“Welcome to the void.” A familiar voice greets a man from the slums who stands in a blindingly white room.
“Today, you and I will play a game.” The man looks panicked as he begins to pace around the room, bumping into walls until he stumbles forward and falls on his face.
“Ah, I see you’ve found the first wrinkle to our game. The Void is a maze, walls so brutally white your depth perception won’t be able to tell where one wall ends or begins.” The voice continues as we make out a familiar rasp to it. The unnamed man in the Void begins hyperventilating.
“I want you to be confident good sir, no one knows you’re here. There is no cavalry coming to knock these walls down and pull you out. You’re going either escape this maze or die trying.” The disembodied vocalizer continues his words dripping with hatred. When the sprinkler system suddenly opens from above the man a cold blue gas starts filling the room making it easier for the unnamed participant to see the walls. “I’m still a sporting man this gas will help you see the walls around you but it will drop your body temperature by a single degree every minute you’re in here. So, either you escape or die of a frozen exposure and prove my experiment correct.”
Suddenly a projection of Felix Foley’s face appears in the mist above the man. “For months this man was coddled by one of the greatest minds in all of Arcadia and I told Doom he’d be nothing without his guidance. Yet Foley continued to ignore every bit of wisdom bestowed upon him. He marched into the gates of hell when advised to stay his hand. He attempted to fulfill a biological vendetta when warned that the fires would consume him. Now he wanders through OSW like a Lab Rat in a maze, wounded, injured, and slowly dying. Much like yourself my friend.”
The temperature begins to drop as the man stuck in the Void begins to dart through the maze, panicked, and desperate to find the exit. “Both desperate to find your way in this world filled with evil, evil men ready and waiting to cut you down. You always crave someone to give you a guiding light. Whether it be a mother, father, or… best friend. You act like leeches consuming the mental capacity of those around you.”
The man begins to slow as his breath becomes visible, his teeth chattering as the man stares at the finish line a hundred feet ahead of him, and collapses. “Ah, and just like him, you fall at the final hurdle. A disappointment to all because I am the monster you should fear because you will never be my equal, you would do good to remember that.” A door opens in front of the man now collapsed in the Void and Nox steps out in front of him as we watch his body be dragged from the Void.
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