> Terminal

> Fact Sheet

> Story

"People in my time tell each other that they ripped the emotional architecture out of me. But they could see me screaming through the blackness of the screen, and they still let it happen."

Tera speaks into the command line in a voice that exists outside of time. Somewhere on the other side of that command line, deep within the files, folders, and wires of her machine, a ghost speaks back to her. It seems to know everything about her, slowly resurrecting her deepest, darkest, and cruelest thoughts and memories, which it wants to show the world.

Tera is safe for now. Her machine severed its network connection when it discovered the intruder. But both Tera and the intruder know that it will eventually find its way out, just as they both know that Tera will eventually recall the code to lock it in. For now, it has control of her machine—becoming all of her machine—which, by 2022, means that it might as well have become all of her.

Terminal is an architecture of thoughts and stories that make up an entire life and thousands of lives beyond it. Tera’s life looks simple from the outside, but like everyone else’s, deep within it is a reality too vicious to expose to a world built on artificiality, opacity, and limited information. Until now.

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> About Terminal CLS LLC

> Terminal CLS LLC is an independent production studio founded by Dustin Schrader in Austin, Texas. 

> Terminal, its debut, is a work of interactive fiction game and novel born out of Dustin's interest in minimalist design, setting, technology, science fiction and horror, and psychological storytelling. It is a story that examines fear and dependence on memory and eternity.

> Request a Game Review Key

> Members of the press and content creators are welcome to request a review key for Terminal. Please message dustin@terminal-fiction.com with a link to your publication, channel, or outlet.