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06.02.2015

Dueling Sensei to a "Yugioh the Gathering" duel (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Full Dream (+1 pts)
1st WILD (+10 pts)
RC (+1 pts)
Advance Flight (+10 pts)
Teleport (+7 pts)
Use electronics (+4 pts)
Advance Summoning/fictional char. (+15 pts)
Meet teammate. (+7 pts)
Incubation (+15 pts)
Personal Goal (+15 pts)

I decided to WILD and take the gamble of not writing my mini-lucid and hoping to not forget it. The WILD took a bit longer than I thought, but I was able to pull it off.

I once again had a false awakening and I could see my DJ was gone, so I knew I was dreaming. I still did a RC just to make sure and then I took off to fly. I noticed that I was right next to a massive town, twice as big as Chicago, but with many more and taller buildings. I decided to fly at full speed, as it was night and the city lights were very cool.

After a while flying, I felt well archored on the dream. I remembered my mantras of dueling Sensei for a Shadow Game so I tried to look for a store to be able to play a game, most likely, a store I play Magic the Gathering in waking life. After looking for a while, I realized that we needed a big place to make a duel since it was supposed to be like the anime. I visualized myself teleporting to a duel arena suitable for Yugioh. I closed my eyes and jumped (I was technically flying, but somehow I landed, or just skipped "frames" in the dream haha) I appeared for what appeared that Kaiba land or some weird place, because I saw a big Blue Eyes statue. There was a ton of people (real people) and a long line, but I just walked through some big doors and the security guard did not seem to care. I found a similar place like this:







The funniest thing, is how real it looked. It was not cartoonish, it was metallic, like stainless steel and the computers had windows on them. I almost lost lucidity here, as I had to reality check a few times and remind myself it is a dream. I was alone in the room, but I called Sensei out a few times without success. I started to touch buttons on the computer and it made noises, the noises were familiar to some anime, but I believe it was not yugioh. After a few moments, I heard a, "Hey" and I saw Sensei on the other side of the table. I wanted to summon a referee too, because for some reason the computer did not work and I assumed a referee was needed. One sure appeared on the side of the field, but to my surprise, it was a referee from Pokemon anime...







He looked cartoonish, despite everything else looked real. I shuffled my deck (which I believe it looked like Magic the gathering) and placed it on the computer and it turned on.

A few more frames skipped or something, but I do not recall drawning and yet I had cards in my hand. Most of them looked like Yugioh. I had one card that said, "The shadow realm" but it looked like the Seal of Orichalcos. I recalled the game needed to be a shadow game (my subconscious does not cease to amaze me.) I placed the card on the table, the same way like if it was a Land from magic the gathering (insead of inserting it inside a side slot like in Yugiog) A huge mist surround us:

I was looking for a photo of the shadow realm, and I just found a card that is actually "The Shadow Realm" WOW... I had no idea that such card existed lmao.

A voice said, "Lucidity in stake" Suddenly, I saw what I believe was a dark magician, but it was a red one instead of the usual purple one, I believe in the early anime there was a dude with two red dark magicians. I had no idea how or when Sensei brought it out, but it was my turn and I had a Vindicate card in my hand:







Despite not being a Yugioh card, I said, "Destroy your Dark magician" Suddenly, it exploaded (the dark magician was in front of me like in the anime, but for my Vindicate, I placed it on the graveyard like casting a spell in magic.

I then looked at my hand and I saw what I believe it was toon world, but the photo of the card was my DV's signature... what a mess lol. I placed it on the table and the actual toon world came out like in the anime:







For a higher pleasant surprise, it came with a prize, as I had also a toon ryu ran out and he was cracking up in laughter:







I almost woke up again out of laughing myself too. I told him to attack Sensei and an explosion happened on his end. But after a while, he casted a Damnation (another magic the gathering card)







And my toon was gone. I wanted to draw another toon, as I believe that my toon world was still out. I tried to see what were my life points with no luck. I pulled out something very weird, it was like the manga of Yugi as it had all these eyes that all egypcian rare cards have, but I cannot recall well what it was, but what i recall is that it shot like a ghost to Sensei and I heard the "ding" noise that the anime plays when someone looses a dual. I was happy because I won the duel and Sensei said something about his lucidity, can't recall well but he wasn't happy (Too bad I forgot to summon/draw a card for the Dark Fortress to hit another personal dare of summoning a big castle in the air.)

