Leonardo Pegasus, court magician, invented the Multiple Empathy Machine - a device that enabled the viewer to see the entire world. The government of the land decided to use it as the ultimate communication - and espionage - device. They created a multiple empathy network and Leonardo's reward was to lose his job, his home and almost his life. However, Leonardo had unwittingly conjured something else - a malevolent spirit of science and shadow that danced in the depths of the machine. A spirit eager to make mischief . When there was just one machine it was contained, it is now loose in the land .