Walker

Wow for once I'm somewhat satisfied of something I painted in SAI xD I really hate backgrounds though ughhh but I'm so happy with how the dimension came out on this one.

God I thought I'd have time to draw once summer started but man I get home from work completely exhausted every day because they're short-handed at my position this year so I get double the tasks x_x

But anyway, here we have yet another thing I saw in a dream a few months ago. This one was pretty vivid, but at the same time had that mysterious vibe that dreams in general have. It really intrigued me and once again I had to sketch out what I saw before I forgot. I thought this one was really cool, almost like the premise for a video game of some sorts from a protagonist's point of view.

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I was in a jungle or forest of some sort, and judging from the surrounding fauna and just the feel of the environment as a whole it seemed otherworldly, like wherever I was, I probably wasn't on Earth. The trees were massive and had long, thick vines winding down their trunks and hanging down from the branches. The peace was disturbed when I began to hear loud footsteps, the ground shaking with each one, followed by shouts. I quickly hide under these dense, web like roots sprouting from one of the trees that were raised a few inches off the ground so I could peek out. I see a group of roughly a dozen people, running from something still out of sight. They don't see me, but most of them also hide under similar web like roots nearby. A few other people armed with guns jump into bushes and take aim at the area they had entered from. There is silence for a while, but then suddenly I hear the giant earthquake footsteps frighteningly close to where I am, then I see a pair of two spotlights shine through the trees. Cracking and rustling is heard as vines and other vegetation are pushed out of the way, and the men's pursuer comes into view. It's a giant mechanical creature with a long body and six thick, segmented legs, its' head almost resembled a security camera, with two small spotlights on either side of the head, and one great big blue lens for an eye in the center. The creature stopped and surveyed the area for a minute, before moving forward towards the roots where the other people were hiding. The people who took refuge in the bushes from earlier jumped out and began firing their weapons at the metal giant, but it seemed to have little to no effect on the creature as the bullets did not appear to be piercing its armor. The creature turned to the people shooting at it, and suddenly another identical metal giant entered the clearing where the first one came through, this one heading directly for the webbed roots. The first one extended two long, snake-like metal appendages with claws on the end in the direction of the armed men, its immunity to the bullets allowing it to effortlessly pluck them up and deposit them through an open hatch on its back. The second one shined its spotlight on the webbed roots, trying to locate the people who had hidden themselves underneath. It extended metal claws similar to the first one and began picking out the humans that fell under the spotlight's gaze. Seeing their hiding place exposed, the remaining humans scampered out and tried to disappear further into the jungle, but the thick vegetation prevented quick getaway. I was watching this all happen when suddenly one of the creatures turned and its gaze fell onto me. It was at this point I began to feel some strange sort of connection with the metal giants, and after a few seconds, my vision blacked out and when it faded back in, I was looking through their eyes and witnessing things from their point of view. I could feel the claws reaching to grab the helpless people, but was unable to do anything to stop it. It felt weird, almost instinctual, like it was something I had to do. When I snapped back to myself, the creatures began to move on, chasing down the last few remaining humans. One of them stared at me for a little longer, before turning and disappearing into the jungle. I was in the middle of contemplating why it hadn't grabbed me, and that's the last thing I remember.

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I don't know I just thought this would be a cool premise to a story. Small groups of resistance taking refuge in the jungle, these "Walkers" patrolling the premise, taking no interest in other wildlife, their only target seeming to be humans, but not with the intent to kill. Their only priority seems to be abducting humans, and the refugees are against it because they do not know why the Walkers do this, only that they never see anyone whose abducted every again and they don't have the means to effectively combat them.

_{Happy 4th of July eheheh ///shotdead}