Welcome to Chime
CHIME — 2095
In 2095, life is connected, scored, enhanced, and constantly optimized.
In the city of Averion, social standing determines access, AI assistants have become part of daily life, and Chime injectables promise to improve beauty, mood, perception, confidence, and even physical ability. Social scores influence opportunity, while NeuroLinks, HoverPets, and emotional technology quietly shape how people behave and how they see themselves.
For Alix, the promise of becoming a better version of herself is tempting. But as enhancements become harder to separate from identity, she begins to question whether the world is helping people become more human—or teaching them to perform humanity more convincingly.
Chime is a story about authenticity, technology, belonging, control, and what happens when even emotion becomes something that can be engineered.
Alix’s trusted bot and a bridge between EmoGene and Brex
Eva-212 has been with Alix for years, gathering information, watching for patterns, and carrying messages across the world of Chime. She uses the EmoGene system to pull scans, patterns, alerts, and other data, then passes what matters on to Brex.
Her archive includes EmoGene scans, observations, forecasts, warnings, anomaly reports, messages to Brex, and notes connected to Alix.