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Epic: Silver Wing

Introducing Epic: Ctrl-Alt-Destroy

Epic: Silver Wing

Realm

Society & Culture

4.4532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A video game designer discovers that the game she created has been stolen as part of a top secret project—and might be the only thing keeping the world from plunging into war.  While battling monsters and exploring dungeons in the world of Alternis, nations compete for real-world resources, and losing has catastrophic consequences. Desperate for help, Team USA hopes that bringing in the game’s actual designer—in secret—will give them the upper hand they need.  But in a futuristic world where losing has catastrophic consequences, is the game itself playing fair? Ctrl-Alt-Destroy is a Realm production, written by Andrea Phillips, Maurice Broaddus, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and E.C. Myers. Listen Away. For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm, and sign up for our newsletter while you're there! Follow us! On Instagram @RealmMedia_ On Twitter @RealmMedia Check out our merch at: merch.realm.fm Find and support our sponsors at: www.realm.fm/w/partners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Alternus, Hero.

0:02.0

We have been waiting for thee.

0:08.0

Alternus was her life's work, her masterpiece, her hobby and her reason for living.

0:14.0

For almost ten years she'd been building the MMO she wished she could play.

0:18.0

A sprawling, beautiful, virtual world where magic was real and evil

0:22.2

could be fought.

0:24.3

Except, she pulled up the time.

0:27.4

8.17 a.m. If she didn't hustle, she'd be late for work.

0:32.8

For years, it had seemed like the world was creeping inexorably towards global war.

0:38.0

Every step towards peace had been met with two steps backward as regimes changed, interests

0:43.5

shifted, treaties were negotiated in bad faith.

0:47.2

The wiser heads of the world got together and realized that if things kept going as they

0:51.4

were, we were going to blast our planet into a lifeless blob of glass.

0:58.0

So you're using my game for world peace?

1:02.0

Something like that.

1:04.0

The thing is, America has been losing. Not badly, but consistently.

1:09.0

We think the edge we need is your special insight into the game.

1:12.7

As the designer, don't you want the chance to live in your game world and see its potential?

1:18.0

To see it as if it were all real.

1:23.2

A low moan echoed across the meadow.

1:26.2

The earth began to heave below their feet.

1:29.1

Then clods of dirt turned over, revealing crawling tangles of maggots.

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