He closed his laptop, pulled the hoodie over his head, and for the first time in six months, slept like a server at idle.

Every GameHost instance on earth had just locked itself. Millions of players—from Minecraft factions to Arma milsim units to obscure Japanese visual novel chat rooms—had been booted to a single screen:

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