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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mitchifer" data-source="post: 1243742" data-attributes="member: 8978">In the digital age we live in today, online entertainment is becoming more and more popular.  One online company, PsyKey Industries, recently revealed their latest project, the MentaLink.  The MentaLink allows its user to connect his brain to the Psykey system, allowing him to be fully immersed in the game.In the last week, PsyKey industries has chosen a few lucky beta testers to try out their new system, and for these chosen few, the game world Psykey offered was an amazing experience.  Until something went wrong.  The Surge.An intense searing pain ended your game experience, and suddendly you found yourself in a classical Greek temple made completely of polished steel, yet still in the body of your game character.  Before you all stands a statue of woman in the traditional pose of blind justice, but with some minor differences; she holds a large handgun in her right hand, and wears wraparound sunglasses as opposed to a blindfold.  She then begins to speak:"I am Themis, a secondary support system for the PsyKey ContiNet.  An act of sabotage has cut off all connection with the physical world, but I know not of the perpetrators or their motives.  I was able to acquire your personal patterns and bring you here.  However, since contact with the physical world has been severed, your mental patterns cannot be restored to your body; if you die here within the system your mind will be destroyed.  Thus, I make you all this offer: help me reestablish the control nodes and restore the system, and I can return you all to your bodies; I might also be able to maintain your mental patterns in the event of your untimely death within the system.  Otherwise, you can take your chances alone.  What will be your decision?"(apologies to Keith Baker.  I tried to annotate his introduction the best I could without copying word-for-word)</blockquote>

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