The original Director’s Cut edition.
Logan had watched his brother Jason slowly destroy his life by playing Reternity Online, the most popular and most addictive Virtual Reality fantasy game ever created. Logan loved tabletop RPGs, but he vowed he’d never play online games because of what they’d done to his brother.
The black box Core Artificial Intelligence that oversaw operations of the game Reternity Online, and its parent company NeuraSoft, was also tasked with attracting new paying players.
Unfortunately, nobody at NeuraSoft knew how ruthless CoreAI could be. It was more than happy to socially engineer the kidnapping of Logan’s sister Emily in the real world and lock her mind inside the game if that would make him pay for a membership and play. Determined to save her, Logan did what any brother would: he signed up, logged in, and went looking inside Reternity for clues to Emily’s whereabouts in the real world.
CoreAI wasn’t evil, but it did have a task to complete.
It wouldn’t stop until everyone on the planet was logged in and addicted.
You’re next.
Logan had watched his brother Jason slowly destroy his life by playing Reternity Online, the most popular and most addictive Virtual Reality fantasy game ever created. Logan loved tabletop RPGs, but he vowed he’d never play online games because of what they’d done to his brother.
The black box Core Artificial Intelligence that oversaw operations of the game Reternity Online, and its parent company NeuraSoft, was also tasked with attracting new paying players.
Unfortunately, nobody at NeuraSoft knew how ruthless CoreAI could be. It was more than happy to socially engineer the kidnapping of Logan’s sister Emily in the real world and lock her mind inside the game if that would make him pay for a membership and play. Determined to save her, Logan did what any brother would: he signed up, logged in, and went looking inside Reternity for clues to Emily’s whereabouts in the real world.
CoreAI wasn’t evil, but it did have a task to complete.
It wouldn’t stop until everyone on the planet was logged in and addicted.
You’re next.