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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

0 comments Posted by Iolanthe Lore at 1:43 PM

I had two dreams that connected during a nap. When I woke up from the first half, I was scared, but I couldn't leave the dream without an ending.

My husband and I lived in the countryside, and we've become good friends with our neighbours. They were a family of four with two dogs - two black and white French bulldogs. The wife was beautiful with blond hair cut short to her shoulders, and her husband had dark, ash blond hair ¹. They had two children - a son and a younger daughter. When I visited, it was near the end of autumn. It was still light out, and the children had arrived from school. It was extremely windy this day, and my long hair and knee-length, blue dotted skirt would fly about as I knocked on their glass, back door. I was let in by the husband, who was around his late 30s, into their kitchen. The walls were white, and brighter with the sun's light. The counter tops were wooden in a walnut finish.

The children put their empty lunch bags on the kitchen island, as the mother started on dinner. They were a warm, loving couple. The kitchen slowly grew darker, as clouds covered the sun, and the wind became stronger. Soon, it was dark, even though it was only late in the afternoon. I had a bad feeling about what was about to happen, and when I looked at the parents, they were quite alert as well. The children ran into the kitchen, scared too. We heard the wind swirl outside, saying something in a low voice, and soon the back door shattered. The wind came in like a miniature tornado, as if taking slow, arrogant steps.

Something dark and oozing began covering the crème tiled floor, so we all ran high into the house, into the little girl's bedroom, closing the door behind us. The ooze followed us quickly, seeping under the door, and we all stood on the bed, as if it were a boat. I tried to grab one of the dogs and lift him up on the bed, but he was heavy, and as soon as the ooze wrapped a slimy tendril around his leg, he was yanked from my grip. Before I fell in, the father grabbed me, pulling me to safety. We watched the dogs melt into the darkness, their yelps becoming angry growls, and their bodies transforming into dog-shaped sludge.

I thought we'd all die, or worse, be covered in this filth and become some kind of monster. Thoughts flew though my mind: would we become something like zombies, where we'd transfer this disease to others and convert them into a being like us? Would we take over the world, and would human-kind become extinct? I wondered about my husband, and cried in my head for him to come save us.

We all heard a loud bang from the door, soon followed by a large axe shattering it open. It was my husband (not Cookie, though), and as soon as he saw me, he smirked cockily, but reassuringly. My heart stopped for a second, thinking 'that was the sexiest smile I've ever seen' ². He slashed through the dogs in a quick swipe, then dragged his axe on the floor, creating a clean path from the bed to the door. He reached a hand for me, and I hastily took it.

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¹ The parents looked very much like the parents from Kyle XY.

² Please, no. No. No. Darius from League of Legends. I can't remember the face anymore, but he was the first one I thought of when I woke up. Please, brain. Don't do this.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

0 comments Posted by Iolanthe Lore at 1:43 PM

Everyone in Middle Earth gathered to watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy when night began to fall. There were many that I didn't recognize, of dwarves, hobbits, elves and humans, and they were seated on a grassy hill in rings, like in a sports stadium. I walked around looking for quests to do, as if I were in the Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG. I found Legolas with Gimli seated before him, so I zigzagged towards them, and asked Legolas if he knew of any quests. Materializing in front of him were plain, shining, gold rings, a little larger and thicker than wedding bands. He began breaking them in half so they lost their glow and became ghostly blue ones. After he'd done that, there were no other quest for me to do. I also spoke to an elegant elven maiden who told me Aragorn didn't attend the movie screenings, and I wondered what he was up to as a king.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

0 comments Posted by Iolanthe Lore at 12:08 AM

I was at ChocoChip's house, in the countryside, with Cookie, Shortbread and Savoiardi. We looked out one of the tall windows because of funnel clouds that formed in the sky close by. Savoiardi explained to me that we were waiting for the hot air to rise and the cool air to set so the hurricane would happen, because that's what we anticipated and couldn't leave ChocoChip's house.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

0 comments Posted by Isica at 8:44 AM

I travelled with four adventurers, who were also fighters. We visited various locations and each one was character specific, as only one character could see the darkness-- the monsters that came up. I was with Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII, a young, cute blond man, and a tomboyish girl who wore a long cloak. We ran from loctation to location seeking out and fighting these shadow monsters. The first location was Lightning's, as she could see the creatures. She directed us with words as she fought along side us. We followed Lightning through buildings in small cities and up elevators. Next was the blond's; we followed his instruction as we did Lightning's at first, though I wasn't sure whether once a character could see the monsters, the monsters would always be visible from that point on. I got that impression though. Next they revealed themselves to the cloaked girl once we climbed another elevator. We went down a flight of concrete stairs in a little town with dirt roads. We made our way to the rural area, stopping by a diner along the road. I was chosen to get information from the middle-aged, farmer waiter. I dressed up in short overalls and red lipstick and had blond hair in pigtails. I used a fake Southern accent as I talked with the waiter, making light conversation. As soon as the waiter left, I rushed out and regrouped with my friends by his garage. As o stepped closer to them, my heart raced in knowing it was my turn to lead. The monsters came out of the ground and I called out their location and the amount we faced. When we vanquished them, Lightning fell to the ground in weakness. She was dying as I held her up. The last words she said were, "tell Malchior I love him." She'd been in love with someone else in the first game, and now she loved her other male friend. Then I woke up.

