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S2E24: The Darwin Project - Level 3 Part 2

Season 2, Ep. 24

The mansion breathes. It watches. It waits.

James, Alice, and Rebecca step into its pristine halls, but the illusion of safety shatters almost instantly. A massive painting looms over the foyer—its swirling darkness alive with shifting faces. One of them, Rebecca swears, is her own. Alice sees nothing. The moment stretches, pulling them in, until something—something unseen—lets them go.

Deeper into the mansion, the air grows thick, oppressive. A sound slithers through the darkness—ticking, faint at first, then louder. The hallway trembles, the noise becoming a deafening, all-consuming chime. It drops them to their knees, their bodies wracked with pain. Alice vomits. Rebecca trembles with rage. James fights the overwhelming sense that something ancient, something wrong, is watching. Then, silence. And in the distance, a scream—raw, desperate—cut short.

A voice crackles through unseen speakers. The gamemaster’s sickeningly calm announcement: Only six remain.

Then, they see it. A towering grandfather clock, impossibly large, its glass door yawning open. The pendulum has stopped. The time is frozen. But something has stepped out…

Whatever was inside is here now. And it’s not alone.

Only six remain. And time is no longer on their side.

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