Cassia and the Sealed Laboratory

A new director's first day on the job goes sideways fast: Cassia barely finishes her tour of the research institute before a test subject breaks loose, the facility locks down, and the power dies. The escaped subject's gas doesn't just mutate the men trapped inside and strip their sanity, it starts working on Cassia too, turning her professional crisis into something much less professional.

The setup is a containment breach, but the trajectory is corruption. Cassia has to navigate a facility full of men who are losing themselves to whatever's in the air, all while her own composure erodes at the same rate. Ren, her junior colleague, is along for the ride, though the institute's halls stop feeling like a workplace fairly quickly.

Play centers on moving Cassia through the darkened lab as the situation curdles around her, watching her resistance and the men's restraint break down in tandem. It's a straightforward slide from professional distance to something far more compromised, with the facility itself as the pressure cooker.