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Dream Diary, November 15th 2018.
7 years ago
This is what I think...
Ho boy did I have a dream, I hope to god I can recall it enough to write down that it isn't super vague.
To start with it was sci-fi, like "we built a fusion reactor so efficient it only had to be at 50% to supply enough power for effectively the planet" level of science fiction.
Aside from that part of exposition the day to day life cycle was pretty normal with sci-fi spices sprinkled here and there throughout.
That is until some kind of space terror(ist) being showed up that could both infect and corrupt most technology or the like, but also control people all hive mind like.
(Though maybe it was just futuristic enough where most people had cybernetics like in Ghost In The Shell so it was able to control them that way, my brain didn't make it clear?)
It was a gross level of infection with weird colouration, bulges, and veiny stuff both on the tech it would infect and the people it was controlling.
I was running through the city just trying to survive, I realized at some point it could infect tech so I was avoiding it much as possible.
For some reason I was armed with a weird breach loading pistol that was like a cross between a black powder gun and a rail gun for how it shot and sounded.
(Something like the Caster gun from the anime Outlaw Star if you have or haven't seen that, it's easy enough to find an image on Google.)
I was trying to get to a man made island connected to the city by bridge, I made it just in time as part of the bridge was either destroyed or lowered into the water.
The reason being that someone had figured out that creature and it's infection couldn't stand contact with salt water, so we were mostly safe there.
What was left of the police had also gathered there and were on a "shoot on sight" mind set if any air or water craft tried to reach the island to hold quarantine.
The island itself was home to the reactor or at least one if it's global monitoring/control stations, the space entity wanted to use it to make the fusion reactor go out of control
and destroy the planet like a miniature sun, that or it would dry up all the water and the thing could spread as it pleased making use of the planet and the other resources?
The point is we would all die if it did that, we were all but safe until it turned out someones private communicator or device had been infected without the obvious signs.
Suddenly the ground shook as a giant worm like thing made of tech and that weird infection came up, it had either used underwater cables or simply tunneled.
(I think it probably used the device more as a way to quickly infect other things and people rather than a way onto the island or signal since it could clearly do that already?)
It kind of looked like a cross between a classical giant worm from fantasy (long worm like thing with big sharp mouth) and the tongue of a Graboid from the Tremors franchise, except metal and stuff.
I was running to the top of the tower to try and either cut the controls or just keep it from making the reactor go out of control. (Of course it was at the TOP of the tower, stupid cliches...)
Closer to the end of it all I was given some kind of weird ammo for my pistol that looked sort of like liquid jell cap medicine but glowing, I was told they were experimental and very dangerous
so naturally I found an opening in the tower and shot at the giant worm only to see the shot gouge out a huge part of the worm revealing a bright core of some kind.
I lined things up and shot again only this time at the now visible red core, it struck if only just barely and it shattered, the worm fell apart and people started coming to their senses.
(1 Of course it had a core, even if that seems stupid for a hive mind thing to show up in person. 2 Not everyone was okay, only those who recently turned it seemed, others even jumped to their deaths...)
The reactor had been effected and was going out of control as the creature planned (maybe it's dying wish/effort had broken the security in place?) and we were running out of time.
As I continued to the control room I woke up, because my neighbor wanted to test their snowblower early this year... For once it felt like I was going to have a conclusion in my dream
but no, here I am only able to guess what would have happened...
That turned out detailed enough I think, not "super vague" as my half asleep self worried it would be when I started writing this down at least.
In hindsight, it was kind of like a mashup of a bunch of different sci-fi anime and movie plots I've seen over the years.
I can see clear influences from Tremors for the worm at the end, and the tech infection thing is right out of "Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040" SPOILERS for a 20 year old anime.
There was some obvious Ghost In The Shell level stuff too, probably others as well like the reactor island though that's been done to death anyway so hard to pin it down.
Maybe like an Arc Reactor kind of deal from Iron Man, or at least the anime adaptation which I think did have a tower reactor island?
