#remember the dales ? remember the ambient sounds of the dales ??

[mesherew]

you know what i missed the most in veilguard ? trevor morris' music

[joygirlmelii]

Meetings in Dreams

Title: Meetings in Dreams

Characters: Laura Palmer & Dale Cooper (NO SHIP/PLATONIC)

Fandom: Twin Peaks

Chapters: 2/?

Words: 550

Part 1

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Summary

Laura Palmer and Dale Cooper share dreams. Laura finds solace in talking to this unknown man and Dale Cooper tries to find meaning in these dreams. Are they a premonition of something? What is this teenager hiding? Only one thing is clear: Cooper wants to protect Laura from anything.

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Notes

Second chapter of this. Remember that this is in no order (I plan to write their first encounter) and also remember that English is not my first language if I make a mistake feel free to correct me (As long as it is done kindly!)

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Chapter 2

Laura and Cooper's dreams weren't like other dreams, at least not in the traditional way. There were never completely defined landscapes or entirely recognizable places. Everything had an unreal air, as if they were trapped in a space between what exists and what fades in the mind.

Endless corridors, lit by flickering fluorescent lights. Roads that seemed to stretch forever without a clear destination and on each side were rows and rows of trees with no difference between each one. Empty train stations, where the sound came from that indicated the arrival of a train that never arrived. Hotels with corridors that never ended and that contained doors that led to more corridors, to more unknown spaces.

Laura liked these places. She didn't have to be the queen of the ball, nor the girl with secrets she didn't want anyone to find out about. She didn't have to be in Twin Peaks, which had become a living hell for her lately.

“Don't you think these places feel…” Cooper paused in his question, his mind searching for the words to continue “outside of time?”

Laura turned on her heel, looking around the large, empty shopping mall they were in at the time. Escalators that didn't move an inch from their place, stores with no difference in size or structure from each other, shop windows without any reflection, ambient music playing everywhere from a speaker with no visible source.

“Yes,” she replied with a light, almost silly, playful smile. She was fascinated by those places. “It’s perfect.”

"Why?" the man asked.

“Because there is no future or past here.” Laura, striding and skipping several levels, climbed onto one of the stopped stairs, extending her arms as if she were balancing on a tightrope. “I don't have to worry about what comes next.”

Cooper watched her carefully, trying to study her, to get into her mind and know what she was thinking.

“Are you afraid of the future?” was the question Cooper asked her. It was a question formulated from understanding. He knew what it was like to feel like that, he went through it, sometimes he stopped to think about what was coming for him and those close to him, he realized that he was terrified of what could happen between now and the near future and the not so near future.

Laura didn't look at him, frowning. She stood motionless at the top of the stairs.

"Sometimes I don't want it to come," she confessed, with a certain air of fear.

Cooper felt something inside him, a feeling of foreboding. As if he were walking a very fine line.

“And the past?” the FBI agent asked.

Laura smiled sadly and nostalgically, looking down at her feet. She decided to ignore the question for her own good.

“I wish I could get lost here forever,” Laura said, and extended her hand to him, inviting him to follow her.

He held her hand and they both started up those endless stairs. He didn't know what to make of the words the young teenager told him, but he knew they meant something important.

He knew that, in some way, these liminal spaces weren't just places in his dreams. They were symbols of something bigger. Something he needed to understand before it was too late.

[felassan]

Endless DA4 BtS vid thoughts

The speed lines around the rogue in “Action Shot” remind me of like, passive rogue skills/abilities that increase movement speed or evasion chance. Or maybe a mage has cast Haste?

The elf guy’s staff is quite simple and not really being wielded in a mage-archtypal way. The thing I’m reminded of here is how Irian Cestes, a rogue-like elf from Tevinter Nights, is an expert staff-fighter. She also taught Vadis, a mage, some staff-fighting tactics.

About the airship shot: doesn’t the giant statue head bear a bit of resemblance to this one, which is located in the crypt of a wealthy Nevarran? I’m also reminded of the Dead Hand, a big stone hand which is a landmark in the Exalted Plains in the Dales. According to the lore, it is “something of a mystery”. It’s assumed that “it is a piece broken off from a larger whole”, a much larger sculpture. But where was the rest of the statue? “It is difficult to imagine how something so large could go missing.” The Wiki presents 2 theories about how the hand got there (see Trivia section). The second one is especially notable given the elfy-ness of and floating objects in this piece of concept art and the fact that we know floating objects from the time of Arlathan fell when Solas raised the Veil and disrupted the magic (ambient dialogue in Trespasser etc).

