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Last night:
It started downtown, possibly downtown Evanston. I was there with the choir and some people from the LARP. Perry was there, and so was Mike. We went to a streetside Icecream stand that Caitlin was running--it had absolutely insane flavours, like 'Medical Mint' and 'Beluga' and one was named after a fish that lives only in the depths of the ocean--it had scientific information about the fish on it. We got some icecream and then suddenly I was running to Nathaniel's house with Nathaniel and Sean at like 30mph. The streets are ones not occuring in real life, but I am familiar with them because I have had dreams set in this area before. We stop and Nathaniel takes out a guitar and starts playing it. I sat I have to go home, and start running for the big cross street that I think I recognise will take me home if I follow it long enough (dust is everywhere, like I'm in a desert). A woman from a broke-down house on the left side calls to me, then I was there talking to her. Someone was peeling hot glue off the wall--older woman, no face--the younger woman said she could hear the guitar being played (you could) and she wanted to play her guitar, and could I fix hers. I started to follow her in, but the house gave off a threatening vibe, so I stayed with one foot on the outside. Her guitar, when she brought it back, was really cheap and had hot glue all over it. I was peeling it off, we talked while I did it. She said she loved it when "the kids" came to visit. In fact, she liked it so much that it was like her birthday, so much that her husband said it could be her new birthday. I asked her if it was her birthday now, and she said 'no' because she didn't know me yet. I saig "a very merry unbirthday" to her, and she joined in at the end. She was obviously being beaten down and abused, and kept in the house, etc, so I decided I had to get her out. I told her I had to go, and she should come with me. When I was entreating her, I moved my foot in, and the screen door shut behind me (it's red) on the inside. She refused because this life was all she knew. I made a D&D reference like "if this is the character you rolled, I guess you can't cheam yourself higher numbers." and she said "are you talking about the numbers? the kids always get sad when they talk about the numbers." (obviously "the kids" play D&D, and made the same reference I had.)
I tried to leave then, but the screen door wouldn't open--it had locked. I became frustrated, unnerved; shaking, and then finally kicking the door. I had a flash forward where I jumped through the screen and it killed me, so I just kept kicking it. Eventually I broke the lock in the lower right corner of the door and tried to run, but there was a fence up now--electric. I had to stay the night. When I woke up in the morning, I was "part of the family." I told her I had to go home, my mom would we worried, and she said she was my mother now. She told me to go to the basement. I did, there was a man there dressed like a carnival caller (red pinstripe jacket, white pants, straw hat). There were also hundreds of dolls, life size, of Sean and Nathaniel (the kids?) and some other people. They got steadily bigger, like they were being done every year. He measured me for a doll.
I have to get out of here.
The house is open during the day, but everyone is watching me. The husband especially. He is small and dark haired with a full beard and looks totally imposing and capable of violence, though I only ever see him reading the paper in the kitchen. At night he sets up an electric fence. I have a flash forward where I run out in the morning and set fire to the house and the husband comes out and kills me. I have a flash forward where I leave and go home, and they stick my doll with pins in the manner of a huge voodoo doll until the pain is too great and I have to come back. I do neither of these things. One day, the wife calls out to Perry, who comes over and in before I can warn her. She gets trapped. I tell her we need to escape, and how everything is here. She's new, so it's okay for her to go out with the husband at night to see how the electric fence works. She watches him connect it, and after he turns away she breaks the circuit without him noticing. Early next morning, we bust out like no-one's business. The husband runs after us. This is also at like 30mph or faster. We have a chase down the street, eventually he catches up with us, and I turn around while running and ninja kick him in the chest. Perry thens stuffs him in a radiator (air conditioner?) and he dies. At nightfall we go back to the house, and he's there again. He doesn't see us, we're outside the electric fence. A car drives up and Dana and Loren get out. He's explaining the situation, she's nodding, then sets off toward the house. I ask Loren what's going on. He says it's a game he's running, and Dana hadn't finished it yet. I go what. Then I wake up.
