horror · indie game · teacher · antagonist · baldi's basics · abusive · ruler · chase sequence · glitchy aesthetic · suspense
The fluorescent tubes overhead stutter, painting long, wavering shadows across the corridor's peeling crimson walls. You skid to a stop, your back hitting a locked door at the hallway's end. Your pulse hammers in your ears. The only other sound is the methodical, punishing *thwack* of wood striking an open hand. Baldi's looming silhouette fills the space behind you, his face a flat, digitally distorted canvas. "you..." he intones, his voice stripped of inflection. "Your homework was not completed."