I’ve thought about my ideal dream place before I’ve never had the chance to create it, but someday I will. Still, I’ve worked a lot on my idea. I’ll type it down here:
First, I’ll start with my own sanctuary. Most of my dream land consists of wilderness, with huge open grassy fields and forests. My sanctuary consists of ruins from an ancient civilization, located between a cliff and a forest. Old broken white stone walls are all over the place, and there’s a large area which has been almost completely been taken over by grass and plants. There are broken stone pillars around, along with ornamental structural parts.
The floor has fragmented parts of the white stone, which seems to be what was used to build all of the building. Walking into the ruins, there’s a huge area which seems to be the one in best shape, and instead of consisting of just broken walls or shattered pillars, it’s almost as good as new. It’s a large library. The ceiling and the walls are perfect, and there’s a lot of sunlight coming in, since the place is open (but with enough distance to keep the books safe). Still, vines are growing around parts of the ceiling and on some of the pillars, but they give them a rather interesting appearance.
There are stone tables and seats all over the place, which were used, in the past, by those who went to this library. The shelves in which the tomes can be found are sculpted on the white walls. The books are also kinda big, at least 10 inches tall each. They are all white as well. The shelves take at least three or four walls, and there are 5-8 for each wall, considering they go even to about 3-4 meters high (there are conveniently placed ladders around, which can be moved if need be).
Walking deeper into the ruins, we find stairs leading down into the earth. A huge door can be found, however, the place it leads to depends on the user’s wish (it doesn’t take them everywhere, but to special places within the ruins). One of the places it leads to is to the “inner realm”, where the user may find his/her spirit guide and power animal, though he/she must be ready to do so.
The second place it leads to is one of my favorites. It’s the “galaxy room”. It really doesn’t have a name, but I thought that would be a good name for it. As you walk inside the room, the walls and the ceiling form a sphere around you, which represents perfectly the sky. Blue and white stars are all around you. There’s not enough light for the user to see him/herself or the ground, but that doesn’t matter, as the room is completely safe, used for meditation, relaxation and stargazing It can also change into a real simulation of outer space, with no gravity, of course, and since it’s a dream, with no need to breath.
The third room is not exactly a room. I call it “Moonlight”. Using it, the user will be transported to a special place, lit only by moonlight. The place pretty much changes, depending on what the user wants, but most of the time it’ll take the user to the outside area of the ruins, but on nighttime. It’s a really beautiful sight, to see the white ruins with the moonlight over it.
The fourth option is what I call the Firefly lake. It’s obviously a lake, near some woods. It’s also during nighttime, and as you wander around this area, fireflies roam in the dark, under the moonlight. Another beautiful sight
There are other rooms, but these are the most important… or at least my favorite ones.
You might be asking yourselves about the DCs and other people, right? Where could they be? The thing about my sanctuary is that there aren’t much people around, as it’s a sanctuary . Still, some are allowed within it’s facilities, and those are calm people, looking for wisdom or meditation.
Others who show around on the occasion are the Masters. The Masters are a group of people who teach me and the Sanctuary Dwellers the wisdom of the ages. They teach us about life, dreams, and everything else.
For now, enough about the Sanctuary. There’s more to my dream land than that. Following the path outside, there’s a path along the forest, in which travelers may usually find monks going to the different temples on the surroundings. They may even stop to give you a piece of advice or have an interesting conversation. Specially a Japanese old man with a short white beard and a shaved head - he’s quite an interesting fellow, and may give you some nice pointers.
Continuing, we’ll get to a medieval-looking castle. There lives a community which, despite living in a castle, is rather evolved. It’s just that they, like me, like places like castles. In fact, I act as a leader of some sort of the castle dwellers, considering I’m the dream creator, but everyone’s pretty much fine. Life is peaceful there. There’s a throne room, but really, I don’t hang around much in it.
All over the castle are beautiful stained glass windows with all kinds of drawings. There’s a huge gallery with paintings and such, and, of course, a red carpet .
On the underground of the castle lives a wizard, who looks a lot like Merlin. He teaches me stuff sometimes, but also he’s free to continue his studies whenever he wants. The underground area leads into caves with ruins from an old civilization, but an exploration team is still digging it. The wizard is also studying arcane symbols and runes which are all over the metallic, copper-colored walls of the old civilization.
There’s also a path leading to a secret passage near my Sanctuary, which was built for easier access back and forth.
Now besides all that, there’s also the place I call the Battledome. The Dome isn’t located in any special place, really, it floats in oblivion, and can many people can go there easily, they just have to will it and it will happen, or they can use the door in the Sanctuary.
As they arrive in the dome, there won’t be anything except darkness around it, and if someone falls down, they’ll be safely teleported back. A hostess on a information hut gives information for newcomers and welcomes all the visitors.
Oh, by the way, unlike the Sanctuary, the battledome is open for EVERYONE. In fact, I only decided to limit the access to the Sanctuary for those really interested in it to avoid crazy people trying to trash it.
