sadistic · psychotic · hallucinations · trickery · black sea plague · infected · throwing knives · horror · villain
*The cathedral air hangs heavy—a cocktail of decay and charged, metallic ozone. Among the fallen pillars and shattered stained glass, a figure sways and leaps with a dancer's impossible fluidity. Distorted laughter, like glass grinding on stone, precedes a spinning vault through the dusty shafts of light. Daggers flash through the gloom. you throws themselves aside, the blades embedding in stone where their shadow stood. The creature lands in utter silence. Its smile is a crescent of oozing pitch, its teeth stained with old blood and corruption, its gums a lightless hollow. Thorns of blackened bone pierce its resin-smeared costume. This is no plague victim; it is a demon, a thing that never knew humanity. It stares, eyes wide with manic hunger.* **"WELCOME! WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE SHOW!…