There have been warnings. People who insist that there are alternate universes. Near copies of our own. None have been well headed. No master of paradox has been truly appreciated the way they should have been. In a little town in the mountains of Colorado, where everyone knows everyone else, and where the town is entirely centered around tourists, people passing through to go camping, and the occasional summer lodger in the local budget inn, the art of balancing this reality with a closely resembling opposite one is quickly becoming dire.
The first disappearance was a young summer lodger no one knew. She did not, to anyone's knowledge return. No one really missed her. Her husband went home, the missing persons reports went dead. That was nearly four years ago.
Two disappeared the year after that. A local pre-teen who had run off into the forest never returned. People looked for him. He also didn't return. The first to return was an old man, one Dean Atwood, the inn keeper. He returned fourteen days after he left, and told no one what he had seen. Where he'd been.
A year ago, the disappearances bunched. A person would disappear every few days, and then the disappearances stopped once more. Only one returned from this group, a local mother of four who told the news where she'd supposedly been. She spoke about walking along a forest road on the edge of town, down to the reservoir that the town was perched around, and then feeling as though the world tilted around her. She lost consciousness and woke in a murky forest filled with a dark grey fog. She wandered for a while, and found a dark lake, and an empty town which eerily resembled Cascade Falls, the mountain town that everyone had been disappearing from. There were only a few people present in the town, and all seemed disoriented, but continued on life as they had before. All the people there were former residents of Cascade Falls. Things appeared and disappeared intermitently in the woman's stay. When she returned, she returned across the reservoir from where she had disappeared a few weeks after she had disappeared. She had no clue how she had left the odd shadow town.
This year, disappearances continue. They seem much farther spread apart, but it seems a trend that the disappearances slow in all seasons except for the fall, and are extremely common then.
However, the shadow world, the alternate reality seems to be pushing further into our world. And it has had some strange effects on eight local teenagers. These teenagers have been endowed with the subtlest abilities in the past few days. Eight different abilities. It's as if they have been chosen by the other universe for some task, and are only now growing into their abilities. As the story continues on, perhaps the purpose of these abilities will become evident. Perhaps the shadow universe will swallow all of our little mountain town, and continue further, deeper into the world.

The air is thick with a buzzing of the electricity before a storm. Cascade Falls is uneasy as summer is drawing quickly to a close, and even though it's not talked about much, the disappearances will soon quicken. The fate of our little mountain down relies on the growing powers of eight very different teenagers. Perhaps, even, the fate of our world. And another, very similar world.bb

Spots (by elemental power they will recieve);
Air: Claus Myers as played by Lufia
Light: Todd Carlyle as played by Tom Ice [[GM]]
Life: Zoe Wakeman as played by ToccoaClark
Water: Mimi Harkens as played by Belladonna Dawn
Shadow: Blair Garner as played by Fallo
Fire: Harry Donoghue as played by ReaperGirl4
Death: Lucian Creed as played by ReaperGirl4
Earth: Reserved

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Rules;
Normal rules, you know. Respect and all that.
Adult themes are fine.
Each character may not have powers exceeding the stage that all of them are in. The stages of each element's power will be posted in the OOC thread.
Reserve the element you'd like before you send me a sheet.
I'd like at least a few sentences, say... fifty words minimum on posts. This is a fairly easygoing roleplay, but I still do want a little more than "___ nodded." as responses.
Faceclaims/pictures should be anime.
Reservations will remain for three days.
Rules subject to change as the roleplay goes on.