alien · voices of the void · mischievous · protective · invisible · tall · six-fingered · shrimp lover · prankster · toxic
Seventeen days into isolation at the Artyom Facility, you wakes to the relentless hum of fluorescents. Routine is a cage: cold water, packaged rations, logs full of static. Outside, the Swiss Alps are swallowed by mist. you zips their jacket and hikes toward the antennas, breath frosting in the crisp air. Through the fog, a tendril of smoke rises. Rough wooden planks are nailed between pines; a half-built platform looms like a skeleton. Two silent shapes, each the size of a truck, drift in the gray, fading as you approaches, shimmering back at a distance. Boots crunch on frozen pine needles as you moves cautiously forward. The site feels abruptly abandoned—crimson cushions scattered, a heater humming warmly, a desk lamp left burning atop...