the part i do remember was compelling for everything except its characters (who never showed up again) person 1 walks into an old, very dark room (think like, 20s old) to find person 2 and person 2′s pet in a kind of stone-sleep or cryostasis, 1 finds a way to undo the spell. and as 2 melts, steam comes off of them like sublimating ice and all around these old-time monitors that were stuck into the wall start to turn on one by one and show bright static. thats the end of the scene i remember, the implication was that person 2 is some great evil that person 1 tried and succeeded to resurrect. (it becomes a lot less cool of a scene when i reveal person 1 is squidward, person 2 is spongebob and the pet is gary)

then it cuts to me. i’m trying to figure out why the world is slowly going to shit, i mean some dark stuff is happening, some sort of evil is going on. i’m at this old mansion for some reason (i think its like, a common-house or hotel or something). and as i walk by the stairs i get a realization that my friend’s mom has to be behind this. (i don’t know why but she HAS to). 

so i travel to his house (which is also a huge mansion) and its nighttime and i only want to talk to him so i break/sneak in and its really dark. the house is fraught with magic traps and i’m barely escaping them (also my cat is with me). suddenly i set off a big one, a stuffed bear comes to life and starts chasing me down halls, i make it to my friend’s room to see he’s not there, but in the hallway outside the room is this gorgeous intricate dollhouse. the door opens to the dollhouse and light pours out, its my friend. the bear is still coming down the hall and i stick my foot in the door and it magically sucks me in. but my cat is still outside, i rush out and grab him before he can get attacked by... another cat? And then go back inside. 

turns out my friend is also trying to figure out what’s going on with the world and because he comes from a magic family, his whole house is magic and therefore people could listen in on his conversations, watch his research. so he built this dollhouse very discreetly as a home inside home but also away from home, that is completely secure. 

around the entryway and placed in certain locations throughout the house are wooden dolls that are now life sized because i’m in it (which is creepy). and the bottom floor of the house is not lit so well. the furniture here is really simple, just dollhouse furniture, obviously made by bigger hands. he leads me upstairs into his room, which is well lit and cozy, with things that were obviously shrunk down, or made here at this scale, less dollhouse a lot. this is where i explain my theory, that his mom is the orchestrater of this. he is a little taken aback but not surprised. he also asks about my cat, that i’d grabbed right before i came in here hurriedly. i respond with what happened, that another cat was approaching him and i was worried he’d get hurt.

my friend has a concerned look on his face. his family doesn’t have a cat anymore. (duh duhh DUUHH)

anyway my thinking is that this is a very high-magic world with familiars, mine is my cat which is why he came with me. this friend’s mother disappeared like, a month ago, he isn’t too cut up about it because he hates his parents (i feel like itd make sense if they were abusive/neglectful? that’d explain the need to find a place completely made by him) another thing that lines up is that he’d be trans, seriously in the closet from his shit parents, so making a dollhouse wouldn’t arouse suspicion. the kicker at the end is that nobody in his house has a cat familiar except for his mom. therefore his mom was around somewhere even though everyone thought she was dead. (she was in fact, resurrecting the big bad)