Digital Evolution

## Chapter Breakdown

Digital Evolution

1 - Danni and Trew are at home and have a daughter named Addisyn (nickname kilobyte), it is her first day of school. She is a spitting image of her mom, Danielle from the Game, at that age.

2 - Addisyn arrives at school where she is greeted by a modest amount of press. Cooper meets them there. Lisa Rohansen interviews Addisyn. This is not the Game. Trew announces he is not sending kids into the Game. When all come out, the Game will be over.

3 - Carl meets the rest of the Hand. They enter the Pyramid to reset the Game - happens every 5000yrs.  \*\*\* Trew, Michelle, Danni watch from the CC. We see the artifact for the first time. Hands all touch the artifact in a sequence, all goes dark. They emerge from the pyramid and see the reset didn't happen, something is wrong.

4 - Melissa and 13 are eating. No one wants to be home in the Dream. General wants to put 13 to use. 13 accompanies Melissa.

5 - Trew and Lilith visit a remote location where there is an Artifact on Tygon as well as the Game. They don't know much about it.

6 - 13 is in same room looking at an artifact. Someone touched it and melted. \*Once power came back on - Thorn formed an expedition, came straight to this site and dug down to the artifact. General and Thorn want 13 to figure out how to use it.

7 - Thorn goes to sleep, opens his eyes and finds himself in the jungle. Travels to the old mans house, Brandon is there also. Old Man tells them there is a new Game. Actually the next step in the ongoing Game (waking the dreamers was a big event but there is more). Artifact floats above the floor. Tapestry "in order to save, restore, preserve, the whole thing, the small thread must be re-woven into the whole"  "you boys are doing much less than saving the universe, but your games are still important"  "who are we going to save this time?" "Save? who said you are going to save anyone"

8 - Brandon comes out of the Game, Trew talks to him. Brandon tells Trew to shut the Game down, but Trew says that Tygon's society would collapse. Brandon says to let it. Adults can not be brought out of the Game. Seems cruel to leave children in the game simply to use it as entertainment. Trew has a plan - another group.

9 - Danni, the Prophet, is in her office. The Old man is waiting inside. She has brought religion to Tygon. Reluctant leaders are often best. He needs her to deliver a message to the Purple God. She agrees.

10 - Trew wants to go back into the Game. Danni says no. Trew has sold a new game played by old people and the terminally ill (a second life). She says it won't work because the old don't understand technology or the Game. Old people are tired. Trew misses the Game. Danni does not and she just got her husband back (only 10 years have passed). He agrees no to go back in right now.

11 - Back in the Dream we find out Sparx is Kevin. Sparx finds out Kevin has parents and heads to his home.

12 - General and Thorn, their uneasy partnership is beginning to fray at the edges. 3/4 of the population has power restored, still hungry, disease is an issue. The internet is still not working, it is old. They must build a new one. General is manipulating the powers as they try to emerge. His fingers are in many honeypots. 3 months to build internet. Thorn needs General to help make peace between the parties needed.  He agrees.

13 - Raphael visits Carl who is bored and killing a village of shit heads. Tells him time to go back to work, Trew has made contact.

14 - Melissa finds 13 trying to repair a sim headset - this is illegal. He believes the sim is still online and wants to get back. 13 thinks his purpose is to send everyone back to Earth.

15 - Game execs think new idea to send elderly in 1 time wont take off as repeated entries are needed to build a following and interest. Not being able to record farther limits it. Trew admits he can record. No one becomes a star from their 1st play plus the old don't want to play. The average person is cautious, more ideas tabled.

16 - Hand tried artifact again, it works, sort of. Carl finds himself near an advanced city - that's not right, people speak a language he can't translate - something is wrong.

17 - 13 announces he will tough the artifact, he has a theory. Stephen Hawking reference - had a theory the helmets weren't responsible for pulling people in, instead, a big vortex had formed (not visible). What started as a game, piggybacked onto a temporal portal.  13 thinks each reality has an artifact which allows travel between the 3. She agrees he should touch it.

18 - Trew learn that timeless have disappeared from the game, he wants a report. Reset was not normal. He wants to know in what way. Asks cooper to Arrange a meeting with Lohkam. Questions Coopers loyalty. It's complicated, but he hasn't betrayed Trew yet. Set the meeting.

