A Dream Post
Jul. 26th, 2008 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillSo, I fell asleep last night around eleven, and woke up this morning around eleven. And, for the first time in weeks, I brought something back with me.
Oddly enough, it wasn't an epic about beating the evil overlord. The dream starts right after the evil overlord was defeated, and it's mostly about rebuilding. There were only three parts, and I may have to turn this into a real story eventually, because none of the books ever focus on what happens next. It's just "and they beat the witch and everyone lived happily ever after, the end."
So. Part the first was a flashback. Don't ask me how I know it was a flashback, it just was. It was about this girl who was really important to the resistance fighters, maybe even the leader, and how she was found. She'd disappeared some time ago, and everyone assumed he was dead and the whole effort wasn't going very without her, but the group of heroes had set off on some quest to beat the bad guy anyway. And along the way they're in there woods, and there's this house.
It's not supposed to be there. These aren't big, menacing woods; they're light, green, almost magical, but they're also well-known for hiding secrets. And there's this house, owned by someone who looks like Sai from Hikaru no Go and acts like D from Petshop of Horrors. The house, more of a manor really, is out of joint with time. Bits of the house are out of joint with other bits. So this girl has been in this room for a few years, and it asn't like she wasn't aware of the fact that it was years; it was only as an abstract, not particularly important. It's very odd. The elegant owner of the house isn't keeping her a prisoner or anything. So when the group shows up to rescue her, she's really surprised that they think the needs rescuing. She was just being peaceful, in that misty house in the woods.
It's the kind of house that isn't there when you go back for it, by the way.
Anyway. Flash forward to part the second. It doesn't involve any of the people from the first part. It's about this guy who has some kind of power over water, and the way it should cycle. The bad guy has apparently brainwashed him or something, because he'd majorly fucked up the water, and this was not good because people were starving. There's something after him, and it's been after him for a long time, so he has to keep moving. This girl with very long black hair, who's in love with him, decides to go with him.
They get wings, given to them by the gods. They didn't have them to start, but they get there massive wings and, here, I admit that I got a flight dream, which I don't get nearly enough anymore. There was flying around in old places,and hidden places. I vividly remember the red stone of this ancient temple built to no one knows quite who that the evil overlord had partially destroyed. I got the sense that the destruction had been during a battle with the good guys, but anyway. The light was all honey and there was sand and dust everywhere. Think Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in the baths to get a good idea of the kind of light. Anyway. Ancient temple, silent and seplechuric, and these two winged people realizing that just because there's no one left to worship the gods it was made to honor does not mean the gods aren't still there.
And these old-ancient-gods demand a different kind of worship. So the girl promises them that along with their constant travel, they are going to do their very best to fix the damage he did while under that bad guy's control. The guy isn't so happy about this, which is when the girl says that they are going to travel anyway, from the northern to the south, the length and breadth of that land, and fixing the land will keep them busy for years (the sense was more like decades) at least. He asks her to marry him, and the gods there provide some kind of really gorgeous white dress with embroidered flowers for her, and a matching jacket and brown pants for him. When you get married by gods, it sticks.
The last bit was a story about someone who was trying to do the same kind of thing, but without the benefit of magic. Or whatever power. It involves another guy who was under bad guy's control, as well as his (apparently twin brother) who was in the resistance. They both look like Link from any number of Zelda games, for no really good reason. Anyway, resistance guy wears black, and the guy who was bad wears lots of shades of green. Like, forest camo style. Anyway, they encountered each other a few times before, and good guy is trying to figure out whether the other one is still bad and what his deal is in any case.
But it turns out that the other guy was never actually bad, and spent most of his time taking scrupulous notes and doing vast amounts of easily reversible damage and spying on absolutely everyone. He spends a lot of his time now telling black-clad dude to go away, since he's reversing everything he had to do to keep his cover, but black-clad dude is persistent and besides, both of them want to find out why they look like twins.
So they go up this river, and as they do they are unblocking springs in some kind of magical way. This river used to be huge and the main water source for hundreds of miles of what is now, sadly, desert, so it's kind of important that it works again. And even though green guy won't tell black guy anything, they learn to trust each other until they're at the very head of the river, where the main spring has to be unblocked still. And black guy protests that if green guy does this, he'll be killed. Green guy's response is kind of a "yeah, so?" Back guy goes with him.
There's a dungeon crawl, by torchlight. There are these things living in the caves under the spring that are dying because there's no water, and as they go deeper, they discover some other things that have been able to get free. And then they get all the way to the bottom, where there is an enormous frog sitting behind a desk in a business office, and . . .
I wake up.
What ought to have happened is that the green guy tells the black guy that it's time, and the frog waves a foot and says "It's done," and when they leave the room it's exactly as wet as it should be, which does not involve anybody drowning at all because they're in a cave system that, while under water, is still only damp. There's only this one little bit at the end on the way back out when they're in any danger at all, but because green thought ahead an put up nets to catch them, all is well. And you never do find out why these two people look like twins, or their pasts, or anything. That's what should have happened.
Yeah, my dreams are both odd and epic!!! And I just wish they'd make slightly more linear sense once I wake up. Because they'd make awesome epic books, if I could only remember the bits that tie part one to part two, and so on.
