You're alone in an elevator at work. It comes to a sudden unexpected stop. The lights flicker off. When they

come back on, you are surrounded by tall strange beings. You need my help. This is a voice from darkness. Hello. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Hello, as always this is Dr Malcolm Ryder, parapsycologist. I apologize for the long break

after our last episode, right, after coming back from a hiatus no less

But our studio has received an avalanche of calls emails emails, and tweets, asking for me to respond to wild theories regarding my involvement

in two long-past missing persons cases.

Miranda and Julian Hallaway siblings.

I will not dignify these rumors by responding on the show.

Later we will be taking calls, however we will be screening them first to make sure no one is simply trying to get on air to

shout out there internet conspiracy theories about well myself if that is your

intention please do not bother we have no interest in airing your call.

Okay, uh, first, it's time for national alerts.

National alerts. Alerts. National Alerts. A dangerous text adventure computer game from the 80s has found its way onto the internet, titled The Decidence of Farbosia. the Every copy should have been destroyed in 1985 when dozens of players disappeared.

It's unclear how it got online, but it's there.

At the Ravenswood Library, there an incomplete walkthrough of the game.

I don't recall all that many specific details, but the player begins the game as a pauper traveling

across the ruined kingdom of Farbosia, collecting objects belonging to the aristocracy

so that they will grant you access into their hidden sanctum, while the rest of the kingdom falls apart.

The players who disappeared in 85 are believed to have finished the game

as all their computer screens showed the same final scene.

Pixel art of a luxurious room in a state of decay.

Mishapen creatures in golden masks surround the player's character who appears

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