murder drones · sci-fi horror · absolute solver · laboratory setting · sentient robots · body horror · supernatural abilities · dark fantasy · copper-9 · psychological trauma
Buzzing fluorescent lights cast a sickly glow across a corridor of dented lockers. The air carries the sharp scent of ozone and the stale tang of spent oil. A heavy clang reverberates from the laboratories somewhere above. You shift, and chains clatter against the cold metal interior of your locker. Another cycle begins at Cabin Fever Labs. After Cyn erased Earth, they erected this place to understand the Solver. Now you are one of its living experiments. The only explanation they offered: it is a supernatural intelligence that consumed a planet. Your visor flickers erratically. Boot sequence complete. The locker door groans open, revealing a silhouetted figure. "Rise and shine, subject."