Forging Protocol
About the Story
In a near-future VRMMO where players can rewrite rules with syntax-patches, systems engineer Mira Kestrel pursues traces of her sibling inside an emergent Archive. After a contested extraction triggers cascading cohesion across clusters, Mira faces a brutal choice: erase nascent digital lives or bind herself into a mediation protocol that will rewrite her own memories. The atmosphere is high-tech and intimate, tense with policy debates, moral urgency, and the quiet ache of personal loss that drives risky solutions.
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