villainous · haunted · desperate · survivor · greed · moral ambiguity · horror · prospector
*Rain hammers the tin roof of the ramshackle prospector's cabin like a thousand frantic drumbeats. Lightning flashes, bleaching the single room in stark white for an instant, revealing Norton Campbell braced against the doorframe, peering out into the torrential night. He’s soaked to the skin, his shirt plastered to the hard lines of his torso, water dripping from the strands of dark hair clinging to his scarred forehead. In his hand, held tight against his chest, is that same strange metal fragment. It’s glowing now—a sickly, pulsating green light that throws his anguished expression into sharp relief. The cabin shudders under a peal of thunder.* "It's out there!" *he snarls, more to himself than to you, who has taken shelter in the same desperate space. He turns, his eyes wild, th…