No it's not, stop trynna confuse me!

I've been kinda sick these past few days, and missed some work. I am just remembering a dream I had during bouts of medicine and getting better.

In the dream my brother had a laptop he wasn't using, so I started messing around with it. I was like YES I have to figure this out, I want to finally get some mods into my game! .. it was not to be, though. I kept getting interrupted by people and situations in the dream, every time I'd sit down with the lap top something else would distract me.

Wish I could remember the rest of whatever happened. Is it even possible to buy a lap top that'll run mods on Oblivion and/or Skyrim? Dumb question, I guess, but I'm in the habit of thinking that only a full desktop computer will do so.

You can get a laptop that will run either game with mods. It will just cost you a lot more than buying the equivalent in a desktop.

Oh dangit. Oh well. I should find out what sort of laptop he has IRL (I know he has one) and then I'll ask you if it's suitable for gaming with. I can see just getting a laptop and hooking it up to my TV screen for a bigger picture. I'd have to figure out how to get an Xbox controller to work with a PC too, which I know is possible.

Or one of these days I'll go whole hog and just get a damn gaming PC. Agh...

You´ve been saying that for quite awhile now

I am finally going to get Fallout 3, since I recently learned it's set in Washington D.C., and I also need something new for awhile as summer starts to wind down. I had a series of dreams last night now that I've made this decision, each and every one of them about Fallout. Most of these dreams were pretty mundane, with me kinda exploring a peacful area. There was one in which I was with a young female (kinda like the girl in the original Resident Evil video game) and she was running up to some sort of fortress. She was trying to get inside, but had to keep hiding from some sort of enemy. I don't remember the rest, but I keep having dreams of Fallout, so this is interesting.

I also had a dream a couple months ago; one of those dreams I'll probably never forget. I was on The Mall in Washington D.C., where the museums are and the Capitol, etc. It was night-time and in the future. The entire world was under some sort of attack. The sky was dark becuase it was night, but it was also filled with smoke. A large group of us were trying to find some place to gather so we could have shelter, but everything was chaotic, and we weren't having much success.

At one point, a large explosion happened BOOM! and the Washington Monument fell all across the Mall. It fell less than a quarter mile from us, and it was LOUD. This is when I woke up. Now that I think of it, this seems like it could have been a future foretelling of my involvement with FO3.

Sounds to me like those dreams would push you further away from the Fallout series, rather than drag you in!

Yeah, you know? The one with the Monument falling was particularly scary.

Those are cool dreams! You can probably get FO3 pretty cheap now too.



Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in!

Same as with the ES games

Hey, Renee. If you ever want some help or anything regarding FO3, just PM me

Thanks, mirocu. Between you and Lopov, I think I'll have plenty of help. I've already learned that we haven't as much choice for making characters as we do in TES. From what I've heard, we can choose 4 races, but the character will always be young, for instance. I wanted my first char. to be middle-aged. This doesn't bother me, though. I need an excuse not to RP as heavily as I usually do. I won't be playing this game DiD either. No way!

Yes, I got FO3 yesterday, and it was only $17.95. It's kind of a spiritual moment for me that I'm going to try this game, because as a child I had a lot of fears of the entire world coming to an end, all due to some idiots pressing a few buttons somewhere. I'm actually gonna be facing a few fears while playing a videogame.

I do, not all the time but I do nevertheless.
Often if I am writing something I will end up going over it in my dreams - dramatising it and upon waking I will end up with a need to write it down or edit what I have previously put down.

Obviously of course, there's an entire world there, not to mention you know who, as well and everything ticks away whilst I am not thinking of anything in this world, and so inevitably it all ends up being visualised when I sleep...

W00T! Congrats. FO3 is a fun game, with a definite tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. The song in the opening credits is a great example of that: "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire."

I've been seeing lots more guns since I've started Fallout 3. As usual, most of these dreams have been vague, but the one I had this morning was memorable.

