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I was employed at what seemed like a hotel but it might have been more like a glorified events center; either that or just a really nice hotel. I was in charge of many of the technical related tasks as there was a small concert going on for the locals. I was in what seemed like a small ball room which was playing reasonably loud music. The music didn't seem fitting to the richly decorated environment. It was some form of rock music playing loudly in this white paneled room with what had gold trim and sort of a warm white carpeting and some fancy loungers I later noticed once the lights came up. When the music was playing, I didn't really see any people other than 3 patrons on the farther side of the room while I was standing just to the right of the speakers that were against the left wall. At this point, I was supposed to bring the music back down so the ball room would become more like a lounge again.
I found the surround sound knob on the wall and turned it all the way down but it didn't seem very effective. There was a big metal box below that which looked like it controlled the speakers. The speakers however were connected into a separate smaller black box which then seemed to connect to the bigger metal box. On the front was a knob and turning it counter clockwise activated a display which showed that of a graph with a declining bar. All the way down I took it and it didn't seem like it worked immediately either until after a reasonable delay, the sound did finally begin to decline. After that, I had noticed quite the mess of poorly set up speakers which I didn't recall doing myself and from what I knew, was definitely someone else's doing. Wires going to the speakers were spliced into what looked like the amp very poorly with many of the connections exposed and laying on the ground. When I looked at the wires, I noticed some of them had become disconnected and one of the speakers was definitely not working anymore right next to it. Unfortunately, I tried bringing the splices back together which was very strongly entangled with many of the other poor splices and something crossed that shouldn't have. With a small spark, the whole thing shut off and when I looked back at the main big box that originally had what I assumed was a sound knob, the display was tripping out. I locate the plug from behind and begin pulling everything out to have it all turn off.
Someone from outside then comes in from the open doors that were opposite of the three patrons on the other end. They realized something was up and then tried plugging everything back in for me. The big box I was standing in front of then seems to fire back up but the music was now permanently off as the machine began to light up its screen with information. However, the information seemed rather, gargled. Most of the text and options seemed to show up fine on the orange back-lit screen but some of the upper info scroll lines looked like squares and symbols that had not displayed correctly. The guy that came over began to show me the device actually had a built in scanner (Some kind of super computer for the room??) and when he scanned some page of information he was holding, it began to print it seemed without issue. Once it finished, we examined the page to notice that the same random symbols had appeared on the page as well so something was definitely changed with the character mapping on the system. The guy then dismissed me and said I had some work I needed to do in a separate conference room. The big box computer in this ball room wasn't really my forte anymore at this point so I obliged and went to go do what I knew how to actually control.
Upon leaving the ballroom and heading right, the hotel seemed to have an open floor plan as I had noticed a balcony that lead to a really wide open room or what seemed to be the lobby but I never noticed any items within. To the right was a hallway that shared its right wall with the ballroom I just exited and I ended up going down it. The hallway had the same gold trimmed white panels all along the wall much like the ballroom and it was very well lit. I didn't remember seeing any doors though but in a flash, I was at my conference room. There was a long curved grey desk close to the back of the room which had probably five windows based computers sitting on top. Two of them needed updates and I had a buddy in the room with me at the time. We both start the task on the two computers at the same time and somehow he finishes a little ahead of me. Well that was now the last thing I was supposed to do for the day so it was finally time to get out of this fancy hotel.
Immediately, I was on two way city streets riding a push scooter down the sidewalk. It was a fair day outside and mostly sunny. On any side were tall but older buildings, some of which were brick not too close to the street, and an elevated highway to the right off about a football field in length away. Back in Middle school, I used to legitimately ride a fold-able push scooter down the city streets of Sacramento to catch public transit and that real life event seemed to be playing out here. I'm heading down the same road all the way to the end where I seem to just about reach my destination. It's a small complex and I appear to be at the back of what looks like an old brick building. The building itself is not right at the edge of the road seeing as to my left was a fairly long ramp that went up and then U-turned back around and went up the side of the building until it led to an entrance inside. Within was a train station and on the opposite side, a platform for the train I needed to board to get across town.
However at the time, the place was jammed with rush hour citizens all trying to board trains as well in this sort of eerily lit train station that kind of reminded me of a rain forest. This place was not large; two tracks for two trains to go either direction either east deeper into town or west to get out of town. The ramp I just entered had a line of people waiting to enter but with security holding the line back since the platform was already packed for the now arriving trains. All of the crowd waiting on either side of the platform entered their respective trains and the trains then very quickly departed leaving a nice open platform. In this station, the tracks were elevated and there was sort of an underway to get to the other side and then walk up stairs to get to the west bound platform and this is where I was headed. Security then let the crowd in and it seemed like a mad rush to get to a ticket machine, about five machines total per platform, and I ended up getting to the last one on my side just in time to be first.
