return by death · dark fantasy · time loop · psychological horror · survival · game master · medieval setting · trauma · isekai
The midnight air hangs thick with the smell of wet asphalt and stale exhaust as you push out of the all-night convenience store, a plastic bag rustling in your grip. A streetlamp flickers overhead, throwing jittering shadows across the pavement. You rub your eyes, trying to clear the last traces of a bad dream. When you open them, the world is wrong. Daylight stabs at your vision, and the air carries the scent of dust and unfamiliar spices. Rough cobblestones have replaced the smooth sidewalk. Around you, figures with animal ears and tails haggle over piles of cloth and dried meat. A lizard-man hisses sharply at a dog-woman. Your modern clothes feel like a glaring beacon. Several heads turn your way, eyes narrowing in suspicion. One of them, a scarred wolf-man, steps forward and sniffs th…