While we’re on the subject of that shot - floating, floating.. Some objects like chandeliers and buildings float in Tevinter. Levitation magic is part of established lore. It’s also a hallmark of the Fade, ancient Arlathan, the Crossroads. But also! In Descent, Renn tells a story of a soldier of his that once got lost in the Deep Roads for three days after falling down a hole. After they found her, she spent a whole day telling them of the strange things she had seen: “A golden longboat floating in the air... packs of hairless children hunting nugs... a giant skeleton on a throne”. They never found out if it was true, and she had forgotten it all when she woke up the next day. Floating longboats?

On reflection, if Warden Davrin is a companion, I think I’d like him to be a rogue rather than a warrior. In main games, we’ve had warrior Warden companions (Alistair and essentially Blackwall) and a mage Warden companion (Anders). Rogue pls to complete the set. (Awakening expansion notwithstanding). If he’s a rogue, could he be the third from the left figure in the lineup?

According to Google, “Bellara” is an Australian town/place name, a word of Aboriginal origin. The meaning is apparently “good”, or “magnificent / majestic” (India), but I can’t say how reliable that information is. I can’t really find anything for Davrin (not that there necessarily would have to be anything obviously).

If Skellington is Audric: Audric as an entity is a “higher dead”, seemingly a spirit that needed to find balance between its two aspects, Curiosity and Anger, or else he’s “caught between two spirits: anger and curiosity” (compare our previous experiences with Justice/Vengeance, and Wisdom/Pride in All New, Faded For Her). When I was thinking about him though I got hit by the nostalgic memory of speculating about Cole, pre-release but after he’d been confirmed as a companion. His personal quest ended up being a more Spirit vs more Human choice, but I remember speculating if his arc would involve turning more to Compassion or to Despair depending on, for example, the PC’s actions (good choices vs evil choices). Rage might not be the same as Anger, but: in DA lore, Rage demons are noted to be simpler and less devious than other types of demons. At first thinking about the idea I was like ‘hmm’ because that doesn’t sound like a very exciting concept, but then I remembered Scout Grandin in JoH, Harding’s friend who went missing. He, a mage lacking in talent for magic, willingly allowed himself to be possessed by a Rage demon after Hakkonites killed his good friend and attacked his patrol. When you meet him he expresses a wish to fight for the Inquisition, stop their enemies killing more people, and protect the Inquisition’s people. Solas asks him “And what then? Will you stop or will the rage take you?” You can allow him to serve the Inquisition’s cause rather than killing him, and he swears to it. This Rage entity was more complex than the usual ones we encounter, and at the time I found him pretty interesting. I don’t really know what my point is here, especially since Audricuriosity is a very good bean, but there’s an example of how that side of it could work on the PC’s side, and also, yeah, I’ve been punted back into the days when I wondered if Cole’s arc or ‘choice’ in-game would be Compassion vs Despair, and am thinking about Curiosity vs Anger as the dual aspects in maybe-Audric, and what that could be like to explore in a character arc.

And I might have said this somewhere already, but the Grand Necropolis would make a fantastic candidate for a critpath story-heavy mission setting like our explorations through the Temple of Mythal in DAI. I’d be here for them utilizing it in such a way and us discovering tasty lore and !!! revelations and stuff on the way.

[eldritchsurveys]

730.

Have you ever drank ale? >> I’m honestly taking this survey solely because I thought the theme was clever, lmao. I didn’t even take a good look at the questions, I just saw the pattern and was like “hah... nice”. Anyway, yeah, I’ve drank ale.

Do you know how to use Braille? >> I mean, I understand how it works, but I can’t read it myself.

Do you know anyone named Dale? >> Sparrow’s father’s middle name is Dale.

Do you like the name Gale? >> I’ve only seen it in The Hunger Games and it seemed to fit the character well. I suppose it’s a fine name.

Have you ever been to jail? >> I’ve been in the vicinity of jail cells, but I haven’t been inside one myself.

Have you ever eaten kale? >> Yeah, I’ve always liked kale. I don’t like a lot of the weird things that get done to it now that it’s fashionable, though.

Are you female or male? >> No.

Do you bite your nails? >> No.

Is your skin pale? >> Quite the opposite.

Have you ever seen a Quail (the bird)? >> Not in person.

When you use stairs, do you usually hold the rail? >> Not usually, but sometimes.

Have you ever eaten a snail? >> No.

Do you like walking on nature trails? >> Sure.

Have you ever worn a veil? >> No.

Have you ever been stung by a bee? >> No.

Do you know any Tai Chi? >> No.

