Re: [DL] Holy freeking nightmares

[Scott Hinkley <scott@dark-sky.net>]

I like the first scenario better.  More horror than the other.  I think
it has much more potential than the second one.  But that's just my two
bits worth.

Jim Burzelic wrote:

> --- Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com> wrote:
> > Skimming along cable, the history channel is showing
> > a program regarding
> > ghosts from the Civil War.
> >
> > The one that's up now is the reb who was mistakenly
> > considered dead and
> > left on the bottom of pile of corpses in a farmhouse
> > for 5 days.  As if
> > being buried alive in dirt wasn't bad enough. . .
> >
> > The Union troops who found him found a lunatic who
> > died a few days later,
> > to be buried in an unmarked grave.
> >
> When I had seen this, all I could think of was how
> horrifying it would be to have the pile turn into a
> 'Glom while being under it.
>
> Situation #1: Five days after being buried, Union
> soldiers never found the nameless Reb, partially
> because they never got the chance. When they came by
> to start removing the mound of dead bodies it leapt up
> killing the two present and fleeing into the
> surrounding fields. The Reb is still alive at the
> core, his soul and mind twisted into a despicable
> corruption of its former self. The 'Glom will "plant"
> itself near Yankee encampments and the living soldier
> will yell out for help. When someone comes to his aid
> the 'Glom devours them. It never attacks Confederates,
> however the only new corpses it ever absorps into
> itself are Confederate troops. The only way to kill it
> is to remove the inexplicably surviving man from the
> 'Glom. If it is blown apart it slowly comes back
> together, healing the nameless whacko at the core,
> including bringing him back to life.
>
> Situation #2: When he was finally uncovered and dead
> several days later, the severely insane rebel came
> back. So far the Manitou has had to do very little.
> The man sees everyone as dead. Not only dead but
> attempting to literally crush him with their own
> weight. He "wakes up" in very busy places. Saloons,
> bordellos, train stations, anywhere there are many
> people gathered, and preferably to the manitou, with
> their guards down. Well, not willing to let himself be
> buried again, the reb fights them off tooth and nail.
> After emptying his always freshly-loaded pistols,
> he'll turn to his knife and whatever else is nearby.
> After all the "corpses" have either fallen to the
> ground or run away he heads for the hills. This is
> where the Manitou takes over. It then hides until the
> heat's died down and finds a new place to let its
> human counter-part "wake up".
>
> Jim
>
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