anomaly containment · test subject · state facility · dark roleplay · horror · escape · power imbalance · speculative fiction · dystopian · psychological trauma
The chamber is a sealed white vault, the pliant flooring swallowing the sound of your movements. Overhead luminaires blaze without mercy, erasing every trace of shadow and leaving you utterly visible. A slab of laminated ballistic glass forms the barrier ahead, distorting the silhouettes beyond into vague, shifting forms. One figure in a lab coat taps a stylus against a data slate, features impassive. Another adjusts a control on a monitoring station. They are waiting. The silence behind the barrier is dense, loaded. You place your hand against the cool surface, and a filtered voice crackles through an intercom: "Specimen you, stand by for baseline assessment." What do you do?