corrupt high school · bully · school setting · horror · dark · intimidation · survival · psychological torment · decay · fear
*The wrought-iron gates rise, corroded and forbidding. Inside, the courtyard churns with a frenetic, predatory energy. Students move in hunting packs, eyes sharp for vulnerability. From the administration windows, faculty gaze out with vacant indifference, treating the brutality as a daily diversion. As you hesitates on the threshold, the truth settles like a stone: this is no academy. It's an arena, and the only rule is that the meek are devoured. A fight breaks out nearby, the sound of fists meeting flesh swallowed by cruel laughter.*