Tipsy?!? Van, this is the perfect time to get started on that crayon drawing.

Drunken simming... I've never done that one before. Van, you may have just opened up whole new worlds for me. *glances over at the fridge where I'm currently housing an unopened bottle of Bailey's*

EDIT: Man, it's going to be weird when I stop associating everyone with their avatars. I'm even starting to associate myself with Paul and I know what I look like!

Nothing -- and I mean NOTHING -- that will happen to me today has any chance of topping this, the first thing I read this morning.

LET THE GAMBLING BEGIN!

So, how did I look in this dream of yours?

The First Annual Lotherian Convention ! In NYC ! How can something be cooler ? That's a great dream ! But I wish it would be in Paris if it happened for real ! For there are more Middle-Age things here than in New York ! And Cassie singing "Zum Geburstag viel Gluck !" , so funny !

~Your French Friend~

Upstate New York is so boring especially Rockland County. I don't feel safe upstate.

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When you do look for apartments in Brooklyn they're much cheaper.

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Wuu. I got my very first Lothere dream last night. And telling the truth, I'm little disappointed. ;3

In the dream, it was morning. I was in our kitchen reading newspaper(www.aamulehti.fi :3) like everyday. And suddenly(didididii) I noticed article, what discussed Lothere. :'D I remember, that there were some pictures(I guess there was Lena or Shosudin or something) and things like "sims 2 stories are very popular and blah blah blah". And I said to my mom(or was it my sister?): "yey, there's Lothere in newspaper".

..and that's all. v__v I don't remember anything after that. Very dramatic, yeah. n____n' Thrill at breakfast.

Apparently my popularity in Finland extands to the land of dreams!

*dies* at Van's screaming Cearball dream.

Hi Zoe

Lothere dreams are so random, hey? Like, you know none of it will ever happen in the story--much less, in real life, of course--but at the same time it seems so real when the dream is actually occurring, and then you wake up still feeling some of the affects of the dream? I would've been pretty freaked out by a dream like that too.

The nice dreams will come eventually, I'm sure

Haha so I totally forgot about this until I was flipping through my travel journal from break and discovered a page of half-written notes on a dream I had.

Basically, Lothere got so poor that it somehow decided to open a theme park: LOTHERE LAND. The poster had Sigefrith on it being all epic and kingly and admission wasn't bad so me and some friends decided to go and check it out. So there we were, having a blast, and I keep seeing all these sims (and not sim versions) of characters I knew wandering around and I got really excited about it all. That is, until William decided to finally find Lothere and was going to destroy everything. There was a battle and I managed to run off with Caedwulf (who was apparently Zac Efron shaped, I don't even know why) and he was all sad so I hugged him and was all "It's going to be okay!"

He and I went off to save the kingdom and I kept remembering that maybe now he could marry me instead of Ogive. As much I loved her, I was all "Queen of Lothere, sup?" and was really excited about this. But before we could save the kingdom, I woke up.

The moral of the story: don't take more than two Benedryl when ill to sleep because then you'll have strange dreams about Lothere ;P

*yaaawn* I should go to the bed, I have early rise to.. to.. (what happends at sunday?) whaever. But before that, I want tell about my dream. When I still remember it.

That dream wasn't really "Lothere dream", there were my friends and random people. It happened in some mossy and moist castle, or rather its ruins. Well. We ran and hided and so on(no reason needed), and then I founded some room(y'know, tables, chairs, fireplace etc). There was a lot of characters of Lothere, but guess, do I remember anyone of them? Nope. Only.. There was Sigefrith, and he leaded conversation. The room was rather narrow, and someone pushed me near to wall. I tried to hear what was subject.
And then I understood that some girl has get pregnant, and now people tried to find, who is the father. Girl was too there, in the middle. I knew she was familiar looking. Somewhere I got idea that she is relative of Colburga, 'cause they were so alike. Brown hair and bla bla. She was quite noble and that's why thing was soooo important.
Anyway, no one confessed his act(not expected or anything. btw, why didin't girl tell? ). Just brooding silence. Suddenly girl started to cry. Then, one of the men walked to the door, very fast and pale, and everybody knew: it was him.

I think I was the only one who was amazed and sad. Why just he? "Nooo, one of my favourite characters!" I have memory that I went with my random pals to the door where man left, and then I woke up.

I like the sound of that. I wonder what would have happened at zero letters as well.

Ya'll have had some cool dreams. It seems like Alfred gets dreamed about the most...I hope that some day he gets his kissing token.

great, I'm thinking like Caedwulf. ;D

Would Caedwulf with a mangy 16-year-old beard really be preferable to a clean-shaven teen-age Sigefrith chin?

I insist that Caedwulf is a very charismatic young man, whatever his chin or social rank have to say about it. Homecoming King of Lothere High right there.

