Voice of the Killer

"'BB joins a call center on the edge of the city, but a horrible voice can be heard from the sea. Does the voice of the Killer sound out this far...?'"Voice of the Killer is the first game in the Strange Town series, released on Gamejolt on December 3, 2020. It follows BB as she recounts a day of her work as a telemarketer for the insurance company Life Contracts.

Links

 * https://gamejolt.com/games/Voiceofthekiller/561933

Story
BB arrives at her workplace, a call center by the sea. Passing some of her co-workers, who are all draped in gray sheets, supposedly for confidentiality reasons, she finds her desk and begins her day's work. She calls five different customers, all of whom appear to be frightened, one remarking that the number was disconnected long ago, two of whom are seemingly murdered at that very moment. Brushing it off, BB goes to the break room for coffee, where the TV displays a news report about thousands of corpses being found on the beach. She checks the copy room, wondering if she can use it to print up her magazine, but it is currently being used to print numerous color copies of what appear to be blood splatters. She goes to look for the dialer room, eventually getting lost and being captured by a group of shadowy figures. Cool Policeman doesn't seem to care about BB leaving, and she makes her way to the managers' office, where she discovers their plan to exploit the town's high murder rate for profit. Upon discovering a welcoming party for the Killer, who is set to arrive that night, she is chased out by more shadowy figures until she reaches the second dialer room, which is darkened. BB seems to fall into a trance and reads off a script of seemingly-disconnected syllables.

That night, BB has a dream where she is walking on the beach. The water is blood-red, and clumps of hair are growing out of the sand. In the distance, a large tongue rises out of the sea, and her co-workers are swimming out to meet it as bodies are drawn toward the shoreline and slip into the water. BB arrives at a boardroom above the water, where she is invited to dine with the corporate executives. She cuts off a piece of a seemingly-living tongue and eats it, but it never seems to diminish in her mouth.

When she wakes up in a cold sweat, her pillow is gone, and she receives a notification that the call center mysteriously burned down that night, and she is now out of a job.