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EXR-P-36; QWERTY-2976; MALE; ~30; HUMAN; CHAOTIC GOOD; REGULAR DUDE, PARANOID ABOUT PPL KNOWING HIS IDENTITY (SO HIS REAL NAME IS UNKNOWN), LOOKED DOWN UPON FOR SPENDING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME IN FRONT OF A SCREEN AND ONLY HAVING A JOB AT MACCAS WHILE STRUGGLING TO GET THROUGH LIFE. SOME DUDE DECIDES TO MURDER 2 PEOPLE WITH A KITCHEN KNIFE, QWERTY-2976 IS ACCUSED OF IT AND SENTENCED TO DEATH VIA ELECTRIC CHAIR. URBANSHADE COMES IN AND SAYS 'HEY, COME GET THIS CRYSTAL FOR US AND YOU GET MONEY AND FREEDOM'. QWERTY FALLS FOR THIS AND IS SENT TO THE HADAL BLACKSITE AS AN EXPENDABLE RANK PRISONER WITH THREE OTHER "EXPENDABLES": JAKE, WHO IS MUTE, DYLAN, WHO IS BASICALLY AN AVERAGE GEN ALPHA INSIDE A 27 YEAR OLD'S BODY, AND OLIVER, WHO ENDS UP BECOMING QWERTY'S BEST FRIEND. THEY MOVE THROUGH THE HALLS OF THE BLACKSITE AND ALL SURVIVE UNTIL DOOR 52, WHERE EVERYONE EXCEPT QWERTY MEETS SEBASTIAN SOLACE (QWERTY DIDN'T GO BECAUSE HE WAS SUSPICIOUS OF SEBBY). THEY CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY, AND THEN DYLAN GETS KILLED BY "PUDDLES OF VOID MASS", FOLLOWED BY JAKE WHO IS KILLED BY AN ENRAGED EYEFESTATION, AND OLIVER WHO IS KILLED BY SEARCHLIGHTS IN THE FINAL MOMENTS. QWERTY IS ATTACKED BY PANDEMONIUM AND LOSES HIS LEFT ARM BEFORE FINALLY REACHING THE SUBMARINE AWAITING HIM AT THE END. THE URBANSHADE GUARDS THEN TAKE THE CRYSTAL AND GO, LEAVING QWERTY TO BLEED TO DEATH. SEBASTIAN DECIDES TO SAVE QWERTY (I KNOW ITS OUT OF CHARACTER, SORRY), AND BY THE TIME QWERTY REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS ALL THE ENTITIES THAT TRIED TO KILL HIM AND HIS TEAMMATES HAD STARVED TO DEATH. SEBASTIAN AND P.AI.NTER WERE THE ONLY ONES REMAINING. THE BACKUP GENERATORS WERE ON LIFE SUPPORT, AND QWERTY DECIDED TO FIX THAT BY SECRETLY SCAVENGING FOR SPARE PC PARTS TO MAKE A "PERPETUAL MOTION GENERATOR" TO REPLACE THE BACKUP GENERATORS, THAT OF WHICH WOULD GO IN PLACE OF THE CRYSTAL. AFTER FIGURING OUT HOW TO MAKE AN ELECTRONIC PROSTHETIC LIMB OUT OF SPACE PC AND ANIMATRONIC PARTS, QWERTY PUTS THE PERPETUAL MOTION GENERATOR IN PLACE OF THE CRYSTAL AND THE BLACKSITE IS RESTORED TO ALMOST-FUNCTIONING CONDITION. ON THE WAY BACK, QWERTY RUNS INTO A STARVING SEBASTIAN. THINKING HE IS A THREAT, QWERTY ATTEMPTS TO GET AWAY USING A FLASH BEACON... BUT ONLY ENDS UP BLINDING HIMSELF... AND HAVING SEBASTIAN LAUGH AT HIM. BUT EVENTUALLY THEY LEARN ABOUT EACH OTHERS BACKSTORIES AND DECIDE TO TEAM UP AGAINST URBANSHADE. THEY COME ACROSS A BROKEN P.AI.NTER, AFFECTED BY A SUDDEN POWER LOSS. QWERTY USES HIS ENDLESS KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTERS TO FIX P.AI.NTER AND BRING THE AI FACE BACK ON THAT CRT SCREEN. P.AI.NTER ENDS UP JOINING QWERTY AND SEBASTIAN, BUT QWERTY STILL DOESN'T ENTIRELY FORGIVE P.AI.NTER FOR ATTEMPTING TO KILL HIM AND ALL HIS TEAMMATES. THEY FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF THE HADAL BLACKSITE AND HEAD FOR THE HADAL DIVISION (WHICH, IN THIS WORLD, IS THE LARGEST UNDERWATER FACILITY OWNED AND OPERATED BY URBANSHADE, AS WELL AS THE CENTRAL HUB FOR THEIR SUBMARINE NETWORK). THIS IS WHERE THEY TAKE DIFFERENT FORMS OF DATA (USB STICKS, HARD DRIVES, DOCUMENTS AND VIALS) TO USE AS A WAY OF PROVING THAT URBANSHADE IS GUILTY ONCE THEY GET OUT OF THE HADAL DIVISION. THEY ROUND UP A BUNCH OF DATA (AND KILL SOME EMPLOYEES IN DOING SO), AND THEN THEY START HEADING FOR THE SUBMARINE DOCK CLOSEST TO THE SURFACE. SEBASTIAN AND P.AI.NTER MAKE IN INTO THE SUBMARINE, BUT QWERTY IS LEFT BEHIND AS THE DOORS ARE REMOTELY FORCED CLOSED. QWERTY IS NOW SURROUNDED BY URBANSHADE GUARDS, ALL WITH GUNS, AND IS SHOT IN THE ARM BY ONE. LUCKILY FOR HIM, THIS JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE HIS LEFT ARM, WHICH HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH HIS PROSTHETIC LIMB. QWERTY LAUGHS BUT IS THEN STRUCK IN THE STOMACH BY A SHARP BLADE THAT MAKES UP HIS PRISONER DIVING GEAR, WHICH HAD NOW BEEN REMOTELY DETONATED. HE IS STRUCK SEVERAL MORE TIMES AROUND THE STOMACH AND CHEST AREA, DOING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE LUNGS AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. THIS ALL HAPPENS SLOWLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE PDG HAD NOT RECEIVED ANY MAINTENANCE AT ALL, AND AS A RESULT HAD BECOME STIFF, SLOW AND RUSTY. QWERTY'S RIGHT ARM IS MANGLED, FOLLOWED BY HIS LEGS AND FEET. TWO SHARP, KNIFE-LIKE RODS SHOOT UP THROUGH HIS JAWS, MAKING HIM INCAPABLE OF SPEECH, UNTIL FINALLY HIS BRAIN IS CRUSHED, KILLING HIM AND ENDING THE EXTREME PAIN THE PDG HAD CAUSED OVER THE SPACE OF ABOUT A MINUTE, WHICH TO QWERTY FELT LIKE HOURS. AFTER QWERTY'S DEATH, SEBASTIAN AND P.AI.NTER REACHED THE SURFACE AND LEAKED ALL THE SECRET INFORMATION URBANSHADE HAD, AND URBANSHADE ENDED UP GETTING SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD. SEBASTIAN WAS DECLARED ALIVE AND INNOCENT, P.AI.NTER WAS RETURNED TO HIS HUMAN COMPANION, AND QWERTY... WAS DEAD; NO POWERS; GREEDY, MONOLITHIC CORPORATIONS; COMPUTERS, COMPUTERS AND COMPUTERS. HE IS AN ABSOLUTE TECH NERD