RE: "Seriously brain, what the hell?" A Thread For Weird Dreams and Nightmares
01-08-2016, 08:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-08-2016, 08:44 PM by Crowstone.)
A group of 6 teenagers/20somethings (including yourself/viewers POV) drive to a house out in the countryside. It is atop a hill and has a nice garden. They have the house all to themselves for an entire week (a relative is letting them stay there).
However, as they enter the house, they discover that they aren't quite alone. There are servants there. While most of the servants are just people, a gardener, a butler, and other such caretakers, one servant is a ceiling-mounted robot that dispenses food. The 6 young guests discover that there is no food to be found anywhere except dispensed by the robot or (growing in the garden).
The robot only dispenses orange juice cartons at first, and frustrated, one guest asks the robot for all of its orange juice. it dispenses a large pile of orange juice, announces that it is out of orange juice, and can now dispense other items.
Things seem to be normal. They play games, have fun, watch tv, walk in the garden. The presence of the butler is kind of awkward, but things get funner as they invite the butler to hang out with them.
Out in the garden, they observe an unusual tree make impressive growth over the first few days. It's a pumpkin tree and it grows a new large pumpkin every day! The gardener comments that he is not sure how the tree started growing pumpkins, which normally grow on vines.
One guest begins working on a large chalk drawing out on the paved driveway. It's star wars and avatar the last airbender fanart, a chalk comic. Zuko is Kylo Ren's son, and together they are fighting pokemon. Zuko constructs a complicated machine that uses firebending to defeat pokemon automatically. Later, Kylo Ren and Zuko get into a pointless argument, and Kylo Ren kills Zuko. Kylo Ren realizes what he has done. Not only has he killed his son, but now there is no one left to operate the machine. Despite his best efforts, Kylo Ren is unable to defeat the pokemon alone, and the pokemon overrun their home, destroying everything.
On the sixth day, one guest falls off while climbing the pumpkin tree in the garden and breaks their leg. The teenagers want to go to the hospital but the gardener warns them that it is not a good idea, reasoning that the bumpy car ride would hurt the leg more and the hospital is too far away anyway. They should instead see the dispenser robot.
The dispenser robot dispenses some medicine, claiming that it will help the guest with their broken leg. The guest refuses to take the mysterious medicine. The robot refuses to give them regular food so the other guests share their food with the broken leg guest. The 6 young guests decide to stay at the house until the leg heals naturally, which means they will be staying much longer than one week. The butler tries to convince the broken leg guest to take that medicine but the broken leg guest is too stubborn and paranoid about the unlabeled medicine.
Umm, to make things easier, here's a list of guests. #1- you. #2- broken leg guest. #3 - some smart guy. #4- the one who drew the chalk comic. #5- another guy. #6- another girl
On the seventh day, the ground rumbles and shakes mysteriously and the air seems to become hot for a second. The butler seems to be panicking and tells the guests that they should stay inside for danger of the earthquake. While most of the guests agree and stays indoors, you (the viewer) and guest #3 the smart guy notice the butler sneak outside. The two of you follow him without telling the others. Outdoors, you notice the pumpkin tree has 7 less pumpkins than it did yesterday, and that your car is gone. Wait- there's your car.... down the road, driving up towards the house?
The butler notices you and warns the two of you to go back inside immediately. The car approaches but you and smart guy are the kind of rule-breaking teens that don't take orders from no stinkin' adults. The butler sighs and asks for a compromise. You can watch, but please, please stay out of sight.
The three of you hide behind a low wall and watch. The car pulls up in the driveway. To your surprise, out of the car emerges you!! and guest #3! and the other four guests!!! But, how can they be there, when you're over here, and? ?????
The gardener runs out to greet the doppelgangers from the car. They seem surprised to see someone at the house, and one of them says that they thought they would be alone here. The gardener tells them that he is merely the gardener, and that there are other servants as well. He recommends that they stay in the basement for now (you were unaware that this house had a basement). While they object, the gardener stutters and says that the other servants are still cleaning the house. And, there is pizza in the basement. And a swimming pool. "Don't you guys want to go swimming?"
The doppelganger who looks like guest #4 notices the drawing on the pavement. "Who drew this? This looks like... something that i would draw..."
The gardener stares at the pavement. He is lost for words and seems deep in terrified thought.
Smart Guy (#3) asks the butler, "are these... us, from the past?"
