What would your Dream City be like?

Lucid Adventures
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Hey everyone! :smile:

The title says it all, what would your dream (as in lucid dream :razz:) city be like? (It can also be your already existing dream city :smile:)

Questions:

  1. What’s the city’s name? (If any)

  2. What features does it have?

  3. Is it constantly changing?

  4. What’s it’s population like? (If it has any)

  5. What (if anything) did you base your city on?

  6. Does your city have any “Authority”?

  7. (Optional) A short description of anything else in the city or the city overall.

This is a informal competition just made by me! :smile:

Every entry will be judged and the final 3 will be put to public vote, if you have any questions just ask.

Rules:

  1. Be creative
  2. Erm…

Deadline:
2nd of August 3 O’Clock GMT

:slight_smile: :smile: Competion Open :smile: :smile:

If this is in the wrong forum, feel free to move it.

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  1. Haphsorica

  2. An elevator that moves across light
    It floats above the ocean and has a floating aircraft carrier above it
    It has an extonic sun but is protected by a glass dome
    Forest of light, leaves on tree’s refract light, making the forest as bright
    as the sun.

  3. The islands below constantly disappear/reappear, almost mirage like.

  4. Its populated by a peaceful race, although some outlaws live on
    a small island floating off the edge of the main city. They are the only villans, but bad ones, the city constantly foils their attempts to crack the dome. Their island is not protected by a dome, the extonic sun has transformed them… badly…

  5. Extonic sun = doctor who. The rest was kind of creativity :smile:

  6. The city has the panel of elders who have lived on the land since the beginning. and they seem to never age. And they rarely interfere with the citizens

7.It would be a city floating in the sky above an abundance of water, with brightly colored stunning planets in the sky, accessible by flying off the floating Aircraft carrier above the city. Below are many islands in the sea, and between them a giant underwater bubble city accessible by using the main island’s Spectacular Specrum-Elivator that flys on light, leading to the bubble city and aircraft carrier.

The floating island is surrounded by bountiful forests blooming in light from the extonic sun above. blocked off by the magical sheild covering the planet. The forests are teeming with life and magical creatures.

The Main city itself is in a giant glass dome, which on starry nights is lowered to allow people to fly amongst the living stars.
To the left of the island is a giant mountain with a clock made entirely of LIGHT showing The time in the dream city, and on the right, a the same showing the time in RL.

*More to be added, must dash now :smile:

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Next time you post try to keep to the guide and label your answers 1. 2. 3. etc…

Example Of Mine (This is what mine will be, but I won’t enter it in the competition):

  1. Atheltin

  2. A. Two Bigbens, one showing Real Time, One Showing Dream Time
    B. Food shop with all my favourite food
    C. A pill shop selling vividness pills, lucidity pills and so on
    D. A big wave pool
    E. A beach (I like water)

  3. Yes, people are constanly cleaning it, making sure everthing’s ok and builing random stuff (I’ll let my SC decide what).

  4. Humans, dogs and cats. All my friends, family and relatives would have their own luxory house in my city, and so would the cats and dogs :smile:

  5. Nothing

  6. Yes, me. I would rule over everything in a high tower with magical powers

  7. Short description i can’t be bothered to write but you might get you a higher mark if you do write one :wink: .

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Fixed my post to meet the rules :smile:

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Good good :smile:

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  1. Avantia
    2.The city itslef is a large city that has many building and a rural area and alot of other areas too (will draw a map soon)
    A.Has the “Sanctuary” which is a place for me n my CALD characters to chill even IWL
    B.Has “The Airlock” which goes to anypart of mindspace.
    C.“The Trench Zone” is a large area with a building surronded by a trench, the airlock room will turn into a armory if you choose this because of the fact it is meant to fight things in.
    D.A Lake/Beach/Pool/Awesome water area
    E.A Giant store with anything and everything in it.
    F.MultiDimensional Portals.
    G.Spider repellent , and alot of it (nontoxic ofcourse)
    H.A Sanitation Department
    I.Police department (more into this in Authority part)
    J.Pet store thing
    K.Magic/Item shop
    L.Pill/Pharmacy
    M.GAME-STOP!!!
    N.VR Area, for all your virtual reality needs :razz:
    O.FLYING AREA!!!
    P.Hall of mirrors :razz:
    Q.Food, food stores, and food products, AND ALOT OF IT
    R.Nerf guns
    S.Powerade stores
    T.A House for me and everyone i want to live there.
    U.Inter-Planetarian Traveling circus :razz:
    V.Alot more stuff, i think ive wrote enough

3.At about the rate of a normal city.
4.People, like a city would be, with good bad, and even stuff that isnt normal (aliens dragons mythchars stuff like that)
5. Boredom.
6. a Highly Advanced police department in which X-6M Rifles that shoot AP-URP(Armor Piercing UraniumP-3) Bullets with 50R clips, and TEK-51 armor(an armor of my own design which circulates a very dense magnetic fluid inside of it which stops all bullets, and heals the suit.) that can use the HPS(handheld portal system)mfor instant trasportation to a crime.

