New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

11/26/12

Oblivion Assassin
I am in a series of underground chambers, armed with a bow and a quiver of many arrows. I am dressed in my Assassin's Creed outfit and I am creeping through the chambers silently. The chambers look like those found commonly in the video game Oblivion. I see someone in the room up ahead. I know the only people that are in here are bandits. They are after the treasure, too. But they can't be allowed to get it. I silently pull back and release a single arrow. The arrow hits its mark and the target collapses, dead. So I creep farther into the caves. I find the single bandit had been standing over a treasure chest. In the chest I find some gold coins, which I collect and put in my inventory (?) for later use. Continuing deeper into the caves I come across a locked door. This does not give me any problem as I pull out my lock picks to pick the lock. I manage to unlock the hard leveled lock with breaking only one lock pick. Not too shabby. On the other side there is a multi-leveled room. I see a bandit off to the right and a bandit on the lower level. Two arrows take care of that little problem. I am spotted by a bandit off to the left, who apparently isn't nearly as stealthy as I am… he calls out that showing my face was the last mistake I'll ever make. But I am faster with my arrows than he is in approaching me with his axe. The arrow takes him right through the neck; he falls to the ground with blood spurting out. There's another treasure chest here with some gems in it, which I collect. I jump right down to the lower level of the chamber. The bottom shouldn't be much farther. There's another locked door. Did the bandits really think this would keep me out? Well, this time it is almost successful… I break quite a few lock picks before I finally get it. There's a long hall on the other side with glowing crystals embedded in the walls. I follow the passage to the end which is a large circular room. There is a stone that looks like one of the sigil stones floating in the middle of the room. I wonder why the bandits haven't taken it yet. Maybe… I pull out a pouch and scatter dust in the room. There are magical beams in the room that seem to be functioning like the lasers of a security system. I use my acrobatics to maneuver through the beams and get to the stone. When I take the stone it glows brighter and becomes blinding. When the light becomes blinding it actually wakes me up.

Defying a Curse
I am in a small town that looks like a fantasy from a RPG. I walk down the street, looking for some sign of why I might be there. I don't see anything. So I keep walking until I get to the edge of town. I see a commotion going on. There is a rather large man there, he shoves a boy rather hard and knocks the kid to the ground. When the boy tries to get up the man pushes him back down with a foot to the chest. What an asshole! The man is telling the boy to stand up and be a man, stop being such a little… he then cuts off his words in mid sentence. He is staring at someone. I get closer and I see he is staring at Rumplestiltskin from the Once Upon a Time series. The boy, I realize, must be Baelfire, Rumplestiltskin's son. The man is making excuses, saying he didn't realize the boy was the son of the dark one. No harm meant, followed by a nervous laugh. The boy gets up and tells his father he is ok, and wants to just go home. Rumplestiltskin says he wouldn’t be much of a father to let someone get away with doing that to his boy. Baelfire says again that he is fine. The man said it was all in good fun. Fun is a big guy beating up on a kid? Rumplestiltskin says he'll show the man some fun. Baelfire tells his father not to do anything, then reminds him that he promised. I wonder if this is the same one I already tried to help stabilize his energy. When I get close I find out it is the same one when he says quietly to me that my little spell for control doesn't work. I tell him I have another one that should work better, but it is one he will have to do… I can show him how. The man takes Rumplestiltskin's little conversation with me as his chance to leave. Rumplestiltskin has other ideas… vines come from the ground and bind his feet in place. He says again that he was only having fun with the boy, and pisses his pants. I snicker at that, but then I focus on using Unforgiven II by Metallica to transfer use of the song spell The Curse by Disturbed to Rumplestiltskin. That is a song I have used in the past to stabilize my own dark energy. "I've held on too long just to let it go now, will my inner strength get me through this somehow? Defying the curse that has taken hold, never surrender, I'll never be overcome." He uses the song and seems to stabilize, though you couldn't tell by the look on his face when he goes over to the man who pushed his son. The guy is crying… I laugh at that. He seems to expect something horrible, but instead the vines let him go. He runs away over near some other guys who make fun of him for bawling like a little baby. He gets mad at them for not helping him. They say they're not that stupid. Rumplestiltskin tells him not to let that happen again. The man is thanking me for saving him. I tell him I didn't do it for him. Does it make you feel like a big man to push kids around? I call him a cowardly asshole… the only reason I stopped it was because what was going to happen to him shouldn't happen in front of a child, and if it had happened then an important promise would have been broken. If there hadn't been a kid watching… it's here that I wake up.