Ryan is a bartender in a futuristic dystopian city, and he has been dreaming of the Dreamweb—a mystical construct that holds the fabric of human sanity together. In the dream, the master monk of the Keepers tasks him with killing seven evils whose union would plunge mankind into chaos. A prequel diary raises a troubling alternative: Ryan may be descending into psychosis and may have invented the Dreamweb entirely. He acts on the dream regardless, tracking down the first evil—a rock star named David Crane—to his hotel and killing him. A vision at the Dreamweb reveals the name of the second: a general.