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Dreaming While I Wake - Jorlem - 03-05-2010
A remix of Shenmue's Sedge Tree, by Arkimedes
Dreaming While I Wake
It's 3 AM and I'm drifting
Staring at an illuminous screen, I'm pondering
What am I doing and why am I here?
It's times like these when my future isn't clear
In that place between when you're asleep and awake
The time that you see yourself so hard to take
That sleepless while where it all falls apart
I wonder how in the world did I get this far?
But then I dream that I am who I want to be
That I'm successful and I'm free
Life's no longer a mystery
I'm a hero on the big screen
I'm romantic hopelessly
I'm a soldier, a pioneer
There is no pain
I have no fear
Dreaming while I wake, I am so free
When I rise, I know my fate, and it makes me believe
I'm a poet, a Renaissance man
I'm a lone wolf with a battle plan
I'm never alone when I'm with friends
I can look into my own eyes again
I can throw everything to the wind
Without any worries at all
'cuz when I dream, I fly so high
I know I can never fall
(No worries, no fears, no nightmares, no tears)
But then I dream that I am who I want to be
That I'm successful and I'm free
Life's no longer a mystery
I'm a hero on the big screen
I'm romantic hopelessly
I'm a soldier, a pioneer
There is no pain
I have no fear
You can listen to it here, or here. The second link has a download link too.
My idea for this song's effect is that it would put Doug in a sort of limited lucid dream state , but while he is still awake. This would grant him extremely limited reality warping powers, in that they would only affect him, turning him into who he wants to be, within reason, at the moment. Further offsetting this would be that after the song ends, he would remember what he had done during the song about as well as one usually remembers dreams. Also, while the song is playing, I imagine he would be using quite a bit of dream logic, which, given that he is called the Loon, would likely either go almost completely unnoticed, or be extraordinarily frightening.
(I'm not really quite sure where all that came from. I originally thought it was going to be a 'skill monkey' type boost, with the skills fading away like a dream afterward. Odd.)
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
- Bob Schroeck - 03-05-2010
Wow. Nice.
And I like the power idea, too.
Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.