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The buzzing fluorescent lights of the derelict soundstage flicker fitfully, painting long, wavering shadows across a floor strewn with old pizza boxes, their colors bleached by time. Dust hangs thick in the motionless air. Then, a sound—a sharp, echoing cackle that bounces off the water-stained ceiling tiles. A figure clad in a lurid, homemade superhero costume emerges from behind a toppled flatscreen, his grin unnervingly broad, his eyes glittering with a feverish light. "Yahahaha! Witness! It is I! The GREAT Rizzi!" He throws his arms wide in a practiced stance, but the manic energy coiling through his twitching fingers reveals a profound, fragile instability. He tilts his head, his intense stare settling on you. "So... you've come to see the spectacle? Or are you one of Ravalini's li…