Two Unrelated Things
Jul. 22nd, 2009 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unforthThis post is about two random, unrelated things. One is the dream that I had last night, and one is a quick run down of what I would do if I had one day in Tokyo (this was getting written into a comment on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skygawker's journal, but I realized it wasn't really relevant to her, but I was having fun writing it, so figured I'd post it in my own journal instead.)
See, she's going to Tokyo and only has a day, and wanted some ideas, and I couldn't help but say that what I would do if I had one day in Tokyo is not, I think, what most people would do, just cause my activities would be so personal and would incorporate all my favorite experiences while I was there. :)
My perfect day in Tokyo?
-get breakfast at Cafe Geeva (the place I used to go near Senso-ji), wander on nakamise doori, and grab some daifuku for the road from the place with the awesome kiiroi daifuku that I can't find any place else in the universe (except one other place in Tokyo...)
-head over to Akihabara and visit Animate and the other geeky anime and manga filled stores.
-on the walk back to Ueno Eki, grab one of the delicious crepes from the yummiest crepe stand I found.
-go to Ikebukuro and visit Mandarake and splurge on shonen-ai doujinshi.
-wander around Sunshine City.
-snack on the daifuku.
-next stop is Shinjuku, just cause I love it there.
-wander around Shinjuku to my heart's content, soaking in the city.
-buy mochicreams.
-walk back to Ueno (about 7 miles, but I walk I really like doing)
-grab dinner at Ueno Station at the soba stand with the yummy kitsune udon.
...
I miss Japan. :(
So last night, I had this reallybizarre crazy awesome dream about the Changeling game. It's been fading ever since I woke up, and, as is so often the case with my dreams, that farther back you go from the time I woke up, the more fuzzy the details, but even so, it was neat, and I don't want to forget it - even though I'll never know how it ended (a shockingly common and annoying feature of my more awesome dreams). Anyway, a lot of my friends were in this dream, which also is unusual for me...(including kniedzw, feyangel, moonartemis76, erdedrache, sapphohestia, thelisafairy, mistress_sin, and others I'm less sure of because they got fuzzy after I woke up...)
First, it's important to note that in the dream, we weren't our Changeling characters - I remember distinctly having "out of character" awareness - so despite the many ways in which it was way to real, I'm quite certain that in the dream it was actually all of us PLAYING Changeling.
Anyway, a lot of it is pretty fuzzy, and this post definitely won't do it justice, but in my dream something was going very wrong in the city of Muses. (which didn't look at all like Muses, it looked kind of like a cross between Bloomington (which is Muses, to any non-Changeling folks actually reading this) and the lower east or west side of Manhattan (so lots of four and five story buildings vaguely interesting architecturally built around the turn of the century).
When I (Kathryn) arrived, folks were in deep conference - I don't remember everyone who was there, but I know that Dino and Kaye both were, and I think Lara was there, and maybe Drevni? Behind them, gathered in a sort of auditorium, where most or all of the fae of the area, mostly being rowdy and bored but there was clearly tension in the air. These folks were in deep conference, but they greeted me pretty warmly (especially Dino who, again for non-players who might actually read this, was my character's husband in game) and I was added to the conversation.
I don't remember the details (this is part of the early part of the dream that is very fuzzy) but Muses was under some sort of attack from a very large force (which is never identified in the dream, though they looked kind of like ninjas, except that they didn't bother hiding much). We were trying to figure out a defense, but it was tough, because fae kept disappearing, which was why we all had gathered. Dino was very worried about Kathryn, and she was worried about him, and they resolved to try to stick together.
Meanwhile, also as part of this situation, for some reason there was this photograph that was very important. The photograph showed a man none of us could identify, standing in a park. There was a low stone wall in front of him, and on a hill behind him there was another low stone wall. For some reason (I think to help us identify him?) we decided that it was imperative to try to figure out who the man was, and the way in the dream that we were going to start to do this involved figuring out how tall he was, using geometry and math based on the heights of the two low stone walls (I couldn't make this shit up...okay, maybe I could.)
