The Hanging Man
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:21 pm
Remember Nightmare Dreams?
Well I'm taking the concept of a dream world and expanding it, with laws of how to enter the dream world and such. Infact, I'm turning it into a story. I might still do the actual nightmare dreams game at some point, but for now, it's the story of The Hanging Man.
Any being that exists within it has the world change around them based on their own subconcious and thoughts, some can even change the world around them conciously. (It's worth mentioning that the person's own thoughts also affect themselves, most people will end up looking like they do in the real world, if they don't know what they look like, that will cause them to have a blank face, if they remember being at work, they will be in work clothes, etc.)
Most places in the dream world are either filled with the kind of thoughts that make that place, or everyone already knows what they should look like and subconciously imagine them as such.
The dream world is seperate from our universe and has it's own laws of physics based on thought, and it's own species and people, however, there is a rare chance, especially in children or those with large imaginations, to enter the dream world in their sleep. While in the dream world, the mind and body are seperate, one cannot affect the other in any way. If someone is to "die" while dreaming in the dream world, they wake up in the real world.
The story takes place on a particular dreamer who "wakes up" in the dream world with his mind intact, but his memories lost. He searches for answers as to who he is. You think that the lack of danger in the dream world would make the story less exciting, except the man will still have amnesia when he wakes up and he may never make it to the dream world again, plus the fact that he wants to stop the villain rather than just wake up and run away from it all means that waking up is a failure for him.
The villain is an interesting idea that exploits a loophole in the dream world physics, without said person even realizing. The person was completely insane and depressed, planning on commiting suicide, however, he was worried about the pain and found a way around it. He balanced himself on a tall building, wearing a noose tied to a part of the building above him, then took a tranquilizer. The result being that he falls asleep, looses balance and hangs without any pain. The problem being that this one time he managed to get that one in a million chance of landing himself in the dream world before he died and after he fell unconcious.
As I said, the mind and body cannot affect eachother, so despite the fact that he was technically dead, he existed in the dream world without any problem. Worse, since his mind couldn't return to his body anymore, there was no way for him to wake up. Even worse, since the mind affects our own appearance and abilities, and he was insane, he ended up as an incredibly powerful being, somewhat of a representation of death itself in the form of "The Hanging Man" who had the ability to "fly" by hanging off of a noose that appears to suspend itself in the air, the rope from the noose continues around his body over his shoulders, arms, legs and even forming a hood. (A semi-circle of rope from the noose sticks up, like a circle around his face, the front of the hood is attatched to the rope semi-circle.) Of course, being a hanging man, he was in constant pain and his only release was in spreading the pain to others by strangling them with the only loose piece of his rope and suspending them from the ceiling or whatever he can with spare rope, which never seems to run out (since no-one bothers to think or has time to think about the limit of his rope).
I have a drawing of The Hanging Man, but my scanner is downstairs and not connected to the laptop, so I'll scan that in later.
The characters so far are the amnesiac main character, a huge amount of mindless robots (the same model as steel from nightmare dreams) and one robot who has gained free will, and his appearance has changed because of his new thoughts, and, obviously, The Hanging Man. Other characters might come later, but I think it'll work nicely with just a few characters. (whereas nightmare dreams works better with a lot of characters to make choices in the game much more important to the player and his team)
I haven't got much yet. The setting will be in an abandoned and somewhat empty/plain warehouse, made so empty by the abandoned robots that live there (very plain thoughts, yes, even robotic thoughts are considered thoughts according to dream-physics.)
Well I'm taking the concept of a dream world and expanding it, with laws of how to enter the dream world and such. Infact, I'm turning it into a story. I might still do the actual nightmare dreams game at some point, but for now, it's the story of The Hanging Man.
Any being that exists within it has the world change around them based on their own subconcious and thoughts, some can even change the world around them conciously. (It's worth mentioning that the person's own thoughts also affect themselves, most people will end up looking like they do in the real world, if they don't know what they look like, that will cause them to have a blank face, if they remember being at work, they will be in work clothes, etc.)
Most places in the dream world are either filled with the kind of thoughts that make that place, or everyone already knows what they should look like and subconciously imagine them as such.
The dream world is seperate from our universe and has it's own laws of physics based on thought, and it's own species and people, however, there is a rare chance, especially in children or those with large imaginations, to enter the dream world in their sleep. While in the dream world, the mind and body are seperate, one cannot affect the other in any way. If someone is to "die" while dreaming in the dream world, they wake up in the real world.
The story takes place on a particular dreamer who "wakes up" in the dream world with his mind intact, but his memories lost. He searches for answers as to who he is. You think that the lack of danger in the dream world would make the story less exciting, except the man will still have amnesia when he wakes up and he may never make it to the dream world again, plus the fact that he wants to stop the villain rather than just wake up and run away from it all means that waking up is a failure for him.
The villain is an interesting idea that exploits a loophole in the dream world physics, without said person even realizing. The person was completely insane and depressed, planning on commiting suicide, however, he was worried about the pain and found a way around it. He balanced himself on a tall building, wearing a noose tied to a part of the building above him, then took a tranquilizer. The result being that he falls asleep, looses balance and hangs without any pain. The problem being that this one time he managed to get that one in a million chance of landing himself in the dream world before he died and after he fell unconcious.
As I said, the mind and body cannot affect eachother, so despite the fact that he was technically dead, he existed in the dream world without any problem. Worse, since his mind couldn't return to his body anymore, there was no way for him to wake up. Even worse, since the mind affects our own appearance and abilities, and he was insane, he ended up as an incredibly powerful being, somewhat of a representation of death itself in the form of "The Hanging Man" who had the ability to "fly" by hanging off of a noose that appears to suspend itself in the air, the rope from the noose continues around his body over his shoulders, arms, legs and even forming a hood. (A semi-circle of rope from the noose sticks up, like a circle around his face, the front of the hood is attatched to the rope semi-circle.) Of course, being a hanging man, he was in constant pain and his only release was in spreading the pain to others by strangling them with the only loose piece of his rope and suspending them from the ceiling or whatever he can with spare rope, which never seems to run out (since no-one bothers to think or has time to think about the limit of his rope).
I have a drawing of The Hanging Man, but my scanner is downstairs and not connected to the laptop, so I'll scan that in later.
The characters so far are the amnesiac main character, a huge amount of mindless robots (the same model as steel from nightmare dreams) and one robot who has gained free will, and his appearance has changed because of his new thoughts, and, obviously, The Hanging Man. Other characters might come later, but I think it'll work nicely with just a few characters. (whereas nightmare dreams works better with a lot of characters to make choices in the game much more important to the player and his team)
I haven't got much yet. The setting will be in an abandoned and somewhat empty/plain warehouse, made so empty by the abandoned robots that live there (very plain thoughts, yes, even robotic thoughts are considered thoughts according to dream-physics.)
I had a dream like what your describing once.