thegamesooc | Once Upon A Dream

Well over a year ago, Capitol TV held a great big special on Tribute families. That is, everyone had people from their worlds brought in, family, friend, and enemy alike. These guests were informed the whole experience was not but a dream and for many, that dream ended in a nightmare.

Now, the Capitol has opted to bring this TV special back, taking a literal turn with their guests being part of a dream. A 'no mess, no stress' experience. Are the guests real and being held somewhere? Are they merely spectres skillfully played to likeness? That will all depend... On the seventh day, the dream will end and your character may well be none the wiser to whether a given Vistor was truly there. But the threat the Capitol makes with these is very much real.

Visitors may be entirely fake, real, or such realistic copies that the person whom they were brought for may very well wonder if they weren't here for a very brief time. Visitors will not be told that you're competing in death matches. In fact, they won't be told anything at all this time. They'll be in a world of dreaming and whether they recognize this or not is up to players themselves.

Visitors may also be Panem AUs. In fact, you do not have to be a Tribute to participate in this event. If you play a Panem AU, they may ICly have purchased tickets (or been given some free) allowing them to participate in this event and roam among the dream. Even characters in District 13 will get the chance to participate in this event for a brief time.

This dream will be one shared by all, though they may take off in different "directions". NPCs will only be around within the dream. You are free to take some liberties in the dream - logic can be played fast and loose, time can repeat itself, language doesn't have to make perfect sense, and minor things about the setting can change at your whim. If your character imagines and knows themselves in a different way than they physically are, younger, lacking scars, so on, this is also a possibility for them.

If your character dies in the dream, they simply wake up, but threats on Capitolites and the Capitol itself will still, of course, be met with punishment-- if your guest is a definite fake, you may find said guest trying to root the treason out of you into the open.

Threads with NPCs will not count towards Activity Check unless there is at least one other PC. You cannot get the new CR bonus for threading with an NPC.

There will be seven days worth of dreaming, with the atmosphere and setting of the dreams changing each day. Once the plot has started, you're encouraged to start your own plots and do open and closed posts. If you want to do a somewhat larger plot, please contact the mods and we'll help you set it up and set up a plotting post in here for it.

If you are NPCing and are already part of this game, please fill out the following. If you are not a part of this game and intend to NPC there will be a seperate screened post for you.

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This is for everyone's reference who isn't on my plurk, now that the event timeline has been released....

The Ψiioniic
28/day 3 Alternia, flying with telekinesis and not being afraid of being caught.
29/day 4 Being turned into the Helmsman, hooked up into a spaceship as a battery with biowires. Tentacle horror, slavery, insanity, suffering, etc.
30 Arena nightmare
31/day 6 Being whipped as a slave. Graphic depiction of whipping and the psychological effects of being treated as a nonperson.
aug 1/day 7 Giving death prophecies to your characters using his visions, during the war.

Altair
27/day 2 Teaching parkour on the roofs of The Holy Land (Damascus, Acre, Jerusalem). Other assassin stuff can include picking pockets and eavesdropping.
28/day 3 Masyaf's assassin fortress, in the garden filled with beautiful women. It is like the dreams he had when he first became an assassin, but now tinged with sadness because he still grieves for the untimely death of his first love.
29/day 4 Al Mualim, his father figure, actually executing him (versus just faking it in canon) for breaking the Creed and generally being a disappointment. Dad problems intensify.
31/day 6 His first love's violent death, the manner of which is left vague but I can work with that. This is a recurring nightmare in canon that he doesn't talk to other people about.
aug 1/day 7 An assassination he makes on Snow results in many lives lost. Good job breaking it hero.

And since this is dream time, i'll probably have my guys barge in on other people's dreams too, so there is the possibility of having an unholy mashup of worlds happen.

Ooo poor tortured Psii.

Anywhere you'd like his "Beloved" mentor to pop in and try to shake things up? If not she'll be off in her own circus themed nightmares.

I could just bring the circus to you on day 6 and have Harley see why exactly he's afraid of clowns? XD They're murderous assholes who like to paint with blood in his world.

I love it! Count her in :)

I'll cook up something horrible with whipping and dead bodies of friends and such. Let me know if there's any horror in particular that grosses you out.

ETA: Take the second prompt: http://thecapitol.dreamwidth.org/365274.html

Edited (Link added) 2015-07-29 09:16 (UTC)

Right on! I'm game for anything. I'll jump on it later today

No rush! My hiatus left my inbox in shambles.

There we go! Lemme know if I need to adjust anything. I figure dream logic is in effect and Harley's hardly the sort to question such things right out of the gate.

Everything's great, but i think the sun hasn't quiiiite risen yet. Psii would be burnt toast if it did i think!

Ah good to know! I'll tweak it.

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