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I'm in a hotel. It feels like Saw because I can help determine my own fate, but I won't be killing other people to stay alive. So then... it's more like a video game that's totally for real. There are like... 12 or 20 floors, and I and the other three who are with me (iirc, a guy i used to work with, a female i knew but can't recall, and another female) are charged with finding all of the bombs. There's at least one on each floor, as some big bombs have "baby bombs" related to them. It's also relayed to us (or I just have that dream-understanding) that we shouldn't go cutting things, because the resulting explosion will be super grand. I don't know why we're doing it, or what city it's in, but that's rather inconsequential, isn't it?
We got a freebie clue-- the first bomb was directly above our starting position. So I and the second girl (who happened to be Black, for the sake of identification) move up a floor together and get to searching. Not knowing what to look for since we never had to deal with the first bomb at all, I get CSI and say to look for evidence of tamper or things where they don't seem they should be. Looking up at the ceiling to make sure it wasn't wired there, I saw a slowly blinking green light... which is indeed odd, since exit lights and any other lights tend to be red or white. Peeking up through the tile let me see the black phone next to the light, as well as something else bulky, so I knew I'd found it. I quickly searched for a ladder to get up and examine the bomb, and probably call in that it had been found, but a guy with a three-man squad came and was all "he probably used a scissor lift to get that, we'll take care of it." Ignoring the idea of power equipment like that sitting on the second floor of a hotel (scissor lifts may as well be SUVs that can jack themselves up), I watched him get a lift out of the closet and raise to the ceiling. And cut the wire, giving us a thumbs up.
Cue a long moment of silence and the two of us looking like "oh crap," before the bomb announced that it was going to explode without warning [i]while already exploding.[/i] And then cue a montage of people running away from the rolling explosion. It may as well have been a nuke for how big it seemed to be, swallowing at least two hundred people who were grouped up in the hotel (though I never saw them before that point), those in the back not bothering with running and just accepting getting swallowed by the fire bomb nuke thing, with a chorus of young ladies singing, then jumping into a waterfall (what) when the fire was about to get them. Apparently Queen Latifah jumped as well, because as the fire subsided, I saw her as a mermaid floating down the river unharmed, and someone announced that they really hated how she jumped or acted.
So, next floor is there as we turn around, and it looks like my work area in Wal-mart, except there are stairs back in the electronics cage. I find a clue with a bomb atop those stairs, letting me know there's a baby bomb to get. I guess the clue made sense somehow because it was found in a corner on the ground somewhere that actually looked like the hotel again. Once more someone else came and was dissatisfied with the fact that the bomb hadn't been disarmed, and went to snip the wires while we all loudly and clearly protested that no, doing that would be very bad and fatal. She cut the wire, and we got the hell out of there. I assumed the floor exploded the same way, though I heard nothing and no montage played this time. Still, I wasn't looking back to see SUDDENLY FIREBOMB DEATH.
After running a floor up (could've gone down, but I remembered that floor exploded and I probably would've walked out into the open air, like a cartoon), we saw that there was a baseball field and swimming pool on this floor. Others were like "man, let's take a break" which prompted me to count the time we had left and the floors we had left. Deciding that we were making good enough pace (bombs exploding ruining a floor wasn't fun, but it was admittedly a fast way to finish a floor), I shrugged and went to swim at the huge full water park next to the huge full stadium holding a sizable crowd.
I woke up about then. I keep wanting to say the guy making us look for bombs was Leslie Nielsen, but it was without a doubt Sir Anthony Hopkins. No idea how I got their names mixed up.
We got a freebie clue-- the first bomb was directly above our starting position. So I and the second girl (who happened to be Black, for the sake of identification) move up a floor together and get to searching. Not knowing what to look for since we never had to deal with the first bomb at all, I get CSI and say to look for evidence of tamper or things where they don't seem they should be. Looking up at the ceiling to make sure it wasn't wired there, I saw a slowly blinking green light... which is indeed odd, since exit lights and any other lights tend to be red or white. Peeking up through the tile let me see the black phone next to the light, as well as something else bulky, so I knew I'd found it. I quickly searched for a ladder to get up and examine the bomb, and probably call in that it had been found, but a guy with a three-man squad came and was all "he probably used a scissor lift to get that, we'll take care of it." Ignoring the idea of power equipment like that sitting on the second floor of a hotel (scissor lifts may as well be SUVs that can jack themselves up), I watched him get a lift out of the closet and raise to the ceiling. And cut the wire, giving us a thumbs up.
Cue a long moment of silence and the two of us looking like "oh crap," before the bomb announced that it was going to explode without warning [i]while already exploding.[/i] And then cue a montage of people running away from the rolling explosion. It may as well have been a nuke for how big it seemed to be, swallowing at least two hundred people who were grouped up in the hotel (though I never saw them before that point), those in the back not bothering with running and just accepting getting swallowed by the fire bomb nuke thing, with a chorus of young ladies singing, then jumping into a waterfall (what) when the fire was about to get them. Apparently Queen Latifah jumped as well, because as the fire subsided, I saw her as a mermaid floating down the river unharmed, and someone announced that they really hated how she jumped or acted.
So, next floor is there as we turn around, and it looks like my work area in Wal-mart, except there are stairs back in the electronics cage. I find a clue with a bomb atop those stairs, letting me know there's a baby bomb to get. I guess the clue made sense somehow because it was found in a corner on the ground somewhere that actually looked like the hotel again. Once more someone else came and was dissatisfied with the fact that the bomb hadn't been disarmed, and went to snip the wires while we all loudly and clearly protested that no, doing that would be very bad and fatal. She cut the wire, and we got the hell out of there. I assumed the floor exploded the same way, though I heard nothing and no montage played this time. Still, I wasn't looking back to see SUDDENLY FIREBOMB DEATH.
After running a floor up (could've gone down, but I remembered that floor exploded and I probably would've walked out into the open air, like a cartoon), we saw that there was a baseball field and swimming pool on this floor. Others were like "man, let's take a break" which prompted me to count the time we had left and the floors we had left. Deciding that we were making good enough pace (bombs exploding ruining a floor wasn't fun, but it was admittedly a fast way to finish a floor), I shrugged and went to swim at the huge full water park next to the huge full stadium holding a sizable crowd.
I woke up about then. I keep wanting to say the guy making us look for bombs was Leslie Nielsen, but it was without a doubt Sir Anthony Hopkins. No idea how I got their names mixed up.