Nightmare Exercises

I've been remembering some of my dreams again lately. A few nights ago, I dreamt I was in a mall back in San Diego and I was being chased by a short, bald man wearing a bright red polo. I think it's because I hate polos so much.

I suspect I'm getting more troubled dreams because I've been playing video games before bed, something I realised long ago I shouldn't do for this very reason. But somehow I've gotten sucked into Skyrim again, twelve years after the game's initial release. It's a good game on its own but it still seems to have a very active modding community so the Skyrim I'm playing now is vastly different from the one I first played over a decade ago. It has improved graphics and a better interface. I'm able to have more than one follower and I'm able to give them specialised combat roles.

Oh, yeah, and they're all dressed as Playboy bunnies. What do you expect? I'm a big old pervert. My character is the vampire in yellow with the knives, Junko. One of the mods I'm using creates a more complex perk tree which makes duel wielding daggers much more useful and interesting. Those bunny clothes don't count as armour, I've been levelling my character without building any armour skill. In Skyrim, it's actually beneficial to avoid levelling some skills because the enemies level up with you. This is an assassin character so she's good at sneaking and backstabbing. When I sneak up on someone and get them from behind with a dagger, I do 24 times the normal damage. The only trouble is this character is shit when fighting against dragons, particularly since I installed a "Deadly Dragons" mod because I always thought the vanilla dragons were too easy. This mod also makes the dragons use cool special abilities and spells. I especially like the "Storm Dragon" which summons a rain storm when it appears. It's nice atmosphere and it's easier for me to sneak in a storm. Not that I've managed to successfully backstab a dragon yet.

You can raise the difficulty level in vanilla Skyrim but that just seems to give everyone more hitpoints, which results in tedious sessions of me hacking repeatedly at someone. These mods are much more interesting.

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Obtaining plushy dreams promotes the group.
Dividing chores, the festive rodents run.
Observing rock, musicians slowly roll.
Successful dough imbues the butter bun.
Absurd as rolling bellies burn a sweet.
Revolving games align for lover dreams.
However, bats asleep alone were beat.
Forgotten cars concealing naught, it seems.
With proper balance, bowls can hold a soup.
Embarrassed bats could never dance again.
Without a wrap, the lady pawned a dupe.
Embargoes stopped the flow of cash to bin.
Dissolving snakes desired food to stay.
Devoured night deposits sunken day.