I don't really recall what happened to my scooter at this point, but I noticed I had a back pack on at the time. Anyways, I begin using the machine and select the correct fair after teetering through the menus a little bit. I then owed a dollar and go to grab my wallet to pay, except that for some reason, I didn't have my wallet on me. I begin to freak out because I knew I had it earlier and it had a lot of important info about me that I needed for work. So I had assumed that it probably dropped or got stolen somewhere along the way to the station so I sort of drooped my head and headed for the stairs to go back to the underway. On the second step of the stairs, I noticed some coins. There was an assortment of coins, some of which quarters that amounted to enough to buy my fare to get home! I was happier at that point and scooped up the change and headed back to a ticket machine. As I'm now waiting in line, a couple of women from the platform on the opposite side began to holler towards me. I noticed them and they began to point at what looked to be exactly my wallet by the entrance to the station. My face lit up and I knew exactly how to get there. I began running down the stairs on my platform and head under the tracks. I get to their side and head up and I can see my wallet still through a window as the entrance was separated by a glass wall.
I make my way around on the right hand side and as soon as I arrive, I noticed a fairly tall and beefy man had just picked it up. I began yelling at him asking him to return it to me claiming it to be mine. He begins to bolt back towards the stairs leading out when a security guard came sprinting past me and rammed the guy into a wall. Now the guy who attempted to run off with my wallet was somewhat winded from the thrust into the wall but he was in no way defeated. The security guard was struggling to keep the guy in place and I ended up looking for a fight to try and help security. Now this guy was significantly taller than I so I end up sort of jumping and swinging my fist into his face. After a few contacts with his face, security seemed to have run out of energy and the guy manages to throw security off of him, my punches doing absolutely nothing to the guy. Since the thief managed to break free, he then bolted back across the platform and under to the side I was previously on rather than trying to get out of the main entrance. The back of the train platform appeared to be somewhat open at least, or what could have been the location of an old building that had been torn down that now had quite a bit of grassy growth in the area. There's a black rod iron fence going around the edge of where the previous building would have been and he was now facing me as I was beginning to square off with him in the area.
The environment had changed; he had changed. We were no longer in an eerie train station but now with the grass, the area had a ray of sun shining down in our area that reflected off of the grass and even the tree off to my left when facing the guy. From then on, I knew he wasn't "just a guy". Something was off but he still had my wallet and wasn't ready to give it back apparently. I begin to strafe towards him and begin trying to attack him. I make a few more hits but before I know it, we've swapped positions and I was now facing the train station. At this point, his bulkiness had seem to go away; he shrunk in his muscly mass and was about as tall as I. He used this to his advantage and began sleuthing in the grass and ended up on the other side of the fence. However, he was no longer trying to flee as he went along the fence line and had me do almost a circle in my position tracking him. I knew at this point I was probably dealing with an intrigued shapeshifter. It didn't come off as odd to me for some reason since it seemed as if I've had a similar encounter before with a shapeshifter. I wasn't entirely scared as I was curious to learn the objectives of this spirit now almost back towards the tree mentioned earlier.
By the tree was a break in the fence. As he passed by, he had once more transformed into that of what looked like a nicely dressed anthropomorphic fox with his teeth showing but with a human-like body. This spirit has clearly seen me before and he knew me. He was still trying to instill fear into me and he thought he'd try to do it in a way that would be unique to me. Once he made his way back into the grass, he immediately took off back towards the train station, now transformed back to his dark, shadowy figure and went back through the main entrance, this time with no other encounters. Immediately behind the train station was what looked like a run down apartment high rise, maybe 8 stories tall that I saw him enter. I followed quickly into the building still in chase for my belonging. He went all the way to the top and got there much before I did. Once I finally climb the stairs in this older brick style building, I come across two doors. Facing back towards the stairs, there was a rather normal door to my left that was painted white and to my right wasn't a typical door used as front doors. This was a door with a push bar on it, much like a fire exit but it led into one of the units from what I understood.
The door with the push bar also had a small square window in it covered with what looked like a really old pull down shade on the other side. The bottom right corner had a small tear and I tried to peek in. There was a faint yellowy light sort of radiating throughout the unit and I noticed the door led into a fairly short hallway. The right side of the hallway had two doorways, the farthest right doorway which led into what I could tell seemed to be a kitchen. I couldn't make out the other side of the hallway from this angle yet. I was sure the shapeshifter was within so I begin to slowly open the door. Just as I get the door about half way open, the door on the other side of the stairway opens and a man comes out. This caught me off guard and I quickly swung around and stared at him. He seemed like a normal guy and definitely wasn't who I was after. He said he had a message for me from the guy that took my wallet.
