Welcome to Immersion, you have reached Strata 28. Dolls (And Vanities) Humans are drawn to dolls for various psychological and emotional reasons, instinct, nurturing, companionship. Dolls provide a safe space for emotional expression and exploration, a connection to childhood nostalgia, a stimulus for artistic creativity. They even provide a means to maintain a sense of purpose. Dolls heal the bored and the lonely. Dolls make mothers of us all. But vanity is the quiet virus that lives inside every doll maker. It begins with admiration, awe, the wish to see beauty and self endure, and it often ends with control, futility, and neglect. Every icon, every idol, every android, carries the fingerprints of its maker’s desire. But when a doll has the hunger to be worshipped by their own reflection, when the virus spreads from creator to created, the unleashing of the beast is a dark cloud that brings storm to expectations. Renyke is a perfection prototype and finds himself embroiled in the e...