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I frikkin' HATE it when people decide to mess with the weather. This whole electrical storm front is NOT natural.



Was in a village type place up in the mountains, playing with some fish in a pond (big fish, lots of fun to pet, very playful) and talking to some friends who were working a mill when the bombs started falling.
Yeah. Bombs. From airplanes.
So big brother type grabs his little sister and me and pushes us all under the water, so that we're at least some what protected as the bombs start exploding in the water and there's chaos and the gear that was turning the wheels is falling over us and people are screaming and running around above us and the fish are exploding and one goes off. right. in. front. of. us.
Then we're out and running because there's uniformed soldiers running around trying to round up everyone and/or kill them and one of the soldiers starts freaking out and has to re-form himself out of some sort of oily substance even though he's not used to it and Commander isn't weirded out by this at all even though the rest of the troupe is. They spot us and start shooting rockets, so we take refuge behind a wall that's what left of the front of what was formerly a pink coloured house as the rockets start a mudslide around the house, and almost bury us except for big brother type has become one with the mud and the dirt and the earth and is covering little sister type and I with his now clay-like body like he's a wall. He reforms and we run to the village where there's some survivors left, and spend sometime wandering around, trying to re-adjust now that everything has been turned on it's head.
And there's people running around dealing with the aftermath of the bombs, because if you're not dead, then you're A: Still Ningen or B: Stuck with some sort of Bakemono inside of you and people are going crazy with them and either killing other people or going insane and starting fires without touching anything and die in writhing agony from the flames which we saw and had to deal with the fire afterwards which wouldn't die cause it had a life of its own.
One guy invites us to live in his apartment complex, which is cool, there's a bunch of us there just trying to survive and help each other the best we can because he's giving us the rooms rent free because he just wants people there and we're happy for a while when one of the guys who's been a little loopy goes to do everyone's laundry in the basement and looses a fight with his bakemono and commits suicide, splattering the freshly cleaned clothes with blood and that's just ew. And we didn't have all that many clothes to start out with
So I go to take a bath in the pond that everything started in and have a little bit of trouble swimming because while we have sorta somewhat gotten used to seeing the piles of corpses from the 'war' and the screaming ghosts bleeding down the walls and the walking spirits on the road, there's just something somewhat disturbing to see dead spirits floating in the water like so many large jellyfish while you're trying not to swim thru them or the occasional corpse that floats by because seeing the spirits dead people is what our bakemono-induced ability is which would be easier to deal with if so many people weren't dieing around us all the time.
Then we woke dreading/eagerly anticipating seeing ghosts this morning. >_<

The death, dieing, moving corpses, bloody massacres, laughing skeletons, bakemono, we're well used to that. Standard dream fare.
This ghost thing is new and rather disturbing. You can't feel them. Even when a bakemono is eating you for lunch, you can at least feel the crushing of the jaws as it breaks your bones and rips your guts and tears your flesh and smell the purid old blood on it's breath. Ghosts... there's just this... *brrrrrrr* No.

Did not help that when we got to work, the electrical storm last night caused network problems, causing machines to act weird and automatically put in passwords when they normally don't. Ghost in the machine.

Am NOT ficcing today.

O_____O **does double-take** O_______O

Date: 2003-07-29 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabet.livejournal.com
Eeeeeeeeeee..... I tend to try and analyze dreams when I hear 'em or have 'em, but no thank you, not THIS time. Aaaaack; you and Becky should compare notes sometime-- she has bakemono-dreams all over the place, only she's usually kicking butt and taking names in them. Yours was NOT nice. Question for you-- have you ever read any of the Donna Barr 'Stinz' stuff, particularly the later issues? The bits where you're talking about people having bakemono inside them sound similar, in a way; her world is a sort of sideways version of ours, only with an extra species: centaurs, a small population of them in Germany. You get a sort-of version of WWI... and then a group of scientists try to influence probability and attack the enemy with a combo of science and magic, and things go VERY wrong due to an accident. The population, ALL of it, gets... warped. Animals and humans merge, humans take on animal-characteristics or merely transform into anything and everything from a centipede to a dragon; no machines work-- they fall into dust, even bicycles. None of the overseas troops can go home (no planes, no working ships-- they fell apart) and everything dissolves into utter anarchy. Only one centaur is in the affected area (their country is protected by a pair of stones, don't ask, not sure myself)and HE becomes a normal human-- a "two-legger" as they call them. Talk about traumatic... The trek back to his home valley is horrifying; think of the worst of the trenches and bombed-out cities from the world wars combined with your dream and you've got it. But when Stinz (the former centaur) passes between the stones at the entrance to his valley, he gets transformed BACK into his old self, very, very painfully. And he utterly refuses to ever, ever leave again... not that I blame him. Horrible. One of the oddest outcomes is that Europe (not sure about elsewhere) falls back into the old Feudal system, with local lords protecting safeholdings. The majority of the population was minorly affected by the End Of The War (as it's called), producing a stable hominid gene-pool with small claws and sharply-pointed canines; this is now the 'norm', and when it's pointed out to one of them that the centaurs of the Gisel Valley have flat teeth like cattle and flat plates of horn on the ends of their fingers (fingernails) they're HORRIFIED. Freaks! Aaaack!

Okay, didn't mean to drivel on about Stinz and everything, but I love the series. Got the stuff at my house-- can show you when you arrive!

Better dreams to you..... eeeegh......

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