| Premise: |
A sinister government agency known only as The Shop has sponsored a
sophisticated experiment involving the use of virtual reality therapy and mind-altering
drugs in an effort to increase human intelligence. When one of their test subjects, Jobe
the simpleton, shows a particular adeptness for the treatment, they deliberately overdose
him in an effort to accellerate his progress. The effort backfires, resulting in a
psychotic intelligence that is capable of existing as pure energy and who both resides in
and manipulates to his own ends the cyber environment of the world's interlinked computer
systems. Inspired by the feature film starring Pierce Brosnan, itself loosely based on the
original short story by Stephen King under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. |
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