What we have agreed on so far: please do not give up reading after seeing the first point in my list. If you read the whole list, you should understand everything. At least I hope so.

• This RR is divided into two parts: the RL parts of D/G, i.e. what they're doing at Hogwarts, and the Dream Parts
  
  
• We'll start off with a RL part
  
  
• The dreams will take place in Ancient Egypt.
  
  
• Ginny will be Cleopatra's double.
  
  
• Draco will be a rich and spoiled brat like he is in RL. He will not be a military man.
  
  
• Faith and Ri want Cameos
  
  
• No fluffy ending
  
  
• There is no connection between dreams and RL. They're just dreams, and nothing more. We could kind of kill Ginny (or Draco) at the end in the dreams, and make Draco (or Ginny) realize how much the other meant to him (her) and tell her in RL. But no fluffy ending, please. Just a hint or something.
  
  
• Things going on in the dreams vaguely resemble things going on in RL.
  
  
• Draco and Ginny are the same people, but everyone AROUND them in the dreamworld sees them not as Hogwarts!DracoAndGinny, but as AncientEgyptian!DracoAndGinny.
  
  
• Some random Ri ideas:
  
  -- Loooads of UST. You can have that PG-13-y too.
  -- amoebic dysentery (amoebic dysentery is what tourists often get in Egypt. Amoebs are bacteria, and you get diarrhoe when infected.)
  -- some conspiracy?
  -- NO forced marriage (-> All you need is love)
  -- Draco feeding peasants to crocodiles, hehe. Sorry. Not funny.
  -- Ginny must (!!!) have a cat. Cat's were holy for Egyptians!
  -- Cameos, anyone?
  
  
• They resemble each other. Draco is friends with Cleopatra (or so they tell him). Plot idea: loooads of D/G moments, because Draco has to deal with her as she is Cleopatra's double.Somebody is conspiring against Cleopatra, wants to kill her. Ginny naturally thinks it's Draco. Draco's searching for the real person trying to kill the queen. Somebody might actually kidnap Ginny at some point, and Cleopatra sends Draco out to search for her.
  
  
• We are neither changing Draco's and Ginny's names, nor their personalities

I did not read through the whole 7 pages, but more like the last 3 or so. Some of these things might be not entirely correct. Just take a look at it and tell me what you would change, and add more plot ideas.

Ri

Welll... okay, from the looks of it, I can only add it will start with them getting ready for bed.

And all I think we need to figure before we start is why are they having these dreams?




~Faith~

I think... Maybe, I was thinking, this could sort of be their past lives, you know?

And they're dreaming it, sort of reliving it subconsciencely. And it could be a result of... I don't know, a spell? Encounter with an Egyptian artifact? No, no.

Oh! Maybe a spell from Egyptian artifact... Like, a wizarding book, or something. Remember, when the Weasleys went to Eygpt?? Ginny could have brought something back with her... And maybe she takes Ancient Runes or something and Professor Vector (?) reads aloud what it says... Or she figures it out herself... Or something...

*struggling*



~Faith~

Wheeeee Okay, sorry.

So the last tomb was Ginny's? So that means she must have snuck into it somehow.
If we use this idea (wonderful idea by the way) we're going to have to put it into the story, right? So should we start out with this instead, or maybe when Ginny discovers what's causing the dreams.

Just to let you know I'm going to handle the easy-read, so just start writing and I'll take care of the rest

Oh and just a word to the wise, perhaps yall are planning this a bit too much. Just get a general story line and go with it. I know I like to write much more when I don't have all of these guidelines weighing down on me. Just a suggestion though, you don't have to take it.

Anyway, thanks for not going off topic! I really appreciate it!

*keeshes*

Soooo... shall I add the bit about Ginny and the tomb in the first post?

And Kakos, are you a mod here? Because your group says Members. You should perhaps talk to Pen.

Hi people,

Nicole (Kaykos) is a Mod in the D/G main forum. She's a local Mod, meaning her Mod Tools are available in one or more forums but not in all. Global Mods are the people who fall under the usergroup Moderators or Super Mods. Global Mods have been compiling a list of nominees for more local and/or global Mods. We're also asking that Nicole be given Mod Tools for all the D/G subforums.

That's my heads up for the day for Ri and Nicole. I expect we'll have new Mod Team members by later next week. We need to sound out the candidates beforehand.

