Chris Azure ([info]garunya) wrote,
@ 2006-11-06 18:29:00
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The VP House - a dream
I was just sleeping for a few hours. Sleeping during the day/early evening seems to be great for my dreams... they're at their most vivid during those hours.

We were all in a room... a small crowded room. Everyone from VP was there. I was wandering around, in and out, doing something with my cellphone, though at the time I did not seem to know what.

Construction was going on throughout the house (and the VP House had the same sort of balcony setup as did the Island Inn, but the rest of the building seemed quite different). Evidently, workers were adjusting the size of the rooms, because some rooms were leaking into others and taking up too much space. But whenever they came to fix it, the size difference was completely inconsequential. Less than an inch per room, in fact.

After working on one room, however, an interesting acrobatic climbing frame structure rose from the balcony boards and circled the VP House (except it managed to be both inside and out). It had swings, monkey bars, various climbing things, and plastic tunnels. I don't remember who said it, but someone proposed the theory that it was there for when we all finally learned to be real chipmunks.

While this was going on, I was going through the complex, taking photos of my VP mates. But there was a strange man in a ninja outfit too. I never tried taking his picture, but when I took a photo of anyone else, he'd make a leap and do a flying kick, timing it so that he was right in the centre of the picture when the photo took.

I was still doing that thing with the cellphone too, however. I was investigating something. I had discovered that typing the same digit into a cell phone nine times would allow me to discover the true form of anyone at VP. The fact that there were only ten digits did not seem to be an obstacle here. Some of the numbers could apparently be used in different ways (even whlie being the same numbers). The zero key ten times got the operator. Shame I never thought to ask her for any answers.

I did receive some answers (and I don't believe any of them were chipmunks). Unfortunately I've forgotten them all. Clearly it was not Information I Can Return With (or should that be News I Can Use?).

Though I did discover one person's true form. Scott Hawkins was the White Hart. I know this because rather than using the cellphone to make my discovery this time, I just asked. Mac (who was always with him as they continually circled the VP House together) gave me this information freely. It was very much a case of "the sort of thing that seems to happen in TV dreams, but never in real ones" happening in a real one. The significance of the name seems quite clear.

Then I woke up and discovered I had nothing to write any of this down in, so I rushed over to the computer and just typed madly. Some of that information (including most of our True Forms) will sadly be lost forever. But I suppose next time we find ourselves in a dream, we can wander over to the White Hart (I'm sure it has a big "50" on the door), grab one of those perfect drinks they just don't serve in the real world, and learn some more.




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[info]voidmonster
2006-11-07 01:28 am UTC (link)
The White Hart is an Arthurian thing (I think also related to Hern and the Wild Hunt). Very Dionysian. Let us hope Scott steers clear of Maenads.

I'll freely tell you that my true form is an aizkolari that stands in a forest of stones.

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 05:46 am UTC (link)
I'll freely tell you that my true form is an aizkolari that stands in a forest of stones.

That was certainly one of the more difficult google searches I've felt the need to do ;)

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[info]voidmonster
2006-11-07 05:54 am UTC (link)
Hah. Yeah, most of the links are going to be in Euskara, aren't they?

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 07:33 am UTC (link)
Indeed. There were some in Spanish too, but my Spanish is almost as bad as my Euskara ;)

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[info]voidmonster
2006-11-07 07:51 am UTC (link)
Lest you get the impression I'm some kind of bilingual Basque-type person, I know almost no Euskara. It's just one of those million little things I took an interest in 'cause it's strange a while back. The sport of Aizkolari features in the film Vacas.

It's an incredibly strange thing to watch. Very tense. The way it works is the woodcutter stands on a log and hacks at the piece between his feet with an axe. The first one to cut through the log wins. But this means there's frantic chopping near feet and it's kind of nerve-wracking to watch.

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 08:12 am UTC (link)
I guessed you probably weren't a Euskara speaker ;)

Thanks for the film tip! I've added it to my NetFlix queue.

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[info]vortexae
2006-11-07 07:09 am UTC (link)
Aack! The ninja returns! *shudder* Was the ninja throwing-not-telling?

Thanks for sharing this. I've had at least one VPX dream since coming home, but it goes in the "hide from guests" portion of my database, I'm afraid.

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 07:34 am UTC (link)
Well, the ninja was throwing himself in front of my camera, and he was not telling me why, so... yes :)

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[info]drumiller
2006-11-07 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Goodness, at least you aren't having VP nightmares. Now when I get my insomnia bouts and drift in and our of REM sleep, I've been getting these horrific nightmares of my beast(s) chatting at me full-bore, TNH and PNH slamming me for not making my transcription of what the beast is relaying as unique and well-crafted as it could be, and then there are the random bits where the jellyfish attack. I like your brain space better.

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 06:00 pm UTC (link)
Your one sounds scary. But at least it's well-intentioned :)

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[info]athenais
2006-11-07 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Man, I've been dreaming almost nightly about VP X people ever since I got back. It's like you all got into my braaaaaain. Nothing so coherent as your dream, though at the time it's full of meaning and portent.

I think I'm still processing so much I can't really move on in my writing. Though I have a new short story to post tonight. But I can't get to grips with the novel outline.

There, writing talk, just for you. ;)

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 07:06 pm UTC (link)
I knew you had it in you :)

I'd be making good progress on my VP submissions now, if it wasn't for this whole NaNo business. December will just have to be VP submission month (well, VP submission two weeks - fiction writing and travel don't really go together for me)

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[info]krylyr
2006-11-07 08:22 pm UTC (link)
I'm betting the ninja was James Patrick Kelly. I don't know why, I just have that feeling.

And a VP house would be so cool.

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[info]garunya
2006-11-07 08:46 pm UTC (link)
James Patrick Kelly? You know, I can really see that. It makes sense somehow :)

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