- Introduction & General Info
- How To
- Rules
- Map
- Setting & World Explained
- Character Database
- The Story

Introduction
Welcome to the Lucid Roleplay thread!
And welcome to Avalon!

What is it?
Lucid Roleplaying thread, a thread where people go together and dream about the same thing, same story, same characters and continue the story. Just like Roleplaying, but using dreams!

So this is Shared Dreaming?
No, it is not, not the way you imagine it, atleast. It is Shared Dreaming in a way, turn based.
One person dreams, the story is updated, next person dreams with the updates in mind, the story is updated again, etc etc.

You can read the thread before this one here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=57953

If you just want to read how the story goes, head further down. Skeptikalz is in charge of that.

How to Join?
So you want to join it? Sure.
Follow the steps here, and you should be ready to go.

Beware, it might be hard to accomplish if you are new to Lucid Dreaming (like me.)

1.Plan your character and post the information in this thread. It will then be added to the database. This can be done by filling this sheet of information:

Character Owner:
Name:
Age:

Description(Looks):
(You may have a picture, drawing or whatever to illustrate.)
Description(Powers):
History:

Weapons:
Personality:
Also be sure to say wether your character is a Dream Walker (Comming from another world to save this one.) Or an inhabitant of this world (Have been born in the world, and lives there as their reality.)
Also, something to remember, everything you put into the Character sheet will have to be remembered of the people enough so that it can be in their dreams. That means, either keep it simple, or atleast very hard to forget.
That is why it's important with description of the look of the character. I feel that visuals are the most easy thing to remember, so if we get a clear view in our heads of how your character looks, the other information will come to minds when we see it.


2.Imprint the world and other peoples characters to your dreams. You can do this using the techniques used in the program ”Paradiso”
(You can download it here:
http://www.sitemeld.com/dreamportfor...topic.php?t=10
You may want to try it out before doing this, if you haven't. Besides, who dosn't want their own paradise in their dreams?)
You will find map and other things you need to imprint to your subconscious further below.

3.After this, you should be able to enter the world and meet the other characters. But now I may sound like it's done in a shwoop. But keep in mind that just Paradiso is a 7day course. So if you arent familiar with Paradiso, this will take atleast 7 days. 14 is recommended though. Try Paradiso first, then use Paradiso for this. For me, I will probably not be playing my character for... Some time.
Anyways, now that you can enter the world, you may notice that the story of all this has already been developed onwards. This means you will also have to imprint the story up to now, so you are able to continue this story instead of just making seperate stories building from the beginning.

4.Use your favorite technique to enter a Lucid Dream. Once you are in, check to see if everything is as it should be. (If one of the other characters is pouring melted muffins in his/her face inside a dark cave, while in the story he/she is in the city having a talk with the king, you should correct it and continue from there, will make it easier to keep the story alive and sense-making.)

5.Continue the story! From here, just dream, know that anything outside the lines on the map is free for you to build on. Except ofcourse it is not accepted by the GM.

Rules:
- When you die, you must either create a new character, or wake up in your next lucid, extremely hurt, after having been unconscious for a long time. It will take some time before you can fight and run. Magic can make pain go away, but you can't heal the wounds away.

- You may have any weapon you like. As long as they are realistic to the setting. You can have 3-5 weapons. Depending on their weight, you'll have to judge that yourself. Remember that you can also just use magic.

- You may have super powers, like running fast, jumping high, natural magic talent, strength. But no extreme length flying. You may have wings, you can glide with them, but remember that you will get tired after flying with them. You can't fly super fast with them either. Just keep it 'realistic'

- If you want to kill other peoples characters, talk to the characters owner Out Of Dream about it and find out who will win a fight, how hard it will be and if the loser will actually die. The character owner might say that the character you want to kill will try to flee, or anything else.

- You may not summon things out of the blue, you may summon your weapon though. Thus if you weapon is conjured beasts, you may summon them. Just don't summon a ferrari and drive around the medieval village...

