More than that I have the plot outline ready.
Outline: A nameless hacker and a cyber bully spends his days working as a nurse, and his nights harassing people online. He vents his hateful urges onto other people he doesn’t know as a way to live his normal life without guilt. He doesn’t think of himself as a bad person because he is kind and helpful to the people he meets in real life. He justifies it himself as a hobby, a way to test his skills as a hacker and a just a way to keep himself occupied. He is often paid to hack people's webcams and send the footage to his clients. He often hacks into strangers computers and mess with their files purely as a joke, he often sees it as nothing more than pranks. He frequents sites on the dark web but rarely ever buys anything.
Things change when another hacker tries to shut down his system, he is angered and retaliates by finding out where they live and buying dark-web drugs as them, then tipping the cops to their location. He reads a local news report days later about the other hacker getting arrested.
After this, he begins to feel guilt for the first time, and suppresses it as best he can. Things start to go wrong as his computer suffers some minor viruses and his house starts have electrical issues. He finds evidence of tampering with his wires outside his apartment and calls an electrician who never shows up. His computer refuses to start up, but then acts normal when he tries to leave for work. He calls in sick to spend the day tearing his computer apart to look for the problem. Small inconveniences keep him from finishing, he begins to suspect that someone from the dark-web has found him and has found some way to infect his computer and maybe even damage his electrical systems. He stops going online for a while and work begins to consume his time. Tired and lacking sleep, he decides to check his semi-functional computer only to find that he has apparently been logged on several times in the last week. Not only that but threatening messages appear hidden in the depths of his computer.
In anger he buys a brand new laptop to tries to get to the source of this problem, only finding that the same threatening messages are already on his brand new computer. He tries to call the tech support only to hear a strange voice on the other side of the line.
He smashes the new laptop and goes to the old computer, his face is talking to him, mocking him for all the horrible things he has done to other people and the hacker he sent to jail. In anger he takes a butcher knife and slashes at the computer, smashing it with his bear fists once the knife breaks. He hears someone outside his window and he goes to confront them, he finds someone with their back turned messing with his wires, he grabs the broken blade and tries to kill the stranger, only to find it is the electrician he called so long ago. The police arrive on the scene and drag him away, while he is screaming about how this was some conspiracy to drive him insane.
The last scene is of the salesman at the computer shop sending a letter that is later revived by a man in jail.
The story is suppose to be like a dark web creepy pasta mixed with a twilight zone-esque cautionary tale of self destruction.
I decided to remove any supernatural element to add to the paranoia and the realism.
It is a classic story about a misunderstanding and make the paranoia a real factor in the character's downward spiral.
Not much else to state. I am working hard and trying not to collapse or get sick when my progress is dependant on me working at full capacity each day.
oh well
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