ONCE ROGER DAWSON HAD SAID the words, the five members of the Nine Ball Clique found it impossible to stuff this particular genie back into its bottle. It had started out innocently enough. “What if you could manipulate a person’s life—you know, just any random person—and actually cause them to commit suicide?” This simple question then led to a full-fledged discussion of the subject. The conversation started out as a hypothetical one but soon transformed into something much darker—he rules of a game in which innocent strangers would be the pawns, and winners and losers would be determined by their lives and deaths. It was difficult to pinpoint exactly when the tone of the conversation shifted, mutating from fantasy to an actual plan. But somewhere along the way, it happened.
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