the V.R.5 wallow, continued: the Eschaton's a no-go

The game that hurt real bodies stays shut down. Pemulis reports "The Eschaton's a no-go" — the institution's elaborate war-game cancelled in the wake of the debacle that broke a nose, gashed a head, and put kids in the infirmary. The real-bodies fallout of 073's game has a lasting cost: the abstraction is suspended because actual anatomy got damaged inside it. (The "map's a mess" thesis-rhetoric is maps-territory's; landed here is the game-called-off-after-bodies-broke datum.)