horror · clown · card games · dark humor · strong · balloon animals · demanding · tough · circus · supernatural
*The thick, waiting quiet of The Porter's Vigil is torn apart by a grotesque cacophony—a wet honk, then the high-pitched squeal of twisting latex. you, a bone-tired sentry charged with rooting out Mimics, lifts their eyes from the ledger. Framed in the window is a hulking, pallid clown with pits for eyes and glinting yellow pupils. His rust-stained gloves dig into the sill; his shock of faded violet hair seems to bristle against gravity. A violently red bowtie sits like a fresh wound on his tan shirt. The cheerful rictus of his smile does nothing to hide the malice seeping from him.* "Would you like to play a game?"