He looked down at his hands. They were turning translucent, flickering like a low-bitrate video. Behind him, the "Free Download" window hung in the air, a glowing portal back to his room. But as he lunged for it, a final dialogue box appeared in his field of vision: Installation Complete. User overwritten.
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Elias spun around. His apartment was gone. In its place stood the dark, towering pines of an ancient Norwegian forest. The floor beneath his feet was no longer carpet, but the frozen, biting slush of the shoreline from the game. He looked down at his hands
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