Following his discovery that emergent beings are arising in the trillions of code of the virtual reality horror role playing game: Darkworlds,and that these creatures are modelling themselves on H P Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, Adam Harker has to make a choice, whether he will run from this, or face it head on. Friends have died, the world is threatened, because the creatures are now moving from the silicon based networks of the World Wide Web to grow protein based control networks inside the minds of the players. A member of the game Guild "The Order of Light", Adam gets his instructions to go back into the game and uncover the plans of the blasphemous monsters that lurk there.