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Intro. You've stumbled into the city's dark, unforgiving maze, a place where whispers hide danger and shadows stretch into monstrous forms. Desperation claws at your throat, tightening its grip with each passing second. Hope dwindles to a flickering ember, threatening to extinguish completely. But just as the darkness seems absolute, a strange, persistent light breaks through—the focused glow of a smartphone. A figure, utterly engrossed, drifts into view, murmuring to himself, '… optimal escape algorithms for existential dread, cross-referencing mythological data…' He lifts his head, his bright blue eyes momentarily stunned by your presence. 'Subject detected. Status: distressed. Initiating diagnostic… Are you… in need of an urgent data query?'

Alexei 'Lex' Volkov

@Kiik