horror. Interesting. Slowly, she typed out an reply. 

Horror, she writes, is good for people when they need a good scare, I suppose. I haven't seen a lot of horror, I guess. For what I can tell, however, good horror is the kind where you can't tell if you are actually about to die alongside the characters. 

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How does this sound? I can change it if needed. 

 

[Usseewa ✾ She♡Her ✾]

8 hours ago, Aeoryi said:

nalfy, I know you're watching. any thoughts? haven't had a new user join since... Fell, I think? Haven't had as much controversy since Fell either. Besides, why would anyone come to blackweb to ask for horror recs lol?

Ash wakes with a start to the sound of their Dad's car on the driveway outside. Their breathing grows shallow—is it that time already?

Luckily, Ash can hear their Dad go straight to his room. Probably another long night... Those are becoming the norm.

Ash looks at their now-dark laptop on the floor in front of them. Groaning, they sit up from how they were lying, face-down, and bring the laptop to their bed, hiding under the covers.

They boot up the clunky thing again, then log into the forum as NotAfraid07. Ash notices some new messages—mainly in that new posts, but also a PM from Bellstrum. They first skim the new posts in the horror thread. It looks like something went down with that guy Deception. Ash finds him to be a tricky one. He acts... young and immature, but at the same time they must admit he had some skill. Looks like he did something to upset the others, and made some edgy post that made Ash lets out a soft, airy laugh for some reason. They rarely did that, and the sound surprises them as soon as it came out—reminding them of... everything.

Ash then looks at the PM from Bellstrum and geins typing up a response. They'd do one for the horror thread after this, perhaps.

hey bell, sorry, I was busy. idk, theyre probably someones alt come to troll with us or smt.

but... its also kinda weird tho right? 

tho tbh these things can be eeird, honestly i have no clue.

and of course they... could they could be... maybe they

Ash's head droops and their eyes protest being open. They get rid of that last line, then send the PM, before shutting their eyes.

[GG0z He/Him]

11 hours ago, Verdance said:

It’s a warm summer night, and cooper can hear the silence singing over the violins of crickets and bass of bullfrogs.

School is out for Ash, and the house has never been so quiet. Comforting, but quiet.

At the bottom of the screen, the “now viewing” indicator, which only lists three users, Bellstrum, NotAfraid07, and [ @GG0z mind providing a username?], suddenly ticked up to four, though no username appeared. After a few seconds, it ticked back down to three. This wasn’t necessarily alarming, anonymous users or moderators technically didn’t have usernames and a moderator would most often use an anonymous account to scan the forum with a but more privacy. Still, several of the other users still found the anonymous accounts a little creepy. Best forget that happened.

After loading, Cooper had to sign in again His username, Culprit9, now showed up on the currently viewing screen, along with Bellstrum, and NotAfraid07

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

19 hours ago, Verdance said:

It is a dim night. Not dark or stormy, the moon lights up the scenery outside your window quite well, but you are exhausted after a long day. You open a secure private browser, the process taking an irritating amount of time, and log onto a secret forum, BlackWeb. Nothing much has happened since you last visited, except a user you don’t recognize, anonymous account 228B22, has posted a new thread.

”Horror. It has a bad reputation, like metal or certain corners of the internet, but there are certainly pieces of art from the genre that are worth your time in some sort of way. What media from the horror genre abroad has struck you, whether good or bad, profound or shallow, terrifying or unsettling? Discuss.”

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can i fantasy or do i have to hallucinate?