[center][IMG]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1146/ihyo.jpg[/IMG] [b][i]Themes: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction]Metafiction[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy]Science Fantasy[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism]Magic Realism[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)]Alternate Universe[/url][/i][/b] [b]Quick Check![/b][/center] [indent]For those of you whom prefer a concise interest check with the bare elements, this is dedicated to you. The 'CosmoNET' as it has been dubbed is an interstellar network of life-bearing planets that are connected by the streams of either positive or negative energy that run through the entire cosmos, which is structured similar to an atom. The entire cosmos can be most easily understood in its three parts: the core worlds, the inner worlds and the outer worlds. The closer a world or planet is to the mostly-neutral core, the more energy there is within that tier and thus higher tendencies for organic beings to adapt to using it and become proficient with it. As of now, a cruel and immensely powerful [i]'Council of Nine'[/i] govern the core worlds and thus control most of its energy. As they are immensely powerful in their respective worlds and are always attempting to expand, they keep each other in check and fight off rebellions from the inner worlds as much as they do each other. The council in recorded history has only ever acted in unison twice; once being so long ago even they have forgotten the reasoning and the second being to destroy a rebellion that threatened their footholds of power. This is where Earth comes into play. As there are nearly infinite outer worlds with such fine networks that even the most skillful Ley Master [i](those whom read the ley lines)[/i] cannot trace them all and an equal amount of more thinly-spread energy found within the outer worlds, most rebels believe the key to dissolving the council is in harnessing the outer worlds. The physical distance and sheer immensity of this task is difficult to describe or comprehend, but the current method of doing so is as such: find a planet with high-potential lifeforms, search out those with high sparks of energy and attempt to connect them to the CosmoNET. If successful, they manifest wherever desired by their Ley Master to take on a whole new role as an avatar with abilities that reflect their real-world selves - all without ever leaving their home planet. To boil it even more down...[/indent] [b]CosmoNET is a free form RPG-style roleplay where you upload yourself to a whole new, psuedo-magical, slightly fantastical world to defeat a tyrannical leadership.[/b] ---- [center]Head Moderator: Prince CosmoNET Chat: [url=http://us19.chatzy.com/87371333307236]Click Here[/url] Roleplay Status: Interest Check/Development Rules: TBA[/center] ---- [center][b]Theme Song[/b] [youtube]eiY_uUN7dEQ[/youtube][/center] What if you were awoken from a surreal dream with an offer that seemed both crazy and amazing? What if you were given the opportunity of a lifetime, except you had a thousand reasons to doubt it? What if you awoke in a cold sweat just a moment before your alarm blared, left without any assurance until the next night? If it was all caused by an azure-armored knight interrupting your sweet dream or saving you from your horrific nightmares... [indent]...would you go with him?[/indent] [hider=Incoming MSG][indent][b]Welcome to the CosmoNET, ![/b][/indent] I am PhyKnight, and I will be your guide. You have been chosen among a handful of other youths to enter a competition to become the [i]Champion of Earth[/i]! [indent]What kind of game is this, you ask? Did you sign up for it? Is this real?[/indent] This is no game, . I am the Ley Master of your neck of the woods. I search hundreds of life-bearing planets in a range so great that your most magnificent telescopes could not begin to see what I can in seconds. I can do this because the world is knit-together with what we call Ley, and its negatively charged where you came from. Every world, especially those that are life-bearing, is somehow connected with Ley in a network so vast that no Ley Master can even begin to see it all in the same way your telescopes barely look into our world, but I assure you that we share it. You were chosen, , because your soul itself has a spark in it that I believe could sustain a connection to the CosmoNET. Now, I cannot make you do this. If you so choose to leave after this introduction, I will never bother you again. However, if you choose to come with me, you will be trained in the ways of combat, the magics that surround you and even how your science can be just as useful as a tool as the ancient mystics of other worlds. There will be dozens of not hundreds others chosen, and only one of you may take on the title of Champion. Lastly, I assure you this is completely real. The world is so vast that outside of it, things happen that you yet cannot comprehend, but if you come with me, you will. Your soul will venture with me every night as you sleep and I will make sure you are trained to become a great warrior, or maybe inventor or maybe even become a leader. There are no limits here. Your soul will take time to adapt, so your visits will be short at first. But, once you begin to strengthen yourself and your soul, you will be able to make a single night's rest into weeks of time with me, if not more. If you are curious as to a few things, such as why only the youthful have been chosen, I can easily explain. An older soul will lose its plasticity, thus meaning very few adults can manage the CosmoNET. Because of the demand of users to be youthful, I have taken elements common to many of them to create this more familiar environment for meeting and training them. I have to meet with thousands of candidates in such fractions of a second that you could not comprehend how fruitless it would be for me to visit each of you individually, and only so many of you can become true users of the CosmoNET with even fewer ever becoming champions. [indent]I shall visit you, , in your next dream, waiting for an answer. Signing out, [i]PhyKnight[/i][/indent][/hider] That is exactly the question CosmoNET asks. The setting of this roleplay is present-day Earth, but creates a metafiction around it that the user is aware of. A whole new world to interact in. A world full of double-sided characters that are themselves on Earth, and a whole new person 'on the NET' all while being roleplayed by one of us. The entire concept, honestly, is not only to create this observational dynamic, but also give each roleplayer a chance to even play as [i](if they want)[/i] themselves as a character, to-the-T, in every aspect of life so that they can express themselves when they turn into their [i]alter[/i]-alter-ego. This is an idea of I've been toying with for a while, and I would love for it to explode. I am looking for casual-advanced players with at least three paragraphs per post, but I will neither be strict or meticulous with posting. I want this roleplay to be just as much as a psychological thought experiment as an action thriller, and I'm sure it will be the latter.