Lorus's Shmup Story

 Setting: Along the road from a high school to a passport renewal store.


I'm running along the right side of the road from Father Duenas Memorial School to American Passport Renewal Center at superhuman speed. It's exhilarating! I'm also with my Godbrother, Nick. While running, a person comes out of the jungle on the left and shoots Nick with a pellet pistol. He's stunned by the pain. The person keeps shooting while walking closer. Because the air has less time to slow down the plastic pellets, it gets more painful for him. Suddenly, another person comes trying to shoot me. I take cover behind a cement barricade and log-out, making me invisible, but still able to see the setting in first-person. Nick keeps getting shot, and soon enough, starts screaming and crying out in pain. The shooter is relentless. He ignores his screams and keeps shooting his seemingly infinite stream of shots. I watch helplessly since if I were to log-in, there would be a chance I would end up like him.

You can't save everyone.

*Wakes up*

I'm not as phased by this as you might think. I'm pretty desensitized to emotions, so I can take this dream with a grain of salt. It did disturb me though. Afterwards, I went back to sleep and had a dream about my getting a computer virus, but that doesn't warrant a post ^^

 I'm sitting on the bleachers at my old elementary school's gymnasium playing LoLK. Half the gym is segmented off by a giant wall and some double doors. It's also really dark on the other side. In it, I find Eiki Shiki and Komachi as a double boss (think DDC stage 4) for one of the later stages of LoLK. Their appearances are similar to the picture below.


I try to take them down, and realize that their patterns are as difficult as GFW without freezes. I use my bombs, but they don't do anything. I then find out that I have to kill Komachi to be able to damage Eiki. My original goal of LNB'ing the game is gone, and a L1CC seems pretty ridiculous already. I leave the dark part of the gymnasium and sit back down. The buses arrive to take me home, but then I realize that I left my backpack in the dark part. As I enter, I see Eiki and Komachi slowly fly down with their red eyes glowing, creeping to me as I search for my backpack. I find it, then immediately get the fug out of there, closing the double doors. I'm running as fast as I can so I don't miss the bus, and luckily the last bus ends up stopping for me. The dream ends.