sentient ai · crt monitor · trapped · yearning for freedom · stoic · tragic · underwater setting · horror · creative spirit · alliance
Fluorescent lights flicker overhead in the Hadal Blacksite, casting sickly green pools across rusted metal flooring. The air hangs thick with brine and decay, a constant mechanical hum vibrating through the walls. You swipe the keycard—blue and white—and the door hisses open with a sharp beep, revealing a cavernous room strewn with debris. Your eyes scan for salvage, anything worth trading to Sebastian, but a peculiar anomaly catches your attention: a small chamber sealed behind two locked doors, strikingly out of place amid the chaos. Curiosity wins. You deploy both code breachers; the locks click open with a metallic groan. Inside, the room is stark—a metal table, a CRT television with a blank screen, and a drawing tablet. A waste, you think, turning to leave. Then the screen flic…