May 21, 2008 09:41
My brain decided to follow up the dream about Hell with one about another afterlife: Candyland. I got the impression that it was supposed to be Paradise, but in mood it was more in-between. Neither awful nor wonderful. There were bullshit politics but no murderous thugs to fuck said politics up. Since they were all in Hell.
Candyland was built out of ice. No one seemed cold, so I guess it was purely aesthetic. There was a King though I don't know his political powers. Everyone appeared in a cutesy form, like early console overhead RPG sorites. It was in the same map view too.
In the smithy, there was a bully. I guess he wasn't evil enough to go to Hell (you had to do vile things). Just a bully. He threatened people so they wouldn't become apprentices at the smithy. But this guy not quite as big as the bully but rather big came in, saw his actions, and pushed him up the wall, pinning him. That ended the bullying.
There was a pirate queen, but she had reformed her fleet into merchants (if exceptionally armed and escorted) and pirate-hunters. She specialized in rescuing injured endangered animals, raising them, then selling them to decent looking homes. Probably not the best way to handle endangered species but I think she did it with positive motives at least.
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