- DREAMSCAPE -
You open your eyes to find yourself in a strange, ethereal dreamscape.
A sky as dark as pitch stretches above you. It’s not the gloom of a moonless night, but has a greater depth and blackness that can only exist in nightmares. Looking at it makes it difficult to breathe. A draft of icy air runs across your skin like fingers, and you feel that the black sky is growing deeper, smothering you, drawing you into itself.
You suddenly know that if you look at it any longer, it will drive you insane.
With that realization, you tear your gaze away and quickly pull yourself to your feet.
A glance at your surroundings reveals that you are standing in an endless expanse of fine white ash. Tiny, delicate white flowers sprout across the plain in clusters that give off a gentle glow. Very far away at the distant edges of the ash field, you glimpse a line of bare white skeleton trees. Otherwise, the world is empty and still.
The chill air kisses your bare skin, causing an involuntary shiver to run up your arms. You come to notice that the atmosphere has a peculiar weight. It presses down on your shoulders and feels heavy in your lungs- as if you were deep underwater.
Silence engulfs you, but when you close your eyes your ears catch the sound of a whispery flutter behind you. Opening your eyes reveals that your surroundings are empty as ever, and you wonder if you imagined it.
The dreamscape is beautiful. And terrifying. It fills you with a sick dread in the pit of your stomach. You close your eyes and wait for the nightmare to pass, but it remains vividly real.
What will you do now?
At that moment, as if in answer to your unspoken thought, there’s a flash of movement in the far distance- a yellow light bobbing among the distant skeleton trees. It flickers once before dancing away into the darkness, as if daring you to follow.
RULES & GUIDELINES
1. Only ONE character per writer please! Include a brief description of their name, age, gender, and appearance in a spoiler in your first post. The code is: [ spoiler ] Enter description here [ / spoiler ] without spaces
2. At some point in the story, I will close the roleplay to new characters.
3. Posts can be anywhere from a sentence to several paragraphs. As long or short as you’d like, within reason.
4. Please don’t write for characters not your own. If writing dialogue or a scene that involves another writer’s character, let them decide their response before continuing.
5. Don’t make any additions to the story that change the lore or mechanics of the dreamscape without asking me first, please! If you have any cool ideas or suggestions for the story, feel free to PM me.
6. Don’t double-post if you can help it, and try to give everyone a chance to get a response in.
7. Let me know if you'd like to leave the roleplay so we can figure out a way for your character to exit the story.
8. Your character can come from any world (modern & realistic, fantasy, etc), but keep in mind that magic is disabled in the dreamscape except in specific situations.
Have fun! This is my first roleplay and I’m excited to see where it goes!
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