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Anyone else get the Appleseed dreams?

Started by Zorak, March 16, 2026, 10:54:30 AM

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Zorak

I still recall how on Sunday night after my first Appleseed, I dreamed the entire AQT, all four stages of it, in order. That did not require the services of a trained psychologist to figure out. Last night, after my first IBC, I was having a perfectly entertaining dream about fighting vampires, good action hero stuff, when suddenly ITB walked in from stage left and asked me what went wrong with the squares target he was holding. Some people have absolutely no boundaries.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pookie

During the seventy years which elapsed between the overthrow of the Stuart dynasty and the victory of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham, the relations between the American colonies and the British government were, on the whole, peaceful; and the history of the colonies, except for the great and romantic struggle with New France, would have been almost destitute of striking incidents. In view of the perpetual menace from France, it was clearly unwise for the British government to irritate the colonies, or do anything to weaken their loyalty; and they were accordingly left very much to themselves. Still, they were not likely to be treated with any great liberality,â€"for such was not then, as it is hardly even yet, the way of governments...

UpACreek

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Flintlock54

Acts 22:28. I was freeborn

Fulcrum

Has anyone ever dreamed they were at a Appleseed event and suddenly realized they were naked?

No?

Yeah, me neither...

Zorak

Quote from: UpACreek on March 16, 2026, 02:49:10 PMLol

Did you invite him in?

Based on ITB's role in getting me this orange hat, I can assure you that the he does not wait to be invited.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

UpACreek

He's not a very good vampire then, is he? 

Appleseed vampires persist.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Zorak

Quote from: UpACreek on March 16, 2026, 06:11:24 PMHe's not a very good vampire then, is he? 

Appleseed vampires persist.

He wasn't a vampire. He was just intruding upon my vampire-fighting heroics with instructor development work.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bundt Pan

Quote from: UpACreek on March 16, 2026, 06:11:24 PMHe's not a very good vampire then, is he? 

Appleseed vampires persist.

 ;D 

Do AS Vampires need coffins of dirt from battle road to teleport? Could explain how some of our volunteers appear to travel vast distances quickly
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SteelThunder

I strongly recommend NOT inviting ITB into your dreams.  He never leaves...
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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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