Last night, I dreamed I was this amnesic man with the ability to breathe fire. I go to this massive hotel where I decide to stay for a while. The hotel is run by this mute man with a talking dog on his shoulder. My roommates are this aloof jerk named Mike, these prankster twins, and this friendly girl named Erika who happens to be a martial artist. (All of them like to cosplay.) Also living in the hotel are the videogame characters Kirby and Dr. Eggman, a timid hippotamus girl, and this billionaire lady who spends her time whining about the state of the videogame industry.
It turns out my roommates are a part of this contest thing, and they ask me to help out. They have to complete a series of challenges. One of them is to form a human ladder to get to the top of a skyscraper.They begin by summoning up a mob of people, and using them to start the human ladder, people climber over each other to get higher like fire ants. We're about halfway up when I notice one of the people (who happens to be one of my best friends in real life) is about to fall, so I jump out of the ladder to save his life. The guy is saved, but the human ladder collapses, and everyone blames me for it.
Later on, this beuatiful red-haired lady is checking into the hotel, and she sends the hippotamus girl some flowers. I notice they're ticking and realize it's a bomb. I successfully get rid of it, but everyone blames me for it.
It turns out the beautiful red-haired lady is actually the Devil, and is going around giving people their twisted desires in exchange for their souls. Mike and the twins make the deal with her so they can become who they're cosplaying as. Mike becomes a demonic Appa, while the twins become Sephiroth and Kadaj. I manage to defeat MikeAppa, while Kirby swallows Sephiroth and uses his abilities to defeat Kadaj. Eggman watches our battles and notes, "A copy to defeat a copy...how quaint."
I meet the billionaire lady again. Afraid she'll take the Devil Lady's offer, I tell her that she should use her wealth to create a game system that fixes everything she finds wrong with the industry. Awestruck by my brilliance, she offers to make out with me,* "like we used to." Confused, I leave to find the Devil Lady.
I find her at the top of the hotel, where she has just killed the hotel owner for not taking her offer. (The dog survives and later takes his job.) The Devil Lady tells me that everyone in the hotel knows who I am, and part of the reason they hate me is because they remember my past deeds. She offers this: in exchange for my soul, she'll make it so everyone loves me.
Me: No.
Devil lady: Alright. Transaction completed. Pleasure doing buissness with you.
Me: But I just-
Devil Lady: But you thought, "Yes."
Enraged, I tackle the DL out of a window, and a long fight ensues. It takes the combinded forces of me, Erika, and Eggman to drive her off. Afterwards, everyone congratulates me and declares me a hero, though I feel terribly guilty about the praise.
And then I wake up.
*Shut up.