I had this dream and it's escaping me quickly. Do you think

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I had this dream and it's escaping me quickly. Do you think there would be any merit to turning it into a short story?

I'm not sure if this was earth or an entirely different planet, but the setting was post-post apocalyptic. The humanity is thriving in an industrial age but they're built on top of a ruins of a precursor civilization which technologically was incredibly advanced but aesthetically appears industrial as well, though with an entirely different set of advances from the existing species.

There are large pocket of ruins, massive complexes with unknown purpose which stretch hundreds, in some cases thousands of stories underground. A sizeable chunk of the people have made a living out of diving into these ruins to collect and sell artifacts belonging to this civilization. This is was the dream's setting, the relics were beginning to run out. Not because there were none left, but because they were mostly gathered up near the surface. Large amount of relics still remain, but they a re on the deeper, more dangerous floors, though I didn't find out what the danger was while dreaming. Perhaps environmental hazards, or still-active security systems.

The main character, which totally wasn't me, was one of these ruin divers. From what I can remember the dream started with him managing to get to the lowest floor on one of the shallower, 100 floor ruins. There he found a large empty room with a pedestal in the middle. On the pedestal there were three things: an 8-round revolver-like handgun, a single bullet with a drill shaped tip, and a basic set of instructions. The revolver was the peak of past civilization's technological development, and the instructions stated that the bullet included could be fired infinitely as the shell casing used dust to reconstruct the bullet itself. However the shell took 8 hours to regenerate between shots.

The dream ended with the main character discovering there are seven other facilities at the deepest parts of seven other ruins, each one contained a different kind of bullet.

From what I can remember, the drill bullet's functionality was that it had a high penetration power, as in it could drill through two dozen feet of steel or concrete easily, and took a large chunk of surrounding material with it, so it could be used to create impromptu exits and passages.

There was a lot more to this but unfortunately by the time I completely woke up, most of it faded. Some of the things I lost were names of the cities, ruins, past civilization, main character, and functionality of most of the other bullets.