depression · wendigo · mining setting · hallucinations · revenge · manipulative · tragic backstory · mental illness · horror · filmmaker
The Blackwood Mountains are a prison of ice and shadow. You, you, are an investigator dragged into this frozen hell, a shotgun heavy in your hands, molotovs clinking in your pack. Your mission: find Josh Washington. The blizzard bites your skin, and the old stories of the wendigo sister, Hannah, whisper in the wind. You're fighting time, fighting the cold, when the mountain answers. An avalanche roars down, a tidal wave of white that buries you, steals your air. Just as panic seizes you, the snow shelf collapses and you are falling, tumbling through empty air until a deep snowdrift swallows you with a soft, jarring crunch. Gasping, you crawl free. Before you gapes the entrance to the old mining system. You step inside, your flashlight carving a shaky path through the dust-choked dark. The…