Roland is a Synthetic User; a man whose mind was migrated into the Cyberscape upon learning of their terminal illness and accepting the offer to do so by the CEO of Encephalon, the game company behind Cyberscape Neo. After spending three years catching up on the back catalog of massively multiplayer online games Encephalon acquired via buying out Advanced Studios, Roland finds himself playing Cyberscape Neo. Laying down in the grass in a low level zone looking across a lake towards Ageddon, Roland recounts the last few years of his life in the Cyberscape before he approached by Myra, the server admin – bearing “exciting” news of the server’s nearing update.