it’s two in the afternoon on a humid thursday in august when helena barley steps outside for her smoke break at the hospital.

she only smoked when things got bad.

she looked stressed out.

she looked tired.

she looked scared.

these are the things you hear people mutter in church on sunday, when the gossip comes out and the preachings go unheard. these are the last things you ever hear about helena barley; the gossip of bored housewives and their younger, thinner duplicates in training on one sunday morning. and then the talk of her fades into background noise, and helena’s disappearance itself has all but vanished. from the tabloids, from the police’s radio calls, from the townsfolk themselves.

she’s there one day and gone the next.

you’re among the only sixteen people who are still asking themselves…

where is helena barley?

atonedhq is a semi-appless roleplay based in the fictional town of somerville, maine. the group revolves around 16 students enrolled in st. cade’s university, who are thrown together by chance (or is it fate?) when one of their mothers goes missing, and they seem to be the only ones who care. will you find out what happened to helena barley before time runs out?

me now that the heat is Here: