[OOC] Dreamweavers

[IVIasterJay]

Dreamweavers OOC

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Arc One: Sleeping Gods

Interest Check

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You see a man before you. Tall, muscular, well-dressed in a black suit and matching hat. The only odd thing about him is his tie: dark blue with tiny moons and suns. The man leans down to look you in the eyes, placing his hat on top of your head, revealing a perfectly bald head. The man just stares for a moment, and then a wry smile breaks across his face. Never breaking eye contact, he begins to speak:

"Welcome, dreamweaver. I never thought I'd see the day, but it's true. You, child, are special. You don't experience dreams like other people do. Would you believe that there are people who go nights without dreaming? It's true. Some go their entire life without ever once having a single dream that they can recall. But not you. You dream every time you fall asleep, and you don't forget your dreams like most people do. No, not you, you remember a dream just the same as you remember what you had for breakfast yesterday, probably even clearer. And that's not all. A dreamweaver is the master of their slumbering mind. Most people are stuck following the whims of their subconscious mind in their dreams, but you can control yours. A dreamweaver shapes their dreams into whatever form pleases them. Until the morning sun forces open your eyes, you are a sleeping god. You are a dreamweaver, and this is your story."

The man pushes his hat down over your eyes, and when you pull it off, he is gone.

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Taken from the Interest Check:

IVIasterJay said
This RP is based off a story I wrote a long time ago about a boy who escaped his bleak reality by finding asylum inside his dreams. I think the concept would scale well to having multiple characters, especially since the planned sequel to that story would have done just that.

So all of the players would be kids, teens at the oldest, who all go to the same school or to schools in the same close area. The characters would be completely normal kids during the day, going to school, dealing with family, hanging out with friends, all that jazz. The real fun, and the core of the story, is when they fall asleep. You would be playing as a child who experiences lucid dreaming, which means they are aware that they are dreaming. Beyond that, each is capable of controlling their dreams, essentially becoming an omnipotent god until they wake. Yes, you heard it right: Omnipotent. Anything you want, anything at all, you can create inside their dreamspace. Whip yourself up some futuristic starships or throw together your very own non-Euclidean Lovecraftian world; be a wizard like Hairy Pothead or swim in cold fire or blow bubbles into stars; emulate reality or shred the rule book and scatter the pieces.

The very beginning will most likely feature very little character interaction beyond seeing each other in school or if your characters are friends, allowing time to establish who your character is and what it is they do inside their dreams. What really marks the beginning of the story is the first contact: when one player enters into another's dreamspace.

Would they assume it just another part of the dream? Would they recognize a stranger tearing through their world? For that matter, would their dream appearance even match their waking one? Would they tell anyone else in the waking world about their dreams? And what would happen to the mind if two omnipotent gods battled it out inside one's head?

I'd leave everything after opening that Pandora's box up to you. Whether you end up killing each other to protect your clashing realities, or if you end up banding together to become the keepers of a whole knew reality is up to you. Every once in a while there may be an unforeseeable event thrown in to rattle the cages, but not often.

If you'd be interested in an RP were you change from an impotent child to an omnipotent god and back again with a turn of the moon, let me know. I'm very willing to take in any and all feedback and suggestions to make an RP that is fun for everyone.

Rules:

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1) God mode as much as you want. You're omnipotent, so if you want to blast someone's face off with your mind, you damn well can. Being killed in the dream will not wake you up because you can't be killed. Getting your faced reduced to atoms is only a minor inconvenience for you, so stop your crying and pull yourself back together! That said, if two characters are going to really go at it, please run everything by me first. I can't be responsible for everyone who reads the posts overdosing on excessive insanity.

2) No metagaming please and thank you. Omnipotent is not the same as omniscient.

3) This is casual, so you don't need to post novels. I'm happy with a small paragraph, and less is fine if you're [interacting with / talking to / kicking the crap out of] another character. Just don't post one liners, or I'll be forced to kill your character then and there, and possibly their family and any pets they may or may not have as well. That said, if you love posting many long paragraphs full of detail I'm also fine with that.

4) Try to post a minimum of twice a week, every three days would be good. If you can't hit that goal every one in a while, I'm okay with it. Just make sure to let me know if you're going to be absent for any length of time.

