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Zeek
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« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2009, 06:37:51 PM » |
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sorry for the thread necromancy, but i just wokeup from this one less than ten minutes ago, and it was shartak related, and i wanted to write it down somewhere before i started to forget it.
i'm out in the the bush (note, i mean physically, not in the game), near this old shed, and somehow chatting on the irc while there. simon is on the irc, and he reveals himself to be, irl, a bug who has somehow gotten onto the internet and had us all fooled. there is a spider in a web in the doorway to the shed, who's behavior at that moment somehow convinced me that it was simon. then i saw this big damn bee and, not wanting it to get caught in spidersimon's web, or sting me, i grabbed it and tied it's leggs together.
then i remembered that simon had not just said that he was a bug, he had actually specified a bee! and had actually gone on at some length about what it was like to be a bee. and i could see him grumbling about me on the irc! i was about to go untie him, when he got one of his mantis like forelimbs free, and i realized he would be able to use it to cut the bonds on the rest of his legs in just a moment. i also realized that once he did that, he was probably going to sting the hell out of me.
abandoning the irc, i race home as fast as i can run. i get there, get to my apartment (which is odd because i have never lived in an apartment), and get in the shower, reasoning that the running water will protect me from the pissed off flying insect simon. after i don't see any sign of him for awhile, i go out and look for him. i meet my brother down stares (who doesn't play shartak irl) and told him what was up. he knew all about it, and told me that simon the bee had indeed followed me to the building, and stung the hell out of blachimo when he couldn't find me.
i was already feeling bad, but now i felt worse, even though i was really glad it hadn't been me getting stung. so i went back up to my apartment and waited for simon to appear so i could apologize, or at least man up and accept his retribution. while i was waiting, the tv was on, and suddenly the signal changed to a special paid announcement. it was from simon, in his human persona, saying he was really a bee and had fooled us all. oddly enough, the image of his human avatar was flickering back and forth with the image of some humanoid alien. he said though that it was all over for him and then fell over mid sentence. a number flashed across the screen then, with a woman's voice telling all shartak players to call.
i called, and after a rather amusingly abusive recorded message from noone in particular, the woman picked up. i told her who i was, and that i had accidentally killed simon, and that i felt terrible about it. she said she knew, and that i should go up to the attic of the building, as he had made arrangements to give us all something. i went up and found two young women hauling in boxes of cheap wine (the kind one gives as gifts) and they asked me to help them do it. i agreed to carry in one crate, as i was still on the phone, and when i was done, i got back on the line with the woman, asking her if simon had made any arrangements for what would happen to the game after he died, reasoning that insects only live a few years, so he must have prepared for this. while she was telling me about it, i woke up.
my first thought upon waking was that i had to talk to simon and ask him if he was actually a bee. my second thought was that of course he wasn't. my third thought was that i should post the dream to this thread before i forgot any of it, because it sure as hell is going to win the prize for the :palm:ed up dream category.
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