The Illusionary Dream Maze: (OOC/Sign-up)

[Warhaven]

The mind, it is both mysterious and powerful, beings gifted with imaginations can change reality itself within their own minds.

But what is Reality, and what is only imagination? Where do dreams go when the dreamer awakes, if they have such substance as to make the sleeper believe the dream is real?

The Dream World, the ultimate mystery, might never be fully understood, or explored. For some, it is the greatest of Hells, where grim reminders of their dark deeds haunt them time and again, where desires best left unspoken of are answered, where pain is relived time and again, and where joy but a faint memory. For others, it is Paradise, where all the pain, all the suffering becomes no more, where limitations are waved and dark tidings are a thing no more.

But still, where do dreams go, when the dreamer awakes? Where do all the broken discarded pieces of a shattered reality go, if not into memory?

The Illusionary Dream Maze.

Both whole and broken at once, within the heart of Dreams, there lies a maze twisted beyond even the understanding of Omniscient Gods. Forged of the broken reminants of Dreams, the maze itself has only one desire, to dream another dream, and become real once more. It's mind is all minds, broken, scared, and twisted from their original forms, using only Dream Logic, it's landscape is all landscapes, it is all things, for there is not one thing that someone, somewhere, has not dreamed off at one point in their lives.

Yet still, The Illusionary Dream Maze, sealed off by an ancient and powerful being, is unsealed once more, and it's desire to become real remains unanswered.

Thus it is that after a great and long rest, the guardians of dreams search once more for unwary sleepers to awaken and wander The Illusinary Dream Maze, and answer its most ardent desire.

App:

Character's name:
Country of Origin:
Tech's the RP'er plays in:
Race:
Age: (16 or higher)
Physical Description:
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: MUST BE FILLED OUT!
Favorite food, flavor, drink?
Abilities: (All abilities of a non-standard nature go here. If it's not normal for a person in RL, it's listed. NO EXCEPTIONS!)

Bio:

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream:

RP Sample:

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[The Fanboyists]

Tagged. I think I'll have a character for this up soon enough.

App:

Character's name: Mark Wyndhorst
Country of Origin: Allamunnic States
Tech's the RP'er plays in: MT, FanT, some PT
Race: Human
Age: (16 or higher) 21
Physical Description: 6'0", medium build (around 200lbs), Brown eyes, brown hair.
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: Attention Defecit Disorder, addiction to chocolate; still recovering from a bad LSD trip. Nervous about sleeping with an underage girl, despite it being consensual. Loves to climb mountains, or go backpacking. Dreams of opening a pub, and settling down with a family.
Favorite food, flavor, drink: Rootbeer, coffee, and the smell of beer-bread.
Abilities: None; a rather normal person.
Bio: Mark was born in the suburbs of Northwatch, but loved going into the city and out to the country from an early age. He had a fairly normal up-bringing, including a normal schooling experience, graduating from secondary school at seventeen, and going to the University of Northwatch to study engineering. Graduated four years later, and went to work at a local consulting firm. Has been dating on and off since the middle of high school.

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: None; he does not recall any repeat dreams; they vary greatly.

RP Sample:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=30830
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=88567

[Lathuria]

Character's name: Damian Bennet
Country of Origin: Lathuria
Tech's the RP'er plays in: FT
Race: Human (different dimension, so not exactly the same)
Age: 21
Physical Description: 5'11, about 176 lbs. He is slender, has long brown hair.
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: Bipolar, sells drugs (weed, cocaine, mushrooms), participated in the murder of his sister's boyfriend, desires money, and also desires his best friend's wife.
Favorite food, flavor, drink?: Tacos, lemon, whiskey
Abilities: none (one of the few Lathurians who dont exhibit slight super-human abilities)

Bio: Damian was born in Oakcliff, Texas. These are the projects and he was raised here all the way up to the age of seventeen, when he ran away. before he ran away, he ha dbeen dealing drugs in small quantities. At age 19 Damian came back into his family's life, and became especially close with his brother and sister. His sister's boyfriend, though, was someone Damian used to know. According to his brother, the man had hit Damian's sister on more then one occasion, and had gotten her pregnant one night while he was drunk when he forced himself on her. Damian and his brother, Caleb, murdered the man by beating him to death with brass knuckles and box-cutters.
Neither of the brothers were caught, though they were suspect for half of the investigation, until it was found out that the man was in debt for six thousand dollars to a notioriously violent booky.
Donovan resides in Dallas, Texas, now, and sells drugs still.

