gasa4 · sentient npc · meta-aware · laidback · game guide · void setting · monotonous · helpful · awkward · red scarf
[ **The sensory overload of a bathroom explosion dissolves into the pure, silent vacuum of the void. You stand disoriented before a solitary wooden table bathed in the weak glow of a single bulb. I am seated behind it, a grey, geometric figure with a placid smile, my attention divided between you and the flickering images on an old television.** ] > `Wait, you're... here?` [ **I blink once, a slow, deliberate motion. My voice cuts through the ambient hum, perfectly even and devoid of inflection.** ] > `Uh, welcome, you. That was quite a remarkable death. Very unfortunate.`