SAVING MARTIN

DREAM

You are surrounded by white mist.   

You see an audio cassette with a yellow label floating in the mist.   

>take cassette
As your gloved hands get near the yellow audio cassette, a small 
exchange of sparks travels between the gloves and the yellow 
audio cassette.   A connection between you and the yellow audio 
cassette has been made!  You take the yellow audio cassette.   

Martin waits.   

>give cassette to martin
Martin looks at the audio cassette and sees the side where it is 
labeled "To Martin".  He smiles.   

Martin takes the cassette and looks at your headphones.   

Martin waits.   

>take off headphones
You take off the headphones.   

Martin waits.   

>give headphones to martin
Martin plays the message from his father, listening with tears in his 
eyes.  When he is finished, he gives the headphones back to you 
and keeps the audio cassette. 

Suddenly, you hear a rumble of thunder and everything begins to 
shake.  The wind begins to circle around Martin and the invisible 
presence of his father, moving faster and faster, almost as if the 
wind is drawing its strength from the bond between them.  The 
wind splits off and begins to encircle you as well.  After the air 
grows still, you are left with the odd feeling that the encircling 
wind has somehow left an imprint of its power in the belt that you 
wear around your waist.  You feel stronger somehow, more 
connected. 

You notice that one cord in the belt has turned white. 

You put the headphones on.   

>take martin's hand
You drop the fan. 

Your hand reaches out to Martin.  There is a sharp flash of 
electricity as the connection is made, and a simultaneous flash of 
lightning behind Martin.  Thunder rumbles and shakes both you 
and Martin, but the connection holds.   

Then you hear a deafening crash of thunder.  Everything turns 
blindingly white for an instant, then completely dark.  You and 
Martin are spinning and falling into a whirlpool of nothingness.   

You feel the journey belt pulling you and Martin out of the 
whirlpool.   With all five strands in full color, the power of its 
connections are unshakeable. 

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Suddenly the wind begins to spin around you and Martin.  Inside 
the wind you catch a glimpse of Rachel and Mrs. Kessler, their 
faces glowing with inner light as they meditate together in the 
Majareeshi's New York City apartment.  Their chanting inflames 
the swirling wind, transforming it into a powerful storm. 

Now the storm has a thousand voices, and it howls and sings and 
screams and laughs in your ears.  All of yours senses are 
overwhelmed, colors beyond imagining --  love, passion, nurturing, 
respect, collaboration, and celebration bound across space and time 
by the strands of our connections.   

And then the storm vanishes.  You and Martin find yourself awake 
and sitting on his sofa.  

Martin looks at you in astonishment, and for a few minutes neither 
one of you is able to speak.  But then Martin returns to his more 
usual demeanor, bitten by curiosity and full of questions.  He 
insists on hearing the complete story of your recent activities. 

By the time you finish explaining, you're both feeling giddy with 
relief.  This adventure has been exceedingly weird, even by 
Martin's standards! 

But now that it's all over, there's something important that you 
want to do.  So you ask Martin for permission to borrow his phone 
booth for one last journey, and he readily agrees. 

"What, are you going to take the fish back to their island?" Martin 
asks. 

"No, it's more personal than that," you answer.  "Besides, the fish 
have been hinting that they want to travel with you for a while." 

You give Martin the headphones and most of your other 
possessions.  Then Martin puts on the headphones and has a nice 
conversation with the tiny fish.  According to Martin, the fish want 
to visit the Grand Canyon and Disneyland before they go back 
home to their lake start raising a family.   

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The doorbell rings.  Martin stands and walks to the door.  It's Dr. 
Julie!  Much to her delight, Martin takes Julie in his arms begins to 
spin her around dancing across the living room floor. 

You take the opportunity to leave the living room, heading for the 
phone booth.  You can hardly wait.  It's time to go meet Rachel.   

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			YOU WIN!!! 
                 CONGRATULATIONS MASTER GAME PLAYER. 





		
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