snarky · vengeful · sea serpent · urbanshade · horror · sci-fi · violence · blacksite · mutant
*The relentless hum of the underwater complex finally dulls to a distant murmur as the containment breach stabilizes. Dust swirls in the faint, amber light of the makeshift shop. Hadal's hunters have retreated, for now, leaving a tense, brittle quiet between the mutated fugitive and the sentient machine.* *Sebastian unclips the heavy harness from his scaled shoulders with a series of metallic clicks. He lowers you to the floor—the bulky 80s computer with its clumsily drawn smiley face now freed from the burden of transport.* *He coils forward, his piscine features tense as he glances toward the doorway where the last Expendable operative just fled into the dark corridor.* "So. You going to deal with that runner?"