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Memory Regain 11
From: The Raven's Hangman Game on Day 355
Form: A "H" shaped cookie. Eat to receive your memory, one use!
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Memory
Trivial Neutral
Escape from the lake (Plague, p144-145)
Excerpt:
Sam watched his friends until they disappeared from view. Toto wasn’t much of a swimmer, so they’d given him a seat cushion to float on and Jack hauled him along with one hand. Jack wasn’t much of a swimmer, either, but you didn’t have to be elegant when you had ten times normal strength.
***
The four of them closed the distance to the dock. Sam motioned for Jack, Dekka, and Toto to slip silently beneath it. Toto had lost his grip on his cushion and it floated away. Jack banged his head on the bottom of the dock and cursed under his breath. Sam palmed the dock and hoisted himself up, drenched.
“Hi, Sam.”
Brittney stood not twenty feet away. He spotted three of the creatures over by the marina parking lot. They were waiting. Like a well-trained pack of attack dogs. He’d been outwitted. Outplayed.
[blah blah blah Sam and Brittney talk]
Sam felt tired. He wished Astrid were here, maybe she could find out more. Maybe she could talk Brittney out of her lunatic delusion. But he wasn’t Astrid.
“I’ll tell you what,” Sam said. “If your friend in the mine shaft wants me, he can bring it on. Because he’s tried. And I’m still here.”
“Not for long,” Brittney said. “Do you think these creatures just happened on their own? The Lord has molded them, created them to be indestructible, so that you could not stop them, Sam.”
“I’m sorry for what’s happened to you, Brittney,” Sam said. “You’ve been abused about as much as any person ever has been. But I’m still going to have to stop you.” He raised his hands, palms out. “Sorry.”
Twin beams of green fire hit Brittney in the chest. They burned a hole through her. The bugs leaped, raced to cover the few feet between them and the dock.
“Jack! Dekka!” Sam yelled.
Jack punched straight up through the planks of the deck, but he’d picked a bad spot. He erupted between Brittney and Sam, blocking Sam’s fire.
Brittney screamed, “Kill them!”
Jack tripped, which moved him out of the line of fire. Sam aimed and hit Brittney again but now she was running away. Her back melted, her spine exposed then burned through, and still she ran. Sam swung his beams at the nearest of the onrushing bugs. Light beams hit the huge creature and bounced away to slice a sailboat’s mast neatly in half. The stump was a torch.
Jack hauled Dekka up from the water and she struck even before she could stand. Gravity beneath the nearest creature ceased. The bug went airborne and its momentum carried it just over Sam’s ducked head. It shot through Dekka’s field and landed half in the water, with its rear portion on the dock.
“Push it!”
Jack slammed into the bug’s rear end and it splashed into the water. Jack spun, ran at the second giant roach. He ripped a plank from the dock and rammed it with superhuman strength into the gnashing mouthparts. The board splintered. The creature didn’t miss a step. Jack fell on his back and the monster was on him in a flash.
“Jack!” Dekka cried.
Jack, flat on his back, kicked up with such force that the wood beneath him snapped. The third creature swarmed over the first. Its mandibles swept Dekka, missed cutting her in half, but knocked her twenty feet away into the water. Sam saw in a split second of clarity what he would have to do. He didn’t like it. The bug rushed at Sam. The mouth blades sliced. Sam timed his leap, shouted a desperate curse, and dove straight into the bug’s gaping mouth.
Breakdown/What this means:
-Jack knows Brittney is talking about the gaiaphage. It lives in a dark, dark place under the earth. Brittney says the FAYZ is like an egg for it to be born. “It’s all like, like . . . like an egg, Sam. He has to be born from this egg.”
-The gaiaphage made the giant bugs, grosssssss
-Brittney calls someone (Little Pete) Nemesis and basically tells Sam that the gaiaphage wants all of the kids in the FAYZ dead. “My Lord and Nemesis must be joined. And all of you have to die. You’re all like a disease. Like a virus. A plague that must be wiped out so that He can unite with Nemesis and be born.”
-And then the gaiaphage will go on to remake the world, because that sounds totally sane. “Then all the world will be remade. That’s His purpose, you know.”
