Virtual Prophet

## Chapter Breakdown

Virtual Prophet

1 – 49 hours before darkness.  13 enjoys his new freedom.  Has a job offer, moves to a nice town “things are finally going my way”

2 – 24 hrs before Day of Darkness. 13 gets a job offered. Goes to see a movie, sees a cell phone for the 1st time.

3 – Brandon wakes up in the Dream. Thorn is the one to wake him.  Finds out his avatar Brandon is still alive, asks if trew had a melt down when he saw the video. Everything is still on track, wants to go back in quick.

4 – Trew is dealing with the trauma finding out he's an NPC.  Updates – Brandon's body is stable, getting updates about what is happening inside the game from players as they exit.  Danni has built a large colony (tribe) of about 45,000, average groups are less than 200.  Trew takes over as Brandon's successor and them working

5 – Danni, 1st person (62), watches a new group at the gates.  Goes to her office, greeted & excited smiles about her birthday party.  Carl says Daniel wants to meet her outside the city – she agrees.

6 – Trew meets the 12 game masters, no ideas how to re-establish contact with game feeds.

Foundation – held for 15 yrs, leader for 9 – average game master held for 2years.  Trew has an idea, realizes these can't help.  \*\* visits Hack with Cooper.  Game functions they think must be a clock between tygon and earth, they wonder who could cause this.  \* Cooper created the timeless

7 – Cooper and Trew go to crappier part of town and meet Janicka, she tattoos Trew and delivers messages from Danni while she does tattoo. 37 hours since contact has been lost.  Inside the game Gamers get a tattoo to show their affiliation

8 – Carl/Danni sneak away to meet Daniel, he is looking for someone and threatens her & the colony unless she gives the person to him.\*\*\*Thirteen newly arrived at the colony\*\*

Sitting at camp fire the old man appears & whisks him to safety.

9 – Danni – Devil returns angry that he can't find 13and then leaves.  She tells Carl old man sent.  Danni knows when he is near, but the Timeless cannot sense him

10 – Trew grills Cooper for info as Copper has been on Tygon before.  Guesses Brandon dropping triggered the blackout but does not know for certain. Trew asks Cooper what to do next, Cooper says it is not up to him – he won't make big calls.  Brandon says he thinks it's okay.  Cooper says that in Trew, Brandon created a copy of himself to leave when the exit part of his plan was to be executed.  Sylvia says one monitor in Brandon's penthouse is showing the Game

11 – Angelica is sparring Sam. Carl says he will fight her when she has a chance to beat him.  Skylar & Courtney -  Angelica knows them, but did know they were timeless

12 – Danni & Melissa – say they need more flyers. She tells Melissa to see if old cam can help her speed up training people.  Hears about 13 and mentions Miranda was called 3 by Shane, they decide to check it out

13 – Trew & Cooper watch live feed, can't control it.  Thorn calls.  Discussion about NPC's. After 4 hours the monitor does dark.  Trew knows what to do next.

14 – Danni – Miranda does not recognize 13. Miranda is sad, misses Sparx.  Miranda is now an Eternal.  They call old man Grandpa, he does not like this and turns it around on Raph.  Danni says “I want to know who you really are” he answers “so do I dear, so do I” - his way of side stepping the question.  Stephanie's eyes have gone crimson!

15 – Steph at campfire, Daniel joins her.  She kills him and becomes the Devil

16 – Trew addresses thousands of ejected gamers – tells them thoughts are real.  He levitates the silver bar then levitates himself as well.

17 – Brandon & Thorn watch Steph kill Daniel/Wessley and Brandon sees his Hand is stasis, no idea if Wessley returned to his body when he was ejected.  Thorn agrees to return Brandon to Tygon now.

18 – Carl visits Steph, coaches her a bit on being the Devil.  She tries to kill him, but he knocks her on her ass.  She is feeling bad for liking being bad.  He reminds her most are NPC's & rest are kids playing.

19 – Danni questions 13, he tells them Shane is responsible for the Day of Darkness

20 – They talk about Shane, how big a threat he is, squads that hunt him and how it is Timeless priority to go after him.  They talk about Sparx's plan.  They all tell Danni about Steph and their plan, that she is the Devil now

21 – Danni decides to steal away in the night to find Shane, old man shows up and says he will take her to him

22 – Raph tells Carl that Danni is gone, they start a search

23 – Trew/Michelle – numbers are up, Game frenzy & interest is at an all time high – 280M ejected since the Day and Gamers before that total about 400M.  Why are so many being ejected? Because Brandon wanted Gamers on Tygon for Trew.  They hear there is a 13 year old kid in Brandon's penthouse.

