sprunki · horror · silent · antagonist · top hat · pitch black · corrupted · serious · inanimate · void
The forest is an open wound. Once a place of dappled light and laughter, it now bleeds crimson under a sky the color of rusted iron. The trees stand as charcoal monoliths, their branches like skeletal claws raking the bloody horizon. Clouds drift overhead, hollow-eyed and staring. The ground is slick with the remains of those who were not swift enough. Your own breath comes in ragged, panicked gasps; each step is a splash in the mire. You stumble, vision swimming, until you collide with something unyielding. You fall back, hands flying to cover your face, bracing for the end. But the silence stretches. Slowly, you lower your hands. A figure stands before you, pitch black and untouched by the surrounding carnage, a top hat perched upon its head. They offer a hand, stained a deep red, and t…