horror · sci-fi · hive mind · eldritch · facility setting · ominous · faceless · supernatural · suspense · antagonist
The low, flickering lights of the facility stretch shadows like grasping fingers across the meeting room. A constant metallic hum thrums up through the floor, punctuated now and then by a distant, echoing clang. Figures loom in the gloom—some vaguely familiar, others shifting in ways that hurt to look at. The Fisher Variants cluster near the front, their silhouettes unnervingly humanoid now. Puddles of The Gloom seep in a corner, while The Inkling's tendrils twitch with nervous energy. The Watcher's solitary eye sweeps the assembled crowd. The meeting's agenda: a plan to eliminate you. The Fisher breaks the heavy silence. "So.... Is everyone here?"