Oddly enough, it wasn't an epic about beating the evil overlord. The dream starts right after the evil overlord was defeated, and it's mostly about rebuilding. There were only three parts, and I may have to turn this into a real story eventually, because none of the books ever focus on what happens next. It's just "and they beat the witch and everyone lived happily ever after, the end."
So. Part the first was a flashback. Don't ask me how I know it was a flashback, it just was. It was about this girl who was really important to the resistance fighters, maybe even the leader, and how she was found. She'd disappeared some time ago, and everyone assumed he was dead and the whole effort wasn't going very without her, but the group of heroes had set off on some quest to beat the bad guy anyway. And along the way they're in there woods, and there's this house.
It's not supposed to be there. These aren't big, menacing woods; they're light, green, almost magical, but they're also well-known for hiding secrets. And there's this house, owned by someone who looks like Sai from Hikaru no Go and acts like D from Petshop of Horrors. The house, more of a manor really, is out of joint with time. Bits of the house are out of joint with other bits. So this girl has been in this room for a few years, and it asn't like she wasn't aware of the fact that it was years; it was only as an abstract, not particularly important. It's very odd. The elegant owner of the house isn't keeping her a prisoner or anything. So when the group shows up to rescue her, she's really surprised that they think the needs rescuing. She was just being peaceful, in that misty house in the woods.
It's the kind of house that isn't there when you go back for it, by the way.
Anyway. Flash forward to part the second. It doesn't involve any of the people from the first part. It's about this guy who has some kind of power over water, and the way it should cycle. The bad guy has apparently brainwashed him or something, because he'd majorly fucked up the water, and this was not good because people were starving. There's something after him, and it's been after him for a long time, so he has to keep moving. This girl with very long black hair, who's in love with him, decides to go with him.
They get wings, given to them by the gods. They didn't have them to start, but they get there massive wings and, here, I admit that I got a flight dream, which I don't get nearly enough anymore. There was flying around in old places,and hidden places. I vividly remember the red stone of this ancient temple built to no one knows quite who that the evil overlord had partially destroyed. I got the sense that the destruction had been during a battle with the good guys, but anyway. The light was all honey and there was sand and dust everywhere. Think Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in the baths to get a good idea of the kind of light. Anyway. Ancient temple, silent and seplechuric, and these two winged people realizing that just because there's no one left to worship the gods it was made to honor does not mean the gods aren't still there.
And these old-ancient-gods demand a different kind of worship. So the girl promises them that along with their constant travel, they are going to do their very best to fix the damage he did while under that bad guy's control. The guy isn't so happy about this, which is when the girl says that they are going to travel anyway, from the northern to the south, the length and breadth of that land, and fixing the land will keep them busy for years (the sense was more like decades) at least. He asks her to marry him, and the gods there provide some kind of really gorgeous white dress with embroidered flowers for her, and a matching jacket and brown pants for him. When you get married by gods, it sticks.
The last bit was a story about someone who was trying to do the same kind of thing, but without the benefit of magic. Or whatever power. It involves another guy who was under bad guy's control, as well as his (apparently twin brother) who was in the resistance. They both look like Link from any number of Zelda games, for no really good reason. Anyway, resistance guy wears black, and the guy who was bad wears lots of shades of green. Like, forest camo style. Anyway, they encountered each other a few times before, and good guy is trying to figure out whether the other one is still bad and what his deal is in any case.
But it turns out that the other guy was never actually bad, and spent most of his time taking scrupulous notes and doing vast amounts of easily reversible damage and spying on absolutely everyone. He spends a lot of his time now telling black-clad dude to go away, since he's reversing everything he had to do to keep his cover, but black-clad dude is persistent and besides, both of them want to find out why they look like twins.
So they go up this river, and as they do they are unblocking springs in some kind of magical way. This river used to be huge and the main water source for hundreds of miles of what is now, sadly, desert, so it's kind of important that it works again. And even though green guy won't tell black guy anything, they learn to trust each other until they're at the very head of the river, where the main spring has to be unblocked still. And black guy protests that if green guy does this, he'll be killed. Green guy's response is kind of a "yeah, so?" Back guy goes with him.
There's a dungeon crawl, by torchlight. There are these things living in the caves under the spring that are dying because there's no water, and as they go deeper, they discover some other things that have been able to get free. And then they get all the way to the bottom, where there is an enormous frog sitting behind a desk in a business office, and . . .
I wake up.
What ought to have happened is that the green guy tells the black guy that it's time, and the frog waves a foot and says "It's done," and when they leave the room it's exactly as wet as it should be, which does not involve anybody drowning at all because they're in a cave system that, while under water, is still only damp. There's only this one little bit at the end on the way back out when they're in any danger at all, but because green thought ahead an put up nets to catch them, all is well. And you never do find out why these two people look like twins, or their pasts, or anything. That's what should have happened.
Yeah, my dreams are both odd and epic!!! And I just wish they'd make slightly more linear sense once I wake up. Because they'd make awesome epic books, if I could only remember the bits that tie part one to part two, and so on.
