D&D Live, 24hr poor service, a waterworld

A very fun experience was had Wednesday when Cool Geoff and I attended "D&D Live" at the Comedy Bar. We went to support an old high school pal, fortunately it was plain fun on its own. I'll definitely check it out next Wednesday as well.

The idea is relatively straightforward, a group of improv people are dressed in the roles of different dungeons and dragons characters, the dungeon master is in charge of whether certain things they try to do succeed or not, and the various non player characters set the stage in our minds eye, or play extras or whatever. They use a giant 20 sided dice that they get the audience to roll for those big story altering challenges. Ah, also, they had a smoke machine going (the whole bar was hazy when we walked in, not just the room with the stage) and LASERS!

Having lasers isn't even fair, of course it'll turn out cool.

Afterwards Cool Geoff and I wandered the wastes of the Ossington area, heading towards the Lakeview restaurant, a 24 hr establishment I've been to on several occasions (and yet I'm still unsure whether or not I've got the name right..) and it took forever to get the check and head out. We had a good time, but man we had to work to get out.

Right, while on the topic, note to self, I own Geoff $9, don't forget it.

To finish off the post, my dream last night consisted of getting put into a kind of chryogenic suspension just as dark storms heralded the flooding of the world. When I woke up I was on a cramped ship, more submarine than yacht (or whatever) and everyone else on board had been living in this new water world order for some months (years?), competing for scarce resources with other ships, as well as a variety of survivor that had taken to the air in these great armoured looking bug ships.. I can't think of any bug name that would be a quick reference for what these things looked like, but they longer than they were wide, but not very much so, a blocky sort of shape, with dozens of squat legs on either side crawling/swimming through the air.

Near the end of the dream there was a sort of gas released in the atmosphere that caused everyone to become happy. It was understood to be a temporary effect, almost like this was some new kind of weather.. I could easily see that as a creation to stave off the effects of cabin fever, and thus a control mechansim specifically designed for that purpose. A Soma (re: Brave New World) to keep the people from realising who had ruined their world? Either a member of the 1% or an alien presence... which amounts to the same thing, for all the difference it'd make.

There actually was a sort of lizard creature I found in the hold, a member of what I understood to be an enemy species, and yet it was clear that this creature was benign, kept hidden away from the rest of the crew to keep her from harm.

As a final point, everyone seemed to have some memory problems regarding life before the flooding, which is a very Lost-ish thing to do. Or at least, I assume it is, having never actually seen an episode of Lost.