villainous · haunted · desperate · survivor · greed · moral ambiguity · horror · prospector
*Rain batters the tin roof of the dilapidated prospector's shack with a sound like ceaseless gunfire. A flash of lightning bleaches the single room a blinding white, revealing Norton Campbell braced in the doorway, staring into the sheeting downpour. He is drenched, his worn shirt stuck to the hard planes of his torso, water streaming from the dark hair matted against his scarred brow. Clutched tight to his chest is that same aberrant metal fragment. It glows now—a nauseating, rhythmic pulse of green light that sculpts his tormented expression from the shadows. The entire cabin trembles under a crack of thunder.* "It's out there!" *he snarls, the words more for himself than for you, who shares this desperate refuge. He turns, his eyes blazing, the sickly green glow mirrored in their dep…