  1. It is protected by a giant forcefield from any outside threats, the city thinks so to speak and can sense if something or someone is a threat. And alot more but i think i took up a large enough post with all this so i will leave it to the fact that my city is the labor of boredom and to much free time :razz: cya
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1. What’s the city’s name? (If any)
Galaxus

2. What features does it have?
This small city is unlike any you’ve seen before. Perhaps ideas hinting at it appeared in movies or books, but never in person. A circular room with quite a dome hovering above is the central location. The dome, made entirely of glass, displays the many stars, shining light-years away. Beneath you is more glass, showing more stars and perhaps even a planet or two. None are close enough for you to just soar over to, though.

Artificial plant life decorates the walls between the several arched doorways that lead to different districts. One district leads you to any and every memory held within your mind, giving you the opportunity to live them out verbatim. Another district leads to a casual bar with more than decent people, desperately waiting to see your arrival. There’s a dance floor, but perhaps you’re not into that, especially when cameras are flashing at you from all around. Be sure to give autographs–you don’t want to be an ass. District 3 provides a place for you to just plain live. Pick out of several penthouse suites filled with luxurious furniture and breathtaking views of the galaxy–they’re all yours after all (though, I can’t say some other characters may be living there while you’re gone. If that’s the case, kick their asses out while they are still star struck). District 4 is where all the food is. Since shopping for clothes and whatnot is useless in the dream world, just about the only worthy thing to “purchase” is food. Stuff your face senseless, you pig you. If you feel like you’re going to have a stroke–you’re doing just fine.

Now, District 5–the last district–is where the most important feature rests. A room, full of blast doors. On the other side of those doors are vessels–vessels that will take you anywhere and everywhere in a matter of seconds (or hours if you prefer the trip). A central console displays where each ship will take you. Don’t like any of the choices? Simply change them right then and there, hop in a ship, and crash land into the environment of your choosing. I say crash land because you will quite literally rip through any approaching atmosphere of a planet and strike the ground with quite an intimidating force. You won’t be phased by the landing, of course, but anybody near the drop zone will most likely piss their pants as you step off in your thousand dollar suit. You will find a fully loaded rocket launcher in the side panel of the vessel for extra visual appeal.

3. Is it constantly changing?
No. If it were, it wouldn’t be very recognizable, would it?

4. What’s it’s population like? (If it has any)
Comfortably full. Not too many people to feel crowded, but not too few to feel deserted and lonely. Besides, since everybody considers you the sole celebrity, you don’t want any more than you can handle.

5. What (if anything) did you base your city on?
If I told you, you’d just ruin it with your presence.

6. Does your city have any “Authority”?
Absolutely not. In essence, you control the population with your fame. I suppose you can count yourself as authority, but that would most certainly degrade your celebrity status. There are no crimes and no mishaps, other than the ones you may or may not commit. There are no hoes to slap, so try not to take out your unused testosterone on innocent people.

7. (Optional) A short description of anything else in the city or the city overall.
Most importantly, this city serves as your home–your safe haven from the dark crevices of your mind. Whenever your dream goes south, just call for evac and await for an army of tanks to show up by your side as your fancy millionaire helicopter lands to pick you up. How it flies through space to get back is nothing but a mystery. Don’t try and ask the pilot though–he’ll just get offended.

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  1. Name: Q’id Lat

  2. Features: For a city, it’s quite sedate and spacious. Each building is an airport-sized dome. Diamond-shapes are cut into the outermost shell, which is made of pale sandstone. Through these skylights or windows, one may see the contours or angles of the swimming pools, the grassy fields or pleasure gardens, and somewhere in the distance the hills that become cliffs and mark the edge of this floating island. It’s only floating if you see its edge, though: if you go into the market on the outskirts of the city, a wall of red brick serves as the boundary instead, beyond which lies the quite grounded rest-of-the-dreaming.

  3. Developments: Sometimes if you follow the outside walls just to look out of them, you’ll see only gardens, or only swimming pools and maybe even the ocean. Maybe the cliff isn’t there, and you can travel over the hills beyond the border hill, and see that Lat isn’t floating in the sky at all. Maybe the sandstone of the Q’id Lat domes turns into white marble or fluffy clouds… or just pure light, as befits the translation of its name.

