Troublesome Meetings

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Jan 8 2011
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I'm taking part passively (I was there, but just watching) on the story of a girl and her friends/allies, a gang of bikers. I'm not sure what has happened, but the girl had done wrong and misbehaved according to the gang's rules. She was in trouble now. I remember as she ran across the corridors and rooms of an old school. Finally, she was cornered in a room by three or four men. I'm there too, watching. I suddenly realize this is all part of the "The Lost and Damned" expansion for the GTA IV game, and the gang here are The Lost. The girl is cornered, and the camera closes up on her face as she tries to bargain with them, panicking. She's talking fast and stammering, and I notice something goes wrong.

Suddenly, it's as if the "game" lagged. The sound of her voice and the things I see are out of sync, and the video seems to be lagging as well. I hear her try to explain herself and then a cracking sound. Since the video's lagging I'm not exactly sure what happened, but the "camera" became cracked, then faded out. We were suddenly back in the same room, for some kind of surprise ending. Apparently, she managed to disarm one of the gang members - me - who for some reason looked like Ken, from Street Fighter. I tried to calm her down and negotiate, asking her to put down the gun. Suddenly, she shot me in the left hand. Argh! The dream changed.

I was now in the same classroom, but the whole bikers and gangs background was gone. I was part of some school club/group who had gathered and was instructing a full classroom about old games. Apparently, we had set as a task that the members find an old computer game, and we were discussing tactics to obtain it. The leaders (?) of the club were two annoying, hateful guys who clearly disliked others, and especially me, though they were mostly passive-agressive about it. Since they lead the meeting, we had to keep talking to them, though it only seemed to make them angrier.

I gave them a suggestion, but we soon dismissed it. Ideas and objectives would be written on an already full blackboard, by the second guy, who sat on a net/hammock that hanged from the ceiling, near the blackboard. They erased my first idea, then I suggested we looked for the game in Home of the Underdogs (it's an abandonware site). They begrudgingly accepted it, so I climbed my way to the hammock to write it on the board. While they waited and watched patiently, I took my time getting on top. The hammock wasn't hanging properly, so I had to hold onto it with one of my hands or else I'd fall off. I grabbed a piece of chalk (there seemed to be many around, some somehow sitting magically in the middle of the board, without falling).

The chalk I picked was strange, though, as it was actually a pencil with a strange chalk encasing. I couldn't write with that, so I looked for another chalk. I finally managed to slowly write down UNDERDOGS on the blackboard - all this took roughly 5 minutes, in which the classroom remained silent. The meeting ended soon after, though I have no idea what was decided. On a nearby wall I find a poster for a meeting our club would soon have. It invited new members, and advertised the club's activities. On the middle was a picture  I recognized an old picture of ours, which I knew was from back when we founded the club. There was me, G.H. and V.B.(G.U.'s friend), as well as other friends. For some reason, someone had overlayed the image of a chain link fence over the picture.

Later, I was making a background music CD. I was organizing several tracks of classical music, though I don't remember exactly what for. I suddenly realize the first few tracks were classic rock songs, and wouldn't match the classical songs, so I had to change them.