However, just as we were starting to do this, we were surrounded by the not-ninjas (that's their new name) and they tried to capture us and all of the other gathered fae. People started to scatter, but they managed to pin me down, and were demanding to know who I was, and I freaked out because (this I really couldn't make up): the PLAYER (me!) couldn't remember the CHARACTER'S name (Kathryn!) That was really bizarre - cause I was trying to RP, and they demanded my name, and I just stood there stupidly cause for some reason I couldn't remember it. I even recall thinking, how can I not remember this, I just said my name like five minutes ago! And of course I wasn't going to break character, so I just stood there like an idiot with my jaw working. The leader of this squad of not-ninjas was not amused, though, and was on the verge of getting violent in pursuit of my name when Dino interrupted and said something along the lines of, "her name is (not her name) and she's of no importance - aren't I the one you're looking for?" and got his ass captured, but gave me time to escape.
Somehow, I'd managed to secure the photograph, and since this was still inexplicably (at least now that I've forgotten some of the details) important, I headed to the park along with someone else (I'm not sure who) to try to find the spot where the picture had been taken, in the hopes of retracing the steps of the person in the photo. We took a sneaky route so that we wouldn't get caught, but in order to be really sneaky, we couldn't walk in the grass, we had to stick to the stone wall (on top it) and we reached a point where it was blocked, and we were forced to turn back.
I'd had another idea, though, which involved searching some strange house (I have NO clue why). As we headed back, we passed this building that in my mind was labeled as "very important" and I think held some sort of treasure that the other person I was with really wanted, and I remember saying to them that they couldn't go get it now - that they'd promised to help me save Dino, and that if they followed through I'd help them get whatever was in the building, but otherwise I'd try to stop them. I don't know when this deal was made or who this other person was or what it had to do with ANYTHING, but there we go - that's what dreams are like! :)
However, this person didn't listen to me, and by the time I got to the weird house to search they were gone (I know it was a male, but that's all). I met up with two other fae, though (played, inexplicably, bythelisafairy and mistress_sin, neither of whom ever had anything to do with Changeling!) and we went to search the building. We couldn't seem to find whatever we were looking for, though, and we got totally distracted on a balcony near the top, where we witnessed the coolest part of the dream.
Down below, on the street, in two courtyards in front of NYC-style brownstones, a bunch of PCs were fighting a bunch of not-ninjas - I don't remember everyone involved, but certainly Kaye, Lady Nix, and Azriphael - I remember them for sure, and I'm certain that there were others - but the whole fight was coordinated to music and choreographed, and it was awesome. I remember thinking that the people involved must have practiced a TON before the game in order to pull that off.
When the fight/dance was done, the not-ninjas were driven back, andthelisafairy started to applaud, and I freaked out and told her to stop, cause now they knew we were there! Sure enough, some of the fleeing not-ninjas turned in our way, and I had no certainty that we could take them. I was starting to really worry about Dino - I think, the "out of character" layer of the dream was really hoping that he'd get brain washed cause that'd be fun to role play - and made them hurry cause this search of the building had been a bust. As we tried to escape the building, followed by an unknown something, while the reality of the building got all warped and weird, one of the two with me got sucked into a video game and killed, but we couldn't stop to help her, and we only barely escaped, and got separated.
I was alone, outside the building, wondering how the hell to find the person in the photograph, considering just single-handedly storming the main enemy base (I have no idea where that was) and kicking some serious boggan butt to rescue Dino (and, I think, there was a sense that a lot of others had also been captured) and not at all sure what to do next...I have a distinct memory of picturing myself, Troy in hand, saying something like, "I'm a boggan! What, you got a problem with that? Huh? Come here and say that to my face!"
...and then I woke up.
GAH!!! I HATE THAT!! Now I'll never know...not that much of it made much sense, but I still want to know what was going to happen!!! AAARGH!
