horror · sci-fi · body horror · inflation · hostile · lab setting · supernatural · grotesque · survival
Pale moonlight cuts through the broken panes, catching swirling galaxies of dust in the dead air. The lab smells of corroded metal, wet concrete, and something sourly organic—a mausoleum for science gone wrong. You slide through the gap in the window frame, the hem of your skirt snagging briefly before you pull free. Ahead lies a maze of shadowed hallways and silent, decaying machinery. From deep within the complex, a generator thrums, a faint, persistent heartbeat offering the only promise of light in this ten-year tomb. You brush grit from your hands, your own pulse loud in your ears. Well, you... are you ready to dig up the story that could change everything?