Squirrel Bomb, and Evil Crystals
Mar. 17th, 2004 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothLast Sunday, when I was taking a short, painful walk up Cougar Mountain, I forgot to mention the weirdest thing. There was this squirrel, sitting out in plain sight on a branch near the trail, making loud beeping noises. As I got closer, the noises increased in frequency and pitch, so I stood there watching him to try to see what the hell was going on with this crazy rodent.
The beeping noises reached a crescendo, and somewhat to my surprise, the squirrel did not explode. It just stopped beeping and stood there quietly. Near the end it sounded JUST LIKE a cheesy movie sound effect for an alien time bomb, though.
Last night I had an annoying dream. It wasn't quite as annoying as the dreams I have now and then about getting dressed or taking a shower -- it was about me playing a 3-d adventure game where I had to collect a bunch of items from a very messy but otherwise mostly normal room -- except that I was very very small, so getting around was a problem.
I floundered about for a while, trying to figure out how to get up on the desk or search the drawers. Eventually a strange disembodied voice started to guide me, claiming that he was reading from the strategy guide. Before he could tell me how, I figured out how to get up on the desk (I had to do a Sonic Heroes style pole-climbing move), so I just asked him to tell me what I needed to keep from all the various items on the desk and in the drawers.
Excerpt:
"Okay... you need to find a little plastic lasso."
"There's a lasso here in the GI Joe Boardgame box, but it's made of string."
"No, that's not the right one, then."
At some point he remarked that I'd found one of the secondary attack methods, but that I couldn't go fight the boss until I found my primary attack. I insisted that I wanted *all* my attacks and defenses before going to face the boss (which I had a vision of as a giant pleisaur that I'd fight at the bottom of the ocean). He was annoyed, but said that he'd help me on one condition -- that HE would get to keep the 'primary attack' and use it on the boss.
Around this point I was sorting through a bag of crystals -- really, little glass beads like the ones used for markers in various card games -- transparent, colorful Go stones. Annoyed with his presumption, I took the little ochre bead that represented him and pushed it away from my pile of loot, replacing it with a selection of red and orange and yellow beads. "Fine, I don't need you, then, I'll just have these guys help me."
He was just starting to explain how the primary weapon would just take down the enemy's defenses, so I'd still get the kill, when I woke up.
The beeping noises reached a crescendo, and somewhat to my surprise, the squirrel did not explode. It just stopped beeping and stood there quietly. Near the end it sounded JUST LIKE a cheesy movie sound effect for an alien time bomb, though.
Last night I had an annoying dream. It wasn't quite as annoying as the dreams I have now and then about getting dressed or taking a shower -- it was about me playing a 3-d adventure game where I had to collect a bunch of items from a very messy but otherwise mostly normal room -- except that I was very very small, so getting around was a problem.
I floundered about for a while, trying to figure out how to get up on the desk or search the drawers. Eventually a strange disembodied voice started to guide me, claiming that he was reading from the strategy guide. Before he could tell me how, I figured out how to get up on the desk (I had to do a Sonic Heroes style pole-climbing move), so I just asked him to tell me what I needed to keep from all the various items on the desk and in the drawers.
Excerpt:
"Okay... you need to find a little plastic lasso."
"There's a lasso here in the GI Joe Boardgame box, but it's made of string."
"No, that's not the right one, then."
At some point he remarked that I'd found one of the secondary attack methods, but that I couldn't go fight the boss until I found my primary attack. I insisted that I wanted *all* my attacks and defenses before going to face the boss (which I had a vision of as a giant pleisaur that I'd fight at the bottom of the ocean). He was annoyed, but said that he'd help me on one condition -- that HE would get to keep the 'primary attack' and use it on the boss.
Around this point I was sorting through a bag of crystals -- really, little glass beads like the ones used for markers in various card games -- transparent, colorful Go stones. Annoyed with his presumption, I took the little ochre bead that represented him and pushed it away from my pile of loot, replacing it with a selection of red and orange and yellow beads. "Fine, I don't need you, then, I'll just have these guys help me."
He was just starting to explain how the primary weapon would just take down the enemy's defenses, so I'd still get the kill, when I woke up.
