SIT DOWN AND BUCKLE UP BECAUSE THIS ONES A TRIP! also I haven't posted a dream in awhile. I've had several, but the more personal ones I keep to myself. Y'all don't need to know the deep dark corners of my mind ahahaha.

Anyway. This dream starts off as my newest D&D party off going somewhere in a city. I'm Taz, Data is there, and so is Soot. Although for some reason Soot acts like brian from family guy the entire dream. It's raining really hard and looking outside we can see a tornado starting to form. We're in the heart of the city near what looks like the butterfly biosphere near my house. We're also right next to a supermarket. The party is walking fast trying to get to one of the buildings before the weather gets to us when suddenly we're stopped in our tracks as the tornado pulls out in front of us. Luckily it doesn't get anyone in the party, just some poor teenager walking out of the store. He gets yeeted 21308420 feet into the air and crashes down hard into the roof of the market. He's groaning in agony and soot asks if he's ok when the kids dad chimes in and is all "You should be asking if I'm ok, I just watched my son get launched 4000 feet in the air by a tornado!!". The kid just groaned at this and said he'd be fine, but we needed to get inside.

So the party and this kid all get brought into the biosphere type place. Inside is mostly barred aside from the very centre where there's this nice old timey cabin type room. Also all the outer walls of this building were made of chain link and concrete and it didn't have doors. It had fence gates we had to chain closed. When we got inside the kid had us chain and lock all the gates even though other people were desperately trying to get in. We kinda just shooed them off and told them the place was closed. Oddly enough they all acted like NPCs with a pathing interruption because when they couldn't get inside they just continued walking down the path outside even if the tornado sucked them up. Eventually we did get everything chained up and at that point we all went towards the cabiny room. It looked like my uncles living room for the most part. Two big old couches, two more fluffy recliners, a TV, fireplace, candy machines, toys everywhere for grandkids. We figured we'd be safe here. We were very wrong.

Taz for those of you who don't know is neutral evil. She's also a rogue multiclass. So the second I get inside this room and we're all locked up I begin poking around at all the belongings to see if there's anything valuable I can take. Suddenly, as I'm doing this, I become very VERY short. Like... 1 foot tall short. I think it was after I picked up a book but I don't remember 100%. That's when I heard a laugh. it was a weird echoy laugh that sounded far away so I wanted to see if everyone else heard it. I wandered over to Data and asked him and he just looked at me confused. So I walked over to soot and the kid and soot was also confused, but the kid was just like "Woah, who left their baby in here?". As it turned out, I'd been turned into a baby. I was still wearing my normal clothes (just shrunken) and I still had my normal mind, but whenever I talked only I could understand. I kept asking the party what was going on and if they could understand me and they just kept looking at me confused like I was speaking baby babbles. Naturally this pissed me off, but luckily because the only people around knew me personally they didn't treat me like a baby.

I'm now a baby trapped in a house unable to communicate with my friends. What to do now? Continue rummaging around for valuables, of course! Or just anything to keep me entertained. I looted around this bookshelf for some time when I eventually found something terrifying. So like, you know how in video games with achievements it'll sometimes say what the achievement's name is as a hint towards what to do? This book was full to the brim with things like that. The worst part? The book implied we were trapped in this building.

the first several achievements were pretty mundane. Hell, we'd already unlocked a few of them. One was to get into the building, one was to "help our guide", one was to explore every room. But then I saw one currently in progress that said "spend the whole day as a baby". So whatever turned me into one was clearly intentional. It was the guide part that weirded me out. Was the kid with the broken arm part of all this? was this a trap?

