Mayfield

Here. Characters awake to find themselves as part of a family in a 1950's American town, filled with Stepford Smilers. Brainwashing into one may occur if the character acts too much out of line. Totally not based on that level from Fallout 3.

Tropes used in Mayfield include:

• And I Must Scream: What the original drones of the town might be going through. Trapped in the bodies, unable to act for themselves.
  • Don't forget the whole trapping the souls of permanently-droned characters into a vat and using them as electricity thing. It may or may not actually be true, given that it was part of the April Fool's event, but still...
• Arc Words: "Don't drink the milk". This is because of the Milkman.
• Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence: Lucy Smith
  • Sub-fucking-verted! The mayfield residents learned that the exceptionally hard way. .
• Ax Crazy: ...The Milkman.
  • The Postman also falls into this category to a lesser extent.
• Bratty Half-Pint: NPC children in general, Billy Smith specifically.
• Brainwashed: Characters can become drones themselves. If they get dropped they are permanently droned unless apped for again.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: What happens to characters who get brainwashed by the milkman.
• Christmas in July - During the first Fourth of July in Mayfield, the town suddenly shifted into Christmas mode, and all of the drones (except for the milkman) disappeared. On the Fourth, we found out why... The drones had been chopped up and their pieces placed in the gift boxes.
• Compulsory School Age - All characters placed in the children slot, whether or not they're actually children, are forced to go to school.
• Crap Saccharine World
• Creepy Child: Lucy Smith. It's even heavily implied that she's the Man Behind the Man and the real Big Bad.
  • Well, recent events have managed to imply instead that she was herself a captive, though no less creepy for it.
    • It's still uncertain. Lucy made that whole event up to annoy and confuse the town!
• Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: For just about everyone.
• Dissonant Serenity: The drones can be like this.
  • As can some of the captives. Even when not droned.
• Eagle Land
• Equivalent Exchange: A post office appeared, where people can pick up regains at will. The catch? Obtaining a regain this way requires you to give up a body part, a chunk of memories, or another regain you've already obtained.
• Empty Shell: The drones. Characters with mind reading and the like don't get anything from them.
• Everything's Worse with Bears: The "Highway" event included GODDAMN INVINCIBLE BEARS.
• Expy: For Fallout 3's Tranquility Lane. It's even implied the Big Bad may be an Expy for Brawn.
  • And now that the Lone Wanderer has shown up...
• Fetish Fuel: According to a certain anon on Roleplay Secrets, what this game is. An example of Did Not Do the Research.
• The Fifties: The first type.
• Glorious Mother Russia - The second Fourth of July event involved the town turning into a small town in Soviet Russia.
• Killed Off for Real - It seems to be that way for Jane Smith and Grady
• La Résistance: It's not completely organized, but there is a defensive militia in place.
• Loads and Loads of Characters
• Lotus Eater Machine: What Adrian Veidt and Klaus Wulfenbach have lately been theorizing Mayfield might be.
• Moe Personification: Subverted. May Field is not Moe. ^{[dead link]}
• Mood Whiplash: So much of this.
• Mysterious Past: The town itself.
• New Old Flame: What many characters experienced during the 2011 Valentines Day event.
• NPCs: Several, besides the drones.
• Ontological Mystery
• Punch Clock Villain: It is implied at times that Grady and the Mayor are prisoners just as much as any of the residents. Doesn't excuse them, though; their actions are not, for the most part, forced.
• Red Scare: After the most current July 4 event, complete with people feeling compelled to confess to being communists (even if they have no idea what that means).
• Serious Business: One word: Homecoming.
• Smug Snake: Police Chief Grady. He gets droned at one point.
• Spin-Off: Arguably, the players' IC Epic Mafia sessions. Also, Cornfield.
• Standard Fifties Father: The default NPC "father", complete with Values Dissonance and implications of Domestic Abuse.
• Stepford Smiler: The drones.
• Stepford Suburbia
• Time Skip: During Christmas 2009, time was fast-forwarded by ten years.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: The default NPC "mother", perfect in every way except she always claims to have a headache if one tries to sleep with her.
• Yandere: The Moe Personification of the game.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Mayfield's objective behind the aforementioned Christmas event.
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle: The entire April Fools' Day 'Highway' plot was essentially this, with all of the NPCs dying or running away, the mystery of the drones and the city being (somewhat) solved, and a way home opening only to turn out to be one long prank.