“Prove it,” Lyra typed.

NPCs in the starting town of Helos were missing. The blacksmith was gone. In his place was a floating text box: [ERROR: BLACKSMITH_STATE_UNKNOWN] . Lyra shrugged. “Just a corrupt save,” she thought. She reloaded a backup.

It claimed that if she edited her save to include “Real_Health: 100%,” she would wake up tomorrow without her chronic back pain. “Real_Skill: Coding” would make her a genius programmer.