The voice returned, softer now. “Uploading consciousness. Estimated time: 0 seconds. Welcome to the server, Leo. Your first shift begins now.”
Then the screen went black.
Leo froze. The Maze was his white whale. A lost psychological thriller from the 80s, never released on DVD, scrubbed from every legitimate database. He’d read about it on obscure forums. People said the final reel was rumored to have driven test audiences into panic attacks.