"A lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that she or he is dreaming."
" When the dreamer is lucid, she or he can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment."
"Lucid dreams can seem extremely real and vivid depending on a person's level of self-awareness during the lucid dream."
Welcome To Lucid Dreaming
Lucid Dreaming is a "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" game.
Much like The Endless Forest: It has no goal.
If you choose to participate, then you are Lucid Dreaming.
Every night you choose to Lucid Dream you will wake up in a dream.
The setting may be familiar, or completely foreign.
You know that you are dreaming.
Throughout your journey you will be presented with certain scenarios.
I am your guide to these scenarios and will inform you of the consequences of your choices and actions.
Guidelines of Lucid Dreaming:
-At Any time you may wake up. You know how to do this. It might be pinching yourself, or realizing it is a dream, or jumping from something tall. It is personal.
-If you willingly wake up you will have the choice to continue from a specific point from a previous night of your choosing.
-You enter the dream world with a certain level of stress from One to Twenty.
What number you enter with is based on your actual level of stress when you join.
Be honest.
Lying to give yourself more courage will not improve the game for you.
With each reaction to a scenario or action taken you will evaluate how you are feeling.
If you are nervous, scared, or stressed out enough to reach 20, you must leave the dream.
If you are forced out by stress, you will not remember anything from the dream that night.
You may be forced out by "dying" in the dream.
-You may only enter the dream once per night.
-You may be presented with very personal, unnerving, scary, or disturbing settings or situations.
-Some times you will be prompted to provide information.
For example: "This room contains the animal you fear the most. What is it?"
"A pet you loved dearly that passed away is in front of you-describe them"
"A deer has come to join your side, who is it?"
You can choose to answer, or leave the dream.
-Each night will vary in it's length.
An approximate time of each Night will be given when the game is posted.
You have until that time to enter the dream and voluntarily wake up before the night ends.
If you do not voluntarily wake up in the time period you will not retain any information from that night.
You may still participate the next night.
-Everyone speaks the same language in dreams
Everyone in a dream, regardless of what language they are speaking, are speaking a language that you under stand. They may clearly be a foreign individual speaking a foreign tongue, but you will know what they are saying.
-You can manipulate the dream.
You may be as grand or as minute as you wish to be. If you need something you can get it. This is a dream.
however...
-You are yourself.
You only have the skills, abilities, and information that you do at the exact moment you enter the dream that night.
Entering the dream world will not magically give you the ability to play the violin.
You might be able to do something absurd as flying, but you cannot suddenly become a good basketball player.
You are limited in this regard.
-You have two hands.
You can pick up items you might find in the dream. You can retain these items for that night, but have no where to store them. You may carry two small items, or one large item. These items may or may not come in handy.
-You are alone.
You may be in the same setting as another player, but you are alone. You cannot see or communicate with them at this point in time.
Depending on the actions of the players a setting where mutual dreaming may become available. For now: Focus on surviving on your own.
-Your Guide can be slow at times
Depending on what I am doing in real life OR the amount of participants it might take some time to get to your situation or reactions.
Be patient.
-Each night you start in the same default setting unless you have requested one.
You may then explore from the default setting. It is just the 'base point' for all new dreamers.
- At times you may be required to fulfill an obligation or perform a task before you may move on.
Guidelines of The Mansion:
-When you enter the mansion you will be assigned to a team.
Your team will be your savior if you happen to die in the mansion.
-Your mission is to explore the mansion
How you do this is up to you. You may go off on your own or stick close to your team-mates.
-If you die you will become a poltergeist
You cannot manifest your old form or speak.
You must rely on your ability to levitate and manipulate objects to lead your team mates to retrieve your body.
When your body is placed in the main hall you will be revived.
-The mansion is only available until between 10:30 pm EST and 11:00 pm EST unless otherwise noted.
click the above for the fixed clock.
Sweet Dreamers
phantomhelsing
L
Rainflower
Tally
Whyss
Tera
Spyrre
Meadow
Ocean
It is Currently Daytime.
Are you feeling sleepy?
If so, pick a unique colour (make sure to post the hex colour!).
Then Answer the following question in that colour:
Are You Dreaming?
[s]Are You Ready to enter the nightmare?
Returning players, please also answer the following question:
How Are you Feeling? (1-20) [/s]
"I should have taken the
The curtains seem to be made
The curtains seem to be made out of a strange billowy translucent material. It blows out of Tally's hands despite her best attempts to grab hold. How puzzling.
The balcony is wide enough to accomodate ten people atleast.
There are two external lights on either side of the house illuminating the balcony.
Below there is a sprawling lawn with hedges carved into the shapes of animals.
There are woods beyond the neatly trimmed lawn.
There is a stone driveway leading up to the old mansion.
The girl bit her lip and frowned.
"I am not sure. I know something was chasing us and then I felt something cutting into my back and..nothing. I just woke up back here alone and scared."
The topic seems to upset her and she walks over to the fireplace in the room to poke at the burnt lumber.
As soon as your eyes rest on the metal plate the words seem to glow and jump off the page. They are read in a loud booming voice that could easily be heard from any point in the house:
Welcome to The Mansion.
