Game Night Gentlemen

MASTICATE tries to keep one hand on the world they know. It does not work.

Philomena meets an academic who speaks of impossible books and ancient mathematics as if they belong in a course catalog. Frank tests the edge of the barrier and finds himself holding both ends of a failed plan. Justin and Matthew step into a world perfected by PICKY EATER, where truth has been solved, argument has ended, and Wesley Cool has already moved on.

Whatever PICKY EATER is now, for Cool, it was only the prototype.

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Hoping the path to Wesley Cool lies somewhere in his past, MASTICATE digs into the origins of PICKY EATER. Every discovery reveals how far Cool’s invention has already spread. Every answer makes containment look less possible than it did a minute before.

Philomena meets a researcher who knows much more than she should.

And on a suburban Cambridge street, Frank, Matthew, and Justin encounter an acolyte of the Hushfather.

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As the agents reconstruct Professor Wesley Cool's descent through the halls and apartments of MIT, the shape of his ambition finally starts to emerge: not a haunted app, not a glitch in reality, but a deliberate attempt to engineer a machine that turns consciousness into reality.

And by the end of the search, MASTICATE realizes something even worse: Wesley Cool considered PICKY EATER just the beginning.

MIT sits inside a wound in the world. Beyond its edge waits a reality shaped by Wesley Cool’s certainty: a hollow kingdom built to flatter the man who made it. The closer MASTICATE gets, the less they can trust the things they carry, the people beside them, or the memories in their own heads. To survive, they start cutting themselves off one piece at a time. Working Group MASTICATE searches for a way to stop the man that created PICKY EATER, but Cool has had years to master his creation, and he has not been idle.

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The handoff goes sideways before MASTICATE realizes anything was wrong. Burners, Faraday bags, antennas pulled from the boards — none of it holds. PICKY EATER is further along than they understood, and the containment they thought they had was never containment at all. By the time they ask whether they're still in their own world, it's a question that no longer matters.

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Both halves of MASTICATE arrive at the King property to find Vicki alive, her daughters older than they should be, and the walls between worlds already thin. Vicki can lead the team to PICKY EATER's origins, but in her world, her deepest fears are reality. The Reapers are out hunting and won't stop until they claim their prize. The line between worlds gets less clear with every PICKY EATER. It won't hold.

MASTICATE is down an agent and moving south with a replacement no one fully trusts yet. The lead is Vicki King — former IT worker and single mother, vanished from her job and her house in early 2018, a name that surfaced from Cordell Wallace's kitchen drawer. On paper, she's a ghost. In person, the house tells a different story. Of course, it matters which version of the house the agents see.

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Matthew McCarter arrives at Frosty Pines alone. The trailers are pristine, the license plates wrong, the world subtly, completely off. Back in the real Frosty Oaks, the rest of MASTICATE works Cordell Wallace: a man with a grudge, a shotgun by the door, and something to hide. Somewhere on this property, a machine is running. While it does, McCarter is inside Robert Wallace's paranoid fantasy — and the team doesn't know he's gone.

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The reality is gone, but the evidence isn't. MASTICATE works the aftermath — what was left behind, what it means, and what it points toward. The hardware in Audra Powell's server tells a story. One that ties back to MASTICATE'S past operations. The kind of connection that makes the work feel smaller and the threat feel larger. Frank makes a promise to SA Fallon Taylor. There's only one good lead left: Robert Wallace.

Out at Platte Air Force Base, Nebraska — population: twelve, and every single one of them is here because someone, somewhere, decided they were a problem not worth solving — the highlight of the week is poker night.

Folding tables. A TV from 1979. Sometimes the Major provides whiskey and cigars. It's not much, but it's the best thing going on any given week.

Then a van shows up. Men in suits and stormtrooper helmets. Orders say to let them do whatever they want and don't ask questions. The whole base watches them bake in the Nebraska heat from a respectful, not-technically-interfering distance, and starts a betting pool on why nameless government agents have come to Platte AFB.

Before the night is over, the craziest bet in the pool is the one that pays.

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