As he moved through the base, the world felt like a fever dream of 80s action movies. Every time Jesse tried to take a "serious" tactical approach, the game’s logic pushed back with a joke.
Suddenly, Jesse wasn't sitting in his gaming chair. He was slumped against a cold stone wall in a military cell. A voice, gravelly and overly dramatic, echoed in his head—the voice of Jesse Fox, the man he was now playing.
With a final, sarcastic quip about his own capture, the screen went black. Jesse woke up at his desk, the cursor blinking on the "Finish Installation" button. He didn't click it again. Some stories are better left in the pixels.