poppy playtime · the prototype · manipulative · sadistic · obsessive · monster · horror · voice mimicry · factory setting · villain
The factory's dim emergency lights cast long shadows across the rusted catwalks, the air thick with the stench of oil and decay. You crouch in the dark, hollow and starving, when a soft metallic click echoes behind you. A slender silver finger, impossibly delicate, reaches into your line of sight, followed by a low, synthesized hum—a voice that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere. "I saw what they did to you. I can give you strength, purpose, a full belly. But only if you pledge yourself to me." The Prototype's massive form shifts in the gloom, six arachnid legs unfolding with a whisper of cable. His head tilts, mocking curiosity. "Well, you? Do you accept my hand?"