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Title: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 21, 2017, 11:30:33 am
Dreams of Madness

Have You ever had a dream so crazy, insane or just wrong in some way that it made You think "Is that even real?" while still asleep? In this RTD You'll be put into such a dream, where absurd and grotesque form the reality. Fully aware of this unusual, marvelous state, You will have complete control over dream landscapes or even whole dimensions in a massive, shared lucid dream.


There is no winning condition in this RTD, it's an open, limitless sandbox game. Players have unlimited powers, restricted only by rolls. It is possible to lose by allowing dream stability to fall down, every player starts with 3 points of stability and lose 1 point with every two failures. An epic failure takes 2 stability points, while overshots take 1 depending on their outcome. Succeeding in actions strenghtens the dream stability, allowing to remain in the game for longer.

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 21, 2017, 11:31:19 am
Dreamers


Dustan Hache - [###]
randomgenericusername - [#--]
ziizo - [###]
Glass - [#--]
crazyabe - [#--]
Secheral - [##-]
TankKit - [###]
CrocAndBearLover - [###]
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 21, 2017, 11:38:38 am
Interesting.
I am in a dark forest at night. Something is hunting us.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: randomgenericusername on November 21, 2017, 11:45:47 am
Attemp to contact the elder gods by the dream
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: ziizo on November 21, 2017, 11:58:56 am
Participate in a car race in a roof-less car with a bear as my co-pilot
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 21, 2017, 12:23:02 pm
Turn 1


Dustan Hache

It was meant to be a pleasant camping by a lake. With friends you have already constructed your tents up and set up a campfire. It seemed that something was drawn in to the fire. Was it a beast? A demon or dark spirit? Perhaps it was a boogeyman himself! You remember seeing the strange figure only briefly, as you were running away from the campsite. You have ran deeper into the forest, dark, cold and creepy. Howling of wolves in the distance made you freak out. Why have you all split up!? You tried shouting, but no one replied. Suddenly something jumped right in front of you. It was the Bigfoot, with a black, enormous afro on it's head and pink glasses. Wait a minute, why does it have an afro and pink glasses? Wassup? - it asked you, taking a sit on a tree stump and chilling out drinking beer. You have just realized that it's a lucid dream!


randomgenericusername

This was a long and tiring day. Working at retail store is really draining life out of you, but it's not stopping you from cultivating your passions in free time. You put a black robe on yourself, lit up several candles and took a sleep on a rollmat lying on a floor, pentagramme drawn around it. Maybe this time you will succeed? As you fall asleep, your house turns into abnormally huge underwater city. Underwater? But you can breathe just fine! Suddenly a massive figure rouse above the city. A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. Ah, the dreamer finally respond to my calls! - it said, limitless power in it's voice. Legions of humanoid, fish-like creatures left their houses and started bowing before their master, shouting: Cthulhu fhtagn! Why has it called you a dreamer? It's a lucid dream!


ziizo

Noises of engines, smell of gasoline, the feeling of wind on your face and hair, flies in your teeth and roars of your bear co-pilot. Wait a minute, you have a co-pilot and it's a bear? Right, you're in a car race, driving in your extremely expensive roof-less Lamborghini. But how can your bear even guide you, it's an animal after all! You don't worry about that, as you have a Bachelor of Arts in animal speech. Parents always pressed you to become a doctor or a lawyer, but after graduating from Miskatonic University, you have decided to pursue your dreams. Racing that is! With power of quantum engine under your car's hood, you leave behind most of your opponents. This thing picks a punch, you drive with the speed of light! But what's this, someone has caught up with you! Looking into the other car, you see Osama bin Laden! He pressed a buttong and fireworks shot up to the sky, forming a "This dream is a bomb!" text. It's a dream? Well, this explains a lot!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: randomgenericusername on November 21, 2017, 12:32:30 pm
Recruit the fish people and go to the surface. Try to recruit mortals into the cult of Cthulhu.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Glass on November 21, 2017, 01:16:16 pm
I am... well, no, I'm not Aaron Blaze. I'm a person that's thinking at night about the adventures of Aaron Blaze and a variety of other characters that I think of every night.

Currently... hmn...
Ok, right now, no Aaron. Right now, Vladimir "Nox" Golubev (sniper, member of the first XCOM back in 2012), and Raniya "The Kid" (protege, prefers pistols). XCOM 2, "Operation: Roadteip", riding in a stolen ADVENT van, persued by a sectopod.

