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138: Night Terrors Nicole Davidson
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No safety in sweet slumber...
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Deep Chief noiretoon
"You have to let us leave or my job will come here to fire me in person!"
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Hey Dad, go to work. Your daughter can't come.
Bye
gellaho
"Also, we've killed so many people, we really need to get outta here"
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Okay new idea, Kathricole doesn't know how jobs work
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Need money, huh dad? Better get to your job then. Bye.
Dyosy
I'm sure this is all making the doctor less suspicious
gellaho
We're going to put your daughter on so much experimental medicine. She'll be seeing colors
Deep Chief noiretoon
"you in the market for a wife, Doc? She's got some miles on but there's some good loving left in her"
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Continuation of the new idea: Kathricole also doesn't know how poverty works
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Haha ok so we thought the job and money thing was a cover when really they're on the run, but he actually just didn't want to have to pay for his daughter's urgent, necessary and possibly life-altering treatment
FancyShark
"You can pay the bill or let us graft this severed arm from an axe murderer onto your daughter's forehead and it's all free"
gellaho
No, my daughter is going to keep this crippling disorder and broken bones!
gellaho
FancyShark
hahahaha
12" Rachel Silk
they're going to find out she's secretly half werewolf
FancyShark
Wait, OH NO!
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
So if the parents don't want anyone to know about the dreams, we should have had a scene reinforcing this where they shame her for telling her secret
FancyShark
I think they did that at one point
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
No because that would make her ugly and the author wants you to know her self insert is very pretty
gellaho
Are they Christian Scientists or something? Otherwise, Kathryn you have not adequately explained this attitude
gellaho
12" Rachel Silk
obviously
women can only be babes or monsters, it is law
Deep Chief noiretoon
Doc Berman pulled out a joint the size of my mother's thumb and passed it under my nose,"She can't sleepwalk if she's zooted, baby!"
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Instead of them letting her have a fucking sleepover
mgtowprimarisultramarine
today was moving day sorry
Deep Chief noiretoon
"EVERY HOSPITAL IS A CHICAGO!" shrieked my mother
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
And she was right
gellaho
I'm not sure you can take someone's kids away because they don't agree on participating in an experimental sleep study
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Yeah, "TERRIBLE THINGS! HOSPITALS! EVIL! EVIL!" has tilted me in that direction a little
FancyShark
For real, the reason why Chicago med schools are so good is because they get lots of experience at the hospitals
This is not a twist. This is how hospitals operate
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
You're only allowed to refuse life saving medical care for your child if your objection is religious in nature
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Sorry how the hell did they get to Chicago
gellaho
Her fat stomach
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
I'm not great at maps but I don't think Chicago is in Ohio
FancyShark
They corpse-rolled the girl there after the car incident
Deep Chief noiretoon
Maggie's father's religion is Employment, and he is due at confession
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Maggie hit the road so hard she bounced the rest of the way
gellaho
Well, they were in Minnesota
Deep Chief noiretoon
🤣🤣🤣The car desperately trying to keep up with Maggie's tumbling body
"How is she gaining speed" her father grumbled as he shifted gears
gellaho
You kinda have to go through Illinois to get there
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Okay I have now looked up where Minnesota is
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Her sleepwalking has become even more powerful
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Turns out it isn't Maine
12" Rachel Silk
no one knows american geography anyway dont worry about it
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Who the fuck knew Minnesota was a state
gellaho
Again, I don't think you can force someone into a sleep program to pay for other medical treatment
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
That's a dumb state name
gellaho
I'll tell the Dakota tribe you said that
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
No that's a different state but I can't remember which
12" Rachel Silk
velo's racist everybody
we got him
Deep Chief noiretoon
Take him to the sleep study, boys
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Hell yeah nap time
gellaho
I bet that's a fun place to be
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
I mean her sleepwalking has almost killed her multiple times, she needs to stay anyway for her injuries, and she wants to stay while the parents are trying to take her out. I could see a more sane version of this scene where a doctor explains that denying medical care is a bad thing
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
That version of the scene did happen
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
But yeah this lady has some ulterior motive to study dream ghosts or werewolves or whatever
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
The doctor basically said they'd call CPS if the parents refused treatment
And offered a free option for treatment
Because of dreams ghosts
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Yeah I largely agree with you velo
gellaho
Not really, this doctor immediately ignored the parents before threatening to take their kids away
12" Rachel Silk
classic liberal doctor
gellaho
"Don't touch those, you're mine now"
12" Rachel Silk
now they'll inject her with the gay
gellaho
Fucking, what?
