multi-layered game

There’s a large rectangular game board in the middle of the rec room. It’s about the size of a large pool table. I’m trying to figure it out. There are four different types of dice so i get that there are four different games that can be played on the same board. I put three sets of the dice away and hold on to one set of three so i can figure it out one game at a time.

The board has terrain and reminds me of one of those train things

that hobbyist build. Like a miniature town. But this board is simpler than that. It’s divided into four sections for the game i will try. At the middle of each side there is a small range of mountains. Each mountain has a pass with a tunnel cut through. Each tunnel contains a hazard and as i’m moving around the board, (as a game piece on the game board) a large yellow Goofy jumps out of the cave and begins chasing me. I run like hell and manage to lose him in the hills behind me. Now i’m back to being the player outside the game and walk around the table to examine each cave. There’s a Goofy in every one. The yellow one that chased me, a blue one, a red one and a green one. I look at the three dice i’m holding and realize that only two go with this game, the third one is the same type but is small. Two large red casino type dice and one small red one. I’m confused because that means i’ve either messed up one of the other sets of dice for the game, or else there’s a fifth game that uses the one die.

Now i’m in a bedroom with two twin beds and a nightstand or bed table (can’t think what those are called) in between the two. I’m sleeping in the one closest to the door and on the left from my sleeping position. The right hand bed is against the wall and ?Lois is sleeping in it. Or it might be Cameron because it’s a young girl. The wall at the foot-side of our beds is all bookshelves with a television in the center. I’m watching a movie that shows how to play one of the games on the board. Not the Goofy game, but more like a war game. There are a lot of hut-type buildings made of ?sticks or straw. Defenders are standing along a canyon ridge and firing cannons at the destroyers. The destroyers have big trucks that each have the trunk of a giant tree on top and the destroyers drive the trucks with their built on rams right into the huts. Every time they hit a hut the hut explodes into rubbish. I’m watching this and it doesn’t seem like a very fun game but i keep watching to see what the other games will be like. The girl in the other bed is awake too now and i think that maybe she wants to read a book because she’s looking at some books that are on the nightstand. I decide i’ll pick out a book for her to read. I get out of my bed and go up to the wall of books. I’m looking for a type of book that has many short fiction stories in the fantasy genre. I know it’s purple and tall and skinny. I find many books of short stories and think about giving her one of them because they probably contain the same sort of stories i’m thinking are in the purple book. I realize that those are the stories i like to read but maybe the girl wouldn’t like the same kind so i get back in bed and let her find a book on the nightstand.

Now i’m in a dingy looking office – beige tile, beige walls, metal furniture. Looks like a government building. Utilitarian. Functional. There’s a man in a khaki uniform yelling at me and some other person. I realize i’ve joined the army and can’t understand what would make me do such a thing. I’m wondering if i can quit but know that if i’ve signed papers to be in the army i’m screwed. The yelling man is showing us the obstacle course. I think that maybe if i fail they’ll have to let me out. Then the game movie is over and credits are running but i still don’t know how to play the games or what the rules are or what the different sets of dice are for.

Vivid.