Twisted Circuits
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The future held much promise when looked at from the past, but all those dreams have turned to nightmares. The city of Circuit has always been under strict control but the new line of so called "soldiers" brings an end to the happy sanctuary and gives rise to a new and horrible power. Kios is the only one of her kind of robots, created in secret for her own protection. The man who she calls father is a runaway designer of her predecessors, and wants her nowhere near the facility. Pushing her onward, she meets Rick, a charming yet slightly agitating...friend? Together they might just fix the wrongs done to them by the people they once trusted, and dig up horrifying secrets laying right beneath their feet.
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