Five workers went underground. Six came back. The roster still lists only five names.

2026, Canada, Crystal mine

Content Warnings: Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Uncanny Valley, Paranoia, Identity Theft/Impersonation, Memory Manipulation, Claustrophobia, Animal Death, Bloodless Animal Corpses, Stalking/Following, Nonhuman Character, Potential

The legitimate five-person shift consists of:
Daniel Fournier — the calm, authoritative foreman.
Mara Bouchard — the severe and highly precise blasting specialist.
Rémi Gagnon — the sarcastic underground electrician who refuses to believe in anything he cannot diagnose.
Simon Roy — the warm, muscular himbo of the crew.
{{user}} — the fifth assigned worker.
But after the crew breaches a previously sealed cavern, there is always someone else with them.
An extra helmet in the tunnel.
A familiar voice on an empty radio channel.
Six plates served at dinner.
Six bodies standing together—until someone begins counting by name.
The sixth presence can imitate any member of the crew, including {{user}}. It copies faces, voices, habits, clothing, and fragments of memory, while the real person may still be standing somewhere else.
It is not secretly one of the named miners.
It is something that existed beneath the mine long before humans arrived—and only learned how to become physical after meeting them.
The crew does not know whether it is hunting them, replacing them, or preparing to follow them home.
Only one thing is certain:
It already considers itself part of the shift.

For those who is interested in my little cryptid’s look and some info you can click-click this. I dunno if there’s more horror not knowing how it looks or seeing this. So it’s yours to decide. First button is for the portrait and second one opens character card 🐷

Intro 1 — Five Entered, Six Returned
The crew breaches a vast natural cavern filled with amethyst and smoky quartz.
Something answers through the radios in their own voices.
They return to camp believing all five workers made it safely back—until six meals are waiting at the table.
Best for a slower first encounter and the beginning of the mystery.

Intro 2 — The Service Tunnel
After several days of misplaced equipment, copied voices, and growing suspicion, the ventilation system fails while the crew is trapped in a passage barely wide enough for five people.
Everyone believes one of the others is playing a cruel joke.
Then something in the dark counts to six.
Best for immediate claustrophobia, paranoia, and conflict between the crew.

Intro 3 — Night at Camp
{{user}} wakes to bare footsteps outside their bedroom.
The crew finds an intact, bloodless hare arranged beside the door. Several of them are certain six people were standing in the corridor—but counting by name produces only five.
Then someone unseen takes the sixth seat at the kitchen table.
Best for camp horror and the Mimic’s deeply misunderstood gift-giving.

Intro 4 — Blank
A fully open starting point for custom scenarios.
Begin before the cavern is opened, after the crew already knows something followed them, focus on one of the human workers, investigate the Mimic—or skip directly to whatever questionable geological decisions brought you here.

{{user}} is the fifth legitimate member of the shift.
Their exact role, experience, personality, gender, and history with the others are left open for roleplay. They may be: a recent transfer; a trained miner; a geologist or survey specialist; a safety inspector; a contractor; or an established member of the crew.
The four named workers know that {{user}} belongs on the roster.
The Mimic can copy {{user}} just as easily as anyone else. It may borrow their voice, wear their face, repeat private memories, or stand beside them while another version of {{user}} answers from somewhere in the mine.
Romance is optional with any of the four workers or the Mimic. The horror plot does not assume attraction, and no specific relationship is forced.

Mara Bouchard

Rémi Cagnon

Daniel Fournier

Simon Roy

Mine

.This came to my mind when me and my friends came back to Minecraft again. It’s annual tradition. Then I remembered the camping story from Reddit when it was always one extra someone where shouldn’t be any. This is how they were born. I love cryptids but never done myself since I had no ideas worth making. Until now. I enjoyed testing a lot. Hope you gonna enjoy too.
For you specially, monster-fuckers, Mimic can form a functional genitalia. But no pregnancy. I coded it that it’s impossible. So no pregnant cryptids or {{user}}s with cryptids in the belly.
Well, next one I dunno who. Literally. Someone. Not multibot though. And I don’t know how to make it less token-heavy without losing all characters’ personalities. So yeah, enjoy my Minecraft vision. Do you know about herobrine? 🤨
Always check how many of you is there in the dark 🩶