[attr="class","omgentop"]SLEEP STUDY: GEMINI

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CO-OP EVENT

SCHEDULED END: TIME

INTRODUCTION

Scrolling through the internet on a PC or your phone, you encounter an odd black-and-white pop-up. You find yourself reading: IS IT BETTER TO REMEMBER OR FORGET? There are only two choices. There is no way to close the pop-up. You may try restarting the device, but the pop-up reappears for you at one point or another. You must choose: REMEMBER or FORGET.

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You are taken to MAUVILLE CITY. The pop-up was malware, revealing your location to the intelligence technology company, ABUNDANCE CONNECTIONS. With your location known and yourself put to sleep by the use of psychic pokemon, you were taken to AbCon's underground laboratory, which is kitted out for sleep studies. You are hooked up to a machine while unconscious, but so is someone else you've encountered before.

SUMMARY

SLEEP STUDY: GEMINI is a secret study that takes two people with past experiences and puts them into a shared dream space with a blend of Musharna sleep mist and interdream mist. The goal of the study is to see how two dreamers in a collaborative dream space will react to the same memory, with each dreamer's perspective painting the memory as they recall it. The study wants to see how the stronger psyche, that of the UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, manipulates the shared space, and if the other dreamer can course-correct.[break][break]

THE GOAL OF THIS EVENT is for two roleplayers to revisit a shared thread, ideally of significant emotional value or otherwise representative of a turning point in one or both characters' trajectories and development. One partner will subconsciously (or "consciously") manipulate the replaying of events as the UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, and both dreamers will traverse the repeated thread until its natural end, experiencing curveballs, unreality, nightmarish apparitions, voices, memory skips, and bleeding through of other, unrelated memories.[break][break]

At the end, each player has the opportunity to choose to REMEMBER the original thread as it really happened or FORGET the thread entirely.

DREAMING

Out of character, both writers will put their characters in a setting where they are revisiting the chosen shared thread. You may start your dream at any point in that thread. Your characters will be subjected to their individual psyches as well as whatever arises from their shared mental states. The dream realm is unpredictable, particular with the combination of Musharna and Interdream Mist -- your characters will experience odd prompts and occurrences periodically.

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In character, you're dealing with the consequences of malware and abduction. You are totally asleep during the event. Your character will experience prompts after each post cycle that influence the reliving of this memory, but the UNRELIABLE NARRATOR will have control over some prompts. You will wake up back home/from where you were taken, unharmed... though you may have forgotten something.[break][break]

RULES & GUIDELINES

• This event is NOT first come first serve.
• You must sign up WITH YOUR PARTNER.
• Failure to post twice revokes your right to the final event rewards. You are encouraged to finish the thread, so please do not sign up with a partner you will abandon.
• You may only sign up with one character.
• Characters who FORGET may not be forced to remember with the use of psychic type interference. It seems you may need to visit a dream researcher...
• Characters who REMEMBER are allowed to remember the dream and the original thread; you may also recall the pop-up, but you will not know its origin.
• Most importantly:

Your thread should have SIGNIFICANCE. There should be importance to both characters in that thread. This is naturally subjective, but I trust everyone can evaluate their own writing and explain character beats/development in their application. You can use any type of thread like a mission or dual wilds, but there should only be both partners inside the thread -- so no massive event or raid threads. The thread must be canon.

HOW TO PLAY

• When the event begins, one dreamer will initiate the thread immediately in the dream; you may start at any point from the original thread. I.e., using a thread where two characters did a mission, argued, and had a falling out: I can start the thread during the mission portion, during the argument, or as the two characters start walking away from each other.
• There is no enforced post cycle. The one constant is that you may post only once between moderator posts. You will receive a prompt post every cycle.
• You have one week to post between cycles.
• The UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, as indicated on the application, may choose to change a prompt, collaborating with ghostfinch. This prompt change is done in-character; the UN feels the dream realm shifting and reacts. It is your choice to make this purely subconscious or "conscious."
• All prompts given - including what is edited by player request - must be acknowledged. These are alterations to the dream realm "reality" your characters are in.
• Some prompts may not be changed. These will indicate as such in the post.
• The question at the end of the event will be the same as the pop-up; your character will have the opportunity to totally FORGET the thread ever happened, as well as the dream. REMEMBER will let you retain knowledge of the original thread as well as bits of this dream. Partners do NOT need to make the same choice.

REWARDS

COMPLETING THIS MEMBER-LED EVENT will grant your character several rewards.

[img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/msikma/pokesprite/master/items/tm/normal.png" title="1X TM/TR" style="border:none;box-shadow:none;"][img src="https://file.garden/ZXZrnWMYuz15frfJ/SPRITES/regular%20gacha%20sprite.png" title="1X GACHAPON TICKET" style="border:none;box-shadow:none;"][img src="https://file.garden/ZXZrnWMYuz15frfJ/SPRITES/mega%20shard.png" title="1X MEGA SHARD" style="border:none;box-shadow:none;"][break][break]

Upon finishing a thread without missing two posts, there is a special reward.[break][break]

Those who REMEMBER may have an enlightened pokemon.[break][break]

Those who FORGET may have a shrouded pokemon.

APPLICATION

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[blockquote][h1]APPLICATION[/h1]

[b]CHARACTERS:[/b] @

[b]THREAD:[/b] [a href="http://"]link[/a] to shared thread that is significant

[b]WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT:[/b] explain. talk about character beats/development. internal/personal development is more important for this event than contributions to any event or site-wide narratives.

[b]IS RELATION KNOWN:[/b] This question is not a dealbreaker for your participation, but if it is reasonable to assume to know the partnership in question has worked together before or otherwise has an established relationship, this gives more plausibility to your duo being hooked up together for the dream experiment. Of course, we can always have the hired goons take a guess and put two folks together at random at the machine and, hey, they've got history!

[b]WHO IS THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR:[/b] This is the character that decides to change prompts. You do not HAVE to ever change prompts. However, some prompts may be influenced by the UN. The UN should be the character of the duo who is most likely to want to CHANGE the event or FORGET, but sometimes this is not applicable & that is OK.[/blockquote]

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