So I don't know how often this happens to people, but I had a dream last night that potentially had the beginnings of a cool story. And by cool I mean hopefully has the potential to get the crap marketed out of it and make me a fortune.
I don't remember all the details but it played out like a cartoon in my head. Not a warner brothers cartoon (although, subconscious, if you are listening that would be cool for tonight) but one of those new cartoons that seems part anime. Kind of a Ben10 style of animation.
I can still picture some key parts but it's fading and I want to write this down somewhere and seeing as my notebook is filled with notes for F.T.E. and this feels like a side project, I figured why not write it hear. There are two scenes that stand out in my mind.
First was brief, it was kind of like a mechanised octopus... without a head... and where the suckers would be were red lines that met in the centre and it scanned things (sounds a little cylonish not that I think about it).
Second was like a council that governed the land, I got the feeling that they were the bad guys (though some seemed worse than others) and they were all somewhere along the spectrum between humans and mechanised animals (real animals and fictional animals). I got the impression that the different groups don't get along on principal but they were united in this one issue that they were dealing with.
I get the idea that there was some sort of meeting taking place about trying to get a small remnant that had not yet 'mechanised' in some way to join them (become mechanised). For some reason they thought that the world would be better if everyone was 'mechanised' to some degree.
Different individuals had different ideas about how to do this, the two that stand out were one mostly mechanical dragon-ish creature who wanted to somehow force them to change (oddly enough through some sort of dragon dance which, if it is what the guy in my dream did, involves stomping and waving your arms up and down while standing on the spot.
A different guy who was human (though only his face was fleshy) and wore robes seemed to think this was a silly idea. Didn't actually suggest anything but I got the distinct impression he though that the un-mechanised humans needed to be lured into changing.
Anyhow, that was a more colourful dream than I usually have.
Thoughts as a story idea?
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