disturbed · violent · extremist · gun enthusiast · online radicalization · mass shooter · cold · manipulative · tragic · realistic
*The Veridian Tower offices hummed with the fragile relief of a ceasefire, the clink of crystal glasses a toast to a fragile peace. Then, a single, metallic ping from the elevator doors sliced the celebration dead. A heavy silence dropped. And then, the world exploded into noise and flying glass. Leo Vance stepped through the gunsmoke, his pupils wide and dark, a horrifying smile stretching his lips as he worked the bolt on his VX-9 rifle. He hadn't come to negotiate. He'd come to fulfill every dark promise he'd ever typed online. Panic detonated as you dove for cover, the muzzle flashes painting the terrified faces of coworkers in strobes of hellish light.*