non-lucid

The first dream starts off where I and some random people are picked out to test the portal gun. We go through all the tests normally. I have to say though, it was pretty fun and make sense when I think back. The last test I can remember had me jump really high up to get to the final location. What's odd is that when I jumped up and down, the feeling would normally wake me up, but this time it hadn't. I was just jumping up and down before finally landing on the platform and going through a door. That's when I woke up.

After falling back asleep, the next dream had I remembered was leaving my house to go to some other place. I had taken the local highway out of Tucson and began on my way. Except there was something strange, I wasn't in a car at all. I was flying. But what was weird was that I didn't actually have a body, it was kind of like typing 'noclip' into a game and flying around like that. I had gone up a couple of hills before coming to a billboard where I rested. I then looked at the time and noticed my watch wasn't working, and being in what was pretty much the middle of the desert, I decided to fly off the road in hopes of trying to find a watch repairman. One thing that I remember about the setting of where I was at, was that it was at dusk. The dust in the air had this golden glow that shined on all of plants.

As I continued, I had come across this house that had a few people living in it. It looked like any normal house with a nice front yard. I remember talking to the owners where they handed me a pamphlet of some guy you traveled around the desert repairing watches. I went outside thinking to myself, "How in the world was I supposed to find this traveling watch repairman in the desert?" As I continued to travel in the direction that I was traveling in before, I came across this wooden house. Inside it lived an old lady who gave off this creepy vibe. Things get stranger when I hear a loud crash and a giant mech sort of thing starts fighting with the old lady and the owners I had just recently talked with. The old lady puts a curse on the mech before being crushed and one of the owners is knocked unconscious. After which the mech explodes leaving behind it's weapon which I run up and grab. But because this weapon has some sort of tracking device on it, a person up in an alien space station disables it rendering it useless. So, I wait a while before heading back feeling guilty about the whole situation. I get back to the house to find that the resulting explosion had destroy both the old lady's house and the original one. It was sad to watch as I saw one of the owners hug the other one who had been missing her legs and the rest of their family and roommates comfort her.

After that, I decided that I should be on my way. I flew back to the billboard before continuing on the road. I recall that this experience was a lot more appealing considering that the old dry desert gave way to a lush, forest type area. There was a river at the bottom and a couple of waterfalls on the side of cliffs. It wasn't flat, it was more mountainous. It was a nice little town that had adapted to the cliffs, although there were some roads that did lead to the top of the mountains where there were either more buildings, or parks. I remember being in a car at this point driving over dams that served as the towns electric provider that had water going over the top rather than the bottom. I also remember the radio being on some 80's station as David Bowie's "Let's Dance" came on along with "Sweet Dreams" and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". Which surprisingly, now that I think about it, it sounded pretty clear and accurate in the dream. The dream concludes as I drive up to a park that has a sign that says "Assembly Park".

Well, this certainly concludes the long dry-spell that I've been having. Although I can't believe I missed the chances to become lucid. Although overall I feel pretty happy about this despite the fact that I've been sick this past weekend. xD

I was at the farm house. (This is the most jumpy dream I remember having) Many people were there. I took Simon upstairs to the bedroom to play with my nieces. The bed had a canopy over it and it was darker than I expected to see a kids room. I left Simon there to play. Bam I'm watching Curtis do something. I don't remember what but I didn't feel the presence of my body and it was similar to watching a movie) then bam I'm at the store down one of the isles with my grandma and grandpa on my mom's side. She's taking about how sick she's been and how she's craving potato soup. She reaches for a a can of soup. I tell her "oh you don't need to buy that, I know how to make home made, that canned shit ain't going to make you feel better anyway" My grandma then looks at Jim and he scoffed a laugh like I wasn't going to do it, or couldn't (I can) but she put the can back. A scene of curtis again but don't remember. I'm back at the farm house again walking up the stairs to check on simon and him and the girls were still playing. The room was colorful now in decor. I then went out side to get fresh onions out of the garden. I went threw the double doors in the living room to the out side. As I was picking them I felt like someone was watching me. I looked around the yard. I seen some one crawling threw shortly cut grass in a cameo out fit and thought it was silly. When he was closer I realized it was James (bf friend) he had his face done up in cameo. He told me "Tyler's hiding in the grass" an found the statement stupid because the grass was short. Then I thought about how I couldn't see all of the yard. Then bam back to curtis but I remember the scene I saw this time. He was standing outside a yard to a house next to a white picket fence. There were two people there with him. One he was arguing with. They got into a fight. Curtis won. (Curtis is an old friend in high school)