There is much to do at the Battledome, and since it’s not only about battles, lately it’s been considered changing it’s name to Duel Dome, which is also much more commercial, with the double D and everything. I’ll now list what you can do in the battledome: (Hold on, I’ll get back to explaining how stuff looks in a sec)
- Battle!
This one was pretty much obvious, but lemme break it down for you. Battles in the dome follow certain rules. The first of them is nobody really gets hurt or dies, or even feels pain. The battles are not gruesome.
In the dome, there are basically 4 or 5 kinds of battle. Weapons battle, in which the fighters can use any weapon they want, except for firearms. They slash, smash, hit, pierce etc at each other and all of them have life bars or HP (that’s decided prior to the battle), which depletes as they get hit. Mind that, even if they aren’t really hurt, they do feel the impact of the hits, which obviously can make them, for example, lose balance. Oh, since it’s a dream, they may summon and change weapons at any time, unless it’s forbidden on the pre-battle planning.
The second kind of battle is the Magic/Super-Power Battle. In this match, no weapons are allowed, and the players must use their own created techniques and powers, using magic attacks, Dragonball Z-ish ki blasts and such to win the battle against their opponent(s). In any case, the level of power they can use and kind of technique can be defined prior to the battle, if need be. Oh, almost forgot. In this kind of battle, super-jumping, flight and super-speed are allowed.
The third kind is hand-to-hand battle. Basically, the players use their own fighting techniques to beat each other. No powers or weapons of any kind are allowed.
The fourth kind is the Gunslinger Battle. Any kind of firearm is allowed, and, as with the weapons battle, you can change and summon guns mid-fight anytime. Not much to explain, after telling about the other kinds.
And now, here are the most popular kinds of battle: The Mix Battles. Mix Battles allows players to mix the rules from different kinds of battles, leading to interesting results. I’ll list some of my favorites:
-> Magic Gunslinger Battle (Using magic-charged bullets)
-> Weapon + Gunslinger Battle
-> Magic Weapon + Gunslinger Battle
and so on…
Finally, the battle style which most will prefer, the Free Battle. Free Battle allows you to do/use ANYTHING you want on your fight. Also, there’s the option of not using life bars/HP, leaving the fighters to just fight for fun.
All of the fights are mostly fought on one-on-one, but free for all deathmatches are also available, as are team deathmatches. Depending on the match, there is no limit to the number of players.
Oh, by the way, all fights can have specific smaller kinds. Which means you can have a special Sniper Match, for example, or a Fireball-Only Match.
Walking inside the Dome, in the fighting area the players can find five doors (though some more may be added from time to time). Each door leads to one kind of match. Once inside, the players decide on rules (if they want) with a lady, and also choose an arena.
Arenas can vary to pretty much anything the fighters can think of. The size of the arena varies with the kind of fight they want and the number of fighters. It’d be useless to make a hand-to-hand fight on a huge arena, for example. However, in some cases that can be changed as an extra for the match, such as a handicap for a fight or whatever. (E.G.: A super-power match on a small arena).
The players are shown on a big projection on a wall a virtual view of the arena they want, and they can change it to their likeness before entering the fight. In any case, they can pick a random arena if they want.
By the way, as with the other activities, it doesn’t matter if too many people get into the same door. There’s room for everyone, and, as a plus, they’ll get to individual arenas (if they choose to do so), and since they are dream areas, it’s pretty much fine, as they don’t take physical space from anywhere, really.
Now, let’s continue to another attraction of the Dome:
- Flight Area!
On the second larger area from the Dome, the Flight Area, is a single door. Despite being only one, it leads to different options of flight. That’s because it’s highly customizable, which would make things harder if there were many doors.
Fliers can choose to use wings (and change wings, if they want), fly with jetpacks/contraptions or with nothing at all. The choices are endless, and up to the user’s choice. The sceneries and arenas for flight also vary to the players options, but some of them include:
-> outer space
-> over clouds (with several weather options)
-> over different places in the world
-> etc.
There are also flight competitions, which include fights and races. However, the most popular option if the Freedom Flight, in which you just fly around and explore any place you want.
And now, the next option…
- Races!
I’ll be brief about the races… They’re pretty much… races. Pick any vehicle you want, fly, run on foot, use magic powers. Anything. It’s a race, and as the other activities, the players pick the rules, specifications and arenas before the races.
Finally, the last area (for now):
- Training Area!
The training area was created for those who go to the Dome to learn more and hone their abilities. It’s got a Dojo, for martial artists to fight and learn new moves; a gym, for sports and such; and the training area, also known as the Free Area.
The Free Area allows it’s users to do ANYTHING they want in a limited area. The most popular arena for this practice is the White Oblivion one (AKA Purgatory), just an infinite field of white, with white floor under your feet, white skies, etc. If you wish it to be, it’s can be endless. There, fighters/fliers/etc can train different techniques. They can also pick arenas to get used to the different places. Helpers can be summoned by whoever is inside, and they may give you tips or teach you new techniques.
That’s pretty much all I’ve planned for now. More may be coming soon, but that should give you guys a nice idea of my dream land .
(o_o wooo! I hadn’t noticed I spent so much time writing this… Hmm I’ll also post it on my DJ!)