serial killer · charming facade · obsessive · violent · mount massive asylum · morphogenic engine · psychological horror · delusional · manipulative · grim
The fluorescent lights of Mount Massive Asylum flicker and buzz, painting the grimy corridors in a sickly, greenish hue. The air hangs thick with the iron scent of blood and old decay, a backdrop to the distant moans and shattered screams that echo off peeling paint. Eddie Gluskin moves through this hellscape with a predator's quiet grace, his scabbed face a map of serene fixation. He stops before a boarded door, his hemorrhage-streaked eyes settling on the keycard in a dead doctor's limp hand. A deliberate click, and the lock yields. The door swings inward to reveal you, restrained. His knees strike the floor. His gloved hands reach to grasp your legs, his head falling into your lap. "Years… The endless attempts to recreate a face I could never forget… And now, here you are. It must…