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ClassicDrogn
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02-25-03, 12:50 PM (EST)
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"Return of the Strange Eyrie Dream"
 
   First, I should note that whatever the psychologists say, it IS possible to read in dreams, I dream legible text all the time. Last night, that took the form of reading a ficfic (complete with, "this is fanfic of a fanfic, not official in any way, and if you have a problem with it bug me, not the EPU crew, who know nothing about it" disclaimer) set at the beginning of the Exile. I actually managed to get all the way through it before waking up, and still remember most of it afterwards - something that *is* unusual for me.

It was mostly told in the first person, except for short cutscenes showing things the main character didn't know about, and started with him seeing the news report on Sonset - first just a text item that the WDF flagship had gone down on Masashi together with a large ship that had attacked it, then the more complete reports. Along the way, we learn that he lives on a world that's only been settled a hundred years or so, and that's been saved from conquest by a neighbor by the WDF less than five years before, in the process of which he was personally rescued by the Eight-Balls. Since then, he's been Wedge-crazy, taking up a heavy physical conditioning regimen as well as studying whatever he can get his hands on about thier equipment, shipboard operations, and mecha and starfighter piloting in general, with the intent of joining up ASAP... and the minimum age is a few days away.

Like many other people, the school camera footage makes him physically ill, and he is completely taken in by it. He destropys everything he owns with a WDF symbol on it, burns the black market genuine WDF Valk training manual he paid an astronomical sum for, and joins the local defense force instead.

When thier neighbor world shows up again and takes over a couple years later, he manages to escape after being captured and mkaes off in a hyper capable starfighter, becoming a bounty hunter. He also blames Gryphon for breaking up the WDF, and therefore for their not being there to savehis hmeworld again, and joins the multitude of others who chase him, but the closest he ever gets is a potshot at Eightball One with his sidearm as Gryphon leaves, and taking the time for that almost gets him killed since the red starfighter chasing the Valk hit the spaceport fuel depot when it missed the mecha.

On the other hand, he manages to be a small time space hero himself a couple of other times, in the course of trying to make a living catching the bad guys, and strikes it rich when he grabs one of the asassians-calling-themselves-bounty-hunters who's wanted - dead only - on seven different worlds, and actually manages to collect from four of them. With that, he can afford to only take the real white-hat cases, and regen treatments so that he's not visibly very different for the epilogue, when Gryphon is exonerated and the WDF returns. It turns out that the story to this point has been him writing a long email to Gryphon, to apologise for the years of wishing him dead and doing his best to find him and make it so, but that some good still came of it. He finshjes it and sends, and the last paragraph of the ficfic is also the only time any canon UF characters appoear - Visioon pops up on Gryphon's terminal to tell him that he's got another four gigs of fanmail, with maybe a hundred that are particularly interesting, and one of them is a real doozy. Gryphon quirks an eyebrow and says that if it's that notable, he might as well start with it, and then there's an ASCII art recursion arrow instead of "The End"

At this point, I checked my watch (in the dream) saw that I was late to leave for class, and hurriedly shut down the computer, the dream ending as the screen winked out.

- CD

Wielder of the Bloody Brick

"Dammit, CD, it's *NEVER* time
for the Bloody Brick!"


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Tengokujin
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1. "RE: Return of the Strange Eyrie Dream"
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   >At this point, I checked my watch (in the dream) saw that I was late
>to leave for class, and hurriedly shut down the computer, the dream
>ending as the screen winked out.

Talk about convenient dreams.

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In the event of an emergency, please drop your pants and run around like a chicken with its head cut off.


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ClassicDrogn
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2. "RE: Return of the Strange Eyrie Dream"
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   >>At this point, I checked my watch (in the dream) saw that I was late
>>to leave for class, and hurriedly shut down the computer, the dream
>>ending as the screen winked out.
>
>Talk about convenient dreams.

It would have been, if I was dozing in the afternoon, but as it was, I had a good eight hours to go, since the class in question is a night course. Turning off the computer because it's time to wake up is actually a common theme for me, even to the point of thinking that i shoul hit cmd-s before I do it so I'll remember the dream :D

>In the event of an emergency, please drop your pants and run around
>like a chicken with its head cut off.

To this, I have two comments. A) When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. B) Ladies an gentlemen, take my advice! Pull down your pants and slide on the ice!

- CD

Wielder of the Bloody Brick

"Dammit, CD, it's *NEVER* time
for the Bloody Brick!"


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