Quiet_Cool
Learning to Fly
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Okay, the plot of this one is a little complicated, given that it exists in more than one time frame. No, not time travel, but something very different and very like it together. The story will take place in more than one time, meaning in the past AND in the present, on at least two levels of time. The setting, the house, is a kind of...window, and door, though no one can travel through time, there is a plane that the house exists on, as part of a curse, where the house exists in all times at once. What this means is this. Something happening one-hundred years ago in the house would be happening at the same time as the present, but on a different dimensional level. This means that, while the two times donot overlap so to speak, things can be sort of...blended(?), as in, a person standing in the kitchen in the past while another stands there in the present, may appear to the person in the present as a sort of spectre or ghost, though in the past, this person is really just standing there. The two times would have no real communication, meaning they can't attempt to speak to each other at all, and don't know what's wrong with the house, but odd happens, like the appearance in the kitchen mentioned above, can occur. Also, this time dimensional plane situation would mean this: Should something occur in the house, it affects all times from that time on, but not until it happens. Case in point: a table sits in the aforementioned kitchen, flawless, for one-hundred years, but suddenly, someone in the past trips and scratches the table with an object carried in his/her hand, accidentally. The scratch would suddenly appear in the present, just as the act happens in the past (time overlapping, so to speak), instead of having always been there, as would happen in reality. Because of the curse that plagues the house, it is always affected this way.
Hopefully this is helpful in understanding what I'm trying to do here. The plot beyond this point would be this: (Roughly)
A currently undetermined number of people, all having suffered similar experiences but having never met one another, find themselves in the same town (to be named later) and find their ways into this house. They are "chosen" by the house, before their birth, and all share a birthmark, identical but in different places on their bodies, though why they are chosen isn't clear (just yet). As they spend time in this house, they become oddly attached to it and accustomed. This doesn't last long, as they begin to forget everything about their past (much of which they cannot remember anyway; one of those similar experiences I was talking about), including their families and friends and whatnot, everything important. When they attempt to leave, they walk right out the door, but the world they wander into is only partly thiers, as the house's curse follows them, and no matter what they do, they always return to the house, as no matter how far they travel, or who they ask for help, they always fall asleep eventually (or lose consciousness) and awake again in the house, their efforts in vain.
This is just the foundation (and I think I'll have a pretty good idea of what causes the curse), but we can go everywhere with this within a certain ghosts and spectres and haunted house/world genre. The house would be destined to destroy them, but not so powerful to just collapse of something like that, and it would be alive in a sense, where it can learn from the mistakes it has make, and repair its own weaknesses, therefore, a trick that helps the characters out of a rough situation once may not work ever again.
The basic concept here is the pure horror, while avoidig the vampires and werewolves that are too common (though still interesting) in such films and stories. It would be ghosts, mind-tricks and things of that sort. The posts would have to almost be surreal, given the foundation above, and the characters would all have to be introduced near the beginning of the thread, as each would be in some way integral to the plot and the curse. Bios would have to be vague, given the lapses in memory and other attributes (we'll figure those out later).
Anyone interested?
Hopefully this is helpful in understanding what I'm trying to do here. The plot beyond this point would be this: (Roughly)
A currently undetermined number of people, all having suffered similar experiences but having never met one another, find themselves in the same town (to be named later) and find their ways into this house. They are "chosen" by the house, before their birth, and all share a birthmark, identical but in different places on their bodies, though why they are chosen isn't clear (just yet). As they spend time in this house, they become oddly attached to it and accustomed. This doesn't last long, as they begin to forget everything about their past (much of which they cannot remember anyway; one of those similar experiences I was talking about), including their families and friends and whatnot, everything important. When they attempt to leave, they walk right out the door, but the world they wander into is only partly thiers, as the house's curse follows them, and no matter what they do, they always return to the house, as no matter how far they travel, or who they ask for help, they always fall asleep eventually (or lose consciousness) and awake again in the house, their efforts in vain.
This is just the foundation (and I think I'll have a pretty good idea of what causes the curse), but we can go everywhere with this within a certain ghosts and spectres and haunted house/world genre. The house would be destined to destroy them, but not so powerful to just collapse of something like that, and it would be alive in a sense, where it can learn from the mistakes it has make, and repair its own weaknesses, therefore, a trick that helps the characters out of a rough situation once may not work ever again.
The basic concept here is the pure horror, while avoidig the vampires and werewolves that are too common (though still interesting) in such films and stories. It would be ghosts, mind-tricks and things of that sort. The posts would have to almost be surreal, given the foundation above, and the characters would all have to be introduced near the beginning of the thread, as each would be in some way integral to the plot and the curse. Bios would have to be vague, given the lapses in memory and other attributes (we'll figure those out later).
Anyone interested?
