History Roleplay / Mayfield

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Was one of the larger JournalRoleplay communities for its time.

* LotusEaterMachine: This is what [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Adrian Veidt]] and [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Klaus Wulfenbach]] theorized Mayfield might be. By the end of the game, it turns out [[spoiler: they were right--Mayfield was originally meant to be a combination of SuspendedAnimation and this for survivors of a nuclear war]].

** In September 2011, there was a player-run plot that involved a ''MarvelZombies'' outbreak.

A horror-themed MegaCrossover JournalRoleplay community, [[http://mayfield-rpg.dreamwidth.org/profile initially hosted on LiveJournal]], but [[http://mayfield-rpg.livejournal.com/profile moved to Dreamwidth]] after 2011. It ran from March 1, 2009 to December 3, 2012.

** The 2010 Fourth of July event, "[[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou Milk Drinks You]]," involved all of Mayfield's citizens getting translocated to Maipole. Life there turned out to be even worse than the town they were "liberated" from. Given suspicious similarities between the two towns, some captives theorized that Mayfield was actually transformed into Maipole, rather than everyone being moved there.

* IronicNurseryRhyme: During the "Westport" event of May 2010, visiting the ruins of Westport Elementary [[http://westport-rpg.livejournal.com/1867.html?thread=889675#t889675 would cause vagrants to hear children singing a nursery rhyme]] that referenced, among other things, the Milkman's eagerness to poison people with his milk. With each successive verse, the rhyme would cause ShellShockSilence, then a splitting headache, then blood to trickle out of the ears.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: During the May 2010 event "Westport," survivors found that the church had quotes from the BookOfRevelation [[http://westport-rpg.livejournal.com/1436.html?thread=876700#t876700 written all over the walls]] in red.

** It was also theorized that the NPC drones were also suffering from the same plight as temporarily droned captives.

** Later on during the October 2010 event "Better Dead," as a fugitive from Maipole was trying to evade Mayfield's captors, the radios all [[http://mayfield-rpg.livejournal.com/903728.html started playing a distorted version]] of the Soviet Union's national anthem, while a woman sobbed furiously. Toward the end, air raid sirens could be heard, implying that Maipole was hit by a nuke.

* ThemeNaming: As it turns out, most of the major commercial locations in town were named after the actual identities of those controlling Mayfield.

* BilingualBonus: The upscale restaurant in town, with prices more than anyone's paycheck and utterly bland food, is called L'Déplaisant. Which means "The Nasty" in French.

* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: New locations in Mayfield would pop up unexpectedly, but treated by locals as if they were always there. Some examples: Mount Bonanza and Makeout Point for the first "Summer Lovin'" event, the Lourve Hotel for the second, Mayfield's Post Office in the 2010 event "Payable on Delivery," and the highway in the 2011 event "Exit."

* RedScare: Mayfield made McCarthyism look tame in comparison. Some highlights--

* RedScare: The July 2011 event "Speak Up" saw the town flooded with a cloying truth serum gas that compelled people into blurting out their secrets, and ultimately declare themselves a communist (even if they have no idea what that means).

** It was theorized for a time that the NPC drones were also suffering from the same plight as temporarily droned captives.

->''You awaken one morning in [[EverytownAmerica a bright, summer suburb]] [[TheFifties straight out of the 1950s]]. [[StepfordSmiler There's a smile on every neighbor's face]], [[DaylightHorror not a cloud in the sky]], and the paper has been delivered on time, just like every other morning. Your spouse lays next to you; your kids are asleep in the other room. Looking around, you see photos of yourself and your family--your wedding, the birth of your first child, your last family vacation.''

* GrandTheftMe: During the game's final event, Mrs. Johnson usurped control over Mayfield and used her new powers to directly take control of captives' bodies, using them to hunt down and kill people while fully conscious and incapable of stopping themselves.

* RightBehindMe: Early on in Mayfield, the named [=NPCs=] had a tendency to drop in on posts or threads started by captives, [[http://stars-survivor.livejournal.com/6103.html?thread=83415#t83415 especially if they were griping about the town]].