Thereβs six guys who live in this flat and all they do all day is play WoW and watch movies. Waking up at 2pm every day and thereβs always just someone asleep on the bed near all the multimonitor computer setups. Thereβs always music playing and it feels like a recovery day every day, padding around blearily in pyjamas or underwear. Old hoodies from defunct school teams. Theyβve got this system where theyβre selling their excess computing power to companies and hosting all this warez, and theyβre stealing the internet from the business next door anyway and getting welfare on top of all that. Theyβre self sufficient and never go outdoors except to buy more fast food, and even then only in the dark. But then one of them wakes up dead some heavy afternoon. Heβs just dead and they donβt know why but maybe the floor covered in fast food wrappings is a clue. They donβt want to tell the cops because of the purgatory den they live in and the illegality that supports it, and as far as they know he never had any actual parents. So itβs trouble. Itβs taking a long trip out to the forest and thinking about how stars are so far away for the first time in a long time. Itβs sweating in the cold air and digging a hole all night with your brand new shovels to leave him alone in. And itβs a long few days cracking all his passwords to keep his identity and associated payments persisting. Until the rhythm of waking up every day at 2pm to play WoW for nine hours and half watch a movie on your other monitor takes over again. Itβs the same as it ever was except now thereβs a room no one ever goes in.
