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1. In Kirkland...something to do with Bobby Eikenberry...

2. I'm showing a movie projected onto a good-sized screen. We're in a conference room at a school I think. Folding chairs. I'm having trouble getting the sound loud enough. It's a funny old 50s educational film. Mike Nelson is in my audience and is quipping at the film with me. We're all having fun despite technical difficulties like trouble centering the image on the screen.

3. ...I'm wandering in the building. There are monsters loose in it somewhere. I'm helping a girl. She needs to change her clothes. I start to take her into the girls' gym, 'but even though I've already recce'd it, it has too many places for monsters to hide in, so I take her next door to a smaller (staff?) changing room. As soon as we enter we hear somebody coming. I take her to a back room and hide in a locker until they're gone.

4. Outside now. Sometimes I'm watching a woman as protagonist, sometimes I'm the protagonist. I'm married and living in a small town. We have a nifty cabin, but suddenly the local sherriff starts acting odd and picking on people. Some folks think he's wacko, others start acting as strange as he does. We decide we'd better leave. We are packing the truck to leave, when somehow the sherrif and his wife get our "baby"! I chase them to the patrol car where his wife has just tossed the bundled baby into the back seat. The window is down so I lean in and grab the baby just as they start to pull out. I run back to our truck and we peel out. They chase us for a bit, but we manage to get away...

Now the couple (I'm watching from the outside now) are living in a different town. Her mother (looks like the mom in "SoulTaker", yuk) comes to visit. The woman goes out for something and comes back to find the mother alone: where's the baby? She's given the baby back to somebody from the "zombie" town! "She seemed so distraught, I just had to give the baby to her!" "How could you do that!!!!" I scream (back in the character), "She LIED to you, and now that baby is going back to who knows what kind of abuse!!!!!" By this time I'm hysterical, crying and hitting the "mom".

Much later, the husband welcomes the woman back from her mission to rescue the baby. She's wearing plate armor but just a cloth wrap on her head. Where's the baby? She unbuckles her very peascod breastplate and a cloth-wrapped hand falls out of her gambeson front! Has the baby smothered in there? She unlaces her gambeson and lifts out a child of about 2 yrs and lays her on the bed. She's just asleep. The man and woman are very happy and there's a feeling of finality or total victory.

5. I'm at mom & dad's place in Suquamish. Todd and Cheryl are still visiting from Hawaii. Todd pulls up to the house and I go out to offer my sympathies about his dad (Todd's dad died about a week and a half ago in reality). He says he's putting together a camping expedition and invites me. Sounds like fun! I go to my room and start assembling my gear. It starts out as a couple of things in a day pack, but escalates into what looks like the usual uncontrolled "arms race" of junk. Just when I think I have it nailed, I think about mosquitos and decided to pack my tent. Now I'll need two packs. I start a packing "triage". This is taking forever! They're going to leave without me!

By now the action has moved to a building at the trailhead. Everybody is going to the small boats that will get us to the campsit down the lake. Ron Perlman is one of the campers. A tall mustachioed man comes in to see if I'm ready. "Just about!" And it's true, I'm just putting the final touches on my pack: remarkably my tent now fits inside. I apologize for my slowness, but the man says, "Hey, if you were Wayne (Frye) you'd be in here all day agonizing over every detail. No sweat." I appreciate his patience. He picks up one of my rejected packs and starts to shake the stuff out of it, not realizing I don't want any of the remaining gear in it. "Hey, that's my bugout bag! I'm not taking that!" He apologizes and helps me finish. Ron Perlman decides to take a load of campers ahead while we finish up.