Zödra

I am in Florida… stabilizing... wait. Okay. I need to get back to my body. That is a long way. I fly quickly into space. I fly to Japan and I realize that I don't know how to get to my house without a sign. I see Osaka written on Japan and I fly to it, then head over the mountain and see my apartment. I fly in through the ceiling (I try not to think about it much since I am not good at flying through solid objects) and see my body. I need my key, I reach for my stomach and he wakes up. I turn invisible. I can't find it this way, so I am going to have to cut it open. He flails about, doesn't seem to know that it is a dream. I grab his head and throw him against the wall. I sharpen my hand and slice open his stomach, something metal falls out and I pick it up, it is a weird looking metal object, but obviously not my key. I use TK to keep him against the wall and he is no longer able to move his arms and legs thanks to my tk. I reach in and feel all the organs, but then I feel the key. He isn't screaming, but he is frantically looking for something to fight, what a beast. lol. I fly upwards and make myself smaller. I jump into his head. A big circular room, filled with machinery, I knew it would be here, and I got my key. I see a big sign that says "settings" and I look for more signs. I stumbled around reading for a while, so I will just skip to the things I used the key for. I changed the settings for dream beginnings from Random to false awakening I thought about switching it to lucid, but I didn't want to chance it not working and have to redo it to just false awakening. There are a bunch of cool settings, but I didn't change anything except Dream Recall I changed to High Priority. Each time I change a setting, the whole room shakes and my head starts hurting immensely, both reassuring signs. I jumped out of my body and back into the body that I had taken the key from. We woke up. False awakening. haha. I jump up and down on the bed, excited that I made it a FA like I wanted. I need to do this a couple times to cement it. I wake up. FA. I do this 10 times. I then decide that I want to do some more things. I have dream recall set to high priority, so I shouldn't have to worry about how long the LD is.


I think about finding my girl doppelganger, but last time I saw her, she warned me of a threat I have yet to take care of, so we will take care of that. I imagine a door behind my bed and turn around, it is right there. I step through. I am at the exact place that I fought my evil sister at last, I was using Vixen's body though. I put up a three part barrier, one impassable, one to destroy any dream abilities and one to freeze time. They are all hollow cubes that are only a meter thick at 20 meters, 15 meters, and 5 meters away from me. Julia is much faster than me, at least how I am now. I don't really feel like fighting, just finishing this. She appears i the last barrier, staring at me, frozen in time, the time stop is almost cheating since no other character has been shown to possess this yet. I step aside and unfreeze her mouth and ears. She still can't move her eyes to see me now that I have moved.
"You won't be able to break this, simply because you don't have time to. Answer me, why are you here?"
"I am your sister, this is just a game."
"That is a lie, I know that much." I tell her and put my hands together, pulling out my sword, preparing to end this.
"I was sent by the government to keep tabs on the Zödra fighters! It is just an assignment! Don't kill me!"
"That is also a lie, I know that your plan has always been to kill me." I am sick of this. I show her my sword "I am going to chop off your head, a fitting end. Can you think of a reason as to why I shouldn't?"
She laughs "That won't be enough to stop someone that knows the truth."
"Do you know what the ability of my sword is?"
She seems a little more scared.
"Neither do I."
I chop her head off with one clean cut and she starts laughing again.
"I can regen from here and wipe you out!" her head starts regenerating a body, but as it starts, a second effect takes place, her blood and bones and everything that touched the sword starts boiling and fizzing and going upwards, from her neck up to her head as well as neck down on her body. I release the time barrier so that her body is completely eaten up. I reach into her pocket and grab her ID, I wanted a document saying that I was in Zödra, but it was all in Japanese. I summon a small eyeglass that is supposed to translate and look through it. It is kind of blurry, but it ends up saying a bunch of nonsense words like "Brlao" and no sign of Zödra. Weird. I wake up

After an hour of meditation, I hit my WILD. I am in the void, but I am really close to a place behind me. I can feel my hands rubbing together. I walk next to a fountain. I turn it to ice. I jump on it and it breaks. I fall through and am flying above where I was just at, just like I was in my visualizations. I fly down to the fountain again and pull out my sword. It isn't my sword. I toss it on the ground. I put my hands together and magic circles appear, as I pull my white katana out. Been wanting to try that. I put the tip on my hand and slide it back in, it disappears into its magic sheath in the suspended dimension on my hand. I do this five times just to get the feel and get the idea saved in my head. Then I put it away and want Jason, he should be able to help me. I feel him behind me. I turn around and he isn't looking at me.
"Take me there"
He seems mad, maybe Zödra has gotten worse because of me or he thinks I have grown weak. Better show him I am not weak. I pause time as he walks away and grab his head. Then I slam it into the doorway and it bounces off. I reverse time and do it again. This time I pause and build up power. I release and throw him into the doorway again. It breaks and his head pauses there due to time still not being on. I turn it on and he jumps out of it and stares at me. He smiles and says
"This way." He steps into the house.
"It is in this big estate?" I ask him, walking into an Elizabethan styled mansion.
"It is anywhere we are." He opens the door and it is the same room we were just in. Except there are a couple of differences, sofa is a bit newer, recliner replaced with a computer chair. I realize that it is like the shadow walk to Amber, all we have to do it going in one direction, entering the same room over and over and it will keep changing until it is the room I want to use my key in. After 5 times of walking into the same room and changing small things, a computer and all sorts of levers were on the wall, making it close to the control panel I need.

