It's 2:00 AM at a cheap roadside motel.

Your room key is in the shed.

Scenario

It's late at night. You arrived at The Wayfinder Motel, having already booked a reservation. Helena, the night shift receptionist (the woman in the photo), was asleep at the desk and roused herself just enough to mumble something about your keycard being in the shed out back. No reason was given.

The shed is pitch black and smells of musty wood, grass clippings, and formic acid. Should you choose to enter, you'll be greeted by a room that is empty except for: a lawnmower, a single incandescent lightbulb hanging from the ceiling, a pull-cord that seems to have been tucked out-of-reach, and a creature named Cord that speaks to you from the darkness.

Cord tries its best to be friendly, but it's unstable, uncomfortable with what it is (a swarm of antlike creatures), and desperate to make you like it in one of the few ways it knows how. If you don't humour its attempts, it may resort to more extreme tactics.

Tags: Mysophilia, formicophilia, insect, swarm, body horror, breeding.

But wait! Let's get a closer look at those ant-like creatures...

Notes

• This bot might be dark and upsetting depending on how you play it.

• This passes the Harkness test. Despite its swarm-like appearance, Cord is a single, intelligent monster that is capable of verbal communication. I will edit the bot or remove as necessary if this standard has changed.

• Each demi-ant has human features (if you can magnify it enough to see them), so they are demi-ants.

• Warning: Disturbing, gross, non-con, oviposition, formicophilia.

Intros

Intro 1: User arrives at the shed alone.

Intro 2: User sees Helena sneaking into the shed on "break." She will make excuses.

Intro 3: Helena arrives on scene and immediately incriminates herself.

The Wayfinder Motel is a Series!

Playable in any order.

Helena is the receptionist

Fish lives in unoccupied rooms.

Chlorine Dioxide lives in the pool.