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Segments from a long, strange dream.
Jul. 6th, 2007 05:20 amBrought upon, obviously by playing too much FFXII.
1. From a random segment about the evolution of track sports, this is where things got interesting. The re-instatement of the Olympic games was mentioned. And apparantly the Olympic torch was one of a sequence of Millenium-item like artifacts that bore religious importance to Christianity (or something this fucked up). One of these artifacts, a Sovereign Orb like thing, was missing. I was helping to search for it in some strange house/temple/whatever that housed these artifacts (bits of it were modeled like my Grandmother's house. Teh heck.) Among various things scattered on the floor under a certain altar/table were a lot of broken nests - and... eggs that seemed avian in origin but just... weren't. I gathered these eggs and placed them in a small sample-collecting container (which was obviously larger than what it seemed like - because it had space for quite a few smaller eggs and one that was the size of a chicken egg, and still had space.)
Eventually I found the artifact, and my only statement was... "It's the Holy Hand Grenade." Sending all the clerics (including the stern looking leader of the order) into a fit of laughter. Clearly they knew the reference and thought the same.
2. The image shifts into what looks like a dried out riverbank. The whole area is reminiscent, layoutwise, to Giza Plains of FFXII. I placed the container with the eggs somewhere nearby and observed them, making a comment about how they'll never hatch. At that moment, the largest egg begins to stir and softly glow from inside. I opened the container... And the egg indeed hatched. From it emerged a smallish (yet larger than you'd expect to hatch from an egg this size) creature that resembled a dolphin. It emitted a few squeaks, and...
Into the scene swims what looks vaguely like a large dolphin, but very different from a dolphin in the same time. Something in the head shape and markings. It was a female and clearly, if not the parent, then a prospective adoptive parent. These two acknowledged each other quickly, when a large male - There was a vast degree of sexual dimorphism between males and females of the species but I instinctively knew that it was the female's mate swam into the scene. The water level in the river bank was slowly rising as more of the eggs hatched into smaller dolphinoids and more and more adults swam in to welcome the younglings into the pack. The river by that time was a powerfully flowing wall of water, clear as an aquarium, and you could see the packs jumping into it and swimming away.
The sky darkened and it started to rain. Hard. Everything hi-definition was blurred.
And I cried out a native-sounding cry of sheer happiness, running in the rain and darkness.
3. Night has fallen. And not all creatures of these plains are friendly. Night is when the nearly invisible anthropomorphic Aspids, serpentine warriors, lurk out in search of prey. Large grey warped, carnivorous dinosaur creatures wander around - all you can see is the glowing of their eyes. I was running blindly now, enemies at every shadow, glowing eyes like embers at every corner. I wasn't attacked, but I was clearly evading these large archosaurids into range of a large building. To my horror I saw the sillhouette of a giant T-Rex head leaning over a fence - its eyes glowing red, but then I realized that it wasn't moving. the green and blue glowing eyes in the distance also weren't moving.
This structure, I realized, was the dinosaur museum! And that's when things started to clear out in my mind. I was safe. More or less. At least I was back in civilization. It was still eeriely dark though, the external lights must have gone to hell. And even more tribulations were awaiting me...
4. On a balcony/roof of the giant castle that the Dinosaur Museum was apparently a part of, there was some kind of a Skeleton king. And apparently I was charged to kill it. This was some kind of a split awareness segment - I was both me above the castle and some kind of an external me, with a strange complexish controller. I disposed of a few smaller-in-significance skeletons who were armed with... plastic swords (teh heck?) but I knew the king would be more difficult. And then I spotted a sword stuck in a slab of rock. As I approached it - a bunch of necromancers from the order that apparently created this skeleton king, suddenly poof into existence - they're semi-undead themselves - and killed me (or teleported me to the beginning of this segment) anyway. This segment repeated several times with changes - now that I knew where the sword is I managed to grab it before the necromancers arrive, but then the necromancers and skeletons swarm me. Reset.
Eventually (third, fourth iteration?) I was tired of this. I grabbed the sword JUST as the necromancers arrived And then I haxed some wierd combination with the controller (I remember yelling something about 'haxing some combo with the controller' and hitting a few keys - and while failing to get the exact sequence on screen right - because it was a fucked up controller with random buttons on strange angles - think Xbox meets N64 on drugs) - but this time I grabbed the sword and impaled one of the Necromancers' Skeletons on it (That's IT! I've HAD it with those motherf***ing skeletons on that motherf***ing roof!), and started to swing it around WITH the sword, thwacking the necromancers and attacking the king directly. And While it seems that the embedded skeleton made the sword's power nothing (the expressions on the Skeletons and the Skeleton king seemed to be exhasperated) the Skeletons themselves couldn't do anything against me. And I managed to knock a few off the roof, or their swords ('Next time, attack whoever tries to kill you with something better than plastic swords!'). So all well, I guess.
5. Segment fadeout. I realize at this point that all this is happening because it's night and I should probably find a place to rest and get back to things in the morning. So I leave the Dinosaur Museum Castle area and sought refuge somewhere. So, the area I'm in now is barely illuminated except the lights from inside buildings and everything is set curiously enough, like - you guessed it! A mix of my base and high school. More like the high school this time though - more green-ness and some of the areas were familiar from there. I couldn't find a few places I knew were safe areas, so eventually I approached someone and asked him - and he pointed me to a small building.
