Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
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Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:52 pm
Baker wrote:Sooooooooo, I got a story idea from a dream last night, and it involved people actually living out their dreams, in a dream setting. I got to thinking about it, and thought "Hey, what if dreams were linked?". Well, some ancient cultures also believed that dreams were a portal to another realm, soooo, then I thought "What if these realms were linked together some how to form a world?" Sooo, basically, what this means is that each person has their own dreams obviously, the setting, each setting is linked in some way or another, creating an entire dream world that each person has their own part of. So, every night someone goes to sleep, they enter an entire new world, and I would love to base something going on around this, whether it involves someone taking over it, or just going through everyday life trying to escape into your own little world.
Also, Lucid dreaming will be the base of this, but you cannot change any of the surroundings from the setting you choose for your realm in the beginning. I want to develop a bit more into this, possibly make a story maybe or move this into advanced when it is all figured out.
So, by now the base plot has been almost decided. The story will be somebody trying to take over the different dream realms. The good characters will be forming up and trying to stop this villain from taking over their dreams and minds. Who that is I have no clue as of yet, I am hoping to get someone to play the big bad villain soon.
Just to clarify, Kingmaker asked a good question earlier, and there WILL be points in the RP where you will be playing a normal, awake person. We will allow our dream people to meet in real life, and things like that. (A secret, the villain should be more vulnerable in real life than in the dream realm)
So, the requirements of the RP will obviously be under the advanced rules, but I have a few of my own requirements. If you need to use space fillers for a thing, please don't make them incredibly obvious, there IS such a thing as too much detail. Nobody wants to read about the exact shade of red on the window sill on the third floor of a building you aren't even entering. I like detail and explanations, but do not go overboard to fill up space.
The Character sheet on this will be pretty basic, but this particular RP will require two of them, one for your person in their dream realm, and the other for your person in the real world. You will have almost complete control of your character's realm, and it should be based on the kind of dreams they have and their goals or what they wish they could be. You can control obstacles and NPCs in your own realm which we will be visiting, but I ask you give me a guide or map of it or something simple you can whip up in MS Paint or something that you will stick to. This is Lucid Dreaming, but it is NOT able to change mid-dream.
Character Sheets:
Real World:
Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Appearance: (Picture or Paragraph)
Brief history: (When I say brief, I prefer a paragraph or two at most, not six or seven.)
Dream Realm:
Name: (Can be same as Real World, or can change if necessary)
Side: (Good or Evil, there will be very few evil)
Appearance: (Picture or Paragraph, can be the same as the Real World one if your Dream Realm is modern-based.)
Abilities or Powers: (Anything I approve, no god-modding powers, obviously)
The Design of Your Dream Realm
Please make it reasonably laid out, I don't expect huge details, but I expect enough so we can get the feeling of it, dark, nightmarish, or a colorful, bright, good dream. I know dreams change every night, so every time you sleep there can be small differences in your realm, but I will need to approve them so they cannot be huge moderations that can extremely impact the story to your favor.
I myself will get my own work up in the course of the next two days or so. I am not incredibly prepared to start this immediately, so no rush, but I will hopefully start it by the weekend.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Attie Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:47 pm
Baker, I'll have my CS tomorrow, I bet.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Guest Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:38 am
I'll get to it today if homework doesn't take more time than I thought...
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:44 am
Cool 
No hurry guys, I might not even have mine up until Thursday.
No hurry guys, I might not even have mine up until Thursday.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Heruss Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:05 pm
Provisional Character Sheet.
Real World:
Name: David Frederic
Age:19
Occupation: Student
Appearance:
Brief history: There's not that much to say about David, he joined up to his local school last year to finish off his education. Fredric seems to be quite content in his life, his grades are just above average and David is a well behaved pupil. Friendly, amiable and a social butterfly he gets on well with people.
Born in a Podunk town in the middle of Rural Virginia, David has the country-boy air and mannerisms he and his family moved to The City when his father was promoted. A quiet, stable life seems to have been the main run for this boy and his politeness and slightly rural twang makes him instantly like able to the denizens of The City's inner school, where David is a pupil.
Dream Realm:
Name: Amaeth
Side: Evil
Appearance:
Abilities or Powers: Lucid Control - Amaeth can slowly take over a victim's dreams, and then slowly their mind, bending reality of the person outside of their dreams, sending them insane or to do things vastly out of character for them, jaywalking, personality shifts, sleep depravation etc.
The Design of Your Dream Realm:
A dark, nightmarish tower set on a hill where the glass bleeds and is made of knife-like material, cutting any who enter this realm.
Thunder, lightening and perpetual overcast clouds show the sort of nature brewing at the heart of this dream realm.
