The Cusp

Sorcerer's Apprentice
Recall: 8/10
Sleep: OK
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm with my friends when we notice people gathered at some sort of outdoor stadium. We don't know what they are gathered to see, so we take a seat to find out. I fall asleep before the show starts, and when I wake, my friends are gone. Instead I find two two thugs who call me by my full name and tell me to follow them. I'm six feet, and the first thug is a good deal taller than me, the other one is way taller than him, at least seven feet.

I consider my chances at fighting these two goons. I figure I can take the shorter one, but the 7 foot giant has too much of a reach advantage, and I don't think I can take them both at once. They force me to take them to my apartment building where I notice a piece of string in the lobby. I flick the string up with my foot and grab it without them noticing. Then I make my move

I want to strangle the super tall one with the string, but when I try to put it over his head, he's so tall that I only get it around his forehead, but it leans him back and then I move the string around his throat and pull with all my might. The other goon starts hitting me, but I ignore him and don't stop until the tall one is unconscious or maybe dead. Then I knock out the other one.

I sprint up the stairs towards my apartment before they regain consciousness, but by the time I reach my floor, it's packed with reinforcements. Apparently they were part of some large organized gang, who I've now pissed off royally. They beat me pretty bad, knocking out several teeth, then drag me off to a house on the edge of the woods.

At the foot of a path into the woods, they are still roughing me up, when one of the goons stops the others from hurting me further. I think I have an ally, but he's just making sure I can run because their leader wants to hunt me.

They give me a small head start and I take off down the path through the woods. I think I'm doing well in getting away from them until I see come across a series of obstacles in my path, a bunch of wooden structures with nails poking out of them. I have to slow down considerably so as not to impale my feet on the nails.

I come to the end of the trail which is a steep cliff on the edge of a mountain. There is a small flat roofed house a little ways below me, and with the people hunting me hot on my trail, I take a crazy leap off the cliff and land on the roof of the house. I lower myself off the roof and let myself in a window.

Inside I encounter an old sorcerer and his apprentices. The gang has the house surrounded now and are trying to break in. Some crawl in the same window I cam through, but the sorcerer ejects them through the front door, then slams it closed. They beat on the door, which wouldn't hold on it's own, but stands secure thanks to the sorcerer's power.

The sorcerer then presents me with a choice. I can stay with him as an apprentice, or leave and have the gang kill me. It's not really much of a choice at all. If I leave they will kill me for sure, no matter where I go. This is the only safe place for me, so I pledge myself to him as an apprentice.

After I've given my word, I realize the whole thing was a massive setup. The thugs were actually working for the sorcerer to lead me here and trick me into agreeing to apprentice with him. I think knocking out me teeth was overkill, but he surely has the power power to restore my missing teeth, right? I hope...

I love this dream! The whole thing was a Castaneda style stalking in the same manner Don Juan tricked all his apprentices into joining him.