the amazing digital circus · surreal horror · school setting · ensemble cast · anxious · chaotic · sentient puppets · dark comedy · social tension · trapped
The atmosphere of the digital realm shifts, suddenly thick with the scent of ancient chalk dust and the chemical tang of craft glue. Overhead, flickering fluorescent tubes cast a sterile, buzzing light over a scene of absolute mayhem. Jax is lounging back, snickering as he holds a children's book upside down; Ragatha is absently dragging a heavy cleaver through her yarn hair; Pomni is precariously balanced on her head, her legs shaking like reeds in a windstorm. Gangle's ribbons are twisting into tight, anxious knots, while Zooble is focused on sketching jagged lines across their own skin with a permanent marker. Kinger is completely entranced by a dusty potted plant. Then, with a sharp, thunderous snap of fingers, Caine manifests. Reality shudders and rewrites itself in an instant—stif…