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so had dream last night where I was playing a game it was a super simple child's learning game you were given a symbol and you had to run your character through the door that matched that symbol it started out as a town with a library, school, bank, other buildings and the symbols were music notes, a book, a piece of money then it got slightly more difficult when you had to enter the buildings and find the door that matched inside the building and some doors would have something similar but would not quite match were timed with several doors to match every third door that you tried to enter that was wrong would reset you to the beginning of the level
more times I played the more complex it got one of the times you had to ride a skateboard so the doors went by extremely fast and it made it hard to turn in and stop at them, if they were the wrong ones you could not stop yourself from entering, but the skateboard is nice because of the speed and the ability to grind on and across edges
as the level grew cliffs and other obstacles and the doors appeared on roof tops, got new abilities such as jumping, climbing, and eventually a grapple hook
there are also several bouncy locations which with speed and momentum you can bounce several of them building up so you can reach the higher locations
to use the grapple hook you guided a large circle around on the ground (looked kinda pretty almost like an alchemic circle), if you were climbing while grappling the grapple would attach but not pull you till you released your climb, if you were climbing or holding onto a moveable object the grapple would then pull you and the object with some force but would swing back slightly if the original force of the grapple was not enough to over come the gravity or other motion of the object, but the grapple could be activated several times while still attached to either try to step object closer or when battling apposing force like gravity or something that would be swung back and forth will swing it farther until you get it close enough to your destination then you can release your climb and dismount on to a ledge or something
at this same time in the dream treasure boxes were added so you had reason to go out and explore different parts of the world, like the sewer and the dungeon area and various roof tops, first they held loot, then they started holding alternate missions, you used your grappling hook to open the chests
then you were given a button so you can explore the level before beginning the game and begin the game at any point in the level you choose, some of these discovered missions could be done before beginning the level but some needed to be done while the level was in progress
about this time the multi player feature started, when moving objects with multiple people on it the grappling strength if you work together was effective but the added weight made it more difficult to get the object where wanted and not knowing if they were doing it right caused more issues, there was one main player that had to collect most the treasure boxes and missions but the other players were able to assist and boost the person in different ways, as well as open the boxes before they get to them so all they have to do is run through and collect them, or reading the missions and figuring out if it should be collected or not
after playing through a level of this the zombies started showing up they were slow and easy to avoid but there were missions which kept you in one area for an extended amount of time which allowed the zombies to collect for a while and cause it to be more difficult, I don't remember if there was a way to eliminate any of the zombies, running around them and closing doors and such seemed to work
every level with zombies the npc's from the last level and fallen characters became new zombies, (which was creepy because in the dream I was playing with my family members and seeing them as zombies was really creepy)
in the zombie levels you always had to complete the mission and get to the extraction point, which was usually a hallway of an unloading dock or a series of staircases with doors on all sides, but you ignore the doors and go straight down the somewhat square descent till the level fades out gives you your scores and starts the new level
last level played it was my sister's turn, she had found a back area in part of the dungeon with a really nice treasure box and a moveable platform, all the ground had kinda a spongy effect to it, behind an almost impossible to climb wall was an ocean of black water/poisonous something or other. If you drop down by the wall on one corner the chest is there, then you can follow another wall around, jumping on small bits of land and hookshoting against the wall to make it to a group of steps, all super spongy and hard to climb because they squish. The last few steps you have to climb then grappling hook yourself to get to each one, but as you do this they sway and tip as there is no strong base and only sponge material supporting them, I am climbing these with here as well. When we get to the top one she does her hook shot but we are to low on the platform to be able to get on it, and our platform is constantly moving. I use my hookshot to draw us near to the platform then we sway backward like on a spring dipping us toward the water, I pull on my string and we get closer to the platform, then we sway back away from it, then I pull us even closer, then sway back, ugh just cant get it to work, then we sway extremely back and the platform we are on just about dips us into the water, I pull my string attached to my grappling hook and we slowly lift out of being close to the water, I quickly pull it again and we get closer to the platform, when we reach