Do Not Open That Chat It started with a single message. Now it’s a death sentence. Emily stallion regular twenty-five year old graphic designer living in downtown Seattle, smart, independent, and trying to rebuild her life after a messy breakup and a minor panic attack that nearly got her fired. Her daily routine consists of coffee fueled-deadlines, doom-scrolling, and the occasional bad Tinder date. Normal life. Quiet. Controlled. Until she gets a message from a number that doesn't exist. "If you open this chat, someone close to you will die." She thinks it's a prank, dark humour from the internet’s strange corners. But when her roommate is found dead just hours later in what the police rule a "random mugging gone wrong," Emily can’t shake the feeling that the message was a warning. Or worse, a threat. Then it happens again. Another message. Another death. The sender’s number can't be traced. The platform isn't any known messaging app. And the rules are terrifyingly simple: read it, someone dies. Ignore it, and they come for you instead. With no one willing to believe her, not the police, not her therapist, not even her ex who works in cybersecurity, Emily turns to a mysterious Reddit thread about cursed digital chains, ghost apps, and a group of users who disappeared after clicking a link they were warned not to open. At the center of it all is something called The Obsidian Protocol, an urban legend, a digital cult, or maybe something worse. Something ancient that's found a new weapon: technology. As Emily is pulled deeper into the web of messages, she discovers that the chat doesn’t just predict death… it causes it. And she’s not the only one being hunted. Joined by Ronan Vale, a reclusive programmer who lost his sister under the same circumstances, Emily dives into the dark architecture of the net, abandoned forums, encrypted mirrors, and disappearing servers, searching for a kill switch. But time is running out. The final message has already been sent. “You opened it. Now it’s your turn.” Do Not Open That Chat is a chilling psychological techno-thriller about isolation in the age of connection, the blurred lines between code and curse, and the terrifying price of curiosity in a digital world that never forgets.