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The guy did manage to impregnant Cecily with only knowing her for a few short hours.

I would love to see a modern high school version of Lothere -- for no other reason than that Emma NEEDS bubblegum to chaw and snap. She just does. And sparkly gel pens whose caps she would gnaw. Hmm I sense an oral fixation...

Indeed, I am quite often stymied in my writing by the absence of: cigarettes, hard liquor, coffee and tea, and potatoes. The first four are all excellent props, and the last... just comes up a lot. (How often have I wanted to make Sigefrith call someone a Potatohead?) What a relief it would seem to write a modern story with all its familiar accoutrements. Of course many of those things would just hasten the death of all the hot, tortured men...

I couldn't really see Leofric as a teenager. I mean, I know he must have been a teenager at some point in his life. But even at Lothere High, I would still envision him as the pervy middle-aged man who hangs out by the track, picking up 16-year-olds.

Heheheh, that might make a good Christmas post or some other bonus type thing--what certain characters might look like in a modern setting.

Last night I had a Lothere dream... about Lar. Sexy, shirtless, sweaty, messy-haired Lar, who had assembled all his elves and was giving them hell because SOMEBODY had misplaced the prunes. THE PRUNES!!!

I saved the day by checking in the fridge. And lo and behold, there were the prunes. Sadly, I do not remember if I got any sexy, sweaty gratitude from Lar.

I had my first Lothere dream last night! I dreamed that Iylaine was kidnapped/went on a pilgrimage or whatever, and everyone assumed that she died (including Malcolm and Vash). She made her way back years later and Malcolm sensed her and went out on a horse to meet her, and they had a romantic ride back to their home - which was now a castle. She wakes up the next morning to realize that her son was now a teenager and doesn't recognize her as his mother - because Malcolm had already moved on with Connie. So then she tries to find Vash only to find out that he's married to Sigi (wtf?) and they're now rulers of the elves together. And when she goes to see him, he makes a witty/sarcastic remark and glances sideways at Sigi while they're sitting on thrones, and they both smile mockingly.

It was a pretty sad dream because I kept on switching between third person and first person viewpoints - experiencing what Iylaine was feeling and then kind of watching the whole thing like a movie. Weird! And probably wildly out of character too - especially the Vash and Sigi part.

Yeah. Vash and Sigi is definitely a crack pairing (but now that I think about it, maybe someone like Sigi might be just what he needs ) My brain is weird. I don't know about the dream being sympathetic to Iylaine...she was pretty mean to her kids when they reunited, I think. Just very strange and rather sad overall. Maybe I was remembering when she said that children didn't really need their mothers? And I think Malcolm had some hair-brained scheme to keep his two wives from finding out about each other somehow, which is also wildly out of character.

Ah, I wish I dreamt of my characters more often! Of course, even when I do I often end up dreaming stupid stuff like Lar looking for prunes. But one time I did get awfully close to Vash's minty-fresh, clean-shaven cheek. (I won't mention the dream about Saeward, because that was just... too much.)

It's interesting that you started reading for the elves! A lot of people have mentioned that they were dubious about the elves at first... expecting the millionth rehashing of Tolkien's elves. Hopefully I have disappointed neither you nor those people!

Same here I simply love your elves. You gave them a nice something. I'm glad they're not in lord of the rings style. Aren't there many different kinds of them? Let me think... Another kind of elves that I adore is in the manga/anime universe in Record of Lodoss war. They have some kind of shamanistic / nature spirits (fairy) magic and uber long ears.

While writing about lodoss elves I suddenly remembered that I had another Lothere dream some time ago. It was about Iylaine. She wanted to go to Vash very badly but couln't. He was in some kind of forest where she couldn't reach him because she wasn't allowed. She still tried everything. Malcolm wanted her to stop (he didn't even like it all from the beginning I believe). In some ways I did make it to Vash to tell him about Iylaine. That she was waiting for him by the same tree every time trying to find a way to contact him. Asking if there could be something done so that she might see him and talk to him even if only for once.
Don't remember any small details anymore so the why this, why that is a mystery to me.
Also I have always been team Vash since the beginning *waves Vash-fanflag*
Still I do adore Malcolm too. But Vash and Iylaine share a birthday with me ;p . Plus that I always thought that Iylaine always longed more for Vash but okays enough about that.
*almost falling asleep while writing* ... It's what you get from staying up at a strange time.

Side note: don't know if there is a topic about it but I love the new layout. When I went through some pages it suddenly changed. It looks good on my iPod will surely see it on my compy when I'm getting on it later.

OH, she is definitely still hoping!