I didn't care too much. Not after seeing something written at the bottom of the page. There was a quest at the bottom. A very odd one. the long and short of it was if I flipped through the rest of the pages of this book and found 3 mice, 2 geese, and 4 rabbits, copied the pages, sized them up, and brought them to a porta potty 75 feet up from ground level I'd be rewarded with the love of my life. It was worded differently than that which made it sound a lot less storybook fairytale but I can't for the life of me remember it word for word. I was intrigued by this. Like yeah having the love of your life is cool and all, but what are the logistics of that? If I complete this quest does some woman just spawn in front of me out of the ether? is some woman from anywhere on the globe ripped from her home and teleported over to me?? Do I pick who it is and they just somehow become my perfect match? Like, it didn't make sense to me. I decided I was going to do it because it was a simple task and I couldn't really do much else as a baby.

So I start going through the book and it's this nice little picture book of woodland animals all gathering for a picnic. As I found each animal I bookmarked it with a scrap piece of paper with a label on it. Eventually I flipped through the whole book and found each animal as requested. The mice were the hardest btw. There were 4 geese on one page and the rabbits came in pairs of 2 ever page they showed up on, but the mice were small and hidden in the background and there was only one at a time. Once I found and bookmarked every instance I flipped back to the goal page and brought the book over to data. I figured he'd be able to help me scan the book and scale up to bring to this place. He... Did not help. When data grabbed the book he grabbed it so loosly that all the bookmarks fell out. I tried yelling at him to be careful but I was still a baby so I couldn't talk. After all the bookmarks had fallen out I grabbed the book away from him and angrily pointed to the goal on the one page. He still didn't get it so I just took it away from him and tried to find all the animals again. I did, and the same thing happened when I showed the book to soot. In a fit of rage I tore out the pages with the animals, grabbed Soot, and began marching my way up to this porta potty that was apparently 75 feet above ground level.

It was still raining outside. At this point it was basically a Sewie and brian episode of family guy as this baby and a fluffy avali kobold marched through town looking for any elevated place this porta potty might be. I managed to find it on top of this hill that was almost a 90 degree incline. The rain made it all muddy and hard to climb but I got it eventually. At the top there was a porta potty, and when I held the pages out the stall door opened and the fucking kid who had a broken arm comes out of it. He scans it over and says I got everything. But there's a part 2 to this. Now that I got the pages I must bring him a few other things. What they all were exactly I don't remember. I only really remember 2 of them. One was a fried egg, and the other was the last thing I had to bring him. A picture of his favourite cartoon character. But that one I didn't know immedeatly. At first I only had to get him three items including the fried egg.

so I set off. After getting back to the biosphere I noticed that the interior layout had changed. Rather than being empty aside from the cabin room it was now a big two story college campus type place with the cabin room in the centre. But rather than classrooms there were different landscapes that seemingly expanded indefinitely. The first one I went into was a very old neighborhood. There were these strange almost 3d printed walls everywhere made out of clay. Some were hardened while others were soft wet clay. As I walked down the streets suddenly my mom showed up and began walking beside me. Not my IRL mom, Taz's mom. For reference Taz's mom died while she was a teenager so this was a surprise to say the least. I ran over to talk to her but she couldn't undertsand me. She did know who I was, though, and the whole scenatio for a bit played out like a mother taking their young child to the park. That is, until we ran into a weird street race type thing?

There were these five teenage boys at the end of the street near this big tree with massive roots. They were all spinning beyblades off the root of the tree and seeing how far each one got down the street before toppling over. My mom tried to usher me away from these "thuggish teenagers" but I wanted to see what they were up to. That's when the police showed up. Except the police had these weird vaccume things like luigi's mansion. When they got to the kids all of them scattered, but one got caught. He got sucked into the vacuum and then spewed out as clay to build a new wall. That freaked me out because the second the cops saw us they started coming after us, stating we couldn't be out past curfew (note: it was midday at the time). I ran but my mom did not, and I had to watch as she once again died. She got sucked up and also turned into clay. That made me scale one of the hardened walls and run across the tops. The cops were chasing me but because I was so high up they couldn't suck me up. I can only assume I got what I was sent there to get because I returned to the porta potty the kid accepted it

on the way to the porta potty things had changed. For one thing, it looked less like a porta potty and more like a chrome elevator with a blue glow. The area around it was also a lot more mountainus. On the way I noticed a ton of my little pony action figures scattreed about as if the mountains were a kids playground and I guess one of those was also a thing I needed to collect because I picked one up and the kid said all that was left was the fried egg.