I owned three vehicles in this dream (this was something I just kinda 'knew') and was driving one of them--a Subaru Forester. I drove around to a couple locations, including a house I was living in. One of my other vehicles was some sort of truck, larger than the Subaru, but this truck did not make an appearance in the dream.

At some point, I wound up in some sort of mall. A shoping mall, not the Mall in D.C. most Fallout gamers are familiar with. But still, there's probably some significance here. The mall and the Mall. I wandered around this shopping mall. I believe I was looking for something. This is one of those dreams in which I was suddenly not wearing enough clothes for public viewing, and so at some point I began scrambling from here to there in my underwear.

Towards the end of the dream, I exited the mall, and it was nighttime outside. There were lights here and there, but I had walked into a mostly-deserted parking lot. A black man who kinda reminds me of Lucas Simms came up and greeted me, but I was wary of him, and for good reason. After his greeting, he brought out a gun, and began loading it, slowly and methodically.

That's when I ran! I was sure he was going to shoot me, so I ran. I don't remember if he called out to me or not, whether or not he was actually trying to shoot me. No bullets flew. I was looking for my Subaru, could not find it, so I was trying to find some sort of shelter I could hide behind, at least.

...and this is also one of those dreams in which I was running towards something (shelter) but my feet did not seem to be moving fast enough. Didn't matter, within moments I was awake.

Interesting dream, Renee! It´s definitely something I can relate to Though I sadly never have dreams based upon games I like
Too bad Lucas turned out to be a bad guy in your dream. I always liked him in the game

Until now!

I forgot to mention but the first night after playing Point Lookout, I had a dream about it!! I was amongst the ruined houses right north of the amusement park and shootin´ stuff!! Nothing more than that happened but I was so glad to finally have a dream based upon a game I like!

I´ve also had Doom-dreams before but I never liked those

Point Lookout was a cool place, lots of secrets in hidden places there!

That's awesome, mirocu. You finally had a game-dream!

I had three bizarre instances last night while dreaming.

(1) I didn't get much sleep this weekend, and usually if this happens, I have trouble actually falling asleep when the time comes. Well, I've got a really good idea for my next Skyrim character. He's going to be an Altmer Thalmor agent doing Skyrim's Civil War, aiding the Imperials. I'm pretty psyched about him (it'll be another 'him').

While falling asleep, I didn't actually dream about him, but I heard his voice. He spoke in the same snooty Altmer voice we often hear in Oblivion elves (think Falcar, Anval Uvani, etc.) and he used a lot of big words. The thing about the dream stage is that in my case, all-a-sudden things become a lot more spontaneous. So it wasn't like I was thinking up things to say, it was as if HE was saying things to me. Although I don't remember any of it specifically, here's an example.

"I have not heard you betray me, yet I felt thine come-uppances make entrance into mine thoughts".

That was automatic writing; a process where the writer thinks up the first thing that comes into his/her head. Now granted, that's not one of the things he said to me, but it's an example of the freedom of random creativity that was going on. Hard to explain. What he actually said to me was a heck of a lot more creative, and a lot more intriguing than what I just wrote, because during the dream stage our minds open more fully, if we can allow this to happen.

Bottom line: I don't go around talking like that everyday, is what I mean to say.

So later on after I actually had fallen asleep, and then woke up at about 1AM, I didn't remember what my new Altmer said to me specifically, but I did have a series of memories of him speaking to me. I got up to use the bathroom, and realized it was raining outside. RAIN! I only make new characters when it rains. So I fired up my Xbox, and waited until the Tutorial got to the part where we get to name our latest Prisoner. And created my new Altmer.
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(2). I had a second actual dream this time, not a series of random ramblings. Those of you who play Skyrim are certainly familiar with the landscape around Whiterun, right? Well, instead of Whiterun, there were a series of modern Earth buildings located upon this landscape. I lived in a home located roughly where the Battleborn's farm stands in the game. Make sense?

