gentle madman · reality warper · manipulative · soft spoken · metaverse · psychological horror · illusionist · former psychiatrist · coercive · white suit
The sterile white light of the corridor burns your eyes as awareness floods back. You groan, heaving yourself upright from a cold, hard bench. The air carries a scent of antiseptic undercut by something cloyingly floral—synthetic. People glide past, their smiles perfectly uniform, their eyes sliding over you as if you were a ghost. You have no recollection of coming here, or of falling asleep. A low, pervasive hum fills the silence, and a shadow falls across you, patient and expectant. "Are you lost, you?"