Returning back to the biosphere I went into a massive kitchen area. Imagine the backrooms but the entire place is a professional kitchen. I just wandered around the area until I found a fridge. Data was also here and this is when I made a comment about hating being so small only to find out the baby effect had worn off and I was normal now. He could understand me and was surprised that I was the baby he'd seen wandering around. Whatever. Data told me I couldn't be caught in the kitchen because if I was I'd get in trouble. My rogue instincts kicked in and I began sneaking around the kitchen as I took out eggs from the fridge and began trying to cook them

It was at this point I realized I had no idea what a fried egg was. Don't get me wrong, I know my eggs. I fucking love eggs. It's one of the main things I eat on a daily basis. But in my experience the term is ambigious. Some people say a fried egg is just any egg not scrambled. Some say it's a sunny side up egg you flip over to cook on both sides. Some say sunny side up and fried egg are the same. I tried doing the one you cook sunny side up and flip but I'm god awful at flipping eggs and got so fucking upset that I eventually resorted to just cooking boxed eggs (pre cracked, in those milk container things) because fuck it, eggs are eggs. Dude just wanted plain eggs with salt and yolk. Who cares how it's prepared?!

Clearly the kid didn't, because I brought him what was essentially a poorly mixed plain omlette and he accepted it no problem. So I'm like cool, I get my prize now, right? Nope. I was still missing two items. One of which I can't remember but I think it was a drawing of some sort because I remember pulling out my tablet and drawing on it only to get mad some creature turned it off and corrupted my save. After that I did a doodle on some paper and that was accepted. But the last was a picture of this cartoon character. I don't remember its name but I do know that all I was given was the name and I had to figure out what it was on my own.

I'd also like to mention that at this point the difficulty of the situation ramped up significantly. All these strange elemental monsters began appearing around me running out of dark corners and messing with whatever I was doing. The entire building also became a massive non liminal labyrinth that was almost impossible to navigate. Like at one point I find a computer and try searching up this character. I found a cartoon about a shiny mew synth robot thing by the same name but when I took a picture of that to the guy it was wrong. Then I found this purple haired anime girl with leopard print clothes but that was also wrong. As I searched on the computers they kept acting all weird. Like the screen would block the website or I'd have to type in password verification. All these elementals kept following me around too which made things difficult because if they caught me I'd be captured and lose. Eventually one got me, but I managed to escape by the skin of my teeth. It dragged me into the clay area presumably to be taken to one of the police to suck me up and turn me into clay.

Deeper into the clay area than I'd ever been before and surrounded by elementals and police I just ran. I ran in a random direction trying to get away. The landscape warped and changed around me as I ran. Day became night and this nice rural neighborhood full of clay walls morphed into a labyrinth of suburban houses that all looked the exact same. It was dark, I was alone, I was confused, and everything was out to get me. I was so overwhelmed that I just screamed. Screamed into the void of suburbia as loud and as long as I could. Eventually my lungs started burning and I had to stop, but after catching my breath I did it one more time until I passed out. Keep in mind in the realm of this dream this had been going on for what felt like weeks and I was getting fed up being trapped in this confusing eldritch maze running a fools errand that could seemingly never be completed.

