WHIRLING F2 BLACKOUT DREAM - 1056

G 0 START 1 input 0->1 31 Limbic System: It's easier, this time, drifting off. Your head has found a comfortable indent in the pillow. Your legs and your torso feel like lead weights sinking to the bottom of the sea, until they're suddenly light... 1->31 2 You: Sing along -- in silent communion. 18 Ancient Reptilian Brain: Blackness, blackness, blackness. The ultimate disco. The ruins of your life behind you, still smouldering. Ashes rise. But you're not looking. 2->18 3 Ancient Reptilian Brain: This is greatest hits material. Black tape spinning and spinning and spinning... You finally tired yourself. Cornered the flicker of your mind and extinguished it. 12 Limbic System: For now -- a little while -- you can... 3->12 4 You: Oh god... 5 You: Is this the last dream? 6 Ancient Reptilian Brain: No. This is the one before that. We'll just keep cycling it for you, if you don't mind. As long as we can. Spin it like black yarn. 5->6 27 Limbic System: Enjoy it while it lasts. 6->27 7 Variable["whirling.lackout_dream_had"] 8 Variable["whirling.lackout_dream_had"] 7->8 9 !(Variable["whirling.lackout_dream_had"]) 7->9 8->2 11 You: I've heard this song before. 8->11 17 You: How many days have I been in Martinaise already... 8->17 33 Ancient Reptilian Brain: This respite -- you've earned it, brother. Bask in the darkness. Let it swallow you up and swivel you around while you forget everything you've managed to remember... 9->33 10 Untitled hub 10->4 11->3 32 You: (Sleep. Without words or images.) 12->32 13 Ancient Reptilian Brain: There are no days here. There are no weeks. Just black tape spinning. On repeat. Until the end. 13->12 14 Limbic System: When the pictograms and the hieroglyphs of the world return, they seem silent somehow. The alarm rings quietly too. You're ready. 30 Half Light: Ready -- but something is coming. It always is. 14->30 15 Volition: Go. 26 You: [Open your eyes.] 15->26 16 SetVariableValue("whirling.lackout_dream_had", true) --[[ Variable[ ]] 19 SubstanceUsedMore("alcohol") 16->19 17->13 18->12 20 SubstanceUsedMore("alcohol") 19->20 21 !(SubstanceUsedMore("alcohol")) 19->21 22 You: Thank you, darkness. Thank you. 34 Ancient Reptilian Brain: You're welcome, Harry-boy. You earned it. 22->34 24 Ancient Reptilian Brain: No, you haven't. You've just *been*. 24->5 24->22 25 Limbic System: After centuries of darkness, the alarm rings -- but what's this? You *actually* feel rested. There's no time to cuddle with your pillow, however, or as much as shiver from the cold. The world awaits. 25->15 27->22 28 You: (Fall into a deep, uninterrupted sleep.) 28->25 29 You: But I've been bad. I haven't earned this. 29->24 30->26 31->7 32->14 33->5 33->29 34->28