The Butler says, "yes. This house is contained in a week-long time loop. You were supposed to have left by now, and now the next set of yous has arrived. I don't know what to do. I think, this operation might have finally failed. I suppose, a few cycles ago I would have done something to fix this or at least tried harder to keep the secret but, I don't think there's any point to secrecy now. I guess, follow me and I'll explain everything."
The Butler steps out from behind the low wall and calls out to the Gardener. "Hey, I need you over here. Don't worry about the new guests, we can take care of them later."
The new guests seem confused but don't do anything as the watch the gardener leave them. The gardener and butler join you and #3 behind the wall. There's a little bit of shaking, and the ground beneath you descends downwards into the secret basement.
Inside the basement, you are surprised once more: the dispenser robot, which you had assumed was permanently stuck to its position on the kitchen ceiling upstairs, had apparently moved downstairs, and was now hanging over a table on which Guest #2 with the broken leg was strapped to. He is unconscious. Guest #4 (chalk girl) was there too, looking very worried. The dispenser robot explains that "#5 and #6 had to be put to sleep. I moved #2 down for surgery. #4 didn't struggle so she has been allowed to watch."
Now that everyone was together, the butler started speaking. "This is a medical facility. You kids were the very first time travelers in human history. 4000 years ago you somehow accidentally visited this house for a vacation. And a week later, you dissappeared, and a new set of you kids appeared, driving up to their house to have the exact same vacation. Every week you came, disappeared and arrive, all completely unaware that the years were coming and going and that there was even some sort of time loop going on.
"On the outside, human technology advanced and grew. Governments came and went, generations of people were born and died. As the powers of human technology grew stronger, so too grew our weaknesses. We have suffered from alien diseases, suffered from physical injuries that the six of you could never imagine. And we soon learned that we had no way to cure or fix these problems without experimentation.
"But we valued our own people too highly to experiment on them, so we instead learned how to use this mysterious time-looping house for our own needs. We would make sick, hurt you, and then we would cure you. Either way, at the end of the week, you would drive away and dissappear into the barrier of time, and then you would drive back in, completely fresh bodies without memory, to resume the process, while we observed, experimented and determined which of our solutions worked to fix the diseases we inflicted on you and which of our solutions failed. We put in the dispenser robot, and sent staff here disguised as gardeners and butlers, that's us, yes, to make sure everything went according to plan. Since we aren't part of the original time loop, we don't get reset at the end of the week.
"It took thousands of years, but we had managed to learn everything about you, about your past, what the world was like in the 21st century, we know every atom in your body and this house and what is going to happen if we do not interfere, and what to expect when we do. Our psychologists determined how to give you orders that you can't refuse, and our doctors have learned how to take the results of our medicine on you to know how it will affect humans in the present.
"But oddly, the scenario started to change. Somehow, you learned how to refuse our orders, even though you should be exactly the same at the start of every week. Every advancement in our mind control eventually stopped working. Your internal chemistry has changed in minor ways, causing inconsistent results with our medical research. We often remove our presence from the house to see how the six of you will behave, and while before, the exact same events would play out each, now you do different activities in different orders every week. It got worse when you started trying to stay longer for a week and you would be running into fresh time copies of yourself. Even the house itself started changing. That tree didn't used to grow pumpkins 4000 years ago. Some of the spiders in the corner started to persist between loops.
"I guess today is the day that its finally reached the point where we cannot control the situation any longer. So, that's it I guess."
The gardener, who had been sitting quietly in the corner throughout that whole speech, "Wait, you're not even going to tell them about the shadow?"
The butler replied, "What's the point? Not even we know what the true nature of the shadow is. Anyways, I guess, I'm not sure what's going to happen now."
The dispenser robot beeped, "Headquarters has agreed that we should abandon this project. Pack up your things you two, we are leaving."
The gardener scoffed. "What things?" He tapped his shirt pocket and vanished.
Smart guy #3 shouts, "WAIT WAIT. wait, what about US?"
The butler shrugged. "I guess, uh, you'll just keep looping or something. But if you want to like, stop the time loops, it doesn't really matter to us anymore. Just shout at the lava. I think that might work. We never tried though, since, we never wanted to stop the loop before. No idea what will happen, so.... good luck!" He points to the bathroom, taps his shirt pocket and vanished.
Guest #4 and Guest #3 opened the bathroom while you (guest #1) watched. From the toilet came a warm, red glow. "There's lava down there. I guess, uh, we shout at it?"
Guest #4 and Guest #3 shouted into the toilet. The earth started shaking lightly, but otherwise nothing spectacular seemed to be happening.
