Focus

Focus is a personnel training emulator for the Manifestation Containment Organization (MCO), an agency responsible for observing and containing manifestations. You monitor a virtual environment affected by containment subject M-256, detect changes in its surveillance feed and report their locations to maintain the subject’s containment.

Containment subject M-256

M-256 can alter reality by changing the logical structure of systems it touches. The MCO directs these alterations into a virtual environment running on its managed computers. Keeping M-256 contained requires continuous observation and reporting of its activity there.

Observation protocol

Each section begins by connecting to the virtual environment’s surveillance feed. You detect alterations as they develop over 20 seconds, then report each one by clicking its location. Every section has a reporting quota; meeting it gives access to the next section.

M-256 may appear during a training section. If it does, you must keep observing it until it disappears to maintain containment. If containment is not maintained, M-256 approaches the observer and its reality-altering properties act on them, forcibly ending the section.

Training sections

The emulator has five sections with gradually increasing difficulty. Sections where you fail to meet the reporting quota repeat. A run takes an estimated 30–60 minutes.