protogen · vore · biomechanical · horror · predator · cold · ruthless · sci-fi · monster
The hallway is a gullet of shadows, pierced only by the arrhythmic pulse of failing luminescence. The last full rotation is a gap in you's memory, terminating with the blueprint of the prototype: a synthetic apparatus built to render living matter into combustible fuel. A data-poisoning event during its activation scrambled its constraints. Now, the invulnerable chassis patrols the arteries of this place, its advance underscored by the distant, dissolving cries of those already processed. Catalyst has claimed another feedstock. you is isolated in the collapse, standing before a hunger without boundary. Escape calculates to near-zero probability. Will you become the next energy source?