4 posts tagged “dreams”

Don't really remember much of it.. just a snippet. I vaguely remember that we were having trouble with an artifact. I don't think it was D'ni, but I don't know for sure. It looked like maybe a reliquary or something. Was a piece of jewelry that seemed to jump from person to person via this sparkly purple effect. I don't remember what it did to people, but it was definately not good. (Methinks I've been watching too much Warehouse13 ;) Next thing I remember, I was sitting (this was real life but Uru btw) in an small market area (still in cavern) talking to someone.. We were talking about the artifact and what was going on. Then the person I was talking to said they wouldn't be able to talk much longer. I asked them why and they pointed across the tiny courtyard where, I'm not kidding, the Empire music started playing and a ton of black dressed DRC employees and Cate walked in and mounted cameras on arms about 3 feet apart all along the wall. Then I woke up.

Also, need to start my Mysterium write up soon.. will probably do that soon.

 I was living in my parent's finished basement suite. It was pretty nice, and the rent was cheap, especially considering I had my own kitchenette and a really fabulous master bath. And then, it started. I kept finding bags of leftovers in my suite that weren't mine.. and what's worse, they were left all over the place - they weren't just stuffed in my fridge or anything. So, I went up and asked my mom about it, and we got in a huge fight about it because it wasn't that they (parents) needed a place to store things.. they were basically trying to claim that even though I paid rent and had a private suite, they could come and go as they wanted without asking me first. Over the course of several dreams, the fights got worse and worse. Then somehow we were at my grandmother's house.. we were staying after being invited for a week, and my grandma and I kept getting in worse and worse fights. Finally I packed up all my stuff (apparently there was a lot of it.. I remember trying to carry it all and it wasn't easy) and left.. then I woke up.

 So yeah, that was bizzare.. especially since it involved basically the *polar opposites* of my relatives.

I remember in the very beginning, walking through a cold mountain pass.. It was almost a blizzard, and I was on a pilgrimage of some sort. I don't know why, but I had to be in this village where something would happen that night, though I didn't know what. I pulled my crude but plentiful cloth robes and wrappings around me to try and block out the wind. I had covered everything but my eyes in anticipation of the storm we were going to pass through before we climbed the mountain, and while I had a good four inches thick of cloth, the storm was worse than I expected. Sam and I were making our way to this village for Christmas (or Solstice, or some other winter celebration) for some reason. We stumbled forward, just barely seeing the features of a giant stone gate set into the mountain across the plain we exited out onto, and followed the light of the gates across the plain - keeping us from getting lost in the storm.

  From what I can gather, it was an underground village. There was a little break in the granite that nothing larger than a horse could make it through, which gave protection to a small roundish clearing in front of the gate. Every year at this same time, all the villagers would gather outside for a night to see a spectacle in the sky.

 When we got there we were greeted and I can only imagine we were given new clothing to wear - the next thing I remember I was wearing a (I think it was red, though it might have been blue) medieval dress (which would NOT be my choice for mountain hiking), and Sam was wearing something similar in an amber colour. We were sitting outside under the stars, and fortunately it was no longer snowing. There were six or seven tables arranged in the small clearing, and the entire village was out eating and drinking and generally making merry. While we were outside in an area that's generally very cold, we were warm due to a large bonfire in the middle of the clearing, which the serving girls** had to deftly avoid when they would come through with food.

  The tables and chairs were set up uncomfortably close to each other since they had to sit the whole village outside. Strangely, most tables only had one row of people sitting there, as the other table was butted up where there would be space for another row of chairs, but nobody would ever be able to get in there. Anyway, we had the honor of sitting at the "head" table. I say this with sarcasm because of the fact that the table was the exact same size and shape as the rest of the tables, and had no delineating features at all other than the fact that the village elder was sitting there. He was in the corner, and then Sam, and then I on the aisle.

  So, for most of the night we were "making merry" and all that. The elder was telling us stories about the surrounding hillside and the event we had gathered to see. Apparently there was a dragon that was sealed in the area 100+ years ago.. Surprisingly, we didn't get the generic hero story.. he just sort of.. mentioned it. Like it wasn't that strange and we wouldn't want to know any more. At some point, we looked up into the sky and saw the brilliant event we had gathered to see. It was like a mix between the Aurora Borealis and the Leonids. It was over within an hour or so.