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
"you send your kid to school, they come back with no dreams. No dreams. It's brutal, folks."
Deep Chief noiretoon
Shame, modern treatments transfer gay wirelessly
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
I think that's just Nicole trying to write a badass and having nothing but her Nicole thoughts to base it on
gellaho
"Let me watch you pee"
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
"I've been here three days."
"I've only been here one night."
"I've been here three days."
Deep Chief noiretoon
"These wires are actually bungee cords, it was fun seeing you snap back while sleepwalking"
gellaho
The teen sleep area is well furnished
Deep Chief noiretoon
"you can sign out exercise videos, to avoid your mother's horrible fate"
gellaho
"I'm going to break your legs," she whispered
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
"You don't need to exercise on account of how small and thin you are." - A thing Nicole has actually written in the past
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
"I'm killing your parents."
Deep Chief noiretoon
"We've had Elly and Paul shipped here in crates"
gellaho
She encounters a teen giant
gellaho
Deep Chief noiretoon
My head canon voice for this guy is Lurch from Addams Family
gellaho
Classic giant stereotype, we're all good at basketball
Deep Chief noiretoon
How was Teen Ward not an 80's sitcom
gellaho
They just let random giant teens roam the hospital, practicing medicine
Deep Chief noiretoon
"yeah, it's amazing how far you can plan ahead if you sleep"
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Look if you want to stop Dr. Lurch you go ahead and try
gellaho
Keep it in your pants, Maggie
Deep Chief noiretoon
Bill can squeeze in Morse Code?!
FancyShark
There's the inevitable chaste horniness
gellaho
All the fe-males
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
God damn it Nicole
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
At least it took longer than usual. Crash Course had it in the first three pages
And on the same page as a drowning
gellaho
She referenced the dirtbag in Crash Course having a boner
There might have also been something in the one where the 12 year old drank cocaine
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Crash Course is one of the books of all time
Deep Chief noiretoon
"Thank goodness I still had my makeup on in the hospital"
FancyShark
It was certainly published
gellaho
Ah, the luxury of a Hard Rock Cafe
Deep Chief noiretoon
Dr. Berman drawing a dong on Maggie's forehead in her sleep with mascara
gellaho
Risk it all for the giant
FancyShark
Pro tip: if you have to have hospital food, get a grilled cheese. It is very hard to screw up a grilled cheese
Deep Chief noiretoon
A tall boy and the Hard Rock Cafe, these are definitely Midwestern tier dreams
gellaho
Unlike my absolute pig of a mother
FancyShark
Nicole continuing to write the most endearing thoughts
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Is Nicole being paid by Chicago to write this
gellaho
Nicole Davidson/Kathryn Johnson continues her streak of confusing high school and college
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
I think Nicole thinks the adolescent ward needs to be staffed by adolescents
Deep Chief noiretoon
The night terrors will be revealed as tulpas created by her constant body shaming inner monologue
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Unsurprisingly Nicole's only reference for high school is prep school
Deep Chief noiretoon
"I don't like art" boy, you couldn't be in a better book
FancyShark
Gym: that thing you only have to take once
gellaho
Maggie's transient parents leave, phoneless and homeless
FancyShark
Talking about Ohio like it's in Asia
Deep Chief noiretoon
"I can write a prescription for regular refills of Job for your local Rite Aid"
gellaho
Maggie observes the other children, then decides to go bother some sick old people instead
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
I like that we still have no idea if anything supernatural is happening
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Well who the fuck even knows where Ohio is
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Or if it's just badly researched sleep disorder
gellaho
Why? Who could say. Certainly not Kathryn
gellaho
Based on previous experience, I think I know
Deep Chief noiretoon
Well she ignored Christian Slater's cop movie, so I say supernatural
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Yeah
FancyShark
You are such a multifaceted character, Maggie
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Kathryn's kind of… not predictable but repeatedly stupid
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
I can't really remember the other books
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Don't worry, if she sticks to her usual pattern there will be an Exposition Goth soon
rooster
beware! the evil eye!! etc
FancyShark
Didn't the Florida story have an actual demon until Nicole forgot?
