but the past two nights, i've woken up, ignored an alarm, gone back to sleep, and had what can only be labeled something like "guided interactive storytelling" or something like that. the first night wasn't as good (zombies and military conspiracy things, and clearly my brain was working through something).
but last night was super weird and feels like the kind of thing I'd have had the energy to turn into a full story in the past. i'm putting some of it under a cut, so check tags and make sure you're ok with things before you click through.
the story works in three "seasons," like it's a television show or something.
season 1:
we've been sent to a observation base somewhere in the ocean, and are going to be left there to take care of the place and run the observations (of something, idk). i arrive early, with an actual friend from work (we're going with "Beth" for her name here, b/c it isn't). we get the initial training, and know that we have to constantly keep an eye out for people trying to break in, and also there are sirens (from mythology) who want to break in as well, and can disguise themselves. those are the basic rules, so when everybody else arrives, we try to explain it to them, but clearly the other people don't understand.
the first night, someone knocks on the door and claims that they just missed the first boat, and someone let's them in, but they cause trouble, and i realize that this is one of the sirens, and i tell everyone to keep everything locked and closed, and and try to chase them away, eventually driving them into our storage chamber, which somehow has four outside walls, and all the walls have doors, and the doors are all open. i quickly go around closing and deadbolting all the doors, which are all different, and have different mechanisms, and i shout to Supergirl (from the tv show) to close and lock her door, thankful that she's helping, but she doesn't do anything except stare at the wall, so i push her aside to lock the final door. a ferret sized pink dragon tries to hide, but i smush it into a corner while taking Supergirl back so we can call someone to come take her away, because she's completely catatonic. "They" tell me that they'll send a helicopter, and can land it on a ship docked "next door," but we have to cross the ocean to do that.
i woke up a bit here, and when i went back to sleep, it was now
season 2:
same kind of situation, but the base is now like a giant house, and there's a pool and spa area to one side that we can use, but we have to keep an eye out for the sirens still. there are also a lot more people here, and i'm still some kind of manager. i try to keep things organized, but in one of the downstairs bedrooms, somebody is tied up on the bed and wrapped up in the sheets and blankets (probably because i was all wrapped up in my own sheets; i spin in my sleep). in any case, i try to help release her, but we keep getting turned on, and despite the fact that she's married at home, we have sex, and i eventually get her untrapped.
i head back upstairs and there's a package for me, and i open it up and it's weird and confusing, but there's a bunch of cardboard that i have to fold and build into some kind of display case, and there are a bunch of paper slips that are supposed to go on display. i read them, and they're super passive-aggressive notes that are like "i hate you and what you did, so this slip is equal to -12 points." this is weird, because we already have point system, and there's a giant box of board game tokens that anyone can grab a handful of whenever they want to hand them out if they like what people do. i want to make sure i'm not confusing myself, so i track Beth down to a narrow "booth" like room, where she's watching something on tv, and the booth is like one in a museum or something, where you can watch a video without disturbing other people. i show her the slips, and she's doesn't understand why they'd be there except to try and cause drama between people.
next, one of the teens that are here show me a weird box of socks, and as i'm looking them over, i realize they have squishy "paw" treads that are actually gummy fruit candy things in like condom wrappers sewn on the inside of the socks. it's weird, but i can at least toss them at people and tell them they're a snack.
it starts to get late, and i try to get everyone to come in from the pool, because we should get inside to avoid the sirens, but one person won't move, and is doing the same catatonic thing from earlier and staring at the wall, and i try to get everyone to help get her inside. when we do, there's an alarm because somebody is trying to break in, and i have to deal with that. once that's done, the teen comes to tell me that it's dinner time.
i look down into the bbq pit, and see that Beth has been hogtied in an impossible position, and she's been cooked. the lady from the bed is completely dismembered and cooked as well, and is placed on the counter to be served.
