New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Plans: For tonight, my main focus is to continue remembering things, so I don't get stuck in another dry spell. I also still have a goal to meet with Dakotahnok at the beginning of the Halo task to have a confirmed shared dream. I also would like to get started on the Tasks of the Year from DV, the one I want to get over with first is a task taken from the Jaws movie, but the task is to kill the shark… which I don't want to do. I have plans on getting around it, but I figure I want to take care of it as soon as possible.

I am on a boat out in the ocean, I look around to see where I am, but I don't recognize any of it. I am lucid, though I don't remember how I became lucid. I look at the ocean around the boat and think this is most likely the place where I am supposed to complete the task of the year from DV that has to do with the Jaws movie. Ok, well this is definitely doable, so I'll get it out of the way. I look around the boat for a bit, and it is clearly a fishing type boat, there are three men out on the deck, I see there is a lot of beer being passed around, and it looks more like they're out here to party than fish or hunt sharks. I am thinking if one of those two were to fire a harpoon gun they would be more apt to skewer each other than any shark in the water. I am standing there watching them when one of them turns towards me and sees me. He stands there staring as if I was some kind of alien, or maybe a mermaid who had climbed out of the ocean and onto the boat… He finally comes over to me, holding his beer out in front of him, but he isn't handing it to me…

"Who the FUCK are you?" he says loudly, "Hey, guys! We gots ourselves a stowaway…" He is slurring his words, he is clearly more than a bit drunk.

"Maybe she can be put to good use here," another of the men says, "As shark bait!" The two men, the drunk one and the one who suggested I could be shark bait, come towards me, attempting to look menacing. Epic fail. The drunk one looks more like he might throw up than attack. The third one is over near the edge of the boat and he calls out that they have something, too big for a fish, it's definitely a shark… I think he sounds like a retard saying sharks aren't actually fish… He calls to the other two to come help anchor the line so it won't get away! Get the harpoon so they can kill it and claim the reward. I ask them if they're really just killing a shark for money? The one man who seems to be the least drunk says no, of course not… I shouldn't forget about the excitement of the hunt… and the fame… the drunk one throws his beer up in the air and adds that he does it for the women. I tell them to let the shark go, it's not the one attacking swimmers at the beach. If it was that one, half their boat would now be missing. The one anchoring the line down says I am probably right about that, he has heard descriptions of that shark, descriptions that say it is nearly the size of a whale. Everyone agrees that this is not the shark everyone is after, but maybe there is still a reward. One of them says if I help bring the shark in, I can share in the fame. Not in the reward, but in the fame, sure. Two are anchoring the line, the third is aiming a harpoon gun at the ocean, I agree that I will help.

I don't like these people killing for thrills, fortune, and fame, that is not a good enough reason to kill. I go over towards the three, like I am going to help anchor the line, but then I form Witchblade into a dagger and knife the guy with the harpoon gun, then lift him up a bit and shove him overboard into the water before he can react. The drunk one seems to sober up really fast, he asks what the fuck I'm doing, I'd said I would help… I say I didn't say who I would help, and I choose the shark. The guy in the water is calling for help, he says the blood will attract sharks. One of the men is trying to hold on to me, holding my arms behind my back, while the other goes to pull his friend from the water. So I stab the man holding me in the leg and flip him overboard into the water, then stab the last man in the shoulder and go to shove him overboard. He grabs me as he falls, and we both fall into the water. The man I fell overboard with laughs at me, saying I have killed myself, too, as the sharks will kill me when they come I dive under the water, following the thick line down to a tiger shark that is swimming around in circles, trying to get loose, but only tangling himself up more than ever.

I use my Witchblade blade to cut through the line, which is thicker than any fishing line I have ever seen before, and the shark is free. I telepathically tell the shark I need to get the hook out, it is a large hook, which is hooked in the shark's mouth… probably placed there when it tried to eat a fish with the hook inside it. I go over to the shark and pull the hook out, then heal the injury. The tiger shark responds to the blood in the water from the bleeding shark hunters and heads for them. I also see some more sharks attracted to the scene. I surface to see the three men climbing back into the boat, one of them is safely aboard and pulling a second in when the sharks arrive. The sharks grab the man who is dangling over the edge of the boat, tearing him in half… the second man disappears under the water… then a massive shark practically bites the boat in half, and that is the last to be seen of the three shark hunters.

Another boat arrives, and I realize it is the Orca, the ship from the movie Jaws, a man pulls me onto the ship, and there is a woman looking out over the water at the huge shark that bit the smaller boat in half. I search my mind for the identities of the people… one is Quint, a shark hunter, the man who pulled me out is Brody, the main character, so the woman is Hooper, the marine biologist? I was trying to think if that was a woman in the movie, but I figure it doesn't matter. Small detail. I am thinking of how to arrange Quint's death when I remember the task is to actually kill the shark, damn, I almost forgot that detail… so I go to one of the large harpoon guns and shoot the shark, right through the brain for a painless death… ok… task done… I jump in the water, though it's clear that the others think I fell, and I swim over to the shark. I remove the harpoon, then I summon up a healing item in the form of a mushroom that I have designed for use in my own video games, the mushroom heals and restores life to the recently deceased. I put the mushroom in the shark's mouth where it is instantly absorbed, the shark is revived and healed. Yay! I use the harpoon rope to pull myself back onto the boat, this time both Brody and Hooper help me up. I slice the rope a bit as I get on, weakening it. Quint sees the shark is still moving down there, so he reels the harpoon back in for another shot. He fires, and gets the shark only through its dorsal fin… the shark pulls at the harpoon cable. Quint says to pull the rope in a specific way so the harpoon gets set in place. I arrange so that he is in front, then the weak spot in the line, then Brody and Hooper. The line snapes, Quint gets pulled into the water and swallowed whole by the angry shark.

I do a quick scan of Brody and Hooper… Hooper has been against killing the shark from the beginning, but no one would listen to her idea of using some kind of sonic waves to deter sharks from entering areas populated by people. Brody had been going along with killing the shark, but it looked like there was still hope he could learn… maybe Hooper would teach him? The shark is tearing the boat in half, I tell the two of them to take hold of my hands, then I use TK to fly all three of us towards the shore, which shocks both of them. The big shark is following us after I telepathically tell the shark I know where there's food, so I lead him on to a boat that looks to have about seven shark hunters aboard. He bites that boat in half and feeds on the people aboard, Brody and Hooper both think that is horrible, but they don't know I had anything to do with it. I take them to shore and set them on the beach. I see other shark hunter boats out in the water getting attacked by the shark, excellent. Hooper says that's the consequence of people having no respect for the forces of nature, none of those people would have to die if they hadn't tried to kill the big shark in the first place. Brody asks why I can't go out there and help some of them… I say why should I help them, so they can do more thrill killing later? Brody stares at me as if I am completely mad, he says those are human beings out there, I ask what his point is. He seems to be without response to that, or maybe he just doesn't have a chance to respond before I wake up.