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I should probably keep recording these, just so I have some sort of record. This is another in that serial I was describing earlier, that I just woke up from.

( Another crazy dream )

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For those of you interested, I threw together a picture resembling the little drainage area in that last part of my dream; it can be found here. It's crude at best and ignores a lot of details (there were little sealed-off window-arch-like alcoves in the wall on the right, everything was wet like it had just rained due to the moisture in the air from the ocean, and there was a woman pointing a shotgun at me), but it's a good enough approximation for the cause.

Also, because it was so neat, this is a quote from the Player's Handbook for the game Fireborn:

"You might not know it yet, but you've had the soul of a dragon since the day you came into this world. You've always been an exceptional individual. Maybe everything you try works out easily for you, giving you extreme confidence. Or perhaps nothing comes as easily as it should, and you're frustrated because you seem to be able to remember, somewhere in the back of your mind, a time when the mundane and everyday problems that plague you now are nothing. As a child, perhaps you uttered disturbing truths and wise perspectives that should not have come from one so young. As a teenager, your passions and interests may have taken you to greater heights than others, but could also have distracted you from a normal life.

"Regardless of how you choose to express it in your character's personality and past, remember that he has always been denied a normal existence. Normal humans can sense that there's something different about scions [the characters in the game who are reincarnated dragons]. Eventually, many scions respond to this alienation by becoming cold, emotionless creatures to all but their closest friends. Other scions may have gained notoriety or popularitybecause of their skills, charisma, or passionate natures, but their fans and cronies can only get so close. Scions are not necessarily socially inept; indeed, some are supernaturally charming, and may be quite gifted in social situations. Rather than forging intimate bonds, however, these scions are far more likely to view people as tools to be manipulated than friends to be cherished."

I think I'm going to love this game.


EDIT: Oh, forgot one little detail that might be important - she was using a shotgun, yes, but was shooting from the hip.