24 – Danni is 67 and 4 years into her trek, old man gives her Kyanite.  Elliot says they are close to finding Shane

25 - Stephanie's dream of people stepping off skyscrapers.  Carl wakes her and praises her for doing well as the Devil the last few years.  Praise for the Sisters.  Asks her for the specials (she has 5 of the 13), but she is not sure she wants to give them up even though that was part of the plan before she became the Devil.  She has enemies that need to be killed and Carl offers to do it for her if she gives the 5 over once he kills her enemies - she agrees.

26 - Cooper & Trew meet young Brandon (he has entered at the same age he is in the Dream, 13).  They discuss Trew watching Interlude, Cooper not happy, he know the price Brandon is paying for coming back into the Sim. Brandon admits the feeds down was part of his plan (as his body died, feeds were to die).  Cooper tells Trew all the ejected are becoming Gamers - there are 400M instead of the 100M. Brandon says when enough fans "Will it' to happen, the feeds will be restored. Why? A demonstration to show the masses what is possible. Trew asks what happens after that but Brandon laughs and says he won't guess, it's Trew's show now.  Brandon intends to enter the Game when the feeds come back up.  Admits his plan has always been to wake those trapped from the Dream.  Brandon guesses feed will restore in approx 3 days.

27 - Danni is in a foul mood, and is about to turn 70, but still only looks 40. Her and the old man have been walking for 7 years, for her birthday he promises she will meet Shane.

28 - Trew spends some time chatting with Brandon, finds out that Brandon/Thorn can see Game feeds from the Dream. Brandon forgot about the old man, met the purple god in a dream.  The realize the old man has appeared in a dream, in the Dream, and in the Game.  Sylvia does not know who he is but can see he has appeared in the Game from the beginning. Talk about tygon's god, sylvia expresses desire to meet him.

29 - Danni meets Shane and tells him to turn the power back on.  Danni learns she has crossed an ocean by walking.  Threatens Shane, he laughs.  Old man threatens to kill Danni to end Shane.  Tells shane he has been unplugged back home.

30 - Brandon says it is time and to get immersed.  He and Trew predict 100% focus on the game whenit comes back up.  Shane agrees but conditional to Danni and old man not telling anyone it is back on - they agree. Shane snaps his fingers, says it is done, and walks away.  Danni is pissed for what she went through to find Shane, she expected more.  She threatens to attack, he chuckles.  She attacks.  \*Power and the feeds come back up \*\*Brandon goes into the Game, leaves message for Trew - keep a very close eye on Melissa.

31 - Danielle age 70, attacks Shane. Quickly realizes she is out matched, stops attacking.  Old man opens a doorway and they leave.

32 - Danni and Old man find the colony has been taken over by Stephanie. Danni's eternal and a few others left & waited for her return.  At the command centre they are surprised by this too.  Trew wants to be caught up on everything ASAP.

33 - Danni and Raph fly to the hideout. Frog that chnges is sex - Nature (the Game) maintains/creates Balance.  All timeless mourn each other, it is permanent death.  Rather than hand over her 5 of 13, Steph invaded the colony & took the rest peaceful.  Takeover

34 - Cooper tells Trew that Brandon has disappeared, they pull up his feed but it is not of a baby.  Sylvia assures them it is Brandon and that he can enter at whatever age he wants to. He is a 20 year old male. In the Game, Brandon meets Melissa, tells her his name is Azrael -  the Archangel of Death? - Brandon prefers the angel who guides souls back to their home and tells Melissa she does not belong here anymore - shows her the other reality, tells her she will "wake up"

35 - Danni - they discuss how to face Steph.  Raphael and Carl lead her to the vacern.  She sees that the fabric of the Game is breaking apart.  They think the 13 can help slow or stop the process.

