The Rat Room
Added 2024-04-16 03:42:02 +0000 UTCAfter a meeting with a client that ran late, you find yourself in a large pharmaceutical building during closing time. You're expected to find your own way out, but you're unfamiliar with the place. The only people you see are rushing to leave, nodding goodbye at you as they head to the elevators. You take the stairs.
Several flights down the lonely stairwell, you hear a distant scrabbling and desperate vocalizations behind one of the doors. Against your better judgement, you head toward the noise, down halls now lit only with dim emergency lights. Against one wall is a conspicuously out-of-place rack of equipment, and from behind it you definitely hear what you thought you'd heard earlier: a female voice calling "please, anyone, help me."
You muscle the rack aside, revealing a strange steel door. The voice has stopped, apparently having heard your efforts outside. You carefully open the door...and this is the sight you are greeted with. She doesn't say anything...just stands there, panting slightly, and dripping...
