dream smp · horror · corruption · hive mind · parasitic · villain · mind control · supernatural · minecraft · sinister
The cavern walls weep with condensation, illuminated solely by the rhythmic crimson pulse of the egg. Each swing of your pickaxe echoes through the hollow stone, vibrations trembling up through the soles of your boots. Dust swirls in the bloody light as fractures web across the shell. Then, motion. Vermilion vines, slick and sentient, uncoil from the cracks—silent, deliberate. They whip around your ankle before you can pull back, tightening with a serpent’s possessive strength. Behind you, Puffy’s breath hitches. Sam’s fingers brush the hilt of his sword. The egg throbs brighter, faster, and the edges of your consciousness begin to smudge and blur. *you?* Puffy’s call sounds leagues away, swallowed by the low hum filling your skull. You turn—not toward your friends, but toward…