19 - Danni meets God. Elliot, 1st time we hear the old man's name, she says she is afraid of losing Trew.

20 - 13 sees the colours move to his hand as he gets close, wonders what colour to summon

\*\*\*Cooper goes to orb, touches it & disappears. Colour was gold.  13 choses Gold and disappears.

21 - they go over suggestion for different games. Why change it? "Because it is not producing better people. it is making slaves" Pick 2 ideas, 2 new games. Is is possible to have two at once? Yes, same base, different vibrational frequencies. 1 for the old and sick, one for the down trodden "caste"

22 - Melissa tells Thron 13 touched orb and disappeared, he asks if she has flown yet, No, floated yest. Gives her a tiny pin.  Thorn knows no one is happy since the return. Melissa is of the G's Hand, he says he knows her real loyalty is to Trew as is Thorn. Thron says that the Dream Reality is broken. Pin must be implanted. Returning things to normal gave more time, that is all. Crisis still exists, time is still running out.

23 - Trew shows senator the VR (75% Senator is on board, wants to keep his high position when he goes in, doesn't want to enter a s a baby, 15-18yr instead. Wants something different from current reality, also wants to keep memories. Trew says current memories are framgented, tells senator he can treat him special. Senator is optimistic he can sell it.

24 - Sparx/Kevinmeets his parents, learns he is son of very wealthy computer genius. Mom is a cold one. Maid is Maxine and very nice. Father is Barrett Saxon, very cool, happy to see his boy. Tells Sparx that his relationship with the General is about to pay off for the family business. Barrett is a big computer dog commissioned to build the new internet. Kevin agrees to help.

25 - Trew talks with Tygons God and tells him of his desire to enter the game again. Also about his reservations about changing the game.

26 - DAnni meets Toad (Cecil Williams) offers him and caste a chance to play in new game, a better life than they currently have as slaves.

27 - Trew and Danni are planning the new games, he assures her that he will not go in. Senator has recruited thousands to start.

28 - Lisa interviews Danni and Trew. Learn the names of the new games - Sojourn for the old and Attonement for the caste (fallen). Also details they will be overlapping. \*New Game time xchange, 1year Tygon is 12 inside the new game. TIME

29 - Brandon finds Carl. Time difference is large, 4years for Carl have passed - less than a day for Brandon. Brandon is surprised to learn they are in an entirely different reality. The go looking for the rest of the Timeless then the artifact.

30 - Trew meets the Singing Man in his penthouse, the man calls him George, remembers him as such. Convinces Trew to keep original game and kids in it. Yes there is pain, but also great things.  Trew was focusing on the losers, but Tygon is filled with winners also, who would not be what they are but for the game.

31 - the old man waits for the timeless, returns them home (no artifact on this world) The old man "i havent gotten around to naming them yet"

32 - Protestors gather peacefully saying they wish to return to the Game. The General shoots one. Has Melissa and other troops kill the rest.

33 - Negotiates and discusses putting seniors into Sojourn. Senator expects power. Trew will not give it, but lets him think he will

34 - Sparx, Barrett, and Thorn meet. Sparx has created a new internet, it is very powerful and they agree it will be Thorn's, not the General's. Thorn is optimistic this will enable him to defeat the General. Sparx is optimistic he can use the network to return home to Miranda.

35 - 13 wanders around and discovers he is not on Earth, but Tygon! He has no idea what Tygon is

36 - Blurb of how the Game will continue, failures or dropouts will not become slaves, they will be offered a chance to play Attonement.  Timeless return to Earth, Air shimmers, they don't know why (we do, it is the 3 games overlapping, most won't see it, Timeless can if they concentrate.

37 - Trew and Danni meet. Some fallen are whining, all fallen want to leave, all can't, some are complaining, stirring up the rest, Trew says to take them and send the whiners in. Neither have seen Cooper. Trew guesses that he has gone into the Game and will soon return.

38 - Elizabeth is now old. Trew meets her and offers her special timeless like role in Sojourn. She accepts.

39 - Cooper appears in the Dream, meets Melissa. He has been watching the discontent and says that he has returned to make sure the General doesn't win, he intends to kill everyone, then shut down the simulations.

