Cyre2067
The Living Force
So this one was really vivid and left me with neck/arm pain....
I'm with a group, we're battling our way to the top of a mall. I have a one handed sword and I can feel it's weight, it's heavy. There's people, but they aren't people, they're these weird distorted zombie-esque versions of people, and as we proceed they become less people and more monster-ish. The scene is almost like the inside of a gothic cathedral, but it's clearly a mall. There are shops and stores that are chop full of products and advertisements. There's a very tight ring and we're circling up this spiral-ramp toward the top.
Finally we get there and I can see the boss. She's this really gross, amoebic critter with a huge body that can morph and shift to fit any tactical need. She's composed of 'goo' and it's toxic. If it touches us it can kill, injure or slowly convert you into more goo. The goo comes from absorbing other life forms, including the monsters. We catch glimpse of her snagging a few of them as we approach.
Her size is monstrous, there's about 5 others with me and clearly, we're no match in a direct confrontation. One of the girls - a rogue - tosses me a small black vile and one of the guys - a paladin - starts cracking quips at her. He's joking about winning, then admitting defeat - this triggers a lengthy monologue from her and meanwhile I sneak around and take a closer look. There are these vats around the backside of the creature's room and they're full of this pinkish goo. I uncap the vile and pour a drop of it's black liquid into each vat, slowly, they turn clear - like water. Before long all the vat's are cleared, and this lady has assumed a normal woman figure. She still thinks she's winning. I draw my sword and put it to her throat, she laughs and flings goo at me which hits my arm!
Oh no! I'm infected! I think to myself.
An ice blast flies past my head from the mage in our crew, and it turns her into a ice block. Her piggish eyes glare at me through the ice.
'Go!' the paladin shouts - and I remember we have some sort of cure-all but it's all the way at the bottom of the mall.
I run back down through the maze of a mall and eventually I start getting blocked by more normal people who are trying to get topside. I'm shouting it's dangerous! There's creatures up there! But no one listens. This enraged mom with her dirty and shirtless child are trying to push their way past me, vocalizing loudly how rude I am for blocking their way. I do flips, run along the walls, and hop from person to person trying to get down. Meanwhile my left arm is burning away. I wonder if I'll make it down in time or if I should cut my arm off.
and that's when I woke up.
There's a few pretty obvious things that stand out... the weird thing is that my neck and arm are sore. It feels like I was swing a sword all night. The muscles are tense, tired.
The goo-lady could represent the current state governance - although that's a patriarchy - which confused me as to why it was a middle-aged woman. It kinda reminded me of motherbrain from the 90s cartoon Captain N - The Game Master - she looks like this:
Anyway there's a lot of video game elements, which could just be extracted from life. Still struggling with them. Hard to quit. Perhaps I feel like I've been 'gooed' and I need to 'get out' which could be interpreted in a myriad of ways I suppose.
The hundreds of people scrambling toward their doom is pretty obvious... anyway I'll just leave it here. Thoughts welcome.
I'm with a group, we're battling our way to the top of a mall. I have a one handed sword and I can feel it's weight, it's heavy. There's people, but they aren't people, they're these weird distorted zombie-esque versions of people, and as we proceed they become less people and more monster-ish. The scene is almost like the inside of a gothic cathedral, but it's clearly a mall. There are shops and stores that are chop full of products and advertisements. There's a very tight ring and we're circling up this spiral-ramp toward the top.
Finally we get there and I can see the boss. She's this really gross, amoebic critter with a huge body that can morph and shift to fit any tactical need. She's composed of 'goo' and it's toxic. If it touches us it can kill, injure or slowly convert you into more goo. The goo comes from absorbing other life forms, including the monsters. We catch glimpse of her snagging a few of them as we approach.
Her size is monstrous, there's about 5 others with me and clearly, we're no match in a direct confrontation. One of the girls - a rogue - tosses me a small black vile and one of the guys - a paladin - starts cracking quips at her. He's joking about winning, then admitting defeat - this triggers a lengthy monologue from her and meanwhile I sneak around and take a closer look. There are these vats around the backside of the creature's room and they're full of this pinkish goo. I uncap the vile and pour a drop of it's black liquid into each vat, slowly, they turn clear - like water. Before long all the vat's are cleared, and this lady has assumed a normal woman figure. She still thinks she's winning. I draw my sword and put it to her throat, she laughs and flings goo at me which hits my arm!
Oh no! I'm infected! I think to myself.
An ice blast flies past my head from the mage in our crew, and it turns her into a ice block. Her piggish eyes glare at me through the ice.
'Go!' the paladin shouts - and I remember we have some sort of cure-all but it's all the way at the bottom of the mall.
I run back down through the maze of a mall and eventually I start getting blocked by more normal people who are trying to get topside. I'm shouting it's dangerous! There's creatures up there! But no one listens. This enraged mom with her dirty and shirtless child are trying to push their way past me, vocalizing loudly how rude I am for blocking their way. I do flips, run along the walls, and hop from person to person trying to get down. Meanwhile my left arm is burning away. I wonder if I'll make it down in time or if I should cut my arm off.
and that's when I woke up.
There's a few pretty obvious things that stand out... the weird thing is that my neck and arm are sore. It feels like I was swing a sword all night. The muscles are tense, tired.
The goo-lady could represent the current state governance - although that's a patriarchy - which confused me as to why it was a middle-aged woman. It kinda reminded me of motherbrain from the 90s cartoon Captain N - The Game Master - she looks like this:
Anyway there's a lot of video game elements, which could just be extracted from life. Still struggling with them. Hard to quit. Perhaps I feel like I've been 'gooed' and I need to 'get out' which could be interpreted in a myriad of ways I suppose.
The hundreds of people scrambling toward their doom is pretty obvious... anyway I'll just leave it here. Thoughts welcome.