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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Zer0es is a 2015 Science Fiction Conspiracy Thriller novel written by Chuck Wendig.The story centers on five American hackers, each with very diverse backgrounds and hacking skills, who are blackmailed, kidnapped and sent to a hideaway camp in the mountains called the Hunting Lodge, where they find themselves among a group of other kidnapped hackers collected there for an unknown purpose. Curiously, not even their kidnappers themselves know why they were tasked with collecting them, only that it's part of a classified government program.As the hackers are put to work and are given a seemingly unconnected set of targets, they slowly begin to unravel, and eventually entangle themselves in a nefarious plot involving an insidious conspiracy within the United States, as well as a mysterious name that seems to keep rearing its head amidst their exploits: Typhon.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })An upcoming novel, titled Invasive, will be supposedly set in the same universe as Zer0es.The character sheet can be found here.Be warned of possible spoilers!
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 A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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 A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Typhon's main directive is to protect the United States. After it's unwittingly unleashed by the protagonists, it sets its plan in motion to make the government retroactively legalize it by demonizing the hackers as well as other foreign threats in order for the public to deem it necessary. Downplayed a bit in that the intelligence is not completely artificial, and is mainly comprised of a human hive-mind.
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 Action Survivor: The Zeroes (except for Wade, a Vietnam War veteran) become this throughout the course of the story.
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 And I Must Scream
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 And I Must Scream: The initial process of Typhon uploading itself into a human brain has the individual trying to continue thinking their own thoughts only for the rest of the minds inside Typhon to drown every thought the person tries to bring up. It's a gradual process, and if the individual keeps resisting, Typhon will resort to outright erasing the person's memories to make them comply.
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 Twin Telepathy / int_dd3f6d24
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 You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_dd3f6d24