New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

12/22/10 Expedition Fail
Plans: Meet Tigress in the biome, explore ancient Babylon, take Lara Croft with us, I wonder if she even remembers me... The last time I saw or heard of her was when I was still with my ex boyfriend, James, and at that point she and James were going out together, she was one of his dream girlfriends. I imagine that's over since I feel that he isn't even dreaming any more, but I can't be sure until I meet with her. Another plan is to make sure Asuka is ok, and I wonder if I have been absent from the two Hogwarts schools or if I just don't remember it or if it is basically on hold until I get back, in time stasis, or more accurately I travel through time to get to the right point and time at each Hogwarts.

The End of the World As We Know It
I am in my house with my mother, we are watching the news on television. The news is showing nuclear bombs hitting some major US cities, and I question if I might be dreaming since there has been no word of a nuclear attack or threat of a nuclear attack lately. So I do a nose pinch RC, and I found I can't breathe when I pinched my nose… and that means I am awake? But the news story looks so surreal to me, I think it has to be a dream… doesn't it? I do one more RC just to be sure, and again I find out that I am awake. (The nose pinch RC usually works well for me, but this time it epic failed!) So I ask my mother what is going on since I just came out of my room to see what is on television, she says we need to get to a safe place, because the air force base near Tucson will no doubt be a target. So where can we go that will be safe? Leaving town to the north is not an option, because Phoenix will no doubt be attacked, too, so we would be driving out of a disaster into another disaster. The clear choice of a place to go would be underground, to a place where the blast wouldn't reach us, although I am still wondering how that's supposed to help with the radiation after the attack. I mention that to my mother, she seems convinced that after the first big rain, the radiation will be gone. I know IWL that this is not true, but in the dream it made complete sense, so now the idea was to choose a place to get underground. The best option we could think of is Colossal Cave, a system of caves to the east of Tucson, so we decide to go there.

We are packing up our stuff as fast as possible, because to approach Colossal Cave means to get closer to the air force base, which means getting closer to the target of the attack… so we were in a big hurry to gather all our stuff and get moving. We gather the animals first, all into my mother's car since it is a bit bigger than mine, the car in the dream is quite a bit larger than her car IWL. Then we gather important things and hit the road. We have already been on the road for a bit when I realize I have forgotten my laptop, and I find that really upsetting, I want to go back for it, but we don't have the time. My mom is impatient that I need that, so she says we will go into the gift shop at Colossal Cave and I can get a new laptop there. I am impressed, as I know the Colossal Cave gift shop has only Alienware computers, and they're the ones who have the computer chargers that run on solar power or water power… so if I just find an underground stream I can keep my computer charged! Yay! And I can pick up all the software I need there, too! I am so happy I want to hug one of my cats. I look in the back seat and see there are about ten cats in carriers piled on the seat, the back end is full of dogs… way more than we have… And there are mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs running on the floor and several birds flying around… there's no way this can be real… then I wake.

The University
I am at school, but it is a much larger school than the one I have been attending, and then there's the fact I just graduated, but neither of those things seemed odd to me. I am in the halls, it is the first day back in class, so I need to go to my locker and get some stuff for the next class, and I find the locker with no problem. I remember my combination… it's 23-33-64, and I get it opened quickly. I put some stuff back into the locker and took some stuff out before heading off to class. The odd thing is I don't end up going to class, I head out to my car and start to leave. I am out onto the main road before I remember I can't go home yet, I have another class! But I want some food first, and there isn't time to go to another place to get food, so I pull back into the school parking lot to get a parking place, the parking lot is huge, but I finally get into the underground parking garage and I am able to find a parking place. I am hoping I don't have any problems finding the car when I get out of class!

Ok, well I have time to grab some food at the cafeteria, so I head into the door closest to the cafeteria. I am thinking I technically shouldn't be taking time for food, because I have completely forgotten where my locker is and what the combination is, and I have also forgotten where my class is, but I am sure that will all come back after I have eaten. I find Tigress and a couple of other people sitting at one of the cafeteria tables, so I sit down with her. She starts talking to me about possible dream plans for the next night, she says she wants to go explore some ancient civilization, so we can meet in a dream at the biodome… I think about that for a minute, then I do a RC and discover I am dreaming.

I tell Tigress we don't have to wait at all to set off and do something cool, let's go right now! This is a dream! Tigress looks at me strangely for a bit making me wonder for a bit if she might not be Tigress, but just a DC of Tigress… but I continue speaking anyhow, figuring it will be revealed in just a bit. I tell her I'll go get Lara Croft, and she can go get Daniel Jackson or whoever she wants to bring along, and we can meet back in the biodome. She gets up and does a RC, and says this really is a dream, awesome! I am about to open a portal to the world where I once knew a Lara Croft, I am focused on getting there, I am hoping I will still be able to do it. Before I can get a portal open, however, I wake.

Tomb Raider: Return to Lara Croft
I am in a place that doesn't look very familiar, but it still looks just a bit familiar like I have been here a long time ago. I see a large house with a lot of land around it, so I approach the house and go up to the front door. When I knock on the door, a man opens the door, he is a butler, and he seems to recognize me… and shows me in to where Lara Croft is. I had been wondering if she would remember me, but any question of that is out of my mind immediately as Lara greets me as she would greet a long lost friend… because to her that's what I am, a long lost friend. We do a lot of talking, which I won't go into extreme detail here, but I will summarize. She says she hasn't seen my ex boyfriend, James, around for a long time, and she has basically given up on his coming back. She asks how he and I are getting along, I tell her what happened when he lied to me and went off with someone else, she agrees he is an ass… to do that after all the time we had been together, I say I don't think he really loved me at all, he was afraid of being alone, and for that length of time I was convenient until he found someone he was truly in love with. She used to have a roommate by the name of Katana who went on some of her adventures with her, but Katana has since moved on with some really hot guy from Lara doesn't remember where… So Lara Croft and I spend some time catching up on old times, then I remember that there are things we have to do. Over time I have been becoming steadily more lucid…

Now I am completely lucid… and I remember why I had actually come here to see Lara. I ask her if she is interested in going on a trip, going to see ancient Babylon, which is what Tigress and I agreed on visiting. Lara looks at me for a minute like I am crazy, then asks why I even need to ask that, of course she wants to come. She has some pokémon with her, I had forgotten she has pokémon, and before we leave, a persian and a pikachu join Lara and me. I open a portal, focusing on getting to the biodome, which is where I am to meet Tigress. A portal opens, and I lead Lara and her two pokémon through the portal and into the biodome. Unfortunately, however, I barely have a chance to see Tigress there with Daniel before I feel like I'm going to wake up. I focus on stabilizing the dream and it seems to stabilize. I tell Tigress I can now open a portal to ancient Babylon, and then I focus on opening that portal. The portal opens, but it seems like the effort of opening the portal has made the dream go unstable again. I catch a glimpse of the hanging gardens of Babylon through the portal, but then I wake up.