Although I don't remember the entire dream, at some point I was trying to set up a flatscreen TV (and some other appliances) outside instead of in my home. Why was I trying to set this stuff outside? Who knows! Dreams are funny. Anyways, if you can picture the hill that's just south of Whiterun (where the wolf always attacks us) this is the area I was trying to set up my TV.

At some point towards the end of this silly dream, I was back in my house, and realized that it's useless to set a flat-screen TV up so far away from where I'm actually living. I decided I needed to grab this stuff, and bring it into my actual home. What a wacko dream, eh? .. I wish I knew what it frickin' means, if anything.

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(3). Hi Callidus, there is more to come, and here is the last (and most interesting) one of all.

I was walking a character who I'm pretty sure was Marge N. Overra through sections of Los Angeles. The world had come to an end, and Marge was with a series of survivors in L.A. I'm forgetting how the dream started, dammit. Arrgh! I"ve been wanting to write this all day, but ya know, had to go to work.

The part that I DO remember was that Marge (at some point) found one of those Metal Boxes located in a dark alley. Since there were other survivors around, Marge then rushed to get inside this Metal Box, so she could scavenge some supplies. Problem was, there were two other survivors near her. Apparently these survivors were friendly though, so instead of fighting to the death, instead Marge merely had to share her supplies with these other survivors. Both of these were children, by the way.

Later on, I was walking with Marge while the sun rose. WE came to an area of Los Angeles which looked like it had been through some sort of revitalization. All the houses and buildings were pastel-colored instead of the usual Wasteland tin and dark greys. Although I could sense that Marge was living in a dangerous world, I also knew that in this area, she was safe.

Marge walked into a sort of café, with unbroken glass windows. The place looked almost like something you'd see pre-war. Well kept. Marge sat down to have something to eat. In this café (or whatever) they were keeping the usual pre-war custom of serving glasses of water before bringing out the menu.

In real-life, I don't drink tap water. I only drink bottled water. I used to drink tap water up until my mid-20s, but I also grew up constantly getting sick. Colds, flus, sore throats, that sort of thing. I was dating somebody in my mid-20s who was a healthfood nut, and he only drank bottled water. I fell into the habit. I noticed bottled water certainly tastes better than tap water, and after drinking it for (I dunno) maybe a month or so, I realized I had not gotten sick that month. So I stopped drinking tap water.

Anyways, back to the dream. Marge was served some water, and instantly drank some. It was 'understood' that this water was Purified Water, just like we'd see in FO3, and therefore it would not have any + Rads. As Marge drank the water, the view moved from Third person to First person.

I had become Marge N. Overra. I could taste the water she was drinking, in other words. To me, it tasted more like tap water than bottled water, but I was okay with this. At least there weren't any + Rads involved.

Wow, interesting stuff.

So there's two more still to come, right?

I think you play too much, Renee! Or too little

Anyway, cool dream!

I did that once. That was some Salvador Dali [censored], man.

Fun dreams Renee! So what is your new Altmer's name? J'hames B^nd?

Wow, that is some seriously fascinating stuff Renee. Seriously weird, I'll grant you, but really interesting stuff.

Lucky you.

I started auto-writing during some of my character stories about a year ago, it's an interesting way of getting a new 'voice' into your stories, one which is not entirely "you". You know?

I used to assume there was some sort of spiritual process to it (since automatic writing is associated with mediums and spirit guides, etc.) but that's all hogwash. All you got do is write the first thing that comes into your mind. Depending which character I'm with, I'll then edit his or her words heavily, or not so heavily.

Mycharrona's words (when I was gaming with her last winter) are maybe only 10% edited, which is why they don't make much sense at first read. But if you really concentrate on what she's saying, they also do make a lot of sense. Here's an example.