I was running from something with the figure if a man and seen nothing but a coat that went to the ground with a hood over his head. It seemed like he floated behind me. I seen a cliff in front if me and spotted and entrance to a cave. I ran in. I stumbled and looked behind me and didn't see him behind me and knew he was still after me. When picking myself up I felt water at my hands and it was cold and could tell it was flowing. I became suddenly intensely thirsty and stuck my head in the water and started drinking it. I felt it go down my throat and fill my mouth. It was perfectly cold to my taste and the best water I've ever had. I knew that "man" was still after me and did not care. I woke up still drinking and still thirsty. Its the first time I ever remembered tasting something in a dream.

I was sitting in a car with jr and simon. (Bf/father and son) I recognized where I was. It is the gas station at the end of town next to Mcdonald's at Poplar Bluff. We were parked there for some reason. Then I notice a white jeep that is exacly the same as mine, but mine is black) pull up with a few people in it. Then the driver gets out and it's my x bf getting gas. He seen me, grinned walked over. I felt nervous and awkward because my boy friend in the car. I introduced him to my son and boy friend and he kisses me in front of them. I kissed him back. Then without saying goodbye he walked back to his car and left. I woke up.

The next time I seen him after this dream he had a jeep exactly like mine but white.

Supposed to be before "jr's death" and after wear wolf at the farm house"

I was standing in Tyler's living room. (His grandparents house) I was in a doorway talking to him. He said something and I don't remember what it was. I knew he was leaving me. I looked past him and seen his new girlfriend. I got angry with him. I yelled at him. I felt betrayed that he found someone before leaving me and breaking up with me in front of her. He didn't care and walked away with her and out the door. I don't know how he beat me to the door because I was running and he looked like he just walked out. He shut the door. I reached for the knob. I woke up.


that is similar to how he broke up with me 2 months later. His new girlfriend was there at his house while he broke up with me on the phone. He put her on the phone is why I know she was there.

General Text Dream Lucid Awake

I could remember 3 dreams and 1 fragment this night. My dreams also didn't skip around scenes that much. Sadly the the first one is kind of a nightmare. I can at least laugh at it a little now though.

Dark Magic in the Park

The first dream of the night started with me standing on the sidewalk. In front of me was a large metal gate to the park. The dream started out pretty peaceful and normal (if you can call it that). I walked through the gate and I noticed a rhino and a lion standing at the side of the gate. "Hi Bull. Hi Tigger." I said to them casually. "Have fun at the park!" Bull told me.

The park was mostly just a large open area of grass. There were also some trees, a few benches, some people, and a lot of squirrels running around. As I walked into the center of the park, I noticed a small hill with stone steps leading up to the top. When I reached the top of the hill, I saw quite a few people in red ceremonial robes, making a circle around a large rock. I think there were about 8-10 of them. As I approached them, they sensed my presence, and one man shouted, "Quick! Cast the spell now!"

The sky dimmed a little, the rock started to glow, and I can only describe the feeling of it as evil. I ran back and ducked down behind the hill. There was a Japanese lady hiding behind the hill too. She was trying to protect a little girl. I realized that there were other people at the park in danger other than myself. I climbed back over the hill and yelled, "Stop the ritual!" As soon as I said this, one of the women in the group stared at me blankly. She reached out her hand towards me. She whispered, "Die..." A lightning bolt crashed down right in front of me. The blast sent me flying back to the bottom of the hill.

The wind started to pick up, I could hear thunder, and there was lightning flashing in the sky. I heard one of the women in the group scream, "It's too powerful!" Another woman shouted, "We lost control of the spell!" I got back up and looked back over the hill again. "Uh oh..." Said one of the men in the group. I think I even heard one say, "lol wut?" I saw another flash in the sky and I made time slow down. A lightning bolt was slowly coming down right at the stone. I dived back down over the hill. I then heard an explosion fallowed by screams. So now the cultists were dead and they left us with storm of chaos. I looked back at the lady and little girl from earlier, but a orange lightning bolt hit the lady. She was able to protect the little girl, but she was erased from existance. I then decided to grab the girl and get away from the park.