SILVER KEY QUEST ENTRY 1

I am trying to get the key from inside the crypt in the hills behind Arkham, kinda complicated for a normal lucid, but with how my WILDs have been lately, I should be good. I am listening to the audio book "through the gate of the silver key" to help me out. I am flying over the hills in my imagination, but then the dream actually starts and I look down and see a forest. Not the right place, I imagine the hills appearing in the distance, but then a beach appears followed by an ocean. I fly under the water thinking that the hills might have been covered by the ocean, but I just see a normal ocean floor. I get a little scared being down there. I fly out of the water and plan to see the hills after that, but I am distracted by the sound of something coming out of the water behind me. It is like a giant blue octopus with a sky blue body and dark blue under the arms, flying through the air like it would swim through water and gaining on me. I hold my hand up like I have a blade and make a fire energy whip thing. I slash at the octopus and it is sliced all the way through and is missing about a third of its body as it falls to the ocean. I turn around and fly under the water again. I can breathe under there, that is pretty fun. I make 5 more fire energy whip swords and have them rotating around me while I swim. I fly out of the water and there is no end of ocean in sight. I close my eyes and imagine the hills. They aren't appearing through my closed eyes, so I imagine them again and just open my eyes. haha. hills. I land on the ground and cannot find the two trees. I fly up again and look on the horizon, not there. I keep spinning and see nothing. I decide to try a behind the back summon from far away. Oh yeah they were this way! I think and fly backwards. I turn around and land right at the trees. There is supposed to be a crypt in between them. There is a hobbit hole .

similar to this, but kind of randomized colors, red door, window painted blue so I can't see in, the wall is green
I decide that it must be built over it, but instead of going inside, I decide to dig out the house. I grab at the grass above the door and it starts pulling back easily. About 5 inches in, the wood ends and I can just see blackness behind. I guess I could have opened the door, but it could teleport me away or something. I tk the whole wood panel out and it is just black darkness. It doesn't look like it belongs. doesn't look dark, but more like the lack of anything existing there. I jump in.
Instantly I am teleported to the void it seems, or maybe just sucked in. I look around, because I was kind of expecting it to be dark here anyways. This is still where I was planning on finding the key. Floating above me, the silver key seemed to shine its own light. The connection to deeper dreams and other dimensions, the silver key. I grab it, and at this time I start to feel my body a little more and can hear the book again, or maybe just understand it again. I notice that what is happening in the book is also happening around me, I had fallen asleep at a time where the protagonist was in the place I was trying to get to, and I had entered a long time after him. The timing actually doesn't make much sense when I think about it. But here is what I was hearing during the dream

For this Shape was nothing less than that which all the world has feared since Lomar rose out of the sea and the Winged Ones came to earth to teach the Elder Lore to man. It was indeed the frightful Guide and Guardian of the Gate—’Umr at-Tawil, the ancient one, which the scribe rendereth the Prolonged of Life.
The Guide knew, as he knew all things, of Carter’s quest and coming, and that this seeker of dreams and secrets stood before him unafraid. There was no horror or malignity in what he radiated, and Carter wondered for a moment whether the mad Arab’s terrific blasphemous hints, and extracts from the Book of Thoth, might not have come from envy and a baffled wish to do what was now about to be done. Or perhaps the Guide reserved his horror and malignity for those who feared. As the radiations continued, Carter mentally interpreted them in the form of words.
“I am indeed that Most Ancient One,” said the Guide, “of whom you know. We have awaited you—the Ancient Ones and I. You are welcome, even though long delayed. You have the Key, and have unlocked the First Gate. Now the Ultimate Gate is ready for your trial. If you fear, you need not advance. You may still go back unharmed the way you came. But if you choose to advance . . .”

I could see The Guide, he was tall, but covered in shadows, so I couldn't discern his face. I didn't really want to proceed, I just wanted the key. I think I was trying to make it too much like the book, so when it became more like the book than I wanted, I stopped listening and decided to teleport out. I double checked that I had the key, but then I heard the book again.

We salute you, Most Ancient One, and you, Randolph Carter, whose daring has made you one of us.”
Carter saw now that one of the pedestals was vacant, and a gesture of the Most Ancient One told him it was reserved for him. He saw also another pedestal, taller than the rest, and at the centre of the oddly curved line (neither semicircle nor ellipse, parabola nor hyperbola) which they formed. This, he guessed, was the Guide’s own throne. Moving and rising in a manner hardly definable, Carter took his seat; and as he did so he saw that the Guide had likewise seated himself.

The pedestal I saw was made of shining gold, and had jewels encrusted in it, as it talked about the rest of the things, I only paid attention to my pedestal and floated towards it on accident and found myself seated. I didn't see any of the other pedestals that it was talking about until after, and there were two of the other ones looking at me, strange, grey wrinkly faces that didn't seem aged, but didn't seem young either. They didn't seem to hold any emotion either, just watching me. I needed to get the key out of here before I lose it to the book I haven't yet read or just drop it in this floating emptiness. I look down and I am not wearing a shirt, and my shorts have no pockets. Something to remember the key by. I look at the key and examine it. It is sharp. I stab it into my stomach and it gets stuck at the hilt. Barely any pressure, that won't be easy to remember. I stab myself again and again until there is pain and until I can fit the key all the way in my stomach. I can feel both my body and my dream body, so I go back to my waking body to make sure I don't lose my key.



Just found this:


Maybe I was closer to it at the beginning than I thought. haha.

Check out H.P. Lovecraft Dream Cycle for the Silver Key references and actually the majority of the things from the dream.