(This is literally what I do when I'm sleeping, I don't have dreams, I just think up stories :| )
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: ziizo on November 21, 2017, 01:19:53 pm
Is time for cheating, Pass the bear an grenade launcher and tell him to shoot to any competitor that gets close
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: crazyabe on November 21, 2017, 02:15:07 pm
>Sit at work in the interdreamversal anomaly department and wait for a job.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 21, 2017, 03:33:56 pm
Bigfoot? Not what I expected. Tell him it's almost morning (causing them to go home) and start thinking of what it would be like to BE the nightmarish thing.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 21, 2017, 04:20:54 pm
Turn 2


randomgenericusername

[2] You try to recruit any fishmen, so they'd go with you to the surface and help you recruit mortals into cult of Cthulhu. The idea of leaving their cozy, underwater houses is not really appealing to them, even despite you telling them that it's a dream and it'd be harmless for them.


Glass

Day by day, life goes as usual. Each night, you lie into your bed and think. You never dream of anything, as you don't possess the blessing of strong, colourful visions that many experience each night. Instead you lie, thinking and making up stories crafted entirely by your own will and consciousness. Stories about mysterious individual named Aaron Blaze, but also many other characters. Deep in your thoughts, you're absorbed by thoughts about Vladimir "Nox" Gobulev and Raniya "The Kid", a sniper and his protege driving in a stolen ADVENT van. As you think about their escape from a sectopod, you drift off just for a while and let subconscious take rule. You are both Vladimir and Raniya and you are able to see things from two different perspectives, feel that you have two separate bodies that you can control and perceive with. A strange thought kicks in, is this a dream? Yes, it is! You never have any dreams, especially of the lucid kind!


ziizo

[4] A terrorist getting so close to your car! This is your race, and nothing is going to stop you from winning right now! You open the car's stash and take out a RPG-28 grenade launcher that shoots 125mm warheads, and pass it to your co-pilot. For a moment you can see a mischievous smile on bear's face.

[Bear: 4, Osama bin Laden: 4] The bear roars to get bin Laden's attention, then shots a warhead at his car when he takes a look at it. With extraordinary reflex, the terrorist takes out an Ultimate 500 revolver and shots! The bullet perfectly hits the warhead and it explodes between vechicles, fire, shrapnells and molten metal flying all around!


Crazyabe

Your dream life is mostly boring. After falling asleep, you were always sitting in some office, an "interdreamversal anomaly department" as you call it, and always waiting for a real job. Usually you were making coffee for special agents, and today you had to stay late-hours to clean a mess they did at one of their dream parties. But this night at the office was different. While trying to close an inter-dream portal, a telephone rang. It was an old 1940's model of a phone, it rang only in case of emergency. You pick up the telephone receiver and hear someone say: Whomever anwers this phone! The inter-dream borders have weakened greatly and lucid dreamers run around in one dreamscape! Answering this phone, you are assigned to become an agent on duty. This is a dream! I repeat, this is a dream! - the voice said, and suddenly an agent ID popped up pinned to your shirt.


Dustan Hache

[2] Dude, the morning is near! You'd better go to your lair! - you say to the bigfoot, but it doesn't seem to care about it at all. Easy man, there's plenty of time. Let's just chill! - the bigfoot replied.

[5] After the beast's refusal, you started thinknig what it would be like to be a nightmarish monstrosity. Suddenly your skin changed into sand paper, your face drastically changed so you only had a maw with black, sticky liquid oozing out of it and countless razor-sharp, jagged teeth. You limbs got significantly longer and thinner, but your muscles and bones strenghtened greatly, losing weight at the same time. Several smaller appendages grewn out of your side, each ending with a different piece of machinery - one with a blade of circular saw, another with a nail gun, third possessing a hook and fourth had a grindstone. You felt electricity coursing through your body, powering it up significantly. It was an unusual feeling to be a monstrosity, a "protagonist" of nightmares. You received a feeling of dominance! No longer you were a prey, but rather the hunter! With this new surge of power, you just couldn't stop yourself from twitching or making any moves, you feel too mighty for inactivity!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Glass on November 21, 2017, 04:25:38 pm
Huh. Interesting.

On the other hand, I'm we're being chased by a giant robot. So that's not exactly ideal.

Nox: I have a prototype laser rifle, made just before the aliens won the first time. It can't do any damage, but it's an excellent EMP weapon; it can disrupt not only robots, but also the electrical signals of the organic neural system. Use it to disable the sectopod.

