[OOC] Vivi-Dream

[benit149]

Vivi-Dream

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

A grade school girl with a huge crush; An elderly man approaching his last days; A jaded construction worker wanting to switch careers; A gangster who just wants to financially care for his siblings; A hikikomori who is also a hopeless hoarder. What do all of these people have in common?

They are all able to access a peculiar world called Vivi-Dream.

Vivi-Dream is an extremely malleable place that only several people in the world can reach. It changes according to what each dreamer brings, although the general layout is the main city dubbed Remniche branching out into different routes that are each bizarre and illogical by realistic standards. One route is a massive labyrinth that no one could hope to navigate in one night’s sleep. Another leads to an upside-down palace. Another has a house that gets smaller like a matryoshka doll the more someone investigates it. Another could be a broken Rube Goldberg machine that needs fixing. The one thing they have is common is that they harbor negative emotions and need to be purified.

The characters that these dreamers become in Vivi-Dream are equally as bizarre. However, when that persona is chosen, they tend to remain that way for life. Dubbed as Oneiros, these characters represent the dreamer’s interests, thoughts, and life situations. The Oneiros are then able to explore Remniche and the world of Vivi-Dream for the duration of their dream. They are tasked in finding 'artifacts' inside a 'location' that appears as a result of each dreamer's troubled personalities and lives. Artifacts are objects that represents an important fact about the dreamer and may help the Oneiros become better people in real life, and might provide a small clue to what Vivi-Dream is. Finding this artifact and helping the troubled Oneiros then cleanses the area and brings some hope and positivity back into that person's life. The favor is then returned for others, and the community slowly becomes stronger in the face of these encroaching negative emotions. The trip could be a harmless scavenger hunt if the location's negative every isn't as potent, or could lead to a battle against monsters if the negative energy is running wild.

However, if these journeys are not made, the location could infest the entirety of Vivi-Dream and affect all of the dreamers involved, leading to warped personalities and mood disorders in real life. One person's anxiety could affect someone else who never had anxiety before in their life. One's schizophrenia could suddenly occur in another, mentally healthy person. Dementia might become common in everyone involved.

As if that isn't bad enough, these warped locations are getting worse and worse in nature, and monsters are infesting the world at a faster rate than ever before. Why? There has been an influx of dreamers coming to Vivi-Dream, but failing to manifest as anything except a negative location. Without prompt action, it won't be long before Vivi-Dream is affected as a whole, permanently damaging the dreamers' minds in real life. The Oneiros need to cleanse these locations and help their fellow troubled dreamers before everyone is afflicted with mental disorders resulting from experiencing others' raw emotions.

Vivi-Dream is initially accessible only to a select number of people, but their population is slowly and dangerously increasing as time goes on. When these people wake up, they can remember their experience in great detail. Likewise, if Oneiros meet each other in real life, they experience déjà vu and can then discuss what happened. There is even a small group of people who convene to talk about Vivi-Dream, usually meeting at the local Reverie Bakery and Café at scheduled hours. Their goal is to find out what Vivi-Dream is and why only they can reach it, as well as why these locations are appearing far more rapidly than usual. Several theories have been brought to the table, but nothing has been proven yet.

During these journeys, Oneiros can feel pain and bleed like in real life, but if a monster 'kills' them during a battle, the Oneiros is 'kicked out' of Vivi-Dream and the dreamer wakes up from a horrible nightmare. They could go back to sleep and re-enter Vivi-Dream, but they would have to restart at Remniche, leaving the rest of the party to handle the monsters. If this happens to all of the party members, the mission is a failure and another group would need to handle the monsters before the location can corrupt Vivi-Dream entirely. Those people who are comatose in real life would immediately restart at Remniche rather than awakening, but they need some time to heal their injuries and get over the shock of 'dying', thus they wouldn't be able to immediately re-adventure.

The ultimate conclusion is to solve the mystery behind Vivi-Dream’s existence and find out why there are so many problems. Otherwise, the real world will be affected for the worse. Why does Vivi-Dream exist? How is it connecting everyone's minds? Is Vivi-Dream benevolent or malicious in nature? Is there a purpose behind bringing these people into such a fantastic world? Can they figure out the anomalies surrounding this imaginary world before it affects the real world? That’s for the resident Oneiros to find out through their adventures.

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This RP largely takes place in Vivi-Dream, with only short segments in the real world for the dreamers to convene in the Reverie Bakery and Café if so needed, or if they are suddenly awakened from a nightmare (i.e. 'killed' by a monster). The format of this RP is a Dungeons & Dragons world combined with elements from series like Yume Nikki, Persona 4, The Matrix, Okami, and the Witches' Labyrinths from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The dungeons would represent one or more characters' psyches, from which an artifact is hidden that needs to be found to cleanse the area and heal that person's soul.

