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

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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 ameena abadi 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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