A live, collective terminal-horror experience hiding beneath the basement of Twitch.
SOMETHING BENEATH THE NETWORK IS STILL LISTENING. A live CER Game where Twitch chat investigates a corrupted terminal, recovers an evolving horror story, and discovers that some systems were hidden for a reason.
A forgotten terminal has returned to service somewhere below the visible machinery of Twitch.
There is no documentation.
There is no operator.
There is no reason it should be responding to you.
SIGNAL INTER/UPT is a live CER Game, or Chat Escape Room, in which the audience collectively investigates an unstable fictional system through Twitch chat. There is no designated protagonist, inventory screen, conventional tutorial, or guide explaining what should be done next.
There is only the terminal.
Enter commands. Examine its responses. Compare discoveries with the other witnesses. Determine which errors are meaningless, which records are damaged, and which parts of the system may be responding deliberately.
Every successful recovery opens another part of the mystery.
Some things were forgotten.
Others appear to have been hidden.
About the Game
The terminal begins in an uncertain state.
Powered, waiting, and only partially responsive. Its records are damaged. Its processes are unfamiliar. Its output sometimes resembles diagnostics, sometimes fragments of communication, and sometimes something the system itself cannot adequately classify.
The audience must learn how to interact with it by observing what survives.
A failed command may still produce evidence.
A familiar command may behave incorrectly.
A corrupted response may contain more truth than a successful one.
As the investigation continues, the terminal begins to feel less like an abandoned machine and more like an occupied place.
Whether anything inside can be trusted is another question.
Collective Mystery
Progress belongs to everyone.
Witnesses enter commands, examine damaged output, test assumptions, compare results, and recover pieces of a larger system. Some attempts expose useful evidence. Others return stale records, dependency failures, false positives, corrupted artifacts, or unexpected attention.
One person may notice a pattern. Another may understand its significance. Someone else may enter the command that changes the state of the entire game.
You do not need to arrive at the beginning. The terminal is always waiting for another witness.
Features
What the system exposes.
A persistent mystery concealed inside a fictional terminal system
Live audience interaction through Twitch chat
Collaborative puzzle-solving with no designated protagonist
Global investigative commands that behave differently as the system changes
Damaged records, false positives, dependency failures, and recoverable evidence
An evolving narrative delivered through fragmented transmissions
Stage-aware environmental storytelling without conventional exposition
Adaptive audio, visual corruption, interruptions, and atmospheric events
No fixed play session or required starting point
Shared consequences when the audience changes the state of the system
A terminal that notices participation and may remember returning witnesses
One mystery unfolding across many people, attempts, and broadcasts
Format
What is a CER Game?
A CER Game, or Chat Escape Room Game, is a live interactive mystery played collectively through chat.
Instead of controlling a character, the audience communicates directly with the game. Commands become actions. Responses become clues. Chat becomes the player, the investigation room, and the permanent record of every theory that failed in an interesting way.
CER Games combine elements of:
Escape rooms
Alternate reality games
Interactive fiction
Live performance
Environmental storytelling
Puzzle-solving
Broadcast horror
There is no requirement to arrive at the beginning or remain until the end. New witnesses can inspect the current state, consult recovered records, experiment with commands, and contribute immediately.
The game does not need one hero. It needs enough people willing to answer.
Pay attention to formatting, interruptions, errors, and changes in behavior.
Not every response is a clue.
Not every error is meaningless.
Not everything communicating through the terminal is necessarily speaking to you.
First contact on stream:!signal
Content Advisory
SIGNAL INTER/UPT contains flickering and glitching visuals, sudden audio interruptions, darkness, confinement, implied surveillance, psychological horror, corrupted text, unsettling environmental audio, and themes involving manipulation and loss of control.
Final Transmission
The terminal is online.
The records are incomplete.
External input has been detected.
Continue.
