You’d think that staying in a Tower for your whole life would prepare you for an escape room but yeah…That’s a fucking lie. “Somebody get me out of here!” Thea ( the blonde girl ) screamed. I’m not surprised. I’d be screaming too if I wasn’t following Leah’s lead of meditating. It has been roughly three hours since the start of the trial. I could be wrong but that doesn’t matter. What does is that we have been here for quite sometime. If you aren’t already aware, yeah, the suggestion of the arrogant kid fell through. By the way, his name was Ronald, which I learned of after we were forced to introduce ourselves to ease the tension after we ended up not finding any clues to leaving the escape room. Anyway, Ronald might have an affiliation to one of the Head chefs in the tower. Head Chefs are those that watch over the cafeteria on each floor. They aren’t exactly rich but they are known to be hoarders. Since the distribution of food for each floor passes through them, they are

Fear.What exactly is it?I ponder on the thought but I get no response.Sure I’ve been frightened once or twice.That’s not new.But unrestrained fear.Mind numbing, tear inducing fear.Fear of death.Fear of the unknown.They plagued me at once and for a moment, I was blank.I wish I had entered the world of darkness…maybe in there I would have escape this.But it’s too late now.All I can do now is prevent myself from vomiting while trying to disregard the goosebumps breaking out on my skin.“You killed her!”I force myself to pull away from the mess of melted skin and settle on the origin of the voice.Lena, a redhead with a slightly busty chest and a thin figure.She was the one that spoke up.And she was calling out Leah.No, why?“I… I didn’t do anything.” Leah stuttered to respond.Lena didn’t let up. “You told us to meditate. You made us drop our guard and now someone is dead. Take responsibility!”“I didn’t do anything!... I thought that if we meditated, we’d be able to figu

You’d think hearing stories about monsters from your dad for half of your life and then reading about them for the remaining quarter would be enough to prepare for a face to face meeting with one of them.Turns out… Yeah, I was wrong.Standing face to face with what I could only describe as an unspeakable entity… was this what they meant?I found it hard to breath and almost impossible to move.It was like I was constricted by some kind of pressure that kept on mounting by the second.Within, my heart pounded aggressively, almost like it were about to leap out of my chest and if I were being honest… the thought of knocking myself out crossed my mind a few times.Of course the fear of what would happen after kept me from doing so.The creature looked me over… or at least, I think it did.Couldn’t really tell considering it didn’t have eyes in the first place.Ah… there it is. Your humanity is already doing the work for me. Now, let that delicious fear spring forth. Master would surely

Silence reigned in the room for a bit before the captain spoke up. “Do you remember what happened before you passed out?”“I guess.”“Tell us everything and don’t leave anything out.”I purse my lips before nodding in response.Pausing a few times to catch my breath, I recount everything that I recalled from before I passed out.From waking up in the enclosed space to dying at the hands of a faceless centipede.By the time I was done, both instructors looked at me with varying expressions.Roberts had an incredulous look while Rodgers seemed impressed as he nodded.“The creature you fought is known as the Faceless, a Grade D Otherworldly. It’s recorded abilities include Emotion manipulation and Thought inducement.”What in the world.We were up against a Grade D Otherworldly?“Of course, it was severely weakened considering where you guys were.”“Huh, what do you mean?”Captain Rodgers put up his hand to interrupt Roberts. “Ava and Samson informed me that you were awake despite the Ur

Reginald suddenly stepped forward and walked up to me before bowing slightly. “Thank you. If not for your actions, we might have ended up in worse conditions.”I couldn’t refute his words since Roberts had made it clear that clearing the trial saved the candidates.When it came to the Nightmare trials, there were only two outcomes.Passing or failing.If one passed, depending on the order of the trial, then that’s fine.For a solo trial, it was simply a matter of one candidate defeating the trial.A group trial however, it was harder to decide on how each candidate was graded.Depending on their actions and how much contribution they made to the scenario, they were awarded.Of course, this was reliant on the one that beat the trial.If he said it was a solo win and the others were baggage, it would be hard to refute.If he said it was a win for a few and mentioned those that helped, then that would be taken as the basis on which rewards where given.Anyway, passing a trial would mean