18 May 2024
Dream
Tower climbing game
We’re climbing a paper tower that looks like one of those red Sino-Japanese temples with roofs stCked on top of each other
At school(idk if private or public, japanese high scchool looking but ppl in there are fairly multinational)
We’re notified that instead o a regular sport’s day we’ll be doing this and that the event will be occupying three months of our preparation period we could’ve used to prepare for our regular sport’s day
Some of my classmates are disappointed that we’re not doing the normal sport’s day
I’m excited for the weird tower climbing
The tower’s in a weird Japanese garden that’s mixed and integrated into the suburb of wherever we’re living(looks like a mix of Higashi Kurume, Nogata and Sumida)
We start climbing
There are weird interactions between us classmates and the spirits that inhabit each floor’s 祠 shrine
Each spirits mimic the form of our favorite characters and strange memories
For me some of them being getting lost on a cloudy, rainy afternoon in the zigzagging town streets, seeing and talkjng to a girl wearing a raincoat, a pair of rain boots and the leather school backpack sporting a vinyl umbrella
All of which adorned with age appropriate patterns of pink, red or yellow palette
She says smtg cryptic but i know and understand that it’s important
Mix of memories of green and le chemin de vent playing in the background
Anyways from a certain point in the competition ppl start dropping out
I, a person who looks like and probably is Artur and another two people I know irl but aren’t them keep climbing
We have some dialogues about how much we’ve changed in the course of events and some other “touching, vaguely philosophical and emotional™️ nostalgic JRPG and anime dialogues that happen at the middle of a challenging moments in the character’s growth” moments
We have those additional anime moments
And finally i get to the swaying top of the paper tower after being pushed and encouraged by Artur and the two fellow ppl i’ve come to grow much closer with
Ppl cheer, MC congratulates, and we’re all instructed how to safely exit the tower
There’s beluy’ noch and another surrealist Japanese Ghibliesque game music playing in the backdrops of the fog shrouded town
We start climbing off, the scene skips to when we got off the tower and are on the ground watching it fall off and break
Now it’s white and like paper
