Choose Or Die
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CURS>R is an interactive fiction computer game. Hal
starts playing the game thinking it's a simple text-based adventure game from
the 1980s. When objects in his environment begin to interact with the game, he
realizes it's something more. The game makes his family suffer as a result.
After the death of her son, Kayla's mother has become
addicted to heroin and subjected her to psychological and sexual abuse from her
rent collector. Kayla gives her computer-geek pal, Isaac, new and old equipment
in exchange for his help with coding.
Kayla accepts the challenge because she thinks it will be
easy money. She makes a deal with Isaac to split the prize after discovering
the game at his apartment.
Kayla begins playing the game in a café that night and
realizes that it may influence reality in a variety of ways—the game level
culminating in a waitress ingesting broken glass and dying. Kayla tries to end
the game the next day by destroying the video. She tells Isaac what occurred,
but he doesn't trust her narrative.
Kayla's mother phones her later, desperate for assistance,
while she is working the graveyard shift. Kayla realizes that CURS>R has
escaped to the net and is pursuing her, forcing her to choose between saving
her mother from a swarm of rats and rescuing herself. Thea eventually falls out
of her bedroom window and is taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
They discover a code that allows the game to interact with
the real world. The game takes advantage of Kayla's grief over her brother's
drowning in a public pool, exploiting her grief for him. Isaac and Kayla use
the prize number to get access to the game's storage facility. When they figure
out the code, the game traps Isaac and forces, Kayla, to choose between saving
him or killing him.
In the game, Kayla is given a set of coordinates to follow
that will lead her to Hal's residence. Hal is now a terrible man who tortures
his wife Laura and son Gabe. The game commands Kayla and Hal to battle while
inverting their pain. Kayla wins the game prize, allowing her to completely
control the curse. She utilizes this power to murder Lance, healing both
herself and her mother in the process. Beck then asks Kayla who will be the
next to suffer once it is revealed that the building where she works is owned
by him.
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