Super Chinese Viking Hero Story 2

So I had this dream that quite accurately fit the title.

Very interestingly, this is a recurring dream, the beginning starts out in the parking garage of a large, metropolitan area, which had been abandoned for about a year or so. IT looks like the city had been bombed, the sky was purply grey, there was gunpowder in the air, and the crew for this session, was Me, Scott, Ted, Mike, Amanda, Nicole, and a few other people (about 20) that didn't make it out.

So, the game starts, we are all armed with grungy leather vests for armor, M-16's and some of those HK-5 machine guns, we all had bandoleers with some grenades and mini-shotguns (hand cannons), some of us had bandannas or doorags,
but, the camera panned around the group, and then immediately, these gross pig monsters (like you see from zelda, or battletoads, or probably any series with a pig monster) on motorcycles come roaring down the parking garage ramp; This was a gang war apparently, they have Uzi weapons, and we scatter and start taking them down. Being trapped in the bottom of this building was quite annoying, me, Ted and Mike went left flank, and I went point and instructed that we had to get out, they had RPG's they were setting up to kill us with. So were were in a very bad situation, Me and mike went all badass and got everyone to grenade shower
the fools as we spread outside of the building, but by this time they had a tank (we were 45 seconds too slow) and they mowed down everyone on the right flank... but, being a war, we managed to take out everything but that tank with good, well places shots on the move, leaving the garage there was a lot of safe rubble piles around, we were running low on ammo and the loss of our crew was pretty devastating... As we tried to MGS4 our way around the tank, the camera would pan out into a cinema scene, showing the small concrete maze me Mike and Ted were walking through. At the end there was this strange blue orb, swirling with some mist around it, a portal of some sorts! But, we heard the shot, and I jumped back, knocking Ted over, but I missed Mike... and the shell hit the wall next to us, killed him instantly with a block to the head, but we missed the collapsing wall, not too much damage. I had already rolled back, and helped Ted up, but, now I knew we were screwed, Mike was the best guy we had for this stuff, so, we just ran at this point. The Tank wasn't very accurate, it missed a few more shells, neither of us were critically wounded, just shrapnel bloody. Out of ammo, except for handcannons, we find the portal, and I stopped, but Ted seemed to know what the hell it was, and yanked me though.

