New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Not What We Were Looking For
I am with MoSh in his inner world, and I am lucid. I think for a bit and soon I am able to remember what MoSh was wanting to do with this dream, he wanted to talk to Erik's guide and find out what's going on with his guides. I ask him if he knows where Erik's guide is, he says he should be able to find him. So we look around a bit until we finally decide I should open a portal and track him down. We go through the portal to another place. It's in the middle of a desert, I look around for some sign of someone else being there. I see no one at first. All I see is a dust devil approaching us, it looks like a quite large one. I am watching the dust devil as it comes right up next to MoSh and me. I am ready to cover my eyes and face if it passes over us, but it stops there and spins in place for a bit before it disperses to reveal there is a man in the middle of it. I recognize the man as don Juan from the Castenada books I have read. He is smoking something, and I have the feeling it isn't a cigarette. MoSh says that's not Erik's guide. I tell MoSh I'd noticed that, I can try the portal again. Don Juan seems to want to talk to MoSh, however, and he is ignoring me for the time being. Don Juan tells MoSh that when one is lost, it does no good to follow the sun… for it will have you forever going around in circles. MoSh says he isn't lost. He says when the blind tries to talk to a wall they will get no response. Um… duh… walls don't tend to talk. MoSh just looks at him. He said MoSh has been expecting the blind to describe what they can see, and getting nonsense for a response. Ask a fool what to do, a foolish response is what you will get. I am feeling really silly for some reason. I am giving don Juan bunny ears from behind… doing it by drawing the ears in the air using energy. Don Juan looks over at me and says it seems everyone has a bit of foolishness in them.

Brother Lost
I am in my own house with my mother and my brother, everyone is getting ready to eat a meal. For breakfast, my mother has fixed pancakes and sausage, but I am mainly focused on my brother. I had thought he was dead, it must have been a dream, but I had been so certain I had lost him. I go over and hug him like I haven't seen him for such a long time. He seems surprised by this showing of affection, but he hugs me back. It occurs to me that maybe losing him was real and this is the dream… I don't want to believe that. I step away from my brother, I think I might cry. I am afraid to do a reality check this time, most likely I realize somewhere inside that I am dreaming right now. I finally convince myself to do a reality check, and I find that I am dreaming. Normally this is an exciting revelation, but right now it is one of the most depressing things ever… and my depression wakes me up.

Mouse War Games
I am in a solar power plant, I am walking underneath the giant solar panels. I am really happy to see there is a solar power plant in operation, it is producing power for a large portion of a city nearby. I find a door to one of the administrative offices, and even though I know I shouldn't be going in there, I go in anyway. I want to see what is going on in there. Inside the room, I am a bit surprised not to see anyone around. There are administrative supplies and furniture around, desks, computers, office equipment. I go over to one of the computers and look at it. It is all set up for work and has MS Word open on the screen with half a document on it. It looks like everyone was in the middle of a work day when they just got up and walked off the job or maybe were beamed out by aliens. I look around the room, my mind has now moved on to the idea of jacking something cool from the room, what I am really hoping to find is a solar power cell of some kind, maybe a solar charging battery… Instead, when I open one of the closets, I find a flight of stairs. I follow the stairs down a short ways. I hear something in a crack near the stairs, I look and I see mice in there with tiny guns. Paint guns, they are playing games. One of them shoots, and a bunch of others get mad. One of them says that using a spark ignition is forbidden, not because it's unfair, but because it might ignite the gas fumes and kill them all. The one mouse apologizes and switches weapons.