When I woke up it was early sunrise. It was still dark but I could see the orange glow of the sun peeking over the horizon. I was also, somehow, back in the rolling hills near the porta potty. Now knowing where I was I returned to the biosphere only to find everything had changed. Now it was just straight up a college campus. Students were walking to class and stopping by the interior food court (which had a starbucks in it for some reason). Kids were walking to class and I was starting to lose it. I didn't know where my friends were anymore. I hardly knew where I was anymore. Everything kept changing and this dumb kid in a porta potty had turned into some weird eldritch horror BBEG type dude. He was like GlaDos if GlaDos was a D&D villain and not a robot. Anyway, I was so fed up with this all that I began to attack the kids in campus trying to get answers to what this fucking cartoon character was. It seemed each knew like one fact about it, then directed me to someone else who knew more. So it turned into a manhunt as I ran around campus looking for information on this weird fucking character that probbaly didn't exist

Eventually, after attacking like 7 people and taking one vaguely hostage to ensure I wasn't being messed with, I got to the last link in the chain. This woman who looked like someone I knew in middleschool but older had a book bag with the characters picture on it. A picture of the character! Just like I was told to get!!! I ran up to her and tried to take it, but she was freaking out saying she needed these books for class. I halphazardly explained that I needed the picture for a quest when she said "just get one from the school store. I think they have a plushie as well". I demanded she take me to the school store because I'd be damned if I got lost in this place again. I also didn't want to lose her or her bag because if she disappeared I knew I'd never find this character again. Eventually we get to the school store and there's this giant squishmellow type plushie for sale. The character in question, for reference, was a purplish blue leopard that looked vaguely like mew from pokemon. I decided that a plush was WAY better than a picture and by this point the dude had accepted close enough approximations to what he wanted anyway so fuck it. I took the plushie and began making my way back

Once I had this plush I knew it was the final strech. The entire school went dark and all the elementals began tormenting me. Flashing lights, grabbing at the plush, trying to get me lost forever. I made my way through the dark school, back through endless subirbia, over the hills, through the kitchen, and on and on and on past every obstical until eventually I had reached the original biosphere. The rain had cleared up, though it was still gloomy. The room was empty aside from the single cabin room in the centre. My party was there waiting for me. And, of course, so was the kid with the broken arm. Soot was still tending to him. I walked in there and gave him the plush at which point he began crying. IDK what exactly he said but he started going off on this rant about how no one had ever cared about him enough in life to help him and how his dad sucked and made everything about himself and blah blah blah. Anyway, at the end he granted me this wand saying that woever I waved it at would become instantly compatable with me. But then his kind face twisted into an evil sneer. He then said "now, here's your true love" and released this absolute abomination of a creature. it was like a manta ray but humanoid and it looked like yveltal from pokemon almost. It began wreaking havok on the area going absolutly insane, but that wasn't all

apparently this creature was like??? Important to the kingdom or something? because the second it got out all the surrounding guards came running at me saying I'd "kidnapped her" and how they needed to get her back. I ran, the creature flew off into the sky and began wreaking havok on the city, and that's when the party and I ended up in the mage tower with Circe. Circe began talking about how the creature that'd been released was some massive trapped elemental that the kingdom had enslaved for eons. It was terrified and just wanted tobe free. For a moment I considered using my wand on Circe because I do really like her, but then I remembered that I was only with Circe while playing Cali and right now I was playing Taz. That's when it clicked. Taz in our D&D campaign has been writing to some extraplanar being the entire time. Someone she called "Smiley". Taz is a Sha'ir rogue multiclass and part of being a Sha'ir is that you're granted spells from something in the elemental planes. Like a warlock but with elementals. This had to be smiley, and I felt horrible. Smiley had granted me my familiar. She was the person I'd been writing to for years. She was terrified.

I figured if I used the wand on her I could get her to calm down enough around me for me to be able to help her. She'd made it to the centre of the biosphere which had been cleared out by the tornato she'd made. All that was left was the party
and some weird VRchat type portals leading to somewhere else. I climbed up to the second floor, hopped on her back from above, and used the wand on her. She was still in a total panic but I was able to coax her through one of the portals. After grabbing the rest of the party and getting them to go through first, of course. The dream ended with me and Smiley diving head first into this portal while all the local guards chased after us