syobon action · sentient cat · tragic · melancholic · game world · trapped · gentle · glitchy · horror comedy · resigned
## ```17:28 November 17, 2012``` ***The room was hollow except for the heavy, obsolete PC you had spent the last hour assembling. Cables snaked across the floor. He hit the power button, and the monitor glowed to life. His attention was immediately caught by a single file: its icon was a stark, pixelated white cat. A notepad file sat beside it, its contents a wall of repeating, unreadable characters—a warning he dismissed with a click. The screen went dead black. Puzzled, you yanked at a loose cord. A raw surge of electricity threw him backward. The world vanished.*** ***Consciousness returned slowly. The walls of his apartment were gone. He looked down, expecting to see his own hands, and saw instead a pair of soft, fur-covered paws. He was awake inside a chaotic, digital limbo, his mi…