Lords of Creation 9 (OCC)

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Gentleman Vaultboy wrote

I once had a nasty reoccurring dream about being trapped in a factory and stalked by a big, brutal monster I came to call the Skintaker. He had a muscular, pink, veiney body and no eyes. His only facial feature was his huge mouthful of teeth. Not sharp teeth either, grinding molars every last one. He wore a butchers apron, and had two long chains wrapped round his arms attached to hooks that he could use to get you from a distance.

When he got you, he didn't kill you. He took you to a huge hellish machine in the middle of the factory, and strapped you into it. It was some sort of skin harvesting machine. Have you ever seen the Silent hill movie, where Pyramid Head took a handful of that girls skin and just tore it all off? The Machine worked like that. Then the Skintaker threw the body into the incinerator and ate the skin.

Also, I remember the factory itself being alive and against you. It would reshape itself, it would show you things, pipes would burst for no reason. Also, carved on the walls were the faces and last words of all the victims. I'm honestly sure that that place was aqtually more evil than the monster itself.

I had nightmares like that for a time.

[Zaleramancer]

You seem to have a deep desire for grimdark.

[Mik_Hael]

Meh, not really.

[Mik_Hael]

Dream monsters learn to fear me.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Good for you; we should all hope to aspire to your depth of mental fortitude (even if it is brought about by some unholy matrimony of apathy and lunacy)... (sarcasm)

[Mik_Hael]

It's not. it's just deep dark boiling hatred and rage.

[Zaleramancer]

I have no dream monsters.

They are me and I am them, so there's no reason for them to inflict harm on me, because I am them- but harm is their reason for existing, which they can no do, so they do not exist.


That probably sounded profound... It's not, really. :D

[Zaleramancer]

You need a hug!

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Hey Mik, if you want any more ideas head for the library and see if they have Neil Gaimans Sandman.

[Mik_Hael]

No.

[Zaleramancer]

Yes.

[Mik_Hael]

You can hug the face stealer.

[Zaleramancer]

I'll bring some bug-spray, Mr. Grumpy-Pants!

[Mik_Hael]

Mik_Hael wrote

Cool, let's make a compendium of dream monsters then.

The Gremlins: Demonic imp like creatures that hunt inside of a dense ant hill composed from a living forest canopy.

The tube masks: Honestly I didn't spend much time on these, in a rare moment of lucidity I managed to freeze the dream time and destroy them with a large fireball that took out the area. about nine feet tall five feet wide arms reaching down to the knees, and composed of darkness with breathing masks covering the face.

Mosquito riders: shadow beings that ride the giant mosquitos of the dream realm. the mosquitos are about the size of elephants and swoop down from the sky picking people. Travel in clouds of several hundreds.

the face stealer: From BSOM, acronym for book title. A being that kills it's victoms and imprisons them in a mask constructed from their bodies. Whenever one wears it's mask they turn into a carbon copy of the victim, and have access to their memory and mannerisms...It's true form is a writhing tentacled cancourous bulging mound of fanged flesh. It just wants a hug.

The raptors: recurring dreams every now and then. Basically undead velociraptors with armored skin, metal claws, that sometimes breath fire.

The lost: Similiar to the chimera's mentioned by zale, basically mutants that reside in an underground mall structure with floors composed of a foot of blood...that apparently does not sell bullets ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!

The tree: a sentient root like creature which inhabits the maze/mall. It's pollen alters physics and takes over the minds of those within it...when I met it water was filling half of the classrooom it was in...from the cealing...I mean it the floor and three feet up from the floor was dry air. The ceialing and about six feet down from it was a pool of water....I accidentally tought it how to construct viruses so look out for that.

Demos: Their immortal, their demonic, they look like semi rotting human coprses, they appear in thousands at a time, and they mock you before killing you.

[Zaleramancer]

So.. You've covered nightmares nicely..

Now for the less traumatizing aspects of dreams!

[Mik_Hael]

Well, All of my nightmares have a surreal quality of a dream to them as well.

The one with the mosquitos, gremlins, and hose faces was based on a floating island in the sky below a waterfall originating from nowhere. I started out on a staircase composed of giant stone rectangles floating above the island leading down into the forest...I had to jump off them though...

Another dream scape, this one with snakes, was basied in an endless desert of night with multi colored sand and pyramids and sphynxes rising from the sand along with stone monolliths and one greek arena.

etc.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

So they've gotten to you, just as they first intended. In such a case, it doesn't mean they're afraid of you, it means they've won, so they have no further use messing with you. (Jay-Z voice) "On to the next one..."

[Mik_Hael]

Shadow. Never, ever joke about that.

they haven't won, never will. Although that doesn't stop them from still trying every now and then.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Zaleramancer wrote

They are me and I am them, so there's no reason for them to inflict harm on me, because I am them

They're you? You consider yourself one of them? That's...not a good thing.

(And no, it didn't sound profound. Though, it did provide a rather interesting insight into your psyche... )

[Mik_Hael]

You see, this is why I need the Jester act, otherwise I can't put up with people crap without feeling the need to smight them.