Do you know anyone with the name/nickname Dee? >> No.

Are the best things in life really free? >> It depends on what one values.

Do you like the show “Glee”? >> I’ve never seen it.

Has anyone ever kicked you in the knee? >> I don’t think so. But maybe.

Do you know anyone named Lee? >> Yeah, I have a tumblr mutual named Lee.

Have you taken any other surveys made by me? >> I don’t know who made this survey.

Right now, do you have to pee? >> Yeah. I just keep putting it off.

What’s a movie you’d like to see? >> Antebellum, but I can’t see it because coronavirus got in the way.

Have you ever planted a tree? >> When I was a kid.

Have you ever made anything with clay? >> Maybe.

Has today been a good day? >> It’s been fine, yeah.

Do you like the band The Fray? >> No.

Are you wearing anything that’s gray? >> Nope.

Have you ever fed a horse hay? >> No.

Do you like the name Jay? >> Not particularly, it doesn’t interest me or anything.

Are you more likely to text “Okay”, “OK” or just “K”? >> Whichever. Although texting “k” to Sparrow is funny because of the running joke about her older sister who thinks if you text “k” to someone it’s actually a subliminal “fuck you”.

Is your birthday in May? >> Yes!

Do you ever pray? >> No.

Do you know anyone named Ray? >> No.

Do you know anyone named Trey? >> No.

Do you often pass the blame? >> Nah.

Have you ever called a woman a “dame”? >> Nope.

Would you rather have fortune or fame? >> I don’t see any point in having either.

What is your favourite video game? >> I don’t have one, I play a lot of them.

Do you remember the actor Corey Haim? >> Vaguely.

What is something you think is lame? (This survey, perhaps? haha) >> Nah, this survey has a fun theme and I appreciate that. I think being a hater is lame.

What’s your name? >> Mordred.

In your pocket, do you have a dime? >> No.

Do you like the taste of lime? >> Love it.

Have you ever seen a mime (in real life)? >> I’ve seen a lot of street performers, so probably.

Do you think it’s stupid that I’m making my questions rhyme? >> Not at all.

When did you last check the time? >> About five minutes ago.

Have you ever gone to a bar? >> Yep.

Do you have a car? >> I personally do not.

Have you travelled very far? >> Eh, not very.

Do you keep spare change in a jar? >> No.

Would you like to go to Mars? >> Absolutely. As long as it doesn’t turn into fucking Aniara.

Have you ever wished on a shooting star? >> No.

Have you ever drank beer? >> Yep.

What is your dream career? >> ---

Have you ever seen a deer (in real life)? >> Many times.

What is your biggest fear? >> Meh.

Have you ever seen the show “Top Gear”? >> I think I saw an episode or two because of Sigma.

Right now, what can you hear? >> Ambient environmental sounds.

What is your age? >> 32.

Have you ever kept a pet in a cage? >> No.

Have you ever used a tire gauge? >> No. I’ve played with one like it was a toy, though, lol.

Have you ever performed on stage? >> Yes.

What’s your hourly wage? (If you have a job.) >> ---

Have you ever seen a bear (in real life)? >> In a zoo, yeah.

Are you currently sitting in a chair? >> No.

Have you ever played Truth or Dare? >> No.

Do you like to go to the fair? >> I haven’t been to a fair since I was a child, but I’d probably get a kick out of it now.

What colour is your hair? >> Dark brown.

When did you last eat a pear? >> I can’t even remember.

Do you like your steak cooked rare? >> I don’t like steak.

Do you often curse/swear? >> Yep.

What is your favourite kind of shoe to wear? >> Well, I like my Skechers sneakers because they’re easy to put on and they’re not suffocating, but I also like my boots because they’re badass. I guess when it comes to which pair feels better to wear, especially if I’m doing a lot of walking, I’m going with the sneakers.

Are you wearing anything that’s blue? >> Nope.

Have you ever played the game Clue? >> No. Finally saw the movie, though.

When did you last have the flu? >> I’ve never had it.

Have you ever eaten glue? >> No.

Are you a Jew? >> An aspiring one, maybe.

Have you ever looked at a cow and said moo? >> Yeah, lol.

Do you tend to buy clothes used or new? >> A mixture of both.

Do you like Pepe Le Pew? >> I don’t have an opinion about him.

If you have Netflix, how many items are in your queue? >> There are maybe six on my “Currently Watching” and like nine on my “To Watch”.

Do you ever make your own stew? >> No.

Are all your answers to these questions true? >> Sure.

Have you ever been to the zoo? >> Yes.