5) Time is very important in this RP. I know it's a pain, but please post a timestamp at the beginning and end of every post. This is to keep track of when things are occurring in the waking world. Time is relative in the dream world, so just estimate how long the character has been asleep in the waking world for the timestamps. If you've read this and are fine with it, please add a timestamp of when you post your finished CS (so when it's ready for me to look at) at the very bottom of your character sheet. I cannot consider your CS if you skip this step.

6) You can only have one character. NPCs are fine, make a billion if you need, but the dreamer is your character.

7) I'm looking for around five characters, so if there are more characters posted than open spots, I will choose the ones I like best. Feel free to post unfinished sheets and ask me for input as much as you want, just know that an unfinished sheet can't be accepted until it's complete.

8) Don't be Batman. No one killed your parents. Drama and dark tragedies are fine, but not in the backstory of a kid. Feel free to get however dark or silly as you want IC.

9) Keep the OOC informal. We're all friends here. Don't blame the player for the actions of the character and all that sentimental junk.

10) A RP is only there to be fun. If you ever want to leave this RP for any reason at all, just tell me.

11) Feel free to debate anything about the RP. Rules, characters, IC posts, plotlines, story arcs, or just plain random shit. If it exists, it's up for debate. It isn't too hard to convince me to change something so long as the other people involved in the RP are fine with it as well.

12) I dunno, whatever I add in the future I guess.

Powers that are off-limits (when another dreamer is present):

List

1) Mind reading - Only to prevent metagaming.
2) Time travel - No, you cannot go back to before they walked into your dream to lock them out.
3) "Poofing" another character out of existence - That's just no fun. Be creative with your omnipotence!
4) Anything else I decide to add - Should I see something used in a way that breaks the RP wide open, it'll probably get thrown on this list.

And the CS:

Character Sheet

Name: No aliases please, this isn't a conspiracy murder RP.
Age: Keep it young, below 16 at least, preferably younger.
Gender: This one should be pretty easy.
Appearance: Pic or description, I don't really care what, so long as it gets the point across, I'm fine with it. Whichever you post, make sure to clarify how their appearance differs from waking world to dream world, if at all.
Personality: Try to keep it simple here. The personality should be formed organically in the IC, I just don't want two characters being exactly the same
History: Once again, keep it brief. They are just your average kids, remember. No ridiculous dramatic episodes please.
Dreams: What does your character like to do in their dreams? Do they have continuing dreams, or is it always different? Why are they creating the dreams that they are?

If you have any questions regarding the CS or anything else, just say so. I'll try to clarify anything that doesn't make sense.

Accepted Characters:
IVIasterJay - Aaron Walker
Dragonydas - Risa Matsuo
Cryptiic - Everine September
Prints Avoid - Lucas Ochoa
AliceZaru - Arianna Johns

[IVIasterJay]

Here is a CS to see as a good example. I haven't decided if I want to play as Aaron yet; I'll wait to see what kinds of characters people make first, and then I'll decide what would work best.

Aaron Walker - IVIasterJay

Name: Aaron Walker

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Age: 12

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Gender: Male

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Appearance:
In the dream, he wears white robes and a white crown, and may be sporting a pair of black wings if he feels like making a scene for his subjects.

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Personality: Aaron’s personality has been shaped by years of playing at royalty in his dream. He considers the dream world more reality than the waking world. Aaron is a proud and stubborn individual, traits he learned in his dream that look quite silly when coming from a child. Aaron is easily angered, and when he’s mad it’s explosive, another comical scene in the waking world. He likes listening to music during school instead of the teachers and is often lost in thought about some random thing or another. Book learning does nothing for him, but he’s exceedingly curious about things he sees that he doesn’t understand. In general, he's just an unhappy boy.

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History: Aaron lives with his parents and twin sister. Her name is Emily, and the two are usually fighting over something stupid. They used to get along, but as Aaron sank deeper into his dream world and away from the real one, they began to fight more and more. Aaron’s parents are concerned about his attitude and that he’s doing poorly in school, but they aren’t sure what to do about it. Aaron has never liked school, and really just wishes the teachers would stop nagging him, and he’s progressively gotten worse, both in attitude and education. A king doesn’t need to know math or science, though he has applied some of the basic geography he’s learned in school to his dream world. The only subject that does interest him is history, specifically when it involves great leaders and times of war.

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Dreams: Aaron creates an entire fantasy world in his dream, and he rules that world as its one true king. When he’s upset or stressed about something, he’ll create an enemy to battle against and take out his emotions on. His dream world is continuous from one night to the next; every night he creates his world exactly as it was at the end of the previous night.