At the OTHER side of the portal, we have ancient china, we had kept all the equipment, but our enemies were now only equipped with swords and full armor, where we had leather armor and plenty of light damage. we both looked around confused, at least till those pig monsters gave chase. We did have utility knives, but Ted wasn't keen on the combat, and I figured he was right in this case, so we ran down this road though some dense bamboo and trees, to a set of walls leading into a fortress. At this point, I was seeing some silver medallions, and I made sure to get them all as we went (Sonic for PS3? maybe.). The farther along this trail, the lower the ground level was, this seemed to be some sort of fortress for defending, it was very interesting in terms of how it was built. Though, arrows started to discourage us from screwing around too long, we ran up the other side of it (it was snake shaped), and turning right we ran into a NPC, this weird looking old dude with that annoying Chinese straw hat said something to us, Ted stopped to listen, I just went right past the guy. Of course, THEN he got mad, and turned into a dragon, naturally, and started to say something to Ted, but I didn't care, and continue walking down the corridor, noticing that this was actually a weapons and supply station, not a fortress, so this must be part of a larger city or something. While Ted and easter dragon talked, I investigated the stuff in this depot; There were no guards, so perhaps we came in at the right time to protect it... There was lots of food stored, and very little gunpowder. Also, after poking around the stuff, there were large deposits of money (little clay tablets worth a lot) here, hidden in the panels! This was getting weird, so I turned to Ted, who was done befriending said dragon, and poking through the stuff with me, when some guy comes screaming about vikings, and since it was a game, we both knew that meant we couldn't fight these things without an army, so we ran. Apparently, a 'Viking' in this game was like a huge anglo-saxon-mongolian nightmare, kinda built like a dwarf that is 7" even.
Scary, dirty mofo's, so we ran out of the depot, I grabbed what I thought we would need in a rucksack, but as we left, the guards that were SUPPOSED to be in the fort began to apprehend us, but they figured out that we were serious, so we all took up arms. Oddly, all these guards looked like the fodder guards from Dynasty Warriors. Sucks to be them! Now we had a decision to make, whether to stay and fight, or continue on. I decided to fight, but Ted wanted to move on, he was probably right, but that stupid little dragon he had on his back now wanted to fight too, and hopped off, grew to normal size, and began furiously pwning the viking freaks that came at us. I got a spear, tore off the flint head and began making bombs (pinch bombs) and blasting the forces that came through. At this point, we actually got overwhelmed, they killed the dragon, and speared everyone except the heros. The game over sign appeared, and we had to restart from the beginning portal we came in, this time I collected more medallions, and we just ran through and past everyone, the dragon stayed with the fight, naturally, and died. As we ran past, a cinema scene told of this story we would go on, Some sort of weird adventure that had no meaning aside from survival, for the moment. We got to see a world map view, someone was reciting prose about the history and shit, then it shows us walking into this village nestled into the side of a giant rocky cliff with a waterfall, the town ran off the power of the water (it's called waterwheels, no magic here) and we RPG'd our way though it. A 2 player RPG is pretty kickass, especially when NPC's are actually dynamic, and remember things, making the immersion much greater. I forget what were doing here, something like restocking like a Neverwinter Nights mission or something, but there was a lot of dialog about the coming invasion, and other problems and stuff we could forsee. We went back to the world map, and I guess I just skipped the gameplay parts from here, and we were on the world save screen, apparently, we could save items like Mario 3, and progress as 'dragon gates' or some stupid stuff, but saving a dragon gate option took 3 item slots (we had 20 available) instead of the normal 1 save slot for progress. Apparently, saves in the game were only saves of relevant equipment profiles, and the advanced dragon save would striate multiple files, so that you could MERGE save data as additional resources. this was weird, and we experimented playing around with our save data so that when we loaded the next time, we would have all the additional equipment we collected from the other two saves it encompassed. Neat little detail, I thought.
At some point, the dream drastically changed to the end of the game, it was just me, Dr. Grant, and this hot chick from 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs', apparently, something about jurassic park was happening, and me and Grant had to shut down the power grid to reset fence relays... so we did, in a generic, white metal/concrete JP facility style setup, but with an emphasis on water creatures. So we turn off the power, raptors attack but I had my HK5, so, well, that was short lived. Grant got all pissy though XD Then, after some screwing around with a giant mechanical brontosaurus, we got in a plane and left.

As a note, this dream was in better than HD 1080p detail, which was weird, it was a whole lot more realistic than other game-style dreams. Another weird thing, was violence in the dream was muted; Like, all my friends getting shot to death by a tank machine gun was just dust particles and them falling over, no blood or gutsy stuff. Usually, that kind of violence is accurately detailed, but I guess the presence of fantastical pig monsters muted that. Also, normally when I have some stupid dragon in my dreams, I usually interact with it, but, I guess since I brought along a more experienced dragon-expert, I let him handle that shit. Saves time! I really wonder what the game content was like, it seemed to be some sort of game like that one with Yoshitsune and Benke, or something, what was that game... either way, it played out like that a lot, but we really didn't see much combat aside from the beginning MGS4 style fighting.

I close on my house Wednesday, woo!

Also, Blender 2.47 is out, but the GE crashes if you connect a add actuator, scene actuator, or game actuator to a controller. I haven;t figured this out and anticipate a bugfix for that in the near future. (Only the GE is broke, and HOLY HELL they added a lot of shit. It's worse than ever now! I might just stop with GUtil if they keep making it like that. Whoever is on that design team, MAN I do not respect them at all now. IDIOTS!)