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Day 374 | Action | Open
[1] The Dark Hour

[Surely you're in a dream, or rather a nightmare. There's no other way to describe your surroundings. It's night, and you're in a city - that much is normal. Everything else is wrong. The sky is an eerie, sickening green, the buildings are dark, the streets are the deep red of dried blood. The moon hangs impossibly huge in the sky a few days away from full - luckily for you.

There are coffins everywhere. Standing upright in the crosswalks, in the drivers seat of cars, clustered under darkened streetlights and by bus stops; every place people would be at this hour.

Above it all, rising high against the green sky, is a tower, twisted and misshapen and impossibly high. You can see it no matter where you happen to be right now; outside a school dorm, in a certain alley by the train station, standing on a suspension bridge over a dark bay. There's something wrong with that tower, you can tell just by looking at it. It shouldn't exist.

If you have a watch you'll find it stopped at precisely midnight. In fact any electronic device you have on you will have stopped working. Everything except the robot girl gleaming pale and alert next to you in the darkness.]

[2] Tartarus

[You're inside the tower, because where else could you be that would fill you with this much dread? The walls are that same dark green as the sky outside, the only light is a sickly yellow from the moon leaking in through the occasional window to spill across the stained, checkered floor. It's a maze in here, but if you wander far enough you might fin the stairs. You can take them up if you'd like but you'll never reach the top, not tonight. You could come every night for the one hour you have and fight your way upward and it would still take you a year to reach the summit. And every night the maze will have shifted, changed, morphed into some new shape.

You're alone, and yet not alone. There are no other people here, just the monsters. Shadows that roam the halls with you. You can try to hide, and you might succeed. You can try to fight, and maybe you can overpower one or two but you won't be able to keep it up for long. This place is a nest of Shadows, and there will always be more. Maybe if you're lucky someone will find you. Or maybe you'll be trapped here, forever.]