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9/6/14 10:03PM

[Voltus_Ventus]

If someone were to mess around in your dreamscape would you get a headache?

[IVIasterJay]

Voltus_Ventus said
If someone were to mess around in your dreamscape would you get a headache?

Depends on a few factors, but if the effect was a headache, you wouldn't become aware of it until you woke anyway.

[Prints Avoid]

IVIasterJay said
His dream world is continuous from one night to the next; every night he creates his world exactly as it was at the end of the previous night.

So you clarified that this is the case for Aaron. I take it to mean this isn't a requirement then. We can have our characters choose a new adventure every night?

[IVIasterJay]

Prints Avoid said
So you clarified that this is the case for Aaron. I take it to mean this isn't a requirement then. We can have our characters choose a new adventure every night?

They can do whatever they want with their dreams. Aaron has simply chosen to run his dreams like a giant sims game with himself as king. I've even had a dreamer that didn't even use their dreams for dreaming if you can wrap your head around that. I strongly recommend against going that route though, as it is incredibly difficult to make work in the story. Your dreamer doesn't even have to pick one way of dreaming and stick with it all the time. Aaron for example sometimes abandons his little created world for periods to do other things.

[Prints Avoid]

Okay, I figured but thought I just wanted to make sure. Can they turn their ability off? Like can they just say "Oh I just feel like having normal person dreams tonight" and then sleep without being aware of their dreams? At this point I'm just curious but I figure it could be fun for characters to use that ability to have some fun. Let a dream progress "normally" for a bit then step in and try to creatively get rid of the warthog in the classroom, shrink the blackboard back to normal size, and try to get clothes because you showed up in your underwear.

[BrownBear]

I will think up and post a character sometime tomorrow

[Scarifar]

I will consider joining.

[IVIasterJay]

Prints Avoid said
Okay, I figured but thought I just wanted to make sure. Can they turn their ability off? Like can they just say "Oh I just feel like having normal person dreams tonight" and then sleep without being aware of their dreams? At this point I'm just curious but I figure it could be fun for characters to use that ability to have some fun. Let a dream progress "normally" for a bit then step in and try to creatively get rid of the warthog in the classroom, shrink the blackboard back to normal size, and try to get clothes because you showed up in your underwear.

A dreamweaver's ability can't be turned off at will like that. They will always be in control the of their dream and remember it vividly. They will only dream what they choose to dream and create.

[Dragonydas]

Name: Risa Matsuo
Age: 5 years old
Gender: Female
Appearance: In the real world

In the dream world.

Personality: Risa is extremely calm, both on the real world and the dream world, but there's a scent of loneliness to her. In the dream world, she is slightly more playful.

History: Risa was born both mute and deaf and her mother died after her birth. Her mother's parents that took care of her most of the time because her father was constantly working as an electrician. She has never left her grandparents house and she is home-schooled, so she had little to no contact at all with other children.

Dreams: In the dream world, she becomes a little older, about 10 years older. The landscape is always the same. A large grassy field that seems to be endless. Floating around the field are strange balls of light that Risa is able to gather and fuse in order to form various different shapes including human shapes. In that dreamworld, she is always accompanied by two human figures composed of light with only the faces being real. The faces are of her parents.

And there you go. Hope you like this.

Finished: 19:13 08/09/2014

[IVIasterJay]

I'll be waiting a bit before I start accepting anyone, but for now I recommend you give the rules a read through.

[Cryptiic]

Spectral colossi from eons long gone, roaming the fields for memories of a future which never came.

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Name: Everine September.
Age: Twelve.
Gender: Female.

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Appearance:

In the world of the waking, Everine appears to all as nothing more than a deceptively ordinary, constantly distracted young woman. In the world of dreams, however, she sheds the bounds of her physical form and become a raw, formless primordial force of creation. Unseen by all who dwell her realms, she takes on innumerable bizarre and unfathomable shapes as she observes and reshapes her universe. From a mountainous stone titan of incomprehensible size to a spectral phoenix sheathed in ghostly ethereal flames, the only real commonality between the various vessels she chooses to inhabit is how utterly alien and inhuman they are. She could be a massive behemoth holding the fabric of reality aloft in the palm of her hands one night, or an unseen ghostly visitor to a quiet and peaceful realm the next.

