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I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT (PHILIP K DICK/RAYMOND CHANDLER MEGAMIX EDITION)
I am Marlow, hard-boiled private dick, and I am on a case to find a woman who is locked in a time capsule and get important information from her. My client believes she knows something that will provide him with an alibi.
The time capsules are run by the military, so to get access to the facility, I have to pose as someone who wants to get his own capsule, and take a physical. People aren't supposed to leave the capsules until they’re scheduled to be opened, so I have to get the woman out of the capsule and back in again without anyone noticing.
The physical is also a challenge because the person who hired me has arranged for me to get a bio-implant that will nullify the effect of the time capsule. This is necessary because once you go inside the capsule, time and reality become subjective. My client could be kept waiting 50 years for me, while to me it might only seem like a day. If the military doctor discover the implant during the physical, my mission will be blown.
Somehow I work out that the only way to get her out of the capsule is to open all of the capsules – partly because the resulting confusion will give us cover, and partly to protect my client. The woman is very high-profile, and if she’s the only one freed and we get caught, the military will know my client was behind it.
I get the time capsules open, and but when I talk to the woman, it turns out she doesn’t know anything that can help my client. To complicate things further, once she’s out of the time capsule, she refuses to go back in. Someone put her in there against her will. I’m sympathetic, but now my client risks exposure.
And then I woke up.
Out of time,
This is dF
The time capsules are run by the military, so to get access to the facility, I have to pose as someone who wants to get his own capsule, and take a physical. People aren't supposed to leave the capsules until they’re scheduled to be opened, so I have to get the woman out of the capsule and back in again without anyone noticing.
The physical is also a challenge because the person who hired me has arranged for me to get a bio-implant that will nullify the effect of the time capsule. This is necessary because once you go inside the capsule, time and reality become subjective. My client could be kept waiting 50 years for me, while to me it might only seem like a day. If the military doctor discover the implant during the physical, my mission will be blown.
Somehow I work out that the only way to get her out of the capsule is to open all of the capsules – partly because the resulting confusion will give us cover, and partly to protect my client. The woman is very high-profile, and if she’s the only one freed and we get caught, the military will know my client was behind it.
I get the time capsules open, and but when I talk to the woman, it turns out she doesn’t know anything that can help my client. To complicate things further, once she’s out of the time capsule, she refuses to go back in. Someone put her in there against her will. I’m sympathetic, but now my client risks exposure.
And then I woke up.
Out of time,
This is dF