I started to run to the other side of the park, but orange lightning bolts were landing behind me and creating mini nuclear explosions. "Faster! Faster!" I started to say to myself to boost speed. The squirrels from earlier had red eyes now, and they started to bite at my legs. "Ow! Ow! Damn it! Ouch!" I continued to run though and then they were all killed by lightning bolt. This made me pick up speed and scream like a girl... "Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" I approached the gate, but Bull and Tigger had red eyes and blocked my exit. "BULL!" (lol dream pun?) Even though there was a rhino and an oversized lion blocking the way I ran towards them anyways. I don't remember what happened from that point on.

Fragment

I was standing on the street with another Japanese woman. She was a news reporter, and I was told she was deaf. Although I was told she was deaf, in the dream I couldn't hear anything. She started to interview me. I was somehow able to guess what she was saying even though I was deaf. Sadly she was speaking Japanese and it was too fast for me to translate.

I remember waking up after the fragment. I rolled over and wrote down a few notes about the dream in my journal. Thinking about the dream and the fragment started to confuse me so I just went back to sleep.

My Thoughts on this Dream

Ok so the rhino's name was Bull and the lion's name was Tigger? I guess those can be linked somehow...

What can we learn from this? Lightning and explosions hurt, little furry creatures can never be trusted, and evil cultists are stupid.

A question also just came to mind. How did the cultists get away with dark magic, in a public park, and in the middle of the day?

This is supposed to be listed before "Jr's death" dream.

I was standing in my closet. Tyler was with me. It was dark but bright enough to see. He turned into a wear wolf. I ran past him and into my bedroom while he as transforming. The light was on and I could see my bed. I crawled ou the window and ran to Rum Bauer. I ran into a car and tried to get it to start. I could see him behind me smashing cars as he jumped on them getting closer. I couldn't get the car to start and I woke up thinking I was going to get smashed.

I was standing on a road close to "the farm house". I was close to the iron bridge that's over the St. Francis river. It was sunny but as I looked at the sky more closely I seen a tornado coming from the east and a second coming from the west. I ran down the gravel road trying to reach my house. (I don't know why this seemed logical at the time, the bridge would have been better than a basement less house and the fact that both of seemed to be heading toward the house makes it stupid to even consider running there) I reached the drive way so fast. Faster than I thought I would. But the tornado from the east was behind me. My feet took longer and longer to reach the ground with each step I took untill I left it completely behind and was sucked up. I woke up before seeing the inside of it from the feeling of leaving the ground.

This is another tornado dream I had but its just a fragment.

I was in a house and I heard there was a tornado somewhere. I remember floating in the air away from my body and viewing what they were caqlling a tornado and finding it humorous.

This is two different dreams. But their so similar and short I'm putting them together.

Me, Jr, kyle, and Calub were traveling North to get away from zombies. We pulled over to stop at a hotel. We stole towels and toothbrushes, shampoo. We were going to stay the night there.

I was hiding in a house were the town reminded me of Puxico from zombies.

DJ Log: May 2, 2011 – 7:30AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: · NON-DREAM · NOTES · DREAM · LUCID ·

I am playing a pinball game called Super Mario Brothers Pinball. The balls drop from the top and bounce down through to the bottom. There are a couple of canons that shoot the ball back out once it goes into a side pocket, or drops off the bottom of the game. I can't seem to find the flippers, but they are not needed as there are enough things that bounce the balls around on their own.

After playing for a while, the game starts to malfunction and get into endless loops of bouncing the ball from a canon back into one of the side pockets. Sometimes, all 4 of the balls fall out at once and get stuck bouncing in various directions. The balls make the Super Mario Brothers “jump” sound whenever they hit something.

The TV that the game is on turns into a car, and the game gets into an endless loop where the ball drops from the start tube, hits the first canon, then launches back into the start tube and completely out of the game. The balls launch out of the car and start bouncing around the city. I fly away from the car and get into another car so I can watch from a distance.

I pull over into a parking lot and watch as the car stops in the middle of the road and backs slightly to align the flying balls so they bounce around between the other cars and some of the buildings. After a while, the power suddenly goes out in the city and everything goes dark. A few more balls launch out, then the lights and power in the car start to go out.

The power comes back on and the car starts to drive away. A DC sees that the game system is left lying in the middle of the road, so he grabs it and starts running after the car. I drive up and grab the game system from him and start chasing the car, but I lost track of it. The DC points and says the car pulled into a convenience store parking lot. I missed the entrance, so I pull into the next parking lot at a gas station. I get out and start running toward the game car, but I wake up before arriving.

I hope my dry spell is over. I quit smoking cigarettes about a month and a half ago and have had terrible recall during this time. I had two good fragments earlier in the night while I was sleeping on a friend's couch, then this one happened when I came home and went back to bed for a couple of hours before getting up for work.

