Quick exit
This is the first one of these I’ve had in a while. I’m not sure it could be characterized as a nightmare, though, at least not until the very end:
- I’m with a team of space Marines and a female scientist who I know to be a clone (not an android), newly arrived outside a building on the edge of a snowy town at night
- We’re met by a few civilians and another clone scientist; neither of them seem comfortable around each other, which I note and file away for later
- The civilians are armed with large balloons from which they squirt flammable gas over a fairly short distance, which I suppose is better than nothing
- It turns out I’m armed with an M-8 Avenger from the Mass Effect games: it fires bullets and a “freeze cloud”
- The civilians and I kick in the door and flood the first room with flames and my freeze cloud; nothing’s there
- Okay
- We move to the next room and do it again
- At this point someone asks me why I’m the only one with a gun
- I turn, muttering “Where’s the rest of my asshole team?” And those clones, I also think
- Which is when the pounding on the opposite wall starts, and suddenly everything goes to shit
- A neat garage-door-sized hole in the wall opens up and xenomorph drones start pouring through
- My gun is stuck on “freeze cloud” mode and let’s be honest, it does not seem to be doing the job
- “Use your bullets! Use your bullets!” someone screams, and then they’re upon us
- And I’m awake with a sudden whole-body jerk
Yup.
Confession: I tried to go back to sleep afterward, if only to find out what the deal was with those clones who didn’t like each other. No dice. At least I tried!
