Yevgeny was not yet eighteen when his grandfather died. His grandfather was a strange man who preferred to raise his grandson in the taiga and teach him survival skills instead of letting the boy spend days on end at the computer. But Yevgeny was not spared virtual reality. Immediately after his grandfather's death, he was taken to a special orphanage, where he was told that until he came of age he would spend fifteen hours straight in the virtual world of the popular online game Altmir. And if others decided for Yevgeny what he would do, then he had to choose his character's name and immersion sensitivity mode himself. Yevgeny decided he would be the Forester, and the sensitivity mode would be 100%. If only he had known what a setup that would be for him…