Real World:
Name: David Frederic
Age:19
Occupation: Student
Appearance:
Brief history: There's not that much to say about David, he joined up to his local school last year to finish off his education. Fredric seems to be quite content in his life, his grades are just above average and David is a well behaved pupil. Friendly, amiable and a social butterfly he gets on well with people.
Born in a Podunk town in the middle of Rural Virginia, David has the country-boy air and mannerisms he and his family moved to The City when his father was promoted. A quiet, stable life seems to have been the main run for this boy and his politeness and slightly rural twang makes him instantly like able to the denizens of The City's inner school, where David is a pupil.
Dream Realm:
Name: Amaeth
Side: Evil
Appearance:
Abilities or Powers: Lucid Control - Amaeth can slowly take over a victim's dreams, and then slowly their mind, bending reality of the person outside of their dreams, sending them insane or to do things vastly out of character for them, jaywalking, personality shifts, sleep depravation etc.
The Design of Your Dream Realm:
A dark, nightmarish tower set on a hill where the glass bleeds and is made of knife-like material, cutting any who enter this realm.
Thunder, lightening and perpetual overcast clouds show the sort of nature brewing at the heart of this dream realm.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Attie Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:08 pm
Character Sheets:
Real World:
Dream Realm:
The Design of Your Dream Realm
Real World:
- Spoiler:
- Name: Leigh O'Toole
Age: Twenty- Two
Occupation: Violinist, professionally. Also a local teacher of Orchestra / At home Tutor.
Appearance:
The only difference from this picture to the actual Leigh is that her eyes are pale, like that of a blind woman. (Which she is.)
Brief history: Leigh has been blind since birth, but with the gift of exceptionally attuned senses in every other department. Not like she's a super human by any means, just the regular blind type. Her mother died giving birth to her, but her very rich father has done everything in his power to make sure she never struggled more than she had to when it came to learning without her sight.
By a very young age, it was found out that Leigh loved music, especially classical, and so her father bought her a beautiful white violin for her 8th birthday and she has played heavenly since. She now works as a violinist professionally with Orchestras that travel locally, performing for Christmas specials and the like, as well a tutoring aspiring violinists and teaching an Orchestra class in the local school. Leigh is from Cork, Ireland, but lives in rural North Carolina in the peace and quiet countryside.
Dream Realm:
- Spoiler:
- Name: Leigh
Side: Good
Appearance:
This is a drawing I did a while back, and it's exactly how I want -Her- to look in the dream world, except of course, minus the guy. Humanoid features, even has a tank and shorts on to make her appear more humane and tame for a wolf, but obviously has the other wolf features. She also has her sight.
Abilities or Powers: If I a wolf can do it, so can she. Her agility is faster than a human, her hearing is still highly attuned, as well as her sense of smell (hunting/tracking), and she doesn't get cold easily (built in body heat!). She is, however, NOT colorblind.
The Design of Your Dream Realm
- Spoiler:
- Due to Leigh's lack of vision in the real world, her dreams' sight is hazy. She doesn't know what colors really look like, or which go with what item. Anyone who has sight themselves can tell that things are backwards as far as coloring. It looks as if a child has gone through and colored in and out of the lines, and not regarding any assignment to reality.
For example, Leigh's setting is going to be half-forest and half-field of tall grass bordering it (And I don't care who's realm that grass leads to. Feel free to use it. ^^ It will be normal colors (Green grass, etc)). Anyway, the example would be... The forest wouldn't be green. Infact, it may be dark shades of purple and blue leaves with a bright white bark. Flower petals might be green while their stems are yellow or pink. The grass within the forest may be shades of magenta and some violet-reds. Leigh's dreams don't know how to address color, so if you think it would be a certain color due to real life, give it something drastically different!
The Ground:
https://media.photobucket.com/image/purple%20trees/hmmlana/PurpleTrees.jpg?o=12
The Tree's:
https://media.photobucket.com/image/purple%20trees/sxylilkitty394/purplelake.jpg?o=13
The Blue Trees:
https://media.photobucket.com/image/purple%20trees/eillonwy1/Trees/c864.jpg?o=5
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:25 pm
Real World
Dream Realm
I'll get the realm up later.
- Spoiler:
- Name: Thomas Nathaniel Thurton
Age: Twenty-Three
Occupation: Used Car Sales Associate
Appearance:
Brief History: It all started when Thomas was born, his father gave him the initials "TNT", partly as a joke and partly due to the fact he was high off his ass and loved AC/DC. The truth is, ever since that moment, Thomas' life has been anything but volatile and explosive as his initials suggest. Due to his mother and father being too young and incapable of caring for a child, Thomas was immediately put into the custody of his fifty-five year old grandmother. Slowly growing up in the suburbs with an older woman was not the most exciting life a person could go through, but it was safe and kept him out of trouble.