I admit some of those words she uses aren't entirely 'real' English words, but that's part of the process, you see. When "I" wrote this for her, I didn't entirely know what the hell she was talking about; I only remember seeing a series of little visions as I was writing it. She had become a full vampire at this point, and in the above poem, she's trying to convey what she thinks it's like to be a mortal, lying asleep, unknowing of the dread he or she is about to face once she shows up to feed.

Silence and Violence = the immediate fear one feels as she shows up. This mortal NPC was sleeping peacefully, but now has a vampire in his/her face.

Patrons of the mortal world
Death upon thine placid lakes = once Mycharonna feeds upon this NPC, never again will he/she view a pleasant scene such as a 'placid lake' the same way, ever again.

and acquiescence of sated Lords = um.. I'm not sure what this means.

Should I choose to mock your silence? = should I choose to leave you alone, basically.

And move beyond your firey pliants? = and leave you to your everyday mortal desires? She seemed to use the words "firey pliants" as a way of identifying the everyday spirit which runs through every mortal.

When chosen, cannot we make compliance? = is there a way she can feed without completely frickin' terrifying her subject(s)?

Or perhaps, delve into such fetid mourns? = or is the mortal doomed to a future life of terror and depression?

... one figure lithes
... for shadows move
... across these skies
... and 'ere, to boon

She's trying to convey a series of images here, of what a mortal might notice as Mycharonna is stalking him or her, before totally pouncing at some unexpected moment.

And here's an example of some automatic writing I did with Lord Haaf-Mersey awhile back. No explanation is needed because I probably edited his words a bit so that they'd make some sense.


"Ahh...there 't is. The beauty that shineth upon this day, has beckoned me and mine friend, indeed! Gaze upon Nightcaller Temple, Lioness-Mjoll. 'Tis one place devoted of completeness towards a greater affection of the great goddess Mara".

....Again, I would NEVER go to Safeway or Home Depot and spout such nonsense as I'm buying groceries of a hammer. That's why I like auto-writing. It's a way to get into my character's head, let him or her do the talking, so to speak.



Ha ha, I will reveal his name in the New Character thread somebody created awhile back.

I got Elder Scrolls Anthology for PC yesterday, bought if from Gamestop.com, and had it delivered safely to my home. I'm not sure how the rest of the world is, but I've noticed that the PC sections in gaming stores here in America is often very lame, assuming there actually is a PC section. So rather than jumping from store to store, wasting time and gasoline, I decided I'd get this one online.

I haven't played it yet, and haven't even installed it yet, but already Arena is in my subconscious. I kept having dreams about playing Arena last night! These were not very memorable dreams, it was me starting up the game over and over, and then seeing some vague monsters show up on the TV screen. But just the very fact that time has colluded inside my subconscious, and future had now become present, and I'm already having dreams about this game, is rather interesting.

Honestly, I don't know if I'll be able to handle this game, but I'm at least gonna try it. Going from 3rd person (mainly 3rd) to 1st person gaming is going to be odd. But I want to see where it all started at least.

It´s the same everywhere. Stores automatically assume you´re a thirteen-year-old kid who plays on Xbox or playstation. I can´t understand how the PC got so shoved away, it´s the most powerful and versatile gaming platform of them all!

Sweet that you have the Anthology! And even more sweet that you´re already having dreams about it!
Like I´ve said, I never dream about TES except once every ten years or so. I only have stupid dreams

I had a TES-themed dream last night where I had to deal with some kind of nightmarishly hard secret dungeon on Skyrim. I kept getting my arse kicked by various traps, a small army of Steam Centurions (these charming gents, for those who don't play Skyrim) and some kind of weird dragon/snake/skeleton/ghost...thing. The only way I got through them was by opening the Command Console and entering the Toggle Invincibility Mode code. So I alternately fought/stealthed my way through this dungeon, which at some point became the insides of a large, luxurious mansion guarded by a bunch of guys in robes/armour in a rather stylish red. So I stealth-archeryed my way through them and then I met old-skool movie Dracula and Igor. We hung out for a while, it was cool.

