It started with a girl. One he had seen many months past, and only for a few evenings.

Her father, since it turned out, was a barbaric maniac, direct from the foulest dungeons of the Middle Ages. Decades into the twenty-first century, the madman seemed terribly out of place.

However he was also a robust mogul-and determined to turn the life of every guy who had have you been romantically associated with his girl into a particular variant of hell just made possible by the latest VR technology. All seventeen of his girl’s former fans would suffer in digital actuality until they snapped.

The torturers had considered every possibility and taken every measure to assure their success. Not even death would present their victims a getaway. No harm would come to their bodies, obviously. Only their thoughts.

For the first sixteen, the project succeeded. However the seventeenth was different. The seventeenth was Dark.