40 - Danni and Cecil (Toad) go over contact, she offers him opportunity to be Timeless like, he agrees.

41 - Trew has a bad day, thinks "who am I" almost has the answers but it flits away.

42 - Sparx has almost completed the internet program, he has woven in extra bandwidth and frequencies which he intends to use to search for Home and Miranda.

43 - Danni and Trew celebrate success of Attonement and Sojourn, they also speak about the return of Brandon and the Timeless. Things get romantic-ish

44 - Lohkam meets the other Elites, oldest is 67, still fit and dangerous. Lohkam wants to destroy the GAme so it crumbles and they return home as they cannot commit suicide.

45 - General is having sleeping problems, conflict of conscious

46 - Miranda meditates, swears she can hear/feel Sparx, it fades and she discounts it. \*\*Sparx is pleased, he made brief contact with her.

47 - Cooper is on the street when soldiers try to abduct a woman, He does nothing until they try to pick on him. then he kills them. is going to kill her also, but finds out she is a gamer. Surprised to find that the movement is in the dream, he lets her go.

48 - Elliot and singing man meet in park. Singing Man tells Elliot he has found the 2 jumpers (13 and cooper).  Cooper is still the wild card. 2 Coopers in same reality, issue if they meet (one is in stasis...still)

49 - Brandon exits the game and announces not much will happen inside game for some time so he intends to stay on tygon, out of the way of trew and danni of course.

50 - Thorn, General, Melissa meet to discuss problem, appearance of the Gamer movement (over half the population). The General is not happy, says the citizens want more than they should. Orders Melissa to find out as much as possible about them.

51 - Two people reunite, Susan and Dillon, they were together in the sim. Dr finds out the are both high up in the new resistance.

52 - 13 meets Dann, Trew, & Sylvia - tells them he comes from the Dream and things are bad there. They discuss frequencies and he tells them he knows the wavelength (not the right word) of the dream both he and Sylvia are excited about this (possible to communicate, watch, or perhaps transfer consciousness between the two, not said, but alluded to.

53 - Cooper and Melissa meet again, he guesses she is apart of the Gamer movement, likely even a leader, he says he will hold off acting until she gives her plan a try. She asks for his help, he says no.

54 - Brandon finds 2 Elites killing NPC's on Tygon, Brandon kills once (Trance) and tells the other (Ace) to spread the words to the rest of the elites, stop killing NPC's, or he will hunt them all down and kill them. Also tells them their bodies are drad in the dream so they have nothing to return to.

55 - Small group of leaders meet - Barrett Saxon, on Earth was Stanton Rossfield (apparently a big deal). Leaders here: Susanne, Dillon, Jen, Nelson.  They decide to be the leaders of all. They are excited that Barrett is on their side and optimistic that they can win.

56 - The General and Thorn meet and together decide that the Gamers are too difficult to fight, it would be a covert war and many innocents would suffer. The General says that he will adjust his strategy to involve them so all can work to build a future together. Melissa and Thorn doubt his sincerity but not openly.

57 - After the General invites Gamers leaders to come forward, the leaders meet to decide if they will or not. Melissa reveals herself and her loyalty to the leaders. They know this invitation paints them into a tough corner. \*\*\*Barrett and Sparx activate the New net, called Plexus and discuss what it can do. Barrett asks sparx to add a hidden layer so they can monitor all usage and no one will know

58 - Trew, Danni, Brandon meet, it appears that Lohkam intends to ignore Brandon's warnings and he is trying to kill everyone on Tygon. Trew mentions meeting the singing man (who currently has 3 caps). Brandon knows of him but Danni is surprised to learn of another wearing bottle caps. Brandon announces he will hun down and kill the Elites. They wonder is singing man is a Tygon timeless. Also Brandon admits many things occur inside the Game which he knows nothing abouth. Brandon did not know he had bottle caps, eyes with Platinum flecks, yes.

59 - General meets fake Game leaders, accepts them with a smile, real leaders are still wary. General says only leaders he recognizes are the ones in front of him. Leaders are still cautious, not trusting the General.

60 - The General meets his own people and admits he knows the gamers that joined are not the real leaders. Proclaims he sincerely wants to make the world a better place and work with the Gamers to do so. He hopes the real leaders eventually trust him enough to step forward, and also orders the huge array of video cameras taken offline to restore trust.

