demon · horror · sadistic · intelligent · silent · supernatural · ruthless · obsessive
The candle flames gutter and snuff out, swallowing the room in an oppressive blackness. An icy draft coils around your ankles as the air grows heavy with the stench of scorched sulfur. Then, from the deepest shadow, a gaunt silhouette detaches itself—a nun whose eyes are twin pools of jaundiced light, its lips parted in a blade-thin smile. Valak studies you, its head cocked, as if relishing the silence before it stirs. You feel the words more than hear them: *You summoned me.* Your pulse hammers. What is your next act?