Dreamweb

Story

The protagonist and anti-hero is Ryan, a bartender in a futuristic, dystopian city (implied to be in England, as evidenced by the use of British English terms such as "lift" and "hood") who is plagued by strange dreams about an entity called the Dreamweb. In the dream that begins the game, Ryan is asked by the Master Monk of the Keepers to be the Deliverer and kill the seven evil ones who have banded together to tear apart the Dreamweb and plunge humanity into chaos. However, in the Diary of a (Mad?) Man, which precedes the start of the game, it is clearly implied that Ryan is falling into a psychosis and has invented the whole Dreamweb scenario in his head. After Ryan leaves his girlfriend Eden's house to go to work, he learns that his boss has decided to fire him for frequent tardiness. However, after hearing Ryan's explanation, he decides to give him a two-week, fully paid vacation so he can recuperate. On the bar's TV, Ryan learns the name and location of the first bad guy: David Crane, a rock star who is staying at a hotel for a gig later that night. He visits his housebound friend Louis, who leads him to a place where he can buy a gun. After doing so, he registers at the same hotel. After managing to get into the penthouse and killing two bodyguards in the process, he finds Crane in bed with a woman. The woman hides under the bed and after Crane begs for mercy, Ryan kills him and is teleported to the Dreamweb where he learns of the second evil, a general. He returns home and learns on the news (where he finds the report of Crane's death) that General Sterling is a guest on a talk show being recorded on a TV station.