Anyway, on the plus side, I went to bed before 9:30 last night and slept 'til 7, and am feeling physically pretty good. But I really wanted to write that up - I want to start keeping a dream journal, actually, I can't escape the feeling that my life losses some of it's luster because I can't remember my dreams unless I really concentrate on doing so - but now, I must go onward with my day! :)
skygawker's journal, but I realized it wasn't really relevant to her, but I was having fun writing it, so figured I'd post it in my own journal instead.)See, she's going to Tokyo and only has a day, and wanted some ideas, and I couldn't help but say that what I would do if I had one day in Tokyo is not, I think, what most people would do, just cause my activities would be so personal and would incorporate all my favorite experiences while I was there. :)
My perfect day in Tokyo?
-get breakfast at Cafe Geeva (the place I used to go near Senso-ji), wander on nakamise doori, and grab some daifuku for the road from the place with the awesome kiiroi daifuku that I can't find any place else in the universe (except one other place in Tokyo...)
-head over to Akihabara and visit Animate and the other geeky anime and manga filled stores.
-on the walk back to Ueno Eki, grab one of the delicious crepes from the yummiest crepe stand I found.
-go to Ikebukuro and visit Mandarake and splurge on shonen-ai doujinshi.
-wander around Sunshine City.
-snack on the daifuku.
-next stop is Shinjuku, just cause I love it there.
-wander around Shinjuku to my heart's content, soaking in the city.
-buy mochicreams.
-walk back to Ueno (about 7 miles, but I walk I really like doing)
-grab dinner at Ueno Station at the soba stand with the yummy kitsune udon.
...
I miss Japan. :(
So last night, I had this really
kniedzw, feyangel, moonartemis76, erdedrache, sapphohestia, thelisafairy, mistress_sin, and others I'm less sure of because they got fuzzy after I woke up...)First, it's important to note that in the dream, we weren't our Changeling characters - I remember distinctly having "out of character" awareness - so despite the many ways in which it was way to real, I'm quite certain that in the dream it was actually all of us PLAYING Changeling.
Anyway, a lot of it is pretty fuzzy, and this post definitely won't do it justice, but in my dream something was going very wrong in the city of Muses. (which didn't look at all like Muses, it looked kind of like a cross between Bloomington (which is Muses, to any non-Changeling folks actually reading this) and the lower east or west side of Manhattan (so lots of four and five story buildings vaguely interesting architecturally built around the turn of the century).
When I (Kathryn) arrived, folks were in deep conference - I don't remember everyone who was there, but I know that Dino and Kaye both were, and I think Lara was there, and maybe Drevni? Behind them, gathered in a sort of auditorium, where most or all of the fae of the area, mostly being rowdy and bored but there was clearly tension in the air. These folks were in deep conference, but they greeted me pretty warmly (especially Dino who, again for non-players who might actually read this, was my character's husband in game) and I was added to the conversation.
I don't remember the details (this is part of the early part of the dream that is very fuzzy) but Muses was under some sort of attack from a very large force (which is never identified in the dream, though they looked kind of like ninjas, except that they didn't bother hiding much). We were trying to figure out a defense, but it was tough, because fae kept disappearing, which was why we all had gathered. Dino was very worried about Kathryn, and she was worried about him, and they resolved to try to stick together.
Meanwhile, also as part of this situation, for some reason there was this photograph that was very important. The photograph showed a man none of us could identify, standing in a park. There was a low stone wall in front of him, and on a hill behind him there was another low stone wall. For some reason (I think to help us identify him?) we decided that it was imperative to try to figure out who the man was, and the way in the dream that we were going to start to do this involved figuring out how tall he was, using geometry and math based on the heights of the two low stone walls (I couldn't make this shit up...okay, maybe I could.)
