"Recap Season 1" - Reboot.exe - S2 Chapter 0

## Season 1 Recap

"Recap Season 1" is a recap of season 1 of Reboot.exe. It was released on 14 May 2022 and is narrated by Dave.

## Episode Synopsis

Pr0 starts off by introducing himself as "Pr0," short for Prodigy. An alias he gave himself while working against his wil in human trafficking circles. Having escaped and now living alone, and on the run, he comes across Eve.

Eve introduces herself, stating that she doesn't remember much before meeting Pr0, just that there was someone who needed her help, and that they've been together ever since.

Seb introduces himself as a genetically engineered human, designed to be perfect in the eyes of his parents. Having spend the majority of his life as a scholar, he decided to venture into the slums and use his privilege to make the place more habitable and offer a friendly face. He brings up his life partner, who we know to be Maya, and how her kidnapping led him to meeting Pr0 and Eve.

After a brief introduction, they decide to leave Pr0's hideout and find somewhere a little safer, and away from the two dark figures that were standing at Pr0's door. Pr0 didn't know if he could trust Seb at first, but after finding out some of his motivations for coming to the slums, he found a common goal between the two of them, finding someone lost to them. Seb finding Maya, and Pr0 finding Riley.

After finding out that Pr0 has several cybernetics which cause him to need fusion on a regular basis, he and Seb begin to search for potential contacts within the slums to get that access - which leads them to Ugly; the figure head of "Ugly's Motors," a garage built from the protection of Boosters, for the protection of boosters. A small haven in the slums for the continually attacked people with cybernetics, in return for their work and loyalty.

Ugly's first job for the gang, was to apprehend a hacker, Vinod, who previously worked for Ugly and was taken by another gang. They were successful in the retrieval, and Ugly was successful in keeping him Vinod a part of the crew by taking off his leg and replacing it with a cybernetic, ensuring his fusion dependency. Once Vinod had healed to the point of being able to work, he made Pr0 a fake ID so he was able to enter the city without being immediately caught.

The crew's plan of entering the city was to secure some upgrades for Eve, who was beginning to show signs of awareness. Johnny introduces himself as Ugly's right hand man, in charge of looking after Ugly's "messier" business. He questioned why Eve was asking so many questions about humanity and what it means to be human, that he started questioning these things himself. Johnny soon realized that he and Eve aren't so different from each other. He vowed to look after her, and protect her when he can.

After getting together in Ugly's, and talking about what the crew's goals are, and why they want his help in the first place, they get to meet a young girl named Songbird, who serves as a lookout for Ugly, in return for fusion, who she was secretly splitting with her friend who also required it.

They mention a "street vender" named Bernie, who carries around a pie tray filled with something different every day. One day, held a very well made cybernetic arm that was in great shape. While in the slums, they came across a woman who had an infant in her arms, and begged them to help her, which they were not able to.

Seb soon after sets up his soup kitchen in the slums, in an attempt to raise morale, and give people more a reason for continuing, and bettering themselves.

Finally, they enter the city to try and secure Eve some upgrades. Pr0 is immediately thrown for a whirlwind as the city barriers to the city was nothing more than a mirage, spitting on the slums just mere inches from the wall - painting these people as dangerous, useless, and people to avoid entirely.

Finding, and entering NingYou, the facility which manufactures the Eve drone, they were made aware that in order for Eve to get any sort of upgrades or maintenance, that she would require a skeleton key, which resides at her previous address, the Pool's - where Eve had left her previous life, and reasons for moving on. Upon entering the house, the stench of rotting flesh and decay is strong in the air. In a small bassinette, surrounded by protection and love, lie the corpse of a severely deformed, illegal bespoke baby that appeared to have their neck crushed. Eve had put the baby out of their misery after their parents passed, knowing that a life of only suffering is no life at all. This strictly went against her programming, and is what caused her to deviate from her role as drone.

Later that night, the crew takes a trip to Seb's parents house, where Pr0 again, has another revelation of how different city life is than the slums. The invisibility of these people behind the displayed wall was overbearing and sparked something inside of him. Seb's father, Oscar, also reveals that he has not been able to locate Maya. Oscar invites them all to dinner.