Ah, thanks Pen! I was just wondering, because I thought that Nicole was a fanfic mod or something. I know who the 'nominees' for D/G are, tee hee.

So what about the plot people? Do we want one, or shall we just write from now on? Because I don't want to do the first part. I'm intimidated by it Yes, there's some things out there that frighten me

Ri


You're right, Nicole is also a fanfic Mod. ~Pen

Hi guys,

Basically, Mods are assigning themselves to specific forums. We're also asking less active Team members if they still have the time and interest to do Modly work. Some have the interest, but RL does interfere. If we find that we're gonna need new hands, then we'll ask for new Teammates. As you can tell, PK is growing so fast, so we need to redefine Mods' roles. What was sufficient before may be inadequate now.

~Pen

*rubs hands together* Okay, so we're starting?
Good all this planning was beginning to take the fun away But at least now we have a plot. Thank goodness.

So who wants to start? Not me, it's scary.

Haha, so I guess I'm starting it.

Start telling people we need more writers. Advertise in your signature, like me. MAKE people come, if it leads to that...

I just think that a lot of people don't know this forum exists.


Kristina

Okay Ginny 5th & Draco 6th.

As for advertising I have the old discussion thread linked. I'll link the new one after we get started.

Can't wait, Faith

Just posted! I was thinking some more description of the room next and then a servant bringing breakfast...

And here it starts...


--
The red quilts of the Gryffindor girls’ dorm felt soft around Ginny’s body. A soft September chill drifted in from the cracked window, letting in night sounds and the smell of autumn.

A sigh escaped between parted lips, and cinnamon eyes closed. Her mind hazy with the pull of sleep, Ginny’s thoughts could only brush over the workload waiting for her the next morning during class, OWLs, and the long, quiet summer at Grimmauld Place. In the months that followed Sirius’ death, the House of Black felt all the more grey and desolate, and one day wove into the next of rising, eating, and cleaning. Perhaps it was Harry’s far a way look, or her mother’s desperate worrying... The concerned glances Ron and Hermione would exchange, or Lupin’s furrowed brows when Harry would stoically stare into space...

Or perhaps it was just all of that, wrapped neatly into a package, that made the sunlight less radiant and the moon dim.

But it truly wasn’t all that bad, for nearing the school year, things had brightened up, if only a bit. Fred and George snickered over new candies and jokes, and Ron and Hermione stubbornly pulled Harry from his stupor, dragging him out of hiding, from laying about in his room all day.

Things were, Ginny was happy about, gradually getting better.

With a deep breath that relaxed her alert and tense muscles as it left her body, her divided attention left ponders, and drifted off into dreams.

--

Draco Malfoy laid down into his green quilts and pillows with a long, restful night on his mind.

Already a week into his sixth year of Hogwarts, the Slytherin was far from counting his lucky stars, and perhaps a nice sleep was just the ticket, though inwardly he scoffed at the idea. Surely a nice sleep would solve everything wrong in his cursed life...

Mentally, in the stark quiet of his drafty dungeon room, Draco began to count off the nagging thoughts that prodded his brain day and night.

His father was in Azkaban, sentenced for life under the evidence of allying with the Dark Lord. His mother was a wreck, and the first Quidditch game of the season was against Gryffindor. A game he knew he would loose, because Potter the Amazing Boy Wonder just had that sort of luck. The sort of luck that he didn’t.

With a frustrating disperse of air, Draco rolled onto his side and stared at the creases in his sheets, and those lines were the last he saw, dreams carrying him away from reality minutes later.

--

There was something about the smell of the air that was different.

It was warm with a touch of humidity, and now that Ginny could feel the rays of sun luring her unwilling eyelids open, she realized her bed was unnaturally harder than last night. With sleepiness, she wondered if she had rolled off of bed, even though she had not for years.

Coming out of a deep slumber, Ginny turned from her oddly uncomfortable pillow and kicked off the scratchy sheets that adorned her body. Vaguely, she wondered about what time it was, and if she had overslept...

Her muscles jerked awake and her cinnamon eyes were greeted with the strangest sight- not the red drapes that enclosed her bed, or the smooth ceiling of her dorm- but stone. At least, she thought it looked like stone, and it was much higher than the ceiling should have been. This stone was bathed in yellow light that issued from high window that stretched from the middle of the wall to the top, and it was immediate that Ginny’s heart began to race and stutter, for her bed was not the bed she knew, nor the ceiling, nor the windows.

Yay, someone finally started it! Loffed it, Faith!

