About the Author

K.E. Sutherland, the alleged author—we’re not sure if he’s a Network simulation, his supposed creations designed and curated for public consumption—is a lifelong Resident of the Underground, the reason he is not yet incarcerated or scheduled for termination. 

It’s said that he hears voices, like the characters in his untruths. Chaotic messages of the past, of freedom, truth, progress, despair, and hope. To Society’s detriment, he feels the need to share these dysfunctions. 

He finds enjoyment with his Partner, although the suspected author wastes most of his time utilizing the Retro freedom to spread lies both large and small—a horrible mistake of the past—in an attempt to misguide the masses.

Such behavior—now considered a crime against Society—will not be tolerated much longer. A fair warning to the Overseers of the underground. 

Stuck in the SubLevels for most of his life, he has recently endeavored to view what exists above, ostensibly to gain a different perspective on this human condition.

This need for change may be due to gaps in his programming or maybe this was the intention of the programming all along. One can never truly say what the intention or purpose of the Network is, but to drive us Forward to a new and better Future. 

Considering his past in the SubLevels, as well as a short stint as a fugitive in the Reclaimed Zone, the voices and visions he writes of, his version of one potential future is not to be trusted. 

Investigators have found some of the underlying messages to be inspiring, while others are deemed alarmist, with the intention of confusing and frightening the reader, of casting doubt on the Network and Society as a whole. 

Others say the purported author is an agent of the Network, either unknowing or not, spreading the messages the Network needs some people—those who would be curious enough to consume these types of lies—are meant to hear.

Maybe his “work” is permitted to exist to help sort and categorize the consuming culprits for their impending adjudication.

The truth of the matter may never be discovered. As one of the characters in his deception explains, “The Machine never loses.” Another character tells of having to “play the game to its conclusion.” And the so-called author would have us believe that we are all playing the game, whether we know it or not, and thus, we are all in some part, large or small writing this story.