Some dreams I've been saving up
Jan. 21st, 2007 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanThe kings of a tripartate kingdom were dying, perhaps already dead. Their viziers summonsed six girls from this world and gave them fairytale names: Dorothy, Alice, Red Riding Hood, and Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella. They seperated them into two groups and put them each on opposite sides of the kingdom, telling them that the first group to get to the capitol city would become princesses with the viziers' help, and the other three would be sent home.
Dorothy, Alice, and Red Riding Hood just wanted to get home. Dorothy became adept at directions, drawing maps in the dirt and leading the girls ever onward towards the city. Alice decided that it was all her dream, and grew skilled in avoiding traps and solving puzzles through her dream-logic. Red Riding Hood was terrified of the beasts in the woods, and soon learned to defend her companions from the ravening monsters that would stalk them.
Meanwhile, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella met up with some witches early in their journey. They schemed and convinced the witches to teach them magic, and quickly flew to the capitol city, where they overthrew the viziers immediately and began ruling as despots. When the other three girls finally made their way to the city, they found the citizenry up in arms hunting for them, as the princesses were certain that the girls would want to overthrow them as well.
The girls had to disguise themselves and plot to get home. Soon, they learned that the princesses were opening up the kingdom to trade from this world, and set out to find a ship...
A popular TV show was nearing the end of its run, and the writers knew it. Feeling betrayed, they began to send the show off into storyline insanity and work in bizarre, cracked-out fanfiction plots. People woke up in beds with people they weren't sure they slept with, people died, came back to life, and walked through the hospital as ghosts, people suddenly turned into anthromorphic animals for no apparent reason. The characters got fed up and began to wreck the writers' plots, insisting that they never loved the characters they slept with, that they weren't dead, and finally, that they knew everything was a story and that they simply weren't going to cooperate anymore. However, all the viewers thought that it was just the writers having fun, because the show was steeped in absurdist humour and "breaking the fourth wall" gags anyway. The last episode ended with the characters denouncing the tyranny of the writers and begging for their freedom.
The curator of a museum had managed to capture an angel-creature (a seraph? Let's say it was a seraph), and had it caged and shackled in the planetarium. It passed the time by rearranging the stars, as was its job in the Upper Realms. The curator thought it was harmless, and would arrange meetings with it for particularly wealthy patrons.
Dan and Herbert had taken low-profile jobs at the museum, and Herbert had been behaving unusually well and hadn't been doing any experiments. Dan had found a girlfriend and was settling in nicely. However, one day, Herbert became curious about the planetarium and dragged Dan in to explore with him. Herbert's first instinct upon witnessing the beauty of the seraph was to work out a plan to experiment on it. Dan was awestruck by its beauty, and thought that experimenting on it was a terrible idea, but Herbert would not be dissuaded. He insisted that it was not a supernatural being at all, but simply some sort of creature that zoologists had not yet classified.
While the seraph was sleeping (I don't think seraphim sleep, but this one wasn't doing so well in captivity), Herbert set up a device to drain the ichor from it while Dan aided and fretted. As the ichor began to drain into a plastic container, the lights in the planetarium began to fade and hum, and the stars in the dome began to whirl. The stars and electricity only got worse as the ichor drained and the seraph's condition worsened, the lights began to pop and spark and the building began to shake.
Herbert finally got all of the ichor and held it up triumphantly. Dan grabbed Herbert and pulled him into an elevator right before the curator arrived, alarmed by the electrical activity and building shaking. As they stepped out of the building, the earth began to tear itself apart, and the wind grew to gale force with the singing howls of celestial beings...
(ETA: It was probably a chayot, I guess, but dreams aren't that specific.)
Dorothy, Alice, and Red Riding Hood just wanted to get home. Dorothy became adept at directions, drawing maps in the dirt and leading the girls ever onward towards the city. Alice decided that it was all her dream, and grew skilled in avoiding traps and solving puzzles through her dream-logic. Red Riding Hood was terrified of the beasts in the woods, and soon learned to defend her companions from the ravening monsters that would stalk them.
Meanwhile, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella met up with some witches early in their journey. They schemed and convinced the witches to teach them magic, and quickly flew to the capitol city, where they overthrew the viziers immediately and began ruling as despots. When the other three girls finally made their way to the city, they found the citizenry up in arms hunting for them, as the princesses were certain that the girls would want to overthrow them as well.
The girls had to disguise themselves and plot to get home. Soon, they learned that the princesses were opening up the kingdom to trade from this world, and set out to find a ship...
A popular TV show was nearing the end of its run, and the writers knew it. Feeling betrayed, they began to send the show off into storyline insanity and work in bizarre, cracked-out fanfiction plots. People woke up in beds with people they weren't sure they slept with, people died, came back to life, and walked through the hospital as ghosts, people suddenly turned into anthromorphic animals for no apparent reason. The characters got fed up and began to wreck the writers' plots, insisting that they never loved the characters they slept with, that they weren't dead, and finally, that they knew everything was a story and that they simply weren't going to cooperate anymore. However, all the viewers thought that it was just the writers having fun, because the show was steeped in absurdist humour and "breaking the fourth wall" gags anyway. The last episode ended with the characters denouncing the tyranny of the writers and begging for their freedom.
The curator of a museum had managed to capture an angel-creature (a seraph? Let's say it was a seraph), and had it caged and shackled in the planetarium. It passed the time by rearranging the stars, as was its job in the Upper Realms. The curator thought it was harmless, and would arrange meetings with it for particularly wealthy patrons.
Dan and Herbert had taken low-profile jobs at the museum, and Herbert had been behaving unusually well and hadn't been doing any experiments. Dan had found a girlfriend and was settling in nicely. However, one day, Herbert became curious about the planetarium and dragged Dan in to explore with him. Herbert's first instinct upon witnessing the beauty of the seraph was to work out a plan to experiment on it. Dan was awestruck by its beauty, and thought that experimenting on it was a terrible idea, but Herbert would not be dissuaded. He insisted that it was not a supernatural being at all, but simply some sort of creature that zoologists had not yet classified.
While the seraph was sleeping (I don't think seraphim sleep, but this one wasn't doing so well in captivity), Herbert set up a device to drain the ichor from it while Dan aided and fretted. As the ichor began to drain into a plastic container, the lights in the planetarium began to fade and hum, and the stars in the dome began to whirl. The stars and electricity only got worse as the ichor drained and the seraph's condition worsened, the lights began to pop and spark and the building began to shake.
Herbert finally got all of the ichor and held it up triumphantly. Dan grabbed Herbert and pulled him into an elevator right before the curator arrived, alarmed by the electrical activity and building shaking. As they stepped out of the building, the earth began to tear itself apart, and the wind grew to gale force with the singing howls of celestial beings...
(ETA: It was probably a chayot, I guess, but dreams aren't that specific.)