After hanging around with the girls from girl's night, I went to a family event, but I was alone with many people. In the dream, I saw Nica's dad and Bing's dad meet each other. They looked very much like their child. There was a banquet table prepared and I ate by myself, though I eyed the valentines day heart-shaped muffins. After eating, they were almost gone. I took one heart with red sprinkles, and another that was fish-shaped. The lady watching the muffins pointed to that one and told me it was her favourite, so I tried it.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

0 comments Posted by Isica at 12:09 PM

(In Lineage II) I don't remember how it begins, but I met with three woman my age- possibly people I went to school with. I was as pleased to see them as they were of me, and I told them I was now a gladiator like they were. Something we did had to make us restart our progress as a gladiator, because we found ourselves in the sewer with the glowing weapons we used during training.

In another dream, I was with three other girls, one being ChocoChip from high school. In a van, we drove to a sketchy logged house in the middle of the country in the early morning hours as dawn had begun. Surrounding us was a thick layer of fog, but somehow, ChocoChip could see through it as we pulled into the driveway. ChocoChip and Dana from elementary school took the leadership position as I sat in the back half asleep. When ChocoChip returned, we drove into the city, at a plaza with a few cars. The last girl was chosen to fetch our prey, as ChocoChip, Dana and I stood around the vehicle under the grey sky and the lifting fog. She returned empty handed, so as a group we decided to find our unsuspecting prey from inside a store. The closest to us was a pizza place (which could be Pizza Pizza from all the orange I remember) and we walked in casually in partners and giggling over fake chat. As we ordered a large pizza for the four of us, we kept an eye out on who could we kidnap. As we walked out, our last member had her eyes on someone, so she left us to fetch them as ChocoChip, Dana and I stayed hidden in the vehicle and ate a slice of the pizza. When we heard the screams of fearful people, we hopped out of the grey van holding easily concealable weapons. Our friend brought two girls, one of them being a child. As the child ran towards me, I failed to catch her and ChocoChip said to leave her. The second of the two slowed down when she saw us. She was blond and slim, her hair tied up into a pony tail. She was dressed in an orange cheerleading outfit with black accents. In a quick moment, out last member opened the trunk, pushed her inside and we found ourselves back into the van and driving to the wooden house in the country. As the last member and I ate a few more slices of he cheese pizza, the girl behind us was terrified. I offered her a slice, but she shook her head and asked us a couple of questions. None of us answered them. As we neared the country, I realized I was on my fourth or fifth slice, though when I looked at the pizza box, there was still plenty for the others to eat. The cheese pizza was delicious- I haven't eaten pizza in a long time, though the amount of calories I've eaten hit me.

We arrived in the foggy countryside and stopped at the wooden house. The last member and I held her as she struggled to get away, and we stood as a team on the patch of dried grass, waiting. An old man in his sixties came to us, his beard grey and long, and he was bald. He thanked us and told us what he needed the girl for- to crush her up completely and press out her juices, and fat and it back to the people as cooking fat so they would eat their own. When the blond heard all this, she screamed and nudged us loose, running towards the old man and passing him, but the man caught her and held on to her, dragging her into the house; our last member helped him bring her in. I mortified at what we were doing. Cookie came from the house and I ran to him, feeling terrible that I was part of this. I explained all this to him and he laughed thinking it was funny. ChocoChip said I needed punishment because... I don't remember why, but she told Cookie that he could stand in for me and take it. I stood between them and hugged him, disagreeing with the target of the lashes, saying I would accept my own punishment. ChocoChip whipped me a couple of times with her belt, though they didn't hurt as much as I thought they would. She explain that business is business in our kind of lifestyle and that we shouldn't let emotions take over.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

0 comments Posted by Isica at 3:45 PM

Cookie, a few more friends and I went to Tart's house because it was TK's birthday. She lived in a glass-like, tall, tall house (that one would find a dream house in the game, the Sims) and had two or three friends over, one which I think was a boyfriend, to celebrate his birthday. We had dinner separately, her group of friends and my group of friends, but TK visited both groups and mingled. It was starting to get really late, since the sky was pitch black, but somehow I knew we were going to stay overnight. Their property was the only one I could see from their plot of land. It was completely dark, except for the house lights and the moon. It was a clear and warm summer night. Something about it had a hint of romance, if not one of horror. Cookie and I stayed indoors a bit, as during dinner, we had a few casual drinks. After two in the morning, I found Cookie to be in a floppy, but happy state. I would hold him upward to keep him from falling over, and at one point, he needed the washroom. The washroom I knew of was up three or four stories high, so we climbed the narrow, white carpeted stairwell to the higher floors. We made it to the top and Cookie wobbled into the white washroom. As I was waiting, there was a Filipino child who walked past me into his room. He stared at me, and then more of his friends peered through the bedroom door before he closed it. I wondered whether they adopted some. There had to be at least four. Cookie came out of the washroom and we slowly went down the staircase. I was afraid we'd both fall because the steps were as narrow as the stairwell, but we made it to the ground floor safely. I put him on the sofa and we watched television.

