1. Secret agents for the Imperial People's French Army of the Union are equipped with ordinary street clothes, a black archery kit, and their wits. Good luck!

2. Your immediate superior, who wears a snappy blue uniform in the dream's opening sequence, is a tough-but-fair chap who's known as "Mr. B." Later, you'll recall that in the future he goes on to become none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. It's funny that he seems taller here.

3. It may occur to you that it doesn't make sense that you are working as a secret urban guerilla fighter for the North-and-also-sort-of-France in the Civil War (those damned Rebs are around here somewhere!) in a city that looks suspiciously like 21st-century Cambridge, Massachusetts, but cleaner. Brush that off and get down to work, soldier!

4. The President of the Union will be played in the dream by Law & Order's S. Epatha Merkerson.* She's often seen checking on her troops out on the street, but she doesn't have time for chit-chat.

5. Hey, you were only issued, like, three of those way-cool black arrows. Try not to use them all up in the first five minutes of the dream!

6. The nice family will take you in and hide you, but you'll have to get all the vomit out of your clothes yourself. Try the sink in the bathroom.

7. Trying to figure out why the gutters are all lined with books is just going to be frustrating, because no one else is interested.

8. An increasing awareness of the need to attend to nature's call may interfere, as the dream progresses, with your sense of duty to the Imperial People's French Army of the Union. It's my belief that your unofficial resignation from the service will be acceptable to Mr. B. But maybe he's waiting, in another dream, with a very disappointed President Merkerson, at your court-martial for desertion. I guess you just have to take your chances.

*more familiar to some as Reba the Mail Lady.