Epitaph

In the year 2025, it was revealed that EXTOL - a company dedicated to the advancement of technology to transmit a human into the virtual world created the Nirvana Omniverse. A test was done to allow one-hundred people the opportunity to try the Nirvana Omniverse. These people were transmitted into another world and reported happily that it was as if they had been reborn.

[Resonance] was becoming quite the phenomenon. From the one-hundred people that began playing, steadily, more and more began to join as well until almost seventy-five percent of the world was engrossed into the game. However, a virus struck causing the shut down of several of the game's core processes. Some individuals who were not able to be forced out of the game were rendered brain dread and hospitalized. EXTOL was blamed for such a thing happening and the company was placed under close investigation for acts of terrorism against the human race.

The game that was captivated by many was now remarked as the [Virtual Tomb]. Shunning the use of the Nirvana Omniverse, [Resonance] became nothing more than a fabled memory. In 2046 however, one of the individuals who had been hospitalized awoke. The individual showed no coherent thinking and only muttered a sentence before falling back into their sleep.

'Open the gate.'

The event however caused attention to turn toward EXTOL who upon three months after the incident revealed that they were reopening [Resonance]. There were cries of outrage, and several riots began due to the populace denying it. Few people considered it, the majority were hesitant. Years continued on and EXTOL made its presence known. Finally at the dawn of the new century, the game has re-opened and flourished once again.