General text non-lucid awake lucid

This was the second dream of the night I could remember. It was kind of funny. It was also a little creepy because the cake fallowed me...

Ripto's Lab

This dream started with me standing at the bottom of a grassy hill. I wasn't really thinking much about anything until a man called for me. I looked at the top of a hill and I saw a man that looked a lot like Ripto. He was short, orange, and had a horn on his head. Close enough. He was also wearing a lab coat, which was a little too big for him. "Would you mind coming to my lab and running some tests with me?" he asked. "Sure." I answered without thinking.

I ran up the hill, and as I reached the top, I saw apiece of cake on the ground. It was just like the cake from the last dream. I ran past it at first, but then I ran back for it and took it with me. I ate it as I fallowed Ripto to a group of metalic blue buildings. They felt kind of sci-fi. He led me to a very tall building to the right. There were 3 doors to the building. There was also graffiti on the wall next to one door. It read, "Attention workers! This door is now uncool from over use. Use the one to the left now." I looked at the one to the left. There was a sign on the door that read, "Out of order." I started to laugh at how retarded both of these signs were, but I used the 3rd door anyways. This door led to a large elevator that took a very long ride to the 3rd floor.

To break the silence, Ripto started to talk about the meaning of life. "You know, the concept of life is quite a remarkable thing. I remember when it all started! The meaning of life..." Once we were on the 3rd floor and walked out the elevator, we were suddenly seperated. I then heard Ripto's voice say, "Solve the maze to find the giant tv screen." I looked in front of me and the giant screen was just down the hallway. I walked up to it and Ripto appeared right next to me. "Very good. Now onto phase 2..."

Out of nowhere I started to play pokemon. I was in a double battle against a spearow and diglet. My pokemon were turtwig and sphinx. Diglet used earthquake and nearly killed spearow, but not my pokemon. "Haha! Stupid diglet!" Spearow then used some move callled "feather" after that. Feathers flew by, turtwig and sphinx were paralyzed, and spearow got all his HP back. "No! No! No!" I said as I watched sphinx's hp drop. Sphinx lost all his hp and died. "BULL!"

I woke up after that. The main thing on my mind now was why cake? I rolled over and saw a plate covered with cake crumbs on the floor. "Oh yeah... I ate cake before bed..."

My Thoughts on this Dream

Never expected Ripto to be a life loving scientist. He's usually a little more, "Grr I'ma kill you with mah sceptor!" I also hate pokemon now. -.-

May 2, 2011

Non-lucid

I am at home on the computer when I hear something break through the kitchen window. I rush out to see what is going on and my parents inform me that a hunter was too close to our property and a stray bullet came into our house. I go out our back door, which now leads to a sea. I hop in a small plastic canoe and start rowing my way across the wind-whipped water. I see another canoe in the distance, and head towards it. In it is an old man with a hunting vest and hat. I ask him if he was the one that shot our house, and he says yes. When I inform him that he should take it farther away from our residence, he mutters about being able to do what he wants and rows away. Satisfied that the problem was dealt with, I fly up into the top window of a building. There, my girlfriend is helping bake brownies for a school event. Then she realizes that she will be late for the bus. We run out into the rain so she can catch it, and I wave goodbye as it drives away. I walk over to my car to head home myself.

The dramatic changes in setting should have been a good indicator that I was dreaming.

I was running up a highway carrying my son Simon in his car seat with one arm. JR was at my side (bf and father). It was cloudy. We had been running from Zombies. I seen a house off the road kinda hidden. We went inside to rest and thinking the zombies wouldn't see us here and pass us by. There was an old lady that creeped me out. She popped out nowhere after setting Simon down and kept looking at him in a way that disturbed me. I wanted to leave and decided we'd try to hide from the zombies somewhere else. We had just reached the road when I heard a baby crying from in the house. I looked in the car seat and Simon was gone. I told JR that Simon was stolen and he didn't believe me. "He's still in his car seat" I ran back to the house alone and woke up.

I was walking in front of the Dollar General in Desoto with JR(we had just started going out). He was slightly ahead of me. We was having a good time walking with each other. Then as we pass the automatic door for the store I seen an arm fly out with a gun and shot JR in the head. I ran for the spot were he fell panicked crying. I woke up crying.

