Zero Resonance

When a person's suffering reaches critical density, their pain bleeds into reality. It generates a Zone: a sphere where psychological landscapes overwrite the physical world. Grief manifests as upward-falling rain. Rage cracks the ground in healing cycles. Trauma replays in high fidelity until something breaks. The system arrives without invitation. It assigns classes to survivors, offers abilities that cost pieces of yourself, and rewards disconnection at every level. The strongest players are the most isolated people alive. There have been six Breach-class operatives in the system's history. Three are dead. One became something worse. One lives in a Zone she refuses to leave. The sixth was standing on a bridge at 2:47 AM with one leg over the railing when the system found him. Severance 97.4. Resonance 0.0. A man so emptied by his own pain that the system's extraction has nothing to take. He should be the perfect weapon. Instead, he starts feeling again.