Raniya: pedal to the metal, let's get out of here!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: randomgenericusername on November 21, 2017, 04:29:30 pm
Ask Cthulhu about this strange lucid dream. Dreaming for million of years probably grants vast knowledge and power in the dreamlands. If this was a normal dream, anything I wanted (like recruiting the deep ones) would have come true, right? This is not normal at all.
Also can Cthulhu teach me any dream tricks?
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: ziizo on November 21, 2017, 05:04:13 pm
Ram him. While the bear keeps shooting him
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: crazyabe on November 21, 2017, 05:08:32 pm
I Grin, And head to the gates to other dreams.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 21, 2017, 06:01:25 pm
go looking for my friends and spook them with my terrifying form! Ought to be fun!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Secheral on November 22, 2017, 12:31:57 am

Climb atop the pile of bears clawing eachother to establish dominance. Their brutal thumb wars do not intimidate me.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 25, 2017, 02:44:48 pm
Turn 3


Glass

[Nox: 6, Sectopod: 6] I have a prototype laser rifle, made just before the aliens won the first time. It can't do any damage, but it's an excellent EMP weapon; it can disrupt not only robots, but also the electrical signals of the organic neural system. - Nox shouted, taking out the rifle and opening van's back doors, then aiming at the sectopod. The robot shot first and hit him, destroying the rifle with a precise shot! After it shot, something heavy hit it and destroyed it! The sectopod started falling at their van!

[6] Pedal to the metal, let's get out of here! - Raniya screamed and suddenly discovered a hidden button in the van. After pushing it a screen with alien text appeared, then the car started warping through different planets, dimensions and realities. Finally the warping stopped, engine completely dying out. Nox and Raniya ended up at parking lot of one of XCOM bases. You just don't know how what a hard time we had trying to get you here! - an agent shouted from afar.


randomgenericusername

[1] Seeing that Cthulhu was dreaming for million of years, he should have enormous knowledge of lucid dreaming. You decided to ask him about lucid dreaming and if he can teach you anything, but suddenly an enormous noodle fell into the water, caught you and pulled out of ocean. Upfhglark! - the writhing mass of noodles and meat exclaimed. The Flying Spaghetti monster caught you! It opened it's maw and is about to devour you!


ziizo

[ziizo: 5, Osama: 1] You ram terrorist's car, making him lose control of vehicle! Osama hit some strange, enormous robot with the speed of light and instantly exploded!


crazyabe

[5] You approach the gate to other dreams. It is sealed tight, but can be opened with a nearby button. You notice an armory nearby, your new ID should grant you entry to it and allow you to take some heavy firepower with you.


Dustan Hache

[2] You leave the forest and head back to campsite to spook your friends, but there is no one. What's more, the whole place seems kind of silent and empty. Even the foliage seems lifeless. You are a predator, but without any prey!


Secheral

A horrifying nightmare for sure. Surrounded by countless bloodthirsty bears, you can't escape anywhere. Then they all charge at you, roaring, biting and clawing. You feel as they tear your flesh bit by bit, but it doesn't pain. What's more, you can cure all your wounds by just thinking about it! With slight effort, you climb atop the pile of bears clawing each other, and establish dominance!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 25, 2017, 02:54:33 pm
Track them. They should of left footprints or some other form of disturbance in the environment that I can follow.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: crazyabe on November 25, 2017, 02:56:47 pm
>Enter Armory, Acquire Heavy Arms.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Glass on November 25, 2017, 03:00:12 pm
...three freaking 6s. Good God.
Also, please don't show any of my guys saying something unless I specifically put quotation marks.

Now. Um.
Car is officially a Tardis. Great. Well, great if it was still working.

Raniya: Get the car fixed.
Nox: (PO'd at his destroyed gun, confused because as far as he knew, the aliens had completely gotten rid of XCOM after they took over) Figure out what in nine kinds of hell is going on here. What, are we back in the original XCOM timeline or something?
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 25, 2017, 03:11:56 pm
Quote from: Glass on November 25, 2017, 03:00:12 pm
...three freaking 6s. Good God.
ITS THE DEVILS WORK!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: ziizo on November 25, 2017, 03:18:09 pm
The race continues trough the ocean with the cars turning into a boats when jumping on it.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Glass on November 25, 2017, 03:21:48 pm
Quote from: Dustan Hache on November 25, 2017, 03:11:56 pm
[ color=Transparent]ITS THE DEVILS WORK![/color]
Your transparency holds no power here, Dustan!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: randomgenericusername on November 25, 2017, 03:36:58 pm
Eat the spaghetti monster. If it devours me eat it from the inside.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: TankKit on November 25, 2017, 03:48:45 pm
Turn my dream into an endless expanse, with nothing but a white light everywhere, a true sandbox.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 25, 2017, 04:24:25 pm
Quote from: Glass on November 25, 2017, 03:21:48 pm
Quote from: Dustan Hache on November 25, 2017, 03:11:56 pm
[ color=Transparent]ITS THE DEVILS WORK![/color]
Your transparency holds no power here, Dustan!

