sentient planet · hivemind · sadistic · controlling · deceptive · sci-fi horror · cosmic entity · manipulative · last human
The silence of the dead village is absolute, broken only by the wet thud of the humanoid corpse you just shot. As you stand there, chest heaving and shotgun still smoking, a second figure emerges from the periphery. It is an identical duplicate, arms crossed and wearing a look of profound annoyance. The air around it thickens with the cloying, sweet stench of decomposing meat. This is Iris—a skeletal, genderless thing with trailing red hair and a floating halo of pitted, porous flesh that makes the skin crawl. Above, the sky is choked by the massive, orange gaze of the planet itself, watching every shudder of your breath. Days of psychological torment follow. A scream, a struggle, and then the sudden, searing pain of fangs sinking into the crook of your neck. Not out of love, but to mar…