» Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:13 pm
I remember I had a dream about Skyrim a month or two ago. Basically, my subconscious spends all it's money on the special effects budget of my dreams. So It's pretty much impossible to describe exactly how amazing this dream was, because everything was in perfect detail and it lasted a while. I've tried to capture the feel of the dream, rather than exact details.
Basically, it went like this
At the beginning of the game, I'm walking through a city, something like Cheydinhaal and HUGE, with lots of twisty alleys, wide boulevards and so on. Suddenly, I heard a shout of "THERE HE IS!" and find myself being chased by a man-pig guard. So I ran, and ran, and ran, through the labyrinthine city, heading towards the shadier side of town, until eventually I turned down an alley, jumped down a flight of stairs and climbed up and over a brick wall. Then I went into sneak, cast an invisibility spell and hid in a bush until the nasty man-pig guard had ran past.
Of course, it being a dream, he didn't, instead he and a bunch of mates arrested me, and I then watched as I was sent to jail in a prison carriage. I was put into the tallest cell of the tallest tower of the absolutely massive , and spent a brief 10 minutes learning how walk and pick locks, a process I thought was ridiculous. Then I escaped out of my cell and started exploring the castle, fighting and looting my way down floor after floor, through tower after tower, through man-pig after man-pig until I escaped in the prison carriage.
It then cut to a few weeks later of in game time. I had risen to a high position within the Blades and was leading a squad from the local guards and operating alongside them as a kind of day job. It was in another city to the original, middle eastern looking in appearance. One day I learned of a master thief, nicknamed the Cat Burglar, who was operating in my city, and doing a brilliant job .
I then shifted my point of view to follow that of the Cat Burglar, as she stole the Magic Orb of Valkadwyyn from the necromancer of that name and escaped over the roof tops, jumped onto a waiting horse and fled west until she reached a great expanse of desert like tundra, where she entered a large door into a ruin called Kllackhgnth and evaded a couple of simple traps in the initial corridors leading up to a large room filled with thousands upon thousands of school desks. She climbed up one wall until she could edge along a ledge high above the floor to the huge, sealed doors at the end and disappeared through a hole in the ruined structure of the ruins.
Naturally, I understood that the massive dungeon I'd already seen was just a small part of a much, much larger complex, and so I set off with my squad to rescue her from the fearsome traps which I imagined must be waiting for her, as well as a pursuing band of man-pigs sent by Valkadwyyn.
When I arrived in the Haunted Tombs, I found enough blood to drown a city in the school-desk room and the cast off weapons of man-pigs. Uncertain as to what had happened there, we explored a couple of ante-rooms to look for a survivor or two. Instead, we found both a shower room and also many other rooms small enough to be full when when they contained 30 school desks, which had blood stains everywhere, and another room which was completely empty. We made camp for the night in that room.
As the smoke from our fire drifted throughout the ruin, I noticed a childlike ghostly figure sitting at one of the desks in the main room, and engaged him in conversation.
He showed me what had happened there. Moments before the Cat Burglar had left the room, dozens of man-pigs had entered the room searching for her. Catching a glimpse of her disappearing feet, they chased her down. Then a mysterious mist had emerged from the walls which had played tricks on their eyes until they were sure that the desks were moving around the room, separating them, preventing them from reaching the far side. In frustration, one of them bowled a desk out of the way.
To cut a long story short, the rest of the desks slaughtered them. They turned out to be vampire desks. The ghost child revealed that a magical fire storm had incinerated the great city of Kllackhgnth many thousands of years before. The citizens were given the ability to fulfill their deepest wish at the time of their death, and so the city had been rebuilt greater and better than ever. On accomplishing their wish, the citizens found their ghostly existence to be eternal, and so haunt the many layers of the city, which is gradually decaying. The vampire desks had been made of wood from a sentient tree and had got their dearest wish (to have the children slaved to them for eternity after suffering through generations of children scratching their tops and so on)
At that point, I was given the choice to continue my quest to save the Cat Burglar and progress further into more terrible layers of the city, or to turn back.
Then the dream collapsed.