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7.30-9.15am Medium LD #399 I am at a LAN party. Someone pulls my screen around and starts asking why I am searching for darkus something. The page looks like an guild site for an online game. Everyone in the guild has dog avatars. Under the browser window is what looks like World of Warcraft (have not played in 5 years). Hitting the space bar brings up a search box, but I hide it and start moving through the world using the keyboard to control it. At some point the dream drags me into the game so I am playing in first person rather than controlling a character. The game is taking place in a Hogwarts style castle filled with students. AB is with me. Although the whole place still has a sort of Warcraft vibe, the students are human. Maybe this is Stormwind. We head up a circular set of steps in a tower, heading to the top. There are students on the stairs having a lesson. The steps end in a blank wall. Wait, no, there is a narrow staircase leading up to a hatch in the roof. At the top is a partially obscured sign that says slip, or is it sleep? This makes me lucid. We run up the staircase and emerge onto the top of the tower. The dream still is formed of very basic almost cartoon style graphics. This is a dream, I tell AB, and start floating around trying to encourage AB to join me in flight. AB then makes a joke about rocket fuel and farts. This makes me laugh. "You are so immature..." And then I think, wait, this is my dream, which means it is me being immature. Ah nuts. I make AB float and try to encourage her to fly higher but she does not want to. The tower is perched on the edge of a canyon made from red stone. Possibly some mix of the Grand Canyon mixed with Thousand Needles, from Warcraft, which is still the basis for this dreamscape. Standing at the edge looking down over a 200+ ft drop gives me a twinge of vertigo, and that inexplicable desire to jump... Only one thing for it... I throw myself off the edge and start to plummet, feeling the wind rushing past me. Before hitting the ground I throw my arms out as wings. The air catches the feathered wings and allows me to glide on the thermals. :wings: At the bottom of the canyon are a few cartoon sheep. I point at one and transform it into a goat. It turns black and kind of demonic-goat looking with horns and hoofs. Before being able to transform it into a Chimera for the TOTY, it let us out a demonic roar and runs off. Hmm so much for that plan. I start to walk through the canyon and see a large crowd of people walking in another direction. Thinking that maybe I could combine my goal of turning a DC into an animal to kick start another TOTY attempt, I pick a red haired woman out of the group and lead her to one side. "Okay, weird request. I need to turn you into a Chimera, which will be awesome fun, but first I have to turn you into a goat..." The woman gives me a look like, you are insane, but whatever... Before I can do anything else though, the scene fades and despite clinging on for a false awakening, I wake up.