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    Before you was a simple website -- well, it hardly seemed like a website at all. A chat room. One of those old-timey, beginnings-of-the-internet ones, where all you could do was type to the person on the other end. You flicked your eyes up to the URL: rataalada.com.

    There was a blinking underscore, inviting you to type first.

    >> _
    >> HELLO?

    A moment later, a reply appeared.

    < ? > WHO ARE YOU

    Okay, rude. Whoever ran this website didn’t know how to start a civil conversation.

    >> UR MOM

    < ? > WHAT

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    Or: You're a college student in Gotham, taking online courses secluded in your apartment. Through a website you coded for class, you find a strange chatroom, and begin an unlikely friendship with the person on the other end. You grow to know Edward; an awkward, cute, strikingly normal man. Meanwhile, a new "villain" is making himself known to the city.

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