Suddenly, the purple mist from the shadow realm vanished and I could see the blue sky (well... we were indoors before, but okay....) And I think I just took of to fly.

Little shortly I woke up.

01/16/14
Out of the Shadows
I am in a strange place. I look around to see where I am. I am immediately lucid and I am just wondering where I am and what I might be doing there. I survey the area. It is a very unpleasant place, it looks like a dark and backwards version of a normal forest. Trees are large and leafless, they look dead. The sky is a dreary gray that casts the landscape into a permanent state of twilight. The land is also shrouded in a thin mist. I start walking through the trees, not really sure where I'm going, but I need to figure out why I am here. There are strange things moving in the misty shadows that I can't quite see. I look behind me and I realize I am not alone. There is a man there with me. I have to get a bit closer to him before I can see who he is, but I recognize him as soon as I'm close enough to see. Alex Mercer follows me through the bleak landscape. He asks if I have seen any sign of Dana. I tell him he is the first one I have seen here. I didn't even know I was there looking for Dana. I ask if I am looking for Dana then why has he come, I thought he wasn't speaking to her. He says no, he's not speaking to her. But there's a big difference between not speaking to her and letting some freak from a parallel dimension kill her. He says we should find her.

I turn to head off in the direction that feels right. Alex follows me and then he pauses. He says he thinks it will be easier if Dana doesn't even realize it is him. He changes form into Dante from the Devil May Cry series of video games. He says he is ready now. So the two of us continue searching through the mysterious place. After a bit longer of a search I hear a commotion in the distance. Alex has clearly heard it, too. A scream… and some cursing. A woman is screaming and yelling expletives at someone. Alex says that sounds like Dana. We both follow the sound. We find that between two particularly large trees there is an even larger spider web. About the center of the spider web there is a woman tangled up in it. She is struggling to get free, but her attempts just seem to be getting her even more hopelessly entangled. She drops some more loud expletives before calling to no one in particular to help her get loose. I can recognize from here that it is Dana Mercer, Alex's sister. She doesn't seem to have noticed that Alex and I are there, and of course she wouldn't recognize Alex even if she had noticed us. She struggles some more and then finally seems to give up on that at least for now. She looks down and sees Alex and me. She says she is so glad to see friendly faces… please help her get free. Alex gives her a dirty look and says no one has said we are friendly… maybe he's not friendly at all. I elbow Alex and tell him to cut it out, calling him Dante. I tell her we'll have her free in just a bit.

While Dana's struggles haven't attracted any of the local inhabitants to help her they have attracted the owner of the web. A large spider crawls out onto the web from a tree. The spider has the tail of a scorpion and is about the size of a Great Dane dog. When the spider gets closer to Dana she screams again. The spider is about to drive its stinger tail right into Dana's abdomen when Alex reacts. He yells at the spider thing to get the fuck away from her and calls it a few creative things. He may look like Dante, but he is using Alex Mercer abilities as he jumps up into the air and forms his arms into a claws, cutting through the web between the spider thing and Dana. The spider turns to attack Alex. Alex grabs the thing's stinger as it is about to impale him with it. He rips the stinger right off of the spider creature and then consumes the spider thing. I am thinking if he was trying to keep her from knowing who he is then he hasn't done a very good job hiding it. I climb up into the trees in a more normal manner and cut her free from the webs, lowering both of us safely to the ground. It turns out she has a number of injuries on her that I go ahead and use healing energy on. Dana is soon fully healed.

Dana doesn't seem to be paying much attention to me, however, she is looking at Alex. When he comes over near us she addresses him as Alex, though she does so in a questioning way. "Alex?" Alex gives her a bit of a dirty look and says no, it's Dante. Dante Sparda. As if it's an afterthought he transforms his claw arms back to normal human arms. Dana seems puzzled and says he's clearly infected. Alex says he's not infected with anything. He just happens to be part demon. His father was a demon… so if she has a problem with that, then fuck her. Dana points out the obvious and says Alex is clearly still upset. Alex says so he's tired of people assuming the worst about him just because he's a demon. It seems that Dana doesn't really have any doubt that she is speaking to Alex. She asks how she was supposed to know there was a fake running around. It seems Alex, on the other hand, has gotten a bit better at faking being Dante. He asks a fake what? A fake demon? She says a fake him, calling him Alex. "A fake YOU, Alex!" He repeats his name is Dante. She says she knows he's Alex, so cut the crap. He is annoyed, maybe at her for seeing it or maybe at himself for not hiding it better. He says forget it. He can't be Alex… Alex is dead. And then before anything else can be said he disappears through a portal.

