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ideas to flesh out a dream
Jan. 26th, 2007 02:15 pmHands up here everyone who's had a bizarre dream that made no sense at all.
Now hands up everyone who's ever had a dream about one of their hobbies so strong that upon waking you have an urge to go do whatever it was that was happening in the dream. This happened to me once before, where I dreamt about a game that combined aspects of live roleplaying, auditioning for parts, team building, and computer games. In my dream I knew this game to be so awesome that when I woke up I was intensely disappointed to realise that not only did it not exist, but that it was actually physically impossible for it to exist. And I went around for half that day with this unfulfilled craving to play the game.
Anyway, all this rambling brings me to the dream I had this morning. Bear with me because as usual most of the details have already faded.
Picture the aftermath of a medieval battle. The ground is littered with corpses, already starting to stiffen in death. And then one by one, a number of the corpses get up again. Jerkily. And they look at eachother through damaged features and say "What is this? What's happened to us?"
And this is the opening scene of some kind of computer RPG. The newly raised zombies are the members of your party, and the player gets to choose which ones he wants to resurrect based on what kind of people he wants in his party. I have some vague idea about how in the selection phase you can click on a corpse and the spirit of that person will rise up and tell you a bit about their life and skills.
Now, I have a few ideas of my own about why these people might have had their eternal rest disturbed. But I'm curious to hear what other people might be able to come up with. So, guys? Ideas?
It also occurs to me that this would be a great premise for some kind of DnD campaign if I can ever get enough people organised.
Now hands up everyone who's ever had a dream about one of their hobbies so strong that upon waking you have an urge to go do whatever it was that was happening in the dream. This happened to me once before, where I dreamt about a game that combined aspects of live roleplaying, auditioning for parts, team building, and computer games. In my dream I knew this game to be so awesome that when I woke up I was intensely disappointed to realise that not only did it not exist, but that it was actually physically impossible for it to exist. And I went around for half that day with this unfulfilled craving to play the game.
Anyway, all this rambling brings me to the dream I had this morning. Bear with me because as usual most of the details have already faded.
Picture the aftermath of a medieval battle. The ground is littered with corpses, already starting to stiffen in death. And then one by one, a number of the corpses get up again. Jerkily. And they look at eachother through damaged features and say "What is this? What's happened to us?"
And this is the opening scene of some kind of computer RPG. The newly raised zombies are the members of your party, and the player gets to choose which ones he wants to resurrect based on what kind of people he wants in his party. I have some vague idea about how in the selection phase you can click on a corpse and the spirit of that person will rise up and tell you a bit about their life and skills.
Now, I have a few ideas of my own about why these people might have had their eternal rest disturbed. But I'm curious to hear what other people might be able to come up with. So, guys? Ideas?
It also occurs to me that this would be a great premise for some kind of DnD campaign if I can ever get enough people organised.
