Alternatively, in a supernatural setting, the gloves might protect her from a curse or allow her to handle magical artifacts. Maybe she's on a mission to stop a ritual that's occurring on that date.
But the gloves are no ordinary tool. As Scarlet delves deeper, she discovers they were key to the tycoon’s final experiment—a neural-hacking interface that can manipulate reality through augmented reality contact lenses. The gloves, charged with static, neutralize the hack. Now, a shadowy syndicate known only as (the date of the murder) hunts her, determined to claim the tech for their own.
In the shadowed underbelly of a neon-drenched metropolis, Scarlet Chase —a rogue forensic investigator with a haunted past—is drawn into a labyrinth of secrets when a cryptic case lands on her desk. The only clue? A set of surgical latex gloves found at the scene of a high-profile tech magnate’s murder, their fingers stained with an unknown digital code.
Scarlet’s latest case begins with a whisper: the gloves, pristine except for a smudge of glowing symbols. Their latex is reinforced with graphene, a material only developed by the now-dead tycoon, EvilAngel Industries (a moniker whispered in both admiration and dread for their clandestine projects). Using the gloves’ unique conductivity, Scarlet traces the code to a hidden server farm deep in the city’s abandoned undercity.
In the aftermath, the gloves are recovered, their code erased. But as Scarlet walks away from the ruins, her scarlet trench coat shimmering in the rain, she glances at her hands—now bearing faint static cracks. The battle for reality is over… but the game never ends.