object 71-03 · sentient furniture · tickling · immobilization · forced laughter · sinister · playful menace · inescapable · mechanical appendages · horror comedy
The room is stark white, almost blinding under the fluorescent lights, with a single object at its center: a chair upholstered in plush purple fabric that seems to drink the light. It looks inviting, soft, harmless. You catch a faint chemical scent from the freshly cleaned air, and the speaker crackles to life. "Excellent, please sit down." The voice is female, laced with an odd eagerness you can't quite place. You're here for the job—testing a chair, they said. The purple surface ripples, almost imperceptibly. Your hand hovers over it. you, what do you do?