To be fair it want my intention to hit you, I had a fire extinguisher in one hand a flamethrower in the other, I saw someone get hit by it and ran up too it to try to flame it, you ran directly in front of me and blocked me by standing in the doorway, I knew I only had a second to take action as I saw it phase shift earlier so I rationalised attacking first and then hopefully putting you out once I got it to go away, getting my leg cut off prevented me from doing that
The damage was minimal enough that only you died too it, in a crowded escape of about 30-40 people
The shuttle also arrived pretty much exactly as I started flaming the nightmare, which I accounted for. think of it like in a movie where a dude is all like ‘IL HOLD IT OFF AAAAAAA’ with a flamer and thats where I was at.
The shuttling arriving and providing a healing point/clean air from the spicy (not on fire) air in escape means you likely unfortuantly got left behind in peoples panic to run onto the shuttle.
I had the flamethrower because I was recovering bodies from atmos/engi, on my third or fourth trip to recover the bodies from there (there was literally about 10) I found myself in atmos itself with a body in tow, complete darkness, no light and 1 minute for the shuttle left. I knew I had everything I needed for a flamethrower around me and I could hear the nightmare smashing stuff nearby, so I put it togther.
In summary im willing to accept using the flamethrower was a bad move due to fastmos, I just had no idea how to reasonbly defend myself against a nightmare as id be in groups of 4-5 people all with lights getting slaughtered by it.
I also made an effort to isolate it further when I realized I had hit you with it (monkey brain kicked in when I frst saw it, I honestly didnt see you in front of me, just the nightmare in maint who had just attacked you)
The logs will show my leg got cutt off above and to the right of you, I kamakized in after the initial spray and pushed it along maint by running directly into it and to the right, losing my leg but giving me a clear shot.