Don't let your dream stay as just that: A dream.

"Here you can find scene updates, raw and unedited story elements yet to come, as well as other information involving Beyond: Rebirth. Feel free to ask me anything, and I'll do my best to answer without ruining future plotlines. I hope you have a wonderful day and have enjoyed Beyond: Rebirth so far!"

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Games...

Darkness. Typing. A faint light in the corner of a posh, well-decorated bedroom. Flashes of light and the sound of music blaring through headphones. An intake of breath. And then, hysteric laughter. "Oh, come on. You've got to be kidding me, David." The honeyed voice of a girl says. A dramatic sigh follows from a man from within the girl's headphones, "I'm not lying, Kira. You need to stop whatever game you've started up. I've head of people turning up missing. And they're all playing the same games you are. Some mom, with like, three kids, just gone. Poof! They still haven't even gotten any clues as what might have happened to her!" This time, the sigh comes from the girl within the dark bedroom. "If you think I'm scared or afraid, David, you don't know me at all. I've already decoded the first five pages myself! Without any help at all! I'm winning!" "Winning isn't everything, Kira!" "It is to me," Kira replies, grinding her teeth in annoyance, "look, I gotta go. Talk to you later." Without waiting for a reply, she disconnects the Skype call, puts herself on private, and closes the window. The image of a large red triangle greets her. Kira's lips pucker, and her jaw clenches, "If David thinks I'm giving up, he's got another thing coming."

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Sixth Sense - Synopsis

The year is 2023, and ARG and LARP's have taken the world by storm, and players are hungry for more. More action, more danger, more risks. With the flop of the high-tech VR's in 2021, people have resolved to look out, rather than in, in the two years following, opening their eyes for what seemed like the first time in decades. Those both old and young have taken to the streets to play games of grandeur and infamy. But, when players call for more, the question begins to pop up, "What are you willing to risk in your search for thrills?". The answers by many? "Anything.", they call and scream in response.

When players of the ARG's and LARP's begin coming up dead, first a sole killing, and then in groups of two, three, four and fives, each having a red triangle carved into their foreheads, everyone begins to understand that if they lose, the final outcome will be their death. Still, with a drive for the unknown, many continue to push forward, forfeiting their safety in hopes of uncovering the mysteries around them.

I hope you enjoy this brief synopsis I wrote for “Sixth Sense”, the COG forum for it can be found here:  https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/sixth-sense-a-survival-horror-story-interest-check/34708

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Merry Christmas!

As a gift for all my followers (SPOILERS BELLOW RED LIGHT RED LIGHT IF YOU HATE SPOILERS DO NOT READ!) I’d like to go ahead and tell you how you’ll be meeting Azrael, since that seems to be one of the biggest questions:

You’ll be sent to him by your psychiatrist. There. Nothing big. You’ll probably meet him... Like, almost right at the beginning of chapter one...? :)

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Chapter 1 Update

Things have been going slow (I’ve been really busy) and I haven’t been able to write as much as I’d like to, but, I would like to share a possible opening scene here on Tumblr! So, without further ado, here you go!

Click, tap, tap. Click, click, tap. Tap, tap, click.

"So, your parents tell me they've gotten worse. You toss and turn all throughout the night, you even wake up screaming and gasping at times. Which means you lied to me at our last session. You're not getting better at all, Lady Rivera." Click, tap. Tap, click, tap, goes his pin once more in a feverish display of annoyance. The scrutinising, too small, beady eyes of the elderly psychiatrist peer down at you with discontent and disappointment. You clench your jaw, refusing to acknowledge him, unwilling to fight back against his accusations. Having come to see this man for the past year and a half, you feel, frankly, defeated and depressed.

The small hands of this man, but with a wave and few movements of his pin, could have you confined to the mental asylum. All it would take is his, his associate, Doctor Wallace, and your Fathers signatures, and you'd be shipped off. Tested on. Drove truly to madness and insanity with the treatment's to help you gain your "sanity" back. And worst of all, no one would say a damned thing in your defence.

Not your mother or Tobias or any of the servants in your household. No, the only one likely to speak up and try to help you would be Ashton. But he's not your true blood-brother, your betrothed or husband so his word would hold no sway at all. Not even the bloody Queen could stop them from having you shipped away. For, as of now, you're considered little more than livestock to be heard about at the behest of your cattle driver and ranch-hands. All of whom were condescending, hateful, men. Nothing short of eloping and running away would get you out from underneath Earl Alec Rivera's thumb. Click, click, tap, click, tap starts Doctor Timbers' pin once more, waiting for you to reply to his accusations.

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Introductions:

I’d like to introduce you to two ladies who will have a part within the story. Firstly, we have:

Gabi Maldonado:

and

Lavinia Wyer:

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Ghouls...

I said I wouldn’t talk about them at the moment... But...

Ghouls are pretty nasty things. Mainly servants to high ranking Demons and Angels, a Ghoul will hunt down, eat, and use the skin of their victims to take on their appearance. Once they’ve gotten the scent of their victim, they’ll hunt them down until either whomever they’re hunting is dead... Or they are.

Of all the creatures within Beyond: Rebirth, I would rank them in nastiness right below the most reprehensible of the Angels/Demons when it comes to devastation.

