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This retaurant was filled to the ceiling. If you wanted to get something from the salad bar you would have to stand for quite a while but eventually I could take some soup and other side dishes. What was by far more interesting were the conversations people had. A guy looking like some kind of servant was eagerly discussing with a lady in a fulminant dress how somebody might be in danger. He didn't try to keep it secret and even I could hear it although I was much further in the endless row of people wanting their side dishes. Still, nobody cared but me.

I went outside instead of eating as this story about someone being in danger got me hooked up. Who and how in a normal restaurant like this? There was nothing dangerous outside either. The moon light coloured the wide hills, lawns and trees in blue. This place was really in the nowhere without anything nearby. So I decided to go inside again when the servant guy ran the same way being out of breath. Of course I followed him at the same speed and inside he shouted again "Milady is in danger, she is in danger!".

Suddenly I noticed something very... abnormal. When I looked down on the floor I saw a red outline moving around. No, it was not drawn on the floor. It had the shape of a human and was more like vision. I was seeing the girl he was talking about through the floor! Judging by the shape alone she had to quite young, barely a teenager. It was this moment when the servant and I looked to a unsuspecting door and we both felt the same obviously. He sprinted ahead of me and went through the door. I lost sight of him but took the same way.

The stairs behind the door led into a basement. Some kids were playing a really weird game here. Who got caught became a slave and they had to move him step by step to their camp while the other team tried to free them. A little boy was the slave right now and was totally not happy with it. He moved with a form of disgust. Some people wore white robes which made them look like priests. No idea if this was made to distinguish teams.

Anyway, I should move on. When opening another door the atmosphere changed out of nowhere. The place behind the door was devoid of people and had an evil aura around it. It was a dungeon.
"Wait! A dungeon? This concept only exists in my dreams." I reached a level of lucidty which took away the fear caused by the evil aura and turned everything into an exciting adventure. With determination I walked into the dungeon and looked around. Small yellow-orange lights created a moody atomsphere and flags and pictures hang on the walls. You could mistake it for a normal hallway if it hadn't that strange aura.
With all those decorative plants, benches and other stuff it looked a bit like the restaurant above me. So I started to roam through the corridors trying to find the girl, the servant and the source of danger. I soon noticed that this place was huge. One corridor led into to others and behind a corner the corridors went on. Sometimes there was a room with tables, chairs and sofas inside but I didn't trust them too much.

Suddenly I had a vision while walking. Two women were caught in a white room with nothing but a steel door stealing their freedom inside. You could see them through a glass plane and the surroundings were the same as the dungeon. One in a white dress told her to use the power inside of her to break through the door and disappeared like a ghost after saying "It is up to you. I can't help you any further.".
And then.... I WAS IN THE ROOM!
Seems like I walked into a teleportation trap, how unconvenient and diabolic. Well, at least I got a tip though. I put my finger tips on my forehead to concentrate my energy and stretched out the other arm towards the door. I violently struck the door with telekinetic force, a power the room seems to give you. I saw a fiery, green bar going down in my field of vision. That was obviously my dream energy. It got drained quite a lot by performing so many telekinetic waves but the door was already completely deformated and with a single blow it gave in.

I ran to the end of the hallway and it led into only one room that was different from the others starting with the different furniture. It looked like a bar with a billiards table on one corner. Most surprising was the bald guy with glasses sitting on a chair while smoking though. At first I thought he was my enemy but he took no action to hurt me and just had a "I expected you" look on his face. No time to have a talk though. The billards cues came to live and attacked me by trying to sting me. They were rather weak creatures though. I gave them fast punches and kicks while evading them and they flew across the room. Once they hit the wall with a loud noise the magic inside of them vanished and they became normal cues.

Was that the danger? No. When turning around I see one elderly man with a totally insane look on his face and a fairly massive one with glasses similar to the smoking man in the chair. They had weapons good enough to hurt me. Well, not really as I was dreaming after all but you get what I mean. One had two single nunchaku sticks with sharp hooks at one end and the other one had chained up like five of them to create a deadly weapon out of them. The smoking man slowly stood up with his on chained nunchakus. Well, I would like to have a weapon, too to be honest. When looking around I spotted some nunchaku sticks on the billard table.
The hooks of them were not that sharp or pointy but it was good enough for now. It was the smoking man and me against the Nunchaku brothers.