But, er, we already made a thread for that! It's the Easy Read Thread. But since we still don't have a mod, I'll just let my post stay like it is for a while, and you can copy your post to the easy read thread. Then we can delete this thread. Or something. I'll ask Pen.

Ri, who finds it funny that Faith, an american, used the word 'grey', with e.

Oh, goodness. I forgot. *headdesk* Oh, how the brain thinks at four o'clock in the morning... Okay, so sorry, I'll copy the post into Easy Read.


Faith, who uses 'e' instead because she believes the English way is the right way





EDIT: Wait, only mod are allowed to copy it, so we have no choice but to a) wait or PM Nicole.

Hey yall, I just saw the post I suppose it's fine. I'll try to keep a more regular check up and around here so you won't need to be bothered again. Sorry about that! (I suppose it was okay since I'm not a full mod in subforums ) Would add more, but I'm really busy at the mo so I'll check back later and add then!

Ta!

I'm a tad bit confused now.

So where does the story parts get posted right from our brain?

On this thread? Or another one?

And then.. the easy read... a Mod copies them there?

And I the only one totally confused?


Kristina

I think Pen wants us to post the story parts here, and then again, without any comments, on the Easy Read Thread.

Right?



~Faith~

It's ok, Kristina. How about we do things this way: story writers post their contributions twice - once in Easy Read, another in Discussion? If anyone posts a comment in Easy Read, Mods will move it to Discussion.

Less confusing, right? The Easy Read will help everyone, esp. forum newbies, catch up with the story. I've re-opened Easy Read now.


~Pen
*hoping this message gets posted*

EDIT: It did! Yay! PK was down for an hour, I think.

^ What she said.

Hm.. never knew we had that feature.

Anyway, that was me talking. Obviously.


Kristina

Edit: Oh, and disregard my question about your post, Faith. I found the easy read thread. Funny how pinned threads are supposed to stand out more but I find myself missing them all the time.

Hi there! *squeezes in* So far I understand everything of the plot But...who is Draco nog going to be? I know he's not going to be Ceasar or Marcus (that are the names right?) so who is he going to be in the dreams?

Szaranea, hurry up, I'm dying for the next part

*grins* Maybe I should write a little part to inspire you?

I already have 81 words, but alas, I'm stuck here. I can post them though, and you can claim them to be part of your part.

Here they are:

*hopes she will forget the toilet thing* Okay, I'll write a little!

**

She rubbed her head. How could she feel pain in a dream? She sat back up again and slowly pulled herself off the stone bench.

She was wearing a long white night gown that flowed around her body and seemed to be made of very fine material, perhaps even silk. Suddenly, someone walked into the room and upon looking Ginny saw that it was a beautiful woman carrying a pile of clothes. She made her way to Ginny who was standing there, dumbfounded.

"You should hurry. There is not much time," she spoke and left the clothes on the stone bench.

Ginny raised her eyebrows at the woman, who just stared at her. Ginny got the point that she had to change, but in front of a stranger? A slight blush crept on her pale cheeks. She pouted and looked at the woman.

"Uh, could you please leave?" Ginny asked shyly.

The old woman stared at her dumbly but left anyway. Ginny grabbed the clothes and studied them. It was a long, beautiful and sleeveless dress. The material felt like silk in her hands and this time she was sure that it was just that. Small strings were hanging of the edges glittering like gold. Maybe this wasn't one of those dreams where her family lost everything. Ginny grinned and dressed herself, first carefully donning the dress that was held together by golden clasps, as she found out, and then the soft leather slippers that looked a little like flip-flops, albeit very expensive ones.

She gazed out of the window and saw the sun rise. She could see it being reflected on something shimmering. The sea? It couldn’t be. Ginny blinked a couple of times and narrowed her eyes. She could definitely see water, but it was calm. She sighed and placed herself on the stone bench. Where was she?**

Btw, I don't want to claim your part! You have the 'rights' to it
Edit: Insert to make the Story-Line more understandable.
~Phoenixwriter

Welcome, BabyPan! To Portkey and the RR! *passes of pumpkin pie and muffins*

Well, I don't have anything to add, but I can't wait to get into this story more...

And by the way, Ri and BabyPan, you need to copy your parts into the Easy Read Thread without the extra comments.




~Faith

I guess nobody saved my part, right?

Because I don't have it on my hard disk either *sighs*

I might re-write it sometime later today.

Ri