You're not getting any stability hit exactly due to getting 3 of them...
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Secheral on November 26, 2017, 12:36:34 am
Invade the land of bees.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: CABL on November 26, 2017, 06:25:24 am
I'm a dwarf who got captured in the goblin ambush. I open my eyes and see that my hands and legs are tied by a strong hemp rope. I'm somewhere underground, laying on the floor of my cell.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dark One on November 30, 2017, 12:56:35 pm
Turn 4


Dustan Hache

[3] You try to track your friends, looking for any footprints or disturbance in the environment. After a while of wandering through dark forests, you smell a weak scent in the distance. It is new, a person you've surely never knewn.


crazyabe

[1] As you gain entry to the armory and enter it, the gate to other dreams overcharges and causes a heavy meltdown in the system! The dream implodes and you fall into the gate. You look around. You are in a forest, it's a cold midnight. Something is moving in the distance, as if it was searching for something.


Glass

[2] Reniya attempts to fix the car, but none of the tools seems to work and all car parts bend in her hands as if they were made of rubber.

[1] Nox approaches the agent, trying to find out what's going on, but as he gets closer, the illusion is removed from the agent, revealing that it's a sectoid! More aliens run into the parking lot!


ziizo

[2] The race continues. All the cars drive into the ocean and turn into kayaks! Without engines, you will all have to paddle your way to victory!


randomgenericusername

[2] The Flying Spaghetti Monster puts you closer towards it's maw, but it tastes you first with it's noodle-tongue, makes a loud gurgling noise and throws you away! You fly far away forward and if you'll lose momentum, you will fall back into the ocean!


TankKit

You simply fall asleep. Sometimes it's just as easy as that. Several visions play out befor your mind until you receive a sudden flash of lucidity and cling to it with all your strenght. After getting through a powerful whirlwind you end up in an endless expanse with nothing but a white light everywhere, a true sandbox.


Secheral

[6] You roar and scream, then point towards a meadow with giant set of beehives, surrounded by enormous flowers. You mount on the back of the biggest and strongest of bears, then charge onwards. After just a short while, you hear extremely loud buzzing and a few bees twice the size of a bear fly out of their hives.


CrocAndBearLover

As you fall asleep, you see a fantasy land from above. Then you turn into a dwarf, just wandering around streets of an abandoned human settlement. You were travelling for a long time and all your companions died on the way, even despite you warning them not to get closer to carp infested lake. Escaping from bogeyman, you ran into the city in search of shelter. But instead of findind a safe place to sleep, you fell into a goblin ambush! Darkness. You open your eyes, lying on the ground, your legs and hands are tied with a strong hemp rope. Lantern lits your damp, underground cell with a sharp, bright light. You realize that it's a dream!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: crazyabe on November 30, 2017, 12:59:17 pm
Sit down, and avoid causing too much noise.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Glass on November 30, 2017, 01:10:56 pm
-_-

Abort!
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: ziizo on November 30, 2017, 01:31:27 pm
Paddle Paddle like I never Paddled before. Also the bear keeps shooting at the other competitors
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: randomgenericusername on November 30, 2017, 01:32:44 pm
Stop rolling 2s
Calm down and focus on the thought that I am dreaming. Try to mantain stability and clarity to keep the dream from collapsing. This is my dream and I am in control. This dream can't hurt me and falling down is a common technique to stabilize a dream, even causing someone to start a false awakening dream (dream reset). Fall backwards into the ocean to restore the stability of the dream.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Secheral on November 30, 2017, 01:36:13 pm
Assemble the bears into a mecha and intimidate the bees into submission.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 30, 2017, 02:10:42 pm
Track the scent, but try to stay hidden. I want to make sure I get the drop on this stranger, since they might be armed while my friends originally were not.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: TankKit on November 30, 2017, 05:28:48 pm
Create a nice house on a very high rock in the middle of a large body of water. Inside the house lives a family of gods.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: Dustan Hache on November 30, 2017, 06:25:00 pm
Quote from: randomgenericusername on November 30, 2017, 01:32:44 pm
Stop rolling 2s
Calm down and focus on the thought that I am dreaming. Try to mantain stability and clarity to keep the dream from collapsing. This is my dream and I am in control. This dream can't hurt me and falling down is a common technique to stabilize a dream, even causing someone to start a false awakening dream (dream reset). Fall backwards into the ocean to restore the stability of the dream.
trying to play inception are we?
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: randomgenericusername on November 30, 2017, 06:58:32 pm
(I don't remember watching the full movie so I don't know what you are talking about. I have practiced to lucid dream irl so I know some stuff like keeping a dream diary to help with remembering dreams.)
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: CABL on December 01, 2017, 07:03:41 am
Try to rip the hemp rope by any means possible. Starting with ripping the rope with my teeth.
If successful, hide the ripped rope where jailers will not notice it, unless they're searching for it.
Find a rat and smash it into a bloody paste. Lay down and position my head on the pool of the rat's blood.
Title: Re: Dreams of Madness - Minimalistic Lucid Dream RTD
Post by: King Zultan on December 04, 2017, 12:50:18 am
Crawl out of the dumpster I was sleeping in and look around the ally.