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A journey of 1000 miles

„A journey of 1000 miles“ is a lucid dreaming game with the goal to appeal to both experts and beginners and create a cooperative challenge rather than a competitive one. Supporting each other is one of its greatest features and it may help to overcome challenges of dream control. It is probably a fairly long game but nobody is forced to be active all the time and you won’t get kicked for inactivity. The group of the travelers can be any size so nobody is blocking a free spot or something alike.

The group of the travelers(so far)

The story
Far in the south of the dream world there is a place known as “The Aether Tower” piercing into the sky with a fascinating aura around it. For ages this place has been the goal of a journey every dreamer should take once at least. Every year, a group of so called “travelers” depart from their home and take the long and admittedly sometimes dangerous journey to the mystical tower to seek for enlightenment. This year it happens to be us who decided to pull all their will together and go out there.

Oh, I didn’t even introduce myself, right?
Well, I am Thermon Exos and it will be an honor to be your navigator! I spent quite some time on research for our journey and collected knowledge about the path ahead of us, the most important places… and the obstacles of course.

So, the journey will begin soon. Who is with me?




How it actually works/Rules
This is a cooperative game in that all players work together to collect “steps” to progress on the journey. The journey is parted into many different areas, each with their own set of special rules/events etc. Once the group achieved enough points it will progress to the next area.

Tasks
There is always a whole bunch of tasks to complete with different focuses and difficulties. Of course difficulty is fairly subjective but it will give you a general idea about the level of the challenge. Don't get infleunced too much by my descriptions as they just represent my experiences. The current focuses are:

Exploration
Very suitable for beginners but also very fun for more experienced lucid dreamers. The goal is usually to take a look around and find either something specific or just something you might happen to stumble across. Takes barely any dream control and what is better than finding something totally mysterious or breathtaking in the dream world?

Creation
In contrast to exploration this focus is one that requires a fair amount of dream control but allows the most creativity as well. As you might have guessed, you need to create something for whatever purpose. Maybe a fancy shelter, maybe a nice plant, maybe a weapon or something totally ridiculous. Creating things can greatly influence the group and the journey.

Combat
Well, I told you we will have a conflict here or there. Combat tasks are all about finding ways to defeat a certain enemy. Direct combat is not a mandatory option though. Get creative and find funny ways to get rid of the enemy. Some tasks don’t even directly tell you to defeat somebody or something. The enemy is just an obstacle for fun at times.

Manipulation
Similar to creation tasks but mostly about changing pre-existing objects. You might create something new by manipulating an already existing thing. Believe me, this is useful on a journey like that!

Interaction
Another great focus for beginners but everyone should have fun with this. Interaction tasks are all about interacting with the other travelers, people we will meet and from time to time even an object. If you like surprises, this is your category. How will your environment react to your actions?

Each task can be completed by an unlimited number of people but the same person can’t complete the same task twice. To make tasks count you need to make a dream journal entry and link it in the game thread(not here).


A bit like a RPG
To make this journey interesting for all there is a little twist in this game. We all start with nothing but our clothes on our body. Well, not entirely true. We are granted two abilities and one item at the start.
PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE ABOUT YOUR CHOICES.
Things I wouldn’t like to see are one-hit abilities/items that totally take out the creative challenge in combat tasks or items that solve any problem by doing nothing at all. Other than that, go crazy. You don’t have to be serious, have fun!
While progressing there will be a lot of possibilities to get new items and abilities. So don’t worry!

You may ask why I made this rule. There are two reasons. First, it is a lot of fun to find creative solutions when your options are limited. I tried it myself once and you get ideas that you wouldn’t have otherwise. I am eager to see what the group comes up with!
The second reason is that especially beginners might learn well to control their dreams like this. You can’t control fire? No problem, a task will allow you to find a person that teaches you. It is a lot easier to learn dream control when it makes sense why you should be able to learn it in the first place.



You decide!
Every day all travelers will be able to perform certain actions such as swapping a task they don`t like/think is too hard, conjuring a random event(I have a few possibilities and a random generator chooses) or voting for decisions at certain points. Our journey is not set in stone, my friends!

SIGN UP!

Just use this format and you are in the group no matter how far we already progressed!

Name: Does not have to be your forums name. Get creative if you like.
Item: The first item you will receive when starting out.
Abilities: Your two starting abilities.
Biography: Give us a little information about you. Where do you come from? What adventures did you already take part in in the dream world?

The adventure starts on the 1st of November 8pm YOUR TIME. (You can join in later at any time though)

This is it for the sign up thread! You are always welcome to join the journey. The more we are the better it gets.

In the meanwhile I am going to create the actual game thread. See you there!

-With best regards, your navigator, Thermon Exos (yeah, I broke the 4th wall a few times)