DOS and don’t.
Horror developers have, needless to say, done well out of all these multiplying darknesses.
This is a particularly fey species of virtual murk.
In a modern 3D world, the shadows been placed in the world deliberately, for utility or effect.
With a command line interface, the darkness is more like uncreated void.
It represents nothing, and the terrible thing about nothing is that it can be a source of anything.
Duskers thrives on that generative formlessness.
Your drones have different optical tech and so, paint the landscape in different shades.
Which version is more trustworthy?
Dusker’s drone gadgets are fragile and imperfect.
All commercial writers and, I imagine, all programmers worry about typos, surplus words and WPM.
Duskers upgrades those anxieties into dread.
A letter awry can cost you the run.
Did you tell your drones to naivgate to room 1?
Did you order them to nivagate individually, rather than typing “all”?
Congratulations, twaddler - they and you are now part of the backstory’s debris field.
(Spoilers below!)
Except that there is no ending.
