HARRY'S AWAKENING
CHAPTER 3: RUDE AWAKENINGS AND AN ALBUM COVER
Harry awakens in a hell version of the café.
Cybil approaches him.
"Somehow I knew I find you here."
"Whenever I lose my daughter, I always end up here."
"Maybe your mind is telling you something you forgot."
"Maybe"
Looking next to the pinball machine,
Harry said, "Funny I didn't recall a jukebox being there"
The machine was broken. Inside were cracked single records, but curiously
enough there was one album, Led Zeppelin 4.
"This gets weirder and weirder, what does Stairway to Heaven have to do with
anything?" thought Harry.
As he opened the sleeve the booklet fell out. "That's strange, let's see what's
inside."
Harry noticed the picture of the Hermit was circled, as well as the lyrics "Two
paths you can go by" and of course, "Stairway to Heaven."
Then he recalled, Dahlia's words, "the path of the Hermit concealed by
Flauros."
Harry recalled a vision too, of a large clapboard house near a pond surrounded
by hills, a house he has "seen" in his mind but never actually visited.
"That must be the way to Cheryl."
"Cybil", shouted Harry, "still there"
"Yes", she replied.
"Let's head off to the Hospital, there's someone there who might be able to
help me."
So off they went to the hospital. Cybil waited outside as Harry talked to Lisa.
"Lisa"
"Yes"
"You gotta help me."
"How?"
He explained to her his vision of the house.
"There could be a million houses like that," she said.
Then one on a whim, he asked where Dahlia lives.
"I don't know, but before it burned down seven years ago, the Gillespie's used to
have mansion up in the hills"
"Could you describe it for me?"
"It's been a while since I last went by there, but okay...."
L: "You know Harry it looks just like the house you were describing to me early."
H: "Great Lisa, how do you get there?"
"It's at the north end of Simmons Street near Lovecraft Place."
H: "Thank you, I am on my way"
"Harry wait, don't go that place is haunted, you could get killed."
"It's a risk I am going have to take, I must find my daughter."
"Don't go!"
"I must!"
"Lisa?"
"What?"
"I've read your diary..."
"Huh?"
"I believe you are using drugs. You're a wonderful person, and I don't want to see you end up in the basement morgue. I know you probably wouldn't care but please try to stop."
She said nothing.
Outside, Harry bumped into Cybil again.
C: "How did it go?"
H: "OK"
"I need to go down Simmons Street past the Antique Shop."
"Harry, It's blocked!"
"But if this record booklet [holding up the Led Zeppelin album] is correct, I bet the
Flauros will let me pass."
"What's a Flauros?"
"I can't explain, all I know is that we have to head over to the Balkan Church."
Later, at the Hell Church...
"What a horrible place!"
Begin free motion video.
Bodies dangle from the ceiling. More are placed in the alcoves as if they were saints, with burnt candles at their feet. Rusted metal benches took the place of pews. A disembowled corpse took the place of a crucifix. On the simple steel altar was a skull and a wooden pyramid.
End video.
Harry picked up a wooden pyramid, and said, "this is the Flauros."
"Judging from the looks of that crack, it must be broken," said Cybil.
"Well, it still might be usable, come on!"
"Again, we just got here."
So the two leave for Simmons street. Arriving at the end of Simmons street, Harry looked
into the void and began to talk.
"Dahlia once told me to follow the path of the hermit concealed by Flauros",
now I realize that she might have been giving me a hint as to where Cheryl was being
kept, "only I was too stupid to figure it out for myself. I failed Cheryl. The first time
I heard Dahlia say that to me, I sensed a strange allusion to one of my favorite bands.
I know now that feeling was correct. "
"The Flauros has the ability to break through the darkness."
"If I set it down, a way out of here should appear."
"Here goes nothing"
Harry set the Flauros down.
A few minutes later, a large stone staircase appeared.
"Hmm, the Stairway to Heaven. This must be the way, come on"
They climbed up the stairs.
