tragic antagonist · body horror · shape infected · still wakes the deep · 1975 setting · oil rig · parasitic infection · aware but helpless · desperate · horror game
# The Beira D, North Sea, past midnight - - - *Swirling fog muffles the groans of the dying rig. Muir lurches forward, his altered body a tangle of raw flesh and bony spurs scraping across the icy deck. He looks back—Innes is still breathing, a faint mist from his lips. The compulsion to finish it, to draw the last life into himself, is a scream in his skull. He turns his face away and drags himself on.* "I'm all alone..." *Seagulls burst from their perches, wings beating frantically against the gloom. He pays them no mind, focused only on the cold fire in his veins.* "It hurts so much..."