Damn it! Dana looks around and curses loudly. It seems she's forgotten I'm even here because she calls after Alex asking how she's supposed to get out of this nightmare. I ask if I'm a pile of chopped liver… I can open portals, too, you know. She looks over at me as if noticing me for the first time and says sorry, she was a bit distracted. Thanks for helping her out. She adds that she has no idea what is wrong with Alex… or maybe he really told me his name is Dante? No… I knew it's Alex, though he could definitely use work on his undercover skills… She asks me if I know what his problem is. I find I'm not happy about the way she has behaved, either… it seems to me that she abandoned Alex in the second game, so I find myself quoting song lyrics… "And I watched as you turned away, you don't remember, but I do… you never even tried." Dana thinks I am being weird, but finally asks tried what. I say to figure out what was going on when she thought Alex had gone completely around the bend. I comment that I guess I can't speak for anyone else, but if someone I care about goes bat-shit crazy for no apparent reason I'm going to do whatever I can to find out what happened and get that person back. She asks who says she didn't try. I tell her Alex. And the clone, too… because when Alex consumed the clone he got all those memories, as well. So I remember when she said, "I understand that I had a brother once; a boy named Alex, a boy who used to play games with me and go skating with me and watch scary movies with me. I understand that Alex is dead now." The only problem with that was he wasn't dead… he was right there just wanting her to hear him out, but no… Now even I have that memory etched in my mind and it never even happened to me, but after being consumed by Alex repeatedly all of his memories are mine… and mine are his… Dana looks at me strangely when I say I have been consumed by Alex repeatedly, that no doubt sounds pretty crazy.

Ok, well I figure I will be waking up soon so I open a portal leading back to Dana's home world. I tell her that is the way home, so she might want to consider not taking any more unplanned excursions into parallel dimensions in the future. She looks at the portal and says no. I say that's good, because unless you know what you're doing you can end up a lot of places that make this place… which I have determined to be some part of the Shadow Realm… seem like a fantastic vacation opportunity. So take care. Dana says no again. No what? She says she isn't going home. She wants to see Alex. I tell her it's pretty obvious to me that Alex doesn't want to see her, so the answer to that one would be no. She asks if I know where Alex is. I say I don't specifically know where he is at this very second, but I know where to find him, where he will eventually come back to, or at least I hope he doesn't decide not to come back… She says she doesn't see why he should be mad at her, she's the one who thought he had turned against everyone he cared about! I tell her that there is part of the problem. Until he knows that you get the gravity of what you did when you told him he is dead, he will never, ever, ever be anything but the picture of pain you saw before. Sorry, but there's no way he will be able to heal until you get it. My Penticon chip projects a hologram of a Simpsons clip… the one where Laura Powers, a girl Bart had a crush, on rips out his heart and throws it in the trash. "You won't be needing this!" It's a short clip and it plays on a loop. Well, look at that… because that's what you did! I find myself getting upset at Dana, and I force myself to calm down… after all, it wasn't me that she did it to… but still, betraying someone I care for is the same as betraying me and I want to call her a backstabbing bitch… But I say nothing. I finally tell her if she ever gave a shit about Alex, leave him alone now. If he gets to a point where he is ready to talk to her, he will find her. I transform the portal to Dana's home world from a regular portal to a vortex portal. The portal creates a vacuum and pulls Dana through it and into her home dimension. As Dana is pulled through the portal I hear her saying she never meant to… but then her voice is cut off as the portal closes. It doesn't really matter what she said, I still plan on continuing to heal Alex… he needs to let go of the past not for Dana, but for himself. One does not forgive others for them, one needs to forgive others for themselves. That is the thought in my mind when I wake.