as can be seen from the dream I had. So I'm in this Mario Kart track/arena thing, but it looked more like some giant insane platformer game level with a track thrown around the edges for good measure. But it's totally TEX, as my dream-logic tells me. The only thing I can think of this is the Mario Kart judge race, but I dunno.

So, I'm checking out this Escher-esque track and then all of a sudden I'm looking at it on a DS screen or something and this kid (I've got no idea who he was supposed to be XD) won't let me play. Now, this is a problem because apparently in the tournament, we actually have to race. So I'm like "GAH LET ME PLAY" and he's like "NO I WANNA" and I'm like "BUT I NEED TO THIS IS THE TOURNAMENT" and he's all like "WARRRGH NO I'M DOING GOOD" except he's totally losing. I'm freaking out because if I lose, I'm like, out of the tournament or something. At this point, we encounter the only remotely Exchange-related aspect in that I saw a red and black box on the screen and said something like "ARGH MIDS RAEGFACE" which makes no sense at all because I think I've talked to the lovely a grand total of once. The only conclusion I can come to is that I like her icon. I dunno. I apologize for being angry at you in my dream, my good lady.

Anyway, then I was IN the track because it's a dream and all. I actually had a real thought around here involving something I needed to remember to include in an SE. So I'm running up walls chasing numbers in these little lines along the vertical track because obviously that's how you win Mario Kart. I can't reach, so I go and get one of the giant marshmallow-crates and put it there so I can climb. Things take a terrible turn here, though, when Mrs. Sunshine (that reporter from the Chicago movie) runs up and starts friggin' attacking my marshmallow. Before I even had time to make a D: face, I was then in a grey hallway.

I should pause here to say that all of this is completely true.

So in this hallway on the second floor of a mansion at night (you just know these things when you dream, I guess) I am confronted by THE ENEMY: the werewolf father. I don't actually know who's dad he was. But then, he turns out to NOT be a werewolf after all. Instead, naturally, he was a robot! He took off his entire chestpiece to show me how he only had these five giant, interconnected veins surrounded by plastic bubbles inside. The veins were a very pleasant goldenrod color, by the way.

BUT THEN SUDDENLY I AM FALLING INTO THE WATER. A casual friend since third grade or so whose name I shall not mention is standing on the boat I fall past looking mildy distressed. He was obviously there because it was homecoming. So he was...taking a boat. I guess. A giant cruise ship. So I'm bobbing in the water and I can't swim forward and he's trying to get the captain's attention and JUST WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE ALL WILL BE LOST

(By the way, this is still the Exchange. It just was.)

I AM ON A CONCRETE DOCK talking to a friend about what a scare that was BUT DON'T GET TO COMFORTABLE

BECAUSE NOW SOME GUYS ARE ON A RAFT SMOKING LONG PIECES OF GRASS AND I NO LONGER EXIST. They're just going along being in Lord of the Flies but actually it's Catcher in the Rye and they're just sitting there with these pieces of dead grass. It all made sense in my dream, you know?

And then I woke up.

Round 4 now frightens me somewhat because I have no idea what the hell that dream was supposed to mean.

Speaking of TEX, unless there's another switcheroo, my opponent shall be in what Celestial pointed out will basically be the converging of the Brits. It's gonna be awesome. X3 I seriously can't believe it. Top eight. : D


For basically my own benefit here I shall post a round 4 checklist. Because if I make it public, I have no choice but to improve on the listed items.
Length. It must be shorter. Or at least more concise.
Not getting hung up on details and keeping the plot moving. I look to GP for an example.
General OOC-ness. Round 3 especially sucked when it came to this. :/


Also, the other day I was defeated by a five year old with an invisible lightsaber. Luckily, evil Lord Buckley was destroyed before my demise, so the Force remains strong.
Just don't ask, really.


And because everyone's doing it, HOW ABOUT A MEME. 8D

Here's how it goes: Your character is now the final boss!
A) What would their pre-battle speech be?
B) Describe the location of the final battle.
C) What music would be playing in the background?


1. Tray

A) Are you kidding? He can barely carry on a conversation in most cases, let alone monologue. He'd just be standing there with some sharp object, shuffling back and forth and shifting every now and then while all the while staring awkwardly at you. Then he'd just sorta shrug and epicly say, "Hi."

B) It'd be in an old, abandoned lot, maybe a parking lot, in either a field or generally the middle of nowhere. There'd be a rusty, bent, and broken chainlink fence around parts and the concrete would be cracked with pale weeds poking up. It'd be a grey sort of day.

C) Arco Arena by Cake. [link] It'd be the most non-epic battle music ever.


2.TK

A) For a second, she'd just look at you and laugh. Once you were appropriately chilled, she'd smile and (I figure asterisks are more appropriate for a public journal) sneer, "You're ****ing going down, bitch."

B) A rooftop on the Vegas strip on a cool, humid night. It'd be lit from below by neon lights from the streets and there'd be a, if not full, bright white moon out with those wispy grey clouds in front of it.

C) Hrm. Something appropriately badass. Unless I think of something better, let's go with Devil's Trill. htt p://w ww.you tube.com/watch?v= DX4xwDlu-m4 (Take out the spaces.) XD Ignore the slideshow. It was the only one I could find with the right version of the song.

3. ME >8D

A) "Oh. OH. You want to START SOMETHING? Oh, we are taking this outside. Let's go. It is ON! It. Is. ON. What's that, you scared? You SCARED, punk? You should be! You don't want to mess with me but now it's TOO LATE. LET'S GO."

B) That tiny little alcove backstage you have to climb the ladder in the prop cage to get to. It's like, seven feet by seven feet and surrounded on two sides by a rail and wall on the other two. It's about fifteen feet up.

That or the space-time continuom in general.

C) WELL. It'd start off as One-Winged Angel [link] (LIVE. How friggin' badass is that?) and then transition without warning into the Mortal Kombat theme [link] and THEN suddenly be a mix of Sandstorm [link] some Taylor Swift song [link] remixed with Under Pressure, [link] one of those epic Latin choirs [link] and then, oh so subtly, Footloose [link] You wouldn't know what to expect.


: D Kagura, signing out.