A couple of days ago, my brother bought that Indie pack. Last night, he played Penumbra, and I watched. Not the creepiest game, but it does have some really good atmosphere. Last night, I had a dream that seemed to draw on that spooky, something's-not-right feeling.
So, a man had to go on a trip of some kind. I'm assuming personal reasons, possibly to answer some pressing questions about his life. He's on a trail in the middle of a field, with a blizzard blowing around him. He's not quite sure where he's headed, but he knows it's where he's supposed to be.
While walking, he comes across what appears to be a small suburban neighborhood. He needs shelter, so he picks a friendly looking house to seek refuge... And finds that it's inhabited by people who look *exactly* like the family he had lost in a tragedy. The wife, his kids, they all looked the same! Obviously spooked, but not willing to turn down hospitality, he stays for a few hours.
Over the course of these hours, things somehow go from friendly to hostile, with continued screaming and threats. Eventually he throws the cat into the walk-in refrigerator that they had (where it started licking off some leftover strawberry smoothie on a dish) and threw a birthday at the four-month-old baby, who was in a baby walker.
Except instead of splattering all over the baby's face, it simply bounced off of her, and landed on the ground, still on the platter, no worse for wear. Okay, something is *clearly* not right here, this man thinks. Scared out of his wits, he darts out of the house, leaving the cake on the ground, that cat in the fridge, and the wife in the kitchen washing dishes.
Some months later, he finds he has some reason to return. Go goes to the house and decides to enter...
And finds everything *exactly* as he left it. The baby playing in the walker, the cake on the same spot on the ground, the wife doing the same dishes, the cat licking the same smoothie. And what added to the spookiness of this? It wasn't some sort of Narnian thing where time held still inside when he left, but that it had been like this
the entire time he was gone.
I never got to finish the dream. I'm kinda glad, I found it spooky enough, even though (or perhaps because?)
this was the cake that was thrown.