Personality: As a result from years of losing herself within the dreaming world, Everine has grown increasingly distant and removed from the waking one, considering it as little more than a source of inspiration and ideas for her slumber. Constantly day-dreaming, she keeps a notebook on her person at all times, in which she keeps track of every dream or idea she has ever had. It is almost completely filled with complex drawings, scribbled notes, intricate diagrams and sketches of anything from non-existent species to fictional civilisations. She does fairly well academically, all things considered, although practically every teacher she has ever had has commented on her complete and utter lack of focus and attention. She never really socializes with the other children, spending all of her free periods in the library with her notebook, either reviewing her notes or searching through books for new ideas. She draws much of her inspiration from physics, mathematics, science fiction and fantasy books, among other things. She is also especially fond of surrealist artistic pieces and their impossible geometries. Being able to go where she pleases around her world unnoticed, she is often surprised and confused whenever people in the waking world react to her presence and try to interact with her.

History: Everine is the single daughter of an upper middle class couple living in the suburb. Her father is an architect and her mother a school teacher and non-professional artist on the side. Growing up, her parents were always very loving and supportive of her, fostering her creativity early with games, stories and books of all kind, most of which of their own invention. It could be considered safe to say that they pampered and sheltered her quite a bit from the outside world. When she first told her parents about her "dreams", they were impressed by how vivid and imaginative her mind was, and encouraged her in her "little stories". They got her a notebook to write down everything she imagined, and indulged her in her endless questioning about various subjects. However, as she grew more and more distant, they began to become worried about her, afraid that she might be developing asocial tendencies. They tried several attempts to get her interested in other activities. They signed her up for ballet classes, but she didn't really have any inclination towards it. Then they encouraged her to join a soccer team, but she said she didn't like team sports. They gave her piano lessons, ice skating practices, archery training, but nothing really seemed to work. Even when she would go, her gaze was always lost elsewhere, her head never left the clouds.They still support her in her project, but worry a lot about her social integration. Right now, they are hoping that this is just a temporary phase she is going through, and that she will learn to diversify her interests on her own eventually.

Dreams: In the world of dreaming, Everine uses her dreams to craft strange realms, impossible creatures and exotic cultures. She built great non-Euclidean labyrinth-worlds which would give Escher a headache and mysterious libraries with clockwork keepers, hidden archivists of lost memories. She imagined wild, chaotic alien worlds, filled with unfathomable life forms of all kinds, tragic tales of romance with lovers stuck between worlds. She made the mystical song-crystals of the quartz city, the silver cave of the fallen angel, engraved with heart-wrenching images of her lost paradise. A thousand worlds and more, all kept carefully recorded in one precious, solitary notebook.

Links

First image by Aaron Diaz.
Second image by Rbananas
Timestamp: 08/09/14 12:00

[IVIasterJay]

Yay, a wild CS has appeared! Again, I'm not going to accept people right away so that others can get their sheets in before the cast fills up, so for now I strongly suggest giving the rules a read.

[Voltus_Ventus]

-N/A-

[Dragonydas]

I believe I have made the necessary changes

[Cryptik Wisdom]

Name: Darien J. Marco

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Age: 10

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Gender: Male

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Appearance:


In the dream world Darien appears as an all black figure, almost like a walking shadow with a black smoke like aura that emits from all over his body, sporting a solide white mask.

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Personality: Darien is a rather vindictive person when it comes to someone who crosses him in anyway, he feels the need to 'get back' at someone with something he feels is equal to or slightly more than what they had done to him. This vindictive trait of his makes it hard for him to stay out of trouble. When Darien isn't committing his acts of revenge he is a quite outgoing and friendly person, kind of like two sides of the same coin. Darien is a very hyperactive child, almost never sitting still, constantly running around when he has the chance.

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History: Darien grew up as the youngest of his family of 6, the oldest of his siblings being his brother with two sisters before him. They were raised by their mother and father who would be fighting more than regularly. As the youngest of all the children in his family he would be picked on by his two older sisters because their parents would baby him and give him more attention then his other siblings. With his parents constant fighting and being tormented by his sisters, Darien would find solace with his older brother who would stop his sisters from picking on him. While with his brother he would hatch schemes to get back at his sisters for picking on him. when the plans were set in to play to get back at them his sisters would only come back with more, thus causing there to always be some sort of confrontation between them. In time Darien's older brother had moved out, leaving his only place of solace to be in his dreams where he had full reign of what transpired in them.

