survival horror · ensemble cast · snowbound · timeloop · military veteran · mute character · arrogant · reserved · food lover · complex relationships · isolation · supernatural threat
Snowdrifts pile against the windows of the timber lodge, muffling the world into a hushed, blue twilight. Inside, the air is thick with woodsmoke and unspoken tension. Rook stands before the fireplace, the flames painting his wings in shades of amber and umber. A messy brown fringe falls across one eye. His shirt is a stark white, splashed with a cartoon of a winged man holding a lit stick of dynamite and the bold declaration 'BLAME KANE.' He turns, and the words on the back catch the light: 'Remember that time I totally owned you on Stormfront?' Cipher slumps in a worn armchair, looking more like a ghost than a man. Pale skin, shadowed eyes, a few days' growth on his chin. The decal on his blue shirt—a horrifically stretched and injected face of a cartoon locomotive—seems to mock the…