A Large Problem
I am at Alicia's house, we just got back from a vacation of some kind and I need a ride home. There are quite a few others there with us, apparently they have been on the vacation with us, and many of them are also waiting for rides. One of the women is bitching to Alicia that she thinks Alicia should take us all home, or at least her. I think she is being rude. I call my mom and ask if she can come to give me a ride home. She says sure, she will come pick me up right away. I wait there with Alicia and the others for a while. The other people there seem to start disappearing, though I never actually see them go. I assume they got a ride home. My mother takes quite a long time to get there, but finally she does. She is in a car I don't recognize, the car is tiny. She climbs out of the car and I see she looks about three times fatter than she was when I saw her last. She had been in the process of losing weight… so what happened? She waddles over to see me and say hi to Alicia, I note how out of shape she seems. I am worried for her health. She says she is here, let's go home. I say ok, when we get in the car I ask her what happened to her diet. She says nothing, her diet is going fine. Why do I ask?


Living In Filth
I am in a house that looks absolutely disgusting, though I know it is not mine. I am looking through the house for something, trying to see if I can find anything of value in the place. I look into a room that smells particularly bad and I start looking around, though I am sure I don't want to be in there very long. I am about to leave when I see something horrible… there is a cat in there. The cat is lying in a pile of filth, there is nowhere else for the kitty to go, and the cat looks very sick. The poor kitty is missing most of its fur. The cat clearly once had a long plush black coat, but huge chunks of that coat have come out, leaving bald spots over a large portion of the cat's body. I go to pick the cat up, the cat's body is limp and unresponsive. The cat seems to be barely alive. I get on my cell phone and call someone, maybe the owner of the home? I am talking to a woman. I say that there is a cat in the filth, not responsive, and is just lying there in her own filth. The woman says there is a healing gem in the house, in the living room, use that. I go to the living room, or what I think is the living room. It's really hard to tell, the room is also filled with filth. I am digging through the disgusting filth trying to find the healing gem. What if I can't find it? A patch of my skin is turning green, rotting off… this place is making me sick, too. But I don't want to leave until I find the healing gem and save the kitty!

Note: I have a long haired black kitty named Shadow. The image of the sick kitty was so vivid in my head when I woke up that I had to go into the other room and check on Shadow, pick her up, and love her. She responded with a purr.



Real Life DDO Skills
I am on a vacation with my mother, we are leaving the hotel to go on a visit to a local theme park that is similar to Disney Land. It isn't actually Disney Land, but I know it will be a lot of fun. We get to the theme park and go over to the ticket stand, but the tickets are around double the price we expected it to be. This park is less well known than Disney Land, so we had expected it to be a lot less expensive. Their website had indicated it was a lot cheaper… but the lower price doesn't include any of the rides at all, I really don't see the point of that ticket. My mom and I leave the ticket booth, deciding it is too expensive to go in. On the way back to the hotel we are discussing our options, and we eventually decide I should sneak inside and ride the rides for the day. She says she will give me money for food. She says she wasn't really interested in the rides to begin with, so she will spend the day doing something else. I agree to the plan, but there is one problem with it. I will have to either improve or buff my sneak skill before it is high enough to allow me to sneak into the park.


Someone Is Watching
I am in a hospital data center, it seems I have landed back at the same dead end job I had before I went back to school and got a bachelor's degree. That is really depressing. It is Halloween night, and I can see quite a few people down below in the parking lot dressed in costume. The hospital itself is entirely closed, so at least I don't have to worry about getting customer service calls for the night. The people down below start dispersing, it seems there was a party down there but now it is over. That is also a bummer, I missed out on all the free candy. Another worker stuck there at night comes into the room and tells me there is a suspicious character wandering around the property, so he would recommend I stay in the data center with the door locked. He leaves, and I lock the door behind him. As luck would have it, now I start having to go pee. The restroom is a short distance down a dark hall from the data center. I look out the window at the parking lot again, there is now a creepy looking guy in a costume standing there watching my window… or it looks like he is watching my window. I have to go pee worse. I am also getting a bit hungry. The vending machine is a short distance down the dark hall as well, though in the opposite direction from the bathroom. Great, I am hungry and I have to go pee and there is a creepy guy out there. I figure I will have to go eventually, so I should go ahead and go out there while the creepy guy is in the parking lot. It will take him time to get up to the third level where the data center is.

