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Hey guys, I run a survival horror site. I'm sure most of you have seen enough of me posting around here to know the general gist, but here's the quick recap in case it's relevant: There's a town that is being overcome by the Decay, this strange rotting/rusting phenomenon that brings with it death and monsters. The town as a whole is cut off from society due to this Decay, but otherwise most people can live a normal life. We recently had an event where the Decay "surged" across the entire town, and for about 24 hours the town was ripped apart by monsters. Then it subsided. The event was really fun, but I don't want the entire board to be a face-paced monster mayhem all the time. It gets boring really fast (I've played on similar sites before) and I also like to allow members to play their characters with some "down time" where they aren't running for their lives. The problem is that I'm trying to pump up activity and interest and to make the board actually . . . somewhat scary. It's hard to make a roleplay site scary, but it's even harder when people likely dismiss it because it's not 333/premium. (I'm poor. That's why it's not.) My staff and I came up with an idea to give people a miniature "event" when they reach a certain post count. (I believe it was 15 posts.) This event is very simple, such as a mysterious phone call in which the character receives information about themselves that nobody should really know, or they start to hallucinate dead people, or something. The member is supposed to incorporate it into their RP somehow, either by referencing it in another thread, or by actually using it as a plot device in the thread (RPing it out). Then at about 50 posts, I'd do a more direct one-on-one thread with the member that fleshes it out a little more. Personalized, if you will. I made the first post goal 15 because it's relatively low, but I'm not wasting ideas or energy on people who aren't sure if they will be sticking around. The next one (50 posts) is higher because it requires me being able to put time and energy into creating a personalized quest/storyline for the character for a thread, and I want to make sure that the member is invested in it well enough. There is no time frame, so it's not like they have to reach the 15 or 50 posts in a week or a month - it could be after a year, though opportunities may change based upon the general site plot. Members wouldn't be able to choose which event they received (a phone call verse hallucinations verse whatever), though somebody could politely decline to participate if they really didn't want to. In order to assign the events, I'd try to roughly match it up with the charcter's profile or personality or history or whatever so that it's something that would be relevant to the character. (I wouldn't want a character who never answers a phone because they have some anti-phone religious belief to be given a plot involving phones, for example.) At first I wasn't going to publicize it because I wanted it to be a bit spookier with the element of surprise. But now I'm wondering if it would be better to let people know up front as a selling point for the site so that they know that there is an advantage to participating and being active. People were really interested in the Decay surge event I had, and then activity backed down afterwards which wasn't entirely unexpected, but I'm afraid that people are going to rely entirely on said events and not participate when they don't exist. So I wanted your guys' thoughts about it. I'd also love to know if you have any ideas for a survival horror site. We have no vampires/werewolves/witches/demons. Our monsters are literally monsters, but they stay mostly in the limited areas of town affected by the Decay. I also don't want to rely on them too much because, as mentioned, it'll get boring after awhile. So having some other spooky happenings that are personalized to each character would be really neat and add an element of horror I have never seen on a horror site.