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SHRRRRIIIIVELLLL!
Sep. 24th, 2013 11:37 pmLast night's dream:
I'll preface last night's dream with a recount of a dream from last week that I neglected to post. Why will become apparent.
1. I'm a co-host on a "Pop/Nationality Idol"/"X-Factor"/"The Voice" kind of show, but for stand up comedy. Each comedian gets a maximum amount of time (a few minutes) but the judges each have a pair of headphone/earmuff kind of things that they put on to signal that they don't want to hear any more, so there's kind of a Gong Show kind of interruption dynamic if all three judges put on their headphones.
One of the judges is Nick Cage in a zebra costume. I don't remember anything about the other two.
My co-host is named Brassica Winthrop. Every time they cut to us, it looks like we're in the middle of something else: sliding out from under a car on one of those little mechanic trolley things; brushing our teeth wearing "Hee's" and "Ha's" bathrobes; diving toward the camera, away from an explosion.
There was only one bit of stand-up that I remember: the comedian was talking about how scientists predicted that we needed to reduce the population by 35% if we were going to survive and not entirely wreck the planet; he was questioning whether it would be worse if:
A> We didn't reach that goal; or
B> We reached that goal, by killing all the people who cared
It wasn't funny in dream either.
2. I am the manager/administrator/coach for a superhero team. If it had a name, I don't remember it, but it definitely had a theme: all the members had superspeed.
-“Zeitgeist” (Christina Ricci) didn't run, but could fly very fast, turn intangible and slow or stop time. She was a character in a one-shot Mutants & Masterminds game I ran a while ago.
-“Nightspeed” never did superspeed stuff "on-camera" but always while shrouded in darkness. As she also had darkness powers, that didn't seem like a hindrance. She could send out glossy black tendrils, billow darkness that rolled like smoke, teleport from shadow to shadow and glide on inky wings.
-“Double-time” was more into flippy, acrobatic movement than running. She could make copies of herself, Multiple Man-style.
-"Wildfire" was the most "standard" in terms of approach to superspeed (running at the speed of sound, sprinting up walls, zipping around people to confuse them, that kind of thing), but also had flame powers. Mostly she seemed to use them to leave a trail of fire in her wake, but whether that was intentional or a side-effect wasn't explored.
Our base was an abandoned airfield; we had our offices in the old control tower.
And our Press Officer/PR person was Brassica Winthrop.
There was some stuff about a threat to a nuclear reactor by Grey/Blue-clad ninja, riding camels.
At one point, their leader reached out a claw-like hand and cried "SHRRRRIIIIVELLLL!" as a heat haze kind of wobbly air effect poured forth toward the team, but that's all I remember of their showdown.
I'll preface last night's dream with a recount of a dream from last week that I neglected to post. Why will become apparent.
1. I'm a co-host on a "Pop/Nationality Idol"/"X-Factor"/"The Voice" kind of show, but for stand up comedy. Each comedian gets a maximum amount of time (a few minutes) but the judges each have a pair of headphone/earmuff kind of things that they put on to signal that they don't want to hear any more, so there's kind of a Gong Show kind of interruption dynamic if all three judges put on their headphones.
One of the judges is Nick Cage in a zebra costume. I don't remember anything about the other two.
My co-host is named Brassica Winthrop. Every time they cut to us, it looks like we're in the middle of something else: sliding out from under a car on one of those little mechanic trolley things; brushing our teeth wearing "Hee's" and "Ha's" bathrobes; diving toward the camera, away from an explosion.
There was only one bit of stand-up that I remember: the comedian was talking about how scientists predicted that we needed to reduce the population by 35% if we were going to survive and not entirely wreck the planet; he was questioning whether it would be worse if:
A> We didn't reach that goal; or
B> We reached that goal, by killing all the people who cared
It wasn't funny in dream either.
2. I am the manager/administrator/coach for a superhero team. If it had a name, I don't remember it, but it definitely had a theme: all the members had superspeed.
-“Zeitgeist” (Christina Ricci) didn't run, but could fly very fast, turn intangible and slow or stop time. She was a character in a one-shot Mutants & Masterminds game I ran a while ago.
-“Nightspeed” never did superspeed stuff "on-camera" but always while shrouded in darkness. As she also had darkness powers, that didn't seem like a hindrance. She could send out glossy black tendrils, billow darkness that rolled like smoke, teleport from shadow to shadow and glide on inky wings.
-“Double-time” was more into flippy, acrobatic movement than running. She could make copies of herself, Multiple Man-style.
-"Wildfire" was the most "standard" in terms of approach to superspeed (running at the speed of sound, sprinting up walls, zipping around people to confuse them, that kind of thing), but also had flame powers. Mostly she seemed to use them to leave a trail of fire in her wake, but whether that was intentional or a side-effect wasn't explored.
Our base was an abandoned airfield; we had our offices in the old control tower.
And our Press Officer/PR person was Brassica Winthrop.
There was some stuff about a threat to a nuclear reactor by Grey/Blue-clad ninja, riding camels.
At one point, their leader reached out a claw-like hand and cried "SHRRRRIIIIVELLLL!" as a heat haze kind of wobbly air effect poured forth toward the team, but that's all I remember of their showdown.
