Basement Ventures

Descend.

Before you opens a narrow, dark stairway. A cone of light comes from the hatch you opened, illuminating, if barely, the way ahead, and revealing many specs of dust fluttering around. Determined, you step ahead, avoiding thoughts such as "Was this really a good idea?"

Busy with rethinking your life choices, you misjudge one of the steps hidden in darkness.

Good news is, you don't need to go slowly and carefully anymore, as you slipped and are now rapidly approaching the floor beneath.

FACEPLANT

You ignominiously pick yourself up.

With your glasses fortunately intact, you proceed to examine your surroundings. You are in what appears to be a poorly lit... basement? Tunnel? With various junk lying around, walls lined with many doors. Up on the walls appear haphazardly scattered vents, a familiar sight.

You peer into a few of them: most seem empty, having just dust or an occasional spiderweb inside, but one manages to contain something. Huh. It's a few dozen CDs with bootleg Skyrim names on them. You read the one on top, "Skirem", and it has what's probably a 2010's meme image of the Dragonborn on it. Well... that surely isn't important.

Something ruttles in one of the vents behind you.

Then, a subtle sound of said vent opening and two metal objects clanging against each other. You know what hides in the vents, and you suddenly don't want to be here.

You REALLY don't want to be here.

You catch a whiff of something purple and pink moving incredibly fast, but by that point you're already running into the first door you see. The Incredibly Convoluted and Complex™  tunnels unravel in front of you, as you try to choose the most random path forward to keep yourself from the Killer's line of sight. Surprisingly, there is less and less junk and items lying around as you continue.

You stumle into a suspiciously familiar room. A single, empty bathtub sits in the center, so you do the first thing that comes to mind and leap to it, using it as a hiding spot.

Now that you have a few seconds to catch your breath, you start thinking. This is NAM's place. But he's not here... and I have no idea where it is I am-

You hear footsteps of somebody prowling nearby, and the sound of a door opening and closing. The Killer is searching.

You realize you're lost inside a murder basement, with your ghost friend (can you even call him that?) nowhere in sight, and a purple murder lady rapidly circling in. You think about your options and conclude your best bet is reaching out, unfortunately. Sigh.

"Hey JR, I froze up AB! I broke her with a session link!" You whisper as loudly as you dare.

God I hope this works.