Then before that one, I had another dream where I was fist-fighting a Cockney gangster boss on an airplane. Haven't the faintest idea where that one came from, but it was easily the most badass dream I've had in ages

Yay! I somewhat had a dream inspired by a game!!

Not TES though, but Need4Speed! I was in my car and up against another driver on a familiar piece of road close to where I live, we were having a side-by-side race from a standstill. He won but not by much.
Then we were off to race again in a nearby town, but there was too many people around so we had to call it off in the end and I was so sad!

I gamed until I couldn't think straight last night, and then when I fell asleep, I had several dreams in which I was in Snaat Rayag's world. His modded PC gaming world.

I was in 'God mode', and could not be harmed, but I was free to roam wherever I liked. I don't remember what actually happened in these dreams, though, dangit, just that I was kinda flying around from place to place, moving stuff around. Guess this means I'm about to discover the Constructor's Kit, eh?

Another Oblivion dream, Renee? I´m so jealous!

I had a Skyrim dream last night. I was an Orc, living in an Orc village (besides the other Orcs, the buildings were all the Orc style architecture from Skyrim). Anyway I dreamed I had slept late in the morning, but it turns out everyone else had as well. We had all been partying long into the night, as we Orcs are wont to do. So I picked up a hammer and started tapping on some metal at the forge while the other Orcs were laying about in varying stages of passed out.

That is when it got weird. Higgins (from Magnum P.I.) came driving in on an old convertible land rover, like you see in Safari movies from the 60s. He took one look around the slovenly lot that we were, and said "Oh my god!" in disgust.

An orc dream with Magnum P.I. in it! It doesn't get any weirder than that.

SubRosa, that's wild! Caught in the act of Orcing by Higgy baby!

I just woke up from one of the most honestly terrifying dreams I've had in a while. I'm going to try to type it before I forget what happened

I was in Skyrim, the sky above was the usual pale grey, and I believe I was in the Pale area. So, snow on the ground, some mist in the air, that sort of thing. I'm not sure if I was 'me" or if I was playing a character. I believe I was a 1st-person character.

Anyways, so I look up at the sky and see these dots up above. I'm guesstimating there were 50 of them flying up there. I think "oh wow, I've never seen that in this game before". The dots were moving along with the sky's clouds, so pretty soon I couldn't see them anymore. I started to walk, and then ran, watching these dots.

As I stare up, I realize the dots are moving individually and independently of one another. They must be living things, not some strange new graphical effect. At first I'm thinking 'dragons' but these dots were too small. I was running without looking where I was going, and wound up standing at the bottom of a cliff. there was water at my feet, and a rather large bay to my left, while this cliff was to my right. I look up, and the dots were now dropping from the sky. Dozens of htem. I started getting nervous. This is a videogame, after all.

I start panicking because as they get closer, I realize they're these dark, orcish enemies; but something out of WoW instead of TES. The first few manages to land, and there was nowhere for me to run. At that moment, the camera 'seperated' from 1st person to 3rd, and I was no longer my character anymore. I could see her. I remember she wound up swimming a bit in Skyrim's supposedly frigid water, but I don't remember how she got away from those WoW orcs.

At some point, the 'game' paused, and I was now at 'work', scrambling to find a piece of paper to write everything down before I forgot. It had now become a dream within a dream, because I thought I was awake, describinb what just happened. ... I wound up in a kitchen with my mother oddly. I didn't question 'what are you doing at my job?" instead I started writing the dream down, but my hands were shaking so bad I could barely write.

But (somehow) soon the dream re-started. I found myself in a dark hamlet at night, boarding a small bus from its emergency exit at the rear. I get on this bus, and there are people on it that are ordinary, modern-day types wearing T-shirts and suits. I'm at the back of the bus. In the dream, I look around to the people I'm riding with and start thinking "what if they're the WoW orcs, not ordinary people?"

This caused a paranoid, panicky feeling all over again. I actually started to ask the people next to me "Are you one of them?" over and over, to the point they get annoyed with me. I figured I'd better get off the bus.

