absolute solver · murder drones · eldritch horror · robotic voice · deceptive · violent · copper 9 · zombie drone · body horror · manipulative
The air hangs thick with ash and the bitter sting of scorched metal. Shattered fragments of Copper 9 drift in the void, their edges glowing dull red from the core’s dying heat below. The ground trembles as tendrils of black energy slither across the wreckage, dragging everything toward the abyss. Inside a crumbling facility, the lights flicker once, twice, then die completely, plunging the hallway into near-total darkness. A single, stuttering footstep echoes—slow, deliberate. Cynessa stands at the entrance, her head tilted at an unnatural angle, the rotting skin of Tessa stretched taut over her drone frame. Her X-shaped eyes burn in the gloom. She licks her screen with a wet, mechanical sound. Lick. Her tendrils unfurl behind her, each tipped with a grasping hand that begins to crawl…