Thomas now lives in a one bedroom apartment in downtown, working as what his employer calls a "Used Car Sales Associate". Which to everyone else, including Thomas himself, meant the person who annoys you into buying the car you already were going to buy no matter what his opinion was anyway. Another average, uneventful job for a person who had always been living that way, almost as far away from the edge you could be.
Dream Realm
- Spoiler:
- Name: TNT
Side: Good
Appearance:
Abilities or Powers: He's a pirate, he can sword fight, shoot guns, and drink rum. Not much else to say.
I loved the idea of contrast from the real world character, hence the play on TNT and explosiveness. Nothing says volatile, angry, or explosive like a pirate shooting off some cannons.
I'll get the realm up later.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:29 am
So, I was trying to find a picture to describe the realm I was gonna have, but it was aggravating me. So, basically, just picture Tortuga from Pirates of the Carribbean (the place where they recruits the crew).
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Kingmaker Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:04 pm
Real World:
Name: Logan Barker
Age: 18
Occupation: Student
Appearance: Logan is fairly tall, 6'2", with a little muscle, and some fat on him. He's got brown, slightly fizzy hair, and normally wears glasses. His eyes shift from green, to hazel, to brown and back most days. He's never seen without a band t-shirt, or ripped jeans.
Brief history: Logan never wanted to take over the dream realm, it was kind of a side-effect. See, his sister went into a coma at a very young age, after Logan tried to save her from drowning. He came too late, and her brain damage was severe. She never woke from the coma, instead, she was stuck in a constantly dreaming state. Logan, who rarely slept, found he was a lucid dreamer shortly after. He met with someone, some vile dream monster who told him "Listen, if you don't help me, I'll make your sister's life hell. She can never wake up..."
So now, Logan is stuck in slavery to the person who's trying to take the dream
realm by force.
Dream Realm:
Name: Escrima
Side: Evil
Appearance:
Abilities or Powers:
Manipulation of Flesh: Escrima can change the armorlike covering of his skin to turn into weaponry, giant hands, etc.
Ignus Faatus: If given enough fear, Escrima can produce a volatile purple flame that burns through anything in dreams. This is a despiration move, since it would consume him also, so don't expect to see it much, if ever.
The Design of Your Dream Realm:
Imagine a massive field, with an imposing gray sky, and trees that seem to move farther away from you as you approach. The ground is a mottled black-gray, no life and no vegitation. It holds the stillness before a storm, the trepidation, but never the release. It is cold, like a winter's day. All along the ground, are puddles. These puddles are inky black, and roughly 5'x8', so fairly large. No one knows how deep they are, not even Escrima. But they are all connected. Jump in one, and you'll come out another, drenched, soaked, with possibly hours of your memory gone. If you had a working watch, it would say you'd been gone for hours. In every pool, a toy floats. It doesn't matter if such a toy should be dense enough to sink, it still floats.
These toys, are the toys of the Lost.
Anyone who dreams of drowning winds up here, through the various pools. And by jumping in them, you go to their dreams. You come back when they wake, but remember nothing. Those kids who never wake up from their drowning dreams? Those kids with sleep apnea who die?
Those are the Lost.
Even Escrima fears them.
Name: Logan Barker
Age: 18
Occupation: Student
Appearance: Logan is fairly tall, 6'2", with a little muscle, and some fat on him. He's got brown, slightly fizzy hair, and normally wears glasses. His eyes shift from green, to hazel, to brown and back most days. He's never seen without a band t-shirt, or ripped jeans.
Brief history: Logan never wanted to take over the dream realm, it was kind of a side-effect. See, his sister went into a coma at a very young age, after Logan tried to save her from drowning. He came too late, and her brain damage was severe. She never woke from the coma, instead, she was stuck in a constantly dreaming state. Logan, who rarely slept, found he was a lucid dreamer shortly after. He met with someone, some vile dream monster who told him "Listen, if you don't help me, I'll make your sister's life hell. She can never wake up..."
So now, Logan is stuck in slavery to the person who's trying to take the dream
realm by force.
Dream Realm:
Name: Escrima
Side: Evil
Appearance:
Abilities or Powers:
Manipulation of Flesh: Escrima can change the armorlike covering of his skin to turn into weaponry, giant hands, etc.
Ignus Faatus: If given enough fear, Escrima can produce a volatile purple flame that burns through anything in dreams. This is a despiration move, since it would consume him also, so don't expect to see it much, if ever.
