My guide to fantasy worlds (Part One)

I've always had a particular hatred towards the types of backgrounds and characters you would find in a fantasy film. The hatreds always been there with me, but I've only started getting creeped out by it ever since I watched "Dark Crystal". If you've never seen this film, the good for you. Jim Henson played a pretty major role in this film, which takes away a lot of kudos. Everything is done with puppets, which sounds (slightly) interesting, but is actually gloomy, depressing, and will scare the jeebies out of me.

And so I've been creeped out by a lot of different fantasy films, probably because of the fact of how different the characters look. "Dark Crystal", "Labyrinth", "Neverending Story" and "Legend" screw me up in particular. Just thinking about those creatures (Skeksis, Gmork and Tim Curry) makes my blood curl, and I would probably break down in a world like that. Unfortunatly, I found out that often in these types of movies, the main character is a person from our world who will accidentally get sucked into theirs, often through some artefact. This scares me, and I've constructed mini ways of coping, if I was to have this sort of thing happen to me.

What happens to me (Part one)

Most fantasy films/worlds seem to operate around a PG rated culture. This means that although I will be in a horrible situation, with many hideous creatures, it means that I have a less than likely chance of dying. Even better, it also means that theres a good chance that there should be a small human settlement around the place in which I "appear". The humans will most likely be under rule from some comically terrifying creature which represents evil, or is an agent for the main evil force. The creature should look like nothing we could identify with, perhaps one which picks off villages once in a while.

After helping to defend the settlement, maybe scaring off or even killing the creatures, I will have (Obviously) bought a lot of attention to myself. The people will look at my "Funny clothes", and make cautious comments about how I dress. At this point, one of my electronic devices will go off. The villagers/elders/llocals will refere to this as "Witchcraft", and through me in a prison.

At this point, in order for me to not lose my sanity, I will relise that I wasnt the only person to travel to this world. I'll probably have a friend(s) which is already locked in the prison. We'll exchange our stories (How we got here, what happened to us etc). It turns out, we are in the Kingdom of Harazenth, under the wicked rule of Krost, leader of the Chorpens. We relise what we have to do: The only way we can get back to our world is by defeating Krost, therefore restoring light to Hazazenth. The human settlement, which I shall call "Hopelen", turns out to be fairly far away from Krost's castle, so its going to be a fairly far, and epic journey. At night, we break out of the prison, get a map, equip ourselves with the "Dagger of Sheron", and head out on a mythical journey which will be a test of courage, hope, faith and friendship (At least one of us will be axed off though).
Just as we're heading of, two of the girls from Hopelen (Conveniently around our age) will see us excaping, and without alerting the elders, will follow us.

Thats the end of the first part, but I'll expand on what will happen to me in my next blog post.
However, I need to expand on other things...

Songs I will need to keep my sanity in a fantasy world

One of the best ways of not developing mild schizophrenia and paranoia on my journeys is to carry around a device which can play you music. I have managed to highlight the songs that would keep me going (Highlighted in green), songs that would get me upset or homesick (Highlighted in orange), and songs that would make me snap (Highlighted in red). Here they are:

"Leper Messiah" by Metallia
"Welcome Home" by Metallica
"And Justice For All" by Metallica
"Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica
"Gold Digger" by Kayne West
"Spitfire" by The Prodigy
"Orion" by Metallica
"Ziggy Stardust" by David Bowie
"Dream On" by Aerosmith
"Breath" by The Prodigy
"Little Fluffy Clouds" by The Orb

Just because a song is marked red or orange, doesn't mean I hate it. It just means It'd make me a little more homesick, and a little more awful. "Little Fluffy Clouds" however, is one depressing tune.

I would also like to point out that some of my friends would be useful in these fantasy worlds, and others would snap easily in the situation. In "My guide to fantasy worlds (Part Two)", I shall expand on this, as well as what will happen to me and my friend, but for now, I'm going to bed.

Toodles...