Throb…Throb…Throb..
Your head hurts, a moment ago you recall a splitting pain and now it's a dull but painful throb.
The pain makes it hard to think.
It's like your mind is a misty haze.
Your body feels heavy…
You lay on a flat dusty mat on the floor as your head continues to throb and halt your thoughts.
It takes a great effort to open your eyes, yet all you see is sickening darkness.
The kind that makes you want to pull the covers over your head, the kind of darkness that makes you afraid of the unknown.
The darkness that's so thick a blade could be resting mere centimetres from your eye and you wouldn't notice it until it's too late.
You may not notice it at all.
That's a reason to fear the dark, bumbling around in the thick blackness without a care is an easy way to injure yourself.
It's not because you have some irrational fear of some kind of malicious being lurking and thriving in the darkness.
It's not like you believe in children's stories and urban legends.
… It's also because you can't remember how you got here.
The more you try to think about the past, the more you try to recall what's going on who you are and where you are the harder the throbbing gets.
You lay still for what seems like forever, your throat growing increasingly dry as the pain only slightly fades from your mind.
Your eyes begin to adjust and your back feels sore.
Your vision starts out fuzzy, but soon you can see the moonlight peaking its way inside the basement.
It's not that dark any more… maybe your temporary loss of vision was for something else?
Your muscles seem to strain as you sit up and look behind yourself.
A concrete hallway leading to a wooden door lays behind you.
You stare a moment before you hear a light scratching from behind the door, your hearing comes back to you in full fore as the door begins to creak and the clawing grows faster and faster.
Another loud noise kicks in to your left, you turn quickly as the sound of a loud motor begins to drown out the clawing.
You take a few deep breaths as your brain pulsates with pain, before you look straight ahead of you.
>HELP ME
A chill runs down your spine as you force yourself to your feet and push off the mat, the sudden movement giving you a headrush.
You almost fall-over but it's gone as soon as it came.
You take a wobbly step forward but soon have your balance and the simple movement becomes as easy as ever.
You look away from the wall for a second as your senses continue to be assaulted.
Stress. 25/100
Health. 70/100
Energy. 70/100
Sanity. 100/100
>Inventory.
Comfortable Clothes, Lint, Idea.
Actions?
It's best if you control your own destiny and take fate into your own hands but everyone goes on autopilot occasionally. Common sense is not in short supply with you, You will be given suggestions for actions that are by no means manditory.
It's preferred if you come up with your own solutions to problems but there's never anything wrong with taking friendly advice is there?
>Write in.
>Carefully walk to the wooden door and place your ear against it? +5 stress
>Pick up the shovel. -3 stress
>Walk through the hall towards the engine noise +2 stress
>Lay back down -5 stress -2 sanity +20 energy
>Continue to power through the pain and recall what you can? 1d100, -1d5 sanity +1d20 stress -1d5 health