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CAUTION: possibly NSFL

There was a war. We lived in a leftist camp inside an abandoned railway station. The only thing that could break the siege was BLA

[dream fragment lost]

So they lined us up. There were ten of us.
— Do you want the leftist future?
— No…, they made me say.
— Do you love capitalism?
— Yes…, they made me say.
— Ты готова присниться?, they asked my female comrade ("are you ready to come to our soldiers in their dreams to support them?")
— Yes.
— Ты готов расшибиться?, they asked me ("are you ready to work your ass off, dying in the process if necessary?". It also makes a perfect rhyme with the previous Russian sentence)
— Yes.
Then, they tied our hands and hung us onto a rack. They doused us with gasoline.
— Look. Czechoslovakia had Jan Palach. We have ten Jan Palachs now!
They set us on fire. I feel an unimaginable pain. I wake up for ten minutes.
When I fell asleep again, I found out I survived. But, my body underwent modifications: first, I now had a vinyl shell instead of my skin. Underneath it were raw muscles. Second, I no longer had vocal cords. I no longer had voice.
In this world, we were slaves ("Тяговые люди") ruled by BLA. There were no prisons. Instead, there were only two punishments: the "light" one and the "heavy" one. First one is your shell getting ripped off. You die in around 20 minutes of agonizing pain, like mink that is skinned alive in Chinese leather tanneries. But, compared to the second one, that was a slap on the wrist.
The "heavy" punishment was them injecting you with "The Ferment". Immediately, your mind is altered into total obedience. Then, your body begins to turn into corpse juice. To outside observers, you die in 30 days. But for you, it feels like forever, as time speeds up indefinitely, and you're drifting into endless sorrow. When you die, no one notices, as your shell is still there. But instead of you, there's now nothing but corpse juice inside.

I now worked in some location that resembled Duke Nukem 3D's first map. My job was to remove those plastic shells. I had no bottom — it was replaced with a concrete cube that felt pain just like damaged tooth enamel does. An endless queue of shells moved in front of me. I had to remove their shells, to peel them off like vinyl.
Some people were alive underneath. They still had their skin. They thanked me, smile at me and wander away.
Some of them were alive, but had no skin. That means I was the one to execute a "light" punishment on them.
Some of them weren't there. I pop the shell open, and it deflates as corpse juice pours out.

One of my previous dreams was the following:
"— We arrange surgeries when in-person interventions are _not recommended_.
— So…, — I press the pause button on the handrail.
— The perfect maiden. Inside a plastic shell. 80 years old underneath."

Now I understand it. The first speaker was a BLA researcher. "I" was an investor. The "perfect maiden" was me, but way in the future from my today's dream. It all fits together.
Now, here's the discovered part of kiki universe so far:
- rotten meat house
- swine gray gel battleground
- horizontal elevators network
- united paper island
- baseball bat nightclub
- anxiety-inducing multidimensional pizzeria
- NEW! BLA headquarters
- NEW! demilitarized burning ground abandoned train station
- NEW! Duke Nukem 3D people skinning ground

Comments
  • 1
    How can you remember so many details of your dreams?
  • 0
    By the way, the BLA acronym is "БЛА" — "Бело-Лазорево-Алый", the colors of the original post-Soviet Russian flag. Yes, it changed colors. BLA are Russian soldiers from the alternative timeline where Putin won the Chechen wars. Because of a time paradox, they're now in the kiki universe, and they founded a private military corporation.
  • 2
    @Lensflare I have no idea man, I have no damn idea.
  • 1
    My gosh. The "!!!!!!!!____!!!!!" schizophrenic girl from the swine gray gel battleground is a BLA survivor/defector. It all makes sense now
  • 1
    That means the swine creatures that attack people and turn them into half-transparent gray goo are a BLA project!
  • 3
    @kiki schizofrenic girl is the one with the multiple times painted door? It's my favorite.

    How tf are you not a native English speaker btw. Wtf
  • 2
    you should write to hollywood.

    i'd totally watch the crap out of this
  • 1
    @retoor yes, that's her!
  • 1
    Sounds like this ghost's perception of its shell is a bit off...

    You could flesh those dreams out into full novels. Don't expect to get rich - but if you can make it more Cthulhu or more fetish, there should be an audience.
  • 0
    @Oktokolo there are no ghosts here. They're all people that were skinned alive and put into vinyl shells that replaced their skin
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