When the system fails you, you find your own solutions. When safety becomes something you have to buy, people buy it. When desperation becomes the only option, people get desperate. Technology doesn't care about intentions. It doesn't negotiate. It doesn't forgive. It just finishes what you started.

It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.

A man who conducts exit interviews for a large corporation describes his daily routine: the questions that never change, the answers people rehearse, the recorder that sits between them. When the company upgrades to a new system, small things begin shifting. The recorder turns itself on. Files appear before interviews happen. Access starts failing in ways that feel like glitches—until they stop feeling temporary. This is his attempt to document what happened, recorded as clearly and completely as possible, because it's the last step before something he doesn't fully understand becomes final.

Core horror: Bureaucratic erasure through optimization. The terror of being worked around instead of opposed.

It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.