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lukas-crowsong · 2 years

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so i had an sso dream.

i want to preface this by saying that i'm a natural lucid dreamer (no ritual, no sleep paralysis, it's the way i've dreamt since i was born). i dream almost exclusively in third person, and i always know when i'm dreaming.

this dream was in first person: me at my laptop playing sso. i could feel myself and my actions the way i would irl. i could even see my reflection. very strange and new sensations considering that i've dreamt first person maybe once before a long time ago. is this why so many people fail to realise they're dreaming? if not for the absurdity of this dream i would've struggled to realise, and even then it took picking up my phone to take a picture only for it to respond with a blank, uncracked screen for me to affirm this was a dream. the game had no special effects or misty skies or race checkpoints or npcs to indicate this was part of some special event -- i was simply riding through the changing landscape of a part of jorvik i'd never seen before

tw mention of spiders!

it opened on (i believe) my new account alexis galloping along a dirt path on a horse from my main account lily (alexis only has two horses and it wasnt either of them, but i dont know which as i was too preoccupied) (in hindsight it mightve been my bay andalusian?). my surroundings were mountainous: through gaps in rocks i could see a mountain range below, so i must've been high up, but not at the peak for the easy slope of the land. it was similar to riding through the red string trail, but without grass, with dead weeds, and with fossilised structures of giant spiders. some half-submurged in soil but clearly huge arachnid bodies, other legs so disfigured and discoloured they could've been gnarled trees. this area was devoid of life but clearly had once harboured it. i didn't pause, eager to leave the ominous atmosphere, following the dirt path.

this dirt path eventually led away from there (i dont know how, my brain didn't fill that in) to much greener pastures -- literally. the path connected to a cobbled road much like the main roads through jorvik. it looked much more like jorvik as well. a sign similar to those of sso shops or irl pubs depicted a simple image of oats, sso style. when i passed the sign, one item of oats entered my inventory as would a quest reward. i have no idea why. i stopped at the road to take in my surroundings. the road came from the north to where i stood then meandered to the west. the rest of the road seemed lacking anything but green grass as far as the eye could see, so this location was the focus. there was a little thatched cottage at my side of the bend of the road with a care station frame attached to the side, typical props of buckets and tools and such lying around. on the other side of the road a perfectly normal oak tree stood on a small mound of dirt. along the western road on the same side as the tree was a group of four jorvik wild horses of different coat colours (im not sure that all of them are present in game but i havent looked at jwh for sale in a while). they were lined up in a row as if for sale, slightly at an angle southwest-facing from the road, but had no indicator as to their purpose. i trotted around them then decided to click on one. its coat puffed up (comparisons i would make would be a fluffy pufferfish, that post about a jwh getting a blowdry, or a fluffy pombom ball). at the same time, a tutorial-type box of text popped up and instructed me to click on each jwh to fluff up their coats, then i had to dismount and click them again to have my character hug them before time ran out. a strange quest, but not one i was going to refuse. hug fluffy jwh? yes please!

it was here that i tried taking a picture on my phone (so that i could post about it/show ssoblr this new quest lmao) only for it not to turn on and apparently be uncracked, which confirmed my suspicions that i was dreaming. also i believe the quest title to have been something to do with lisa peterson being warm and cuddly? four words, i think. with how much i adore her that makes sense

with nothing else to do here, i rode northwards down the road

this final part of the dream made the most sense of this unseen jorvik. my brain didn't bother to fill in changing scenery here either, so i next found myself in a magical forest at the threshold of a village. it was signposted as (my memory fails me) something along the lines of 'jorvik lost vala'. i was standing at the signpost just before a wooden bridge which led over a narrow purple river. not a sickly, threatening kind of purple -- rather one that simply seemed to fit with the theme/colour palette of the village. it glowed faintly. the village itself was much like valedale in design. individual small thatched stone cottages lined a dirt pathway deeper into the forest. on my side of the bridge, there were two cottages either side of the path, more over the bridge and out of sight. each window emanated purple light, but again it was not obviously malicious -- more like ambient lighting, i suppose. moss and other plants and fungi grew around the houses. to sum up the environment, i would say 'magical mushrooms'. the trees were draped in hanging curtains of moss instead of leaves. it was nighttime now, so anything that could glow was glowing. while the trees obscured the surrounding forest in darkness, the village did not feel like a safe haven. it was simply a location within the forest. from what i could see, any residents were not out of their houses. magic hung in the air like potion fumes. the dream ended before i could ride across the bridge

and that was my strange, slightly unnerving but also enjoyable sso dream! did not happen the way i expected an sso dream to manifest, but brains are weird :)

i, for one, would love to see this lost vala village in sso ;>

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