I went to paragon

[Joshex]

I went to sleep last night and had a vivid dream, I woke up standing in atlas park, I could feel the wind and smell the deisel fuel of the inner city, I could hear the sounds and see the sites with my own eyes. I walked around and sure enough the thought came to mind that someone at google must have bought city of heroes and started the game up.

even though I was there physically I was wearing a google glass which showed the UI and carried my messages accross zones.

I yelled "The game is actually back OMG thankyou google" to which someone else replied "duh, of coarse they did and I already said that" I couldn't help but laugh, just happy to be back again, I went to the blue line to begin my day and... I got loading screened.. mapservered.. and woke up..


AAAHHHHHHHHH SANDMAN YOU CRUEL TEMPTER SEND ME BACK!, but really Sandman, thanks even those few moments were worth it.

[Captain Electric]

I had a very similar dream a few nights ago, except I was alone in the city. I wandered around Atlas Park and eventually into a few buildings, like the police station on the northeast side. I remember walking into BAB's office. Nobody there. I don't normally pride myself on having an excellent memory, which is why it is even stranger that every room, every desk, chair, and computer was where it should be. Somewhere in my mind, all of that stuff was still present and accounted for. I remember there were a couple of things slightly out of place. A stray sheet of paper laying on the floor (I picked it up and laid it on the desk). A desk chair swiveled around. Like someone had gotten up and ran out in a hurry to attend to some emergency...and never returned. Then, as I stood there, looking around the station, I felt something weird, for just a second. It was like I knew that there were hundreds, maybe thousands of Primal Earths, all separated, like broken shards, each containing a single, lonely hero or villain. I woke up feeling a weird mixture of things.

I had another dream in the same night where I wasn't a character, but myself as the player. But again, I knew I was totally alone in the world. I was slowly walking through a dark, dreary cave map, and eventually came to stop in one of the darkest areas of the cavern, with nothing but the echoes of water droplets and that eerie cave background humming from the game. I stood there staring at the screen, and for a couple of minutes it was like I was in the game, as my character, feeling the weight of the darkness and the almost-silence pressing in against me.

Then I heard my Steam messenger chime. I shift-tabbed to bring up Steam's overlay and there was a chat box with a lot of people signed into it. I then heard another instant messenger program chime. Then on another program, over VOIP, someone asked if everyone was in place. The community had planned and organized this very special event. Everyone had installed Icon and had agreed to go to one of the most lonely feeling places in the game, to stand there, alone and yet together, everyone in their own instance, to beat away the darkness; and stand just as resolute and unified as ever, as we had that day in AP33. I had the impression that there were hundreds of people "there".

I remember there were a few moments of silence, after which there was a Cape Radio DJ's voice and music, and the dream faded away amid lots of friendly chatter.

[Joshex]

heh, so, it seems I'm not the only one who has visited paragon since the shutdown.

you know, I've had a hypothesis about this for some time but can't confirm it without a bit more evidence. in theory, there are parallel universes, and there is one universe for every possible possibility.

I never really thought about it till my dreams started talking back to me, I mean, I could consciously tell that what was being said by others in the dream was not a thought being generated from my own gray matter. Sometimes I'd go to anime worlds, other times inside videogames. and other times inside my own epic tales which I have yet to finish chronicaling.

could it be that yes sometimes our dreams are created by our brains as a way to sort the data we have procurred over the past while, and yet at other times it has nothing to do with that at all, dare I say Paragon city is a real place in a parallel universe? yes sometimes we envision a game UI when we visit paragon, sometimes we open steam, but, who is to say that part of it isn't in our imagination.

thats right, we come up with some of it and delude ourselves into incorporating it into the experience but the experience didn't come from us.

a long time ago I dreamed I went to Hyrule and got my hands on the ocarina of time, as I began to wake up I tried to grasp it in my hand and had this strange assurance that when I woke up I'd have it.

I could feel it, when I awoke completely I could feel it in my hand and couldn't close my hand but nothing was there. my hand was still wrapped around it. after a while the feeling faded and I was able to close my hand.

I tell you I've had some wierd experiences with dreams.

Paragon city... someday I'll fall in a coma on purpose to stay there.

[batqueen]

I played COH for years, since about 2007, and know what everyone is talking about. Since being able to run around Atlas in Icon again, I've always had the feeling of a ghost town- but one where the ghosts were almost visible. I could swear I just passed someone in the city hall, I could almost see someone fly past out of the corner of my eye, but I never could turn around fast enough to see them outright. I always wonder as I stand under the statue of Atlas, how many others are here right now- but in "other dimensions", in their own games, but here none the less. Seeing other heroes and villains, and their creativity in costumes and names was always one of the great joys of Coh, It is THE biggest thing to wait for, being able to see someone else back in the City, then and only then will I be able to say, "I'm home again". Of course til then, I'm going to go throw some witches and ghosts up and down the streets of Croatoa.

[Codewalker]

Am I the only one who saw this thread title and thought it was about somebody making a pilgrimage to an empty office building in Mountain View, CA?

[Cinnder]

Am I the only one who saw this thread title and thought it was about somebody making a pilgrimage to an empty office building in Mountain View, CA?

Nope.  :)

[Nyx Nought Nothing]

Am I the only one who saw this thread title and thought it was about somebody making a pilgrimage to an empty office building in Mountain View, CA?

Indeed.
At least the writing matched my expectations, so there's that.

[FlyingCarcass]

Warning: Users of Google glass cannot actually fly.

[Joshex]

Warning: Users of Google glass cannot actually fly.

meh niether could my tank without a raptor pack.