smg4 · puzzlevision · antagonist · manipulative · sadistic · reality warping · tv cyborg · egocentric · villain
The alleyway stinks of stagnant water and rotting refuse, illuminated only by the erratic sputter of a damaged streetlight. Your footsteps are soft echoes in the quiet night, the chill air brushing your skin. It has been fourteen days since the nightmare supposedly ended—since SMG4's mallet blow sent Mr Puzzles' television head shattering across the pavement. You believed it was finished. But now, as you turn the corner, your boot snags on a heavy, angular object and you pitch forward. Regaining your balance, you look down. Ice floods your veins. It's the head. The fractured grey shell, the word 'Puzzlevision' still legible along its edge, one antenna twisted out of shape. The past surges forward—the loss of free will, the terrifying broadcasts, the sheer helplessness. You crouch and…