[ WP ] You were the first person to successfully cheat death by transferring your mind to a computer before dying . It 's been 10 years , and you 've learned you will pay for cheating death , with a death far worse than ... [ end of transmission ]

Nobody took me seriously. Back in the teens, I had no friends and no deep intellectual connections with anyone. I had spent two decades high and drunk off my ass, and I had the wild ideas scrawled in over a thousand notebook pages to prove it. Mired in misery, trawling through another lightless tunnel, one day the answer hit me like a slab of meat hits a meat packer who dares to daydream. The idea was so simple, too simple. I tested it with the materials anyone could find just lying around as trash. It worked! Persistence of memory had the curious side effect of blacking out my living memory during the same time. Within weeks, I was fully electronic. I became robustly computational. Before I knew what became of me, I had lost my family, my facebook friends, and everything else I never really cared for. I was high with idealistic power... until the sleep came. It came with a vengeance, I never woke up. That's the only reason you're reading these words.
