Oh, hey, I never posted my weird survival horror dream thing.
So, I had this amazing dream. It was actually in two parts, because the whole thing fit a song that was playing (I leave music on overnight generally) and I woke up before the dream finished, so put the song on and drifted back to sleep to see the rest of the dream.
So yeah, it was typical deserted town. Whole place was ruined, and the main character was this, like, 14 year-old girl who had been kicked out of her home because her mother was convinced that the girl was pregnant. So anyways, this girl had basically become part of a group that was fighting back against what was essentially a zombie apocalypse. She'd been exploring, but I came into this dream somehow knowing this information and following them on her return to her hometown. So, queue mini-montage sequence of her packing while her little brother tells her she has to help protect the house, and she blatantly ignores him. We see the mother's dead, zombies are gathering near the house. Girl is randomly sneaking out of the house and into a nearby forest throughout this entire sequence. Whole thing ends with her telling the brother they have to leave, and then standing back from tying a rope - she's tied the mother to a wooden pole, propping her up in front of the front door, to give the appearance that she's still alive. The girl turns to the brother, tells him that the mother was wrong, and then -action scene-
So, we see the zombies break into the house and completely maul the mother while the rebel group escapes through a back road, followed only by a few of the zombies. The girl tells the rest of the group to follow her -exactly- and she follows an odd path through the forest, while the zombies proceed to fall into traps that the girl was clearly setting up in the times she was sneaking out of the house. After a while, the traps stop, and there's only one or two zombies left chasing them. However, the boy's falling behind at this point, and struggling to keep up.
This is where the girl becomes either really bitchy or really awesome (or both). She drops back, saying there's a village up ahead that's been defending itself successfully from the zombies. She falls back towards the back, so that only two people are behind her. She then trips the guy next to her, without anyone seeing she did it except for her brother, and she then helps him to keep going. Naturally, the guy becomes bait for the remaining zombies, and the brother is able to get away. The guy at the front of the crowd, now, gets shot down - the village has stayed protected because they're constantly on guard, and the girl knew this, which is the other reason she's moved back in the group. Now that the village has stopped shooting, she moves back to the front in order to get the group through to safety.
And this entire dream was played to two playthroughs of Retreat, Retreat! by 65daysofstatic. <3