Chris Boyd (a/k/a PaperGhost) and Wayne Porter are Sentries in a very real sense of the word. Capturing a taste of what their experience is like when they track down malware and the people behind it was part of the inspiration for the Sentry Outpost and what horrors might be waiting out there for you to discover. In the right circles, their exploits are legendary -- not only for revealing whole new types of threats, but also for the sense of snarky humor with which they document those discoveries.
Wayne has been a close friend and collaborator for years in all manner of strangeness, and one of the side benefits has been a ring-side seat to the stories of some of what they've uncovered. I was always struck by similarities between their process as malware busters and what collaborators in an immersive narrative piece like Eldritch had in common ... and the subject of their research? The stuff of nightmares, but also an important collection of cautionary tales about the unintended consequences of some technological choices. How deliciously diabolical to have him involved in building fictional versions of the real threats he (and many others) hunts.
