The video game Dystopia has taken over New York. As the name suggests, it's an action-packed game set in a dystopian society, where the player must learn to navigate a post-war zone. Among the vivid descriptions of the game are "riveting," "bone-chilling," and even "addictive." However, with great popularity comes heinous rumors. The gossip circulating around the game is nothing short of blood-curdling. Stories of players being so absorbed in the game that they cannot escape, even after the virtual reality headset has been taken off. Even people who pass from the shock of dying inside the game. Even if Dystopia is a simple simulation, the game is so graphic it almost feels... real. Cue a girl in high school who works illegally as a programmer, taking commissions no matter how criminal they are in order to support her divorced mother and younger sister. Considered a prodigy with the IQ of a genius, she possesses an insatiable desire for logic, knowledge, and the truth. She doubts these rumors, and along with a fellow student who she can't seem to shake, they enter the world of Dystopia, uncovering the secrets of the past she never knew. Secrets about the creator of the game, a man with a strangely familiar voice who hides his face behind a mask. No matter how many people you ask, none of them know, or are willing to tell you. about her. Except for me. This is the story of Crit.
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