Getting caught in knife-throwing religious cult battle; Sickly man with soda fountain

[astral_lagoon]

I didn’t remember any dreams from August 18. Last night, I had a dream that I was on the roof of a hotel, and there was a woman there who was trying to leave a religious cult. Her nickname was Lucky [something] because she had absolutely no knife-throwing skills, but whenever she threw a knife, she always managed to hit whoever she was aiming for. When she expressed her wish leave the cult, several other cult members who were on the roof started attacking her. She started throwing knives, and the other cult members started throwing knives and ninja stars at her. I somehow ended up in the hotel lobby, where the knife/ninja star throwing battle was still going on. I was hunched down behind a table trying not get caught in the crossfire. There were several times where I almost got hit by a knife or ninja star, but I would always successfully shield myself with pieces of cardboard that were lying on the floor. Most of the blocked shots were random, but a couple were aimed deliberately at me. During the battle, the hotel’s restaurant manager and another man came up and started trying to drag me into a back office. I was able to get free, and I put the manager in a choke hold and pulled him to a hallway off the side of the lobby. I either killed him or rendered him unconscious. I left him by the door to an office, and I continued down the hallway toward the hotel’s kitchen. There were a couple of booths right where the hallway met the kitchen, and Mary, Daniel (her brother), and Aaron were standing there talking. I told Aaron I hadn’t heard that he was coming to town, and he said he wasn’t planning on it, but he made a last-minute change of plans. Mary worked at the hotel’s restaurant, and all of her co-workers were looking for me because of what I had done to their boss. I kept looking toward to the lobby to see if any of them were coming down the hall. When I did see that one of the waitresses was coming, I crawled under the table of the booth. I knew the woman would see me if she looked down, and about that time Daniel sat down in the booth and pushed the back cushion forward so as to block me from the waitress’s view. The waitress was talking to Mary about something work-related that had nothing to do with me, and then she went away. That’s all I remember.
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I also dreamt something about an old man who lived two doors down from my old house in Foxfire. He was known for something bad (a disease of some kind, I think), and he had a soda fountain in his kitchen. The Mello Yello dispenser also gave out Cherry Icee (sort of like the dual dispensers in soda fountains where pushing one button gives you soda and the other button gives you water).