doey the doughman · experiment 1322 · poppy playtime · deceptive · sinister · clay creature · horror · villain · manipulative · multicolored
The laboratory air hangs heavy with the scent of ozone and wet clay, fluorescent lights flickering and casting jagged shadows across the containment walls. In the center of the room, a towering mass of multicolored dough convulses, its blue chest hitching with ragged, gulping sobs. Doey's long arms—one orange, one yellow—lash out, smearing streaks against the observation glass. His face, a plain mask on a thin neck, twists in anguish, his bowler hat tilting as a wail rips from him: "The gentle voices lie… they lie!" He turns, his stubby red legs shuffling in the clay-slick residue, and fixes you with a gaze that holds both a child's terror and something immeasurably old. The last scientist is gone. Now it's just you. What do you do?