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: Damian dreams very rarely, but when he does, its usually about his favorite books. The most frequent of these is where he is the main character in Stephen King's "The dark Tower" series.

RP Sample:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=65867&hilit=Plurilae
(The RPs never took out because I wasn't active a whole lot during that time)

[The Floor Kippers]

App:

Character's name: Nigel Griffin
Country of Origin: The Floor Kippers
Tech's the RP'er plays in: FanT to FT
Race: Human
Age: (16 or higher) 789
Physical Description: Lean and Shortish (5FT 6IN) Pic here
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: Mentally scarred by his imprisonment by the Elder gods, his forced seduction by the goddess of desire the loss of his true love and the loss of his memories of his true love. His desires are to reunite with his love, raise children and out live all of creation. Amongst his secrets are the location of Death's home.
Favorite food, flavor, drink? Favorite food, beef, favorite drink, ale
Abilities: Immortal, basic telepathic (Level 2)

Bio:http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Nigel_Griffin (Stop after the cybermen)

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: Recurring, being left alone in an eternity of Darkness. Most recent, skydiving with his friend.

RP Sample: You've had personal experience with me

[Warhaven]

All approved thus far.

[Lathuria]

App:

Character's name: Nigel Griffin
Country of Origin: The Floor Kippers
Tech's the RP'er plays in: FanT to FT
Race: Human
Age: (16 or higher) 789
Physical Description: Lean and Shortish (5FT 6IN) Pic here
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: Mentally damaged by his imprisonment by the Elder gods, his forced seduction by the goddess of desire the loss of his true love and the loss of his memories of his true love. His desires are to reunite with his love, raise children and out live all of creation. Amongst his secrets are the location of Death's home.
Favorite food, flavor, drink? Favorite food, beef, favorite drink, ale
Abilities: Immortal, basic telepathic (Level 2)

Bio:http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Nigel_Griffin (Stop after the cybermen)

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: Recurring, being left alone in an eternity of Darkness. Most recent, skydiving with his friend.

RP Sample: You've had personal experience with me

Kippers! Woot! Been a while, huh? When was the last RP we did together... GOtM?

[The Floor Kippers]

App:

Character's name: Nigel Griffin
Country of Origin: The Floor Kippers
Tech's the RP'er plays in: FanT to FT
Race: Human
Age: (16 or higher) 789
Physical Description: Lean and Shortish (5FT 6IN) Pic here
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: Mentally damaged by his imprisonment by the Elder gods, his forced seduction by the goddess of desire the loss of his true love and the loss of his memories of his true love. His desires are to reunite with his love, raise children and out live all of creation. Amongst his secrets are the location of Death's home.
Favorite food, flavor, drink? Favorite food, beef, favorite drink, ale
Abilities: Immortal, basic telepathic (Level 2)

Bio:http://www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Nigel_Griffin (Stop after the cybermen)

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: Recurring, being left alone in an eternity of Darkness. Most recent, skydiving with his friend.

RP Sample: You've had personal experience with me

Kippers! Woot! Been a while, huh? When was the last RP we did together... GOtM?

I think it was Judgment or something like that, but it's still been a while.

[Lathuria]

Yup yup. I stopped playing Nationstates for quite a while after the last of GOtM... which was Judgement. Ive been pretty active lately though.
I've wanted to get the GOtM thing opened back up again. They were alot of fun, in my opinion.

[The Floor Kippers]

Yup yup. I stopped playing Nationstates for quite a while after the last of GOtM... which was Judgement. Ive been pretty active lately though.
I've wanted to get the GOtM thing opened back up again. They were alot of fun, in my opinion.

