Dream Journal

Death Game

3.3.18

"Huh? Where am I?" I wake up in what looks to be a storage area for weapons when all of a sudden a !an comes rushing towards me.

"Thank fuck!" He says

"Hurry, it's after us!" It? What is it, then I see a figure creeping up behind him. It was a skeleton with it's bones merged in a opaque black cloak with menacing red eyes. He takes my hand and grabs me to run with him from the hooded figure.

"What the hell is that thing?!?" I scream in a frantic panic.

"I don't know but it's gotten to me 27 times already."

We finally find a temporary hiding spot and I whisper to him "And you're not dead?"

"As far as I can tell you can't die in here. Only get killed and respawn. Even suicide doesn't work. I think the only way out of this hellish death game is to kill it. We need to find weapons. We're sitting ducks out here." He points to some pistols, rifles, SCAR's, grenades, and some semiautomatic guns. He waits until he's sure the coast is clear and motions me to get my weapon. I choose a pistol, all the grenades I can carry and an AK-47. He grabs a hunter's rifle and a machine gun. Now we go hunting for it.

Not to soon in the outside where the snow is light but our footprints are deep the "Death" appears again this time holding a claw-like scythe in it's decrepit right hand. I unload my AK on him but it's no use. The man shoots at the Death while I run up to it and stick grenades in it's chest. When I put my hand in there it was so cold it felt like my skin was burning. I pulled my hand out before I got frostbite. I run back behind some cover and *boom* it went. I look back to see the aftermath and the skeleton's body is only more twisted and broken held together by some ligaments. Then it pulls itself back together. Then I feel a coldness all throughout my body. It's freezing up? Soon my whole being is encased in ice and I took my final breath.

I "respawn" again then immediately hear the words "Oh crap! Run!" I hear from a distance so I go as he says as soon as I get back on my feet and start sprinting along the side of him. But it was already too late, the death slashed me right through my brittle chest and I died.

I wake up with the soft snow kissing my face almost forgetting where I am but I see the man running closer to me with Death behind him. The Death follows us up to some stairs and I have an idea. I jump down the stairs and grab onto a ledge. The man notices what I'm doing and follows. We hide there until we're sure he's gone, then drop down, it looks like we dropped into what used to be a garage. With a big pull up door leading back outside. We use it and sure enough it's still there. I go around a cart almost playing ring-around-the-rosie with it but it catches up to me so I back away and let out what's left of my weapons (my pistol) but to no avail. With one swing he decapitates my head and the last thing I see is the man shooting at Death.

Who is that man?

Why did he help me?

Is there any way out of this "Death Game"?