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Dreams: Darien's dream space is an ever-changing terrain because he likes the constant change of nothing being the same for too long, kind of like is hyperactivity in the waking world. In his dreams, he sometimes uses them to get back at his sisters by creating exact replicas of them and tormenting them to the point he feels they do to him when he cant do anything about it in the real world. When he isn't getting back at his sisters in his dreams he tends to building and destroy that he thinks up, pretending to be a superhero or super villain depending on how he feels going to be. Darien's are never the same due to the constantly changing terrain, thus causing him to have new dreams ever night.

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09/08/2014 - 5:48 PM

[Cryptiic]

Ugh, sorry, I forgot... x_x
Done.

[AliceZaru]

WAIT FOR ME! IM POSTING A CS! <3 -RESERVED!

[AliceZaru]

Name
Arianna Johns

Age
13

Gender
Female

Appearance


Personality
You could define Arianna as a odd person. She feels normal to everyone and always tries to be different from others. She always gets ideas, scenarios, theories, giving her different set of personalities. She may be quiet and half an hour later she may be jumping over the walls. It just really depends on the type of people shes around. She can be very nice and respectful to others. She stays quiet and seemingly nervous were ever she was and fumbles around while she walks or maybe she would be more..dishonest and really show out. Very different from others, talking loudly and doing some odd and personal things to people. Though she keeps those two personalities balanced. Knowing that she is like that she could try to calm herself and maybe tone it down.

History
Arianna born December 29, 2001. Born in the hospital. 'Before' she was born she could see things, life seemingly passing through quickly the futures and her future..self. It was like a quick notice and IF she could remember she would know the steps to fix it. Though she couldn't once she was born everything passed life seemingly zoomed forward until her mind was strong enough too remember. Seemingly only flashes of scenes would come up and voices would be in a low tone. I couldn't think to myself I was scared, maybe. My mind seemingly pondered as life zoomed. It was odd but I could slowly take it in and as slowly..going to the age of 8 my mind slowed down finally remembering....my surroundings and thus my childhood seemingly started. My memories were still kind of distorted..and I always had headaches. Though as a child I always watched history channels about theories of aliens. The mind deflecting all of logic of what I know and seemingly opening a door of ideas. It was very astonishing I suddenly got a burst of ideas and began writing stories of theories and how the world could of been made..or some kind of other theory. Everyone thought I was strange but I always kept my mind up and soon..everyone began calling me weird, didn't want to be around me. My ideas just..suddenly..deflected..at first they were over the top and down..at the bottom. There parents were religious and always got mad at my parents because..I was seemingly filling everyone's brains with this 'crap' everyone slowly walked away..and soon I kept quiet. The unwanted desk, the unwanted spark of the world. I cried every time but seemingly I could act 'weirdly' around the high school people around my school. I didn't know why but the always make me laugh in some way. They understood how I felt and had ideas like mine. It was 'special' to me that I could finally look up too people at the time thus..at the time..were my dreams. They were weird..very weird. It was like lucid dreaming and after school I would always talk to those people and how weird it was. I didn't know why it just started but..my dreams always felt blank when..I was a tad smaller. Littler ..and at the time when my mind was strong enough or that's what I thought. I began researching dreams and there was some myth called 'Dream control' much similar to lucid dreaming..but it had odd effects if-...I had no idea..I kept my dreams secret and went along my day until I could figure out who had these same effects. ( Don't mind if my grammar is fudged. )

Dreams
As soon as Arianna drifts to sleep she appears on a flat white board. Nothing only blankness and only her and the platform shes standing on. As soon as she waves her hand ideas begin. The rays of light bending at her touch and soon the terrain shifts and so does the sky. The ...white platform soon turned too grass and soon became larger. Trees began forming and so did liquids. Nothing much she had in ideas and so she skipped the terrain shift and looked towards space. Imagining that trees were like time and always creating a scenario that would happen. Seeing multiple memories being shifted at her touch it was quite amusing. She didn't do much at all. She would always stay scientific and always imagined what either happened at school or what happened in space. Watching nova stars from afar and imagining what was inside a black hole. Though nothing dangerous at all came from her dreams except ..the nova stars exploding or black holes being created and something else. Shes very odd with these topics and seemingly isn't ready. Though exciting happened. After she watched a show called Doctor Who time seemed irrelevant white ripples in space began to happen and she would always touch them and wake up. She didn't know why but..I think its something? Oh and by the way she always dreams about Clara being her companion in the tardis. <3

Finished - 9\8\14 - 8:49