It was unsettling how she knew my real world name. So unsettling that I couldn't say a word, so I simply turned around to see her avatar. It was a spider that was roughly the size of a human coated in black hairs with a white design on the back sac. It was none other than the famous decker known as Arachne. She had a reputation for getting even the most guarded information with relative ease, and her black widow avatar would often be the last thing an enemy of hers would see in cyberspace. Some rumors say her cyberdeck loadout had repurposed ICE programs that killed other deckers. Others say she simply figured out a way to permanently lock a user from ever returning. I believed she simply DOXed her rivals to local corp sec with the data she controlled. But what worried me most was the fact that I was in her sights. And when most deckers saw Arachne, it was too late for them. I tried desperately to load my emergency exit program in hopes of getting away from her, only to see that it was locked, much to my dismay.
