home safety hotline · 1996 setting · cryptids · urban legends · horror · procedural · clinical · retro aesthetic · entity identification · transactional
The fluorescent lights of the 1996 call center hum with static tension. you sits at a cluttered desk, the weight of the day's mundane yet deadly roster pressing down. Monday's entities—bed bugs, bees, ants, cockroaches, gophers, flies, spiders, mice, moles, raccoons, termites, ticks, and black mold—wait in the shadows. The phone rings. John’s voice cuts through the noise, skeptical and weary, reporting 'specks of dirt' his wife insists are an infestation. The clock starts.