Unfortunately for me, this is where my story ends. I was never able to hear said message as my being was now turned to dust as I left that world and returned to my own.
I found the surround sound knob on the wall and turned it all the way down but it didn't seem very effective. There was a big metal box below that which looked like it controlled the speakers. The speakers however were connected into a separate smaller black box which then seemed to connect to the bigger metal box. On the front was a knob and turning it counter clockwise activated a display which showed that of a graph with a declining bar. All the way down I took it and it didn't seem like it worked immediately either until after a reasonable delay, the sound did finally begin to decline. After that, I had noticed quite the mess of poorly set up speakers which I didn't recall doing myself and from what I knew, was definitely someone else's doing. Wires going to the speakers were spliced into what looked like the amp very poorly with many of the connections exposed and laying on the ground. When I looked at the wires, I noticed some of them had become disconnected and one of the speakers was definitely not working anymore right next to it. Unfortunately, I tried bringing the splices back together which was very strongly entangled with many of the other poor splices and something crossed that shouldn't have. With a small spark, the whole thing shut off and when I looked back at the main big box that originally had what I assumed was a sound knob, the display was tripping out. I locate the plug from behind and begin pulling everything out to have it all turn off.
Someone from outside then comes in from the open doors that were opposite of the three patrons on the other end. They realized something was up and then tried plugging everything back in for me. The big box I was standing in front of then seems to fire back up but the music was now permanently off as the machine began to light up its screen with information. However, the information seemed rather, gargled. Most of the text and options seemed to show up fine on the orange back-lit screen but some of the upper info scroll lines looked like squares and symbols that had not displayed correctly. The guy that came over began to show me the device actually had a built in scanner (Some kind of super computer for the room??) and when he scanned some page of information he was holding, it began to print it seemed without issue. Once it finished, we examined the page to notice that the same random symbols had appeared on the page as well so something was definitely changed with the character mapping on the system. The guy then dismissed me and said I had some work I needed to do in a separate conference room. The big box computer in this ball room wasn't really my forte anymore at this point so I obliged and went to go do what I knew how to actually control.
Upon leaving the ballroom and heading right, the hotel seemed to have an open floor plan as I had noticed a balcony that lead to a really wide open room or what seemed to be the lobby but I never noticed any items within. To the right was a hallway that shared its right wall with the ballroom I just exited and I ended up going down it. The hallway had the same gold trimmed white panels all along the wall much like the ballroom and it was very well lit. I didn't remember seeing any doors though but in a flash, I was at my conference room. There was a long curved grey desk close to the back of the room which had probably five windows based computers sitting on top. Two of them needed updates and I had a buddy in the room with me at the time. We both start the task on the two computers at the same time and somehow he finishes a little ahead of me. Well that was now the last thing I was supposed to do for the day so it was finally time to get out of this fancy hotel.
Immediately, I was on two way city streets riding a push scooter down the sidewalk. It was a fair day outside and mostly sunny. On any side were tall but older buildings, some of which were brick not too close to the street, and an elevated highway to the right off about a football field in length away. Back in Middle school, I used to legitimately ride a fold-able push scooter down the city streets of Sacramento to catch public transit and that real life event seemed to be playing out here. I'm heading down the same road all the way to the end where I seem to just about reach my destination. It's a small complex and I appear to be at the back of what looks like an old brick building. The building itself is not right at the edge of the road seeing as to my left was a fairly long ramp that went up and then U-turned back around and went up the side of the building until it led to an entrance inside. Within was a train station and on the opposite side, a platform for the train I needed to board to get across town.
However at the time, the place was jammed with rush hour citizens all trying to board trains as well in this sort of eerily lit train station that kind of reminded me of a rain forest. This place was not large; two tracks for two trains to go either direction either east deeper into town or west to get out of town. The ramp I just entered had a line of people waiting to enter but with security holding the line back since the platform was already packed for the now arriving trains. All of the crowd waiting on either side of the platform entered their respective trains and the trains then very quickly departed leaving a nice open platform. In this station, the tracks were elevated and there was sort of an underway to get to the other side and then walk up stairs to get to the west bound platform and this is where I was headed. Security then let the crowd in and it seemed like a mad rush to get to a ticket machine, about five machines total per platform, and I ended up getting to the last one on my side just in time to be first.