6. Said building was full of people and had different branching segments. In fact, it looked like some form of auditions for something were taking place! I explored the building a bit - not really talking to anyone - and when I reached the final hall it seemed like day was rising. When I left it however, the outsides of the windows were dark again. Middle of the night. Then I heard someone say "These fools think day is rising..." I headed towards the corridor I heard the sound from...
7. This is where me - as me - disappears from the scene and looks onto things. Obviously I've wandered onto some form of government special ops organization of a shadowy nature, and I didn't even know I did. Apparently they were experimenting on people's psychic abilities or something. I've noticed something unnatural was going on when one of the people in the facility was taken to a side room by two men in black suits. The camera follows them. They asked him a few questions. He answered. Then, one of them pulled out a small blue tube with extensions that snapped open (to those of you who have seen Firefly, its design was the same as the ultrasonic device that blows people up from the inside, first witnessed in 'Ariel'. Come to think of it, the two Men in Black looked a lot like the two agents from Firefly as well.) I felt myself recoiling (behind the camera - I wasn't, as a person, in the scene) because I thought I knew what was going to happen, but at the same time I wondered why would they kill one of their own people. Then I realized something. The activation was a short burst, and his eyes changed subtly when they activated it. They didn't KILL him, he JOINED them in some way.
The camera hurriedly left the scene to track a young woman who was apparently romantically involved with the newly transformed guy. He walked out of no where, and they embraced and kissed - she didn't think something was wrong until he stabbed her with some kind of syringe. She went into a fit of convulsions as he left. Whatever she was injected with, it was changing her mind. Maybe in some half-baked way, her former lover wanted to boost her latent telepathic powers - turn her into something like him. However, she was too panicked to realize what was happening, she just felt her -mind- was changing
... And that's when I started seeing things from her perspective. Sort of like - my mind was animating her body. And the only thing she could think of is escape. She ran into this room which apparently had a central computer system - or was it a game? and she started jumping around the walls and hitting buttons at random, no idea what she was doing. She knew that if she got things too wrong it would alert the guards. VERY anxious. An FFXII like map interface showed up in the upperleft corner showing spots - guards - moving towards the room. She was being more frantic about everything. Hitting buttons at random. The guards stopped moving at some point. I think she was slowly getting the pattern. Fade to white.
Then I wake up.
Moral of the story: Kids, NEVER play too much FFXII before bed. You get stunningly rendered wierd-ass dreams. Really.
1. From a random segment about the evolution of track sports, this is where things got interesting. The re-instatement of the Olympic games was mentioned. And apparantly the Olympic torch was one of a sequence of Millenium-item like artifacts that bore religious importance to Christianity (or something this fucked up). One of these artifacts, a Sovereign Orb like thing, was missing. I was helping to search for it in some strange house/temple/whatever that housed these artifacts (bits of it were modeled like my Grandmother's house. Teh heck.) Among various things scattered on the floor under a certain altar/table were a lot of broken nests - and... eggs that seemed avian in origin but just... weren't. I gathered these eggs and placed them in a small sample-collecting container (which was obviously larger than what it seemed like - because it had space for quite a few smaller eggs and one that was the size of a chicken egg, and still had space.)
Eventually I found the artifact, and my only statement was... "It's the Holy Hand Grenade." Sending all the clerics (including the stern looking leader of the order) into a fit of laughter. Clearly they knew the reference and thought the same.
2. The image shifts into what looks like a dried out riverbank. The whole area is reminiscent, layoutwise, to Giza Plains of FFXII. I placed the container with the eggs somewhere nearby and observed them, making a comment about how they'll never hatch. At that moment, the largest egg begins to stir and softly glow from inside. I opened the container... And the egg indeed hatched. From it emerged a smallish (yet larger than you'd expect to hatch from an egg this size) creature that resembled a dolphin. It emitted a few squeaks, and...
Into the scene swims what looks vaguely like a large dolphin, but very different from a dolphin in the same time. Something in the head shape and markings. It was a female and clearly, if not the parent, then a prospective adoptive parent. These two acknowledged each other quickly, when a large male - There was a vast degree of sexual dimorphism between males and females of the species but I instinctively knew that it was the female's mate swam into the scene. The water level in the river bank was slowly rising as more of the eggs hatched into smaller dolphinoids and more and more adults swam in to welcome the younglings into the pack. The river by that time was a powerfully flowing wall of water, clear as an aquarium, and you could see the packs jumping into it and swimming away.
The sky darkened and it started to rain. Hard. Everything hi-definition was blurred.
And I cried out a native-sounding cry of sheer happiness, running in the rain and darkness.
3. Night has fallen. And not all creatures of these plains are friendly. Night is when the nearly invisible anthropomorphic Aspids, serpentine warriors, lurk out in search of prey. Large grey warped, carnivorous dinosaur creatures wander around - all you can see is the glowing of their eyes. I was running blindly now, enemies at every shadow, glowing eyes like embers at every corner. I wasn't attacked, but I was clearly evading these large archosaurids into range of a large building. To my horror I saw the sillhouette of a giant T-Rex head leaning over a fence - its eyes glowing red, but then I realized that it wasn't moving. the green and blue glowing eyes in the distance also weren't moving.
