Several intense concepts all with the same dream I think.
One was transformations, we were trying to break in to rescue someone or stop something. Transformed one girl into a cat-beast thing, very tall, strong claws and speed and such. The person who did it wanted to see her liked that, into furries or something I guess? There was some implied interest as to why it wasn't strictly a functional transformation. The other person was made taller, kind of like the attack on titan colossal one, but it was just because his skin was slowly rebuilding. It took time for all the pieces to catch up. I don't think I physically changed, I just manipulated my surroundings. So to breach the terrace we needed to, I modified a lot of the nearby trees to be taller to hide us perfectly from sight, then they collapsed over and breached the terrace walls.
Then I returned to some middle state, we're all flying through the air down some weirdly geometric open areas. Reminded me of the R&D section of Borderlands the Pre-Sequel, where the aquarium bits are, and the last part is we're submerged in water to slow our fall. There's some goal or honor if you sail through to the very bottom and out the small door, but I've never accomplished it, and as soon as you touch the surface you plummet to the bottom. When that happens I just log out.
Now I'm in a crappy apartment. It has some non-structural damage but it's obviously in disrepair. I share a room with others, and they've been there longer than I have. There are a few of us who have just finished this run, somewhat successfully but frustrated that it wasn't perfect. They appear to be the people from our digital battle.
As we're discussing improvement for next run, someone else enters. He's young, but has a posse, and informs us that he's taken over the building so now we have to pay him, pretty much acting like the tough gang leader. But then someone points out to him, from his crew, that he should probably repair the walls if he owns it now, since he would be legally liable. The implication is that they did it to get control from whoever the previous owner was. Like the Daredevil remake where he helps the Hell's Kitchen people and they have their houses vandalized to generate probable dangerous conditions to change ownership.
Since tensions are building, one guy is less socially aware from my group and makes this cricket sound with his voice, thinking it will ease tensions. The thug gets pissed, tells him to stop or he'll regret it. He does it again, and I quickly hit him and tell him to leave. After he's outside, the thug follows and pulls a gun on him. They're now on a street corner, some of the thug's posse are also there and egging him on. I step outside and try to calm everyone down. Like the Rangan protest scene from Apex.
I tell the leader to not shoot him. Because it's a bad idea. They're outside, lots of witnesses, could lead to a loss of power for him. He says the kid already threatened him and he needs to make an example to show he's powerful. Some others around him are egging him on to do it, a girl he wants to impress, and this older angry guy I've seen but don't know. I actually introduce myself to the older guy, and he responds, then tells me he could hurt me. I tell him I could do the same, but that's irrelevant right now because I'm not taking to him, I'm talking to the boss. I'm trying to talk down the gang leader with the gun. So he gets upset that I am not afraid of him, but I don't care.
I turn back to the leader, tell him this is a bad idea and he knows it. He's not listening or yielding to me, he's made his threat, this kid is properly terrified, but he also knows that shooting someone in broad daylight outside is a poor way to retain control. I pretty much go into Machiavellian rationale and verbally acknowledge that this is the decision he's already come to, because he's smart, and my describing it is really just my appreciation of it. Plus I note that the others around him who might be vying for power would love to see him do something so careless as kill outside, because it would give them leverage over him, and probably move them into power. In fact, that's probably why he did it, because he wanted to see who would attempt to goad him in anger as they'd likely try to use it against him. I see the gears turning in his head.
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