i was with a woman (isabella rossellini?) and we were being chased by my arch enemy, kevin ehman (sorry kevin haha). we were headed to a big masquerade night at her casino, so she gave me a disguise. it was a solid black mask with a single circle of one way glass in the centre so i could see, and then a top hat. she had some huge feathered headdress.
we arrive at the casino and i have to sign some receipt. kevin is right behind us, but doesn’t know who we are because of the masks. as she and i enter the casino, he sees my signature on the receipt and the chase begins. in an instant, isabella disappears in the sea of people. i run straight to the back of the casino towards the private VIP rooms. i scramble around, opening every door i see, to find a good place to hide or run to. while doing this, i find talia. apparently she’s on my side of this and is also being chased. a grab her and pull her (and some huge bouncer guy who’s harassing her) with me through the last door i try.
the door leads the three of us into a massive labyrinth of brightly coloured rooms, going up at least 5 stories. every room has 3 doors and each door could go upstairs, or downstairs, or down a long corridor to another side of the labyrinth. kevin and two of his henchmen are onto us though, and follow us in. so we’re being chased through this insane maze. luckily, the bouncer guy has some familiarity with it. we eventually find our way to the very top level of it where all stairs lead down, and the room is no longer some bright colour, but a checkerboard pattern. we decide that isabella will know we’re here and must be on her way to come get us already, so we wait. we can hear the henchmen as they shout and run around below us. i see an enclave in the wall, up near the ceiling and tell talia and the bouncer to hide in it by climbing up the door handles. but it’s no use; as they’re about to, the henchmen stumble into the room with guns pointed at our heads.
i tell one of them to just kill us, there’s no point in waiting. but he knows he has to wait for kevin to finish the job, or kevin will kill him too. so we continue waiting at gunpoint. we can hear the footsteps through the walls again, and the henchmen are shouting to him so he can find us. but as he climbs the last steps to the room we all see it’s not kevin, but some wild card player in the game. his gun is pointed at me, so we figure he’s taken their side and has come to kill us on behalf of kevin. one of the henchmen begins to speak, and the wild card turns and shoots them both in the head.
i’m pretty sure i was james bond. i wish i could remember the first half of it before the casino.
Probably the best one i’ve read yet. i wish i could vividly remember my dreams. thanks unfailing pot habit.
