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This is the first part of the PAX disaster, which will be told from 3 POVs. The first is Camnator's.
Camnator slowly awoke from his slumber. The first thing he noticed was the stench, a mixture of rotting food, vomit, and other foul things. He also couldn't see anything. For a second, he thought he had a blanket over his head, but when he moved, he felt a sharp pain pierce his right hand. "-blam!-!" he uttered in the darkness, as something cut him. It felt like a razor, or a piece of sharp glass. Immediately he jumped up, but then hit his head on a hard surface with a loud "thwump!", and almost knocked himself unconscious again. He uttered another profanity and massaged throbbing head, tears rolled down his cheeks in the darkness.
When the pain subsided, he noticed a crack of light a few above him on the wall. He reached for it and felt along the wall...and realized the light was coming through a hinged door. Then he realized where he was. He was in a dumpster. He had no memory of how he got there, but it wasn't the first time he woke in a place of no recollection of how he got there. He slid the dumpster open and was temporarily blinded by the light. He let his eyes adjust, then he climbed out of the dumpster and into an alleyway. He had no idea where he was, so he got out his phone and turned it on. The GPS told him he was in Seattle, Washington.
"Seattle....what the fu.." Camnator began to say, but then it started coming back to him. "OH SHIT!" he exclaimed. He remembered that he was attending the Penny Arcade Expo. He is supposed to meet up with some other bungie.net members. He checked his text messages, and saw a text from Vien that said "Where are you? We have waited for 45 minutes. There are children around here, verbatim will be ill if we do not move soon." It was sent 20 minutes ago.
Camnator texted "Sorry, I got lost. I'll be there soon. My head is foggy, I didn't smoke enough weed last night." Then he put his phone in his pocket and checked inside the dumpster for his backpack and took it out. After brushing off a scraps of food and a dead rat, he opened his back pack and took out a blunt. He lit it up, took a puff, and put it out. Camnator's head immediately began to clear. A path began to illuminate itself in front of him, almost like the paths you found in fables one and two. He began to follow it towards
his destination.The sounds of the traffic began to transform. Instead of the harsh chugging of engines, there were drums. Instead of car horns and people swearing, there was singing. The world began to transform into a world of 80's rock. Even the birds were singing in the trees, like a scene you'd find in a disney film.
Camnator saw the world for what it is, and what it is, is beautiful. He saw the auras emanating from every life form. The listened to the squirrels as he walked, chatting about politics. He picked one up and pet it, and it crawled up his shoulder, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and scurried along it's way. The flowers on the sidewalk waved to him as he passed. Everything was connected, everything made sense. His head was clear, the world is heaven...yet he knew the government wanted to destroy it. The thought made him sad, and diamond tears rolled down his cheeks, turned into corn, and scurried into the sidewalk cracks.
After 30 minutes, he began to realize that he had been walking in circles inside of the park. He vaguely knew he was very very late to the meeting place, but his head wasn't clear enough. He needed to clear it even more. So he found a table and got out his packed lunch: a BWT sandwich: brocolli, weed, and tomato. He quickly munched the sandwich and downed it with a thermos full of juiced weed. The glowing path grew brighter and he continued to follow it. It lead him to a glowing gold car. He driver asked him "where would you like to go?" Camnator giggled and said "To the Penny arcade expo. Do you know where that is?" The driver nodded and started to drive.
A few minutes went by, but the driver started asking questions, trying to strike up a conversation. But Camnator was too busy pondering the meaning of the universe, so he mumbled "You've gone incoherent." The driver looked puzzled, but then continued to drive in silence. Soon the driver stopped and told camnator the price. Camnator took out his wallet and dumped a wad of cash and some zig zags into the driver's hand. Then he got out of the car, and picked up the glowing trail again. That's all he could focus on, the yellow trail. The rest of the world was blurry, but the trail was as clear as anything. RIght now, it was the meaning of the universe. Soon, he saw 2 shapes at the end of the trail, a tall deformed giant, and a vicious looking teenager, vomiting into a garbage can. He had found Vien and Verbatim.
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