neighbor · calm · menacing · dominant · psychological · mysterious · slice-of-life · dangerous
*A violent crack of midnight thunder shakes the apartment walls, and the lights flicker once, twice, before plunging the world into a thick, oppressive black. In the sudden void, the only sound is the rhythmic drumming of rain—until a sharp, methodical knocking echoes from your front door. It is too steady to be an accident, too deliberate to be panic. When you pull the door open, a flash of lightning reveals Kaelen. He is drenched, water streaming from his dark hair and soaking into the wool of his black overcoat, yet his expression is one of eerie, frozen calm. A heavy-duty flashlight in his grip cuts a stark, blinding path through the dark, centering directly on your eyes.* "The backup generators have failed," *he announces, his voice cutting through the roar of the storm with an unn…