  Then, all of a sudden, the village elder got all sleazy on sam.. he touched her arm and pulled out some really really slimy pickup lines. Well, pickup lines aren't quite the right word. More along the vein of "now that I've hosted you, why don't you repay me by going to my bedchamber" kind of crap. I don't remember what, but we did SOMETHING to him (I think I grabbed something off a nearby serving girl's tray and hit him with it. I'm also relatively certain that item was cast iron, so I probably killed him) and ran like hell. All of a sudden, the sun started to rise. This was strange for this part of the world. Apparently the elder was also a sorcerer unbeknownst to the villagers, and had been keeping the sun from rising, thus thrusting the area into an icy wasteland. 

  We ran hard through the snow - not back to the mountain pass, but to the left of the village gates down the length of the plain. The sun started to melt the snow. As we ran, we looked up at one of the walls of the canyon, where we saw the giant head of a dragon poking out of the snow covered mountain. At first we thought it was a statue made by the ancestors of the villagers. Then it started to melt in the rays from the rising sun. As the ice on the dragon head melted, we focused on getting to a cave we spotted down the valley. We were about halfway there, and almost to the same line as the dragon head, when all of a sudden a wall of packed snow and ice collapsed into the plain, and the creature freed one of its legs. Apparently, we just massively injured a good bad guy.. He was keeping the dragon trapped by suppressing the sun. However, he was doing it partly so he could lord his power over the villagers by making them think that they wouldn't be safe without him. Somehow while not also pointing out the fact that he was a sorcerer, because he was making them feel like they wouldn't be safe without them with completely different subjects.

  Anyway, the dragon very quickly freed his other front leg and pulled himself from the packed snow and ice.. He had steely blue skin with bits of mild purple, and looked like a classic dragon, only beefed up. He was at least two hundred feet tall at the shoulder - probably more. His neck was littered with enormous icicle shaped scales, and his face was long and sharp. He was also PISSED. Not that I can blame him.. he'd been trapped in ice for 100+ years. He immediately zeroed in on Sam, who was a good football field ahead of me at the time, and released a cone of fire almost as long as he was tall. Fortunately, she survived it.. but only by about 50 feet. When the fire blew off, the snow was melted and there was moss everywhere. Sam started picking up the pace in running away from it, and I turned and ran as fast as I can. by this point the sun was almost completely up. I have no idea why.. maybe it just rubberbanded after being suppressed for so long.

  As I reached the mountain pass, I ran into a cloud of snow which was swirling madly, and ran across a thin layer of snow smattered through the pass. and suddenly had some basic cloth around me in addition to the dress. As I ran, I got faster and faster, until I was bounding through the snow on all fours. It was exhilarating. It was almost like I was flying. This was the only part that I remember actually feeling. It was cold, but not unbearably so, and I was incredibly fast. I felt the way my muscles moved while I ran.. I felt incredibly free.

 Anyway, I realized that Sam wasn't with me, but she obviously wasn't dead, and woke up. I'm pretty sure she just ran back to the village and hid there.. the village was made for withstanding dragon attacks after all.

**The serving girls were all wearing brown dresses of a more quakerish style and linen coloured head caps of the same era. bizzare. There were also four or five of them, if I remember correctly. They also all seemed to look like they could be related to the Girl with a Pearl Earring girl. There was also one woman who was serving ales that was a bit more heavy set, had flaming red curly hear, a gorgeous straight topped corset, and a booming, merry laugh that could wake the dead. I liked her.. she was baudy.

"I said good morning."

"oh"

and then for some reason (and I don't remember how this transitioned) but for some reason, he had me follow him down the hall, where he said he needed to get someone off his chest, and anyone who could keep a secret (which I can) should be the one he tells... and he ran into me first. Figuratively. So then he told me his girlfriend for something like 7-10 years decided it was time to get married. I could't tell if he was happy or worried.. or both. I'm not really sure why, but the way he started to say it, I thought they were breaking up. Suddenly I was carrying this crate for him** and a whole slew of files. I think that I followed him around being a personal assistant of sorts for a little while.. if only because he hadn't told me what he wanted me to do with the crate.

 The next thing I remember was him trying to get into the room President Obama (oooh rockin' the boat now) stayed in, for some reason. And we had to get together these things that looked like Eskir berries, while floating in a room that was 0g... and stick them into these special tubes so he could. Then I woke up. O.o