Halloween is Coming!!

Come to think of it, have we even done a Halloween event on JvS? I always recall Christmas, New Years, and the Sithies in the past (of course), but never recalled a Halloween event.

I do have some Zombies, If that helps you out deciding what type of horror theme RP you want to do.

If I may propose stuff:
I had ideas recently of a Quarren Sith, who basically is expertised in a few Sith techniques, as he's more of a cultist leader than a Sith. He's a mad guy, who basically thinks that voices of outer Gods are speaking to him in unknown languages beyond his understanding, thus driving him insane until the point where he begins to realize the truth:
That he is a servant of a big, tentacal deity, who pretty much tasks him to create him a city within the depths of Dac where he would arrive.

And with the FO pretty much repelling the GA/weakening them to a state that they begin to splinter into several factions, this guy kinda does an Innsmouth thing, where he appears with his fanatic followers seemingly out of nowhere, converts Quarren and Mon Calamari into creepy fish-like Sithspawn, while beginning to enslave with their help as many aquatic inhabitants on the planet as it is possible in order to build the city of his mysterious master.

I guess we can all agree that the idea would be rubbish for a 1-player faction + it would probably bend the rules a lot as establishing Cthulhu gods in Star Wars, where the Force and surrounding deities are kinda defined already, might lead to problems. But for an event it might be a neat idea, which could go into any direction.
And it would offer everyone, Imperial, GA leader, Sith and Jedi alike an enemy whom they would all wish to fight, as this guy is pretty much your independent tyrant cult leader, who would either kill or convert you than striking a bargain with you - after all he's in the end a crazy madman, who hears voices, which tell him what to do.

Feel free to use it, if you want it. Dac and a Quarren Sith is merely an example, you can probably adapt it to a lot of worlds.

A Halloween event could be fun. People have written horror themed RPs before. But I think we've never gone into a full on event like this. I hope this goes well

Did someone say we’re going to do the Call of Cthulhu Star Wars edition? I’m in.

I have to say, I’m 50/50 on this. I think this is a great idea and would be really fun, I’m just worried about how it’ll end up. Zombies were a mention and that makes me wonder how it’ll turn out. Doing this, I’d love to see something different in th rp we’ve done before and throw a real horror aspect to it. Like I said, I saw zombies mentioned, and while it’s not a certain thing, we know how zombie movies and such have turned out. From zombies, vampires, and the like, it turns into a horror based action movie. I would like to see something different, something people can write with some aspect of fear and uncertainty that can turn to a true for for your life/soul/sanity and not typically survival just kill everything.

Not a fully developed idea but, if we’re willingly to break and bend some rules just for this event, an alternate dimension or mirror world. Some entity that’s trapped is able to open a rift between realities and send a message everywhere calling for help. Through the Force and comm systems, a way all could be pulled in and for different reasons: actually seeking to help, seeking to take advantage of ones enemy cause they’ll help, or feeling this entity could be a valuable asset and so on. This entity is a dark being that was contained, but it’s influence still affected its world, killing off most life, but otherwise transforming it into a nightmare world, where, as you can guess people’s nightmares slowly come to life. Devilish creatures with strange and varied abilities can come and go, the ability of the Force can be weakened also which would mess with the minds of Force sensitives. Such a world could make deaths and fight for survival that much more impactful as they seek to reach the goal.

Those who remain may chose to kill the entity, which closes the rift. If you want to keep it as a possibility of being an addition to the story, everyone comes back with the Force doing a galaxy wide Memory Rub to remove the experience from them. Keeping it out of the canon line, some don’t make it back, those in the rp are just stuck in the other side, or the entity gets free and leads to other possibilities.

Well one thing that would be scary is not actually knowing what's coming, in which case I would be happy to serve as a DM of sorts. Playing the monsters or whatever, setting the scene, leading the story.

I like all the ideas put forth here. As for setting I was hoping it would be something contained and secluded, like a base on Hoth or a derelict ship. It doesn't even half to be in the Star Wars universe unless that is preferred, I'm honestly alright with either direction as far as that is concerned. However, upon further thought I wonder if it wouldn't open our options more to introduce new characters as opposed to existing characters. The reason I say this is because everyone has in their mind how their character would react in any given scenario to fit within their character's psyche, whereas new characters (doesn't necessarily have to be a new profile) don't have as developed personalities and could be molded by the experience. The decision is ultimately up to anyone participating, I would never tell anyone which character to write.

What do you guys think?