set up for a magical realist story

[22:57] <@Otter> though i did spend an interesting night on top of a mountain where a woman who claimed to channel a something thousand year old spiritual warrior named Mafu  promised us we'd see a space ship

[22:57] <@Otter> we didn't

[22:57] <@Otter> and it was obvious to me she wasn't channeling

[22:58] <@Otter> though she actually did have some interesting things to say

[22:58] <obli_> maybe she just wanted to get you alone ;P

[22:58] <@Otter> lol

[22:58] <@Otter> me and maybe two hundred other people

[23:00] <@Otter> the thing i remember most was after we'd done some exercise that caused people to become separated from their friends

[23:01] <@Otter> i don't remember what the exercise was

[23:01] <@Otter> but everyone was alone in the crowd

[23:01] <@Otter> and they started calling each other's names

[23:02] <obli_> and then what happened

[23:02] <@Otter> i followed my firend Mary's voice, and then we  stood there and called the names of the rest of our group until we were all together again

[23:02] <obli_> sounds like the set up for a magical realist story :P

[23:03] <@Otter> lol

[23:03] <@Otter> yeah, actually the whole experience could have been