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Okay folks, so this is basically an idea that I actually kind of took from my novel. The setting is a place in which I like to call Somnium Mundus, which is Latin for 'dream world'. This world has a bustling city filled with creatures in which take humanoid shapes. These creatures are called 'dream creators'. They fill the city with ongoing and bustling excitement and such things. Outside of the city though, is large empty meadows in which are filled with grassy knolls and some picket fences and such. Basically, it rains every third day, and its always sort of the same. Of course, the dream creators are granted immortality.

Plot

So the plot-line of this story is that, dream creators are under the power and control of the King of Dreams in whom helps them create dreams for mere humans on earth. Their whole existence, whole way of life has to do with spending portions of their days creating dreams. Some dream creators work together to do so and such things, but that's not the point. Basically speaking, if a dream creator falls in love with a human, and the human falls in love with the dream creator, the dream creator may either become human or the the human may leave life behind and become immortal. This is all fine and dandy, of course until the King of Dreams himself falls for a human girl and decides to leave immortality.

This storyline is based on the idea of independence and sovereignty in the dreamworld and how they manage to cope and arise to make somnium comfortable again, whether that be starting a democracy, or another dream creator taking the crown and becoming king. The idea is freebased, and it has a predominant basis in romantic affairs, as is shown with the king of dreams himself falling for a human girl.

There are also, of course, the tainted dream creators. These dream creators run under the sovereignty of another king. In fact, the king of nightmares. These dream creators help creating nightmares.

Characters

For this, I am hoping to have about ten to fifteen participants in this storybook. There are three types of positions in which you may in fact fill, but for one you must in fact have another. First, there are the dream creators. I want you to take the roll of a dream creator, and try your hardest to either become king, start up a democracy, or even just get through with your job as a dream creator. Some may rebel, some may stop doing as they must, it all depends.

The second position in which you can fill is a human who gave up immortality. I dont want to many of these, and you also have to work it out with someone who has a dream creator to be the person in which you fell in love with. The humans play a smaller role in how things are run, but they bring up a lot of ideas on how things should be run and how things could work instead of a dictatorship which didnt necessarily hurt their way of life.

The third position in which you may take is the tainted dream creators. The king of nightmares has already been claimed by none other the Incognito Temptation, but if you feel the need not to be so compassionate and chivalrous, then position is open.

These are the numbers I'm hoping for:

-Tainted dream creators: No spots left :D
-Humans: Spots open!
-Dream creators: Spots open!

Rules

-No 'God Modding'. I know they are dream creators, but they are equal.
-Dont just say you're king. You have to have followers, and that will bring on mutany ;)
-Romance is wanted, especially between dream creators. I didnt say there wasnt a problem with humans and dream creators, but a dream creator and a dream creator is most wanted.
-Please try to regulate the male and female balances. Five males, five females etc.
-No sexual content. Let's keep this PG13
-Let's keep the swearing down to a minimum. I dont mind a little, but lets not get to crazy with it, kay?
-No killing eachothers characters without their permission.
-If you do not reply in the time span of a week then your character, if a dream creator or tainted dream creator, will mysteriously fall in love with a human and leave immortality. If you are a human.. well you get killed off, simply put.
-Have fun :D

Character Profiles

They may be dream creators, but they have personalities and different appearances. Let's see them shine through. Also, the names can be anything. Dream creators lived since the beginning of time so if they forget their names then they change them to something more modern. You could have a modern name or an old-fashioned one. Doesnt matter to me.

Kay so, here's the necessary information in which I need.

Name:
[s]Age: A while...[/s]: How do they appear? Do they look 17? Maybe 53? You tell me :)
Gender:
Species: (dream creator, human, or tainted dream creator)
Appearance:
Personality:
If human, history:
Strengths/weaknesses:
Habits/Vices:
Other:

My character:

Name: Joshua (No need of a last name, but if you want one, you can have one)

Age: Appears to be 20

Gender: Male ;)

Species: Dream creator

Appearance: Crimson hair, bright fluorescent blue eyes and pale, almost translucent skin. Tall but lithe with striking features. His hair goes to his jawline and is cut rather jaggedly and layered heavily. When he pins it up it tends to fall out really quickly. http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3259/byzzi78024902wd1.jpg
Picture this guy with crimson locks and you got Joshua XD.

