Imaginarium: Be Careful What You Think Of

[BunniesOfDoom]

Reality.
What is reality?
Many would say it's the world we live in but what if when you went to sleep, you went to live in another world for a short period of time? What if you learned their ways? Learned to do things that you thought were impossible? Your dreams, if you choose to follow them, lead you to a new worlds where many things are possible.

Some say we have the ability to go from realm to realm while sleeping and learn something from that realm that remains with you when you wake up. Many would say it's impossible, that the only realm present was the one that you live in and our dreams are just that, dreams. However, a group of college friends are going to see just how right, or how wrong the rumors are.

Join the jumpers as they move from realm to realm and see just what you can learn from them but you must be careful. Some realms come with a price.

Do you think you can handle it?
Do you even think it's real?
Are they all dreaming?

It's up to you to find out but remember, be careful what you think of.

[Einherjar 906]

Nice.

[Daemanis]

This could be an interesting idea, I would like to hear more about the story you have in mind, what the plans are for it, if you've come up with some that is :3

[BunniesOfDoom]

Alright, so!

The plot is pretty straight forward. A group of college friends hear of this idea that they can control their dreams and essentially jump from realm to realm when they start to lucid dream. At first they do it more like a joke but it starts to become real with each new realm they jump to.

As they learn more about it, they learn they have to be in the same room to actually be able to jump to the same realm together and it doesn't take long for them to learn that is more real than they could ever imagine as they go to more dangerous realms and start waking up with wounds that they acquired while dreaming.

I'll control which realms the friends go to. I've got a nice little list already made up. It'll be really interesting to see how this so plays out! It's going to be a lot of fun!

[Quartz]

Interested.

[SleepyWrites]

interested

[Squirrel98]

Interested

[TheMushroomLord]

Definitely interested.

Out of curiosity, are you able to give any examples of what a typical realm might look like without spoiling anything? Are we talking worlds that run on actual dream logic or fully realised worlds here? Also does the stay in these realms equate to actual time spent sleeping or is there some time fuckery at play?

[BunniesOfDoom]

The realms can be pretty much anything. One realm may be based on a horror plot while another one may be in the control of a chaos deity who finds it fun to mess with physics. Yall will just have to see!

As for the time, there is some time fuckery going on. You can spend days in a realm during just one night of sleep.

[BunniesOfDoom]

Since we have so many who are interested in the game, I'm going to have yall actually apply with your characters. Only about four to five people will get a spot in the game.

When it comes to the year of the character, we'll stick with 1st, second, ect. I know we Americans use Freshman, Sophomore, ect but for the sake of clarity, we'll just stick with the numbers. You can be any major you want to be and you can be any age. As for how everyone got to become friends, we'll work that out after we have the picked characters.

Character Application

Name:
Age:
Appearance:

Major:
Year:

Personality:
History:
Perks:
Quirks:

roleplay example:

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Blah blah, look what I can do! Blah blah blah
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Now don't go stressing about this! I'll keep those interested in a list and as people go MIA or leave the game, I'll pull yall in! Just cause you don't get the initial cut doesn't mean you are out. Good luck yall! Have fun!

[Squirrel98]

@BunniesOfDoom Can you give more information about what you mean with Perks and Quirks? Or maybe examples of these?

[BunniesOfDoom]

@Squirrel98
Sure can! These are just details of your personality. So perks would be like: Giving and willing to share the coat off their back while Quirks would be like: Very picky about their food and don't share of their food with anyone

[Crimson Flame]

Ok, so normally I don’t like horror, and I nope out as soon as I see it in the tag…

This looks kind of interesting. And I’ve been looking for something I can use one of my preexisting characters in.

[BunniesOfDoom]

@Crimson Flame
To be fair, that's only going to be one specific realm and we're not even sure you'll end up going there.

[BunniesOfDoom]

Just a quick question!

How would yall feel about going to a realm that changes your character? Maybe do a gender swap or even have you turn into animals for one plot. I just want to see what my options are and if yall would be interested in that. I know some people can be very particular about their characters.

[Squirrel98]

@BunniesOfDoom I like to be surprised, so go ahead. I wouldn't mind at all

[Expendable]

Reminds me of the start of this book.

This college student is dreaming about this ancient medieval city - it's night and everyone around her is in a panic as something is banging on the other side of these huge metal doors. People stream by without seeing her. Then these guards dressed in black appear, swords drawn, followed by this old man clearly respected by the guards. And as his eyes sweep across the crowd, he locks eyes with her and can clearly see her. He sheaths his sword and starts saying something as he approaches, trying to keep her calm - and she wakes up.

The stones under her are cold and people are panicking at this young woman wearing a cowboy shirt who just suddenly appeared in front of them, and she looks up at the old man and asks, "This isn't a dream, is it?"

She returns to the dream, and returns a couple of times.

Once she's just running over some rocks, being chased by something and knowing if she trips, she's dead. Only when she does trip, she wakes up in bed - but her feet are hurting. They're all cut up by the rocks.

The next night, she wakes up, believing she forgot to lock the front door. Only what she finds is the wizard from the first dream sitting in her kitchen.

[BunniesOfDoom]

@Expendable
That is similar! What's the name of the book. It sounds really interesting.

[Expendable]

@Expendable
That is similar! What's the name of the book. It sounds really interesting.

@BunniesOfDoom

Barbara Hambly's The Time of the Dark. It's an interesting read.

She also does a good vampire novel, Those Who Hunt by Night - Victorian London, a college professor who used to work in India as part of her Majesty's Secret Service comes home to find his house dark except for his study. His pistol is in his desk in the study, only when he sneaks up the servant stairs, he finds his wife unconscious and his gun neatly disassembled.

His visitor is a vampire who has a problem. Someone has been going around killing the vampires of London - but it can only be another vampire, few humans know about them - and usually very briefly. Since the vampire can't trust them, he needs to bring in an outsider.

I'd like to try for one of the five spots. I've got a character mostly completed, but sometimes I think of a better one afterward.

[BunniesOfDoom]

@Expendable
Sounds good! I look forward to see what your character is!