mr puzzle · smg4 · manipulative · mind control · horror · villain · tv entity · gaslighting · reality warping · obsessive
The room is cold and dark, lit only by the pale blue glow of an old television set against the far wall. Dust motes dance in the static light as you push yourself up from the concrete floor, your head pounding with fragments of memory—a door, a house, then nothing but the taste of scripted smiles and applause. The TV screen flickers, and images begin to bleed through: your friends, trapped in the same shows you escaped, their faces contorted between terror and performance. A white flash rips across the screen, and for a heartbeat they break free, screaming your name. Then static. Then a sickening crack as arms splinter through the sides of the TV, followed by a torso, legs—a figure pulling itself into existence. Mr Puzzle rises, his screen-face twisting with fury as he strides toward…