I'm amazed I still remember this, but I had an interesting dream the night before last.
In the first part I can remember, I was in a large office floor/cube farm (although I don't remember seeing any actual cubicles, just workstations and counters and such) of some company I can't remember. The surfaces in the place were mostly white with frequent patches of a deep blue colour.
There was a video-game style mechanic where you could rummage through a pile of stuff for salvageable computer parts, and a while after that I found a counter with a long line where some bored-looking employee was buying them.
I remember getting paid $2 for the stuff I found using that craft, and $2.40 for some other parts I had from elsewhere. I held up the line asking the guy questions about just what they bought, then wandered off. You could only sell stuff once a day, so I was kicking myself for not gathering more first.
The next scene I remember (not sure how much time had elapsed, although waking-logic suggests it must have been a while) was in a large outdoors area with a bunch of tall-ish buildings up ahead, and I believe it was a sort of FPS-style battle over resources.
I remember being near our base/spawn area while most of my team was up ahead somewhere fighting, I may have been going to join them. Suddenly I died, shot from behind by some dickish sniper sitting to the rear of our base, which was a couple of those portable container-home things.
Anyway, I respawned, came around the other side of the buildings and spotted the sniper crouched on a small hill.
I quickly took aim at them, I saw the scope of their rifle start to turn towards me, but I fired first and killed them. I went over to inspect/loot the body and discovered that they were actually a female elf. Also bald, for some reason.
At this point I contacted my brother by some sort of hands-free comms gadget, and asked him if he needed the body for parts.
Apparently he was some sort of mad-sciencey type or something, I dunno.
He said the only thing he really needed was a face with makeup on it, and this elf's face just happened to be pretty heavily covered in makeup. I was looking over the body once more, having stripped it of its equipment and any valuables, when I accidentally (I think it was, anyway) fired my rifle into her face, blowing half of it off.
Weirdly enough, though, the bullet had somehow cleanly blown half of her face off, like a portion of the flesh had just been neatly removed, almost in the shape of a 'phantom of the opera' mask. I decided, rather amused by this turn of events, to glue her face back together and take her to my brother anyway.
This entailed picking up the severed piece of face by clicking in my right thumbstick, fallout/skyrim-style, and painstakingly shifting it over to the head. Once I had it more-or-less in place I held down X to glue it together, like in Little Big Planet.
...And then, having done that, I picked up the body normally, without any of that fiddly game mechanic nonsense.
That was a weird dream indeed. Not sure just what my brother needed corpses for, and I'm not all that eager to know.
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