And of course the Caster gun from Outlaw Star, easily the oldest of the influences by my perspective in terms of when I first saw them.
To start with it was sci-fi, like "we built a fusion reactor so efficient it only had to be at 50% to supply enough power for effectively the planet" level of science fiction.
Aside from that part of exposition the day to day life cycle was pretty normal with sci-fi spices sprinkled here and there throughout.
That is until some kind of space terror(ist) being showed up that could both infect and corrupt most technology or the like, but also control people all hive mind like.
(Though maybe it was just futuristic enough where most people had cybernetics like in Ghost In The Shell so it was able to control them that way, my brain didn't make it clear?)
It was a gross level of infection with weird colouration, bulges, and veiny stuff both on the tech it would infect and the people it was controlling.
I was running through the city just trying to survive, I realized at some point it could infect tech so I was avoiding it much as possible.
For some reason I was armed with a weird breach loading pistol that was like a cross between a black powder gun and a rail gun for how it shot and sounded.
(Something like the Caster gun from the anime Outlaw Star if you have or haven't seen that, it's easy enough to find an image on Google.)
I was trying to get to a man made island connected to the city by bridge, I made it just in time as part of the bridge was either destroyed or lowered into the water.
The reason being that someone had figured out that creature and it's infection couldn't stand contact with salt water, so we were mostly safe there.
What was left of the police had also gathered there and were on a "shoot on sight" mind set if any air or water craft tried to reach the island to hold quarantine.
The island itself was home to the reactor or at least one if it's global monitoring/control stations, the space entity wanted to use it to make the fusion reactor go out of control
and destroy the planet like a miniature sun, that or it would dry up all the water and the thing could spread as it pleased making use of the planet and the other resources?
The point is we would all die if it did that, we were all but safe until it turned out someones private communicator or device had been infected without the obvious signs.
Suddenly the ground shook as a giant worm like thing made of tech and that weird infection came up, it had either used underwater cables or simply tunneled.
(I think it probably used the device more as a way to quickly infect other things and people rather than a way onto the island or signal since it could clearly do that already?)
It kind of looked like a cross between a classical giant worm from fantasy (long worm like thing with big sharp mouth) and the tongue of a Graboid from the Tremors franchise, except metal and stuff.
I was running to the top of the tower to try and either cut the controls or just keep it from making the reactor go out of control. (Of course it was at the TOP of the tower, stupid cliches...)
Closer to the end of it all I was given some kind of weird ammo for my pistol that looked sort of like liquid jell cap medicine but glowing, I was told they were experimental and very dangerous
so naturally I found an opening in the tower and shot at the giant worm only to see the shot gouge out a huge part of the worm revealing a bright core of some kind.
I lined things up and shot again only this time at the now visible red core, it struck if only just barely and it shattered, the worm fell apart and people started coming to their senses.
(1 Of course it had a core, even if that seems stupid for a hive mind thing to show up in person. 2 Not everyone was okay, only those who recently turned it seemed, others even jumped to their deaths...)
The reactor had been effected and was going out of control as the creature planned (maybe it's dying wish/effort had broken the security in place?) and we were running out of time.
As I continued to the control room I woke up, because my neighbor wanted to test their snowblower early this year... For once it felt like I was going to have a conclusion in my dream
but no, here I am only able to guess what would have happened...
That turned out detailed enough I think, not "super vague" as my half asleep self worried it would be when I started writing this down at least.
In hindsight, it was kind of like a mashup of a bunch of different sci-fi anime and movie plots I've seen over the years.
I can see clear influences from Tremors for the worm at the end, and the tech infection thing is right out of "Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040" SPOILERS for a 20 year old anime.
There was some obvious Ghost In The Shell level stuff too, probably others as well like the reactor island though that's been done to death anyway so hard to pin it down.
Maybe like an Arc Reactor kind of deal from Iron Man, or at least the anime adaptation which I think did have a tower reactor island?
And of course the Caster gun from Outlaw Star, easily the oldest of the influences by my perspective in terms of when I first saw them.
