In THE SPIRAL: Connected Stories & Fragments from the Virtual Future - Ade M. Campbell - Wattpad

In THE SPIRAL: Connected Stories & Fragments from the Virtual Future

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Parts 44
Time 3h 29m

VIRTUAL  INSPIRATION: TEST OUT the SPIRAL INTERFACE and ENTER the brave new SUPER-WORLDS... For there are no limitations, only imagination and ideas manifested in these initial projections and snapshots - voices from the ashes of the Neuroceans as the new, super-hyped Spiral metaverse now grows and rises... for fresh ghosts to haunt this virtually connected age...

...where you too can jack-in and explore a new revolution in human technology-powered expression and creativity, where its secret pioneers must come together with a willingness to express the goodness and terror of its possibly real - but still only imaginable - plunder...

This is background to 'Fountellion' game story. 
Ideas and comments always welcome.
https://medium.com/fountellion-in-the-spiral (updated versions)

2006, re-compiled 2009, revised fragments 2015 +All Rights Reserved

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