SLEEP STUDY: GEMINI [SIGN-UPS]

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Ghostfinch

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june 8
pansexual
scientist
grunt
monty
my partner; my dream
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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park.
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POSTED ON Jun 1, 2024 12:50:48 GMT
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CO-OP EVENT
SCHEDULED END: AUG 2nd




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.

[break][break]A few nights later...[break][break]

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 manipulate the replaying of events as the UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, and both dreamers will traverse the repeated thread, 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, particularly with the combination of Musharna and Interdream Mist -- your characters will experience odd prompts and occurrences periodically.

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In character, you are totally asleep as you fell for the ol' malware-tracking and forced-sleep wombo-combo. 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 will recall the original thread and may choose to also remember the dream. You can recall the pop-up, but its origin eludes you.
  • 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, the UNRELIABLE NARRATOR will initiate the thread with the character already dreaming. You may start at any point from the original thread the dream is based on. 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.
  • The duo will receive a prompt post every cycle.
  • The duo have one week to post between cycles.
  • The UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, as indicated on the application, may choose to change a prompt. This should occur in character, where the UNRELIABLE NARRATOR feels strongly about changing what happens in the thread. It is your choice to make this purely subconscious or "conscious." Please inform ghostfinch via discord ping or messaging on proboards that this is what you are doing.
  • 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 be indicated as such in the post.
  • The question at the end of the event will be the same as the pop-up. Choosing FORGET means the character forgets the thread ever happened, but they may remember parts of the dream if you so choose. Choosing REMEMBER will let you retain knowledge of the original thread as well as this dream. Partners do NOT need to make the same choice.


REWARDS


PARTICPATING IN 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 COMPLETING the event 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.


SIGN-UPS


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[blockquote][h1]APPLICATION[/h1]

[b]CHARACTERS:[/b] @ both partners, please

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

[b]WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT:[/b] Please explain the importance to your characters. Internal/personal development is more important for this event than contributions to 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 two characters in question have worked together before or otherwise has an established relationship, this gives more plausibility to your duo being hooked up together for the dream experiment. Hired goons might take guesses and, hey, those two dreamers have a history together! How convenient for the experiment.

[b]WHO IS THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR:[/b] This is the character that decides to change prompts. You do not HAVE to change prompts. The UN should be the character of the duo who is most likely to want to CHANGE the event or FORGET it altogether, someone who harbors guilt or otherwise thinks they could've made better decisions during the thread in question and will feel more inclined to encourage the dream to play out differently than reality. However, this is not always applicable, and that is totally OK.[/blockquote]


SIGN-UPS CLOSE ON JUNE 7TH AT 11:59 PM PST.


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rosie
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CHARACTERS:

THREAD: Bury

WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT: A moment of doubt and a lifetime of regrets. It's funny how a request to interrogate turned into brutal scars and haunting guilt. A thread where Josh nearly kills Eris in a rush of emotions, a thread where past experiences escalate a confrontation between two people who have both been affected by Rocket in some way. For Eris, it helps to feed the monster that doesn't trust the league in the slightest. For Josh, it's the moment where he's realised that he's crossed some lines that shouldn't have been crossed.

IS RELATION KNOWN: Unlikely, since the incident was swept under the rug. But anyone who has probably seen Eris and Josh interact in events such as VCT can probably infer that something bad must have happened between them.

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the Harbinger
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THREAD: life light
WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT: This was their first big fight as a couple. Temp calls Cillian a coward, which cuts deep. Cillian refuses to take risks to protect Temp from Rocket even for something really important to him.
IS RELATION KNOWN: They're well-known to be married, yes!
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Ozzy
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CHARACTERS: THREAD: War of the Worlds: Lilycove Warfront WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT: This battle marks Oscar and Priam's first major collaboration. Their unified effort to capture Velmos solidified their long-term friendship and rise within Rocket's ranks. Velmos's capture also allowed the two to forge a connection with the general, which can now be reflected upon with his recent death. IS RELATION KNOWN: Within Rocket their friendship is not a secret. It's not a secret outside of Rocket either but no one cares.WHO IS THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: Wacky boy Priam
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Lisa Bortiforte
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August 30
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CHARACTERS: &

THREAD: The Last Sunset

WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT:In this thread, plans to be as kind as possible to before betraying him with the false Red Shard that asked her to deliver to him. She fully believes it will kill him, and guilt eats her up inside knowing this, resulting in her playing along with the romantic outing more than usual. When she gives it to , he mistakenly takes it as proof of her love for him; Elisabeth spends the night with him despite knowing he's loving her based on a lie. These events directly lead to the thread Primeval, the temporary suspension of from the Elite Four, and the presumed death of Hoenn's champion, .

IS RELATION KNOWN: Their relationship and the ensuing fallout is publicly known by AQUA and by Rocket, though the overall story is understood on much simpler terms by those on the outside.

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June Bug
she/her
twenty-seven
April 21
Mauville City
Bisexual
Delivery-Person
civilian
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THREAD: Working Rues and Blackmail Truths (Banger name I know)

WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT: June and Howard had a chill, cool, if somewhat weird friendship before this thread. While the two might not have a bajillion threads, there was some chemistry there that worked for both of them. Then there was a thread in RT where the requirements of Rocket rear their ugly head and inadvertently make Howard shoot June out of the sky during the events on the island. Guilt over the act, which gave June's beloved Pokemon and best friend Matchstick a cast and near-death experience, wracked him up until this thread.

This marked the end of their friendship. It changed June's perspective on her place in the conflict and reinforced her feelings as an innocent bystander with no power. Howard marked his change as a person and growth into the position of Admin and Rocket. It left June devastated and angry and left Howard feeling relieved that he could 'help' someone else and free the guilt from his shoulders. He burned the bridge and moved on with his life while June was forced to live in fear of Howard's promise

IS RELATION KNOWN: Not public

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Dr. Doug
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20 (40)
March 3
Viridian City, Kanto
It just works
AQUA, Combat Medic
Bug Catcher
Dreaming
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THREAD: Strong.

WHY IS THIS THREAD IMPORTANT: Doug and Lucia run into one another during the conjoined dream. After realizing Doug can't get her out either, Lucia breaks down believing she's been trapped in the PP due to her perceived crimes of helping her parents with their rocket work. Doug, who has taken Lucia under his wing as his mentee, fights back vehemently against this perception Lucia has of both herself and her sins, as he's incredibly empathetic for the young, seeing himself in a lot of them due to the way war and rocket tore his own childhood to pieces.

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