Map:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7451/avalonyb7.jpg

Setting & World:
The city area is much like our current time, except for the added element of magic. What you might see in town might be anything. Just keep in mind that it is not medieval mages in robes with staves walking around here. It might be scientists studying it here. (Think flying platforms with buildings and stuff like that.) There is a harbor, lots of ships here. New military ones, older ones. Perhaps you may find a crew of present time, magic-using pirates?
There should be an inn or two there aswell.

There's the mountains, cold, empty and cold. You might find a house here or there, some people like the mountains. * shrug* There are also caves. I wonder what's inside them.

The village near the lake is the town where people have not gone with the technology. They are using medieval weapons, and medieval buildings, basically living medieval. However they have magic.

There are the big forests, there could be anything in here too. Some parts can be beautiful and peaceful, with waterfalls and flowers. Other parts might be dark and dangerous. Bring a compass...

Then, between the village and the big city, there are the big plains, just grass and some trees here and there. Let your mind fill in the rest. Some magic scientist or mage might have experimented somewhere here. It has lots of space so it makes for a brilliant magic test area.

Beyond the lines, I do not know what is. Perhaps you will venture there and find out.
Neither do I know if this is the only island in this world. Find a plane or go to the harbor to explore outside the box. You might find it hard though, to get a plane or ship, you might have to steal one, buy the trip, sneak on or maybe even buy your own ship/plane.

Character Database:
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Character Owner: Ceonsamea
Name: Ceonsamea (Inhabitant, but not from Avalon)

Info: some guy that focuses on technique rather than speed or strength. Good at climbing, jumping obstacles and getting from place to place, so he wouldn't use any heavy weapons. In combat more of defensive counter attack sort of style. My name can just be Ceonsamea.
Looks: I really have no idea. if this gets far enough and someone meets me in the world, my looks can be whatever they were to the first person who sees me, should be interesting
I will update this post with my characters looks if that ever happens.

Weapons: Dagers, a shortsword or free hand. Prefers close up combat instead of ranged.

Personality: Competative, but in a friendly/joking way. Practices alot to perfect his skills.Loves learning new things and teaching others, although he still travels alone, as most people can't keep up with his agility, travelling with others would in most cases slow him down. He also wouldn't want to drag people into danger or be responsable for looking after someone else.
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Character Owner: Maeni
Name: Maeni (Inhabitant)
Age: 15-18ish

Description(Looks): What you will first notice when looking at this character is the strong contrasts in colors. His hair is strong green, his skin looks almost like bronze. He wears a black coat, there are some abstract red patterns around it. The edges around the coat is also red. He has a red cloth belt.His pants are bright, compared to the rest, it's not white, but not dark. There are no special patterns or other decoration on these. His ears are special, they are the length of your average WoW elf, but what you will also notice, is that by the middle of the ear, it splits, turning into two ears. The bottom one looks more like a small, stiff antenna.
He's eyes are bright blue, saphire blue. (colors <3)
His hair is pretty long, it goes down to his back. Around both his ears, the hair is stiff. The stiffness goes down to where his shoulder starts. But it is only in these spots it is stiff, in all other parts, it's pretty smooth hair.
Ps. When I say stiff, I mean stiff, not dragon-ball gravity defying color changing-stiff.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/546...unnamedte9.jpg

Description(Powers): He's really good at jumping. He does not run that fast, but by jumping he can get forward pretty quick.
It does take on his powers alot, so for the average journey, he's going by normal transport.
He's a natural hunter, he's good at throwing and at hand to hand combat if he dosn't have a weapon handy. His extra ear makes it hard to sneak up on him because
it doesn't use the sense of hearing, but acts like an extra, very weak eye. It can see things behind him, but only two small spots behind him can be seen.
It is perfectly possible to stay behind him hidden, but it will be close to impossible to pass behind him, as you will pass through his sight.


History: Maeni has been raised in the medieval village. He is not from the outside world. He knows what is happening in the big city, he has not been isolated from information, although he has nothing to do with whats going on in the city. He's been trained the use of his blade and boomerangs. And has been trained to travel fast and effectively using legs. He's also a skilled hunter, using his boomerangs to kill his prey. His involvement in the story is still unclear.