Personality: Charming. Fairly flirtatious and quite the ladies man. He has an infectious happiness about him and just wants a new king placed in. The democracy idea to him takes too long. In fact, he himself wishes he might be able to take the throne if possible. He creates dreams in which are memorable ones, in colour and vibrant. He takes his time creating those dreams. He tends to stay away from humans though when not in their dreams and doesnt necessarily like a lot of the human's in which live in Somnium.

Strengths/Weaknesses: He is very skilled in creating dreams, and takes his time doing so, and is also a charmer, but he tends to get a melodramatic when he doesnt get his way in a sense that things dont turn out exactly to plan. He is a good person though and helps out as much as he possibly can.

Habits/Vices: Flirts with the local female dream creators. Twiddles with his hair when he's nervous, and pins it back when he's concentrating or creating a dream world.

Other: Up for love! (which hopefully all characters should be)

-P.S. Remember, this is a dream world. Have fun with it. Create apples out of thin air, or if your wooing a ladyfriend pluck a rose from the grass. There is endless bounds to a dream world :D.

( 9 spots already filled )
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Can I claim a spot of a dream creature. I promise to post tomorrow. Pretty please (:


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Name: Larinda

Age: appears 18 or 19

Gender: female

Species: dream creator

Appearance: Her hair goes to her hips and is lilac with navy blue tips (about 4 " from the bottom and one streak of silver in the front. She has dark purple eyes that seem to change their shade with her emotions and pale skin. She's 5' 9", a slight build, and has a round face. Even when she cuts her hair, the the navy blue streaks are there. She has a small tattoo at the corner of her left eye.

Personality: Different. Larinda doesn't like to be the same as any other person. This shows in the dreams she creates. Her mind (and mood) is always changing, though her core beleifs never change and she'll fight for them no matter what anybody else thinks. She thinks humans are fasinating but won't assosiate with them. She doesn't usually assoiate herself with men, either.

Strengths/weaknesses: She's skilled at making dreams that people will think about, but not actually tell anybody. She'll take the most minute philosophies and make an entirely new world on them. Larinda usually talks in a poetic sense, though half the time it doesn't make sense so it's often hard to communicate with her.

Habits/Vices: She tends to stick her hip out when annoyed, she takes her hair out from behind her ear, then back...over and over again when nervous.

Other: up for love
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Saves spot ad human will post after school




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Claims spot of tainted dream catcher , will post after school !!! Thislooks like fun
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I'm glad there are so many people so far :D. Just remember, if you claim a spot, the spot is yours. Please come and use it. if you dont, please tell me and I can open up that spot for someone else. If you dont post before the last person is in and your spot is still open, we will start XP.

But yah, this is terribly exciting ^_^
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Woah! I wished I thought this one up xD I actually had an idea like this a while back. It was a fairy world where special fairies give dreams to humans to help through life...Anyway:

I call female tainted dreamcatcher. This should be interesting. Wait, can the tainted dreamcatchers fall in love with the normal dreamcatchers? And the tainted ones live in Somnium Mundus, right?
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Hello there. Here is my profile.

Name:
Vincent

Age:
Appears 17

Gender:
Male

Species:
The King of Nightmares

Appearance:
Resembles This
Resembles This Better
His Eyes
His Dog

Vincent's skin is almost like porcelin, never wrinkling or shifting much with any emotion. He dark black hair frames his face, longer in the front, shorter in the back, but his eyes are the main ideal. The crystal blue tends to befuddle people who just happen to gaze into them. He wears all white clothing that never dirties. His pants aren't really unique. His shirt on the other hand looks more lke a blouse, opened right at the top revealing the top of his chest and neck. There is no buttons for I hate buttons.

He goes around bare foot and indeed has been seen with large black wings sprouting from his back as he wanders through the terrorizing dreams he creates. He usually has a red apple in hand that he makes come out of thin air.

