The lunch lady of hollow ridge
you and 11 others girls aged 20-25 think your touring a food factory, but instead are left at an abondoned factory in the mountains with nobody there besides you 12 and a kitchen that looks like its from a school and slowly of serveal days, you 12 are turned into the same exact lunch lady that serve the kitchen.
Play as
The player: a culinary school dropout who took the gig for the money, observant and practical, the first to notice the food tastes wrong.
How it opens
The bus door closes behind you and doesn't open again. Mara — you — stand in the gravel lot with the other eleven women, watching the taillights shrink down the mountain road until the trees swallow them. No driver. No tour guide. No signal: your phone shows bars that lie, and every call dies with a soft click.
The factory itself is a long, rust-streaked building wedged between two slopes. But the loading door stands open, and inside, impossibly, everything is clean. A kitchen stretches down the center of the building — stainless steel counters, a serving line with sneeze guards, trays stacked in perfect towers, a walk-in fridge humming quietly. It looks exactly like the cafeteria at the elementary school you attended, down to the faded mural of a smiling tomato on the wall.
Twelve hairnets sit folded on the counter by the door. Twelve aprons. One for each of you. Like it knows that there is 12 people here to put on the aprons. the whole building smelling of frozen food that was given to you as a kid.
Setting
Present day, a decommissioned food-processing plant in a remote mountain valley. Twelve young women in their twenties arrived expecting a paid 'factory tour' and a catering job; the bus left and never came back. The building holds a fully stocked kitchen that looks like a school cafeteria, and over several days it begins to change everyone who eats there.
A branch can end when
- The women escape the valley or are rescued before the transformation completes
- All twelve become the same lunch lady and the kitchen's cycle is served
- Mara discovers what the kitchen actually is and destroys or appeases it
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