The Dispenser Robot helpfully suggested that they try shouting louder.
Guest #2 woke up. "Oh.... what... what happened??? why is my leg looking at me like that... who's screaming???"
Dispenser Robot: "Yeah, your leg isn't broken, it's possessed. uh. Long story short, its the year 5322, and scientists from the future are experimenting on you to try to cure leg possession."
Guest #2: "what... can.... so ... fix it?"
Dispenser Robot: "You should have tried that medicine I gave you!"
Guest #2: "oh.... oh... okay."
Dispenser Robot: "Okay, here you go."
Guest #2 swallowed the liquid that Dispenser Robot dropped into his mouth. The possessed leg started shouting demonic tones. The earth shook harder.
Dispenser Robot: "Alright. Looks like this medicine does not work and we shouldn't use it anymore. And that concludes our final experiment! Thank you for contribution for science and goodbye."
A robotic arm popped out of the Dispenser Robot. It lingered over a button on its side, but the Dispenser Robot seemed to change its mind. "Okay, I'm, really sorry about getting your leg possessed. Like, this is the best thing I can do for you now. Sorry! So sorry."
The Dispenser Robot's arm reached down and karate-chopped off the leg. The leg screamed louder demonic swear words, and Guest #2 screamed in pain. "SORRY! so sorry!! uh, lemme get you some anaesthesia,"
the Earth started to shake a lot. The air got warmer and warmer. The Dispenser Robot moved its robot arm back to the button. "oh dear, uh, i think, maybe I don't want to be here right now,so , sorry bye"
It pushed the button and vanished. The earth shake faster and faster. Cracks in the ground opened up and lava spewed out everywhere. A bright flash of red spread through the household as geothermal energy escaped out of the ground. The fires of time consumed the time loop, but continued to spread throughout the universe burning everything away. The time loop had stopped, but so had all of time and space.
But you continued to watch. You were still in the house. Parts of the house were still crumbling away, and you could see outside before too long. There was only blackness, and as the last remnants of the hill and the house disappeared, you realized that you were the only one left alive. The remains of the house had that bathroom at its center, as in the closer something was to that bathroom, the longer it would last. You had to be move closer to the bathroom as the floor was slowly vanishing behind you and there was less and less to stand on. Its door was slightly ajar, opening outwards and you reached out for the handle.
Just before you grabbed the doorknob, something on the other side pulled it shut.
The floor behind you had finally vanished, and then a moment later, you vanished too.
However, as they enter the house, they discover that they aren't quite alone. There are servants there. While most of the servants are just people, a gardener, a butler, and other such caretakers, one servant is a ceiling-mounted robot that dispenses food. The 6 young guests discover that there is no food to be found anywhere except dispensed by the robot or (growing in the garden).
The robot only dispenses orange juice cartons at first, and frustrated, one guest asks the robot for all of its orange juice. it dispenses a large pile of orange juice, announces that it is out of orange juice, and can now dispense other items.
Things seem to be normal. They play games, have fun, watch tv, walk in the garden. The presence of the butler is kind of awkward, but things get funner as they invite the butler to hang out with them.
Out in the garden, they observe an unusual tree make impressive growth over the first few days. It's a pumpkin tree and it grows a new large pumpkin every day! The gardener comments that he is not sure how the tree started growing pumpkins, which normally grow on vines.
One guest begins working on a large chalk drawing out on the paved driveway. It's star wars and avatar the last airbender fanart, a chalk comic. Zuko is Kylo Ren's son, and together they are fighting pokemon. Zuko constructs a complicated machine that uses firebending to defeat pokemon automatically. Later, Kylo Ren and Zuko get into a pointless argument, and Kylo Ren kills Zuko. Kylo Ren realizes what he has done. Not only has he killed his son, but now there is no one left to operate the machine. Despite his best efforts, Kylo Ren is unable to defeat the pokemon alone, and the pokemon overrun their home, destroying everything.
On the sixth day, one guest falls off while climbing the pumpkin tree in the garden and breaks their leg. The teenagers want to go to the hospital but the gardener warns them that it is not a good idea, reasoning that the bumpy car ride would hurt the leg more and the hospital is too far away anyway. They should instead see the dispenser robot.
The dispenser robot dispenses some medicine, claiming that it will help the guest with their broken leg. The guest refuses to take the mysterious medicine. The robot refuses to give them regular food so the other guests share their food with the broken leg guest. The 6 young guests decide to stay at the house until the leg heals naturally, which means they will be staying much longer than one week. The butler tries to convince the broken leg guest to take that medicine but the broken leg guest is too stubborn and paranoid about the unlabeled medicine.