I took care of the crazy one and he was quite a hard opponent. He blocked my strikes and tried to get through my defense but he failed as well. At some point I understood a bit how I could get him down. I aimed for his head with the sticks and he made a funny "Ayyyy" sound when I hit him. He could take quite a few hits. Inbetween I felt like everything was fading a bit. "Hey, a bit more awareness and control if possible, yeah?"
The colors went brighter and the battle raged on. When fighting and landing more hits I suddenly noticed that one of the nunchakus was missing. I looked to the massive nunchaku brother and he was chaining my stick to make an even better weapon. NOOOO!! I tried to stop him but he resisted well. It was no use. Luckily, my partner landed a good hit and he was obviously realizing now that he had no real chance against us after all. Af ter a few more hits the crazy brother walked backwards as well. They could not fight anymore and were defeated. An expression of disbelieve was on their faces.

Hmmm, I think I am going to take thoes nunchakus as loot. They might become helpful if I modify them a bit.

I was celebrating something in a very nice garden together with some people that I only partly knew. It was already getting evening and I was still waiting for some people but I decided to just sit down for now. There were a few people sitting on benches around a table. Seemed like a good place to sit down for me. Everyone greeted me even though I had no idea who they were to be very honest. And then the first very weird thing happend:
As I sat down on the bench it instantly flipped up on one side and I nearly fell. When pushing it back into position I noticed that it had an extremely low weight for looking quite massive.

I decided to go into the cafee which the garden belonged to. It was unbelievably full in there with maids running all around serving things. Suddenly I felt the urge to go to the toilet to pee and searched around. "Ah, there it is!" It was not hard to find as it was right near the entrance. The first thing I saw when opening the door were at least 15 toilets being weirdly arranged on the wall and one that.... was simply flying in the air. "Ha, what an obvious dream." That sign was too obvious to miss. I decided to finish peeing though as "having an accident" would be pretty uncomfortable, even in a dream. Well, it didn't want to stop though. So I just forcefully stopped at some point and went out of the toilet loosing some pee on the floor. Instantly I am being watched by the maids and a "Wanted Star" appeared in the edge of my vision. It basically meant "We won't take action yet but you are being watched!"

Well, I didn't want to stay here anyway so who cares? I ran out of another exit then last time and it led me to the city. Sprinting through the big hall I noticed that it had become night already and that a nice orange light was brightening it up. I felt a bit of instability and clapped my hands hearing the echo from the walls. It was fairly effective for bringing me back into the dream world.

Now I finally wanted to something else than just exploring so I left the building (while hitting the glass door once) and was outside in the night. I liked how busy it was with cars driving the street up and down and people on bycicles passing by. I walked up a hill and started with my typical speech. "This world has been created by me, I am already in full control. This wonderful place and its appearance is controlled by me and every action somebody takes here. It is subconcious but I can link it to my concious!"
Those sentences increased my control a lot as they made me aware of my true state. So what did I want to do again? I always wanted to control the elements. For first I would start with fire although it seems harder than some other elements as I have to create things out of nowhere. Looking at a tree I took my hand back and pushed it forward again to summon a fireball. Hmmm... that was weak, just a bit of glowing and warmth. Again! I took a bit more time now and.... a fireball hit the tree and inflameed it! I threw one after the other at it and the inferno was growing.
All of a sudden to people came to watch me but for now I was more interested in burning down that (innocent) tree. At some point only the stump was left and it broke down into pieces of coal. "YES! The first element is done!" What a victory!

The two people were applauding and I finally took a look at them. They wore thick coats and looked elderly. Obviously they were familiar with controling elements. Then I was teleported into a misty green field with many differently shaped holes with water inside. I understood now: I had been taken to the the Wide Lands and this was the water trial. Let`s go! I carefully rose my hand to raise towers of water. It was truly fun to watch but I was interrupted by the elderly people. They show me a magic hologram including the next task. Forming my name with water? That seemed difficult. It got even worse. Forming japanese Kanjis with water. What?

I woke up here but two elements had been mastered. No need to be sad about the sudden end.