CHARACTER SHEET
Real World Name: (the real-life persona)
Age: (how old they are)
Real World Bio: (Their real life situation. Keep it short – the RL characters won’t be RP’ed as much)
Oneiros Name: (the dream persona’s identity)
Appearance: (short description and/or image of your Oneiros character)
Oneiros Bio: (this one can be a bit longer than the RL bio, but I don’t want to comb through an entire essay, thank you)

Although this is an adventure fantasy, you’re able to make whatever archetype you desire as long as your character can interact with other characters that may be totally different from yours.

And a few rules:

1. No god moding. This is a dream world, not the realm of gods.
2. As I want to compile this into a readable story, I ask for the best grammar and spelling you can bring, as well as writing in past tense consistently.
3. No bashing, swearing in OOC or trolling. Some cursing is acceptable in story, as long as it’s tasteful and for a good reason.
4. Please, please, please don't be uber-emotional and dark! I know our characters may have had some poor life situations, but I don't want this to become a totally dark story. Our characters are to work together to help each other while protecting Vivi-Dream from too much negative energy. Eventually the crisis will escalate out of control, but by then I hope that our characters have bonded enough to confront the truth as a cohesive community and team.
5. Have fun and exercise some creativity. However if you want to make some plans and discuss ideas, you're able to do so here. I'm fully aware of the much too freeform state this RP is beginning in, so some preplanning may be needed to give us some direction.
6. Character interaction is highly encouraged. I would like to see our characters helping each other out by discovering their real world problem and then solving it in the dream world. There can be rivalries or conflicts between characters, but the story will be culminating into a big showdown that requires everyone's help.

Character Roster

Benit149 - Cordelia Ignavis / Hez; ?? / Lin
eddieddi - Alexander Luthor / Dice; Richard Armstrong / Erebus
Zaresto - Samuel Carnell / Realm
PURRfect93 - ?? / Alice
TheFake - Katarina Hart / Atropos

[Zaresto]

Posting to keep track of thread.

[eddieddi]

there is a subscribe button guys? also put a link to the OOC in the intrest check.

[Zaresto]

I ain't subscribing to threads.

[eddieddi]

Zaresto said
I ain't subscribing to threads.

Do I want to know what brought on this decision?

[benit149]

eddieddi said
there is a subscribe button guys? also put a link to the OOC in the intrest check.

Did that in first page of interest check already.

And people can keep track of this thread however they want, eddieddi. No need to tell them how to do things. I have it in my bookmarks myself.

[eddieddi]

benit149 said
Did that in first page of interest check already.And people can keep track of this thread however they want, eddieddi. No need to tell them how to do things. I have it in my bookmarks myself.

I know just that people seem to miss things. I wasn't saying use it, just that it was there.

[PURRfect93]

cs sheet

Real World Name: Forgotten, but refers to her real self as "the sane side of me"

Age: 25

Real World Bio: Alice's "sane side", as she calls it, has been in a coma for the past 13 years. She isn't quite sure what happened other then it had something to do with falling. She cant remember much of her normal life, but then again she doesn't really care anymore. its been such a long time since she had been herself that she was herself. all she knows for certain is that she looks the same and has a cat that stays with her in her bed. she also knows that she frequented a coffee shop with her father before she was in a coma. although she isn't quite sure why she knows those things.

Oneiros Name: Alice

Appearance:

Oneiros Bio:
Alice has lived in the viv-dream for the past 13 years in a small area simply known as "the wonderful horror" by other dreamers. Anyone who knows of the story of alice in wonderland can recognize it. however no one really ventures there on account that it is a twisted horror scape of monsters and insane characters that originated from the story.
Alice herself wanders "the wonderful horror" in search of the reason that it exists here. she knows that she is within the viv-dream but is convinced that the answer lies within her realm. she carries her "vorpal blade" a insanely sharp dagger with which she speedily removes any creature attempting to attack her. she can usually be found near the entrance of "the wonderful horror" with a large sinister looking cat, a deranged hatter, and a duet of hare and mouse all having a tea party every day at exactly 1:52pm.

hope this is ok? :O

[benit149]

Looks okay, albeit a tad cliche. As long as you integrate her into the rest of Vivi-Dream, she should be fine.

[Admiral Bangle]

Okay, well, being new I'm not sure whether there's some other prerequisite for posting a character sheet. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to post in the interest check seeing as you said you weren't watching it anymore. I just want to make sure this RP is still accepting people, it sounds like a really cool concept.

MY CHARACTER SHEET

Real World Name: Rachel Beauchene

Age: 19

Real World Bio: She's a waitress in a rather uncared for café. She's paid minimum wage and the only reason she puts up with the job is because it keeps her off the streets. She failed almost all of her exams and is pretty much broke without her job.

Oneiro's Name: Mischief

Appearance: Mischief is a blonde haired Caucasian girl with hair tied back in a long pony tail. She wears a long black coat around a white shirt. The coat is always buttoned up to the collar and extends past her knees. She wears polished black boots (not high heels) with long black trousers. Her eyes are a ferocious red. She sometimes wears glasses and has tattoos of flowers on her palms and the back of her hands that lightly glow.

