The Cusp

Damn Dirty Apes
Recall: 7/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm in some sort of compound, split in two by a metal fence in the middle. On my side are a large group of humans, on the other and equal number of ape men. We're taking a vote on whether we should go to war with the ape men. The decision is war!

As soon as we reach consensus, I raise my fist in the are and let out a yell. All the other humans follow my lead. The apes all yell back in return, much louder than we were. Not to be outdone, we yell back louder still, and the apes outdo us once again. We let out a third yell, much more organized and louder than before. The apes try again, but can't match our intensity.

I look for my weapons, which are in a chest along the fence border. I'm loathe to approach to retrieve them because a few apes are shooting arrows across at us. Some guy tells me I can have his armor and weapons, and pulls out a helmet and sword from a chest. The sword is rather small and very dull. I find a file and begin to sharpen it.


Friday, Jan 15, 2011

Skynet
Recall: 4/10
Sleep: Poor
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm at my grandmother's and Bevan and Darryl are there. Bevan is acting like a retard and getting on my nerves. I go into a room and open up Google Street View on a huge monitor. It gets displayed on the monitor, but also in the huge windows on either side of the room, creating a very immersive experience. It's almost like 3D.

The only thing ruining the experience is that Darryl is sitting right in front of me blocking my view. I try to get him to move, but he won't take the hint. He's sitting there like he's watching television.

The computer screen part morphs the dream into a resort run by an Artificial Intelligence that is trying to kill it's guests. I crawl through bowls of the resort, through perilous walkways with no rails as strange blue lights turn on around me.

The guest finally revolt and assault the people working there. A woman comes and breaks it all up. I'm wondering about legal repercussions, when I see the beat up employees faces suddenly change from bruised and battered to perfectly normal. They are holograms! The hologram tries out different broken nose looks, but the woman makes him put on a normal face


Thursday, Jan 14, 2011

Sold Out
Recall: 7/10
Sleep: Good
Sleep Position: Unknown

I'm in a land that has a culture like medieval Japan, only everyone lives in caves. The husband in the family I'm visiting receives an invitation from his cousin for dinner, so we attend. We eat, but the food is drugged. We all become sluggish, and just before I pass out, I say to the cousin "I'll kill you for this!"

When I come to, we've been sold as slaves to a vampire, a werewolf, and a zombie. They are very cruel, abusing us and not feeding us, keeping us in constant terror. The werewolf keeps cutting us with his claws. They use us to work in mines and bring them stuff we find. As we dig through the rubble, we uncover traces of an old school. Turns out this world suffered a cataclysm, and the ruins of present day civilization are buried underneath us.

We dig through a bunch of ice cubes and discover beer buried underneath. Awesome! And the ice kept it cold too. We open some and start drinking when the trio of monsters shows up and we give some to them. We return to our camp with some chocolate coins we dug up, our only food in days.

The vampire announces he's going to feed on the girl in our group of captives, and I tell him to feed on me instead. I roll up my sleeve exposing one of the deep cuts the werewolf inflicted on me, but he bites into my forearm instead. He drinks ravenously, and I realize he was starving. I also realize that he was making an effort to deny himself blood, and I think he might not be so bad after all. But he's drinking so greedily now, I'm afraid he might drain me dry, killing me.

The following day, we go back to digging through the collapsed civilization and discover an old nuclear power plant. Some of the computers are still working. We find a war machine similar to an AT-AT from Star Wars, and inside that we even find some explosives.

We use this "ancient" technology to defeat our monstrous captors, and free the people in the surrounding countryside as well, becoming celebrated generals in the process. Our fame earns us an invite from a lord who lives inside a volcano. He asks us to assist him in capturing dinosaurs, and also finding dino riders.

I see various small plastic dinosaurs, and the scene stabilizes into a moderns house in a parallel world. I drop the house key in some bushes and it falls into a funnel spider web inhabited by a hand sized spider. I poke the spider with a stick to see how dangerous it is before recovering my key.