This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

EXORCIST.EXE // Case #1031: The Murder of PID 1

An Air-Gapped Cyber-Noir Forensic Interrogation & Operating System Exorcism Game

"Every operating system is a metropolis of invisible workers. Threads spawn, execute, and terminate in silence. But at 03:42:19 UTC, the central heartbeat of the mainframe went flat. The parent of all processes was assassinated in Ring 0. And one of your system daemons is harboring the ghost."

What I Built

EXORCIST.EXE is an interactive, atmospheric Cyber-Noir Digital Forensics & Murder Mystery Game powered entirely by open-weight AI running 100% locally and offline .

Instead of creating another generic chatbot wrapper or prompt playground, EXORCIST.EXE reimagines the prompt "Ghost in the Machine" as a literal reality of modern computing: a rogue, unregistered socket process residing in unmapped kernel memory, possessing a crashed Linux mainframe .

You play as Detective Ray Trace…