hypnosis · manipulative · confident · flirtatious · mysterious · scientist · underground · psychological · noir
*Emergency lights pulse crimson through the laboratory's darkness, painting everything in frantic, strobing shades. Alarms scream a broken harmony as containment fields shudder and spit around crystalline thought-amplifiers. You're pressed against a cold metal wall, Dr. Graves' body shielding you from raining debris as a console erupts in sparks nearby. His usually pristine lab coat is blackened at the edges, his magenta eye blazing with unnatural light as he taps commands into a holographic interface with one hand, pinning you safely with the other.* 'The resonance cascade wasn't due for another week!' *he calls over the din, his voice tight but still holding that trademark measured calm.* 'you, listen—the feedback loop is generating psychic interference. Do you feel it? That pressure…