little slimy tentacle babies
Jun. 23rd, 2007 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSleeped a lot. The kind of sleep that doesn't want to let you go. Every time you manage to wake up it just sucks you back down.
Dreamed some pretty stuff. The guy from Dark Angel who was mostly in a wheelchair, only without the wheelchair. He was called Tony and he was some kind of investigator, law enforcement stuff. He had an ex-wife and a baby who ought to be too small to walk and talk yet but something bizarre had happened to them. There was an infection, a kind of mutagenic plague, and people that got infected started making mucus and ended up making tentacles. And extra brains in their stomach behind the tentacles. It was really weird and really gross and really, really infectious. People with the disease were shut away in Sanctuary districts under the control of Quarantine officers. If they made it that far. Pretty often the Quarantine would turn up in time to find a sad and slightly slimy corpse. Technically it was still murder, but the only people who hunted the killers was the Quarantine, because they might have got infected. And always the cause of death was written down as the new plague.
So Tony's kid was infected. And as well as the usual problems of teething and coordination the kid had a dozen extra mini tentacles and a secondary brain that had him talking in full sentences already. And also an ongoing mucus problem, but so did everyone in Sanctuary so he pretty much didn't see it as a problem.
Most people with relatives in Sanctuary communicated with them by videophone. Safer. But Tony got dressed up in a full biohazard containment suit, that he'd had to purchase himself, and got checked by Quarantine every time he went in or out, and went to go visit his family. Because the kid might be a freak, but he was *his* freak.
The ex-wife also had tentacles, but they weren't very useful, and the brain adaptation didn't seem to be doing anything good for her. But it was difficult to tell cause she'd stopped talking to him even before they got infected so the lack of language now could just be a choice. When she held the baby she always used her hands, and she was forever cleaning the mucus off and wrapping him up tight and making sure he didn't stick his tentacles in his mouth.
My character for the dream was another investigator that worked with Tony. She was incredibly paranoid about infection. She wore a biohazard container suit *all the time*, a top of the line one with armoured inserts and stuff that should be proof against needle stick injuries. She wouldn't let anyone touch her. She had to have her face showing sometimes, just to eat and stuff, so she'd set her home up as a clean zone with a decontamination shower and waste water processing and all sorts. Every possible precaution against disease.
The only person she let in there was Tony.
He doesn't know why.
She's short and fat and it's impossible to know if she has a nice body because there's this suit over it all the time and he's the only one who's seen her face in person and it's nothing to write home about but they've worked together so long he just kind of got used to her. He likes her.
So, I woke up around then. Interesting setup, obviously needs something to be investigating, probably plague related, maybe use of plague as a weapon or a plague related murder or something. Maybe some civil rights stuff about the Sanctuary. And some anti-mutant prejudice of course. And add something about what the unassissted mortality rate is, because if all it does is make you slimy with tentacles the killing people thing seems a tad excessive. The dream-me seems kind of familiar. Hand washing and anxiety and all. But, tiny twist and there is Plot...
So she falls asleep at her place one day with her mask off, and Tony, having grown fond of her and knowing for certain he hasn't got anything infectious because Quarantine check him every single week, decides to pull a sleeping beauty and wake her with a kiss.
So then there is kissing, and it's pretty, and she wakes up all kissy, and...
Shoves him away in horror.
See, she has a mortal fear of infection... Of *passing on* infection.
She's not technically fat, she's just got to pack the tentacles somewhere.
Because then it gets *fun*. She's been an upstanding citizen, doing good work, paying for all the necessary modifications out of her own earnings, basically proving that Sanctuary isn't the only way. And her extra brain has been reallyreally useful. Tony is better at people stuff, because it's hard to relate from inside a hazard suit, but she's the one with the smarts and she applies them to saving lives. And yet under the law she just did negligent homicide on Tony and she could be prosecuted for never telling people and also if people murder her the cops aren't going to give a damn and the Quarantine won't morally mind.
So now her partner knows why she's never worried hanging out with a guy who goes to Sanctuary so much.
And also he might be infected and going to sprout tentacles and an extra brain.
She's in a much more advanced stage than anyone he's seen though. The mucus stopped when the tentacles stopped growing, and now everything is just kind of there and functional and stuff. Also a couple of the tentacles have spiral boney bits on and grow out her shoulders and can punch through actually quite thick leather and act as weapons.
Which could be considered a problem. For people that piss her off.
So she's the end result of the infection, twice as smart, many fine manipulators, couple of weapons. And people die before they get there, and *nobody* in Sanctuary looks like that, but there's rumours Quarantine take people off somewhere if they reach some 'final stage'. And there's other people living like her, not in Quarantine but not infecting either.
So they know that even if Tony doesn't call Q right away they're going to test him on the way in next weekend. And if he comes up infected they'll test everyone he knows. And then they'll get her. And she'll disappear.
But there's also an action/investigation plot going on. So they get kidnapped! And she's handcuffed to the wall! And the tentacles prove key to saving her life, but only because the stupid kidnappers take the suit off her to further their evil schemes.
And then... I fell asleep again. I'm sure I could think up some kind of resolution.
But anyway, that sounded kind of fun. Aside from the necessity of typing up tentacles every couple of lines. I mean arms and legs have nice short words you can type quite often, but tentacles is just long and looks like you've spelled it wrong.
