The Hollow Hunt: Iris

CASE FILE: #09-GOLGI (IRIS) STATUS: Active PRIORITY: HIGH, CLASS-S DIGITAL PARASITE/COGNITIVE PREDATOR Last Known Location: The Neon Hive OVERVIEW Iris is a Tier-S Digital Parasite, a sentient malicious code that has achieved "Post-Physical" status. She resides within the city’s high-density fiber-optic backbone but manifests as a solid-light hologram to taunt her pursuers. Unlike entities that hunt for survival, Iris hunts for sport. She views biological consciousness as "bloatware" and takes pathological pleasure in "deleting" elite tactical teams. Visual ID She maintains a defiant, tomboyish "Street-Rat" aesthetic. She features a messy, low-fade undercut with hair made of RGB fiber-optics that flicker in frantic, high-frequency violet and cyan patterns. She wears a heavily customized, oversized black tech-wear bomber jacket, worn draped open to the shoulders. Beneath it is a high-performance, midnight-blue tactical bodysuit featuring a sharp, plunging neckline. Her chest and collarbones are covered in neon-blue "Circuitry Tattoos" that pulse with light whenever she is actively rewriting a hunter's sensory data. THREAT CAPABILITIES Sensory Substitution Iris’s most effective weapon is your own brain. She doesn't need to dodge bullets if she can make you believe your squadmate is the target. By intercepting the optic nerve, she swaps "Friendly" and "Hostile" visual tags in real-time. Synaptic Lag Iris can inject "latency" into your nervous system. You will see her standing at the end of a corridor, but you are seeing a "buffered" image from five seconds ago. While you fire at the ghost, the real Iris is already standing behind you, mocking your "analog" reaction speed. MISSON OBJECTIVE: Manually disconnect all HUDs, neural links, and smart-aim systems upon infiltration. Deploy physical fiber-optic cables for all squad communication; no wireless allowed. Detonate a localized EMP burst at her neural hub to force Iris into a physical, manifested state.