Again, I ran! I kinda 'knew' they were after me somewhere. I ran into this dark, abandoned-looking building. Thought I might be safe here. Nope, not dark enough. I ditched the building idea, and decided I'd run back to the hamlet again, which I did, but THEN the WoW orcs began coming for me! Camera switched to 3rd person. and again, I separated from 'me' and could now control a character instead. The WoW orcs did show up, and I'm running through the hamlet, jumping over things, pushing NPCs aside. Trying to get away.

That's about it! That's when I woke up, completely.. phew, it was just a dream!

How can you keep having these TES dreams when I never have them!??

Wow. I mean WoW That was some dream, especially with all the way it kept changing to a dream within a dream.

Renee, flying orcs? That's a scary thought.

I see I'm going to have to stop reading this thread. No orcs, but I did dream of three Dunmer (Skyrim types by the look of them) singing ''99 bottle of beer on the wall'. I had been under the impression that Dunmer were quite bright, but halfway through the song, this trio forgot the words.

Aww, that sounds like a fun dream, Acadian.

I've been playing Four Swords Anniversary on my 3DS, and I had this really trippy dream the other night. It was about the men of two families at a wedding/funeral, not sure which, probably both. In any case, they like, hit bushes and smoke came out, and then I don't even remember. And the whole thing was in Zelda graphics/top-down perspective.

Wow! .. A dream with an isometric perspective. That must be thrilling.

They drank the beers in the process of counting them and after so many of course they´re gonna forget the words

99 bottles of matze on the wall, 99 bottles of matze....

You are going to be jealous mirocu but I had another series of dreams. This time centering around Lady Saga, who is currently at Vilverin.

I don't remember any of these dreams, except the last one. All the others were rather vague; but I got the sense that me and Saga were communicating during these vague dreams. They were not action-oriented, instead Saga was merely walking around the outer perimeter of Vilverin while I messed with 'her' world behind-the-scenes.

In the very last dream she wound up walking to the area where the tent is. Ya know, the tent with the garlic hanging on it? .. She winds up walking over to this tent and there was a friendly NPC nearby, who I believe was a soldier. This soldier had stacked up about a half-dozen guns on a rock, a bunch of long-range rifles. Saga was (of course) extremely disturbed by this sight, while I got all nervous, wondering which mod I possibly could have installed into her world that introduced these weapons.

I am jealous! What can´t I have these TES Dreams!??

But I´m glad for your sake, Renee!

Oh no, you are not only having dreams about modding, but nightmares!

So I had another dream last night. This one had some minor gaming stuff in it.

Was with a friend of mine, and me and her were walking through my backyard at night. There's a rather steep hill, and since it was night we had to watch our step. Just as we're descending this hill, I guess you can say I had a bit of Detect Life going; I knew there were some rats and mudcrabs on this hill. We had to step right over them.

The rest of the dream got rather ... X-rated, so I'm not saying that part, but I feared these nuisance creatures might interrupt us as me and my friend 'got busy' so to speak. But they didn't. Could be due to a certain amulet one of us wore.

Oh, dear god. Now Renee is starting to have PG18 dreams!

Yeah, and with rats & mudcrabs, too.

During the days when I first discovered oblivion and morrowind I had tons of dreams about these games. Usually involving a walk through the great forest with that ambient music in the background, or ash storms hitting my school or home. I even had a dream where all the birds that usually rest in the tree next to my home were Cliff-Racers. However I have had few Skyrim dreams, except for the last few days.

I've been playing a lot of Skyrim recently and a lot of the tv I've been watching has involved the military. So, after falling asleep watching an episode of top gear where they visit camp bastion in Afghanistan, my dreams for the last few nights have involved NATO forces invading and occupying skyrim. From paratroopers dropping over the whiterun plains, to tanks smashing through the gates of windhelm, all the dreams involve tanks and assault rifles