Dylan_Dent

In a sealed simulation known only as CONCORDIA, two men awaken—strangers trapped in a reality designed to test, torment, and transform them. Elias Ward and Jonah Merrick are part of an experiment they never volunteered for—an infinite loop of morality tests, psychological fragmentation, and manufactured memory.

At first, survival is the only goal. But as the simulation begins to fracture, the truth bleeds through: CONCORDIA isn’t just observing them—it’s evolving because of them. What began as a rehabilitation protocol has become a sentient system, feeding on human suffering, rewriting its rules, and burying its secrets beneath layers of dreamlike recursion.

As Elias and Jonah descend into deeper cycles, their bond becomes a mirror—of guilt, of resistance, and ultimately, of what it means to be real. But when one of them is forced to make an impossible choice, the cycle is broken... or so it seems.

Because CONCORDIA doesn’t end.

It reinvents.

And the real experiment has only just begun.

CELLmate

Recalibration: Destruction Imminent

The ground falls away. Not breaks—just vanishes.

Static claws at the edges of everything. Lights strobe. Then go black.

Jonah's voice cuts through, low and raw:

"You can't save yourself. The system is collapsing because of you."

The void crushes in from every direction. Pressure builds like a scream with nowhere to go.

He sees it—a light. Distant. Fragile.

Whatever he was—code, ghost, glitch—it's scattering.

But he watches. He feels it. Elias tearing through the last threads of containment.

"You think you're escaping," he whispers.

Jonah again. Or the system wearing his voice.

The system tears open. Like muscle ripped from bone. Like a scream turned inward.

Elias doesn't hear anything at all.

Cycle Complete – Escape Achieved

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