New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

2017, 10-25

Game of Dreams – Night Assault

I am in a Game of Thrones world, but this time I am not inside one of the characters there. I am myself, Raven Knight. I look around and see that I’m in a town seems to be mostly on fire. There is clearly an attack underway. I hear the sound of voices not far off. I followed those voices. I see there is a fortress near the center of town. That is obviously where people go to stay safe from attack. There are numerous warriors standing outside of the main gate. The one that appears to be their leader is yelling at a guy up on the walls. I recognize the guy on the wall as the one who is collecting new members of the Knight’s Watch. His name is Yarin. I also remembered that he seems to assume everyone will honor the fact the Knight’s Watch doesn’t take any side in a war. I know that to be bullshit. The leader of the enemies calls up at Yarin that he should open the gates in the name of King Joffrey. Yarin says that the Knight’s Watch does not take a part in their wars. But that doesn’t seem to matter to the guy in the armor. Yarin says he will not open the gates. The asshole leader of the bandits, bandits fighting for the Lannister‘s, says that makes them traitors to the true king. He orders his people to assault the walls and kill everyone inside.

At this point I step out and walk right up to the gate. I am between the enemies and the gate. I tell them that they will not be able to assault the walls until they get past me. There is some laughter at that. The leader mocks me and asks what a little girl is going to do to keep them from getting into the fortress? I told him the only little girls around here I see would be him and his people, the one to seem to enjoy murdering children. Oh, and for the record, I personally think Joffrey is an ass and a bastard. The leader orders everyone there that they should kill me and then assault the walls. Before they make their move I ask them, is that your whole plan? Kill me? Because it’s not that easy. A couple of them come up to just clear me out of the way easily. It is not easy. I use the song Warriors by Disturbed. “I am now an instrument violence! I am a vessel of invincibility! I will not leave this undecided, stepping down to battle another day!” As they come in attack I form my right arm into an Alex Mercer blade. They have some pretty good armor on… and my Alex Mercer blade cuts through it as if it was tinfoil. I cut down three enemy soldiers that came forward to kill me.

“Surrender now or be counted with the endless masses I will defeat! I am one with the warrior inside!” Their leader says that’s an interesting blade I have fitted over my arm. He asks if I really think I can take on all of them by myself? A man’s voice says I don’t have to. I turn and look to see Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Now there is an Alex Mercer and an Assassin fighting them. One of them asked Altaïr who the fuck he is? He just says that they wouldn’t know him, but now they’ll never forget him. The Warrior by Disturbed continues. “Our dominance can’t be denied, the entire world will turn into a battlefield tonight! As we look upon you with warrior’s eyes, we can see the fear that will ensure our victory tonight!” Altaïr and I fight. The enemies are unable to stand before us. Altaïr also has some ranged weapons. I’m not sure what they are. But they knock enemies off of their horses without harming the horse. I am also aiming at the enemies on the horse, not the horses. I don’t want to hurt horses. Just as the song is ending it seems that the enemies have decided they’ve had enough. Many of them are dead, and the rest of them are retreating.

Now Yarin calls to us and asked which King were fighting for? I tell him we’re not fighting for any king. Altaïr says were fighting to protect the ones that all the kings seem to forget about. We are fighting to protect the innocent. I comment that I don’t think they will be bothered again this evening. But if someone comes back, then I’ll be back to. I look around in the burnt village for a bit. I am thinking that I want to find cats, so I wander off. Searching near the lake, I find a mother cat and some newborn kittens. They are stuck between a burning building and the lake. I scoop up all of the kitties. I pick them up in a basket that they were laying on as a bed. So now I have a mother cat and five kittens in a basket. It is about here that I wake up.

2017, 10-25

Back to School Daze

I am at Pima Community College heading to my class. It is a computer animation class. There are a lot of people standing around outside right now. And there is a serious weed problem. I’m not talking about the drug. I’m talking about plants. A strange plant has been growing out of control. It is a plant that looks kind of like human hair. It is blocking the pathways in some places. People who want to get by have to grab large chunks of it and throw it out into the desert. It isn’t hard to pull up, and I am actually thinking that this part of the plant is already dead. It looks like serious fire hazard. I am thinking we should try to do something about it, but right now my class is going to start. So I find the correct classroom and go in.

I sit down at a computer that has some 3-D animation software running on it. There are some premade models already in the scene. It actually already looks pretty cool. I see a planet, moon, lots of stars, and a person. A character model looks like Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad from Assassin’s Creed. I am just messing around before class, and I stand Altaïr on the moon. The model of Altaïr is much too large compared to the moon. When I pull him too close to the moon, he automatically bends his legs. I am thinking that my work isn’t very good, because I see someone else working on their project and they have some weird space entity that is eating up all of the other objects. But they don’t seem pleased with it, so I guess that’s not what they wanted to do. My computer does strange things. More models appear. There are now two characters and three moons. The new character looks like Desmond from the Assassin’s Creed series. He is trying to balance on the smallest moon. He fails to do so, and falls right out of the monitor into the room with us. I am sitting there looking at him, he is on the floor next to my seat. All I can think to say is, Desmond! You’re real!

I wake up in bed and get up. I am thinking that I have to go to school. I go out into the other room where my mother is watching television. It looks like she is watching an old episode of MacGyver. I start telling her about my dream. She doesn’t seem very interested, but pays a little bit of attention. I am telling her about the features on the 3-D software, and saying I wish the real ones did that. I have just gotten to the point where Desmond falls out of the computer. My mom stops and looks at me, and asks if he’s cute? She says I should marry him. I tell her he was only a dream. I can’t marry a dream. My mother doesn’t pay any attention to the dream part, and says I should marry Altaïr. I am considering that maybe I am still dreaming, but I wake up before I can do anything about it.