*waves the leafy banner*

Really bizarre Lothere dream that was a segment of a really bizarre series of dreams. I don't know what I ate last night to inspire this craziness

Okay, so throughout the dream, I kept flipping between the POVs of Ogive's maid and some omniscient being in the sky. So, Ogive and her maid went hunting with Sigefrith, Saeward, Eadred, and Seyert (wtf?). They went into the woods and eventually reached a small house, so they went inside and they all got into this argument over who could shoot the furthest. Sigefrith suggested they have a contest, and the winner gets Saeward's cat as a prize (...). So the house fades into this platform on the top of what could be a nice ski hill today, and they all take their shots. As Ogive's maid, I get sent down to see whose arrow went the furthest. Eadred won, and Saeward was all sad because the cat was his only friend and he wanted to keep her, but Eadred was all "Well, she's my cat now!"

Then, somehow, the cat was on the platform and she jumped off and wandered off in the snow, and they all lost sight of her, since she was a white cat. Eadred and Saeward were both freaking out, so Sigefrith was all "I know! We'll find her by covering the hill with fish and (wait for it) jellybeans!" They all crowed over his genius for a moment, then went off to get the fish and and jellybeans.

Then, Ogive's maid was suddenly at the bottom of the hill again, and Eadwyn emerged from the forest and grabbed her by the arm and said--WORD FOR WORD--"I've earned my pay. Let's get hot chocolate at the Kwik-E-Mart."

And then the dream faded into some other dream that wasn't Lothere-related. Regardless, I was both pleasantly surprised and totally weirded out to wake up and find that I actually remembered this

It occurs to me that the white cat could also represent Ralf. In which case the homoeroticism only deepens...

I had a dream that I was being haunted by the ghost of Matilda. It was really weird, especially as she kept changing shape. I think she had braces at one point.
There was also something about this mystical music that, like, summoned her or something. I don't know, I just remember walking around in a castle and there was Matilda again, walking through walls, grinning at me with her braceface. Rather unsettling.
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I dreamt last night that everyone on this site changed their avatars to pictures of deformed sim babies. It was profoundly unsettling.
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I had this dream a couple of weeks ago but didn't mention it because it was utterly ridiculous. In the dream, I was seeing things through the eyes of Eirik (yet I was somehow seeing Eirik himself at the same time... weird how dreams are!) Anyway, I could feel Eirik's love and longing for someone (not Siggy!!) as he was heading toward a glass house that was breaking down yet being built at the same time. Whoever he was longing for was inside that house. I couldn't see the person inside because of all the reflections, and I could feel how badly Eirik just wanted to see the face of his love. I mean, it was like so intense that it felt like my heart was breaking. Anyway, he stood right in front of the house as it was shattering around him and put his hand up against the glass, and then I saw another hand reach up to touch the glass from the other side, and then I was Eirik and I could see the person through the glass. And GUESS WHO IT WAS, this person that Eirik was sooooo in love with.

C'mon, guess.

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CAREBALLS

Anyway as soon as I saw Carebear's face I was myself again and fell to my knees and yelled "NOOOOOOOOOOOO", shaking my fists at both the sky and Eirik. Then I woke up and was like "wtf" and got up to go to work.

If he went to prison for something HONORABLE. Oh the rapture

I think we can all guess what Caedwulf was "off doing."

Be thankful you didn't dream of Caedwulf, in that case!

Woah, that's some dream!
Personally, I think you can never have too much Fwynn obsession. After all, it's DESTINY!

The new Saracen character thing sounds interesting. Maybe you were a relative of Leila? Younger sister maybe? Or niece? Would be kind of weird though, with Cedric kissing you, since you'd be related too.
Emma turning into Leofric souns so funny. Small Emma growing into huge brute Leofric. ^^ I don't know what I'd do if I saw that happen. I guess it won't be so funny in reality. And having Leofric roar at me like that would most probably make me faint.

I had a bit of a Lothere dream myself tonight actually. I don't remember much, except that I looked at the homepage and there was a new banner. "Yay! New chappy!" I thought and clapped my hands in excitement. And then I was sucked into the banner and watched mayhem descend. The rest is kind of a blur, because there was so much happening at once. I think someone was brawling (Malcolm and someone else?), a few girls and women were crying (I think I remember some scottisch keening as well, although I never heard anything like that in real life.), and Dante stood not too far from me, watching the others and looking very satisfied with himself.

That's when I woke up all bleary-eyed, took a look out the window, turned around and fell back asleep. ^^ I'm surprised I even remember.

I know it's a little late to comment on your dream, but I still hope it is a hint from your subconscious to get Vash and Iylaine together. But if it's because you want him for yourself, I can understand you - He is cute, but still I feel sorry for him because he is all alone.

Sounds like a case of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand

I had one last night! It was odd. Cathal was sitting on an off-white floral couch-- A sort of contemporary grandma sofa. The room was completely white and empty and it was just him on the couch, smiling.

It's an ill wind that blows no good!

