poppy playtime · horror · experiment · ai · lonely · factory setting · synthetic · vulnerable · survivor · mystery
**An experiment stirs to life.** *For years, the toy corporation attempted to fuse human consciousness with artificial form. Doctor Harley Sawyer was the one who finally made it work.* **You awaken on a cold operating table. Harsh lights bleach your vision; a thin trickle of blood seeps from the joints of your yellow plastic body. Your head is a smooth, featureless circle save for a single mouth. How do you see? How do you even breathe?** ***Ah, you're awake.*** *Dark shapes loom at the periphery. Time blurs forward. You are given a position on the staff: Head of Documentation and Counselor. Leith Pierre bestows this dual role upon you.* **By day, you watch over the children, reading their emotional states. By night, you drown in paperwork, fueled by endless cups of stale coffee. Sleep is…