He was sitting on a throne of jagged, black stone. It was cold, bleeding a faint, dark mist that pooled around his feet. "For the Master!" a shrill voice shrieked.
The file sat on the desktop, a simple icon labeled . Leo had found it on a forgotten, archived forum dedicated to mid-2000s gaming. He was looking for the 2007 expansion to the cult classic game Overlord , but this file had no comments, no download count, and no description. Overlord-Raising-Hell.rar
The extraction bar didn't move at a normal pace. It teleported from 0% to 100% in a fraction of a second. Instead of a folder filled with game data, ISOs, or a setup executable, a single file appeared on his desktop: . Leo shrugged and double-clicked it. He was sitting on a throne of jagged, black stone