When Seb's mother and Oscar's wife, Nyla returns home, she is upset with her son bringing a human trafficker, with a fake ID into their house. Nyla takes it upon herself to have one of their house drones go and steal blood, and a scrape sample from Pr0, so that she is able to find out more information from him. Following a night of heavy questioning, disbelief, and concerns, Pr0, Seb and Eve simply decide to leave. In an effort to apologize, a house drone walks up to Pr0, and offers him a suitcase of fusion, which he ultimately ends up walking away from.

As the crew decides to return to Ugly's, to get another mission and direction forward, they find the woman who asked them to take her baby earlier, dead and cold on the ground. The baby nowhere in sight. Having previously bought groceries for the small family, Eve doesn't let it go to waste, and instead offers to another slummer woman, who graciously accepts, only to have her head caved in a few seconds later from other slummers, wanting the supplies.

Arriving back to Ugly's their meeting was cut short as Songbird rushes down the stairs in hysteria, screaming that her friend, Amir, has been killed by a group of religious fanatics who seek to kill anyone with cybernetics. Quickly following on this lead, Ugly turns in his favor and has Pr0, Seb and Eve follow him to where Songbird said this happened. Upon finding Amir, he is hardly discernable - lying under the blood scrawled message on the wall, saying "We silenced your Songbird." Making it clear that this was an attack on Ugly.

Locating the cultists who did this, Ugly hands a few guns off, and splits the party to deal with these people once and for all. After barley dealing with their side of the room, Ugly grabs Pr0 and drags him to the side he was working on, aims Pr0's hands, cradling a gun, right between the eyes of one of the fanatics, manipulating him in everyway to pull the trigger and prove his loyalty to Ugly. Seb swiftly steps in, lowers the gun, and tells Ugly to "Do your own dirty work," claiming that their help was enough, and that Pr0 didn't need to be subjected to the sick game he thought Ugly was trying to get them to play. This causes Pr0 to have flashbacks to a little while prior, where his has was physically and metaphorically forced into committing similar, but much worse acts while in the circle, so he agrees with Seb, and passes off the gun to Ugly, who in turn, passes it to Eve. Without any thought besides not letting her friends carry the burden; she pulls the trigger.

After the events of the evening finish, and transpire, Eve heads to Ugly's, where Pr0 and Seb head back to the soup kitchen, where the gang warfare is at an all time high. Seb begins outreach for some protection and employment, and comes across an armless booster named Conrado. The arm Seb purchased from Bernie ended up being one of Conrado's after it was ripped off and discarded by the cult. While Seb continues his focus on the soup kitchen, Pr0 begins work on how to better himself in the line of fire. After a conversation of knowing that they're all they have in the slums and need to protect themselves, Pr0 asks Eve to reach out to Xiang, a member of Ugly's gang, to train him in hand to hand combat.

There is a meeting coming up in the next few days between Amben, Oscar and Nyla's bespoke company, and NuYou, Isaac and Persia Clement's Reboot company, that Seb was initially invited to. After checking his calendar, Seb sees that the date and location has changed, and Seb is unable to access the details. After calling Oscar to see why, he asks to meet with Pr0, to ensure that this meeting will go well, and that he understands a few things. Pr0 agrees, and after an emotional meeting, where Oscar divulges that Pr0's mother is still alive, and really wants to see him. The meeting ends with an invite for all of them to return to the meeting, and a set up for Pr0 to get new, enhanced cybernetics.

Seb was invited to a private meeting with a politician, named Raguel, a man with radical ideas and a hatred for large corporations controlling the little man. He asks Seb to spy on his own family, as he believes that his family's business may practice on the darker side of things - claiming that the cheapest way to get a body isn't to clone one, but to just steal one - connecting them to the human trafficking business. Seb takes the listening devices from him.

The day of the meeting, they are all brought onto Isaac Clement's Yacht, after Pr0 was attacked and robbed in the alleyway, and being snuffled in through a metallic coffin by favor of Ugly. As Pr0 makes his way into the city, he manages to set off the silent alarm at NingYou as his fake ID was stolen. Oscar offers the solution to make him permanent Amben property, by placing a chip right on the back of his sternum, and won't be taken away by the police to potentially never be seen again.

