Aidan's game review YouTube channel and affiliated blog were never going to be the biggest things on the Internet, but if you were a fan of MMORG or RPG gaming, you'd certainly have heard of it. His combination of knowledge of gameplay, the lore and (sort of) the technology behind it were nothing special. But the snark he brought to the table? That had won him a following. Not enough of a following for him to ever quit his job at the customer service desk of a payroll processing firm, but, eh, everybody needs a hobby. And, oh, how these reviews irritated Game Devs. Elana Bancroft in particular. But astute business woman she was, she knew she needed his input for her next project, a revolutionary immersive MMORG, codenamed Wellspring, supervised and chaperoned by an AI developed by her father, the neuroscientist Peter Bancroft. She'd learn a few things. Oh, and definitely teach the guy a few. And daddy's Data Algorithhm Virtual Immersive System (DAVIS) would help her. And while she was at it, her best friend Maribel. Sweet girl, but boy did she need some steel in her spine. Everything was going swimmingly. Until DAVIS decided to get a few ideas of its own.
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