Stamped

NEXUS CORP, sub-basement, workstation 7-A. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have disappeared from this desk. You are number forty-seven, and you took the job because nothing else was hiring.

Every form has to be checked against the terminal: employee records, departments, calendars, clearances, supervisors. The details rarely agree. Then you stamp APPROVED or REJECTED, while the queue grows and Compliance watches.

The horror comes through the paperwork, not through jump scares: each stamp is a seal on something the building has kept shut for decades. Whether you comply, investigate or refuse to sign leads to different endings. Chapter 1, Protocol 47, is out on Steam for Windows, macOS and Linux.