Episode Fifteen: Something in the Bureau
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
It should have been an earlier night
Piggy Moto, All Star Boar Band, Episode Fifteen.
So, I figured I’d get an early, early start on this episode. I woke up, brushed my teeth, took a shower, and sat down to get busy. Well, then I needed to do something about breakfast, and I needed to check my e-mail. After that, I wanted to play a little bit of the video game that Chris got me hooked on: Mana Khemia. That only took about 4 hours. Well, then I wanted to respond to some family e-mails and that took a couple more hours, and during this time I needed to figure out lunch, and then later, dinner.
Long story short, it was about ten o’clock before I got to work in earnest. Which means, I didn’t get into bed until about four. Then enter insomnia. I had a really weird dream about a ghostly entity that dwelt in the forest and stalked its human prey to feed on their life force. The thing could only attack someone who’s heard of it, so it more or less had to move from victim to victim by word of mouth. It would feed slowly until its current host mentioned it to another person – or until another person learned of the ghost’s existence, and then it would consume the previous victim and go on to the next.
I remember that there were a couple defenses against the ghost. First, It could not move on until it killed its previous host, so there was always a time that the entity could not feed. When it chooses its next victim, it always appears as a flash of light in the forest, and can only attach itself if its prey looks directly at it. I.e. You see a flash out of the corner of your eye, and instinctively look at it to see what it was. If you never look, it can’t latch on, and you can starve it to death in a few days. Or, you can just stay out of the forest for a week while it tries to get your attention.
Even if it did manage to attach to a person, there is still a way to poison it. Though, I forget how, now. I think it had something to do with mirrors or animals.. not sure..
Anyway, in the dream, I was a paranormal investigator, and had gone out to interview this old village woman who was being attacked by the ghost. I turned around for a moment, and she slipped away from me. She got into a dug out canoe and paddled out onto a lake to die. I gathered up my notes and her own findings and headed out, back to civilization. As I was driving through the woods that night, I saw a flash in the trees, out of the corner of my eyes.
And did not turn my head.
Anyway, that has nothing to do with this episode.
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The guest cast for this episode includes:
- Laird Wetzel: as Eberhard Berringer,
- Zimmel Pontificus: as bell ringer numer two,
- Jenn Baker: as Miss Mina, and the orange Mink
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Both the opening theme, AaAaAaAa, and the closing music, The Generic Blues, were created and performed by Lazz. Check out his stuff over on Fur Affinity
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