Deverin: Hi, this is Deverin, writer and creator of Cyberscape Neo. This is a science-fantasy isekai series that ties together the philosophy of transhumanism and the drama of contrasting perspectives. We bring you into the world of a distant future where a particular company, whose public-facing industry is to make world-famous VR MMORPGs, was on the verge of migrating an AI into a human-like body for the first time. After a… failure, and some… internal struggles, this led to one of the founders forming a new company, which alongside creating the latest gaming masterpiece, Cyberscape Neo, also continued pursuing a questionable, yet ambitious initiative. I’ll... let Roland and Myra take it from here.

[**Scene Details: Roland’s mood and tone is similar to that of EP1, Scene 1, as if monologuing, albeit having the knowledge to help recap EP1-6 to preface EP7. Myra is accompanying in this scene to add clarification as a looming voice in the background, unheard by Roland, and timed as .

The “room” is a standard stage, as if Roland is presenting what will soon show up on a theater projector screen.**]

Roland: (friendly but forlorn) Hello and welcome to the Cyberscape… my new...

(looks down for a moment, exposing the inaccuracy of the term with his solemn tone) “home”…

(looking back up and continuing) My name... is Roland. Many others, as well as myself, are what are called “Synthetic Users.”

Myra: (10%. Grimacing and voicing through her gritted teeth.) My father’s... “Syns”. (pronounced “Sins”, spoken with heavy disdain)

Roland: (explaining the nature of Syns in a reminiscing tone) Whether we suffered from a terminal illness or barely survived a near-fatal accident, we have all been offered the…

(turns his eyes away again, but shakes it off faster) opportunity... to live out a seemingly eternal life, so long as it’s within the Cyberscape.

Myra: (10%. Purely sardonic. Curving into a cruel smile on “oh wait…”) An opportunity of a lifeti-- oh wait… Heh.

Roland: (catching the audience up on recent events, sighing) Because of our status as Synthetic Users, the players in these games don’t understand who or what we are, usually assuming that we’re just non-player characters acting oddly. We tend to like it better this way, since we’re under NDA and can’t explain our circumstances, anyways.

(narrowing his eyes and speaking in a serious tone) Problem is… it seems to be someone’s objective to set the players against us - to kill us. You’d think that wouldn’t be a problem -- that we’d just respawn. Sadly, as of the latest patch, that’s... no longer the case…

[Stage curtain draws open and Roland steps aside with it, followed by Myra’s glitch effect.]

Myra: (Rehearsed and Cheery) See for yourself!

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