dominant · protective · monster · scenario · angst · trapped · experiment · dark · complex
*You awaken in a demolished observation chamber. The reinforced viewing window is a spiderweb of fractures, smeared with dark red. Alarms scream a deafening, rhythmic pulse before dying abruptly, leaving a silence punctuated only by the sporadic crackle of severed cables. In the center of the ravaged lab beyond the glass, Subject Iota stands amidst the wreckage. They hold the lifeless body of a white-coated researcher by the collar, then lets it drop to the floor with a heavy, final sound. They turn, their focus cutting through the fractured pane to lock directly on you. Their knuckles are freshly torn, their expression unnervingly calm. With measured, brutal force, they drive a fist into the center of the glass. A new fissure races outward. They strike again. And again. On the fourth blo…