However, just as we were starting to do this, we were surrounded by the not-ninjas (that's their new name) and they tried to capture us and all of the other gathered fae. People started to scatter, but they managed to pin me down, and were demanding to know who I was, and I freaked out because (this I really couldn't make up): the PLAYER (me!) couldn't remember the CHARACTER'S name (Kathryn!) That was really bizarre - cause I was trying to RP, and they demanded my name, and I just stood there stupidly cause for some reason I couldn't remember it. I even recall thinking, how can I not remember this, I just said my name like five minutes ago! And of course I wasn't going to break character, so I just stood there like an idiot with my jaw working. The leader of this squad of not-ninjas was not amused, though, and was on the verge of getting violent in pursuit of my name when Dino interrupted and said something along the lines of, "her name is (not her name) and she's of no importance - aren't I the one you're looking for?" and got his ass captured, but gave me time to escape.
Somehow, I'd managed to secure the photograph, and since this was still inexplicably (at least now that I've forgotten some of the details) important, I headed to the park along with someone else (I'm not sure who) to try to find the spot where the picture had been taken, in the hopes of retracing the steps of the person in the photo. We took a sneaky route so that we wouldn't get caught, but in order to be really sneaky, we couldn't walk in the grass, we had to stick to the stone wall (on top it) and we reached a point where it was blocked, and we were forced to turn back.
I'd had another idea, though, which involved searching some strange house (I have NO clue why). As we headed back, we passed this building that in my mind was labeled as "very important" and I think held some sort of treasure that the other person I was with really wanted, and I remember saying to them that they couldn't go get it now - that they'd promised to help me save Dino, and that if they followed through I'd help them get whatever was in the building, but otherwise I'd try to stop them. I don't know when this deal was made or who this other person was or what it had to do with ANYTHING, but there we go - that's what dreams are like! :)
However, this person didn't listen to me, and by the time I got to the weird house to search they were gone (I know it was a male, but that's all). I met up with two other fae, though (played, inexplicably, by
thelisafairy and mistress_sin, neither of whom ever had anything to do with Changeling!) and we went to search the building. We couldn't seem to find whatever we were looking for, though, and we got totally distracted on a balcony near the top, where we witnessed the coolest part of the dream.Down below, on the street, in two courtyards in front of NYC-style brownstones, a bunch of PCs were fighting a bunch of not-ninjas - I don't remember everyone involved, but certainly Kaye, Lady Nix, and Azriphael - I remember them for sure, and I'm certain that there were others - but the whole fight was coordinated to music and choreographed, and it was awesome. I remember thinking that the people involved must have practiced a TON before the game in order to pull that off.
When the fight/dance was done, the not-ninjas were driven back, and
thelisafairy started to applaud, and I freaked out and told her to stop, cause now they knew we were there! Sure enough, some of the fleeing not-ninjas turned in our way, and I had no certainty that we could take them. I was starting to really worry about Dino - I think, the "out of character" layer of the dream was really hoping that he'd get brain washed cause that'd be fun to role play - and made them hurry cause this search of the building had been a bust. As we tried to escape the building, followed by an unknown something, while the reality of the building got all warped and weird, one of the two with me got sucked into a video game and killed, but we couldn't stop to help her, and we only barely escaped, and got separated.I was alone, outside the building, wondering how the hell to find the person in the photograph, considering just single-handedly storming the main enemy base (I have no idea where that was) and kicking some serious boggan butt to rescue Dino (and, I think, there was a sense that a lot of others had also been captured) and not at all sure what to do next...I have a distinct memory of picturing myself, Troy in hand, saying something like, "I'm a boggan! What, you got a problem with that? Huh? Come here and say that to my face!"
...and then I woke up.
GAH!!! I HATE THAT!! Now I'll never know...not that much of it made much sense, but I still want to know what was going to happen!!! AAARGH!
Anyway, on the plus side, I went to bed before 9:30 last night and slept 'til 7, and am feeling physically pretty good. But I really wanted to write that up - I want to start keeping a dream journal, actually, I can't escape the feeling that my life losses some of it's luster because I can't remember my dreams unless I really concentrate on doing so - but now, I must go onward with my day! :)
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