Shadow Box (Technolust world idea)
you are challenged by an anonymous hacker to enter a "shadow box" as an initiation rite. backstory; during the early days of direct neural interfacing (DNI) there was a resounding exciteme...
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what is shadow box?
essentially it is a dark eerie and creepy puzzle platforming game that has horror/survival elements to it. your goal is to make it to a virtual jack in terminal to escape to the next level. the catch is there is feedback. each time you jack into a virtual terminal within a virtual world the feedback makes things get incredibly trippy & glitchy. the laws of physics go out the window. similar to the idea of "dreams within a dream" from the movie inception
early shadow boxes were merely endless free fall experiences. where the target was unable to do anything and be constantly tortured by a bot AI program hacking into the targets memories and mentally attacking the target as they fall.
others were created to be a more hands on approach. where the perpetrator/creator of the shadow box would be like that of a "game master". many of these shadow deathboxes were considered exceptional cruel as they would give the target a false sense of hope. most perpetrators preferred this type of shadow box over the free fall ones. as they were able to weaken the target to divulge information or otherwise get the target to do anything they wanted, even going so far as to offer freedom from the shadow deathbox in return for credits. unfortunately most perpetrators would rarely if ever make good on their promises....
essentially it is a dark eerie and creepy puzzle platforming game that has horror/survival elements to it. your goal is to make it to a virtual jack in terminal to escape to the next level. the catch is there is feedback. each time you jack into a virtual terminal within a virtual world the feedback makes things get incredibly trippy & glitchy. the laws of physics go out the window. similar to the idea of "dreams within a dream" from the movie inception
early shadow boxes were merely endless free fall experiences. where the target was unable to do anything and be constantly tortured by a bot AI program hacking into the targets memories and mentally attacking the target as they fall.
others were created to be a more hands on approach. where the perpetrator/creator of the shadow box would be like that of a "game master". many of these shadow deathboxes were considered exceptional cruel as they would give the target a false sense of hope. most perpetrators preferred this type of shadow box over the free fall ones. as they were able to weaken the target to divulge information or otherwise get the target to do anything they wanted, even going so far as to offer freedom from the shadow deathbox in return for credits. unfortunately most perpetrators would rarely if ever make good on their promises....