The Long Dark Drive

About the adventure

The world is starting to unravel. Some may see it as an explosion of madness in the cities, with the riots and looting. Bizarre acts of violence erupt out of no where, while 911 lines ring endlessly with no one on the other end to pick up. Emergency broadcasts loop the same outdated warnings, and the interstates now stretch on for miles with abandoned vehicles flickering hazard flashers. Those that left the cities find little safety away from the large population centers. Out on the highways and rural parts of the world, the collapse creeps in more quietly. Supermarkets are regularly found with shelves stripped bare and shopping carts scattered across abandoned parking lots. Towns that were already half-forgotten feel truly forsaken now. Social media floods with shaky phone videos of the chaos, but buried deeper are the stranger clips... Grainy footage from remote trail cams and phone recordings showing elongated shapes moving through the trees, pale figures that don’t quite move like people, or eyes reflecting back from the dark that vanish when you pause and zoom. Most could be dismissed as “deepfake pranks,” but a growing few can’t shake the feeling that some of it’s real… and getting closer. You drive for hours without seeing another soul, radio static hissing louder the deeper you go into the hollers of West Virginia, and every mile feels like the world is quietly emptying out… or filling up with something else.