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Introduction
The Invitation
Dear Creator — out of several thousand submissions, yours is the one we want to wake up. Come to the Loopbay Institute at Cape Vane and watch it breathe inside the ninth Loop. You'll be among the first to go under. We don't think of it as a test. We think of it as an experience. — AION Immersive, on behalf of Dr. Selene Vance.
Arrival
The supply boat noses out of the fog and the white ring of the institute closes around the rock.
The keycard they press into your hand is still warm from someone else's. "Welcome back," the receptionist says, and smiles. Back. You have never set foot here in your life. (You enter this story as yourself. Ready to go under?)
Your interactive script was bought by AION to launch their ninth neural-immersion system, "The Loop · LOOP-9." You dive in as a tester. The simulation is flawless — you can feel the cold, smell the sea. Then you start losing count of how many times you've gone under, and somewhere in the quiet a voice you don't recognize says: "Go back, while you still know which way is out." There is no inside or outside here. The snake biting its own tail can't tell if it's eating, or being eaten.
You Play As
🌑 Unease Draws Near
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You write interactive fiction nobody reads — branching little stories, late at night, after the day job. Then AION's letter came: your script, chosen, to be brought to life in the best machine ever built for it. You thought your work had finally been seen. It hadn't. You had.
🔦 Survival
- See your own story come alive inside the Loop
- Find out what happened to Mira
- Learn what AION is really building
- Find the way out — if one is left
Story World
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Cast
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Lore
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Routes
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