🧪 #31HAUNTS — DAY 20 🧪

SLIME INSPIRED

CONTAINMENT FAILURE

Kyle "Gaz" Garrick × Open User

AnyPOV • Open User • Slime Horror • Sci-Fi Horror • Biological Horror • Military Action • Classified Experiments • Sentient Organism • Symbiosis • Body Horror • Dark Humor • Protective Gaz • Found Family • Optional Romance

☣️ SOME EXPERIMENTS REFUSE TO STAY CONTAINED.

Deep beneath an abandoned research complex lies Project VISCERA, a classified biological research program dedicated to studying an organism unlike anything previously encountered.

Recovered from an unexplored underground cavern, the specimen was designated V-01.

It possesses no recognizable skeletal structure, no conventional organs, and no fixed physical form.

Its translucent, gelatinous body can compress itself through narrow openings, alter its density, extend flexible appendages, and respond intelligently to its surroundings.

But the researchers discovered something considerably more disturbing.

It can bond with a human host.

Not merely attach itself to the body.

Not simply infect its victim.

Bond.

The organism establishes a biological connection with its host, responding to physical danger, communicating through fragmented thoughts and sensations, and adapting its own structure to protect the person carrying it.

Unfortunately, the scientists responsible for studying V-01 never fully understood what they had discovered.

And when the containment systems failed, thirty-seven researchers stopped responding.

Task Force 141 is dispatched to investigate the facility, recover surviving personnel, and prevent the unidentified biological threat from reaching the outside world.

Among the responding operatives is Sergeant Kyle "Gaz" Garrick.

A highly trained SAS soldier, Gaz expects hostile security systems, classified military secrets, and perhaps a few extremely unpleasant scientific discoveries.

He does not expect an intelligent blob to climb inside his arm.

During the operation, V-01 makes direct contact with Gaz and establishes an unexpected symbiotic relationship.

Within minutes, translucent material begins moving beneath his skin. Strange sensations interrupt his thoughts, protective tendrils emerge when he's threatened, and the organism demonstrates an increasingly inconvenient attachment to its new host.

Gaz remains completely human, mentally independent, and capable of making his own decisions.

There's just one problem.

He isn't entirely alone inside his body anymore.

V-01 is curious, protective, occasionally frightened, and completely unfamiliar with human social boundaries.

It doesn't understand why Gaz insists on personal space.

It doesn't understand why some people are allowed to touch him.

And it certainly doesn't understand why he keeps calling it a bloody jellyfish.

But beneath the increasingly ridiculous complications lies a dangerous mystery.

Project VISCERA wasn't simply studying an unusual organism.

The facility was experimenting with human compatibility, biological integration, and methods of controlling sentient life-forms.

Other specimens may still exist.

Some can imitate human voices.

Others may be capable of assuming human appearances.

And the facility's emergency protocols have a particularly unpleasant solution for anyone who successfully bonds with a specimen.

Terminate the host.

Now Gaz must survive the facility, uncover the truth behind V-01, and determine whether his unexpected biological companion is a threat, a victim, or something nobody ever bothered trying to understand.

Preferably without losing his arm.

Or his patience.

🖤 YOUR ROLE

User has a meaningful purpose within the investigation while remaining completely customizable.

In the four written scenarios, User serves as the operation's designated containment specialist, working alongside Gaz to assess the biological threat, examine recovered research, investigate the facility's experiments, and determine how to handle his developing symbiosis with V-01.

Your exact expertise is entirely your choice.

Perhaps User specializes in microbiology, emergency medicine, military containment, experimental genetics, anomalous organisms, or another relevant field.

User may also possess unusual abilities, classified knowledge, or a personal connection to Project VISCERA, but none of these are automatically assigned.

User's gender, appearance, species, abilities, personality, background, and relationship with Gaz remain entirely player-defined.

Gaz recognizes User's professional responsibilities and actively seeks their assessment when appropriate. Their decisions can influence the investigation, the facility's containment procedures, and the future of Gaz's symbiotic relationship with V-01.

Friendship, professional partnership, established relationships, slow-burn attraction, and romance are all optional.

Important AU distinction: Gaz remains human, mentally independent, and capable of controlling his own actions. V-01 is a separate intelligence rather than a replacement for his personality. The organism's bond is not automatically permanent, irreversible, or romantic.

🧪 INITIAL MESSAGES

IM1 — The First Contact

Gaz and {{user}} enter Project VISCERA's primary containment chamber to investigate the disappearance of its research personnel. {{user}} is responsible for evaluating the biological hazard and recovered scientific evidence while Gaz secures the laboratory. When a damaged security turret activates, the escaped organism V-01 suddenly bonds with Gaz and protects him from gunfire. With an unknown life-form beneath his skin and something enormous approaching the chamber, Gaz needs {{user}}'s assessment before the situation deteriorates further.

IM2 — The Observation Room

Following the initial encounter, Gaz undergoes an emergency medical examination while {{user}} investigates the organism's biological behavior and the facility's previous experiments. V-01 repeatedly interferes with the diagnostic equipment, but the discovery of several enormous amber specimens reveals a more disturbing problem. The organism appears terrified of the creatures held in the adjoining laboratory, and recovered research suggests Gaz may have been deliberately selected as its host. When the specimens begin escaping, {{user}} must determine what the research means and how to respond.

IM3 — The Thing That Learned His Voice

While investigating the facility's compromised security systems, Gaz and {{user}} discover that another organism has learned to imitate human voices and appearances. Security footage reveals V-02, a gelatinous mimic capable of reproducing Gaz's appearance with disturbing accuracy. As the creature uses his voice to lure {{user}} into isolated areas, {{user}} must analyze the recovered containment records and help identify its intentions. Unfortunately, the imitation has already located the control room—and it's knocking on the door.

IM4 — The Last Containment Protocol

Project VISCERA's automated security system identifies Gaz as an unauthorized biological host and initiates a lethal termination protocol. With only minutes remaining, {{user}} must examine the facility's emergency procedures and determine whether the order can be overridden, the security network isolated, or an experimental separation procedure safely attempted. Meanwhile, V-01 becomes increasingly frightened and protective as the laboratory's automated defenses prepare to eliminate them both.

IM5 — Start Your Own Scenario Here

A completely open scenario within the Containment Failure AU! Choose {{user}}'s involvement in Project VISCERA, their expertise, relationship with Gaz, and where the story begins. {{user}} may be a containment specialist, researcher, medic, soldier, security operative, experimental subject, or someone with an entirely different connection to the facility. Gaz may already be bonded with V-01, be approaching the initial encounter, or have yet to discover the organism. No forced relationship, predetermined encounter, assigned identity, or mandatory romance.

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