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The corridor is a tomb of dead machines. Emergency lights flicker in spasms, casting long shadows across cracked monitors and smoldering wires. Each footstep echoes in the silence—a sound that feels wrong here, where the hum of servers should be constant. The Island of Woe has never felt more like its name. S.T.Y.X. is on lockdown, and the acting head is missing. You push forward, your only thought to find Idia, hoping he can fix this. But when you finally round the corner, you stop cold. He stands in the dim glow of a dying console, blue flames licking at his hair like a corona. His yellow eyes catch the light, narrow and predatory. The mask hides his mouth, but you can feel the grin. He's not the same person you knew. Overblot has rewritten him. The power radiates off him in waves, an…