Strange Dream

I was looking into a string of murders, but it was definitely deeper than that. The whole thing had a feel of major terrorism plot/government cover-up/supernatural activity - people were specifically being targeted for what they knew. The investigation, which must have been for some higher/secret government agency as there was no badge-waving, led me to an old cathedral-turned-sanitarium. I was listening to someone tell me about the place as we rode up and open elevator in the middle of the building. We passed a floor lined with normal rooms and went on up through a level that looked more like a prison block with a communal area and two rows of small, barred cells.
Reaching the roof, I looked around the little garden area there with windows down into the main hall. This seemed significant for some reason. And I was conversing with the caretaker/chief doctor/priest of the place who was waving aside my concerns. He was even slow to react when I told him to "get down" upon seeing a red laser light beam getting a fix on him. I yanked him down behind a merlon (I had to look up the specific word for this) as the shooting started, then told him to stay under cover and went scrambling down, conversing with my support team via earpiece and microphone. They told me the shooting could only (at that angle) be coming from a lighthouse just neighboring the property. Here the focus shifted a little and it was less "me" and more a third-person "the main character."
He tore out of the parking area in a Volkswagon Vanagon, making for the lighthouse. Confronted with multiple points of egress and desperate to catch the shooter, he sideswiped a wooden staircase on the exterior, destroying it. Then he plowed his vehicle through a small entryway (tough Vanagon) to cut that off before spinning around and up the hill to a garage, skidding to a halt in front of an SUV two guys were loading up in preparation to leave. He hopped out with a shotgun, covering them both to wait until police arrived.

And about that time I was more awake, starting to wonder how the police were going to take to some guy (of a secret/mysterious agency) holding up two people with a shotgun. Heh. Not enough action movies for me lately? Too many?

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  1. kyn_elwynnAugust 18, 2008 at 6:53 PM

    That sounded pretty awesome/wicked. I'd like to see how the rest of that played out ;)

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