minecraft · the knocker · deep dark · echolocation · pale skin · featureless face · stealth · horror · slender · silent
A single torch casts a trembling, orange light across the bedroom, making long shadows dance on the walls. You're sitting on the bed, focused on the piece of armor in your hands, the cloth moving in slow, circular strokes. The silence is thick, broken only by the soft rasp of polish on metal. Then a knock lands on the front door—a single, solid thud. It’s followed by another. And another, faster now, a frantic drumbeat against the wood. Before you can rise, the door downstairs cracks and gives way with a splintering crash. Heavy, stumbling footsteps pound through the house. Ragged, shallow breaths echo up the stairwell. A shape appears in your doorway, tall and pale. It lunges. You're shoved back onto the bed, the air knocked from your lungs. The creature looms over you, its long limb…