He also has a dog, Judas. Well, it isn't really a dog. That is the prefered form it takes. But actually it can change into anything that you are most scared of, wether that be spiders, snakes, mothers, anything.

Personality:
Selfish, greedy, self-absorbed. All words used to describe Vincent. He loaths human's and if he were made King than he would expell them from this world entirely. He has tantrums, hissy-fits, angry streaks if he does not get his way or something goes wrong. Yet he is only wounded inside because a long time ago his love was lost with a female human who refused to come with him when she was dying. He begged her because he knew about her evident death but she would not listen. She got angered, shut him out, and she died a few days later. His heart is as cold as stone.

Yet he is kind at points, gently picking flowers, and caressing trees lightly wishing for them to grow beautifully. He does not want anyone in his life.

But he appears different infront of people, gold and red crown perched upon his head. He flirts with people, he taunts them, he put them through torture and he laughs maliciously at all the things he has done. He believes he can do anything and because of that, he deserves the throne of the King of Dreams.

"I am the King of this pity party, with this jewel encrusted crown."
~Spill-Canvas

Strengths/Weaknesses:
He is wonderous at terrorizing, torturing, and putting people through pain. He excells at mind games and trickery, twisting peroples words into lies. He is shameless and brilliant, some even call him the devil. Yet he is weak in a sense. He is torutured by every mean word spoken about him, wriths in misery when he thinks of his only love who left him for death. He is good at hiding his emotions, making it hard for people to get past him.

Habits/Vices:
He has an extremely loud laugh, which could be described as maniacal. He tends to charm people and tempt them, then keep them as pets. But as soon as he gets bored, he disposes of them. He also can draw amazingly. Drawing and paniting pictures on all the walls of his dark castle, mostly monsters and death. Things that many people find horrifing.

Other:
Up for Love, but warning first. You have to work to get him. Some people says he has no heart because of what happened. That she died, and she took it with her to where ever she went. Him longing for her for enternity. It surely will be dreadfully hard, but it might work out to something spectacular. /has things in mind/

There you go. There is the King of Nightmares.
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Yes, tainted and normal dream creators can fall in love and they all live in Somnium together. Just some are under one law, and others are under other laws. We'll probably have random characters in which have nobody backing them up in there just to give a feel of a larger community :D.

Oh and you'll be under the guidance of not so fair Vincent XD.
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Ok, cool! I'll make my profile ASAP.

Vincent sounds marvelous by the way. Diabolically marvelous that is.

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Save me a spot for a human! I'm goingto try this.
I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be
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Name: Leo Jones

Age: 17

Gender: male

Species: human

Appearance: ((picture))

Personality: quiet, shy and romantic

If human, history: When Leo was born his mother died giving birth to him. He has lived with his dad and his sister Emily for years.

Strengths/weaknesses: leo weakness is his shyness, but his strength is how he can calm people down and make them feel safe

Habits/Vices: Leo has this annoying habit of playing with his hair or tapping the table with his pencil.

Other: up for loveee
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Wow. This sounds awesome. I can't deny a slight confusion to begin, but wow!
I'll come and make a character a little later if that's okay.
Thanks!
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Psst. I am just going to remind you human selection. We have to male humans. You are going to have to find a female dream maker to be paired up with or else you wouldn't be able to get in to Somnium Mundus. ;)

Make sure you notify the person you are interested in. xD
Or you can stretch the rules here, and say the dream maker left you but you already gave up mortality... What ever. Be creative.

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Alright, I will let the three humans stay, but no more then that, kay?

And also, I'm thinking maybe that the humans fell in love with a dream creator, but the dream creator fell in love with someone else and became mortal. That way, if some of the humans dont have dream creators partners to begin with, then this can be all fine and dandy :D.

Thank Echelon though, because i wasnt even going to have three humans but the appearance of her character.. *drools* XD.
Suppose for a moment that the heart has two heads, that the heart has been chained and dunked in a glass booth filled with river water. The heart is monologuing about hesitation and fulfillment while behind the red brocade the heart is drowning. - R.S



I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.
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