Japan again
I was in Japan, in a park by a lake. The grass was lovely and green, the sun was shining, the weather was warm, it was nice :) Lots of people were happily playing in the park, some guy had a small ceramic disc with bulges in the middle, which he hit with a light weight bat. The disc would fly out, arc around and come back to be hit again, the game seemed to be based upon how long you could keep it in the air. Lots of people were gathered by the water’s edge watching the latest Naruto movie, which was being displayed on 2 huge screens floating in the lake. I watched that for a bit, and some guy came and stood in front of me, but I could still see by combining bits from both screens. Across the lake we could see snow-capped mountains with people skiing down trails. It was a lovely place and I would have liked to live there.
Eventually though I had to pee. There was a set of shops along a road by the park so I went out there, but I couldn't find a toilet. I tried my apartment but it's layout kept changing and it wasn't mine. I did find one eventually but it had no privacy unless I locked off an entire large room, which felt wrong. I got to the end of the shops and there was a guy in a uniform there, but my Japanese wasn't good enough to ask him :(
Somehow I got some food, squeezing in on an already packed table, and looking at all the food I hadn't ordered, and realising that it was on other people's trays. I ate my tomato soup, but somehow I ate all the tomatoes and was left with a clear soup with small white things floating in it.
I went off to the US Naval base and helped sort something about between the Americans and Japanese there, before getting a lift out on a submarine. I helped guide them through the busy waters and they delivered me to my target. The higher ups wanted me to sort out a situation where a handful of people were doing terrible things to a township. They wanted a low kill count this time. I figured I could do that. I got to the place and it was a poor township, but lively. Young kids played in the dirt, wearing dirty clothes showing obvious wear. A number of the adults were showing obvious signs of stress and abuse. It wasn't a happy place. It was easy enough to see the cruise liner that the people had holed up in, and it was surrounded by a group of adults, all armed, and looking rather dodgy. It would certainly be easy enough to just walk in and kill everybody, but some kid grabbed me and we went somewhere so he could tell me what I needed to know. We went into a small building and crept upstairs. Somehow, I was already downstairs, dancing. Perhaps I'd already failed and had gone insane. The boy told me that the people guarding the boat would recover. It took about 6 months for them to recover fully, but they could be saved. I remembered that the higher ups had wanted a low kill count, and I began to realise that it might actually be possible. The boy said I should go see The Professor, and the higher ups had mentioned him as well. I went back out and started walking towards the boat. Some young woman well dressed in bright white came up to me and demanded to come along with me. This was insane! I was going into a group of deranged violent people. I would be fine, but her? Yet she kept insisting she would somehow magically be safe with me. I explained to her that if I died I would immediately be resurrected. She didn't have that, and yet she insisted on coming :( *sigh* I approached the outer defense line, and started just chatting with them. They were mostly OK, I wasn't armed or anything, I wasn't trying anything. The young woman wasn't so lucky though. Some guy with a pistol started threatening her. The guy I'd been chatting to had a throwing knife which I took from him (he looked upset at that) and I threatened the gun guy with it, and then realised the folly of it all and *shrug* Gun guy shot the young woman several times in her back, and predictably she fell over dying. I threw the knife and it curved around and came back to stick the guy next to me in his throat! Gak! I very gently removed the knife from his throat and undid the damage, then gave him back his knife. He was very happy to get it back and he took me off to see The Professor. He was at the back of the spit of land the boat was parked next to, and had a couple of couches there, facing each other. I was introduced and invited to sit down, and The Professor was very pleased to see that I was female. He congratulated the guy on his good taste, and a glass table was lowered from a door in the ship (I could feel undirected menace from within the ship) I sat down on the couch next to some dead but very well preserved guy and The Professor happily commented that we should start making babies.
Eventually though I had to pee. There was a set of shops along a road by the park so I went out there, but I couldn't find a toilet. I tried my apartment but it's layout kept changing and it wasn't mine. I did find one eventually but it had no privacy unless I locked off an entire large room, which felt wrong. I got to the end of the shops and there was a guy in a uniform there, but my Japanese wasn't good enough to ask him :(
Somehow I got some food, squeezing in on an already packed table, and looking at all the food I hadn't ordered, and realising that it was on other people's trays. I ate my tomato soup, but somehow I ate all the tomatoes and was left with a clear soup with small white things floating in it.
I went off to the US Naval base and helped sort something about between the Americans and Japanese there, before getting a lift out on a submarine. I helped guide them through the busy waters and they delivered me to my target. The higher ups wanted me to sort out a situation where a handful of people were doing terrible things to a township. They wanted a low kill count this time. I figured I could do that. I got to the place and it was a poor township, but lively. Young kids played in the dirt, wearing dirty clothes showing obvious wear. A number of the adults were showing obvious signs of stress and abuse. It wasn't a happy place. It was easy enough to see the cruise liner that the people had holed up in, and it was surrounded by a group of adults, all armed, and looking rather dodgy. It would certainly be easy enough to just walk in and kill everybody, but some kid grabbed me and we went somewhere so he could tell me what I needed to know. We went into a small building and crept upstairs. Somehow, I was already downstairs, dancing. Perhaps I'd already failed and had gone insane. The boy told me that the people guarding the boat would recover. It took about 6 months for them to recover fully, but they could be saved. I remembered that the higher ups had wanted a low kill count, and I began to realise that it might actually be possible. The boy said I should go see The Professor, and the higher ups had mentioned him as well. I went back out and started walking towards the boat. Some young woman well dressed in bright white came up to me and demanded to come along with me. This was insane! I was going into a group of deranged violent people. I would be fine, but her? Yet she kept insisting she would somehow magically be safe with me. I explained to her that if I died I would immediately be resurrected. She didn't have that, and yet she insisted on coming :( *sigh* I approached the outer defense line, and started just chatting with them. They were mostly OK, I wasn't armed or anything, I wasn't trying anything. The young woman wasn't so lucky though. Some guy with a pistol started threatening her. The guy I'd been chatting to had a throwing knife which I took from him (he looked upset at that) and I threatened the gun guy with it, and then realised the folly of it all and *shrug* Gun guy shot the young woman several times in her back, and predictably she fell over dying. I threw the knife and it curved around and came back to stick the guy next to me in his throat! Gak! I very gently removed the knife from his throat and undid the damage, then gave him back his knife. He was very happy to get it back and he took me off to see The Professor. He was at the back of the spit of land the boat was parked next to, and had a couple of couches there, facing each other. I was introduced and invited to sit down, and The Professor was very pleased to see that I was female. He congratulated the guy on his good taste, and a glass table was lowered from a door in the ship (I could feel undirected menace from within the ship) I sat down on the couch next to some dead but very well preserved guy and The Professor happily commented that we should start making babies.