The Game

[There was dream before and after.]

First-Person Perspective
I am in a weird building, or at least in a maze or network of buildings.  The walls are sky blue, but it is very dull and grey, and things look dirty and a bit rundown.  I suppose it's like an arcade or game house, but not in any normative or proper sense.

At first, I find this place by myself.  Then I am with other people, at least one or two, but I can't remember very well.  The main guy I remember is very large and fat (freakishly), as though he should be playing the role of some guy who hacks people to bits in an ancient place.  I go off by myself again, leaving the "at least two" people at a pinball machine in a darkened room.

I find a series of rooms that are on top of one another in floors, and each has some sort of special arcade game.  There are also other games in the dark room (no lights at all, minus the glow of the screen and panels), but I don't even remember if they were lit up, as this game was the important one.  I sit down in front of the game on a random floor (it wasn't the first), and look at the table to my left.  There is a paper there with a bunch of boxes like a Jeopardy game, only it seems as though whoever was doing it has figured out the word - "DEFEND."  I don't know if I even play the game, as it seems too hard and I already have the last thing needed in the game used (or found?) while fighting a terrible boss.

At this point I either report back to the guys or go to another floor.  Either way, I do the latter.  This floor (10, maybe?) seems to be more popular and less lucky.  There are several papers lying on the table with random boxes filled out but none completing the word.  Some of the letters are in the boxes above the one line, kind a like a crossword, and some are parts of the word ("_ _ F E _ D" or something).  For a moment I wonder how in the world someone couldn't figure out the word from what they had, but then realize that I have a serious bias since I already know the word and never had to go through the process of figuring it out.

[And then I dream on.  Possibly to the dreams I might be fixing to post.]