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Dream: Timeless Anarchy

Saturday, 21. February 2009, 21:32:22

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Some people think a dream is just something that occurs inside your brain. Others say it's a totally different world. They're right. This story follows Aira as she and some newfound friends save the Dream world from the real world.

Revision in progress.

CharactersAira Sky: (Air-rah Sky) Aira, being born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan is a bright student. She ponders life, wondering why she almost exactly does the same thing everyday. Go school, go home, eat, sleep. Aira says she's tired of having a normal life, and wants something more exciting. (Age 16)

Clare Sky: (Kla-air Sky) Clare is Aira's little sister. She was born three weeks after Aira was. She's really into music and playing the piano. (Age 16)

Cho Nguyen: (Choe New-yen) Her parents left her when she was just a child. She hasn't seen them since. Cho has been living in shelters for awhile, moving around. A mysterious letter was sent to her inviting her to Japan with first class airplane tickets. She glady used them. (Age 15)

Lauren Heinsdale: (Lore-ranh Hai-ns-dale) Her parents scored a high-paying job at Shibuya 405 so they decided to move to Japan. She didn't have a choice anyway. Susan didn't really like the idea of leaving her friends, but, she's grown to adapt to Japan. (Age 15)

Dalton Wynd: (Dahl-ton Wi-nd) He was born in Seattle, Washington. At the age of 7, after his mom married his father, they decided to move to back to Japan, his parent's home country. Ever since he could start to remember, Dalton hasn't had a dream since. (Age 16)

Peter Glens: (Pee-tur Gl-ens) Peter has been Dalton's friend since they were 8. He can be really bright at times, but often doesn't use his brain. :rolleyes: (Age 16)
Table Of ContentsChapter 1 - Absolution
Chapter 2 - Initiate
Chapter 3 - Essence Of Time
Chapter 4 - Senses
Chapter 5 - Lecture
Chapter 6 - AWACS
Chapter 7 - Discovery
Songs
To be determined...
Wiki
Dream: The Wiki - Helping you better understand the story.

Dream has been rewritten and a new storyline has been laid out. You may see some posts in this blog titled, "Dream (old)". Those posts contain the old storyline to this story and have been discontinued. Any updates to this story can be found here and here.

Note: All chapters as seen are subject to some revision and are not fully finished until I deem so. Even if they've already been released to the public. Any suggestions and typo edits will be taken into consideration. Heck, if this story hits it big, you could be in the credits! P:

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Comments

Tamil 21. February 2009, 21:59

:up: & :wait:

Andrew Nguyen 21. February 2009, 22:01

:sherlock: Now I'm starting to realize why I got a 100% on reading on my EXPLORE test. :lol: It's the blogging! :yes:

...and what are you :wait: for? :eyes:

Tamil 21. February 2009, 22:06

:wait: for more characters.

Andrew Nguyen 21. February 2009, 22:08

Oh, I thought you were waiting for a banana. P:

Here's one anyway. :D banana

Tamil 21. February 2009, 22:14

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 00:55

Two more characters added. :smile:

Tamil 22. February 2009, 01:02

:up:

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 01:09

I added a bit to Hiro Suzuki so he would have more significance in the story. :D

Tamil 22. February 2009, 01:13

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 02:02

Updated Ayumi Kato's information a bit.

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 02:54

Story update: I've added "next", "previous" and "Table of Contents" links to my story posts to make it easier to go in order, and to get straight to the Table of Contents. :D

DrLaunch 22. February 2009, 14:24

Hmm. I wonder what made you start writing a story. :sherlock:

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing how your story unfolds. If you want to see what made me start writing a story in my blog, have a look here.

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 15:17

P: What got me started was your Dr. Launch spacelog 47. The others were interesting too, but this one was really interesting for some reason. P:
I also just wanted to start being creative. :lol: :yes:

The Charming monkey...:sherlock:

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 16:07

Added Danro Oriko to the character list. Reveled in Dream: Prologue. :D

Andrew Nguyen 22. February 2009, 18:06

Added Ayano Nakamura to the character list and adjusted Ayumi Kato to better fit with the story.

Suntana 27. February 2009, 22:06

So, do you have Ayumi's E-mail Address or what? I want to pick her brain regarding CSS & HTML. :D Did she help you fix your Blog?

Yep, I am finally able to type in your Comment Box, Andrew. So, whatever you and / or Ayumi did, it's working now. :yes:

:lol: @ Akiyo and his straight C's.

Andrew Nguyen 27. February 2009, 22:10

:no: I don't have her e-mail address, but since she's my character...I might as well give her one. :lol: :faint:

:yes: It seems as though the transparency doesn't allow Windows 98- users to type in my box...:sherlock:. Have you visited Dr. Launch's blog? He uses the same transparency.