Weapons: On his back, he has 4 bright wooden boomerangs. On his side hangs a silvery blade. Very smooth, except for the blade itself, it has close to no sharp edges at all. Although it has a few small, smooth rubys around the handle.

Personality: He's generally a peacefull one, happy to help people.
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Character Owner: maniakalBycikle
Name: Sahak Avedis Muggerditchian, aka: El Segretezza
Age: 26

Description/history: He was born in Armenia, raised in Italy. He used his skills to live in Armenia durind the 1915 geoncide. Fairly short, but not tiny, about 5' 8", and an average build. His hair is black, curly, and short. He has a strange mark on his left shoulder blade and his eyes are dark blue with white streaks around the pupil. Usually wears dark clothing, or whatever is needed to blend in. He is an ex-bounty hunter, but was trained by a con-man. He helped this con-man steal stuff and escape the law. He likes to play poker and has a very nice car (no 2 cars... a Pagani Zonda and a Bentley ).

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Skills/Powers: A modern day expert of stealth. He can blend into any crowd and is fluent in multiple languages. He usually carries conceallable or stealthy weapons, but can use any objects around him as well as hand to hand combat (like in the Bourne Identity series). His fighting style is "effecient." (He might accidently use other powers in dream, but I'll say that he doesn't know he can....yet :p)

Personality: Quiet and thoughtfull. Pretty intelligent, but no genious. (again, sorta like Jason Bourne)

Weapons: He mainly uses daggers and either a sniper rifle or a bow (if he happens to be in a medieval setting).
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Character Owner: MiniMan
Name:

The first thing you'd notice about him is his hair. It's brown and REALLY curly, and he wears it in an unusual style. He was always made fun of for it, among other things, at school. Everyone picked on him because, well, he was easy to pick on. He isn't too strong, and has a shy, kind, submissive personality. But nobody knew about the powers. He had them for as long as he could remember. When he used them, they had a bluish hue, and had water and ice properties. He could shoot energy blasts, shape energy into weapons like swords, and even fly by shooting energy behind him(which takes a LOT of his power). But he chose to keep them secret, even from his family. He knew he could easily be the most popular kid in school if he showed them off. But he didn't. Until one day, the toughest kid in school picked a fight with him, and he had to use them to defend himself. The whole world now saw him for what he was, and on his way home from school the next week, he was jumped and kidnapped by a organization that wanted to exploit his powers. They tried to take him over seas, but in mid-flight he jumped out of the plane, and using his powers, made a safe landing. But now he's stranded on an island with no way to get home, and that organization's gonna notice he's missing soon...
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Name: Lucifer Wolfgang (Inhabitant)
Age: 24
Description: Long hair, and gives a general look of 'furryness.' He's a werewolf (hope that's allowed) and when he's in wolf form he doesn't look like a half wolf , half man but an actual, large wolf.

Powers: Ability to shapeshift into a wolf obviously. But it doesn't just happen at full moon, he can control when he goes into a wolf and when he's human.

History: Lived as a boy in the city when he was bitten by a werewolf. He travelled out into the countryside and has lived there ever since, to isolate himself from people to bite.

Weapons: When in wolf form he uses his claws and teeth. When in human form he uses a crossbow for long range. He is excellent at hand to hand combat.

Personality: Due to the constant struggle between man and wolf and his isolation he's gone a bit insane. Despite this, he knows you don't go around killing people and torturing people. He has no problems with betraying people but he will never side with evil.
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Name: Thagen Pinch (Inhabitant)
Age: 17
Appearence: A taller figure, but a bit thin looking. Has short brown hair, but that is usually covered by a dark blue hood that not only covers his head, but shades most of his face. He carries a wooden staff and usually is dressed in loose dark blue clothing and cape.

