Some places were never meant to be found.

The world is rendered. The errors are real.

Everything you see is output. Streets, buildings, sky — all rendered by a system designed by someone we call The Creators. Their intentions are unknown.

They communicate openly — not in hidden messages, but in the error codes embedded in the fabric of reality itself.

No office. No budget. No official existence.

Eleven years ago, seven researchers independently reached the same conclusion: the error codes in the physical world were too consistent to be accidental. They found each other. They built a network.

They call themselves THE BACKUP PLAN. They know they might not win. But someone has to try.

Every error code is a different kind of door.

THE BACKUP PLAN has catalogued seven types of hidden locations. Each responds to a different error code — and requires a different approach to enter.

You didn't join. You noticed.

THE BACKUP PLAN doesn't recruit. They watch for people who start asking the right questions — people who notice that the 404 on the subway wall has been there for 847 days.

Every Finder arrives through curiosity. Nobody is assigned. Nobody is trained. You just start looking, and at some point you can't stop.

The simulation's immune system. It has seen you before.

When a Finder opens The Index at a void, the rendering engine notices. It dispatches a response — not intelligent, not malicious, but automatic and relentless.

Every Finder who encounters one reports the same thing: an overwhelming sense that this has happened before.

Three known effects have been catalogued: Scan (you are being observed), Time Leak (they are draining your run timer), and Static Lock (your next access point is blocked). More may exist.

THE BACKUP PLAN is assembling a picture. Every fragment counts.

Every fragment a Finder extracts is a piece. When it's complete, they believe it will answer the questions that started all of this.