The effect of the Slithers—people who are able to move into what were once “virtual” and now quite real worlds—is reaching a new level. And the world of Skarliga itself is becoming more and more independent, leaving the control of the Corporation administrators. So its directors are trying to get their hands on the one of the Slithers who has come closest to the secret of the coming to life worlds created from “just” program code. This knowledge promises too many benefits... benefits and power. But who's to say that a particular Slider, a tiefling named Max, doesn't have an opinion? The same one that never coincides with the desires of the business tycoons who have become his mortal enemies.