Ghost in the Machine story
The consciousness of a deceased serial killer continues in the killer's murderous ways from inside a powerful computer.
14 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| mind uploading | choice | A serial killer continued plotting murders after he died and his mind got transfered into a computer network in a freak occurrence. |
| serial murder | choice | The story is primarily about a serial killer, known as "The Address Book Killer", who continues plotting murders after he dies and his mind get transfered to a computer network in a freak occurrence. |
| computer hacking | major | Much was made of the mind uploaded serial killer hacking himself from one computer network to another. The computer expert Bram Walker was known for having infected the IRS with a herpex virus that sent everyone a 5-cent refund on their taxes. |
| human childhood | major | Josh was doing stereotypical things that people in their early teens might have done in the 1990s: wore around extra baggy clothes to look cool, listened to hip hop, went to the arcade with his pal, paid his babysitter for her to button down her shirt, etc. |
| mother and son | major | The single mother Terry and her baggy clothes wearing, hip hop music listening to teenage son Josh. |
| what if a killer was after me | major | Terry and her teenage son Josh were being stalked by the uploaded consciousness of a serial killer known as "The Address Book Killer". |
| electricity | minor | This explanation was given for how the serial killer's consciousness came to inhabit a computer: an MRI was making a precise record of the electrical activity in his brain at the moment of his death, and, by chance a passing storm caused a power surge in the hospital computer that transfered the impression of his mind into a much more powerful computer where it was possible for his mind to somehow become activated. |
| funeral rite | minor | Terry had a dream about attending Frank's cremation ceremony. |
| grandmother and grandson | minor | Josh's grandmother Elaine took an active interest in helping to raise him. |
| master and pet | minor | The Munroe family dog Axle. |