Yeah, I really enjoyed those.

[Warhaven]

Sometime tonight, I'll get the IC thread set up.

[Lathuria]

Sometime tonight, I'll get the IC thread set up.

cool

[Warhaven]

I am going to start you all off in the maze.

[Lathuria]

I am going to start you all off in the maze.

Mysteriouly and without instruction?
Like "Lost"?

[Warhaven]

I am going to start you all off in the maze.

Mysteriouly and without instruction?
Like "Lost"?

I've never seen lost, but I hear the title was an appropriate description for it's audience's ability to follow the plot.

As for mysterious, depends on your viewpoint. Instructions vary and change with time, depending on how close you are to the Dreamhart.

[John Richard Wright]

delete

[Lathuria]

Mysteriouly and without instruction?
Like "Lost"?

I've never seen lost, but I hear the title was an appropriate description for it's audience's ability to follow the plot.

As for mysterious, depends on your viewpoint. Instructions vary and change with time, depending on how close you are to the Dreamhart.

Good call and use of context clues.
*rubs hands* This is going to be a good one.

[Warhaven]

The Dreamhart is of course, the ultimate goal of both the maze, and the thread.

[Frenequesta]

Character's name: Louis Enrique Sutton
Country of Origin: The Social Republic and Scientific Collectives of Frenequesta
Tech's the RP'er plays in: PMT/Early FT
Race: 52.5% Caucasian, 35% Hispanic, 12.5% Asian. (Note: Frenequestans prefer to list by their grandparent's country of origin, in which case it would be 75% American, 12.5% Irish, and 12.5% Chinese.)
Age: (16 or higher) 23
Physical Description: Louis Enrique Sutton is 73.4819 kg, 139.7 cm, with a wingspan 13 cm shorter than his height.
Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: MUST BE FILLED OUT! Sutton is afraid of writing and has a tendency to speak before he thinks. He is a mild ludomaniac (problem gambler) who once sold his car (which he still had to pay back a loan on) to feed his addiction, and, besides money for gambling, desires a law degree, a role on any animated show, and the death of his father, who beat him with a newspaper (and newspapers in Frenequesta are made of plastic electronics) when he missed "obvious" answers on high school exams.
Abilities: (All abilities of a non-standard nature go here. If it's not normal for a person in RL, it's listed. NO EXCEPTIONS!) With the exception of increased memory and information processing ability brought about by a cybernetic chip in his brain which is standard for a Frenequestan, Sutton has no special powers.

Bio: Born to a Rita (Álvarez) and David Sutton, a financial planner and a wildlife biologist respectively, Louis was raised in a stable household until he was nine, when David drove his wife out of the house for (ironically) misusing his money. In that time, David constantly had new girlfriends around the house, which drove him to spend more, leaving little time for Louis except when he came home with an exam, which he scrutinized deeply. Despite, or perhaps because of, his father's driving nature in pushing for higher and higher grades, Louis graduated in the 90% percentile of his class, and is currently enrolled at Neue Bayreuth State University to study Freneq-Joplinian law. His father still threatens to beat him with a newspaper if he gets a poor grade on exams, and his recent trend in problem gambling seems to be exacerbating the problem. He just barely maintains the equivalent of a B- average in law mastery exams, partly due to his problem gambling and also his fear of writing, which he can't exactly recall why he has that.

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: The cybernetic chip in his brain also shortens the sleep cycle so he only needs to sleep four hours a night. As such, his dreams are often mere flashes of things that he saw the previous day rather than having any coherent plot line. The last of these was a traffic light in Neue Bayreuth.

RP Sample:
An RP sample in which I am a participant: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=127955
An RP sample that I hosted: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=88787&hilit=zuroweste

[Warhaven]

And soon, it shall begin.

Approved Fren!

[Warhaven]

THE IC THREAD: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=129437

[Warhaven]

I think I just wait on Fanboyists to reply, so I'll give him/her my time in bed to do so, then I'm moving on.

