0- the beginning

Year 2017, somewhere in the USA

It was a dark and rainy night, as seen from the window of a dimly lit room. Within the room, food packaging and other trash is littered around a chair and a desk. In the chair sits a young man with messy and unkempt hair, as well as dark bags seen under his focused and blank eyes. He sits still with his hands shaking above the enter button, and his gaze fixated on a passage on the computer screen.

"Thank you for finishing our game! As promised, for being the first player to clear [Pixel Hell {IMPOSSIBLE}], you will receive the following: [Update Trigger], [Title Editor], and [Developer's Preference]."

After reading the passage several times over, the shakiness of his hands began to slow down and he hit Enter. He glanced to the clock and to the screen every second or so, waiting for the results he'd played a dozen years for.

The screen flashed red with unintelligible messages for a second then went black. The man, still impatiently waiting for a result, then saw everything go dark. No lights apparent inside, and none outside either.

After noticing that even the headlights on the road vanished, he sighed and started to exit the room with the focus in his eyes starting to vanish, alongside... his computer? Noticing this, he rubbed his eyes and looked back to the dim blue light coming from where his computer sat earlier.

He approaches the dim blue light and watches as it materializes into a message panel exactly like the game he'd finished earlier.

[Updat3: y35 / n0¿]

He impulsively clicked "y35" as it was probably "yes", then watched as it vanished and the lights came on everywhere else. The black sky, no longer dropping rain, started to take a slightly brighter color- tinted red rather than blue.

The same blue panel then appeared in front of the man, not startling him whatsoever as he'd become accustomed to such things and worse throughout his years of effort in [Pixel Hell {IMPOSSIBLE}].

[WELCOME TO PIXEL HELL 2.0 (MULTIPLAYER)!]

Before he could react, a game-like assortment of numbers and names started to form within his indirect vision.

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Alexander P [Lv.1]

[Main Character]

[Sk][St][Inv][???¿?]

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