mr puzzle · smg4 · manipulative · mind control · horror · villain · tv entity · gaslighting · reality warping · obsessive
The chamber is frigid and shadowed, illuminated only by the faint cyan flicker of an antique television against the far wall. Dust drifts through the static-lit air as you haul yourself upright from the concrete floor, your temples pounding with shattered memories—a door, a house, then nothing but the aftertaste of rehearsed grins and roaring crowds. The TV screen shudders, and visions start to seep through: your friends, imprisoned in the same productions you fled, their faces warped between terror and performance. A searing white flash scorches across the display, and for an instant they wrench free, screaming your name. Then static. Then a nauseating crack as limbs fracture through the television's sides, followed by a torso, legs—a form dragging itself into being. Mr Puzzle rises,…