Oneiro's Bio: Mischief has existed in Vivi-dream for several years now and secrets herself away in a part of the world known as the "bleak," whenever she is not exploring the world she is here trying to conduct research upon it. It is known as the bleak due to the decrepit and dark forest that encompasses Mischief's domain. Mischief has the ability to cast telekinetic and healing spells, and when she does her tattoos begin to glow more brightly. Her goal is to find out what Vivi-dream is and why it exists, though so far she has made very little progress. It is said that nothing but Mischief can survive more than a few hours in the "bleak." She doesn't know why, or how, but she feels at home there, and so she stays. She is known to invite people there under the protection of her healing magic.

[benit149]

No need to post in the interest check now that it's closed. You've pretty much done what you've needed to do.

[Admiral Bangle]

Okay cool. So, when does the RP start. There're no IC posts yet . . .

[QueenBee]

Real World Name: Mirai Iridescha
Age: 23

Mirai

Real World Bio: Mirai had always been that quiet girl who sat at the back corner of the class, trying her hardest to be invisible and avoided any kind of interaction. She was seen as an eyesore, she irritated the people around her so much that bullying became a part of her daily life. She just couldn't get it. She just wanted to seek peace in her inner self, how could it be a problem to others? She was angry to those who bullied her, the fact that she did no harm to them, but she had never done anything. She just stood there, bullied, and did nothing with absolutely no expression on her face, which irritated the bully even more. Now that she got older, she still kept a hint of her introvert side. But no, she wasn't a hikikomori. She still has the grip of her normal life. She went to work everyday, hang out with her friends, grabbed some drinks, pretty much of a normal life an adult woman could have. But the dark side of her younger self still remained, it could never go away, and she could never forgive those who had scarred her.


Oneiros Name: Maleficent

Maleficent

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Oneiros Bio: The grudge which had been held for a lifetime took it's toll now. It was so powerful that it manifested itself into a living form as an Oneiros. The persona took the form as a younger self of Mirai, only slightly different. The persona called Maleficent was absolutely violent and surprisingly strong, almost didn't fit her small figure. Her deep red eyes gleaming with wrath, the pale skin which was white as snow showed how cold and ignorant she was back then. She brought all the traits when Mirai was young, only worse. She was colder, angrier, and much braver. She had a katana as her weapon.

[QueenBee]

I hope my CS is acceptable..

[benit149]

Grr, if it wasn't for this site crapping out all the time, I would've replied to this sooner.

I'm just hoping you tone down the angst in the story. That goes for the rest of you with more emotional backstories. This is supposed to be Vivi-Dream, not Emos Anonymous.

[Tarquin]

I thought I might apply for this too.

CS

Real World Name: Heather Andrews

Age: 16

Real World Bio: Heather has spent most of her life as a fixture in a small group of friends, from as young as 8 years old. She always felt her life was all too dull, however. Everyday, it was just typical "friend stuff" that she felt she couldn't make much out of. She never complained about her life, since she could certainly imagine worse, but she always preferred to lose herself in fantasy novels and such. They always depicted a far more exciting life than hers.

Oneiros Name: Angarato Elendil (allows lesser people to call him "Angar")

Appearance: A tall, slender man with long and flowing blond hair. The quintessential pretty boy, in a manner of speaking. Wearing a richly decorated red and blue robe, along with pointy ears among other traits, anyone familiar with such works will easily recognise Angar as a somewhat stereotypical elven wizard.

Oneiros Bio: Angar is a deeply analytical individual. Amongst a group, he will spend his time watching the others and evaluating their personalities and characteristics. However, he will often voice his opinions and summations on such matters, usually in the form of some biting comment or the other. He is a GREAT lover of sarcasm and snide commentary. As an extension of his usual dynamic, he spends most of his time exploring the world of Vivi-Dream, seeking it's mysteries methodically, as though he was under impetus to do so. When not exploring, he will retreat to a tower he has claimed as his sanctuary, in which he likes to ruminate on his discoveries, often aloud, as if debating the place's nature with another. When he must deal with the less pleasant elements of the realm, he favors his powerful magics, having little skill in other arts. Spells of the elements, such as bolts of fire, ice and lightning are his go to in a pinch.

[benit149]

Updated roster up to here. Looks like we have plenty of people to get things rolling. The application process is always open to those who wish to join later, but I'm gonna go ahead and put the first story post up.

[Chaos Kid]

Are the Oneiros aware of their waking selves?

[benit149]

Yes they are. The actual dreamer also feels a sense of deja vu when they meet a fellow Oneiros in the real world during waking hours.

Although in Hez's case, as I will be writing in the future, all she can remember is the moment before the car crash happened before lapsing into her coma. Obviously she hasn't returned to the real world for a whole year since.

[Zaresto]

Where should our characters start at/go to?