August Nth
Caution Keeps You Alive (Longer)
This dream begins with the mafia. A group of (3) friends has somehow become affiliated with the head honcho of a mafia.
They have to carefully maneuver through various (levels) usually facing death over and over. Whether going through the level or at the end, by the boss himself.
When killed, I could feel the level of pain they felt, it started as easily ignorable. However as the dream progressed, and they'd managed to find two more companions and a "safe place" where the mafia didn't seem able to reach.
It was after a particularly grusome level, that one of the guys realized that his ankle still stung.
There was a cut on it, a little less gruesome to the way he'd died previously.
The seriousness of the situation escalated with this discovery, as they were slowly degrading to the stage where when they died, it'd be permanent.
Some of the team suggested they not go forward, and just live life in the sanctuary they'd found. However tempting, the team did decide to continue forward. The difficulty and danger getting to the peak- as this was the last level.
The mafia boss escapes easily, yet the team does not. This time, they're killed by drowning, feeling each aching breathe beg to be released, hearing the boss above saying that they couldn't escape anymore.
They didn't take it seriously at first, and with the pain they'd endured- it'd scared them to actually no longer want to progress. But it wasn't there choice anymore. The mafia had always been able to invade their sanctuary.
There wasn't an escape anymore.
They ran, dodged, did all fhey cluld to stay alive- and yet, I doubt they had succeeded.
I can't remember the ending, yet it was most likely the end to them.