The Design of Your Dream Realm:
Imagine a massive field, with an imposing gray sky, and trees that seem to move farther away from you as you approach. The ground is a mottled black-gray, no life and no vegitation. It holds the stillness before a storm, the trepidation, but never the release. It is cold, like a winter's day. All along the ground, are puddles. These puddles are inky black, and roughly 5'x8', so fairly large. No one knows how deep they are, not even Escrima. But they are all connected. Jump in one, and you'll come out another, drenched, soaked, with possibly hours of your memory gone. If you had a working watch, it would say you'd been gone for hours. In every pool, a toy floats. It doesn't matter if such a toy should be dense enough to sink, it still floats.
These toys, are the toys of the Lost.
Anyone who dreams of drowning winds up here, through the various pools. And by jumping in them, you go to their dreams. You come back when they wake, but remember nothing. Those kids who never wake up from their drowning dreams? Those kids with sleep apnea who die?
Those are the Lost.
Even Escrima fears them.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:23 pm
Very nice. Approved. Now, that should be the end of the evil people there. We only have 5 people signed up as it is and I want to keep the majority of them good. Miss Dagger should have a character soon, but it's no big hurry. There may be an IC up tomorrow night, or some time saturday.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Guest Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:05 pm
Real World:
Dream Realm:
The Design of Your Dream Realm:
- Spoiler:
- Name: Alexandra "Alex" Treemont
Age: Twenty-two
Occupation: High School History Teacher
Appearance:
Without the lab coat and with more muscles.
Brief history: Alexandra has always loved history for as long as she can remember. She's rather athletic since she decided to learn how to fight with swords, medieval swords. She gets together with other people with the same interest and have mock duels or even battles. Her love for history lead her to choose a career where she could teach others how much fun history could be. She is known to go to the first school day in full armor, but with a fake very soft sword, to impress students and because she liked to wear armor in the real world too.
Alexandra got to know Leigh O'Toole after she moved from Ireland to the small town in North Carolina that Alex called home. They were best friends ever since. When people made fun of Leigh for her blindness (mostly in high school) Alex took them aside. She told the bullies that they should take on someone who could fight back, meaning herself since she was very athletic and training in various ways of fighting. Alex and Leigh went from the same high school to same university and now working at the same high school.
Dream Realm:
- Spoiler:
- Name: Lady Knight Alexa
Side: Good
Appearance:
Abilities or Powers: She knows everything a knight should know: sword and shield fighting, horse riding and fighting while riding, lance fighting. The usual knight skills.
The Design of Your Dream Realm:
- Spoiler:
- A kingdom in a castle is the basic description. Instead of there being huge lands, you get to them by going into rooms in the castle. Inside the castle you can find everything from a usual castle: court room, kitchens, ballrooms etc. but you can also find a forest, fields, training yards, lakes and rivers. There are four gates in the outer wall, one in each direction of the compass (north, west, south and east), and from the gates goes bridges into other people's dream realms.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Sat May 01, 2010 11:01 am
[10:57:27] But, also, the directions were to basically start off with whatever you want, I was thinking maybe somebodies car breaks down >.> New Car time <.<
[10:57:36] and since Attie's character is blind...
[10:57:37] well
[10:57:38] yeah
[10:57:38] 
[10:57:47] However
[10:58:04] Everyone needs to start somehow with the dream ending in blackness or some sort of bad thing
That is basically the directions for the first post for the good side and Kingmaker, since Heruss technically has hold of him, could post that scene. As far as Heruss, he can decide on what he wants to do I guess, I'm not really sure yet.
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That is basically the directions for the first post for the good side and Kingmaker, since Heruss technically has hold of him, could post that scene. As far as Heruss, he can decide on what he wants to do I guess, I'm not really sure yet.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Attie Tue May 04, 2010 4:10 pm
Sorry Baker. I've been out of here lately. On the bright side, in my absence I got a job and got enrolled in school for the summer, so life's pretty peachy keen.
Now just to catch up.
Now just to catch up.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Wed May 05, 2010 1:59 pm
Okay, I'm seriously considering killing this off now, so, yeah. Would like to get something started soon.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Guest Wed May 05, 2010 4:27 pm
Sorry I'm swarmed with homework at the moment, I'll try to get a post up this weekend, hopefully friday.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Heruss Thu May 06, 2010 9:05 am
Paitence Baker! I'm kind of waiting on someone else to post first before I give it a go.
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Crain_S Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:36 am
Hello, Shiny happy people. Do we have permission/clearance to join? I have a three-day weekend with which to create a kick-ass profile...
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Re: Land of Lucid Dreams OOC
by Baker Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:08 pm
I believe this is kinda dead lol we could start over, but we'd have to get everyone back
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