Okay... So I had an odd dream that was MRO related, and thought maybe it'd make a fun little side plot for a few people.

Basically, it's Stepford wives, MRO style... but the whole thing would take place in an elaborate combined dreamworld. Each character that joined would probably start off as something that a mutant NPC dreamed up, like a perfect little house wife for example, (or whatever you can come up with), so that it fit along with the theme of the book/movie.

But I would need help figuring out what the details would be, to make it fun for everyone involved. Since it was a dream and I don't remember much past Megan being a complacent robot house wife.

Anyway... sound fun? Any ideas?

I would love to participate. Celeste could be a perfect housewife, regardless her age of course.

It really sounds funny, but I do not know how can we make it more interesting. People would be robots or would everyone be perfect while still being human / mutant?

It would probably be easier to keep the robot part of it purely in my dream land.

But having people be assigned certain roles, perhaps things that they would never do in real life, would be the premise of it.

I imagine it would be similar to the dream machines in Fallout 3. Where one person, who would be the NPC dreamer in this case, would be handing out said roles and shaping the dream world to what he wants.

It would be up to the dreamer to 'wake up' and figure out what was going on, and in the dream setting they would probably have to get together and take on the NPC as a group. Which would mean fighting a lot of dream creations, and coming up with wacky dream powers. ~Since anything is possible while sleeping~

It sounds fun. Teddy could Be a bad kid or something.

Wow... this could be really interesting. It would be even more interesting if each person that entered this dream world brought into this world a piece of their personality or their history. In Alex's case, he could bring in that he views every single one of his family members as a hero or heroine so they are all clothed in white or in beautiful armor, though he views himself as nothing but a traitor so all he's wearing is black leather that is blood stained.

... this could be really amazing to say the least. Now, as for wacky dream powers or creatures, I've got a laundry list of those. For example just off the top of my head, there could be a snake that looks like a sock puppet with Robin Williams face on the front singing Beethoven's 5th with the unique power to burp soap bubbles that head towards dirt like rocket and blow up the dirt so it no longer exists. That happened once in my dreams. Like I said, I've got a laundry list of odd creatures and odd powers.

Oohh, that's a pretty good idea too!

That would definitely work a lot better at molding the world to fit each person... Instead of it just being what the dreamer wants, it could play entirely off of what the people he's influencing want? Some could have wonderful dreams about being heroes, or happily married wives, and others could be stuck in personal nightmares.

That could make it fun, by adding the possibility of people not wanting to 'wake up' from really good dreams.

The npc could be tweaked so that he keeps those in his dream worlds asleep until they either force themselves awake (through maybe battle or sheer will), or until he lets them go... would that make more sense, to add a little element of danger to the theme?

I think I have an idea of how we actually could make this plot.
I was thinking of a mutant with a giant psychic abilities, but with a body almost paralyzed. Stephen Hawking style.
Bored with his life in solitude, and boring to look into the minds of the people of the city, he decides it's time to get involved. Then he creates a social experiment in which he assigns different roles to all the participants.
The chosen ones are people he chose, this plot would happen overnight. While sleeping, they would dream all night, making the plot take several days (IC On plot) while they only spends a night in the real world (IC). This way, this plot will not change much the time lines of the participants.

The "selected" people, would be those that choose to enter. None will be compelled to participate.

Each participant will choose two roles, that will be randomized to one of the other participants. One role would be for female and the other one for males. For example, I want Celeste to participate, then I say two roles. Perfect housewife that is frustrated on the inside. Husband who is cheating.

Then these two roles will be assigned to someone at random, and Celeste will get a role to play that someone else picked.

In my opinion this plot and role system, would put our characters in situations we did not imagine and we will need to play our role well. And we will keep our memories of what happen in it.

Hmm! Now that sounds very interesting Celeste!

I'm really tempted to get involved in this... but I have to be honest, I'm not sure if I can with my character Rook. He's a bit... how should I say it... unstable while sleeping. Meaning that he might bring his depression into the dream, and that could make everything go completely bonkers.

Actually, I might have to back out of this one. I'm pretty full up on plots right now, so I'm now sure if I can fit it in... that aside, feel free to take the idea and run with it. It looks like you're doing a pretty good job at rounding it up into a playable, exciting plot, IM.

Have fun! If I have room i'm maybe try and drop back in.

I like the idea, and if I don't have too many threads at the time, I'd consider entering Aurion. Though I have no idea what Stepford wives are, haha. Celeste idea sound pretty good about how to deal with the roles and such. My question though, is while in this dream world, would our characters remember who they were/have the same personalities, or would they be 'dreamed up' as completely different people within their roles?

How I was thinking it... participants would have to play different roles, which may differ from their normal mood, and would make them do things they would normally not do... but part of the real personality can influence the role. For example, a depressed person can know something is wrong and feel depressed, but if your role is one full of happiness, you will not find a logic explanation. The more paranoid might try to find out what is happening. Thats where the plot get nice. Your character living something he knows is not true. Is up to him to try to stop the people that want to end that paradise, or join them to try to find what is happening.

And thinking specifically in Aurion... mutants with animal features would have a role too, a human role and they would have to interact with others as if they have human form (Not human in "I do not have power" way but human in form), and people would see these characters like animal, beast, alien, whatever they form is. But in situations that may not be quite correct outside the plot.

For example, imagine Aurion with a tie going into an office. He need to write an article on the computer with his alien like hands. Very funny.
I imagine him as bobcats.

Megan, do not worry too much about missing this, since this plot should start after finishing with the chibi plot. And it may take a while...

I'm not really too familair with the Stepford Wives, but the more I read about the plotting in this thread the more awesome it sounds. I might just want to be a part of this.

One more suggestion; It might work better on a whole if everyone is within the same dream world. It would be easier for people to meet up, rather than having everyone off in their own singular little bubble. So rather than people being alienated and having to wait for others to stumble upon them, they could all be part of the same town, or neighborhood.

Example; Celeste and Aurion live next door to each other and know each other as neighbors due to the roles they have been given. If Aurion then figured out that he was part of some strange mutants dream, he would only have to waltz across the lawn to speak with Celeste about this realization.

Sound good?

I would agree with that. Maybe something to the effect of people playing different roles within the same dream world? That way many of the characters of the dream would actually be the fellow PCs.

I shudder to think of what someone would dream up Issie as....