Umm, to make things easier, here's a list of guests. #1- you. #2- broken leg guest. #3 - some smart guy. #4- the one who drew the chalk comic. #5- another guy. #6- another girl
On the seventh day, the ground rumbles and shakes mysteriously and the air seems to become hot for a second. The butler seems to be panicking and tells the guests that they should stay inside for danger of the earthquake. While most of the guests agree and stays indoors, you (the viewer) and guest #3 the smart guy notice the butler sneak outside. The two of you follow him without telling the others. Outdoors, you notice the pumpkin tree has 7 less pumpkins than it did yesterday, and that your car is gone. Wait- there's your car.... down the road, driving up towards the house?
The butler notices you and warns the two of you to go back inside immediately. The car approaches but you and smart guy are the kind of rule-breaking teens that don't take orders from no stinkin' adults. The butler sighs and asks for a compromise. You can watch, but please, please stay out of sight.
The three of you hide behind a low wall and watch. The car pulls up in the driveway. To your surprise, out of the car emerges you!! and guest #3! and the other four guests!!! But, how can they be there, when you're over here, and? ?????
The gardener runs out to greet the doppelgangers from the car. They seem surprised to see someone at the house, and one of them says that they thought they would be alone here. The gardener tells them that he is merely the gardener, and that there are other servants as well. He recommends that they stay in the basement for now (you were unaware that this house had a basement). While they object, the gardener stutters and says that the other servants are still cleaning the house. And, there is pizza in the basement. And a swimming pool. "Don't you guys want to go swimming?"
The doppelganger who looks like guest #4 notices the drawing on the pavement. "Who drew this? This looks like... something that i would draw..."
The gardener stares at the pavement. He is lost for words and seems deep in terrified thought.
Smart Guy (#3) asks the butler, "are these... us, from the past?"
The Butler says, "yes. This house is contained in a week-long time loop. You were supposed to have left by now, and now the next set of yous has arrived. I don't know what to do. I think, this operation might have finally failed. I suppose, a few cycles ago I would have done something to fix this or at least tried harder to keep the secret but, I don't think there's any point to secrecy now. I guess, follow me and I'll explain everything."
The Butler steps out from behind the low wall and calls out to the Gardener. "Hey, I need you over here. Don't worry about the new guests, we can take care of them later."
The new guests seem confused but don't do anything as the watch the gardener leave them. The gardener and butler join you and #3 behind the wall. There's a little bit of shaking, and the ground beneath you descends downwards into the secret basement.
Inside the basement, you are surprised once more: the dispenser robot, which you had assumed was permanently stuck to its position on the kitchen ceiling upstairs, had apparently moved downstairs, and was now hanging over a table on which Guest #2 with the broken leg was strapped to. He is unconscious. Guest #4 (chalk girl) was there too, looking very worried. The dispenser robot explains that "#5 and #6 had to be put to sleep. I moved #2 down for surgery. #4 didn't struggle so she has been allowed to watch."
Now that everyone was together, the butler started speaking. "This is a medical facility. You kids were the very first time travelers in human history. 4000 years ago you somehow accidentally visited this house for a vacation. And a week later, you dissappeared, and a new set of you kids appeared, driving up to their house to have the exact same vacation. Every week you came, disappeared and arrive, all completely unaware that the years were coming and going and that there was even some sort of time loop going on.
"On the outside, human technology advanced and grew. Governments came and went, generations of people were born and died. As the powers of human technology grew stronger, so too grew our weaknesses. We have suffered from alien diseases, suffered from physical injuries that the six of you could never imagine. And we soon learned that we had no way to cure or fix these problems without experimentation.
"But we valued our own people too highly to experiment on them, so we instead learned how to use this mysterious time-looping house for our own needs. We would make sick, hurt you, and then we would cure you. Either way, at the end of the week, you would drive away and dissappear into the barrier of time, and then you would drive back in, completely fresh bodies without memory, to resume the process, while we observed, experimented and determined which of our solutions worked to fix the diseases we inflicted on you and which of our solutions failed. We put in the dispenser robot, and sent staff here disguised as gardeners and butlers, that's us, yes, to make sure everything went according to plan. Since we aren't part of the original time loop, we don't get reset at the end of the week.
