Dreams.

There are all sorts of stats (HP, etc.), but it feels like if you die once, that's it.

It turned out that this substance of hers inflicted permanent damage, and as a result, I received -11k HP (I had 52k total and was left with 41k, I don't know why I remembered these numbers), and it happened because I was kind of a tank with a sword and shield and was defending the others... I remember trying to show that everything was fine, but in reality, it was very upsetting.

The other day, there was a story about how I and some other adventurers had to defeat a huge lamia (snake-grandmother), and it ended with me "romancing" her and saving my HP 8-)