Keylogger

Keylogger is a kinetic sci-fi visual novel about identity theft in the Continuum, where losing your information means certain death. Across 83 chapters and 88 footnotes, it follows Alsace Morose and his crew of keyloggers as they travel in their rocket, the S.S. Hummingbird, searching for identities to steal.

Debt and identity

In the Continuum, each family name carries a debt that its members must repay or risk being wiped by the Grid. The debt system was established to prevent the Continuum from going bankrupt because citizens owed it too much. When someone turns 16, their debt repayment plan takes effect.

Keylogs can fetch a high price: they let buyers sell the potential of a living person. Keyloggers seek to obtain these records, or “dox” people, so they can sell them out of existence. Morose was placed in insurmountable debt as a young boy, and his crew relies on this work to make ends meet.

The S.S. Hummingbird crew

Morose travels with four other crew members:

• Quaternine: a normal-looking man who is part Temnospondic.
• Cruce: a fundamentalist Christian whose views are antiquated in the futuristic Continuum.
• Akhtempo: a 6’11” New Egyptian who lost his keylog during the RTE.
• Galacia: Morose’s girlfriend from Crystallica, made entirely of crystal.