About this deal
We had lunch out every day around town at his favorite restaurants, and though Boris always offered to, I couldn’t possibly have him pay for any of my meals. If you’ve seen I am Legend, then you’ll definitely get the idea of what this ending screen looked like. But wait—it’s also Russian, and is played on outdated and strange hardware, that for some reason is a system based off of a VCR. As long as it has an interesting concept, makes you think, or maybe turns something commonplace into something sinister.
I could handle all of its other funs [sic], but when you take away the ears of a rabbit, it just becomes an ugly rodent.I don’t know if his first one was the result of an actual illness or not, but his second, much worse bout could’ve been caused by a different kind of intruder. I’ve scoured it (though I kept out of anything that looked personal), and found a 20 MB file that I can’t open—and I know how to exhaust options. The tech put the cost of the machine at about ten thousand dollars, and just over the limit of what a 120-volt outlet could power. At his sister’s insistence, as her only link to the game and to help manage my guilt, I have to find out just what this system is, and what it was meant to do.
The entire site had a dubious history, and no official documents about who once owned it have ever been found. I lost count of how many times I woke up and passed out again, and how many bizarre, meaningless dreams I had.I think the worst one was when it looked like a walking starvation victim, with its skin tight around its bones, its incisors long and yellow and its ears gone. What I now shared my dream space with was a real thing, that had lived in the wires, and now, I fear, took up permanent residence somewhere in my head.