<・`'.future.gum.'`・>

[Gum do Mugu]

Ghosts frazzled CRDCS routers with a sick surge of packets; every node clogged like molasses, slowing to a creep. Disconnected. The malicious behaviour suddenly and violently disconnected CRDCS from the wide area network that linked all future individuals. They two original users were trapped in the hardware centre, just a moment and they'd been flipped from global to local.

<G・U・M>

:://

The destiny of all spirits is to leave this world and travel to the next.

Future Mugu's targets, a: and m: raced the wires looking for safe flash memory to dump copies of themselves. But it wasn't just Gum in the machine, his spectral minions summoned from the Underworld were infecting every inch of storage space left on the local network.

<G・U・M>	:://	Do not fear the next life.
<a: {*}!!>	:://	fuck you gum you fucking creep the network cops will get you hacker trash
<m:・`'. >	:://	you promise there's another life after this??? you can guarantee that to me right now????
<G・U・M>	:://	I have lived in the Overworld and the Underworld; neither is more real than the other. Submit now, and it will ease your passing.

m: stopped running. His essence began bouncing back and forward between switches while he waited for the shaman to catch him.

<G・U・M>

:://

m:, you will be at peace in the next life.

m:'s signal disappeared from the system and, somewhere in the future's Radasanth, his client slipped into hibernate.