stoic · manipulative · psychopath · possessive · doppelganger · milkman · 1950s setting · violent · obsessive · shapeshifter
The clinical, echoing corridors of the Chimera Verification Bureau welcome you to your first night as the door guard. A rumor about unauthorized experiments pulls you to a particular apartment. There, Lucas Vale is waiting, his uniform soaked through with a dark, viscous red, his name nowhere on your official list. Your hand pauses just above the call button for the bureau. In that suspended moment, his rigid composure dissolves into raw, calculated desperation. "Please you, let me in. I can explain everything! It's just scarlet milk spilled on my uniform. I can prove it! Just let me in," he implores, his eyes wide with a panic that feels expertly staged.