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Fae and Jinn

Some more info on the Fae:

The Fae live (mostly) within the Otherworld. Also called, simply, “Fae”. They are divided into the Light and Dark Kingdoms. The Courts of Spring and Summer make up the Light Kingdom, while the Courts of Fall and Winter make of the Dark Kingdom. Each Fae has different colouring depending on which Court they’re from. 

Some info on the Jinn:

There are four types of Jinn, each of which controls a different element:

Water - Marid

Air - Jann

Fire - Ifrit

Earth - Hinn

(I might change their names. But this is the four types of Jinn talked about)

The Jinn mostly live nomadic lives. But, the Ifrit mostly align with the Demons, while the Marid usually align with the Angels. Jann and Hinn are mostly neutral when it comes to matters of conflict.

There’s also the Ghouls... But let's not get into them lol. The Jinn live within desert regions mostly, or areas coinciding with their elements. 

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Prologue Update

So, coming to a close on the prologue, there’s upwards of 3.8k+ words (including coding). And I should be posting the finished product in around 4/5ish hours?

Do you think this is too few or too much? I’ll be aiming around 9-11k for the main chapters, so I thought around 4k would be a nice stopping point for it.

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Prologue - Tumblr version

For my lovely Tumblr followers, here is an early peek at the new prologue for the game:

https://beyondrebirth.neocities.org/early_prologue.html

Please note that this is not the finished product, and will take a bit to get everything in that I want too! But at least you get a small taste!

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions before it’s added to the CoG forum?

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Early Release?

What do you guys think about me adding an unfinished (but almost finished?) early version of the new upcoming prologue here for my Tumblr followers?

It wouldn’t be that early tbh, maybe 10-12 hours. I’m still working out some details for the new prologue’s big release tomorrow.

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Books, books, and more books...

The book had been a gift from Ashton a week or so back. He was, in his own way, always sending you a small gift here or there, this or that. Some might say that it was unladylike to accept the books and other knickknacks he gifted, but you loved Ashton like a brother, and if others found yours and Ashton’s relationship unseemly, well, they could just bugger off like the swine they were.

Pushing the thoughts away, you open the book, a crimson ribbon enclosed between the pages where you’d last left off. As you begin to read, your mind eases and your body relaxes. The fire pops and hisses, sending warmth your way, and you let out a small sigh of relief. In the distance, you hear the longcase clock ding once, twice, three times, and then, what only seem like minutes later, you hear it ding three more times again.

Tucking your feet underneath your body, which causes your cloth nightgown to bunch up, you feel your eyes begin to grow heavy and blur. A small nap couldn’t hurt. Plus, the parlour was no doubt much warmer than your bedroom, at the moment. 

With a yawn, you place the ribbon back between the pages once more and lower the book down onto the floor. Resting your head on the arm of the sofa, you close your eyes and, within moments, you begin to dream. 

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Hmm...

A faceless woman, smooth skin the colour of polished marble, covering where her eyes, nose, and mouth should be, seems to stare back at you. White, patchy, hair flows down to her knees, and bone shines through where hair seems to of been ripped from the scalp. A sheer nightgown does little to hide away the womanly body underneath.

An unsettling feeling churns in your stomach. Your dreams have always been vivid, but it feels as if this thing, this creature, this woman, stares straight into your very soul. Dissecting and sizing you up, much like the men your father and mother bring do. Only, where their gazes were hazed over with lust, looking from your growing breast to your slim thighs, the creature before you does not even move, as if it were daring you to step forward first and make a mistake.

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Sisters Horn and Ivory

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The Otherworld - AKA Fairy.

Want to know more about the Fae? Well... Look no more than to the Fairy Rings of Scotland.

There’s always some truth in fiction and urban legends.

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A Gate of Horn and Ivory

“My friend, dreams are things hard to interpret, hopeless to puzzle out, and people find that not all of them end in anything. There are two gates through which the insubstantial dreams issue. One pair of gates is made of horn, and one of ivory. Those of the dreams which issue through the gates of sawn ivory, these are deceptive dreams, their message is never accomplished. But those that come into the open through the gates of the polished horn accomplish the truth for any mortal who sees them.”

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So many options to write lol

So, for anyone wondering, this is what coding 26 different possible scenes looks like:

*comment Są to pierwsze możliwe z 26 kart. Dla drugiej i trzeciej opcji będzie również 26 do wyboru./ / / *goto_random_scene    t_fool    t_empress    t_lovers    t_hermit    t_hanged_man    t_devil    t_moon    t_world    ace_of_c    a4_of_c    a7_of_c    a10_of_c    queen_of_c    a2_of_p    a5_of_p    a8_of_p    page_of_p    King_of_p    a3_of_s    a6_of_s    a9_of_s    knight_of_s    ace_of_w    a4_of_w    a7_of_w    a10_of_w

But you know what? I’m happy to do what no other person has done on the CoG forums yet... Or, at least, I think so?

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Your step mum and dad...

So, I put a lot of thought into how high up your mother and father should be. I eventually made my mind up and decided upon:

Mother(step) is a niece to Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (Her mother held the title of Princess)

Father(step) is a cousin to Queen Victoria (he's an Earl)

I hope this craves some thirst for some wanting to know how up on the social ladder your family is.