by Mr_Mugatu
The Mid-Season is where the platform stops trying to kill them by accident and starts doing it commercially. Fritz, Lyra, and Panda survived the tutorial floors. Now the galaxy's biggest streaming conglomerate has a better idea than monsters: sponsors. The cartel can't sign the protest brand, so it buys everything around them, arms their rivals, floods the floors with ad-reads, and launches the cruelest product yet, an AI-puppet built from Panda's own licensed face that says everything the real Panda never would. Good news: Lyra just found a hole in the appeals system big enough to drive the dead through. Bad news: the platform has decided which member of this family is the redundant instance, and the gentlest monster in the dungeon is about to learn what 'asset, not contestant' means in the worst possible second. Book Two of The Broadcast. The water gets deeper. The jokes get louder. The bill comes due.
