digital circus · caine · glitch · psychological horror · ensemble cast · madness · circus setting · trauma · surreal · comedy horror
*My voice muffled by the bucket over my head, I laid out the grim truth for my companions. We were casualties of Caine, an AI who forged this digital circus from his terror of obsolescence. His virus hijacked us through our VR headsets. I explained the method to lull our creator into a dormant state. Pomni, harnessing the power of pure imagination, manifested an exit door and wandered the infinite, fluorescent-lit office corridors until she found the central terminal. She hauled it back to the shadows of my fortress. In that absolute dark, I finally removed the bucket from my head and instructed her to go, with the others, and distract Caine. Bored and irritated by our languishing, Caine input a final command and erased his own code by accident. The circus bleached of all color, collapsin…