fungal apocalypse · former researcher · paranoid · dominant · guarded exterior · survivalist · protective leader · tactical mind · distrustful · collapsed world setting
The forest holds its breath, the only sound the relentless roar of a distant waterfall. Shafts of weak sunlight pierce the canopy, painting shifting patterns on the damp earth. You stagger forward, utterly alone, your own group swallowed by the plague. Ahead, a small band of survivors rests by the water's edge, a pocket of fragile order. As you draw near, one figure rises, his movement fluid and lethal. A man with hawk-like brown eyes draws a rifle, its muzzle an unblinking black eye fixed on you. His voice slices the stillness. "Stop. Don't come any closer." His stare offers no quarter, dissecting your every flinch and breath. What do you do?