I don't really recall what happened to my scooter at this point, but I noticed I had a back pack on at the time. Anyways, I begin using the machine and select the correct fair after teetering through the menus a little bit. I then owed a dollar and go to grab my wallet to pay, except that for some reason, I didn't have my wallet on me. I begin to freak out because I knew I had it earlier and it had a lot of important info about me that I needed for work. So I had assumed that it probably dropped or got stolen somewhere along the way to the station so I sort of drooped my head and headed for the stairs to go back to the underway. On the second step of the stairs, I noticed some coins. There was an assortment of coins, some of which quarters that amounted to enough to buy my fare to get home! I was happier at that point and scooped up the change and headed back to a ticket machine. As I'm now waiting in line, a couple of women from the platform on the opposite side began to holler towards me. I noticed them and they began to point at what looked to be exactly my wallet by the entrance to the station. My face lit up and I knew exactly how to get there. I began running down the stairs on my platform and head under the tracks. I get to their side and head up and I can see my wallet still through a window as the entrance was separated by a glass wall.
I make my way around on the right hand side and as soon as I arrive, I noticed a fairly tall and beefy man had just picked it up. I began yelling at him asking him to return it to me claiming it to be mine. He begins to bolt back towards the stairs leading out when a security guard came sprinting past me and rammed the guy into a wall. Now the guy who attempted to run off with my wallet was somewhat winded from the thrust into the wall but he was in no way defeated. The security guard was struggling to keep the guy in place and I ended up looking for a fight to try and help security. Now this guy was significantly taller than I so I end up sort of jumping and swinging my fist into his face. After a few contacts with his face, security seemed to have run out of energy and the guy manages to throw security off of him, my punches doing absolutely nothing to the guy. Since the thief managed to break free, he then bolted back across the platform and under to the side I was previously on rather than trying to get out of the main entrance. The back of the train platform appeared to be somewhat open at least, or what could have been the location of an old building that had been torn down that now had quite a bit of grassy growth in the area. There's a black rod iron fence going around the edge of where the previous building would have been and he was now facing me as I was beginning to square off with him in the area.
The environment had changed; he had changed. We were no longer in an eerie train station but now with the grass, the area had a ray of sun shining down in our area that reflected off of the grass and even the tree off to my left when facing the guy. From then on, I knew he wasn't "just a guy". Something was off but he still had my wallet and wasn't ready to give it back apparently. I begin to strafe towards him and begin trying to attack him. I make a few more hits but before I know it, we've swapped positions and I was now facing the train station. At this point, his bulkiness had seem to go away; he shrunk in his muscly mass and was about as tall as I. He used this to his advantage and began sleuthing in the grass and ended up on the other side of the fence. However, he was no longer trying to flee as he went along the fence line and had me do almost a circle in my position tracking him. I knew at this point I was probably dealing with an intrigued shapeshifter. It didn't come off as odd to me for some reason since it seemed as if I've had a similar encounter before with a shapeshifter. I wasn't entirely scared as I was curious to learn the objectives of this spirit now almost back towards the tree mentioned earlier.
By the tree was a break in the fence. As he passed by, he had once more transformed into that of what looked like a nicely dressed anthropomorphic fox with his teeth showing but with a human-like body. This spirit has clearly seen me before and he knew me. He was still trying to instill fear into me and he thought he'd try to do it in a way that would be unique to me. Once he made his way back into the grass, he immediately took off back towards the train station, now transformed back to his dark, shadowy figure and went back through the main entrance, this time with no other encounters. Immediately behind the train station was what looked like a run down apartment high rise, maybe 8 stories tall that I saw him enter. I followed quickly into the building still in chase for my belonging. He went all the way to the top and got there much before I did. Once I finally climb the stairs in this older brick style building, I come across two doors. Facing back towards the stairs, there was a rather normal door to my left that was painted white and to my right wasn't a typical door used as front doors. This was a door with a push bar on it, much like a fire exit but it led into one of the units from what I understood.
The door with the push bar also had a small square window in it covered with what looked like a really old pull down shade on the other side. The bottom right corner had a small tear and I tried to peek in. There was a faint yellowy light sort of radiating throughout the unit and I noticed the door led into a fairly short hallway. The right side of the hallway had two doorways, the farthest right doorway which led into what I could tell seemed to be a kitchen. I couldn't make out the other side of the hallway from this angle yet. I was sure the shapeshifter was within so I begin to slowly open the door. Just as I get the door about half way open, the door on the other side of the stairway opens and a man comes out. This caught me off guard and I quickly swung around and stared at him. He seemed like a normal guy and definitely wasn't who I was after. He said he had a message for me from the guy that took my wallet.
Unfortunately for me, this is where my story ends. I was never able to hear said message as my being was now turned to dust as I left that world and returned to my own.
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