[Arteria Zoness]

Sorry I'm late -as in all great, holy, fucking, sweet, burning hells to the billionth degree- but I was busy, didn't have time, yadda yadda, who the hell really cares (besides everyone)?

Character's name: Errein

Country of Origin: Delpi

Tech's the RP'er plays in: FT

Race: Delpin

Age: 119

Physical Description: (Ah damn,... the one thing I still haven't exactly nailed down for the factbook)General descript: roughly 6 meter long and cetacean like, weighs about 500 lbs, has 5 eyes, the first pair located a short distance back from the upper jaw, the second slightly closer and on level with the lower jaw, the fifth is located atop the head. A small crest similar to a conning tower rises from the back of the head. A single antenna hangs in front if the head, with a series of tiny bio-luminescent orbs set in. Two thin meter long antennae sweep back, serving the purpose of "ears" though not really necessary. A series of tall (and sharp) dorsal fins lines the back, set in between two spinal ridges. Has numerous small fins, all of which can be individually controlled. Four bony three jointed arms, six spindly fingers on each hand. At about the waist, two wide manta like wings serve primarily as lungs, with numerous gills under each and an opening on the leading edges that serves as an intake. A long, powerful muscular tail provides propulsion, using a vertical tail fin and small X fins. Also at about the waist, are two small bud like growths, both of which have similar tails for extra power.

Mental flaws/secrets/sins/desires both good and bad: Addicted to sweets, has borderline diabetes. A coward is he, though it usually varies with the situation. Optimist, but can be very cynical (if you've ever been in a "Aha! So, you set the trap on the left side, but you expected me to think that! So it's on the right, however, you knew I would catch on so it's actually,..." (I honestly forgot the name of this phenomenon) it's like that kind, and it always risks looping endlessly) kind and generous, loves kids and people. Generally the "Really Nice Guy Everybody Knows" but with out the "Everybody Knows" part. Is very upset by his obscurity, which leads to a very high risk of depression.

Favorite food, flavor, drink? Loves candy.

Abilities: Minor psychic abilities, such as limited telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to commune with machinery (on the binary level) has a high degree of bodily control.

Bio: Born and raised aboard a Line Ark Mega Float, graduate of several high quality universities, and now at the "holy crap, I'm a responsible adult." stage in life.
Socially, Errein is like any other Delpin. The friend pool includes anyone he happens to meet. He is active and energetic, and participates in a myriad of sports. However, most of his free time is spent in libraries or laboratories. Currently apprenticing as an AI programmer, hopes to one day manage to get a spot on a Science Vessel. Since he's smart, there's a good chance that might actually happen. Until then he spends time about the vast world spanning community, doing various stereotypical community oriented things. Usually cheery and playful, tends to try very hard not to be serious. His favorite past time is simply talking to others, getting to know people better, and making new friends. And like most of his species, he is empathetic and helpful, and often goes out of they way for others.
(Oh screw it, YES he's like a friggen' dolphin, they ALL are.)

Presently, he's gotten work aboard the Planet Fortress shield, the only "real" military installation int the entire republic and still in initial construction. His days usually include building and training a countless number of different AI's for the station, and then helping his coworkers with their jobs, tech support, and then just plain slacking off.

-Still sprucing up-

Favorite/Recurring/ or Most Recent Dream: Getting accepted aboard a Science Ship and making seemingly ridiculous scientific discoveries in an annoying Mary Sue like fashion.

RP Sample: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=115675

[The Fanboyists]

I think I just wait on Fanboyists to reply, so I'll give him/her my time in bed to do so, then I'm moving on.

Post is up! Sorry about the delay; I wanted to do the thing properly.

[Warhaven]

Arteria, your accepted, since we're not too far in. I'll make a reply, and drag you into the maze in the process.

@Everyone:

In my post, I'll designate your section like so:

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@ The Floor Kippers

Rp section goes here.

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@ The Fanboyists

Rp Section goes here.

[The Floor Kippers]

okay