Interview

I'm at work, and I think I'm working at Jagex. We're doing some kind of weird project where various members of staff go to a room in pairs and are interviewed about a piece of technology that had been developed here.

I decide that I'm going to volunteer to do an interview, so I look at the list of technologies that I can talk about. There is nothing left on the list that I've actually worked on before, but there are two items that I recognise: Courtney Brown v1 and Courtney Brown v2. The weird thing is that this is the name of my parents picture framing business from when I was a kid. I decide to talk about Courtney Brown v1.

When it's time for my interview I'm called to a small room and there is another employee waiting outside. We go in together and sit down opposite a strange webcam with two lenses (maybe it films in 3D?) and the interview begins. They ask us a few questions and I know the answers to them because I spoke with my parents about it when I was younger. I also remember them having two sheets of labels on the table that said "Courtney Brown" on them. One of them was plain and one had a stylised logo with a picture frame on it. I realise that the plain ones are the version 1 labels and the ones with the logo are version 2.

After the interview someone starts talking to me and I remember thinking that they are just talking rubbish. He is standing right next to Andrew Gower (the founder of Jagex) who is being filmed, and I don't want to get in the shot.

Barbecue Chicken

This is the part the I remember by far the most vividly from this dream.

After my interview I go back to my room. We must be at some kind of event because lots of employees are sleeping in a large dormitory in some kind of hostel. It's about 7:00am and when I get to the room half of the people are sleeping and half of them are awake.

I lay down in my bed and close my eyes, but after a couple of minutes I hear an annoying mechanical sound. I look up and two other employees are sat on their bed playing with a small machine. The machine is some kind of tennis game, and when you move some levers on the bottom a little metal figure moves around, and you both have to try to hit the ball past the other player. Every time they pull the lever there is a loud noise as the parts move around.

At this point someone comes in with a plat of barbecue chicken wings and offers them around, and I haven't eaten breakfast yet and I'm quite hungry so I take a couple and eat them.

After eating the chicken wings I have this sticky brown sauce all over my fingers. I look over at the two people playing the annoying tennis game and they are still playing. I get up off of the bed and walk right towards them, and put my hands out and wipe every last bit of barbecue sauce all over their toy! I don't say a word and make eye contact with them the whole time. At this point their mouths are hanging over and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

Once I'm done making a mess of their game I walk back over to my bed and get back in it an close my eyes. They watch me the whole way, but a few seconds afterwards I hear the click clack of the figures moving again.

Ramps

I get up eventually and go to find Yu Lee who is also staying in the same building. I'm not 100% sure what happened here but I remember shouting through the walls of each bedroom trying to wake her.

The next thing I remember is being outside. I must have gotten outside before her and wandered off because I'm trying to find her, and I call her to see where she is.

There seems to be some kind of festival going on, but to be honest this bit doesn't make a lot of sense. It's something to do with there being ramps all over town, most of them with a stream of water gushing down them. Part of the event is to walk up the ramps.

When I finally get hold of Yu Lee on the phone I ask her why she isn't at the spot where we agreed to meet, and she says that with her bad back she's not sure that she can make it up the ramps. I tell her I'll come and find her and we can find one that's not too steep and I'll help her up it.