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
I'm not convinced you aren't making up the Florida story
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
If it's not supernatural she probably witnessed a murder and is reliving it every dream and she'll put the pieces together and solve the mystery
Her mum probably killed someone for being skinny and attractive
FancyShark
It was very weird. There was a sunken ship filled with treasure. And drug dealers factored in somehow
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
And the dream has all the clues she needs to crack the case
gellaho
She spends a lot of time with a senile old lady
gellaho
I'm deeming this irrelevant until evidence shows otherwise
FancyShark
Every protagonist should just get assigned a crazy patient sidekick/confidante when they first check in
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
I gulped down a bubble, like Banjo does to keep breathing underwater in Banjo Kazooie... Only this was a bubble of FEAR
gellaho
Horniness chases away the Alzheimer's blues
Deep Chief noiretoon
special guest appearance by Jennifer Coolidge
BILL PRESTON ARE YOU SERIOUS
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Nicole has forgot how young her main character is again
gellaho
You know what always gets me ready for sleep? Excitement and sexual arousal
rooster
WYLD STALLYNS
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
HOT
gellaho
Nothing better than getting amped and going to sleep with a boner, am I right?
Deep Chief noiretoon
A lil fappin' before nappin' is just what the doctor prescribed
gellaho
I don't know, what you're talking about. Look at these kids, excitedly crowded around a dominoes variant
rooster
but maggie, tri-ominoes died years ago
gellaho
You telling me dominoes is a game for old people? I don't think so
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Nicole are you even fucking trying
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
This book is spooky
gellaho
The nightmare happens again. She's a little kid this time, so there's that
gellaho
Don't know why you didn't strap her down
Deep Chief noiretoon
The construction crews didn't leave that hole, it was all Maggie
gellaho
Creepy
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Megaspeed
gellaho
Dream spin
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
If you dream spin 3 times you can defeat Eggman's latest robot menace
Deep Chief noiretoon
That's why she stopped having night terrors when she fell out of the car, obvs
Turns out this whole thing is a Wonder Woman origin story
gellaho
"I'll make sure you don't leave too soon"
gellaho
gellaho
Those should be reversed, fyi
I have a feeling Kathryn is a very cheap date
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Ok but don't send someone a card that says beep-beep when they just fell out of a moving car into traffic
gellaho
She steals a letter from a 91 year old Alzheimer's patient to her dead daughter
FancyShark
"I'm clearly more deserving. Her daughter's probably fat."
gellaho
And almost falls down the stairs running away from a doctor
gellaho
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Since she hadn't addressed it? Yeah, that was certainly a deliberate move on her part and you are correct to read meaning into it. She didn't just forget because she has Alzheimer's
gellaho
Maggie then gets real pissy with the old woman's surgeon
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Jesus fucking christ I think the dreams are just a cover for her desire to bash her own brains out
rooster
Remember when this book was about evil dreams
Hell, remember Paul? I hope Paul's doing OK
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Maggie have you considered you're the worst and you deserve everything that's happened?
gellaho
The conversation continues, incomprehensibly
gellaho
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Why include this
Why Nicole
gellaho
"What a jerk! Now, let me read somebody else's mail"
gellaho
She concludes this "he" could be any man, including giant high schooler Bill
gellaho
One page later, though, just tells him everything
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Ok so in the last dream Maggie realised there was an "us" so I'm guessing she used to have a sibling that she's repressed the memory of
Because her mother ate them
gellaho
Oh, wow that's... almost nothing
FancyShark
The sibling is on the back of her head
rooster
Malignant is way cooler than this
gellaho
She calls up Elly, who watches a lot of sex therapist Dr Ruth
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
That's why she can't sleep. Lumpy twin head
gellaho
Whilst trying to sleep Maggie goes through flashbacks.
She may be a stolen baby
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Mother ate the birth certificate
gellaho
Almost definitely a baby stolen from Chicago
gellaho
FancyShark
You can tell because she was swaddled in cold cuts
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
"Maggie, you're saying Maggie an awful lot. Are you ok?"
gellaho
Now somebody tries to steal from her
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Maggie is just having a bad time
gellaho
Such a pretty concussion
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Whacked with her own bedpan. Rookie mistake
gellaho
The world's most condescending nurse shows up
gellaho
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Hard to pick who's being more unreasonable
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Pretty accurate nurse behavior
gellaho
The doctor shows up and can't seem to put together this very simple mystery
gellaho
gellaho
This girl has to have a hole in her lip by now
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
The constant lip moistening heals them
gellaho
Well, the old lady must be dead. But, looks like she won't figure that out for a couple of pages
FancyShark
"Bears lost to the Packers"
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
"Chicago Fire again."
