New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Beta 3DS
I am inside a computer store, browsing the various game titles and other assorted things I find in the aisles. I am not really seeing anything that especially catches my attention until I happen to pass by the customer service desk, at which point I see a Nintendo DS sitting there. But something isn't right about it… I look closer and see it is the not-yet-released Nintendo 3DS, which won't be available until around the end of March… but there is one, sitting right out in the open. I go over and look at it, then a customer service guy tells me to leave it alone. I tell him I just wanted to see how it looked, he says ok, he looks paranoid that someone might try to take it. I am thinking if he is that paranoid that someone would take it he shouldn't have it sitting out in the open like that where anyone who walks by could possibly grab it and be gone before he realized what they had done. I say I am interested in the Nintendo 3DS, but I didn't think they were out yet. He says they aren't, but he has a prototype for beta testing. He chuckles and says he is one of the few lucky ones, but no one is supposed to see it. He puts it down underneath the counter and then walks away. I see him off to the side a ways talking to another customer, then the customer leads him away, apparently to ask a question about one thing or another. I get down low and sneak down behind the counter, I see the 3DS there. For some reason putting it in my pocket isn't good enough… I think it will set off the alarm at the exit if I do that… so I have a boxed PC game that has enough room for the DS in there, I slit the plastic on the game just enough to slide the 3DS into it, then I start trying to work the 3DS into the box. I have not yet succeeded before I see the guy coming back, and I am forced to leave the 3DS and get out of there. Epic fail. I am annoyed, I leave the game I had planned on buying on the customer service desk and I walk out.

I find I am in a mall, and I head down the main hall a short ways before I see another computer store which I go in. I am thinking I can go ahead and buy the game here since I was dumb enough to not even buy that at the previous store. I go inside and I see another person playing on a Nintendo 3DS… more beta testing? I ask him where he got his, he said it is a beta testing prototype… great… He asks if I want in on the beta testing… I say absolutely! He asks why I wanted it, I go on for a short time about wanting to try the latest technology, and then I go off on a tangent about being a game designer… he interrupts me here and said it is mine. He pulled out a packaged Nintendo 3DS and hands it to me, he does it in the way a drug dealer might hand off their goods… he says to keep it hidden, he only had his out because he was still giving out beta models. He says he is out now, so will be more careful about letting his unit be seen. He slips his 3DS into his pocket, and indicates for me to do the same. He walks away like he has never seen me, I walk out into the main mall, I am so happy!

Corporate Takeover
I am in an office of some kind, it looks like a meeting room, and there are some people at the other end of the room talking amongst themselves. I head down towards them, I can't help but be curious as to what they are talking about. I hear that they are talking about video games, video game design, and video game publishing. I don't recognize the people there, but it feels that I know them in some way. They are so absorbed in talking amongst themselves that no one seems to notice me standing there. With a bit more of a listen, I realize they are talking about one of the games I have been thinking about releasing under the name Outer Realms Software. Then I realize they are talking about Outer Realms Software itself… they are talking about how I made it all possible to set up the framework of Outer Realms Software, and thanks to that, they are ready to begin selling games. I am about to say something when I hear some more of what they are saying… they are also talking about me. They seem to have come to an agreement that while I was key in setting up the framework of the company, I was really of no further use to Outer Realms Software… so it would be best to get rid of me as quietly as possible. One of them says it's easy enough, just change the locks after I leave work for the day. That way I won't have a chance to steal any of the game design data, software, and resources when I go. This is pissing me off, since that data and resources are there because I helped make them. It wouldn't be stealing for me to take them since it was mostly my own work. So instead of saying anything, I turn and leave the room quickly before I am seen. I return to my office and begin copying files to a portable hard drive I have… making a backup copy to the hard drive and then erasing the stuff off of the company servers. If they wanted me pushed out of my own company, well they were going to be losing all of the work I brought to the company along with me!