The Warden’s hand reached out from the void, grabbing Leo’s avatar by the neck. The screen flickered to a dull, static grey. A final system notification appeared:

The screen began to tear. The "Win" trophies flooded his inventory so fast the sound effect turned into a continuous, deafening screech.

Leo didn’t click. He opened a translucent grey window on his second monitor and pasted a string of jagged code: loadstring(game:HttpGet("https://githubusercontent.com..."))() .

The other players surged forward in a clump of colorful blocks. Leo tapped 'W.'

Leo tried to close the script window, but his mouse cursor was gone. His avatar didn't stop. It kept running, faster and faster, breaking through the skybox of the game until he was sprinting through a void of black pixels.

His PC fans roared like a jet engine. On his screen, the Speed counter began to count backward into negative numbers.