12/04/2011
By entering the Dark Woods Documentation Centre, you are entering a Role Play, called DARK WOODS. All the visitors are Role Players.
DARK WOODS is designed by Tobias Mann, Ionly Loveyou and Ibelieve Onlyinlove on a rainy afternoon when they were totally bored and didn´t know what to do with their time. Below the set up and history of DARK WOODS.
The Villages was long time ago the collection of little villages around the deep dark forest connected by little roads. One very narrow foot path was going straight trough the deep dark forest which was very dangerous because of the very large and wild wolves living there. This long narrow and dangerous foot path was known by the local people as Dark Woods. People didn’t normally go through the forest. But two foresters were living there. The grandfather of Tobias Mann and the grandfather of Ken Keys.
At that time the forest had no value and the grandfather of Tobias Mann owned one half of the forest on one side of this foot path Dark Woods and the grandfather of Ken Keys owned the other half. The grandfather of Tobias Mann lived with his family as a forester in a little house on his side of the foot path. That was his side of Dark Woods and the grandfather of Ken Keys owned the other half of Dark Woods. When the civilization came, a large part of the dark forest owned by the grandfather of Ken Keys disappeared and became industrial area and the villages in that part were connected and got the city name The Villages. The grandfather of Ken Keys became rich. Dark Woods became a wide street in the Villages with a lot of offices, stores and houses. One part owned by the grandfather of Ken Keys (the even numbers) and the other part (the odd numbers) owned by the grandfather of Tobias Mann.
The grandfather of Ken Keys became very rich. He owns all the companies in The Villages. But he had no friends at all. Only enemies. The grandfather of Tobias Mann had a lot of friends and the money he needed to live of. He didn’t sell his part of the forest. When he needs money, he only sells a very small part. The ground price is very high in The Villages. Most of it is still the deep dark forest. The old house of the grandfather of Tobias Mann turned into a whiskey bar, because the grandfatherof Tobias Mann liked social contacts and he invited always the whole neighborhood for a drink. And everybody loved his whiskey.
Recently Tobias Mann inherited the property of his grandfather, which is now the whiskey bar the Alabama and the deep dark forest with the large wild wolves still in it.
Ken Keys only inherited the even number on Dark Woods. His grandfather said: You will only value money when you make it by yourself. So he gave all his properties to his favorite club the Freemasons of which he was a member during his whole life. And Ken Keys has to start his business from the beginning.
Because Ken Keys owns the even numbers on Dark Woods, there are his rules. And his rule is to make money. Whatever it costs. That’s what he has learned from his grandfather. Everything is allowed. To betray your friends, destroying each other in competition, bringing each other to bankruptcy, lending money at extremely high interest. On the even numbers they have everything. Except friends, because they cannot trust each other.
The rules on the odd side are the rules of Tobias Mann. Friendship is the most valuable there is. Everything is for free. Money simply doesn’t exist. Drinks are for free. People on the odd numbers love, dance, drink, have fights and cry when the one they love has left them. The bills are simply send to his grandfather who is still wealthy and likes a good life.
About the Alabama: This is the place to hang out with your friends when you want to have a good personal talk with them while you are enjoying our free famouse Irish and Scottish whiskeys. Where you can say to each other what you really think. What you really expect and what you really want to give to each other. Personal conflicts, love friendship, breaking hearts, it all happens in the Alabama's whiskey bar.
To play the Role Play DARK WOODS. There are four rules.
1. Ken Keys owns the even numbers. He gives you a street number on Dark Woods where you built your company. You have to make money on his side. How, that is your problem.
2. Tobias Mann owns the odd numbers. He gives you a street number on Dark Woods where you built your business. Bar, cafe, social help etc. You are not allowed to make money.
3. You have to be a Role Player and you have to respect the rule that you cannot change the past. When you are dead, you cannot be suddenly alive or you have to write a scipt that you were almost dead, but somebody saved you. You built togehter with all the Role Players the future but you cannot change the past like in real life. You play Dark Woods by entering the companies and bars on Dark Woods and bring friends and start deals, make social contacts, built up networks etc.
4. When you built a company on Dark Woods you have to copy this text and put it in you info. Start conversations always on your own wall. Then nobody can delete them. When you open the conversation, copy the link of your converation and past the link in the bar or the company where the conversation takes place. Now you are creating history in Dark Woods by playing the Role Play as an actor.