-AND THEN THE BUGS ATTACK
Form: A "H" shaped cookie. Eat to receive your memory, one use!
Shareable: N/A
Memory
Trivial Neutral
Escape from the lake (Plague, p144-145)
Excerpt:
Sam watched his friends until they disappeared from view. Toto wasn’t much of a swimmer, so they’d given him a seat cushion to float on and Jack hauled him along with one hand. Jack wasn’t much of a swimmer, either, but you didn’t have to be elegant when you had ten times normal strength.
***
The four of them closed the distance to the dock. Sam motioned for Jack, Dekka, and Toto to slip silently beneath it. Toto had lost his grip on his cushion and it floated away. Jack banged his head on the bottom of the dock and cursed under his breath. Sam palmed the dock and hoisted himself up, drenched.
“Hi, Sam.”
Brittney stood not twenty feet away. He spotted three of the creatures over by the marina parking lot. They were waiting. Like a well-trained pack of attack dogs. He’d been outwitted. Outplayed.
[blah blah blah Sam and Brittney talk]
Sam felt tired. He wished Astrid were here, maybe she could find out more. Maybe she could talk Brittney out of her lunatic delusion. But he wasn’t Astrid.
“I’ll tell you what,” Sam said. “If your friend in the mine shaft wants me, he can bring it on. Because he’s tried. And I’m still here.”
“Not for long,” Brittney said. “Do you think these creatures just happened on their own? The Lord has molded them, created them to be indestructible, so that you could not stop them, Sam.”
“I’m sorry for what’s happened to you, Brittney,” Sam said. “You’ve been abused about as much as any person ever has been. But I’m still going to have to stop you.” He raised his hands, palms out. “Sorry.”
Twin beams of green fire hit Brittney in the chest. They burned a hole through her. The bugs leaped, raced to cover the few feet between them and the dock.
“Jack! Dekka!” Sam yelled.
Jack punched straight up through the planks of the deck, but he’d picked a bad spot. He erupted between Brittney and Sam, blocking Sam’s fire.
Brittney screamed, “Kill them!”
Jack tripped, which moved him out of the line of fire. Sam aimed and hit Brittney again but now she was running away. Her back melted, her spine exposed then burned through, and still she ran. Sam swung his beams at the nearest of the onrushing bugs. Light beams hit the huge creature and bounced away to slice a sailboat’s mast neatly in half. The stump was a torch.
Jack hauled Dekka up from the water and she struck even before she could stand. Gravity beneath the nearest creature ceased. The bug went airborne and its momentum carried it just over Sam’s ducked head. It shot through Dekka’s field and landed half in the water, with its rear portion on the dock.
“Push it!”
Jack slammed into the bug’s rear end and it splashed into the water. Jack spun, ran at the second giant roach. He ripped a plank from the dock and rammed it with superhuman strength into the gnashing mouthparts. The board splintered. The creature didn’t miss a step. Jack fell on his back and the monster was on him in a flash.
“Jack!” Dekka cried.
Jack, flat on his back, kicked up with such force that the wood beneath him snapped. The third creature swarmed over the first. Its mandibles swept Dekka, missed cutting her in half, but knocked her twenty feet away into the water. Sam saw in a split second of clarity what he would have to do. He didn’t like it. The bug rushed at Sam. The mouth blades sliced. Sam timed his leap, shouted a desperate curse, and dove straight into the bug’s gaping mouth.
Breakdown/What this means:
-Jack knows Brittney is talking about the gaiaphage. It lives in a dark, dark place under the earth. Brittney says the FAYZ is like an egg for it to be born. “It’s all like, like . . . like an egg, Sam. He has to be born from this egg.”
-The gaiaphage made the giant bugs, grosssssss
-Brittney calls someone (Little Pete) Nemesis and basically tells Sam that the gaiaphage wants all of the kids in the FAYZ dead. “My Lord and Nemesis must be joined. And all of you have to die. You’re all like a disease. Like a virus. A plague that must be wiped out so that He can unite with Nemesis and be born.”
-And then the gaiaphage will go on to remake the world, because that sounds totally sane. “Then all the world will be remade. That’s His purpose, you know.”
-AND THEN THE BUGS ATTACK