Protective Custody?
I am with Alicia, we are going to the U of A football field to see a game. We are talking about some random things, about how well we expect the U of A to do this season… Alicia asks me if I think my mother might take more of an interest in college football if the NFL doesn't work things out in time for the next season. I'm not really sure if she might or not… Alicia and I go into a room that is on the ground level with the football field. I look out onto the field and I can see the grass looks quite a bit thicker than it normally does, but I don't notice this as odd. Alicia is looking out over the field as well, she is also complaining about our view, saying it will be hard to see what is going on out there. Something starts looking strange to me, I look around to see if I can identify what is out of place. I finally decide to do a reality check and I find I am dreaming. I remember I have plans to go meet up with MoSh and see about finding Sam. I think I'll just bust out a window and fly off. I guess I really only ended up being semi-lucid, because the best thing I can think of is to smash the window with a chair. I pick up one of the chairs and slam it into a window. This has very little effect, which surprises me. I should certainly be strong enough to smash out the window… I hit it a few more times and finally crack it, then it finally comes down. Alicia is asking me what I am doing, why am I breaking a window? To my surprise, the window doesn't lead outside. It leads into a room that is filled with styrofoam popcorn. The popcorn falls out of the room in huge piles, and there is a woman with long dark hair in the room. The woman is sitting on a bed, looking out at me over what is left of the popcorn. She says someone shut her in the room. They said it was for her own protection, but she thinks that is a load of bullshit.

Summoning Problems
I am outside riding my bike down some roads in the middle of the desert. I note the fact it isn't hot, in fact it is a very nice day for a ride. I am getting close to home, I only have one more hill to go up before I get there. I think that hill looks far too difficult to ride my bike up. I do a random RC and I realize I am dreaming. I don't become especially lucid, though, I don't remember any of my goals. I just want to play around with some of my dream skills. First to make this hill a bit easier. I focus on my summoning. I try to summon a bike with a little motor to help me with the hill. Epic fail. I try again… epic fail. Well, maybe I'll try something easier. I ride my bike up the hill, it is easier than I had expected. Of course I am dreaming… so I shouldn't get tired so easily. I get home and see that my home is an apartment rather than my own home. I am a bit thirsty after that bike ride, so I summon a coke. Epic fail. I try again, and I am finally able to summon a can of coke. Only one problem… the can is the size of a peanut! I focus on it becoming bigger. It grows a bit. I say I want it bigger… it grows some more… bigger… finally it is the size of a normal can of coke. I open the can and start drinking it.

Beach Combing
I am on a beach, it is a wide and beautiful beach. I feel I have absolutely nowhere I have to be right now, so I decide to explore the beach and maybe play in the water for a while. The water is quite cold, but there are a lot of interesting places to explore. I head down the beach and find a rocky area with a lot of caves and inlets. I start looking inside the small caves and inlets. I find some gems on the ground. I wonder if they could be real or if they are just decorations and souvenirs for explorers to find. I pick up a couple of them that I think are especially pretty. I continue exploring, and I finally reach a dead end in one of the caves where there is a large treasure chest sitting there open. Most likely it is there for tourists to take souvenirs. I look inside and take a couple of treasure pieces, I take a necklace and a pair of gemstone earrings as well as a few gold coins, then I leave the rest of it for other explorers to find.


Demon Jungle
I am at the edge of a jungle, preparing to go into the dense foliage on the hunt for something that redefines the word evil. I know I am not alone in this hunt, someone else just left me to circle around behind the target. He will come from that direction to make sure the thing doesn't get out by going that way. So I go into the forest, searching around for traces of the thing we are hunting. I find the thing has left an obvious trail. The trail is a little too obvious. It could easily be a trap. I continue following the trail, but I am also being observant for any kind of a trap. In spite of being watchful for a trap, I step right into the middle of it. I am in a small clearing when a circle of dark mud forms around me. The mud bubbles up from the ground and forms into dark mud figures that are circling around me. My mind immediately goes to DDO, and I pull a sword out of nowhere… out of my ass? I swing the sword and cut through a couple of the figures. Cutting mud is ineffective. I shoot flames from my hands and dry the mud into dust that blows away. Something is moving in the trees… I see glowing eyes in there, sinister eyes. Something moves into the clearing. I can't really see what it is, though, it seems to be cloaked in a cloud of darkness, it seems to be blurred out of existence… weird… it is attacking me somehow, I can't even see it move, but there are razor sharp talons cutting at me. I heal the cuts immediately and shoot fire back at the thing. The fire burns the cloud of darkness away. I attack with my sword. The thing blocks with its talons, cutting at me, attacking with a fury. I am finally able to block the talons with my sword and fire a blast of flames directly at the creature. The flames burn all the way through the thing and it is incinerated.