Weird Ryzom dream

[katriell]

The memory is fading of course, but I'm fairly sure the dream began with me logging into Ryzom. There wasn't much of a loading screen. Instead, I saw the world loading around me.

I was in Fairhaven between the stable and the Karavan teleporter, facing southwest. Couldn't tell which character I was playing even though I was probably in third-person camera mode.

First the land loaded, barren and dry. Then some of the smaller buildings and the trees. Then the water. As the larger buildings popped into being, the lighting was wrong; at first it was blue and turquoise, then as things became temporarily cellshaded, it gradually corrected itself. There was some lag, initially. I hadn't noticed a patch downloading and installing, but I knew that something had been changed because that loading process was very unusual.

As the dream progressed, I encountered more changes. Still in Fairhaven, I ended up on Bell Lane or maybe as far out as Land's End, with a small crowd of other players. There was a boat, big enough to be termed a ship, a medium distance out. Every so often its design changed right before our eyes. There were about five different designs, and most of them looked like they came from Lineage II. Valda was there and when I commented on the L2 resemblance, he agreed. xD Anyway, it was obviously bugged, and somehow it frightened me.

A short time later I was swimming in the lake, not far from Fairhaven. I couldn't see the ship anywhere. Someone swam up beside me and when I turned the camera to face them, I realised I was inside the ship - it had no collision meshes on its hull and from inside it was invisible. I freaked out a little and hurried out and away from it.

I can't remember what the other parts of the mysterious patch were, but I do recall that most of it didn't quite work correctly. This dream was set in the current timeframe, with Spiderweb and all that. They hadn't yet said anything about the patch. We supposed that they released a bunch of half-finished projects for the sake of appeasing the playerbase with new content.

We found smaller boats and discovered that they were the same designs as the ship, but properly separate instead of mashed together and flickering between each other. The boats worked, as boardable transportation, and possibly the ship(s) did too despite their visual funkiness. But I never got around to actually getting on a boat and steering it around.

At some point I teleported back to Fairhaven, but arrived a bit southwest of the stable. Before the water loaded, the landscape ahead looked like a slice of Flaming Forest with the normal lakeland cliffs in the background.

Eventually we learned that there was at least one glitch-free ship. It was atop one of those bark spires that protrude from the lake here and there. Somehow I got up there and pushed the ship down into the water so that it could be sailed. It was the one that didn't resemble Lineage II - just plain wood textures like you'd see on a Lucenthead Hurst bridge.

I think I sailed that ship, but by then the dream was morphing out of Ryzom...so I was sailing the ship down a waterslide in a deserted corner of a Wal-Mart. :/

[rdfall]

well, if u had started with:

"I have a Dream..."

it would have been perfect. But i agree it's still weird

[kasumi2k]

If that was the title I would auto assume an Abba related story....... lol

[fiach]

WOOT L3 gonna run on the RAID engine!

[whiterider]

Sexor, you can't possibly be that suck at history >.<

[rdfall]

hush hush xD

[acridiel]

*LOL* How much of a Computer geek do you have to be, for your dreams "loading" around you

But yes... I too dreamt of Atys a few times, but to me it looked "real" not rendered somehow...
can´t remember much but the feeling of "Whoooaaa...." while looking around

CU
Acridiel

[whiterider]

My Ryzom dreams generally consist of me running around IRL with a bunch of trykers and zorai, I really must get some blue facepaint and some more short friends and do it properly someday.

[sidusar]

Spiderweb releasing a bunch of half-finished projects for the sake of appeasing the playerbase with new content as their first patch, without saying anything about it, would certainly frighten me.

My Ryzom dreams used to be about me being on Atys as if it were real (sometimes as me and sometimes as my character), but lately they're always about me playing Ryzom on my PC as normal and then characters from the game come out of the monitor.

[scarazi]

a long time ago, had a dream that me and another player who i cant remember opened a multi-story hotel complex in the jungles of zorai, we used to have to jump from balcony to balcony (vertically and horizontally) to get access to the different parts of the hotel as there was a problem with all the door key cards. Timari used to eat all the hotel grounds plants aswell so we set fire to all the bushes to scare them away.