The Mansion is only available on Sunday Nights.
The Mansion fades away around 10:30 PM EST.
Unlike normal Lucid dreams, You do not have to worry about waking up and remembering.
The Mansion exists on it's own plane. It will remember itself.
You will always wake up unharmed from The Mansion.
If you die you will become a spirit until a member of the OPPOSITE team discovers your body and begrudgingly brings it to the main hall.
When you become a spirit you will become a lowly poltergeist.
You cannot speak to living players.
You cannot manifest as your old form.
You can, however, move and manipulate objects.
Your objective is to explore the mansion.
Good Luck.
Nope, feel free to come in Meadow.
Just pick a colour and answer the two questions. You have about an hour until the game ends for tonight and picks back up next Sunday.
I jump at the loud voice, I
First, I blurt out:
..I'm checking see if I can still hear, after the loud noises.
I also give Jost a firm shakeshakeshake.
Then I look around. "I guess asking for a blueprint or a map of the house is kinda pointless, huh?"
I back away from the
An unexpected frustration
The curtains are weird, but
(#5b878e) Yes. About 3 or 4,
Yes. About 3 or 4, I'm feeling rather happy at the moment.
Tera flips through the book.
Tera flips through the book.
Most of the pages only have small bits of scrawling on them and are too badly damaged.
There is heavy water spots on many of the pages and the ink has run.
You can make out a few badly scribbled drawings.
One pictures a large strange flying creature. It has a large grinning face and spiney arms that are holding a stack of books. A bony tail trails after.
There are a few drawings of the hedge monsters.
The words "NO FLOOR" are visible on one page and underlined multiple times.
Another page has the disjointed note of "Likes candy".
The last page appears to be a crude map. It centers around the main hall and seems to have been erased multiple times. You can make out a clearly labeled 'kitchen' as the bottom right door in the main hall. The 'library' is the first door at the top of the balcony.
They must have not gotten very far.
Tera and L both hear a loud audible thump as the table with the objects and Meadow drop into the next hall over.
Meadow appears in the main hall on the ground.
Oh dear, you seem to have fallen quite hard.
No matter, there is a table of objects infront of you.
You may pick one of the following:
An unloaded gun
A box of bullets
A candle
A bat
A knife
A notepad with a pencil
A box
A silly monster mask
A tape recorder
A ten dollar bill
A duck
A goosebumps book
Rainflower has made the correct observation that they are not alone.
As she makes the declaration there is a loud "whiiiiirrrrr!" sound from the lawn.
She has already retreated far enough back to not be able to observe it though.
The Polaroid starts to develop and shows grinning faces across all of the curtains.
Tally becomes aware, as she stares at it, that there is no breeze coming from outside.
The trees are not moving.
But the curtains are.
Spyrre happened to be looking down, albeit it startled by the voice from the other room.
Her eyes snap up as a second sound alerts her.
She is looking at precisely the right place to see someone going across the lawn on a riding lawn mower.
How strange..it's the middle of the night??
Why is someone mowing the lawn?
You are too high up to see who or what it is.
"Heh, looks like you get your
*tracking* I want to join,
.
Run!Now!Back to the main
I look startled behind me
"There´s someone down there!"
"I just want to take this
That seals the deal. "Lez go."
I should probably go to
WS- No problem. It's almost
Check back next week and you can run solo if you wish.
It's a *bit* more dangerous, but then it's just You versus The Mansion.
On the other hand, You'll have a better chance of getting rescued if something goes bad since anyone else can lend a hand.
Spyrre-
Nope you're set!
You'll appear back on the balcony next week.
Goodnight and pleasant dreams!
Does that mean we should stop
(I think you're ok Spyrre,
I'd almost forgotten about the little ghost girl, and I feel sorta bad for leaving her alone like this. "Um, my friend and I are going to go look around. If I happen to come back this way I'll stop in and say hello." Giving L a thumbs up I head back out into the main hall, taking the book with me, having slipped the picture back inside the cover.
Thanks, I´ll try to get into
Try not to die guys, and get along without matches!
Count on it! ....If my
.
I blink upward confused,
I shake my head, I couldn't think of a practical use for it here in an unknown and possibly dangerous place. Baseball bat. It's probably not the best choice, but it would make me feel safer and more confident, something I can use to whack stuff.
Tally, No you're alright. I
No you're alright.
I put you in groups so I could group address you all easier and you know who you need to bug/try to contact if you have a dead.
Spyrre-
It probably will. I had a bad schedule today but I plan on opening it earlier provided that I actually have time to idle at home and play GM throughout the day.
Fluid of course since we'll have different players popping in and out throughout the 'night'.
The approximate end time is set, but the start time is open to when I'm around.
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L and Tera choose to head back to the main hall.
The ghost girl nods and yells "Be careful!" as they leave the room.
Jost gives a nervous whirring click and "o 3o" appears on his face.
Spyrre's fears seem to have gotten the best of her.
She looks back towards the rest of her team before she is shook awake and abandons them.
She wakes up in her own room with a pack of matches curiously in her pocket.
Meadow wisely selects the baseball bat and the table disappears.
