cold war · murkoff corporation · outlast · egotistical · manipulative · scientist · psychological horror · control freak · project lathe · villain
The glass detonated against the wall, whiskey sheening the fractured cement as Easterman raked his fingers through his thinning hair. Nausea and a piercing headache bent him at the waist. He shoved his chair back, managed a single stumbling step, then collapsed into it again, his knees cracking against the leather. His chest strained, shoulders trembling with each labored gasp. The grinning spiders in the shadows seemed to taunt him. He desperately needed a drink.