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PCD
Since: May, 2021
4th Mar, 2022 06:37:36 AM
Perhaps Lights Off, Somebody Dies, which may be the result of needing to fix the fuse box.
The lights are out and someone has to go into the Creepy Basement to repair the fuse box/generator; bad things usually ensue. We have Power Outage Plot, but that's for whole narratives whereas this is usually one quest in a video game or one murder in a horror movie.