We've just about reached the half-way point in the third beta test of Veiled City. With each passing day, the world's doom grows closer.

In Sjena, conspiracies are still cool and not sad and depressing things your elderly relatives forward you from Facebook.

The Saucer People have pulled into the lead. It's not looking good for Earthlings at the moment. Ready yourselves for daily probes should those shifty grey bastards take the prize. But we're still just getting started. Weeks of game to go, so you can come protect your planetary turf!

The system we use to create memetic patterns for city residents glitches sometimes. An overseer identified two possible assets named Cory Wall and flagged it. I pulled them up in our database and they ARE distinct people. I had one reprogrammed to be named NotCory. It's the little things, you know?

I should introduce myself. I'm the administrator they call Puppetmaster, and I'm in charge of Veiled City Administrative Services. We run the only game that matters - the game that determines the fate of the world, and who pulls the strings. I've had worse jobs... this one has a matching 401K.

I feel bad for all of you out here stuck on the original Internet. The Internet 3.0 we have in Sjena has no spam at all. Mostly because sending spam is punishable with assassination by hashishim. But no spam! Turns out threat of being murdered in your bed is a good deterrent to enshittification.