it's a surprise to say the least, but it sets the tone for
season 3:
it's now clear that this is some kind of cyclical thing, and the thing that sticks in my head is "天国か地獄" "heaven or hell." everyone has a team color now, and i'm number 73 on the brown team. the teen and Beth are the only others on my team, and we're again like the "managers." no one is wearing any clothes, unless they're related to how they've been trained.
in the preview, there are women all over the house, bound in weird devices that are linked to doors and things: i can see them exposed through the windows of the door, but when i open the door, they retract into the walls and furniture. the one i remember is a high balcony where the girl is hogtied and attached vertically to a pole and ring gagged, and when she retracts, her mouth is filled by a dildo. there are others around, but i can't remember now.
in any case, each team color corresponds to a type of "training" that they'll take part in. the ones i can remember are a puppygirl group that have real dogs and weird dog-people creatures that are the trainers, a "soapland" maid group that have an entire giant spa room, a "fish" group that will be swimming in the pool, and more that i can't remember. the rules are stricter now, and i know from last season that if i do something wrong, other people will end up dead, and if other people do things wrong, they'll die. it's also all automated, with white boards showing up with instructions and a couple of tablets that have schedules and things.
i spend the first real day panicking trying to keep everything working correctly, and try to get the others to help me keep watch for the people who are still trying to break in, and by the end of the day, i collapse in the corner of the room outside the room the rest of my team is sleeping in, because i haven't found an instruction that it was sleep time.
i don't really sleep, but stay in one of those horrible insomnia trances that don't help. i hear people moving around, and are unhappy because i don't want them to get in trouble, but Beth comes in and points out that the sun is coming up. that day we spend touring the house, and i try to keep track of the rooms, but can't (because it's a dream). i find three big bedrooms (that look like the tv booth from earlier, but the back wall is just a curtain now, so maybe that was always a big room, too?), but when i think, "ok, these are bedrooms 1, 2, 3" i get a correction that the one i called 3 is actually 1, and that this is a Big Deal.
between the bedrooms are special rooms that have themes, but I can't remember the details now. i make my way to the kitchen, and the instructions tell me that i have to take the spa team to get ready, because they're moving out of their bedroom into the spa full time. i somehow know that's how this will work, that each team will get moved from the common rooms into their specific fetish zones to be trained and transformed.
somehow this takes all day, and as i'm going around to check that everyone is asleep when one of the tablets tells me that i did a good enough job for a reward, and i open a cooler to find a bunch of bottles, and i grab one, because i'm super thirsty and dehydrated, and have that "pre-uti" feeling where i can tell i'm going to be unhappy if i don't drink a lot of fluids. before i can open up the bottle and drink, the tablet tells me that this raspberry wine is my reward, and i'm frustrated because i know it's going to make me more dehydrated.
the next morning, i find my way to the dining room, which is set up like a classroom, and we all have our color and numbered places to sit. the aqua seats are all empty as that's the color for the spa group. however the green seats are also empty, which are the fish group. under my chair is a huge bottle of water, and i chug it down quickly. i look around, knowing i forgot something i was supposed to do yesterday because i couldn't find the room the instructions told me to go to, but when i get to the right place this time, there are other people (wearing work clothes) there setting up a meat counter/deli counter thing, and i can see bits of someone i know was on the fish team cut up in the case.
i try to back out, because i don't think i'm supposed to see this, but these people don't care. i head back to the dining room, and a lady who my brain calls The Producer is talking about how i finally remembered to get my water, as i skipped it yesterday, and that i also ignored two other rewards the previous day that i could have claimed, but missed out on. The Producer then over hears me talking about email, and asks if xyz@blahblah.net is no longer my email, but since it's my dream, the email address is like the very first one i had that was actually associated with my real life from back in high school, and i'm super freaked out that she somehow knows me from years ago.
this is when things start to fall apart, because i start to realize that this has gone on for at least three days already, and i know it won't end until all the groups have done their training, or failed, and then it'll all restart again.
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