The Cusp

Fragments: Broadsword Class

I'm in my high school gym class, and we're having broadsword battles. The one battle I'm currently watching has been going on for over 40 minutes when it finally comes to an end. I'm up next, but there is only 20 minutes of class left, not enough time for an epic sword fight. The teacher asks us to complete our match on our own time after school. I think that would get me arrested.


Fragments: Sloan Concert
I'm at a Sloan concert, but I can only see one member of the band onstage, and 2 fat chicks running the show. I go closer to the stage and see the other members backstage, playing instruments behind the curtains. I walk back to my seat and see Steele sitting there. We leave the concert and I try to tell him I saw Dave there, but can't remember his name.

Gems of Power
Clarity: 7/10
Importance:5/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm working in a warehouse with some other guys, all of us new to the job. We're cleaning out the leftover crap from the company that just left this building. There are other guys there walking out with dollies full of files. We go out back and find the parking garage full of more files. The boss tells us to move them out front, but I want to leave them for the other crew. He makes us do it anyways.

Out front, I find the files we've brought there have all tipped over and spilled all over the place. I have an "I told you so" moment, but the boss makes us clean it up. As we clean, two guys in black show up and begin attacking us. I defeat them, and they drop a little flat house shaped ornament full of tiny gems. I begin picking out the gems, notice some larger ones, and then a very large one help by a little figure on the roof. The largest gem has a ribbon attached to it.

Two more guys attack me with super powers, but the ribbon gem renders me invulnerable to their attack. I fight the two guys, imbued with other super powers from the other smaller gems. I have super speed that marks my movement with cool vector graphics, and all kinds of other powers from my gem collection. My opponents have powers as well, but I defeat them easily.

The enemy dealt with, I begin to pick up more tiny gems off the pavement. I explain to my co workers that the real reason they are here is so we can form a team with the special powers these gems grant us. Next thing I know, we're in a monastery where we will be trained by monks.

The monk lays out several of the gems on the ground along with some mundane items like paper and string, and tells us we must figure out how to activate the gems. I find this odd since I was just using them and all I needed to do was have them in my possession. But I start to fumble with the paper trying to figure out this puzzle. And that's when a bunch of guys attack us. Those tricky monks set up that attack so we would be forced to figure out to use the gems!

I have a fascination with gemstones in my dreams, not for the monetary value, but for the geometry.