A Monster Calls and 100 Secrets
Oct. 8th, 2017 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyFriday night we sat down and watched A Monster Calls. Very good, well-acted and extremely sad. A story about a boy whose mother is suffering from cancer and how he relates to that and his problems with bullies at school. With the added dimension of a story monster which is the elm tree he can see from the house. Recommended if you have plenty of tissues.
Last weekend was the penultimate session of 100 Secrets. This was all about us descending the staircase to a place where we did not have our Secrets. We spent about half the session pottering around wondering what we should be doing, observing that this place seemed to be what had been above some generations ago. We then spotted the issue: the giant beetle of DOOM was actually awake and trying to destroy the temples through affecting the dreams of a key person known as the Maker. We spent the other half of the session frantically deciding what the solution should be. We discovered that the man known as the Maker seemed able to affect our world quite directly with moving people around (we think this seemed like a teleport on the surface) and changing the landscape into a desert. However, we have told him about the beetle now. Next week we hope to take the Maker up the staircase and finally mop up all our loose ends.
Last weekend was the penultimate session of 100 Secrets. This was all about us descending the staircase to a place where we did not have our Secrets. We spent about half the session pottering around wondering what we should be doing, observing that this place seemed to be what had been above some generations ago. We then spotted the issue: the giant beetle of DOOM was actually awake and trying to destroy the temples through affecting the dreams of a key person known as the Maker. We spent the other half of the session frantically deciding what the solution should be. We discovered that the man known as the Maker seemed able to affect our world quite directly with moving people around (we think this seemed like a teleport on the surface) and changing the landscape into a desert. However, we have told him about the beetle now. Next week we hope to take the Maker up the staircase and finally mop up all our loose ends.