CHAPTER 3: RUDE AWAKENINGS AND AN ALBUM COVER
Harry awakens in a hell version of the café.
Cybil approaches him.
"Somehow I knew I find you here."
"Whenever I lose my daughter, I always end up here."
"Maybe your mind is telling you something you forgot."
"Maybe"
Looking next to the pinball machine,
Harry said, "Funny I didn't recall a jukebox being there"
The machine was broken. Inside were cracked single records, but curiously
enough there was one album, Led Zeppelin 4.
"This gets weirder and weirder, what does Stairway to Heaven have to do with
anything?" thought Harry.
As he opened the sleeve the booklet fell out. "That's strange, let's see what's
inside."
Harry noticed the picture of the Hermit was circled, as well as the lyrics "Two
paths you can go by" and of course, "Stairway to Heaven."
Then he recalled, Dahlia's words, "the path of the Hermit concealed by
Flauros."
Harry recalled a vision too, of a large clapboard house near a pond surrounded
by hills, a house he has "seen" in his mind but never actually visited.
"That must be the way to Cheryl."
"Cybil", shouted Harry, "still there"
"Yes", she replied.
"Let's head off to the Hospital, there's someone there who might be able to
help me."
So off they went to the hospital. Cybil waited outside as Harry talked to Lisa.
"Lisa"
"Yes"
"You gotta help me."
"How?"
He explained to her his vision of the house.
"There could be a million houses like that," she said.
Then one on a whim, he asked where Dahlia lives.
"I don't know, but before it burned down seven years ago, the Gillespie's used to
have mansion up in the hills"
"Could you describe it for me?"
"It's been a while since I last went by there, but okay...."
L: "You know Harry it looks just like the house you were describing to me early."
H: "Great Lisa, how do you get there?"
"It's at the north end of Simmons Street near Lovecraft Place."
H: "Thank you, I am on my way"
"Harry wait, don't go that place is haunted, you could get killed."
"It's a risk I am going have to take, I must find my daughter."
"Don't go!"
"I must!"
"Lisa?"
"What?"
"I've read your diary..."
"Huh?"
"I believe you are using drugs. You're a wonderful person, and I don't want to see you end up in the basement morgue. I know you probably wouldn't care but please try to stop."
She said nothing.
Outside, Harry bumped into Cybil again.
C: "How did it go?"
H: "OK"
"I need to go down Simmons Street past the Antique Shop."
"Harry, It's blocked!"
"But if this record booklet [holding up the Led Zeppelin album] is correct, I bet the
Flauros will let me pass."
"What's a Flauros?"
"I can't explain, all I know is that we have to head over to the Balkan Church."
Later, at the Hell Church...
"What a horrible place!"
Begin free motion video.
Bodies dangle from the ceiling. More are placed in the alcoves as if they were saints, with burnt candles at their feet. Rusted metal benches took the place of pews. A disembowled corpse took the place of a crucifix. On the simple steel altar was a skull and a wooden pyramid.
End video.
Harry picked up a wooden pyramid, and said, "this is the Flauros."
"Judging from the looks of that crack, it must be broken," said Cybil.
"Well, it still might be usable, come on!"
"Again, we just got here."
So the two leave for Simmons street. Arriving at the end of Simmons street, Harry looked
into the void and began to talk.
"Dahlia once told me to follow the path of the hermit concealed by Flauros",
now I realize that she might have been giving me a hint as to where Cheryl was being
kept, "only I was too stupid to figure it out for myself. I failed Cheryl. The first time
I heard Dahlia say that to me, I sensed a strange allusion to one of my favorite bands.
I know now that feeling was correct. "
"The Flauros has the ability to break through the darkness."
"If I set it down, a way out of here should appear."
"Here goes nothing"
Harry set the Flauros down.
A few minutes later, a large stone staircase appeared.
"Hmm, the Stairway to Heaven. This must be the way, come on"
They climbed up the stairs.