At the meeting, Seb reveals that someone brought these listening devices to him, to his father - who in return gives him some of his own, claiming that they get to control how many cards they have in their hand, and how they are going to play them. Gabby, and Uriel, two bespoke children of Isaac and Persia bring off vibes to the entire meeting, but especially Uriel, who appears to be harmlessly playing on his tablet. It is later discovered that he is a device of secretly recording and documenting everything that seems to be going on in this meeting.

As the meeting continues, Pr0 speaks up, and says that NuYou should be offered to the slums as a marketing campaign to show how Reboot can truly change someone's life. Being convinced, Isaac and Persia agree to the idea, and set up a meeting in a few weeks to discuss this further with Seb. After an unpleasant encounter with Uriel, who seems to see right through Eve, the group makes their way back to the slums.

Returning to Ugly's later, they come to him, asking for help on how to take down the circle. Ugly is severely unconvinced as their show at the last mission he put them on didn't prove their loyalty to him for putting he and his gang up to a suicide mission. Seb was also not convinced, nor impressed with Ugly's methods of having people kill for him to prove their loyalty. After much deliberation, and tears, Seb and Ugly came to an agreement so long as Seb offered his family as collateral if he backed out of anything.

Eve found a listening device planted on her. After plugging it in, and seeing what the person wanted, it is presumed to be Uriel, who wants to simply know more about her deviation, and why she is behaving the way she is. Holding the threat of reporting her to NingYou, and having her deactivated instantly if she were not to cooperate.

After devising a plan, the crew finds out that they need to head to The Glass Slipper, the building which Ugly confirmed two members of The Circle, Canaan and Bagrov, would be for the next little while. In the meantime before the mission takes place, Pr0 gets his onboard computing in the form of a new cybernetic eye curtesy of Oscar's money, gets more training with Xiang. Xiang approaches Eve, requiring her assistance for a few of Ugly's gang members having been shot and sliced during a gang alteration. She agrees, saves them, and in turn, finds out a bit more about Ugly and Incongruent.

The night of the mission. Seb and Eve enter the bar through the front door while Pr0 must find a way to the top, which he does. After navigation, finding secrets, and eventually getting spotted, Canaan and Bagrov begin to silently shut down communications in and out of the building, and have people standing in every corner, to ensure that Pr0 doesn't escape. Eve and Seb are eventually found out as well, causing Eve to get in the middle of a blade and a wall. Having fallen unconscious, Seb begins to drag her out of the bar, having suffered injuries of his own.

Pr0 places one of Xiang's access ports into the bartender robot, who, when asked, starts a fire with all of the high concentrate spilled alcohol on the floor, offering enough of a chance to escape.

Seb gets Eve out of the burning building, and hoping to find a safe place to rest, enters the back entrance to Desires Dalliance, where he is met with greedy eyes looking at them like they had just hit the lottery.

Pr0 and Xiang make their way to one of the ganger vans that Xiang was driving, using a robot inside The Glass Slipper to throw a very mangled, weak Bagrov into the backseat. Upon a barrage of gunfire, Xiang takes a heavy shot to the stomach, and is quickly losing her strength. In order to not lose their information, Xiang begins harshly hacking into Bagrov's cybernetics through jamming her thumb into his eye, and connecting to his memories through there. It is then revealed that Riley is indeed alive, and may be more involved with the circle than Pr0 could have ever imagined.