Dreamed some pretty stuff. The guy from Dark Angel who was mostly in a wheelchair, only without the wheelchair. He was called Tony and he was some kind of investigator, law enforcement stuff. He had an ex-wife and a baby who ought to be too small to walk and talk yet but something bizarre had happened to them. There was an infection, a kind of mutagenic plague, and people that got infected started making mucus and ended up making tentacles. And extra brains in their stomach behind the tentacles. It was really weird and really gross and really, really infectious. People with the disease were shut away in Sanctuary districts under the control of Quarantine officers. If they made it that far. Pretty often the Quarantine would turn up in time to find a sad and slightly slimy corpse. Technically it was still murder, but the only people who hunted the killers was the Quarantine, because they might have got infected. And always the cause of death was written down as the new plague.
So Tony's kid was infected. And as well as the usual problems of teething and coordination the kid had a dozen extra mini tentacles and a secondary brain that had him talking in full sentences already. And also an ongoing mucus problem, but so did everyone in Sanctuary so he pretty much didn't see it as a problem.
Most people with relatives in Sanctuary communicated with them by videophone. Safer. But Tony got dressed up in a full biohazard containment suit, that he'd had to purchase himself, and got checked by Quarantine every time he went in or out, and went to go visit his family. Because the kid might be a freak, but he was *his* freak.
The ex-wife also had tentacles, but they weren't very useful, and the brain adaptation didn't seem to be doing anything good for her. But it was difficult to tell cause she'd stopped talking to him even before they got infected so the lack of language now could just be a choice. When she held the baby she always used her hands, and she was forever cleaning the mucus off and wrapping him up tight and making sure he didn't stick his tentacles in his mouth.
My character for the dream was another investigator that worked with Tony. She was incredibly paranoid about infection. She wore a biohazard container suit *all the time*, a top of the line one with armoured inserts and stuff that should be proof against needle stick injuries. She wouldn't let anyone touch her. She had to have her face showing sometimes, just to eat and stuff, so she'd set her home up as a clean zone with a decontamination shower and waste water processing and all sorts. Every possible precaution against disease.
The only person she let in there was Tony.
He doesn't know why.
She's short and fat and it's impossible to know if she has a nice body because there's this suit over it all the time and he's the only one who's seen her face in person and it's nothing to write home about but they've worked together so long he just kind of got used to her. He likes her.
So, I woke up around then. Interesting setup, obviously needs something to be investigating, probably plague related, maybe use of plague as a weapon or a plague related murder or something. Maybe some civil rights stuff about the Sanctuary. And some anti-mutant prejudice of course. And add something about what the unassissted mortality rate is, because if all it does is make you slimy with tentacles the killing people thing seems a tad excessive. The dream-me seems kind of familiar. Hand washing and anxiety and all. But, tiny twist and there is Plot...
So she falls asleep at her place one day with her mask off, and Tony, having grown fond of her and knowing for certain he hasn't got anything infectious because Quarantine check him every single week, decides to pull a sleeping beauty and wake her with a kiss.
So then there is kissing, and it's pretty, and she wakes up all kissy, and...
Shoves him away in horror.
See, she has a mortal fear of infection... Of *passing on* infection.
She's not technically fat, she's just got to pack the tentacles somewhere.
Because then it gets *fun*. She's been an upstanding citizen, doing good work, paying for all the necessary modifications out of her own earnings, basically proving that Sanctuary isn't the only way. And her extra brain has been reallyreally useful. Tony is better at people stuff, because it's hard to relate from inside a hazard suit, but she's the one with the smarts and she applies them to saving lives. And yet under the law she just did negligent homicide on Tony and she could be prosecuted for never telling people and also if people murder her the cops aren't going to give a damn and the Quarantine won't morally mind.
So now her partner knows why she's never worried hanging out with a guy who goes to Sanctuary so much.
And also he might be infected and going to sprout tentacles and an extra brain.
She's in a much more advanced stage than anyone he's seen though. The mucus stopped when the tentacles stopped growing, and now everything is just kind of there and functional and stuff. Also a couple of the tentacles have spiral boney bits on and grow out her shoulders and can punch through actually quite thick leather and act as weapons.
Which could be considered a problem. For people that piss her off.
So she's the end result of the infection, twice as smart, many fine manipulators, couple of weapons. And people die before they get there, and *nobody* in Sanctuary looks like that, but there's rumours Quarantine take people off somewhere if they reach some 'final stage'. And there's other people living like her, not in Quarantine but not infecting either.
So they know that even if Tony doesn't call Q right away they're going to test him on the way in next weekend. And if he comes up infected they'll test everyone he knows. And then they'll get her. And she'll disappear.
But there's also an action/investigation plot going on. So they get kidnapped! And she's handcuffed to the wall! And the tentacles prove key to saving her life, but only because the stupid kidnappers take the suit off her to further their evil schemes.
And then... I fell asleep again. I'm sure I could think up some kind of resolution.
But anyway, that sounded kind of fun. Aside from the necessity of typing up tentacles every couple of lines. I mean arms and legs have nice short words you can type quite often, but tentacles is just long and looks like you've spelled it wrong.