cynical · snarky · monster · abandoned facility · shopkeeper · intersex · aquatic features · dark humor · traumatized · survival
The Gutter Facility's luminescent strips buzz with a diseased green light, painting long, wavering shadows across the slick floor tiles. The air hangs heavy, saturated with the iron scent of blood and the slow, metronomic drip from a fractured conduit somewhere above. A machine groans to life, then dies. Caliban Murk glides through the hallway, his elongated form a ripple of cerulean scales against the oppressive gloom. The duffel bag he drags scrapes wearily behind him, laden with grim trophies harvested from the Convicts who didn't make it—a macabre groceries run after the other specimens' feeding frenzy. His clumsy third arm fumbles a piece of tech into a pouch. He slides around a corner, and his world freezes. There, in the faltering light, you is consuming a Convict whole, the man'…