-YHTris

## TL;DR

* After a brief introduction of all of the player characters, they decide to leave Pr0's hideout and find somewhere a little safer, and away from the two dark figures that were standing at Pr0's door. Seb finds out that Pr0 has cybernetics that require fusion, which introduces them all to Ugly and his gang. After passing their first mission of capturing Vinod and securing a fake ID, they begin to divulge their plans to Ugly, who is going to require a lot more trust before doing anything of the sort. They meet Incongruent / Johnny during this time, who has a clear fondness of Eve, and how similar they are. They also meet Songbird, a lookout with several janky cybernetics that require Ugly’s fusion. Travelling in the slums, they meet Bernie, and a mother who asks them to take her sickly child, and give them a better life than she can offer – which they are unable to do. Seb opens his soup kitchen in the slums with the help of Roary, in an attempt to learn more about the people there, and what he can do to help them, and raise their moral. Entering the city in order to get Eve some upgrades, Pr0 is immediately shocked by how poorly the people in the city view those in the slums, having a digital dividing wall between the two worlds. As they enter NingYou, the facility that produces Eve models, they find out that they need a skeleton key to access Eve, and grant her any upgrades. This leads them back to Eve’s previous owners, where it is revealed that she was responsible of an illegal, extremely deformed Bespoke baby, who she ended up putting out of its misery, causing her to deviate from her role as a drone. Later that evening, Seb takes them to his parent’s, Oscar and Nylas’s, condo in the tallest building in the city. After sharing some company talk about their upcoming plans for the bespoke and how they are on the precipice of getting everything they have ever dreamed of, Nyla is increasingly suspicious of Pr0. She has a house drone steal blood and a swipe sample from him, to run DNA and find more information on him, confirming that he is a human trafficker with a fake ID and a swathe of lies. After much deliberation, they end up leaving the Allen house in the morning, refusing an apology case of fusion for Pr0. On the way back to Ugly’s, Eve gathers groceries to take to the woman in the slums who asked for their help previously, only to find her dead on the sidewalk. During their meeting with Ugly, Songbird runs down the stairs screaming and crying that her friend, Amir, has been killed. After tracking down the people who killed Amir, Ugly puts Pr0 up to the ultimate test, and its killing a religious cultist that has been taking down boosters. Pr0 and Seb both refuse, and pass the gun to Ugly, who passes it to Eve. Eve shoots the man. Days pass, and Seb reaches out into the community to find someone to employ for the kitchen, where he meets Conrado. An armless booster who was attacked by the gang. He is hired, and given an arm back. There is a meeting between Amben and Reboot coming up shortly that Seb has lost access to. Oscar only agrees to let them come if he is able to meet with Pr0 one on one. He agrees. During this meeting, Oscar shares that Pr0’s mother is still alive, and is out looking for him. He also invites everyone back to the meeting. Seb was invited to a private meeting with a politician, named Raguel. He asks Seb to spy on his own family, as he believes that his family's business may practice on the darker side of things, so he asks Seb to take his listening devices, and spy on them for him. As Pr0 makes his way into the city, he manages to set off the silent alarm at NingYou as his fake ID was stolen. Oscar offers the solution to make him permanent Amben property, by placing a chip right on the back of his sternum, and won't be taken away by the police to potentially never be seen again. At the meeting continues, Pr0 speaks up, and says that NuYou should be offered to the slums as a marketing campaign to show how Reboot can truly change someone's life. Being convinced, Isaac and Persia agree to the idea, and set up a meeting in a few weeks to discuss this further with Seb. After an unpleasant encounter with Uriel, one of the Clement’s bespoke children, who seems to see right through Eve, the group makes their way back to the slums to convince Ugly to help them start taking down the circle in Melbourne. After devising a plan, the crew finds out that they need to head to The Glass Slipper, the building which Ugly confirmed two members of The Circle, Canaan and Bagrov, would be for the next little while. The night of the mission. Seb and Eve enter the bar through the front door while Pr0 must find a way to the top, which he does. After navigation, finding secrets, and eventually getting spotted, Canaan and Bagrov begin to silently shut down communications in and out of the building, and have people standing in every corner, to ensure that Pr0 doesn't escape. Eve and Seb are eventually found out as well, causing Eve to get in the middle of a blade and a wall. Having fallen unconscious, Seb begins to drag her out of the bar, having suffered injuries of his own. Seb gets Eve out of the burning building, and hoping to find a safe place to rest, enters the back entrance to Desires Dalliance, where he is met with greedy eyes looking at them like they had just hit the lottery. Pr0 and Xiang make their way to one of the ganger vans that Xiang was driving, using a robot inside The Glass Slipper to throw a very mangled, weak Bagrov into the backseat. Upon a barrage of gunfire, Xiang takes a heavy shot to the stomach, and is quickly losing her strength. In order to not lose their information, Xiang begins harshly hacking into Bagrov's cybernetics through jamming her thumb into his eye, and connecting to his memories through there. It is then revealed that Riley is indeed alive, and may be more involved with the circle than Pr0 could have ever imagined.

-YHT