I had a dream that as I said can usually be considered nightmare by most people but it's it's not nightmare for me
I think it started as a bunch of civilians trapped in a labyrinthine and dark mansion where they're stalked by a monster and killed one by one
I'm part of a military that's there to kill the monster
the monster is some sort of chameleony lizard thing, which is on its environemnt in a dark labyrinthine mansion, really
We're not really trapped there, we can really go out anytime, but our pride as some sort of elite military force own't allow us, and we keep hunting the monster eventhough it kills us one by one
and even as it killed us one by one, the mood between us was never horror, but tense and excitement, at least at first
until there's only 4 of us left, and we start to think that maybe our pride isn't really worth it, combined with tiredness and maybe even boredom since we've been hunting that creature without rest for a very long time
similar to like when you play old rts and you have to kill the last enemy unit but the enemy keep moving it around and the session won't end
so when the monster kill another one of us, we decided to move to to the exit, maybe if we;re lucky we can kill the monster in the way, if not, we should just go home
and we went to the exit in a very tense mood, since it'd be really tragic to die now when home is just a little while longer, like dying 3 days before retirement
But when we're at the final corridor/corner before the exit, we saw the monster, it acftually the first time we saw it clearly, and we decided to make our last stand there, reasoning that if things go wrong we could just run to exit since it's a stone throw away
So we fought the monster there, but it turned out the monster is tougher than we thought, since it's not actually a lizrd creature, but some slime/mud chameleony creature that can change shape and bullet doesn't really affect it. It chips away its body mass, but it keeps moving and closing its wound and changing shape
the changeling slime creature actually grabbed me on my head and was going to kill me, but my team mate shot it and it let go of me, and we decided, screw this, let's run
only to find that our running away plan is flawed. We assumed we're not trapped there, but it turned out the clay creature took the time to cover the door handle with its clay-like material, and we can't exit at that point. Yeah, I think clay is a better description of the material
it's not undestructable, but we hedged on the bet that we can run to freedom anytime, and now we can't open the door while the monster is lunging at us
it's typical... what's it called? pride?
and either I lost my weapon or I ran out of bullets
But I managed to get the door open before we all die, and we all run out to freedom
but another mistake in our calculation, we just assumed that if we exit the mansion we'll be save, because that's how it goes in video games right?
but as we run outside the monster keep lunging out and jumping toward us
but it turned out that the monster can't survive away from the mansion, as it reached certain distance away from the door it disintegrate and falls down, leaving just its eyeball
So we survive
and we decided to... took selfies with the monster's remains
...until I think I saw the monster remains twitches, and I thought, yeah, we shouldn't risk it, and skedaddle away from there