Character: Thagen is the quiet type and only speaks when he has something worth saying. He is a wizards apprentice and thus can use magic, though it is usually week. Even so, what knowledge he has he uses wittily and can usually outthink an opponent in a fight, and use his magic to destract and flee. Overall, not nearly the best fighter, but extremely difficult to kill.

History: Thagen was given over to a wizard in order to be tought the ways of magic until the age of 21. At about twelve years of age, his entire family was killed by (dnow by what yet, depending on the way we take this story) and left the wizard as his only family.
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Name: Takeda Shingen (DreamWalker)
Age: mid 20
Appearence: Modern day ninja, much like that guy from the movie ghost dog.
http://www.pixposters.com/images/ghostdog_usc.jpg
Character skillz: Very stealthy obviously, has a katana and a bow. Has the ability to use magic in ninja style. It's called Kuji-in (Nine Syllable Seals). It's a specialized form of Buddhist meditation (the naruto anime vaguely resembles it, though I'm not a naruto-fan).
History: He's send as a dream walker to Avalon for a top secret mission. His boss' identity is also secret (even for him). So his first priority is to complete his mission and second to protect the inhabitants of Avalon.
Going further back in time: As a baby he was left for dead on the filthy streets of a urban city. A random family took him in. But at the age of 12 his family was brutally murdered and the killer left a note: See you in your dreams. Shingen went to Japan to learn the ancient way's of the samurai. He wanted to become stronger and better so he could take care of himself. Soon after he joined a training program, he was adopted by the Takeda-clan who saw that this boy was not just a boy, but he had something going on. 10+ years later he was contacted by the boss. He said to Shingen: If you want to find out who killed your family, you must do something for me first.
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Name: Kenshi Shiohara
Age: 14
Appearance: Picture Naruto (Google him) with super saiyan 2 hair (google that too). He always has a black bandanna on with an outline of a red fire-breathing dragon on it. Hes about 170cm and has darkish skin. He also has a dog-tag on and a black loose fitting sweater on with orange shorts hanging a little lower than his knees. He also has sweat bands on his hands.

Ill try giving you a link later on to give you a better picture.

Weapons: Nothing but ninja stars and shirukens. He is Excellent at hand to hand combat though and has a few spells well not really spells, their called jutsus but anyway... His fighting style is very advanced
Kinda like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocNiMX0u_1w

Ok thats it, i'll work on finding a picture

Wow, i found it sooner than i thought.... and it's pretty accurate too http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...o%2B2.jpg&imgr efurl=http://naruto-wallpaper.blogspot.com/&h=300&w=400&sz=31&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=0va mUi iPJih7AM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnaruto%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3D firefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.google:en-USfficial%26sa%3DN
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Name: Grexxis

History-Explanation: For a while I lived to live outside the constructs of society in my dreams as Grexxis. A name I gave myself to be able to differentiate from the part of myself that is a human construct and the part of myself that has always existed seperately in dreams... so this character will be mostly myself (well, dream-self), but adapted to the story... He is a dreamwalker that has come from medievil ages.

Description: Another oddball, he is a 8ft. biped lizard. His face is much like that of my avatar, though without the goofy whisker things on his chin. The horns are pretty accurate, which is surprising because I found the picture (I wish I could draw like that). His coloring is black with sporatic red striping, like blood spilled in shadow. Sharp claws on every digit, and teeth to match. Well built but not overmuscled. And a long powerful tail.

Weapons: A large warhammer, with a pic-axe like projection on the opposite side of the blunt end. Though he chooses to use tooth and claw for fights that require more dexterity.

Personality: A introverted, idealistic misanthropist. Many see him as a violent outcast, though anyone who has really tried to talk to him will know that he is just disgusted with the opressive world and how attatched people are to their standards, morals, and expectations. He would rather live in isolation then be forced to be someone else. Which is how he found Avalon, fleeing his old society in search of something to suit him better.
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Now a last thing, when Skeptikalz has put up the story as it is so far, the thing will be going! As soon as you see the story, you will be able to go to your dreams and continue the story. The story will then be updated when you post your dream.
PM Skeptikalz or me for further questions.
Begin!