Psionyx on 17/4/2006 at 14:21
I do believe I've had my first cradle-inspired nightmare, more than two years after the fact. :erm:
I know you all want the good stuff so I'll skip to it. I don't recall exactly how the dream built up to this point, but for whatever reason I was inside what I would describe as a large sewer pipe. It was dry, and it was very dark - I could only see a few feet down either end. I kept hearing something shifting at one end of the pipe, and so I walked towards the opposite direction, hoping to find a ladder or something, because hell, at this point I was damn scared.
So, after a few moments, I come upon the typical half-grating that marks the end of a pipe like that, and I couldn't fit between the bars. All of a sudden, the lights come on inside the pipe, and I turn around, seeing what exactly had been making all that noise.
Naturally, it was one of the cradle's puppets, sniffling, wheezing and twitching, its movements now thoroughly visible. Allow me to mention one very simple and important alteration made to the puppet's body. While everything was pretty much the same in the body part, down to the wire cages over the head and hands, the face itself was very much different. Instead of a featureless bag, it (And I know this sounds silly but for some reason it made the dream all the freakier) was the face of Gollum from the Lord of the Rings. But it wasn't the cringing face of the childlike Smeagol, it was Gollum at his most savage and merciless, that sneer and scowl of hatred and rage.
The puppet turned towards me, twitching, and saw me. It let out a blood-curdling shriek and charged towards me on all fours in a skittering, spiderlike crawl, and leapt, thrashing with its caged hands while I tried ineffectually to fight it off.
And then I awoke to darkness. My bedside lamp is currently broken, so I was forced to get up and walk to the center of the pitch-black room to pull the light cord on my ceiling fan before I was returned to the light.
Just thought I'd share my fun little experience with you. :sly:
Cardel on 17/4/2006 at 16:44
I think over the time I've had three Cradle inspired nightmares, the most memorable of which was when some people from the local council had decided to send some people over to evaluate the Cradle's worth, seeing as the residents were being evicted... Yeah, that was kinda weird. It got more Cradle-like as it went through, though. Including the part where me and a couple of friends had gone in trying to dissuade the stupid evaluators. As far as I could see, the evaluators had conveniently dissapeared, and nobody seemed to notice, myself included. Anyways, as my team was walking through, we had the "incredible" idea to go out and hunt down the puppets. :eek:
So, we were going along, and like Alien or Predator, one by one everyone I think got killed, each time by a puppet rising out of the ground where it would normally be, killing my friends (one of them was really gory, the metal hand-cage's spikes went straight through them and out the other side) and then at the end, when it was just me left, I found the way out. For some weird reason, the door I was going to get out of suddenly burst open, and some Jedi popped through, lightsabre swinging, shouting "GET THE CLONES!!", at which point he killed me. Then, in the way Theif goes when you die, the camera circled my corpse for a bit, whilst the evaluators walked out of the door with the jedi, with some text on the screen. It said "game over." Yeah, I've been on this computer faaar too much...
jenny83 on 18/4/2006 at 17:33
I only see good dreams about thief series.
lots of loot to pick up just for me and no guards nowhere near...Ahh.. And lots of secret passageways behind guards backs!! and my feet doesn´t make any noise at all eaven when I´running.
And my dream-garrett can fly! :angel: I think that would be quite practical for "real" garrett too. it´s easy to reach all loot, no matter how high it is.:ebil:
Fian on 19/4/2006 at 15:55
When you mentioned that the lights were turned on in the pipe, I initially thought, "Oh No! You can't hide from the puppet!" (:
Kalibos on 22/4/2006 at 23:31
Quote Posted by Cardel
For some weird reason, the door I was going to get out of suddenly burst open, and some Jedi popped through, lightsabre swinging, shouting "GET THE CLONES!!", at which point he killed me. Then, in the way Theif goes when you die, the camera circled my corpse for a bit, whilst the evaluators walked out of the door with the jedi, with some text on the screen. It said "game over." Yeah, I've been on this computer faaar too much...
LOL. Roffle. My. Copter.