This structure, I realized, was the dinosaur museum! And that's when things started to clear out in my mind. I was safe. More or less. At least I was back in civilization. It was still eeriely dark though, the external lights must have gone to hell. And even more tribulations were awaiting me...
4. On a balcony/roof of the giant castle that the Dinosaur Museum was apparently a part of, there was some kind of a Skeleton king. And apparently I was charged to kill it. This was some kind of a split awareness segment - I was both me above the castle and some kind of an external me, with a strange complexish controller. I disposed of a few smaller-in-significance skeletons who were armed with... plastic swords (teh heck?) but I knew the king would be more difficult. And then I spotted a sword stuck in a slab of rock. As I approached it - a bunch of necromancers from the order that apparently created this skeleton king, suddenly poof into existence - they're semi-undead themselves - and killed me (or teleported me to the beginning of this segment) anyway. This segment repeated several times with changes - now that I knew where the sword is I managed to grab it before the necromancers arrive, but then the necromancers and skeletons swarm me. Reset.
Eventually (third, fourth iteration?) I was tired of this. I grabbed the sword JUST as the necromancers arrived And then I haxed some wierd combination with the controller (I remember yelling something about 'haxing some combo with the controller' and hitting a few keys - and while failing to get the exact sequence on screen right - because it was a fucked up controller with random buttons on strange angles - think Xbox meets N64 on drugs) - but this time I grabbed the sword and impaled one of the Necromancers' Skeletons on it (That's IT! I've HAD it with those motherf***ing skeletons on that motherf***ing roof!), and started to swing it around WITH the sword, thwacking the necromancers and attacking the king directly. And While it seems that the embedded skeleton made the sword's power nothing (the expressions on the Skeletons and the Skeleton king seemed to be exhasperated) the Skeletons themselves couldn't do anything against me. And I managed to knock a few off the roof, or their swords ('Next time, attack whoever tries to kill you with something better than plastic swords!'). So all well, I guess.
5. Segment fadeout. I realize at this point that all this is happening because it's night and I should probably find a place to rest and get back to things in the morning. So I leave the Dinosaur Museum Castle area and sought refuge somewhere. So, the area I'm in now is barely illuminated except the lights from inside buildings and everything is set curiously enough, like - you guessed it! A mix of my base and high school. More like the high school this time though - more green-ness and some of the areas were familiar from there. I couldn't find a few places I knew were safe areas, so eventually I approached someone and asked him - and he pointed me to a small building.
6. Said building was full of people and had different branching segments. In fact, it looked like some form of auditions for something were taking place! I explored the building a bit - not really talking to anyone - and when I reached the final hall it seemed like day was rising. When I left it however, the outsides of the windows were dark again. Middle of the night. Then I heard someone say "These fools think day is rising..." I headed towards the corridor I heard the sound from...
7. This is where me - as me - disappears from the scene and looks onto things. Obviously I've wandered onto some form of government special ops organization of a shadowy nature, and I didn't even know I did. Apparently they were experimenting on people's psychic abilities or something. I've noticed something unnatural was going on when one of the people in the facility was taken to a side room by two men in black suits. The camera follows them. They asked him a few questions. He answered. Then, one of them pulled out a small blue tube with extensions that snapped open (to those of you who have seen Firefly, its design was the same as the ultrasonic device that blows people up from the inside, first witnessed in 'Ariel'. Come to think of it, the two Men in Black looked a lot like the two agents from Firefly as well.) I felt myself recoiling (behind the camera - I wasn't, as a person, in the scene) because I thought I knew what was going to happen, but at the same time I wondered why would they kill one of their own people. Then I realized something. The activation was a short burst, and his eyes changed subtly when they activated it. They didn't KILL him, he JOINED them in some way.
The camera hurriedly left the scene to track a young woman who was apparently romantically involved with the newly transformed guy. He walked out of no where, and they embraced and kissed - she didn't think something was wrong until he stabbed her with some kind of syringe. She went into a fit of convulsions as he left. Whatever she was injected with, it was changing her mind. Maybe in some half-baked way, her former lover wanted to boost her latent telepathic powers - turn her into something like him. However, she was too panicked to realize what was happening, she just felt her -mind- was changing
... And that's when I started seeing things from her perspective. Sort of like - my mind was animating her body. And the only thing she could think of is escape. She ran into this room which apparently had a central computer system - or was it a game? and she started jumping around the walls and hitting buttons at random, no idea what she was doing. She knew that if she got things too wrong it would alert the guards. VERY anxious. An FFXII like map interface showed up in the upperleft corner showing spots - guards - moving towards the room. She was being more frantic about everything. Hitting buttons at random. The guards stopped moving at some point. I think she was slowly getting the pattern. Fade to white.
Then I wake up.
Moral of the story: Kids, NEVER play too much FFXII before bed. You get stunningly rendered wierd-ass dreams. Really.