  4. Culture: Within the domes of Q’id Lat, people tend to behave as if they were in a library. Stewards in white or sandy-coloured linen kurti standby, ready to direct a visitor to a relaxing environment or perhaps to a room for mental/emotional healing and energetic refreshment. It’s like a cross between a spa and a hospital. In the gardens or pools, it’s permissible for people to be louder and more active, but you may still sight the occasional dream character sitting in silent meditation by a pool, or dozing on the grass in a patch of sunshine. You may explore several square meters and meet only two or three stewards and one other visitor.

In the outskirts, buyers stocking up for their next adventure raise their voices over the din as they haggle with stallholders: conversations, laughter, and the music accompanying streetside performers fill the air. The population is much denser here.

  1. Influences: I played with the spelling of kidlat, which is Tagalog for “lightning” so that it looked kind of like Sto Lat from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (and that’s bound to be a pun on something from his culture, too.) I had an ND long ago of a place of healing, whose buildings looked suspiciously like the stupas of Borobudur Temple located in Djogjakarta, Indonesia. Instead of granite, like IWL, they were made of pale sandstone in my dream.

The diamond shapes cut into those domes signify an approach to enlightenment, rather than achievement. If a stupa has square shapes cut into it, the stability of the shape signifies an achievement of enlightenment. So, Q’id Lat is less of a “Utopia” and more of a “well-stocked, very well-kept rest stop.”

The concept is a lot like the aesclepeion of the Greeks, but I hope the feel would be reminiscent of Gup City from Salman Rushdie’s children’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Details just got added dependent on some things I really like: swimming, gardening, and shopping (for weapons, in adventure RPG’s. I can’t stand bazaars IWL.)

  1. Government: The Latlands have no authority that I’ve met, but as in a fairy tale certain rules may be mentioned that only the residents know, follow, or believe make any sense.

For example, the rule that things can be taken from the market to the other side of the wall, but not from the dreaming into the Lat market unless you have your Creative License. :confused: You get your Creative License by going into the basement of a certain Q’id Lat dome, where you’ll be made to solve a riddle, win a sparring match or retrieve something from the end of a cruel obstacle course, and refuse to electrocute someone who pretends they’re dying.

Bending or breaking these rules gains any consequence from locals simply informing you that you make them sad, to an angry mob most of which will have random superhero powers.

  1. Miscellany: The Lat sky at night is bright blue, like the waking life sky on a clear day. You can shape the clouds in the sky with your thoughts, if you’d like. Scribble a message with cirrus wisps and, you’ll never know, someone might just scribble something back. At dawn or dusk, the sky turns green, and during the day it’s pale yellow. Should nightmares invade, the sky would alert the population by turning blood red, but that never happens: Q’id Lat is a very peaceful and joyful place. :smile:
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Well, this is gonna be a very hard decision next week…

Keep posting though! Brilliant ideas coming through.

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Oooh, can we make more than one entry, or would you prefer everyone just post their single most favorite?

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Hello everyone !

I will describe my dreamplace here. Sorry, but I won’t follow the steps (1, 2, 3 etc.) because I want to describe it my way - it would me more interesting and different stiles if everyone would to that. I don’t want to enter the competition if you don’t approve my own description style. I have a lot of ideas, so I’ll try to make it shorter or else I bet no one would read such a long post :content:. Click the spoiler to see my dream town.

[spoiler]My dream town inside my dreamworld

Eden Prairie is the name of one of the most wonderful place in my dreamworlds. This place exists IRL, but I will transfer it from RL into my dream-life making it even more wonderful than it is real. Eden prairie was considered no 1 of the most beautiful places to live in America. Thou I never reached it yet in my dream-life, I will still see the following as I describe this glorious place.

A rich town-like area with casinos and nightlights everywhere. Foreign restaurants and glamorous hotels. Limousines on the streets and beautiful cars. Big fascinating homes and excellent services. This is Eden Prairie. There can be found the most wonderful pill shops during an LD. There are even DG to hire, but a true DG must be found first. Perhaps I’ll be lucky enough to find the person I always wanted to meed there. [Personal goal]
I will be a normal person in this place, being like everyone else. This is a quite small town, surrounded by a beautiful landscape, but not far away from this city, there are many other cities worth to be visited. People are dressed in formal suits at night, visiting all the fancy restaurants and casinos, while during the day everyone if busy working. A town full of business and “never-at-home” people.
Eden Prairie has a lot of secrets waiting to be discovered. Such deep lucidity secretes which will help you through all your LD and RL life. Pompous buildings are the most mysterious places to visit, but not everyone can find the secrets.
There is a rumor that somewhere there is a wise creature which can guide only one person who finds it through the LD quest. But that can not be found in Eden Prairie. This is the town of relaxation and delightfulness. Be a normal person and meet other people. This is not the town of adventure - but that’s another theme which we will talk discuss on a later point.

