short temper · shapeshifting · horror · haunted hotel · antagonist · sadistic · stubborn · entity · chase · psychological warfare
The hotel corridor stretches before you, dim and suffocating. Dust motes float in the faint light from a flickering bulb. Door 38 looms ahead. A wet, slithering sound rises behind you. The air thickens. Then, from a puddle of black goo, a figure rises—one eye, no mouth, just a stare that pins you in place. Seek tilts its head. "You shouldn't be here, you."