I just had some long, dramatic and exciting dream. Sadly I was awoken suddenly so I only really remember the final scene- I want to type it down before I forget that, too. Basically, it was some fantasy-medieval setting, and earlier on there had been all sorts of drama, betrayal and adventuring on my part-- at one point I'd had some magical sort of ring, until that had been forcibly taken from me.
Somehow I'd managed to get my hands on the other artefact me and my fellow adventurers had found, I don't remember how or who they were or anything, but it was a bright red-coloured sword, with a hilt guard and the magical ability to cut through just about anything with ease.
I was down in some deep, subterranean... place. From what I remember it was somewhere I'd adventured to before, and I wanted to try using my magic sword to bust open some super-tough-well-made containers/chests to get the loot inside.
Not sure why that didn't work out, I think the chests had been taken by the same person who betrayed me earlier in the dream, not sure. Either way I was in a bad mood after making my way down here, and I had my sword.
This place was kinda dim and creepy, but it was lit well enough, furnished, and there were fancy tablecloths on a few big, wooden dining tables. I'm not sure where the heck it was or anything.
Anyway, I was just considering my next room when I heard someone approaching from down a hallway, of two entrances this was not the one I'd come in through. Even as I dived down to hide between the tables, with the long, persian-rug-patterned tablecloths hanging either side of me, I knew who it was- the King and his entourage.
Not sure quite what my relationship with this King was, but I didn't like him. He might have been responsible for the magical ring I lost earlier.
Anyway, a plan quickly occurred to me. While they were down here, and I had the sword, I would take his daughter hostage and demand all sorts of stuff. She was actually one of the first people to come into the dining hall, in fact; she pressed past the king's guards and wandered in to take a look around-- I guess she was one of those cliche 'hot-headed rebellious princess' types.
Then she glanced between the tables and spotted me, with more amusement than fear, and called out, "Oh, there's someone in here!"
That forced my hand, I jumped up dramatically, somehow flipped the tables either side of me with a shove of my hands, and grabbed her, placing the enchanted sword of holyshitmagicaldestruction across her throat before the king's guards could reach me.
I cannot remember the exact dialogue, basically I told them all to stay back or the princess would die. The king was rather irritated, having for some reason brought a bunch of his family and friends down here for, as far as I could tell, a picnic. In a dungeon.
I hadn't quite thought of my demands yet, so I just continued holding them at bay as I tried to decide just what insanely valuable, magical thingies I should demand to get my full money's worth.
I pointed my sword at the king, who had sat down in a chair to one side of the dining table, and told him that I hadn't quite decide what my demands were, yet-- go on and start eating his food, which the serving staff had already began to set out.
(It involved crackers and chicken, for some reason)
So, everyone started eating, as I held the (more excited than scared) princess hostage. Oh and at some point I stabbed one of the kitchen maids around the corner with my sword for annoying me somehow, disappointingly I couldn't see her and she survived.
The other thing I remember was one of the guests- apparently a RL friend of mine was part of the King's entourage, and he was depressingly genre-savvy and treated the whole thing as a bit of a joke.
(I'm not sure if he'd been a friend of mine in the dream, or if I even knew him.)
He kept laughing with utter confusion at the whole strange scene, shaking his head and saying, "I haven't read this far in the book yet, I have no idea what's going on," or something to that effect. He was starting to annoy me, I think I had an argument with that serving maid I stabbed, keeping the princess at arm's length, and somewhere around there I was suddenly woken up, which was quite annoying. :-/