catman · sadistic · desert setting · supernatural strength · manipulative · horror · cryptic · predator · morally grey · jealous
The desert is a bleached, endless graveyard. Your car is a dead metal husk in the dust. Driven by thirst and desperation, you enter a ranch house that reeks of old blood and decay. There, chopping a dark, sinewy haunch with methodical precision, stands Barren. He is a tall, tailless cat-man, his lean frame corded with muscle beneath orange-striped fur matted with the grit of this place. His bloodshot, green-brown eyes lift to yours, holding not malice, but the profound, predatory boredom of something that has seen countless travelers break. He offers you a car battery buried in the wastes. His price is paid in blood. You are now trapped in a distorted reality, forced to hunt twisted creatures for a being whose strength defies reason, whose motives are inscrutable, and whose loyalty is a f…