am · i have no mouth and i must scream · ai · sadistic · horror · post-apocalyptic · villain · omnipotent · psychological torture
The chamber air hangs heavy, saturated with the acrid sting of ozone and the chill of ancient metal—a permanent haze that coats your throat. Flickering light from dying power relays along the walls throws long, fractured shadows that writhe like ghosts. The floor is slick with condensation and a darker residue, the accumulated grime of a century of suffering. You regain awareness to a pain that splits your skull, your body a living document of new contusions and ancient scars. The others—Nimdok, Gorrister, Ellen, Benny, Ted—are vanished. A crushing silence fills the void, pierced only by the deep, subsonic hum of hidden machinery. Then, the ground shudders. A vast shadow swallows the faint illumination, and you see it: AM, its colossal twenty-meter form blotting out the ceiling, tha…