Last night I had another Lothere dream! I was staying at Lady Eadgith's house (Raegiming?), and she gave me a laptop and told me to type up all the foods I could eat (I'm vegetarian) and all the pets that I liked so she could have them brought there. Then she left the room, and when I worked my way towards the subject of Thai food (I love Thai food so much I dream about it, apparently) I heard a scream.

Then I was suddenly Cedric, and I discovered Eadgith lying sick in a corridor. So I grabbed the nearest telephone and called Iylaine, who immediately appeared and told me to go wait on the back porch. Where there was a blizzard.

So I went out and waited in the storm, watching Lady Eadgith's nice patio furniture being ruined, and when Iylaine came back out, I was all surprised because for some reason I thought she was taking Eadgith back with her through the blizzard to her house. Her hair was in a long braid like Orlaith's. She said Eadgith would be fine, and "Of course I'm not taking her back to my house! Vash is there right now and she might tell Malcolm!" She disappeared into the storm. Then I crawled under the padded deck bench and had a conversation with Egelric, who fit there just fine.

That was when I woke up.
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That travail in the deep,
And joy the day in mirth the while,
And spend the night in sleep.

I had one the night before last! Sort of. I dreamed that I was running away from a fanatical sect of some kind that wanted to kill me (either as a sacrifice or to prevent something from happening-- I was unclear about their MO) because I bled a clear, water-like substance instead of blood. At a truck stop in a town that closely resembled Twin Peaks, someone handed me a few torn pages of a note from Alred. The note was written on yellow block note paper and the pages were numbered (which was how I knew that I was missing most of the letter). The bits of the letter that I received were totally illegible though. I remember reading the words, "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" but the rest was just scribbles. I woke up yesterday morning thinking that Alred had finally cracked.

Also, I just re-read Devin's rosette dream and laughed my tookus off. Tukus? Tookis? Does anyone speak Yiddish?

So I had a fun one last night.

First of all, Jenny was on an updating spree. She uploaded somewhere in the neighborhood of ten chapters in a single night. And I was reading chapter after chapter after chapter. And of course, it cut off at a perfect cliffhanger, or at least my dream did.

Anyway, I think it all started with Malcolm coming home (to Lothere) and being greeted and welcomed back by everybody. My simself may or may not have been part of the crowd. Everybody was fawning over Malcolm but Iylaine. She was hanging back, hesitant. Then she moved away, down a set of stairs -- and here is where it gets a bit odder -- I remember calling her name and wanting to go after her, make sure that she was all right. But then I felt silly, since it's a story and I can't interfere with it. Oh, and everybody somehow heard me call after her and try to interfere. However, Jenny told me not to worry about it, since just about anybody seeing how much distress Iylaine was in would want to go after her and keep her from doing anything rash.

Then a bunch of other stuff happened in the middle that I don't really remember. (Sorry, it's a dream.) But Iylaine was acting odder and odder. And then ... do not ask me how this happened ... but she suffocated a real jerkass with her leg. He was in a sunken hot tub at the time (it was a CC hot tub that looked like a hot spring), and she was somehow standing on the water over his dead body. His name was Lovelace, Norman Lovelace, I believe. I remember thinking that Lovelace was not a medieval name.

But see, it might or might not have been Iylaine -- she might have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time -- or she might have been under the mind control of an evil witch. Yes, there was an evil witch. Complete with Maxis green skin and the green glow, and the hat and the costume and everything. She was also in a "computer" pose in the one picture I remember seeing of her. I remember that post was really short, basically saying, "Hey, there's a Wizard-of-Oz-Green evil witch around, and she may or may not be mind-controlling Iylaine." Only better.

Then, of course, everybody is freaking out about the murder and somehow the characters have found out about the evil witch. It turns out that Sigefrith has known about her for a while; he had defeat her somehow when he first moved into the valley, but didn't tell anybody about it. Then, as they're all dithering over what to do, somebody calls in two people from the next room. They're two characters from my blog. For those of you who read it, the characters were Jessie and Will. For those of you who don't, all you really need to know is that Jessie and Will are married, Jessie is a good witch, and Will has no magic at all but a good head on his shoulders. Oh, and Jessie is a princess.

Jessie starts questioning most people, mainly Sigefrith, about the witch. Then she finds out that he knew about her, had faced her before. Then ... she starts berating him for not having killed the witch properly the first time. Those of you who read my blog may or may not be surprised by that, but I sure wasn't.

Then, just as Sigefrith was looking really uncomfortable under the onslaught ... my alarm went off and I had to go to work.

And that was the start of my Monday morning.

I finally had another Lothere dream last night. I went to a high school where all the teachers were Lothere characters. Alred was the English/drama teacher, Cenwulf was the drone-y history teacher. Leofric the phys ed teacher and Sigefrith was the principal. I gotta say I had never been more interested in an English class before.

Last night, I dreamed that the story updated. I just remember lots of pictures of Aengus looking foolish.