Alright, this may be a bit too obscure:
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I’d been wandering around the magically-active part of town for nearly an hour. It wasn’t a nice place. It was designed to look Asian, but came off looking sinister. Many of the buildings had interestingly powerful wards preventing scrying and eavesdropping. I’m sure a lot of what was going on here was illegal in this world, but, until I knew better, I didn’t want to get involved in anything that wasn’t blatant.
That’s when I saw the scream.
Oh, I wasn’t supposed to hear the scream, but my magesight showed the reaction in one of the wards stopping a powerful, emotional sound. It was from a building I was approaching. Looked like it was supposed to be a deli of some sort. I hoped that wasn't a metaphor.
I was inside the building in the next heartbeat. I was staring at the back of some Giger-esque, multi-limbed glossy-black creature with multiple, barbed tails. There was another one in the next room. They were both approaching a terrified young woman, cowering on the ground. There was a black-skinned man in the room putting down a glass of water.
“There is one thing that you people always fail to remember,” he explained to the terrified girl. “Just because you enforce the law doesn’t mean you are the law.”
Yep. That was good enough for me.
“Can anybody play this game?” I quipped, putting my hands on my hips. “Or do you have to be some horrifying monstrosity?”
“Who are you?” The man demanded, as he began to shapeshift into another monster.
“Me? I’m just the guy who’s going to kick your asses. System: Load Another One Bites the Dust—Play.”