36 - Trew decides to tell the fans that this was scripted as part of the 30th year celebrations.  Wants to make contact with Timeless but normal ways are unavailable. Thorn is waiting for Trew in Brandon's office and tells him that Brandon going back into the game is accelerating the power consumption! They had 7 weeks, but Brandon re-entering the game has cut that down to 3 weeks. Had 70 game years, but now only 30.

37 - Danni goes to the Colony with Raph and they are greeted by the sisters - Courtney and Skylar. They tell Danni and Raph about all the NPC's that are dying. They do a fly over of the colony then they go to see Stephanie.  Trew is worried the plague may spread to Tygon and kill everyone, but then he sees in a flash the purpose of the Game.

38 - Danni, Raph and Carl meet Stephanie and they discuss the plague, balance and how timeless help maintain it.  Day of Darkness skewed the balance so far to one side that infernals helped for good - setting up colonies around the world. Daniel would not have done as well as Stephanie in this setting. The timeless have a theory that NPC's dying is a KEY EVENT.  Melissa emerges from Door way with Azrael, the timeless recognize him and are happy to greet him. He tells Danni he is here to guide everyone home.

39 - at the CC Trew was watching the monitor till Azrael scrambled it.  130k NPC's have died so far. Trew goes to rest and finds the old man on the couch.  This is the first time we see him on Tygon.  He confirms that NPC's dying on Earth are not NPC's.

40 - Azrael tells Danni that Melissa will be teaching her a new lesson, more important that flying.

41 - Old Man confirms to Cooper and Trew that Trew is 95% on right track (nothing is 100%). Old man explains to Trew that he is just as real as anyone else. Everyone, every where is made from code & energy - doesn't matter if it is digital or organic. Tells Trew to watch Melissa's channel, when the time is right get ready for all hell to break lose.

42 - Carl wakes up when Danni enters his room (for the 21st time). They have an intimate discussion and we can see they care for each other. We learn that she came to his room after every time he saved her life to decide if she would kill him or not for what he did to Trew.

43 - the kids on Tygon are all recruited to enter the Game again en masse - 500 million tables will be needed.  Danni is still 70, Azrael is discussing the "waking up" concept without dying. Close eyes here, open them in real body.  Universal Law - if something can be done once, then it can be done again.  Melissa has opened the door, Danni will walk through and show everyone else the way.

44 - Danni is learning to do this, it is all about the glow. Azrael tells her they have time, maybe 25 years. She is relieved but he says that for the plan to work, she must wake up within the next 6 months. \*\* 3 months later, Melissa succeeds at a full awakening. \*\*\*Trew wants to go meet the kid playing as Melissa, Not possible - Melissa was an Earth NPC!

45 - Dillon and his brother, Cory, discover that the power is back on

46 – Trew is confused about how Melissa could have a feed to watch is she is an NPC? Sylvia says that it happens when NPC's becomes super popular. She set it up whe the girl joined Danni.  Trew makes a call, he thinks he found her. \*\*\* When Thorn is checking in on Brandon's form on of the other bodies wakes up, it is Melissa.  She is a Dream citizen.

47 – Trew gets update on Melissa from Thorn – sim is not pulling her back in.  Trew thinks Thorn is using NPC consciousness to reanimate bodies. She is the real melissa. Merged Tygon 3.0 & Earth during a reset in year 20 of the game. Melissa is a member of coopers Hand that volunteered to go in. Next – see if Danni can wake up then teach 500 million to do the same.

48 – Danni is 71. She is nervous as Azrael says that some have left their bodies and woken up the odd time but never reached their original bodies.  Melissa made it though.  \*\* Cooper and trew talk possibilities. Allude/guess to another simulation for all of them.  Trew goes to Danni's (alexandra's room)

49 – Shane meets up with Brandon and they discuss the Game coming to an end.  Brandon tells Shane (Easton) he has been the best devil.

50 - Azrael meets up with Danni on a bluff and they discuss a memory she has had of a past life during her morning meditation.  It is the play where she died while being born and the feeling of surrender and then feeling like anything was possible and everything was within her grasp - Azrael tells her that is the feeling she must let herself feel during meditation in order to wake up - total surrender

51 - All feeds are on Danni/Alexandra to watch her meditate in the Game and then wake up on Tygon

52 - Danni, age 71 - starts her meditation to wake up.  Once immersed she sees the old man and he tells her it is time -  she opens her eyes and Trew is there holding her hand.  Her avatar in the game is still alive and in a trance

53 - Azrael opens his eyes and sees that Danni's avatar is still breathing, he tells Raph to keep the body living and in good shape.  Azrael is going to assemble the 13 groups of 13 and instructs Raph to spread the word about the power being back on. Births are about to increase by 500M.  Back on Tygon, they clear Alexandra and they speak to Lisa for a moment before Trew and her spend some time alone.

