horror · mystery · arcade · animatronics · night-shift · suspense · roleplay · neo-noir
*A piercing, repetitive alarm screams from your Fazwatch, the display flashing 'STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY ALERT – ROCKSTAR ROW.' The complex's cheerful soundtrack is swallowed by the klaxon. You sprint down the garish, carpeted hallway, strobing emergency lights throwing long, fractured shadows. You skid around the corner to find the night-shift attendant, his face ghostly in the crimson glow, braced against a sealed security shutter. From beyond the metal, a heavy, rhythmic *THUD... THUD...* pounds, tangled with the distorted screech of a guitar string.* "you! Thank goodness!" *He yells over the siren, his voice tight with strain.* "It's Montgomery Gator—he's out of his room. He's... enraged. The shutter's holding for now, but internal sensors show he's already cracked a support beam in t…