The portal is at — / 1000 fragments. Every activation pulls Muteland closer to the surface. You're reading this because someone before you cracked a code.

The resistance alphabet leaks onto Muteland's billboards overnight. Funoffenders can't decode it. The first SEED tokens start circulating hand-to-hand.

Sonic the Headshot and Goukken take over an abandoned arcade hall — The Nebuchadnezzar. The first underground concert. Three years after their parents died in the Feedback Event.

Lyra Moonkid — creator of SEED and HappyRage — vanishes from her studio. The Syndicate denies everything. Three years of silence follow. Her tapes survive — barely.

Arcadia 2000 — the entertainment grid that ran the city — tears the line between reality and game. Out of the chaos rises the Silence Syndicate. Sound becomes a crime. Arcadia becomes MUTELAND.