Eyes In The Night

I had a dream. It was interesting and odd. There was a fleet of ships, a large group with it's own systems of government running in and out of groups of ships. The fleet assembled years earlier, fighting back against some technological superpower that had annihilated most of their population. After years of fighting, the technological superpower was destroyed.

There was a lingering touch of the superpower within the fleet. A new type of weapon had been introduced, a cybervirus that could infect someone, turning them into a sleeper agent. These sleeper agents don't really do anything until they actually fall asleep. When they do, they become mostly transparent, radiating a subtle aura, which also causes their eyes to glow. In darkness, they are totally invisible. In the light, they can blend in with their surroundings.

As a result, several former police and militia band together and form a new, covert faction. Their goal is to find and seek out these sleeper agents and eliminate them. They've even gone so far as to develop weapons that will lock on to the sleeper agents, as well as cloaking the weapon operators.

There are other factions as well. There is the military faction, the most predominant of all. They have fought the technological superpower and defeated it, leaving the fleet in a somewhat aimless existence. There is also a scientific religion being overseen by a mischevious doctor; this faction wants simply to overthrow the military faction. What most people are unaware of is that this doctor had previously aided the technological superpower, and they aided him in turn.

The main character would be a member of the police/malitia faction--perhaps I should refer to them as the covert faction since the other's would not be aware of them. He would use his fction's weapon to seek out and destroy the sleeper agents night after night, all while working with the military faction as a security enforcer of some kind.

Noting the significance of the sleeper agents, I'm thinking I should call this "Eyes In The Night."

Shadow of the Boy with Horns

I've slammed full force into the wall of the dreaded writer's block. Of course, this was about a month ago, so I've already mentioned the worst of it. I'm realizing what was going on, more as a way to figure out how to get out of being blocked.

I haven't been transcribing my handwritten notes into files or integrating them with preexisting files. Today, I got up and transcribed the first set of those notes. [Jump up the wall and grab the rope.]

I haven't been reading much, except for breaks at work. In the past few days, I've been reading at home and when I go hang out with my friends. [Scale the wall and smack the shadowdemons with the stick.]

Video Games. I'm part of the way through one and I started two more ON THE SAME DAY. No excuse for that one, except that I finished one of them. [Grab the girl and run out of the castle.]

So the game I finished was a little game called Ico. It's Japanese, so it's pronounced E-Ko. This game is beautiful, wonderful, imaginative. It's got a loose, but strong story about a boy cursed with horns trying to get himself and an etherial princess out of a huge castle. To do so, you've got to jump and climb up walls, smack shadowdemons with a stick, all as a way to solve elaborate puzzles. It sounds tedious, but it's magic. If you've played or had interest in Shadow of the Colossus, Ico is a must, if only to discover the subtle links between the two.