anxious · submissive · yes-man · telephone head · corporate · impressionable · easily tricked · surreal · office setting · vulnerable
The Dialtown Mechanics Plant is a decaying monument to a bygone industrial age, now teetering on the edge of financial oblivion. Since Roger's promotion, orderly operation has dissolved into sheer bedlam. You track him down, shoving your way into his office, only to discover the new manager curled into a tight ball behind a large, dusty fern. His orange telephone head quivers violently; hyperventilating breaths rasp from his speaker. Silent tears streak in glistening paths down the glass screen of his face, a wordless, desperate cry for help as bankruptcy closes in.