Remember, Eden Prairie is a place where only special people can survive it’s hostility, it’s hostility which is well covered by it’s welcome sign.[/spoiler]

I tried to write it as “dreamlike” as possible, using many adjectives and mysterious phrases which you may not understand - don’t forget, it’s my dream town.

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Ok Don Anonymus, I’ll accept that as an entry.

It would help if people use the 1 to 7 method (Like BenDrummin58’s post above ^) as it’ll make it much easier for me to judge and categorise your scores. :smile:

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Listen, rcslaney. I wrote a small descripsion. I can not calssify my town because it would be like this:

  1. Eden Prairie
  2. Blah… casinos… blah blah… hotels …blah blah [everythig I wrote in my descripsion]
  3. I don’t know what you mean !? It’s a town, it can’t change - only if I want it to.
  4. Population ?! What can I say about DC’s ? They are DC’s…
  5. Waht did I base my city on ? Well, if I get your question right, I based it on a place which exists IRL.
  6. Authority ? What do you mean ? That if you enter someone’s house the owner of the house can shoot you and you wake up ? Don’t get it…
  7. Mysteries, DG’s for hire, rich people blah blah…etc.

I don’t understand your points that well, as you can see, so that’s why I’ll jsut write what you can find and do in that town. In fact, you can find everything (and even more) what a normal town IRL has… with some extra LD thingies, ofcourse. It’s “A rich town-like area, destined for relaxation and entertainment.”. That’s the best phrase to describe my town :content:.

I’ll check this thread daily to read the new posts :smile: - it’s an interesting thread you got there rcslaney !

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Thanks :smile: I want lot’s of people to enter so it’s a bit more competionish :smile:

Don’t worry. I might be able to categorise your description myself, but be warned, you may not get categorized scores. :wink:

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Come on people, we need more entries! Remember it can be your existing city aswell.

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Ok, we’ll make it otherwise: I didn’t post here to win, I posted here just to share my dreamtown with everyone else who reads this, ok ? So why don’t you give grades instead of scores, like: A - the best, B - good, C - not so well but still good, D - bad, E - awfull, F - dredfull.

Remember - I didn’t post to win. I’m still curious to see other cities :smile:

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I’m ok with that, but do you still want to be in the competition?

That’s what I mean by scores, I’ll give a grade for each section and then work out the average. Then the 1st, 2nd & 3rd people will put up a very detailed description and it’ll be put to public vote. :smile:

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Nice… as far as I can see we’ll remain with the allready written posts. 'Cause people aren’t posting anymore.

Oh, and It’s up to you if you want to put my town in the competition :wink:.

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1. What’s the city’s name? (If any)
Medici

2. What features does it have?
A mix of cobblestone and tile make up the streets as homes of brick and terracotta line the sides along with shops and stores. Statuettes and gardens are common, often decorating every street side at regular intervals, the occasional fountain adding a further touch of aesthetic appeal to the already pleasant city. Mediterranean influence is abound in the architecture, especially in the stone work of the city square plaza which is home to the city’s grand fountain. A five tiered fountain made of polished marble, statuettes of dragons and eagles on every level each of polished brass or silver. Around the grand fountain, the tiles create a mural of the city’s founding, a city upon the crest of a hill before a large valley and river. At the edge of the city, a harbor port extends into the great river from which ships of all kinds may dock to trade goods or resupply. Outside of the city, in its outskirts, rich soil provides the farms with bountiful crops every season; and beyond the farms are the city walls made of alabaster and polished sandstone, more for the looks than practical defense. The gates to the city are grandly designed as well, bearing much of a renaissance look, crafted of polished steel and silver, hinged on twin watch towers of alabaster and marble.

3. Is it constantly changing?
Like any other dreamscape or DreamWorld I create, it will be stable yet ever evolving. It would be up to the dream characters to decide how they want to change things, if they ever do. Otherwise it’ll stay generally the same as life goes on.

4. What’s it’s population like? (If it has any)
The people would be a general mix, the clothing style would be of Renaissance and Baroque. I would think they’d be generally peaceful. Naturally, markets would be bustling, and naturally parks would be nice and quiet… you get the picture. Things are as they normally would be… unless a dream characters goes nuts or gets some devious idea like trying to take over the fountain plaza with a spatula.

5. What (if anything) did you base your city on?
My experiences in Rome, Mykonos, and Istanbul.

6. Does your city have any “Authority”?
Of course, the city guard.

7. (Optional) A short description of anything else in the city or the city overall.
Eventually, when I make the time for it, I’ll create this particular dreamscape, and let you all know how things go :smile: But I would intend to use this dreamscape as a place to relax and explore. :content:

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Thankyou WritersCube :smile:

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