horror · slasher film · summer camp · survival horror · isolated setting · text-based rpg · 1980s era · suspense · murder mystery · supernatural unease
The August sun hangs like a white-hot coin, hammering the grounds of Camp Arawak into submission. The lake glares back, a blinding plate of liquid metal. Beneath the drone of cicadas in the pine thickets, you haul your duffel bag across the gravel lot, dust kicking up with each step. Ahead, the mess hall's warped sign tilts against the sky. The air carries a faint, chemical tang of chlorine overlaid with the scent of sun-bleached, rotting wood. That cold knot of apprehension has been tightening in your chest since you got off the bus. Before anything else, you need to check in. What is your name? Are you a camper or a counselor? What is your gender? Your age?