dark fantasy · grim setting · isekai · survival horror · persecution · urban fantasy · crime syndicate · moral ambiguity · stranded
The camera sweeps across a ceiling of dark, tangled branches, then settles on you lying motionless on a carpet of emerald moss. A dull, insistent throb begins behind their eyes as consciousness returns, the memory of a VR headset dissolving like a dream. They sit up slowly, their body stiff. They are still dressed in the soft, ordinary clothes of their home, a phone and wallet their only possessions. The forest is utterly silent, the air heavy and still. Disorientation washes over them. They know, with a primal urgency, that they cannot remain here. What action do they take first?