Dirty Little Secret
I am in an underground chamber underneath a solar power plant, I am looking around the areas down there because I am curious what they have that makes the solar plant work. There are lots of small rooms around, most of them have no people in them, I wonder where everyone is. It seems the plant is completely abandoned. I hear machinery up ahead and I follow that sound, I open a door and find I am looking into a room with massive turbines in it, this is where the power is actually generated. I look around at the turbines as they chug along and produce energy. There are now a few people around, but they aren't paying any attention to me. I figure they are thinking I work there, and will keep thinking that as long as I act as if I belong there. I keep looking around until I find a room that turns my ideas about the plant completely around… there is a room that is filled with a huge coal burning electrical generator. It makes me wonder if there is really any solar power being produced at all. I look at a couple of computers that indicate where the power is coming from. Most of the energy is coming from the fossil fuels, only a tiny amount is actually coming from the solar panels. What a crock of shit! I download copies of the data from the computer, I am certain that this is a scam going on. Everyone thinks they are using clean solar energy but instead the power is coming from fossil fuels. One of the employees comes into the room and asks me what I am doing there. I tell him I am leaving. He says I can't take that data with me, I get past him and run all the way back to the surface. I am surprised I don't get tired as I expected to. I consider doing a RC, but I am much more focused on getting away from the person who is after me. When I get to the surface I weave between the solar panels to stay out of direct sight of the man behind me. I think that more than one of them is after me now. They might have guns. I get out of the solar plant and head to a news station, the quickest way to be safe is to make this information public.

Dimensional Portal: Epic Fail
I am walking through a city, I am not sure where I am going. I think about that for a couple minutes, then I remember what I was doing in the previous dream… right… I'm dreaming. I am lucid, and taking some important data to a news station to make sure a fraudulent solar power plant is exposed. I find the news station and hand over a copy of the data, then I head to the authorities and give them a copy of the data… I go to the library and upload a copy of the data to the internet… I want to make sure this is widely known. Ok, that is taken care of, now I can go out and do something interesting, just need a portal. I am flying into the sky and I focus on opening a portal, nothing happens. I try again, nothing happens. Damn… I wonder why it failed. I look around to see what is going on, maybe I can do something right around there I see a farm, and I fly over there and land. I see someone messing around a large piece of farming equipment, a harvester of some kind. That man is sabotaging it! I wonder why. A farmer comes out and gets onto the plow shortly after the saboteur leaves. I consider going after the saboteur, but instead I stay. The plow runs smoothly for a bit and then locks up. The man is thrown out, and the entire plow is tipping over on top of him. I am lucid, so I step right in and catch the plow with little effort. This shocks the farmer, but he is grateful that I saved his life. I describe the saboteur and it turns out the farmer knows the asshole.

Look At Your Hands
I am just outside some buildings, it is a downtown area and the buildings are part of a shopping plaza. There are lots of people going through the buildings with their things, shopping and having a good time. For some reason it doesn't feel like I belong here, a bit of lucidity is still lingering from the previous dream. I look at my hands for a RC. They look totally normal. I look a bit longer, and they are still totally normal. I curse silently to myself as I remember that the hand RC never works for me. I pinch my nose and I can still breathe. Yup, still dreaming. I feel it is almost time to wake up, but I'd rather not awaken yet. I focus on the dream itself, not thinking about the waking world, and it stabilizes. I fly up over the shopping plaza, getting some strange looks as I do that. I wonder what I want to do with the dream. I look down into an alley behind the shopping plaza. Four muggers are holding a man and a woman at gunpoint. One of the muggers is talking about how the woman is a fine piece of ass and he's going to ride her all the way. I land between the couple and the muggers. They are briefly surprised by my landing, but then they threaten me. I tell them to leave before I take their weapons and shove them up their asses and then fire. One of them laughs. Another one shoots me. I feel a slight pressure, nothing more. I look down and see a hole in my shirt. I say that was really annoying, this is my favorite shirt. They are stunned again. I form my arm into an Alex Mercer style blade and run it through the guy who shot me. One of the others runs for his life. The other two shoot me some more, I don't even notice if I get hit. I cut them in half in one slice from my blade. The man and woman I saved seem as scared of me as they were of the muggers. This doesn't bother me, I find it amusing. I look at them cowering away from me and I tell them that isn't a very nice way to say thank you for saving them… The woman stammers a thank you, the man is still speechless.