"Elly died."
gellaho
And she's going to - gasp - leave the hospital
gellaho
With a strange giant she just met, in an unfamiliar city. After an attempted robbery. And being beaten in the back of the head
Seems smart
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Lurch will keep her safe
Tom, Boy Detective (Retired)
Also remember when she went racing through the hospital and charged through a door shoulder first, with a broken collarbone and ribs
gellaho
At any rate, that's a good place to stop for tonight
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
My god a two part Nicole Davidson
gellaho
Don't miss next weeek, the opening paragraph of the next chapter is... certainly something
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Thank and damn you @gellaho !
FancyShark
Thank you, @gellaho !
Nice work, everyone!
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Like all of Nicole's work I'm left feeling empty and mad
gellaho
The Book Cage: Episode 138.5
Night Terrors - Part 2
Our spooky sleepwalking adventure will continue this Friday, provided Milton cooperates. If you missed last week, our annoying teenage girl protagonist this time has a severe sleepwalking disorder and one recurring nightmare that happens every. single. night. Because that's how that works. There are missing birth certificates, stolen baby, Chicagophobia, and dead old ladies. I'm sure the second part will be scary, find out for yourself this Friday, 5pm eastern (pending hurricane).
gellaho
gellaho
Coming up on the hour, it's the finale of Night Terrors by Nicole Davidson/Kathryn Jensen/Kathryn Johnson. Here is where we left off
gellaho
And you don't get to see how Chapter 10 starts yet
FancyShark
You would know what they do to AWOL patients if you had the hospital meatloaf
That's right
They make them work in the kitchen
Turning medical waste into meatloaf
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
BOOK
FancyShark
CAGE
Hi, @Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time !
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Hi @FancyShark !
gellaho
Let's get back into it
FancyShark
Hi, @gellaho !
Let's go to the hospital!
gellaho
I like that the tagine is based on the famous phrase "safety in sweet slumber"
You know, the famous phrase!
FancyShark
Yes. That common phrase!
Verified Pervert FlippantSausage
Hell yeah lets do this, he says like he was here last time.
gellaho
Chapter Ten begins when a visit from one of our favorite friends in the Book Cage
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Shark?
gellaho
That's right, our good ol' buddy
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Hitler!
FancyShark
Hi, @Verified Pervert FlippantSausage !
Hi, @rooster !
That nurse gives me the creeps
Verified Pervert FlippantSausage
You never want to have Nurse Hitler catch you using the staff stairs. Nor Janitor Hitler. Teacher Hitler will let it slide, because he's surprisingly cool.
gellaho
Yeah, it might be the tape from you sleep jumping out of a car, dipshit
gellaho
Hope his art career takes off
Verified Pervert FlippantSausage
Im sure its just the tension that comes with being a dangerous lawbreaker who skips class and uses the stairs for faculty.
gellaho
Oh, no! The most obvious thing happened! I can't believe the paranoid, senile 90 year old died!
A Brendan for Christmas
What's the sitch, bloodletters?
FancyShark
Yes, running with taped up ribs is never an issue
HELLO, @A Brendan for Christmas !
A sleepwalking girl has been left at a Chicago hospital's sleep-study ward so her parents don't have to pay for her medical repairs
I'm not sure beyond that
I think her doctor is handsome?
gellaho
If you can't trust the sharp medical instincts of a volunteer hospital worker, who can you trust?
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
I could've sworn she was already told this
Verified Pervert FlippantSausage
Oh gosh its so bad at Hitler High
gellaho
Her doctor is a lady, she is into a giant boy volunteering at the hospital
FancyShark
Twist: The main character is the old woman hallucinating her past self
She's still dead tho
A Brendan for Christmas
Is she a cat?
gellaho
Nah, the giant said he saw she was crying and asked if she had "heard the news already." She is too stupid to figure out what that meant
Verified Pervert FlippantSausage
Its almost like life is fragile and fleeting and volunteer hospital workers arent gods and can never save your life when the Lord calls you home.
Usually it takes like a doctor.
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Oh right, we were told that already. But Main Character is dumb as shit, right.
Verified Pervert FlippantSausage
I know the main character is because of who the author is.
gellaho
For some reason, they had to leave the hospital for this, which she's not allowed to do. Also, she's 16, in an unfamiliar city, and with a boy she's known for one day
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Yes but he is Large and therefore trustworthy
A Brendan for Christmas
HANDSOME doctor
FancyShark
They're in Chicago. How much danger could they be in while being loud, privileged and white?
Velo Was A Ghost The Whole Time
Large don't lie. That's a famous saying