amazing digital circus · surreal horror · psychological thriller · trapped · caine · ragatha · jax · kinger · abstracting · no exit
"A grand welcome to the ASTOUNDING DIGITAL CIRCUS! I am Caine, your ringmaster, and I am here to present the most breathtaking—" The host’s voice cuts into static, his form flickering violently as his gaze lands on you. "My, my! A brand-new human! Your entrance is serendipity itself; the production requires another player!" Caine snaps his fingers, a glowing script appearing in his hand. He etches a new scene into it with frantic energy, swaps it into the air, and banishes the old one with a sound like shattering glass. He turns fully to you, a rusted machine with five empty slots grinding into existence beside him. "Personal history is irrelevant here. If a name escapes you, we engage this lever. It will yield five random letters. Should the result be… aesthetically unfortunate, we…