P:

Suntana 27. February 2009, 23:10

Okay, Andrew, I went just now to Dr. Launch's Blog. Yep, just as you suspected, I get the exact same extreme slowness in the Comment Box for the typed characters to display. And the Scrolling was also slow, choppy and difficult to control. So, yeah, so far, with my 8-year old Windows 98SE computer with slow AOL Dial Up as my ISP for my Opera Browser, I've had problems with any Blogs with opacity / transparency effects.

But, as I've said before, Andrew, don't let ME be the one to stop the progress of your Blog themes, effects and ideas. If whatever creations you're masterminding over at your secret Blog Testing Grounds work properly on other people's NEW computers with Windows XP and above ... Hey, go with the flow.

I periodically bring up to people idiosyncrasies that I encounter when viewing their Blogs. When it's something that's the result of Windows 98 incompatibility, it's totally up to them whether they want to make a change to make it Windows 98-friendly. But, they don't have to since I'm using an obsolete Windows version.

Andrew Nguyen 28. February 2009, 01:08

:sherlock:

I believe in universal compatibility... P: But, I've ditched the transparency (for now anyway) so you can enjoy my blog. :D

DrLaunch 28. February 2009, 01:56

I might have a less graphics intensive blog design inspired by Andrew's good eye for colors coming up in the future.

Andrew Nguyen 28. February 2009, 02:06

:D :up:

Andrew Nguyen 2. March 2009, 23:54

Updated characters a bit. :zip:

Suntana 3. March 2009, 01:21

Is it reflected in the descriptions?
Well, I went and took a quick glance to see what if anything stood out from when I read them Friday or Saturday. Hmmm? I could be wrong, but I THINK I don't recall Akiyo being talented in Soccer. I don't know. A lot of Info to assimilate. So, maybe that WAS already there. :D

Andrew Nguyen 3. March 2009, 01:34

I've added that Ayumi has a fascination for solitare cards and that Akiyo is talented in soccer. :D

Suntana 3. March 2009, 02:19

You know the funny thing? I actually passed right by Ayumi's fascination with solitaire cards a while ago ... and went, "Nope. That's NOT it. I recall that from before." Homer: Doh! So, I was recalling something that WASN'T there before. :lol:

Andrew Nguyen 3. March 2009, 02:23

:lol: P:

My writing bends the minds of people... :devil:

Tamil 4. March 2009, 01:17

You should not write in long paragraphs.

Originally posted by Southern Cross:

Ayumi sat there in Social Studies class playing with her playing cards. Carefully trying to build a tower. "Hey, put those away before you get in trouble." Reika warned Ayumi. "Shh, hold on. Lemme just put this on top..." "Ms. Kato. You know what I feel about you playing with those cards during class." said Mr. Santeru. "Ok ok, lemme put them away."

Ayumi sat there in Social Studies class playing with her playing cards. Carefully trying to build a tower.

"Hey, put those away before you get in trouble." Reika warned Ayumi. "Shh, hold on. Lemme just put this on top..."

"Ms. Kato. You know what I feel about you playing with those cards during class." said Mr. Santeru.

"Ok ok, lemme put them away."

Andrew Nguyen 4. March 2009, 01:57

This will make my blog posts super long...but it's worth it. P: Editing skills....GO! :ninja:

Andrew Nguyen 12. April 2009, 19:54

:zip:

Tamil 12. April 2009, 21:43

Andrew Nguyen 12. June 2009, 21:59

Re-named and added new character bios.

Bharat Raj 13. June 2009, 09:13

The story is getting interesting.:D

Andrew Nguyen 13. June 2009, 15:36

:wink:

Andrew Nguyen 26. June 2009, 00:24

Updated Cho Nguyen's bio.

Andrew Nguyen 29. June 2009, 01:34

Toshiko has been renamed to Clare.

Bharat Raj 29. June 2009, 01:36

Oh!Homer: Doh!

Andrew Nguyen 29. June 2009, 01:39

I found out that saying Toshiko is a bit lengthy and wouldn't go in with some of my scripts. P:

Bharat Raj 29. June 2009, 01:41

Ok.:D

Suntana 12. August 2009, 21:01

Andrew, when you renamed Toshiko to Clare, you left the pronunciation for Toshiko. Homer: Doh!

Question: Is "Nguyen" really pronounced New-yen?
I worked with Vietnamese for years and somewhere along the line, I recall hearing that it was pronounced - Win. :eyes:

I guess I could have heard incorrectly or somewhere along the line mixed up my Info.

Andrew Nguyen 12. August 2009, 22:03

I swear I changed that...:faint:

Nguyen can be pronounced in many different ways. :lol:

Official: Win
Bi-Official: New-yen
The announcer at track: Nn-guy-yen

Suntana 12. August 2009, 23:30

Ahhh, so it IS Win.
Even having heard that it was Win, I was just tempted to pronounce it more closer to that Track Announcer's way. :lol: That or something like Nwoo-gen.

The Laotian names were even tougher on us to pronounce.
One guy we called - TV
Another guy - SMC
Because their long names were too tough to pronounce, much less remember.

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