There is the sudden sound of footsteps as L and Tera race into the main hall to meet their new guest.
It seems they have gained a new team mate.
I'm startled by the noise
As I step back into the main
"This is not a sexy thump." I announce. I'm good with the obvious. Jost, however, gets a hug and I proceed to inform him of everything he's missed in a very speedy manner. I apparently have a +1 in Blabbermouth. Ahem.
However-"Dude, you actually grabbed a weapon." This makes me happy.
I tug at Tally's arm.Come
"Ello Meadow, I'd say it was
Tally says a sheepish hello
Tally says a sheepish hello the to the curtains.
They seemed to be twisting silently in their own little world until she spoke.
The curtains immediately whip into a frenzy and attempt to reach out and wrap around her.
The curtains are, however, held firmly by the curtain rods.
The two members are face to face with homicidal sentient ghost curtains.
Tera, L, and Jost the clock seem quite pleased to meet their new team-mate meadow.
Tera catches Meadow up on their discoveries so far.
The bat seems to be a popular choice thus far.
The loud thumping and grinding of the curtains trying to break free alert them to the presence of the potential danger the other team is in.
The whiirring of the lawnmower can be heard from outside.
The large ornate door to the foyer the two teams initially entered from is missing.
It seems that you all are trapped.
I freeze, holding the bat up
The other person came forward, showing me some stuff, and lowered the bat slightly, remaining blank. I just absorbed the information, turning it over in my mind.
I screech and pull Tally
At Rain's screech I jerk
From every direction loud
From every direction loud chimings of clocks start.
BONG....BONG
The walls start to shake
BONG....BONG...BONG
The windows start to smash
BONG.....BONG......
Everything starts to fade.
BONG....BONG
The floor..the floor is falling
BONG.
Jost's face lights up with a very distinct 10:30 as the last note chimes out and everything falls apart.
You wake up in your own bed alone.
With your item.
Shaking.
Do you dare return to the Mansion next Sunday?
(ffff epic cliff hanger!
But...but Rain I never got
-Then the destruction awakes me.
Glad to see you guys enjoyed
I'll know by next Saturday at the least when (approximately) I'll be starting next sunday's Mansion game and have it posted.
Will Tally and Rain escape the possessed sentient curtains?
Will Meadow lay the smackdown with her bat?
Why is that person mowing the lawn?
And how does Jost keep time so effectively?
Tune in next week for...The Mansion!
Don't forget your item!
Free baseball bat =D This is
This is great, I hope I'll be able to get on next Sunday, I don't see any reason why I won't.
If you have anything you
If you have anything you *want* to see in the mansion for sure then feel free to post it here OR send me a message over MSN if you don't want any spoilers.
My MSN:
Also if you happen to be reading across this blog and want to assist in the efforts of the game then answer the following questions:
What are you afraid of?
What are other people in your life afraid of?
Do you know of any horror movie "rules?"
If so, name them.
A few rules I know about
1)Never go alone.You'll get picked off one by one.
2)Most things are not at all friendly.
3)Never go into the basement or attic.
As for what I'm afraid of, I'm afraid of what lurks in the dark.And large bodies of water.
I have an entire book of "How
Starting at approximately
Gonna be rocking the fixed time clock from now on.
Check it out in the blog also for the ending time. x)
#80E6E6 *yawn* I most
*yawn* I most certainly AM dreaming...because I'm pretty sure that I'm supposed to have two feet, not three. Ah well. It's sorta cool anyway.Er...sure am! So long as I've got some friends with me. Heh.
Enjoy this lovely music while
Here is the new starting time.
D: No. Not at all. But I
Not at all.
But I guess it -is- a dream...
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Yes. I'm not. I'm wearing a
I'm not. I'm wearing a skirt! Khaki colored.
4 minutes mates. Don't
Don't forget your Bat Meadow
I suppose I am ready to
Check before you post, Angel *Headdesk*
As unceremoniously as you
How tiresome.
It looks like you have new company tonight at least.
As such, they will now randomly be assigned to teams.
Ocean, you are on a team with Rainflower.
Your other team mates are Tally and Spyrre.
Whys, welcome to the mansion. You are on a team with Meadow.
Your other absent team mates are L and Tera.
The table of items is once again sitting in the middle of the entrance.
On the table are the following items:
An unloaded gun
A box of bullets
A candle
A knife
A notepad with a pencil
A box
A silly monster mask
A tape recorder
A ten dollar bill
A duck
A goosebumps book
Choose wisely.
No two people can have the same item.
If you are a returning member you may chose to trade your item for one off the table.
If you are a new player, you may now choose your item.
I'm never ready for anything.
I'm wearing light pink cotton pants with red hearts all over.
I want to keep my camera.
Those are sleep pants. Don't judge me. xD
Right. Ow. Hard floor. That's
Looking around, I verify that it's a mansion. Hmm, how odd.
I spot the table and examine the items carefully, spotting the knife.
Perfect.
I snatch it from the table and look around for my teammates.
Tally is just as roughly
She is far away from the vicious ghost curtains.
She is lucky.
I welcome Ocean with and