It started downtown, possibly downtown Evanston. I was there with the choir and some people from the LARP. Perry was there, and so was Mike. We went to a streetside Icecream stand that Caitlin was running--it had absolutely insane flavours, like 'Medical Mint' and 'Beluga' and one was named after a fish that lives only in the depths of the ocean--it had scientific information about the fish on it. We got some icecream and then suddenly I was running to Nathaniel's house with Nathaniel and Sean at like 30mph. The streets are ones not occuring in real life, but I am familiar with them because I have had dreams set in this area before. We stop and Nathaniel takes out a guitar and starts playing it. I sat I have to go home, and start running for the big cross street that I think I recognise will take me home if I follow it long enough (dust is everywhere, like I'm in a desert). A woman from a broke-down house on the left side calls to me, then I was there talking to her. Someone was peeling hot glue off the wall--older woman, no face--the younger woman said she could hear the guitar being played (you could) and she wanted to play her guitar, and could I fix hers. I started to follow her in, but the house gave off a threatening vibe, so I stayed with one foot on the outside. Her guitar, when she brought it back, was really cheap and had hot glue all over it. I was peeling it off, we talked while I did it. She said she loved it when "the kids" came to visit. In fact, she liked it so much that it was like her birthday, so much that her husband said it could be her new birthday. I asked her if it was her birthday now, and she said 'no' because she didn't know me yet. I saig "a very merry unbirthday" to her, and she joined in at the end. She was obviously being beaten down and abused, and kept in the house, etc, so I decided I had to get her out. I told her I had to go, and she should come with me. When I was entreating her, I moved my foot in, and the screen door shut behind me (it's red) on the inside. She refused because this life was all she knew. I made a D&D reference like "if this is the character you rolled, I guess you can't cheam yourself higher numbers." and she said "are you talking about the numbers? the kids always get sad when they talk about the numbers." (obviously "the kids" play D&D, and made the same reference I had.)
I tried to leave then, but the screen door wouldn't open--it had locked. I became frustrated, unnerved; shaking, and then finally kicking the door. I had a flash forward where I jumped through the screen and it killed me, so I just kept kicking it. Eventually I broke the lock in the lower right corner of the door and tried to run, but there was a fence up now--electric. I had to stay the night. When I woke up in the morning, I was "part of the family." I told her I had to go home, my mom would we worried, and she said she was my mother now. She told me to go to the basement. I did, there was a man there dressed like a carnival caller (red pinstripe jacket, white pants, straw hat). There were also hundreds of dolls, life size, of Sean and Nathaniel (the kids?) and some other people. They got steadily bigger, like they were being done every year. He measured me for a doll.
I have to get out of here.
The house is open during the day, but everyone is watching me. The husband especially. He is small and dark haired with a full beard and looks totally imposing and capable of violence, though I only ever see him reading the paper in the kitchen. At night he sets up an electric fence. I have a flash forward where I run out in the morning and set fire to the house and the husband comes out and kills me. I have a flash forward where I leave and go home, and they stick my doll with pins in the manner of a huge voodoo doll until the pain is too great and I have to come back. I do neither of these things. One day, the wife calls out to Perry, who comes over and in before I can warn her. She gets trapped. I tell her we need to escape, and how everything is here. She's new, so it's okay for her to go out with the husband at night to see how the electric fence works. She watches him connect it, and after he turns away she breaks the circuit without him noticing. Early next morning, we bust out like no-one's business. The husband runs after us. This is also at like 30mph or faster. We have a chase down the street, eventually he catches up with us, and I turn around while running and ninja kick him in the chest. Perry thens stuffs him in a radiator (air conditioner?) and he dies. At nightfall we go back to the house, and he's there again. He doesn't see us, we're outside the electric fence. A car drives up and Dana and Loren get out. He's explaining the situation, she's nodding, then sets off toward the house. I ask Loren what's going on. He says it's a game he's running, and Dana hadn't finished it yet. I go what. Then I wake up.