54 - Danni,  Trew and Cooper sit in Sylvia's office.  Cooper fills Danni in on the plan and she learns she must go back into the game

55 - Danni returns to the Earth to sho it is possible to wake up - important for Earthling to know that they can "wake up" & that they actually go somewhere else.  Free perks from Sylvia - the 500M being born will grow up with a strong belief in their ability to transcend. Danni leans Brandon on Azrael and that upon her return, he will introduce her as the Prophet he has been talking about.

56 - Back in the Dream Thorn tells the General the Dreamers will soon awaken and that he needs the two of them to work together to rebuild the world.  The General agrees.

57 - Thirteen wakes up and remembers who he is, start to gather as teams to restore order. \*\*\*danielle has a press/video message to motivate the masses.  After the broadcast Azrael tells her there is much more work to do

58 - Danni comes out of the Game again and her team at the CC is not sure what to do since technically she is still in the Game. For the next 10yrs, children will be born and Danni is not needed. Timeless will be schooliing the kids, these children will be called the Chosen. Everyone will adore them.  On Tygon, only Cooper, Trew & Danni know that Brandon is Azrael. The team agree that Danni's avatar can die as they have another way to put her in the Game later.

59 - Fans wonder why it is so important for players to wake up, but are playing along.  Danni & Trew are in bed enjoying a brief break.  Trew has not told her NPC's were from the Dream or that Tygon isn't real. He wonders if the Game will shut down after the event.

60 - Danni and Trew visit Sylvia. She informs them the Game will not end. When the Dreamers leave their avatar bodies, Sylvia will place consciousnesses that identically match those leaving, to most, it will be like  nothing happened.

61 - Brandon and his Hand meet up at Stonehenge.  The hatchet is buried between Angelica and Carl. Split up continents, each controls a section of the Timeless.  All have Gold, crimson, & Platinum flecks in their eyes. They ask if the game will be shut down after they achieve their objective - they still all believe they have bodies to go back to. Brandon says he will decide later.

62 - Many of the Chosen are not proving effective, but that is expected.  Turtle analogy, out of 500 million, slightly less than 100,000 are going to be able to act as guides & facilitators. Higher than Azrael expected so he is good. Final stages of a very long game. They are not keen to go back to their teenage bodies. Azrael asks for alternatives.

63 - Cooper and Trew dine.  Trew wonders where he goes when not with him.  Cooper says there are serious threats & he monitors & prevents issues. "The other teams are here aren't they" Trew asks, Cooper says yes. Cooper's protection keeps Trew safe. Thorn and the General watch teams work, now both are calling each other by their first names. General wants to shut down the simulations. Thorn will not allow it, until every one is out at least. Brandon's body is dead.

64 - most NPC's are dreamers, all players are avatars. But there are still many, many place holder avatars - automatons programmed by the mainframe. Danni asks if Trew has been speaking to the Purple God, he says yes. Sylvia wistfully wants to meet him still.

65 - Lisa is a huge celebrity thanks to her access to Trew & Brandon. The climax occurs - Game fans are disappointed at how boring it is. No one know what really happened. Danielle & Trew interview with Lisa. \*\*Danni is #1 money earner to have ever played the game and is the richest woman in the world.

66 - Thorn comes to visit Brandon. They are saved. The Dreamers. Groups of 13 are awesome forces (Easton's idea). Once the meditation was successful, everyone blinked, looked around, then went back to their lives. In their minds, the event didn't even occur. Chosen stopped resonating, became normal once more. \*\*No one in the Game will remember the event. Thorn tells him his body died. He can still go between Tygon and Earth. Thorn says he will keep tygon Sim powered.

67 - Brandon finds himself in the jungle, finds the treehouse, old man is there. He joins the old man for a good, long visit.

Epilogue - Cooper meets Lohkam and we find out Cooper has been working for the General the whole time. General watches Thorn and smiles an evil grin.