The Winthorpe Institute For Dream Research
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To the Waterfall
Damien prepares some Molotov cocktails from a petrol can in the gardening shed.
John recovers his bag, goes back to his room and packs things up. His compulsion leads him to waste a lot of time doing this and he does not answer his phone, so they leave without him.
Gerald insists on taking his 4x4 to the waterfall.
John decides to stay at the institute for a while and turn on the CCTV system, scanning for anything unusual.
The rest of them approach the waterfall and get a bad feeling about going any further. Sebastian bumps into a strange stickman totem hanging from a tree, which unnerves him.
Mains Punished
They approach the waterfall, Damien in the lead. He sees there is a figure blocking the cave mouth behind the waterfall, a man suspended.
Closer examination shows the man is Graham Mains, the computer technician. He has had wooden spikes stuck into his arms and legs and he is bleeding, though not that much, and appears pale and withered.
A female vice suddenly calls from within the cave – “Do not touch him!”
Damien asks who she is. “Sarah.”
Why can’t I touch him? “The Thing is taking him and once it does it will come for me.”
As Damien gets near to him, Mains opens his eyes. There is darkness behind them with twinkling lights coming out of them.
Damien is freaked out and ends up shooting Mains in the head a few times. He holes that appear show blackness behind them. Mains collapses on the floor.
The Painted Cave
Damien steps over him and into the cave. There is a short tunnel he goes down, while re-loading his gun and the others following. At the end of the tunnel is a wooden doorway, which has been added artificially. On the front of the door is a large symbol, a combination of spider web, maze, a pattern Damien recognises from the wiring of the Dream Web, and a horned skull face.
The image projects a feeling not to enter the cave. Damien and the others force themselves to walk past it into the cave.
Inside the cave, the walls are covered in multiple painted images, mainly pagan imagery including stickman style cave painting. On the back wall though, is a large painting of the Thing Hanging in the Void, which manifest in the Institute.
In front of the main mural is an altar-like stone tied on top of which is a younger girl. She greets each of them oddly, telling them something about them.
Damien – the man with the hole in his mind and in his soul.
Gerald – the Fool, the one they are all using.
Amy – she is in danger. She is like Sarah and they will be coming for her.
Sebastian – the Magician.
I’ve Seen Your Dreams
Damien asks where the masked figures are. She says they have gone. They punished their follower, the computer technician, for failing them. For revealing their presence. They are horrible and powerful.
She keeps arching her back and Damien sees that a shard of black stone is stuck in her back. Sebastian cuts her bonds and they take her off the altar.
Sarah tells them she has seen all their dreams. She was forced to feed the dreams of all the patients to the Thing – if she didn’t it would consume her.
Amy steps forward and removes the shard from Sarah’s back without touching it, wrapping it up and putting it away.
The Thing Feeds
Sarah says it is too late, the Thing is consuming her. Her eyes turn black and her mouth does too. Her voice suddenly becomes guttural and in-human. From her mouth and eyes, twinkling lights begin to emerge and form a cloud over her.
The mural of the Thing suddenly comes to life and begins to project over the altar.
Gerald is shocked and throwns a Molotov cocktail, setting fire to the wall. However, the Thing does not seem to be affected by the flames and they realise it is not coming for them.
It is feeding on the white twinkling lights that are coming from Sarah and she is withering away. Another funnel of white lights is coming from the body of Graham Mains. As they watch, both bodies effectively disintegrate into the twinkling lights and disappear.
Once the Thing has fed, it fads away. The fire has now ruined the mural of the Thing and burns out.
Arachne Are Out There
They resolve to destroy the rest of the cave with fire, after taking photographs of the images.
They retreat from the cave and begin to discuss what they are going to do next.
At the institute, John has been communicating with Sarah on the Dark Web and is aware of what she has been saying and has happened to her.
He then communicates with Amanda, asking what has happened to Sarah. She says that she has been absorbed. Amanda also says Arachne are out there. They are powerful and there are other spirits of people who have been killed by them. John asks what they can do and Amanda says she does not know, they are powerful and scary.