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Standard of the Sky follows a trio of 'scapers' working for a sketchy, but perhaps promising, business having to do with gathering inspiration for themselves to help the trio figure themselves out with what they'd like to do for their seemingly aimless future. Cas, Lucas, and Agape each work as 'scapers,' a role within the business which includes venturing into people's dreams (w/o their knowledge) to collect things considered 'outlandish' or 'far fetched' ambitions in order for the SKY, the manager of the business, to later consume. The trio have little to no knowledge of the SKY existing, and don't realize until late that these 'outlandish' ambitions are being collected in order to feed the SKY. Not only does the SKY eat people's ambitions, but it eats people aswell. Specifically it's employees once they're no longer desired. Forsythia, who works as a SKY entrepreneur within the business, assists in the dirty work behind the SKY tower business.

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SKY tower ranks/roles

Scaper
General: People who venture into dreams in order to remove unrealistic ambitions, while simultaneously gathering inspiration from said dreams. No distinguishing uniforms or dress code.

Abilities: Able to touch most things within a dream (though some items cannot be interacted with, as they result in the victim melting into a black slime-like substance.)

Known members of this role: Cas Alexandru, Lucas Green, Agape Angelidis

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Entreprenuer
General: People who can distinguish key values from a dream. Can determine what parts of a dream are 'outlandish'. ALL members under this role must wear clothing that includes patchwork within it's design. When examining the items that a scaper has brought back to them, the designs on the patchwork will shift and change into images hinting to the key values of the dream that was connected to the items. Also with each Entrepreneur comes a pair of real feathery wings positioned in seemingly random spots on their body. This isn't the case however, as the placement of the wings have deeper meaning towards the true values of the Entrepreneur themself. An example could be that someone working as an Entrepreneur who values making, creating, or building things would have their pair of wings placed on their hands or wrists.

Abilities: Can determine key values of a dream by examining the patterns only they can see on their clothing. Cannot touch most things within a dream, meaning they often cannot enter dreams themselves.

Known members of this role: Forsythia, Aqillutaq, Journey

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Seperate key events (Chronological order)

Nikola and Oisin: Factory
Nikola and Oisin had initially met each other working within a factory back in their home country Scotland. After much consideration, and a work accident consisting of Oisin dropping a half-full paint bucket onto his eye, half-blinding him, the two decided to move to the US together to seek more work opportunities.

Journey and Forsythia: The SKY tower
Nikola and Oisin come across an abandoned lighthouse one night after noticing strange lights from the sky had seemed to crash nearby the area. They enter the structure to greet a 9 foot tall dark butterfly, or axe, shaped creature standing silently within the center of the building. Using recordings of human speech remixed to create sentences, the creature was able to communicate with Nikola and Oisin. The creature claimed not to harm the 2, as long as they found something to feed the creature with, consisting of dreams, something the creature was interested in. The 3 settle things out, including the creature offering food and shelter, and create for themselves people who'd gather 'outlandish' aspects from within random people's dreams in order for the creature to consume. Nikola and Oisin were required to change their identities in order to work for the alien, and so they'd change their names to "Journey" and "Forsythia." The alien would soon call itself "the SKY," from where it came from. The SKY insisted that the 2 workers keep themselves from interacting much with other humans, in order to keep mishaps or being found out about from happening. Adding on, the SKY banned the consumption of other food items that it didn't approve of. For food, the SKY had no other ideas of how to gather easy food for it's 2 workers, it'd use the humans it'd pick apart dreams from and feed them to Journey and Forsythia. Though hesitant at first, the 2 were eventually forced to begin eating what was offered, as it was the only form of food available.

Cassandra and Journey: Casper Alexandru
A woman by the name of Cassandra would consider joining the SKY business along with Journey and Florsythia. It wouldn't be long until Journey and Cassandra would fall for each other. However, doing this was forbidden by the SKY's rules, as Cassandra had never chosen to join the business, and supposedly remained distant. This wasn't true obviously, because she now had a son, and Journey was acting awfully suspicious... The SKY executed him, and gave him to Forsythia to eat. If the SKY could, it would've executed both Cas and Cassandra, but Cassandra made sure to steer clear away from Journey and his SKY tower hideout.

Forsythia and the SKY: Scapers
Forsythia and the SKY, lacking workers to continue feeding the SKY, needed to find a way to be able to feed the both of them. Forsythia came up with the idea of luring employees in by offering those who are lost to come seeking inspiration through essentially venturing through dreams. The SKY came up with the idea of eating them once they started feeling that the job wasn't working out for them. This new role of people Forsythia came up with would be called 'Scapers', who'd gather outlandish and crazy things from dreams in order for the SKY to consume (without knowing, of course.) Entrepreneurs were also a role. Though after realizing the risks of allowing just anyone to become an Entrepreneur, Forsythia made the role more limited to seemingly naive or less-likely-to-figure-things-out people, so no one would rat out the business. But if it meant Forsythia could live his life normally again without being technically held hostage by the SKY, why doesn't he just let them? Because he'd gained a liking towards eating people. Yeah. He had no other way to get free human, so he wished to keep the business running. (Could also be from built up guilt.)

Lucas Green: US
Lucas Green was forcefully moved to the US in order to learn how to live independently, as he was used to using his dads' bank for everything he wanted. Lucas didn't especially like the idea of working, and the only job he'd ever considered was jet piloting, though this dream of his was quite far fetched, and he didn't see himself ever reaching his dream. Lucas would later come across the SKY tower while barely having met Cas and Agape one night after the trio had coincidentally all visited a bar on the same night.

Agape Angelidis: Drop out
Agape Angelidis would visit a nearby bar to get his mind off of just having dropped out of his art school, due to demotivation to continue pursuing a talent seen as pointless by his father. Sitting next to Lucas and Cas, all whom were conversing with the bartender about job recommendations and life advice, Agape listened in. It's then he learns about the SKY tower.

Cas Alexandru: Kel
Cas Alexandru was venting to his close friend Kel, a worker of the local bar, about how he wasn't sure what else he could do to explore possible inspirations to find out what he's good at, what he wants for his future, etc. Beside 2 strangers who'd deicided to share the conversation between Kel and Cas, Kel recommends the three the neaby 'SKY tower,' as it supposedly offered the things all three persons were looking for. The trio search for this place themselves, together, that very same night.

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Pub: 01 May 2024 00:37 UTC
Edit: 13 Sep 2024 17:17 UTC
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