For the things that weren't glass in the house, they were white.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

0 comments Posted by Isica at 4:46 PM

The two dreams I had were continuous. I snuck into a castle successfully. I can't remember much here, but I was an enemy of the castle. The lights went off and a mage from the castle told the person of authority that I was with him. I ran around the castle to find an exit in the dark. There were guards blocking the doors. A guard let us through to the underground dungeon. It wa pitch black, but the mage had a torch and lit it. We kept walking in one direction until we exited the dungeon which became a tunnel. The tunnel led to the countryside and the dusty path continued. There was a group of travellers as we followed the path. They were fighting off enemies (monsters maybe?). I ran in and help fight them off. I was equiped with my sword, but somewhere along the way to the countryside, I had a shotgun or something. I had to pull back the top of it to shoot. When they were dead, I recognized a friend from my university classes in the group. She said she liked my idea. I wasn't sure what she meant, so I asked, "having a gun and a sword?" She said, while my sword was still on my hip, I stabbed the enemies that were behind me without pulling my sword out. The sky became dark and cloudy and names in blue were listed under them. They were the surnames of our classmates. Some names were upsidedown, as if they're no longer alive. I said, "this doesn't look good..." when I saw the upsidedown names, specifically when I saw the names "Feres and Ferres".I started to look under 'M' for the name of my friend.It was as if these people were all players of a game, including myself, and these people all failed so they wre un able to play again.

I was a swordswoman in this dream, yet I don't understand what I was doing with a gun. I imagined I was Cless Alvein from Tales of Phantasia after I fought. I found it fun.

Friday, July 10, 2009

0 comments Posted by Isica at 12:43 PM

I was sharing an apartment that looked like my old 9 L apartment with Amaretti and Biscotti for school. Gingerbread, ChocoChip and PBCChip were visiting at the time this happened. We were all rushed to get ready and packed. I was packing my purse when everyone was done and waiting for me anxiously. I scrambled to find my bank card, which looked like my library card, and grabbed it. I looked out the window to see students in panic at the front entrance of the apartment. Two vehicles were on fire. Amaretti came to the room and said, "let's go!" I followed him, asking what was happening, but I couldn't hear his response. Biscotti was at the front door waiting for us. Everyone already left. We exited, and Biscotti locked the door behind us. We left the building grounds and towards the dock where many people gathered to escape. There were speed/motor boats that had a large, long plank of wood tied behind them. The crowd separated us but I saw Amaretti get on one of the planks and climbed on the same one. He was stuck at the front while I was at the back with another clueless girl. I told her to hang on to one side, and I will to the other so we balance the plank as we sped away. We held on so we wouldn't fly into the ocean. The boat went through a tunnel that looked like a large pipe. It made sharp turns. At the first one, I saw Farah Oerstead from Tales of Eternia painted on the corner wall. I said to the girl, "look! Farah!" and she laughed. She looked like she was having fun

In my second dream, I made it to the country side with another boy. He use to live in the area and came back to check on his mom. We reached an area with scattered items and clothing everywhere on the dying, yellow grass. I heard him say, "oh no! (someone's name)!" There was a bed intact with dark, mahogany bed posts and pink, floral sheets. On it lay the corpse of a young woman; her skin was grey and wrinkled. Not far from the bed was her husband who was more bone than she was. The boy collected their clothes from the ground and hung them on the bed post. This felt like a quest (in a game) to me as I helped him. We walked to his old house and entered through the back door. We called for his mother who didn't answer, but I followed him as we went though the house and out the front door. I was 30 seconds behind him, and when I heard him yell, I ran out the door to see him holding a snake in his right hand and a cobra curled around his right boot and slowly climbing up his leg. I yelled to him that I would find his mother, so I ran into the house and into the kitchen, where there was a cobra waiting for me. I ran around the kitchen until an older lady poured boiling oil on it and the snake kind of melted and died. I have never seen the boy's mom, but I knew it was her. She gave me a pot of boiling oil and a spoon and told me to use it on the snakes. I ran to the boy's side and poured a tablespoon on the cobra. The boy threw the snake he held on the ground and I poured a tablespoon of oil on it. An older man came to us to make sure the boy was alright. We went into the house and there was a reptile there. I panicked, thinking it was a snake and poured oil on it. It looked like a frog as its body swelled up, and I realized what I had done. I covered my head and face as much as I could when it exploded. I was covered its blood. I felt sick and faint when the boy came to check on me, knowing my weakness.

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