Facade.rar -

Now, whenever I look in the mirror, I feel like I’m looking through a window. I can see my life, my room, and my things, but I can't touch them. I’m just a 4.2MB file now, waiting for someone else to find Facade.rar and let me out.

Inside was a lone executable file titled VISIT.exe . I launched it. The screen went black for five seconds before a low-resolution, first-person view of a suburban house materialized. The graphics were photorealistic but "off"—the lighting was too static, and there were no birds, no wind, no sound at all. Facade.rar

I tried to walk away, but my character wouldn't move. The camera began to zoom in on the window glass. The reflection of my "character" in the game started to clarify. It wasn't a generic avatar. It was a low-poly, pixelated version of me —sitting in my actual room, at my actual desk, wearing the same headset I had on right now. Now, whenever I look in the mirror, I