the platform I do something not allowed in the game, I grapple both the platform we are trying to reach and the one we are standing on and hold them in place so my sister can get to the next location, after she is there I slowly climb onto the new platform, which for having a spongy edge is rather stable, she has already collected the treasure box at the end of the platform and is about to collect the mission from a person laying on the ground looking half dead, but wearing makeup and a really nice red, some what revealing dress. The mission is to get her to the exit with us, my sister collects her more like an item than anything and the main mission timer starts. The end of the platform we are on drops down like a cliff onto the hard to climb wall we had been on before but it is a different section of it and on the new dropped bridge to the other area I find a chest that I can not help but open, there is a mission inside, but my sister says she does not have time to pick it up and runs past, so I am trying to read the mission specs but am having difficulty understanding exactly what I am supposed to do for the mission. As I scroll down there is a large amount of information on it and it says a bunch of things about not doing this or that, not dropping the person we are escorting, not taking too long in certain areas, but ending the mission at a specific time on the clock, and it turns to be more of an achievement than a mission, and there is no button to begin mission and does not have a specific completion requitement, and at the bottom of the mission spec it has a small posting section where people have posted their comments or claims of completing the mission, somewhere in the comments is a statement about how those who lie about completing the mission will be banned from the game, and here I was thinking of accepting the mission and when my sister completes it just using it as my own completion, so instead I head off to rejoin the party, there are plenty of zombies around many with recognizable faces, my cousin and dad and other people I know (ooh I wonder if they could do that with one of those games like the ds has where you take pictures of your friends faces and they become part of your game, that could be fun, it would just have to run the face through a random filter set that would give it the zombie look, so you could fight your zombified friends, could be fun) anyways back to the game, I rejoin the party and they are sitting near the entrance passing back and forth the item which is supposedly the person we are escorting at the moment looks like a red tomato, but they are passing it to avoid the zombie team which is running quite quickly and making quick movements trying to grab the item, it is almost like a basketball game but with stealing and a lot more failed passes and catches, but lots of slides and jumping to get the item, apparently they are running the clock down to get some achievement, so they are just playing outside the exit doors, the regular zombies are slowly approaching coming in from all sides, carelessly playing the game of tossing back and forth one of the members get careless and gets caught by the zombies, time runs down and we enter the stairway expecting the game to end, but it does not, watching the zombies approaching the door I quickly close it and someone puts a plank of wood across the handles, the zombies hammer on the door as it barely closes, remembering other levels where we had to go down several flights of stairs before the level ended we start descending the staircase, running down the steps and cutting the corners by jumping across to the other railings, sliding and grinding down a few of them then continuing down the crooked box staircase, able to skip corners and sometimes levels, but fear if you drop down the center will squish at the bottom, as we run down doors open on the sides and we can here zombies filing into the stairwell but we are keeping ahead of them, we are down to the two of us at this time, then a door begins to shift and open in front of us, another familiar faced zombie steps through, it is my brother in law and he shouts something about us not being able to get away, but he does it in the tone and speech type that I recognize to be his and not just a mindless zombie, but it has the overtone of being evil and controlled by something making him blood thirsty, we evade him and continue down the steps, we have gone so many floors down and the level has not ended, I wonder if we were supposed to take one of the doors to the exit, now that I think of it I wonder if we were supposed to go up instead of down, eh, tired and scared I have had enough, I can't finish this it is to much for me, I try to finish my decent while I pull myself out of myself and out of my dream, feeling that the entity that was running still needs to proceed running in the case that when it is caught I am pulled back into it, or in the case that I feel it's pain, or in the case that it is still an entity and in this alternate reality like place it needs to still be able to escape.
it was a fun dream and i cant remember all parts but that is most of it, but by the end of it i woke up scared and when i realized that i was sleeping in my bed alone i continued to feel the pain of fear, i hoped it was early enough that my room mate had not left yet, maybe i could go into their room and lay next to them till i feel better, bad idea, if they are there they will get annoyed, if they are not there i will only feel more afraid and alone
hmmm maybe i can go to a friend's house today
I believe in kissing every morning before the significant other leaves for work, I am sad that does not happen
Fay Da Way · Tue Sep 13, 2011 @ 02:32pm · 2 Comments |
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