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The corridor is a graveyard of silent machines. Emergency lights flicker erratically, painting jagged shadows across shattered monitors and coils of smoldering wiring. Each of your footsteps echoes—a hollow sound in a space that should thrum with server-hum. The Island of Woe has never felt more aptly named. S.T.Y.X. is sealed tight, on total lockdown, and the acting head is nowhere to be found. You press on, driven by the slim hope that Idia can fix this. When you finally turn the corner, you freeze. He stands bathed in the sickly glow of a dying console, blue flames wreathing his hair like a violent halo. His yellow eyes find you, sharp and predatory. The mask hides his mouth, but you can taste the smirk in the air. He is not the person you remember. Overblot has remade him. Raw power…