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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2009, 03:02 PM (2,819 Views) | |
| KayKay | Sep 28 2009, 03:02 PM Post #1 |
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I've been having some vivid dreams lately. One that has been re-occurring is the one about an alien planet. In most dreams I'm alone, but in one of the dreams I was there supposedly on a survival course with other people. This won't be an extensive project. It'll be short and sweet, I'm not going to cover much. Maybe you guys could help fill in the gaps? ![]() The planet itself... I couldn't get a lot of details, so first I'll add the info I gathered then make suggestions as to what the info might mean if we were talking about a real planet. It has two moons, one a very Luna-like white-coloured satellite with many craters that's either very big or very close (unsure which, but causes great tidal effects as was demonstrated in the survival course dream) and appears to take up nearly a quarter of the whole sky. The other moon is terracotta red and black, smaller (or further away, again unsure, appearing the size that Luna does in Earth's sky) and always seems to tag along with the "bigger" moon, though I don't know if its orbit is in any way affected by the bigger moon. The gravity was stronger by a large degree. I could feel the effects initially and I'll say it was like nothing I've ever felt before. Like my eyeballs were being squeezed (I actually freaked out because I thought they would burst) and like my neck was going to snap. Probably nothing like increased gravity in real life as I have never experienced real gravity increases, but my mind was tricked for a moment into believing that was what I was feeling. However these sensations were brief and faded rapidly. According to the instructor we'd "get used to it". As if that would really happen.One of the dreams I was on a sandy floor on the ground. The sand was very chunky and coarse. The plants were hard to describe, especially since I can't remember all that well what they looked like. I just remember them being like mounds several metres high of grass, conifer needles or moss but the mounds themselves were plants - not just the greenery covering them. There were many small animals on the ground that had the ability to morph their shape to a limited degree - they were multicellular (I think? Macroscopic at least), globular in shape and had semi-permanent pseudopods. They disappeared into the plant mounds and reappeared through seemingly impossible gaps. Tiny and slow moving I doubt they were a threat, they were however brightly coloured (yellow and blue) suggesting they might have been poisonous. I didn't notice (or maybe can't remember) if they had any obvious sensory or feeding organs. We were by a lake, and a storm began to brew over the lake so we headed into a cave where more of these little globular animals stuck to the walls in the thousands. This is where it began to get freaky... some of them fell off on top of us (though nothing bad came of it). The floor was covered in a yellowy-white mush that looked like cottage cheese and smelled awful. I felt really sick and frightened by it and we had to walk through it. Haven't got a clue what that was all about, maybe it was their dead rotting? Or maybe their faeces? Anyway I watched one of them being preyed upon by a hexapod that looked like a flying insect yet it had soft skin - not an exoskeleton. Also, I call it a hexapod only because of a similar creature I saw which I will describe later (I'm guessing is a relative of this one). This one only had four legs but where you'd expect to see a third pair it had wings instead. Interestingly, this one also had poison colours - black with yellow-blue-green markings on top. I'm not sure what happened after that, it's almost as if the dream skipped forward to night-time. Woke up to hear screams, one of the students was being consumed by a rapidly-moving slime-mould-like organism. It was sick, it covered her whole body and constricted her until she stopped struggling, then squeezed out her innards for some reason. I had tried to grab her hand before it consumed her and some of it got on my arm and began to burn and itch. I felt my shoes sticking to the ground like something was pulling, only to find this stuff was all over the place. You know when you have really scary dreams, and you feel like no matter where you run, you're going to die anyway, and it fills you with terror? Well, this was one of those dreams. Also, remember when I said we'd seen a demonstration of the moon's tidal effects? Well, the whole area was bright (making the silvery slime-mould visible) with moonlight and it became apparent after jumping into the water that the lake from earlier had risen by metres - we were atop the plant mounds before we jumped in. I might add, though this might be irrelevant, that the plants had a very hard glassy corral-like texture. Anyway, everyone agreed that the slime-mould couldn't follow us into the water and then I woke up. A later dream that was less detailed was set in a dense conifer-like forest up a mountain or hill. The little red moon was visible on the horizon. The trees were tall and the trunks very thick and chunky, but there were very few side-branches and the ones that were there were very fine and bare. Again, the trees seemed to be covered in a layer of green fuzz rather than having defined leaves. Not much happened at all except being preyed upon by a hexapodal carnivore that ran in a winding motion and covered a lot of ground very fast. It appeared very big-cat-like. It had a strange mouth - two upper mandibles with many teeth and two lower mandibles with fewer teeth (but big fangs at the end) and a single serrated piece between the two lower mandibles that could protrude or hide in a sheath. The piece was like a long serrated knife, a weapon used for killing. I don't remember any details of eyes or other sensory organs. I woke up shortly after it started running towards me. That's all the details I have. I may or may not further develop this. Comments, adaptations, ideas, heck even complete take-overs welcome. |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 11:38 AM Post #46 |
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Erm, blblbl? I can change it, with the admin's permission. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 12:32 PM Post #47 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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No, I did mean to write blblbl. Seriously. |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 12:50 PM Post #48 |
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Yarp, but what does it mean? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 03:58 PM Post #49 |
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You've never heard of the blblbl? Okay, well you pronounce it "ble-ble ble", but really fast. As to what it is... you don't want to know. Suffice to say it's invisible, and probably as annoying as a Blibbering Humdinger. (Just to make clear, no, I am not making fun of you). |
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| Holben | Oct 23 2009, 10:07 AM Post #50 |
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Have you met the Atlantic Northwest Tree Octopus? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 23 2009, 03:32 PM Post #51 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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Not in person, no. |
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| Holben | Oct 24 2009, 11:07 AM Post #52 |
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Ooo, only the lucky few. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ànraich | Oct 24 2009, 12:13 PM Post #53 |
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I recognize where I've seen that hexapod predator before; the trailer for that new movie Avatar. It's only in it for a couple of seconds, but they definitely look a lot like your drawing. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 24 2009, 02:20 PM Post #54 |
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My drawing was based on KayKay's sketch of the monster in her dream. |
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| Ànraich | Oct 24 2009, 05:19 PM Post #55 |
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I'm just saying, the hexapod predator in general, both in its sketches and descriptions, looks an awful lot like one from a recent trailer for Avatar. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Holben | Oct 25 2009, 08:55 AM Post #56 |
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Is anyone going to flesh out these ecosystems? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 25 2009, 10:38 AM Post #57 |
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Right, well here's what we have so far; Plants, a tree-like plant with few branches, covered in green, prickly fuzz (presumably leaves). a strange, mound-like plant, covered in sharp "coral". Capable of surviving in air and water. Animals, blob-like organisms, small and presumably colonial. Species found in mound-plants and caves. slime-mould-like creature, fast moving and predatory. insect-like animal, mandibles, four legs, two wings, predatory. Found in caves and forests. hexapod carnivore, tiger-size, with four mandibles and a knife-like weapon. And one animal I made for sketch and storyline, a tripod herbivore, large teeth, feeds off tree-fuzz. I believe that's all so far. |
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| Holben | Oct 25 2009, 12:27 PM Post #58 |
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Blob-like...DOOM slime? |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 25 2009, 12:59 PM Post #59 |
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For some reason, that last post made me laugh... you really love your DOOM slime, don't you? If you want a description, you should read KayKay's first post in this topic. |
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| Holben | Oct 25 2009, 01:19 PM Post #60 |
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Oh yeah, those things. Not my little DOOM slimes, then. |
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