#codearvis:plot drop

Event: The Idol

The virus has been released inside The Grid. In the real world, The Mastermind can see on his screens how it begins to tear through the game, infecting enemy programs to turn them against their Creator’s will, beginning to take a stand to protect the users. Inside the virtual reality, the level begins to collapse, gradually shattering in pieces, pixels flickering off as everything slowly disintegrates.

Crossing the maze-like city of ruins has now become a race against time. The stone idol glows brightly in The Maverick’s hand, signaling they’re on the right track. Perhaps over the Phoenix’s tamed creature the users will accomplish their goal. Or perhaps the world around them will continue to collapse, swallowing them with it.

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G.A.I.A. is free

The Hacker did what she does best. Keeping it a secret from her friends, she had a copy of The Grid program for herself.

G.A.I.A. had been restrained within the old computer before, no connections to the outside world. But in the copy of The Hacker, it found a way out through the web and now the AI has been set free in a playing field without limits. All technology can be within its reach.

The Grid: No access

After their retreat in Plymouth, the gang returned to Turing Academy the next Monday to face an unexpected turn of events: when they activated the A.R.V.I.S. program to log in to The Grid it didn’t work. The old computer worked, but their precious virtual world couldn’t be accessed. It just shone with a black, dead screen.

The question in everyone’s mind was the same. What happened? The more optimistic ones didn’t want to only think about their current predicament but of possible solutions. Is there a way to fix it? But others thought there was also something else worth considering. Is someone responsible for this?

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Event: The Arena

In pairs, the gang continue to fight against their oponents. Some have had more success in weakening the programs they’re fighting against. Some have been struggling to do so and might have even lost a life in the process. But their teamwork pays off and eventually the users manage to defeat one of the warrior programs. They all share a breath of relief in their respective fighting grounds of the arena. They all have managed to end one of their oponents, there is only one more to go.

After those fatal blows, the programs face deletion, breaking away into flickering pixels. But something is different. The programs don’t vanish. Their broken pixels glitch and glow with new life. The programs are reconstructed in the blink of an eye, remade as if nothing happened. They are as strong as they were before the fights began. Vicious cheers around the arena erupt from those that are witnessing the matches.

It dawns on the members of the gang what this means. They’re fighting unbeatable oponents and the fighting matches won’t end.

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Event: Game on

With the countdown announcing 1 hour and 2 minutes still remaining, the gregarious one and the hacker successfully found the code on floor 52 and managed to steal it. As soon as it was taken, every program guarding the tower was alerted of the theft, searching for the intruders with instructions to attack and stop them from leaving the premises. A horde of guards began to pour from every direction, hunting down for the trespassers.

Programmed to be unfailingly committed to their task and inhumanly precise with the use of their weapons, the guards managed to shoot the hacker as she attempted to escape with the precious prize. Most of the guards battling the gregarious warrior fell, but the laser blade of one did accomplish the goal of injuring her. The leader fought enemies as she made her way to her team, but one precise shot also got to her. And so it went for every single one of them as they fought to gather together, as they fought to start making their way out.

Every member of the group experienced something that had never happened before: a holographic sign flickered above them, their 3 lives going down to 2. Just like everything else on The Grid, that pain as well felt all too real.

The countdown continues and with the growing numbers of guards deadset on not letting the group escape, the task of getting out of the tower seems much more challenging than it was to get in.

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Event: Game on

Steal the code from within the tower.

Those are the instructions for level 15. As those holographic words flicker away, a new flash of neon light reveals what the team must also keep in mind in order to pass the level: