I came to learn she worked for a software company I always admired. That she was to be adopted because her original father was abusive, but that the paperwork hadn’t gone through yet and she was biding her time. She also knew how to drive, despite being 10 years old.

I came in the next day and she wasn’t there. I came to find out that she, her new adoptive father, and brother were killed the night before. I was completely devastated. I remember walking around, going to the scene and just collapsing from grief. At the scene I found three plants. They seemed like some sort of blooming water plants, but were out of place because they were sitting un potted on a wooden deck.

I was approached by someone else visiting the scene. A gaunt middle aged woman who told me that if I wanted to see her again I had to talk to Eric, but I wouldn’t want to talk to Eric. I didn’t care, and demanded she tell me how to call him, but she would not. I went back to the office, and asked everyone if they knew an Eric that might have some connection to the girl. Eventually one fellow did know and I convinced him to take me to him. He transformed into a Raven and flew me to an abandoned house.

After our arrival Eric showed up along with a host of others. Many warned me against the path I was about to undertake. I wasn’t sure what they were talking about entirely, but was adamant to proceed. Through some for of magic or supernatural power they contacted the world of the dead. It was rather terrifying but I managed to endure. At the end of the processes I was given a single bulb and it was planted with care in the front yard of the abandoned house. I was then given a bill for $300,000 which I had two years to pay. I collapsed from exhaustion and slept through the night at the abandoned house.

The next day I filled out the paperwork to adopt the girl, Lily, now returned to the world of the living.

Wait a minute… what invaders?

As I rubbed the sleep from my eyes I tried to interpret the noise coming out of the CNN anchor’s mouth. It sounded like gibberish to me. After a bit of pinching, stretching, slapping, and water splashing I came to the conclusion that I was hearing the words I thought I was.

“… started arriving approximately 5 AM eastern standard. There has been no in person sighting of the flying vehicles yet, but they have appeared on radar at several local airports. Not much is known about the creatures other than they are slow but EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. They appear t have strength disproportionate to their size by human standards, and closer to that of insects. Wooden structures are little to no barrier to them. Seek cover in storm shelters, concrete, or steel buildings with as few windows as possible. If you have the means, arm yourself and be prepared to use lethal force to protect yourself and your loved ones…”

Well, shit!

I showered and got dressed. No sense starting off the end of the world as a mess, right? Yeah well, sometimes I can be an idiot. By the time I was dressed, I could see some of them up the street. It didn’t take long for them to make their way to the house and begin breaking in. It felt like Shaun of the dead. I climbed out through the back window and ran up into a small grove of trees to hide. Then I realized I had forgotten my wallet.

It’s funny what seems important sometimes.

So I broke back into the house, went to my room and grabbed my wallet. The creatures were no where to be seen. I set out East, towards town but via backroads and wooded areas so that I could have a better chance at hiding if I needed to.

Eventually I found a large group of normal human-type people. They had set up a camp in a school building, and were guarding the perimeter. I got recruited to be in a scouting party, and given a glock. We decided to head out at night and try to find if the AliZombies were intelligent and organizing or if they were more like wild animals.

After a hike of a few miles we came upon a large bonfire surrounded by the creatures. They seemed to be fighting amongst themselves. They were obviously somewhat intelligent, but their organization and structure was next to nothing. This got our hopes up. We hurried back to our camp to report. Just as we were approaching we saw a bright light in the sky. Within a few second there was a deafening boom and the auditorium of the school building was gone.

That’s when I woke up.

The most interesting part, was the flooring. Each room had a very large rug. The rug was a wild boar. Think bear skin rug, except this is a giant pig (are wild boards furry? These were very much so.) It gets stranger, as these were still alive… or at least they were inhabited by spirits of some sort, as they would talk to you. They were quite friendly, and wanted to be fed. They enjoyed beer, tortilla chips, corn. The previous renters had neglected talking to them and feeding them, so they were quite happy to have our company.

Silly people mistreating their boar-rugs.

Leah and I were at some OA gathering which instead of being held a hotel, was being held at an office building. Several familiar faces were there: , , , and several others. We were apparently sheltering from a hurricane.

We had power, but no game consoles. We were entertaining ourselves as best we could but getting bored. We happened to find a stach of DEC Alpha computers in a closet… so for some reason and I thought it would be good to try and hook them up, network them, get them on the internet… somehow… so we could play games. It didn’t occur to us that nothing decent or current RUNS on a dec alpha, so maybe we were gunna try an old port of Quake 1… who knows.

It is about this time I decide to fly to Louisville, KY. Why? I have no idea… I get there, and learn that and are part of a secret agency… like spies I guess? For what I don’t know, but they hook me up with a prepaid cellphone.. which is like, the size of my forearm. I use it to call Leah, who is going to bring my camera which I left in the hurricane shelter. I want the camera because somehow the Ohio river is flowing backwards, with 10 foot waves. The Ohio is about a quarter mile or across, so this is quite a site, kind of an “end of the world” sort of image.

We end up at some pizza place, throwing a party, I decide to get a smaller cellphone for which I pay $972.00. Odd price, also was my area code when we lived in Texas.

Can dreams get much more random?

My buddy was Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp and I were both smoking the same brand of cigarettes. We had sunglasses (indoors!)

We run up to a promenade area surrounding the room we’re in. We each have double barreled shotguns.. which we use to hit the mech in it’s power source… put it out of commission, and our group comes out of the areas they were sheltering in and we proceed. Barricade up in a large conference room. This one has windows, and there’s no sign of whoever the enemy is. We set some bombs, a few members come running in all bloodied up and tell us they had to kill some of the bad guy (I still don’t know who the bad guys are.) We set a gas bomb to fill the segment of the building we’re in and escape out the windows. We dispose of a lot of evidence in an incinerator at the back corner of the building.

It’s at this point I realize the building is my highschool. Odd, since it wasn’t _inside_. Odd as well since I’ve only seen that building like twice since 1998. Our group splits up at this point. I’m worried that we’re going to be caught, as police start swarming around.

Later on, and I go back to the scene near the incinerator. We see they’ve installed security cameras, so we make sure to hide our faces and recover a car we had hidden there, and proceed to drive through the woods. Why did we hide a car there? Why did we go back to get it? I don’t know. What was the goal of the group? I don’t know… Interesting dream though. Good action sequences.