"It took thousands of years, but we had managed to learn everything about you, about your past, what the world was like in the 21st century, we know every atom in your body and this house and what is going to happen if we do not interfere, and what to expect when we do. Our psychologists determined how to give you orders that you can't refuse, and our doctors have learned how to take the results of our medicine on you to know how it will affect humans in the present.
"But oddly, the scenario started to change. Somehow, you learned how to refuse our orders, even though you should be exactly the same at the start of every week. Every advancement in our mind control eventually stopped working. Your internal chemistry has changed in minor ways, causing inconsistent results with our medical research. We often remove our presence from the house to see how the six of you will behave, and while before, the exact same events would play out each, now you do different activities in different orders every week. It got worse when you started trying to stay longer for a week and you would be running into fresh time copies of yourself. Even the house itself started changing. That tree didn't used to grow pumpkins 4000 years ago. Some of the spiders in the corner started to persist between loops.
"I guess today is the day that its finally reached the point where we cannot control the situation any longer. So, that's it I guess."
The gardener, who had been sitting quietly in the corner throughout that whole speech, "Wait, you're not even going to tell them about the shadow?"
The butler replied, "What's the point? Not even we know what the true nature of the shadow is. Anyways, I guess, I'm not sure what's going to happen now."
The dispenser robot beeped, "Headquarters has agreed that we should abandon this project. Pack up your things you two, we are leaving."
The gardener scoffed. "What things?" He tapped his shirt pocket and vanished.
Smart guy #3 shouts, "WAIT WAIT. wait, what about US?"
The butler shrugged. "I guess, uh, you'll just keep looping or something. But if you want to like, stop the time loops, it doesn't really matter to us anymore. Just shout at the lava. I think that might work. We never tried though, since, we never wanted to stop the loop before. No idea what will happen, so.... good luck!" He points to the bathroom, taps his shirt pocket and vanished.
Guest #4 and Guest #3 opened the bathroom while you (guest #1) watched. From the toilet came a warm, red glow. "There's lava down there. I guess, uh, we shout at it?"
Guest #4 and Guest #3 shouted into the toilet. The earth started shaking lightly, but otherwise nothing spectacular seemed to be happening.
The Dispenser Robot helpfully suggested that they try shouting louder.
Guest #2 woke up. "Oh.... what... what happened??? why is my leg looking at me like that... who's screaming???"
Dispenser Robot: "Yeah, your leg isn't broken, it's possessed. uh. Long story short, its the year 5322, and scientists from the future are experimenting on you to try to cure leg possession."
Guest #2: "what... can.... so ... fix it?"
Dispenser Robot: "You should have tried that medicine I gave you!"
Guest #2: "oh.... oh... okay."
Dispenser Robot: "Okay, here you go."
Guest #2 swallowed the liquid that Dispenser Robot dropped into his mouth. The possessed leg started shouting demonic tones. The earth shook harder.
Dispenser Robot: "Alright. Looks like this medicine does not work and we shouldn't use it anymore. And that concludes our final experiment! Thank you for contribution for science and goodbye."
A robotic arm popped out of the Dispenser Robot. It lingered over a button on its side, but the Dispenser Robot seemed to change its mind. "Okay, I'm, really sorry about getting your leg possessed. Like, this is the best thing I can do for you now. Sorry! So sorry."
The Dispenser Robot's arm reached down and karate-chopped off the leg. The leg screamed louder demonic swear words, and Guest #2 screamed in pain. "SORRY! so sorry!! uh, lemme get you some anaesthesia,"
the Earth started to shake a lot. The air got warmer and warmer. The Dispenser Robot moved its robot arm back to the button. "oh dear, uh, i think, maybe I don't want to be here right now,so , sorry bye"
It pushed the button and vanished. The earth shake faster and faster. Cracks in the ground opened up and lava spewed out everywhere. A bright flash of red spread through the household as geothermal energy escaped out of the ground. The fires of time consumed the time loop, but continued to spread throughout the universe burning everything away. The time loop had stopped, but so had all of time and space.
But you continued to watch. You were still in the house. Parts of the house were still crumbling away, and you could see outside before too long. There was only blackness, and as the last remnants of the hill and the house disappeared, you realized that you were the only one left alive. The remains of the house had that bathroom at its center, as in the closer something was to that bathroom, the longer it would last. You had to be move closer to the bathroom as the floor was slowly vanishing behind you and there was less and less to stand on. Its door was slightly ajar, opening outwards and you reached out for the handle.
Just before you grabbed the doorknob, something on the other side pulled it shut.
The floor behind you had finally vanished, and then a moment later, you vanished too.
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