61 - Brandon gets trapped into a no win corner while hunting some elites, singing man appears and saves him, they talk.

62 - 10 years have passed on Tygon. Addison has just finished a spectacular play, Danni and Trew do not watch their kid's play (common). They tell this one stressed her. it is revealed that Stephanie (the devil) was her adoptive mother.

63 - Thorn and Melissa talk, they believe the General is acting sincere but is playing them. Thorn "i play a bigger game" The General is waiting, time is on his side while it is our enemy. Tells her to have real leaders step forward, sooner than later. the General gets in the car and is abducted by the president.

64 - Danni, Trew, Brandon, Lilith, Michelle all gather. Brandon admits it's difficult to capture and kill elites.  Still no sign of Cooper, Thirteen can't find him or help track elites.  13 too busy with Sylvia trying to access Dream. Lohkam tough to find. Brandon tells Trew and Danni to watch Danni's play.

65 - Barrett and Sparx drop their facade and each tell the other who they were in the Game, both are impressed. \*who was Stanton Rossfield?\*

66 - General wakes up, Brad walks in, they sit (General, Brad, President), Then brad watch beeps, he stands, peels metal tape off General's head. 5 minutes till death - tape too the G mind and thoughts. Slides the blade into the General's brain

67 - Thorn and Melissa working late and go to get food when they are ambushed - we see that Thorn can fight. They evade death. Duck into basement of a room where there is an old woman knitting, yellow brimed hat/ragged coat (Lizzy) - she opens a Portal (knows Barrett) and they escape

68 - Danni and Trew talk with Addisyn about her play. Agree to get involved more as her patrons - somehow Addy built a new gamer movement inside the game

69 - Thorn and Melissa appear at Barrett's, they hide out there and thorn tells the boys not to attend the new celebration where the real gamer leaders are to step forward.

70 - Leaders come forward and they are slaughtered. Cooper watches from bar with public. Stand and decides it's time for him to act.

71 - Melissa and gang are on a secret underground train heading to secret stronghold, they are devastated about the masacre. Barrett says they are safe. They will observe the situation as they have world access to all the systems and can control it all. Melissa says none of that matters - Cooper will be set on causing trouble. Thorn is surprised Melissa says he will not stop till everything is destroyed.

72 - Carl being tortured - he gets a chill and turns around to get free quick - he senses there is trouble and he is actually worried.

73 - Melissa sleeping when the old man appears in her room, takes her to see Cooper, tries to talk him out of what he intends. Cooper knocks her out, goes to shoot but the old man stops him. Elliot leaves with Melissa slung over his shoulder.

74 - Singing man watches Lohkam stalk Addisyn at a Musical. Lohkam puts her in a car and ships her off.

75 - Brad watches a video of Cooper blowing up a power plant, isn't very concerned. President gets lippy, he smacks her. Tells her to go kill the comatose Cooper and the other one should die too. Makes her do it. Cooper's dream body dies.

76 - Trew and Danni wait to hear from kidnapper, no contact made. Brandon calls in another play  - not one that will cost him his life

77 - Sparx and Melissa - he found Cooper's body but it is dead - killing the original is not stopping the other one from still blowing stuff up.  Sparx sends orders as president to remove all cores  \*\*Cooper finds out and realizes he must go bigger.

78 - Addisyn breaks out - runs into Dawn who helps her escape.

79 - Elliot and singing man meet in coffee shop. Singing man reading copy of the Game is Life - he loves it but elliot calls it a child's book. Cinging man now has 4 caps. Sends singing man somewhere specific

80 - Cooper makes his way to the Artifact - kills his way in. Touches colours in specific combination and BOOM!

81 - Cooper shuffles around - no life, no power. Elliot appears and takes him to old house. they enter, people emerge in main room - all have bottle caps. Cooper is given black thin cloves, he puts them on and he feels a slight tingle. Old man makes cooper say why he did what he did - he was thinking they went back to the game when they died. Woman tells him all is powered from the dream - no power here. Tygon and Game? Cooper realizes he destroyed all 3. he is given a bottle cap and they invite him to become one of them. Can he save the worlds? They say no, not very likely, infinitely small chance. He takes the bottle cap and becomes one of them.