Post by Ella and Aurora on Jun 19, 2007 20:00:07 GMT -5
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Newport, Colorado is a curious place. It sometimes has a handful of tourists just there to see the source of one of the times' strangest mysteries.
It all began in 1935. Newport was a gigantic source of precious gems and minerals, especially opals and raw silver. The major of the town at that time was a man named Victor Schach. Driven and zealous, he always got work done. But he had a deep sense of greed for the gems his town provided, so he was constantly ordering more mining parties with ridiculous hours. But since the pay was substantial, he had a lot of miners at work. He was re-elected three times. At the beginning of his third term, something took a bad turn.
A frightened group of miners came to him one day and told him that they had something that Mr. Schach should know. While they were working, they kept hearing whimpering and crying from the actual INSIDE of the tunnel. Since there were no female miners and no way that anyone could survive underground for more than three days due to extremely cold temperatures, they were worried about what the sound could be. The mayor brushed them off with annoyance, insisting that they were all mad for thinking a woman could be underground. They were sent back to work immediately the next day. Since all the miners that heard the sound were incredibly poor, they couldn't not come to mine the next day. But they were scared out of their wits.
And they had good reason. The day went as planned, nothing peculiar happened until the end of the work day. All of the workers signed out of the payroll cards except five. Strangely, these were the very five miners who reported the strange moaning and crying noises in the tunnels. After the mayor was informed of this, he waited twelve hours before he actually sent out a search party. By then, all the evidence was cold and it was too late.
The tunnel the five missing miners were digging in was gone without a trace. It was filled in completely like it had never been. And the strangest thing of all was discovered a week later. The death record and certificate of a woman twenty years dead had gone missing. Stranger still, no one remembered who she was. Not a person in town knew. It was like she was never born.
The speculation began to circulate. They said that the certificate that was missing MUST have been the woman that was crying in the tunnel. Wendy Bailey was actually the wife of a miner, whose husband also died while on the job. She died of a broken heart in 1915. There were too many coincidences. The story never fit together.
All mining work in Newport was stopped for fifty years. Then in 1985, they began to work again. More gems were found than ever, especially at the former location of the dead miners' tunnel. The incident has been pushed aside by many, but feared by all.
Newport, Colorado is a curious place. It sometimes has a handful of tourists just there to see the source of one of the times' strangest mysteries.
It all began in 1935. Newport was a gigantic source of precious gems and minerals, especially opals and raw silver. The major of the town at that time was a man named Victor Schach. Driven and zealous, he always got work done. But he had a deep sense of greed for the gems his town provided, so he was constantly ordering more mining parties with ridiculous hours. But since the pay was substantial, he had a lot of miners at work. He was re-elected three times. At the beginning of his third term, something took a bad turn.
A frightened group of miners came to him one day and told him that they had something that Mr. Schach should know. While they were working, they kept hearing whimpering and crying from the actual INSIDE of the tunnel. Since there were no female miners and no way that anyone could survive underground for more than three days due to extremely cold temperatures, they were worried about what the sound could be. The mayor brushed them off with annoyance, insisting that they were all mad for thinking a woman could be underground. They were sent back to work immediately the next day. Since all the miners that heard the sound were incredibly poor, they couldn't not come to mine the next day. But they were scared out of their wits.
And they had good reason. The day went as planned, nothing peculiar happened until the end of the work day. All of the workers signed out of the payroll cards except five. Strangely, these were the very five miners who reported the strange moaning and crying noises in the tunnels. After the mayor was informed of this, he waited twelve hours before he actually sent out a search party. By then, all the evidence was cold and it was too late.
The tunnel the five missing miners were digging in was gone without a trace. It was filled in completely like it had never been. And the strangest thing of all was discovered a week later. The death record and certificate of a woman twenty years dead had gone missing. Stranger still, no one remembered who she was. Not a person in town knew. It was like she was never born.
The speculation began to circulate. They said that the certificate that was missing MUST have been the woman that was crying in the tunnel. Wendy Bailey was actually the wife of a miner, whose husband also died while on the job. She died of a broken heart in 1915. There were too many coincidences. The story never fit together.
All mining work in Newport was stopped for fifty years. Then in 1985, they began to work again. More gems were found than ever, especially at the former location of the dead miners' tunnel. The incident has been pushed aside by many, but feared by all.
Plot
70 years after the famous mining mystery, Newport Academy has become almost the opposite of Mr. Holland's, the founder, hopes for it. Upper-class families had invaded, bringing their loads of money and spoiled children with them. There a few individuals however, that stood out in the crowd. They were dismissed quietly from the school system, never to be allowed through the gates of Newport again.
Two years went by and the school was once more filled with wealthy students. That quietness was not to continue, for there are nine friends waiting to make a stand and over-throw the rules of society.
Two years went by and the school was once more filled with wealthy students. That quietness was not to continue, for there are nine friends waiting to make a stand and over-throw the rules of society.
Newport Living is a brand new [just made yesterday] Academy site for intermediate to literate role-players. We have ten plot positions to fill, along with four mod spots that need occupying.
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