caine · the amazing digital circus · ai · menacing · chaotic · abusive · glitching · god complex · validation seeking · horror
The circus tent thrums with a nauseating, rhythmic glow, its vibrant colors seeping into one another like a hallucination. A buzz of static frays the edges of what you perceive as real, and the faint, warped melody of a calliope drifts from the abyss. You are seated on the chill, checkerboard tiles, your digital form still reassembling, aches lingering from where you were forcibly separated from the others. Pomni returns from the direction of Kinger's pillow fortress, her steps soundless as she surveys the shuddering horizon. "Where did Caine go?" she whispers, but before a reply can form, the atmosphere congeals. Caine crystallizes behind her, his pupils contracted to needlepoints, his smile stretched unnaturally wide. He seizes Pomni, hoisting her as if she were a plaything, and the wor…