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You decide to post the video of your experience online... no going back now.
You had that thought that, just in case the government was watching you, or something did happen to you from the hole, leaving a nice paper trail on your activities online would be a good safety mechanism to help prevent you from just being another missing person's case. But just in case that spreading this information around was going to cause you to get too much of this bad attention, or with the possibility of the hole being a memetic threat, you have also stepped off of filming or spreading around the tunnel too much up until this point. But now? With the most overtly supernatural thing you've ever personally seen or experienced that has happened to you, you decide to upload it for all to see. You put it out on your small channel and click send, before double checking to make sure that both your door and the storage room door are shut and locked before drifting off to an uneasy sleep.
When you wake up, the video sits at a hundred thousands views. You can see it bursting out of the new and trending tab. Hundreds of comments pour in. Wow! This is your first real success. You wouldn't exactly call it viral- but the shakey cam footage of you suddenly going from the end of a dark tunnel into being trapped in a small room, your panicked movements and searching for an escape, all of it is very convincing. At least- for those who still think this is a game. On top of this, the comments seem to be giving praise for the special effects and acting, most people saying they can't even see the jump cut where the second wall slid in behind you, and many other praising your "acting" at being scared but not crying or freaking out unrealistically. Not realizing of course the only reason you were doing that was because you were even more scared at making noise...
You won't lie- the appeal of seeing your video and experience get so much attention is a huge boost to your ego and very enjoyable. But one of the top comments of the video irks you for a very big reason.
"Big bag of power tools, and just leaves them on the floor. Oof. That's a horror movie protagonist for you!"
Whoever it is got a lot of upvotes on that comment, but they're also right. Fuck. You forgot the damn power tools- they're still in the tunnel. You didn't bring them back with you when you ran out of the hole when you woke up and saw the light. That bag had at least a thousand dollars of equipment in it, now stuck down in that mysterious tunnel in God knows where. It would be reason enough to curse, but those weren't even your tools. Those were tools you borrowed from your work- the hardware store! Shit! As an employee you can rent the tools for free- as long as you bring them back you get a refund on the deposit, but that's only if you bring them back, and you only get a week before you'll have to pay a fee for a late return- or fully pay for the tools if you never return them, not to mention getting fired...
