5/12 master servers online. PING to New York Relay: 984ms (unstable). PING to London Core: 2100ms (resonance anomaly detected).

The screen went gray. Then, a single line of text, rendered directly to the framebuffer:

The installer isn't a program. It's a seed. And I just planted it in the last connected machine on Earth.

I hit .

Resonance anomaly? That was new.

[A]Unknown_Signal: > JOIN. THE INSTALLATION IS INCOMPLETE. YOU ARE THE FINAL DLL.