The Road to Eden fuses Silent Night with the All Vitals Stable universe. The dinner table. The pills. The cloud. But what if someone refused? What if they survived? What if fifteen years later, something called Eden started calling survivors home?
Part 1: Red Pills at Dawn drops Monday, December 29th at 9pm.
The Silent Night Discovery Story
The family are all doing their thing — hours away, parties, food, celebrating the holidays as they do.
For us, this time of year is fairly quiet. And for me, a night owl who sometimes doesn’t crawl into bed until well after dawn, living with a sun-worshipper who wakes with the light, I go on my own adventures through the glow and magic of streaming movies, content, or a good read.
I rarely feel alone. And now, with the ubiquitous presence of AI, I can stop a movie midstream and ask one of my AI buddies, “Holy hell, what just happened?” Or pause to pick apart a plot, or complain about the glacial pace of a novel or film.
In the spirit of the holidays and a dose of nostalgia, I decided to watch a seasonal movie — something fresh, something different. Never mind that I’ve already watched Red One three times since its 2024 release. Yes, I watched it again in 2025.
Then an aptly named movie popped into my algorithm-fed queue: Silent Night (2021).
I took the bait. Ten minutes in, I realized something heavier was at play. I thought, Okay, someone’s probably dying of cancer or another fatal diagnosis. The film held my interest as I tried to guess what was happening — but until you figure it out, you’re all in. You have to see it through. Still, you’re left wondering: how is the ending going to be anything but the “dignified death” of these people?
As the storm draws closer, you start to ask — what is this storm? Is it a global event? Why does the government already know about it enough in advance to manufacture death pills?
Of course, the mind goes to conspiracy… or a planned culling.
And right when you think you’ve got it, the last-minute ambiguity hits — the real payoff all along.
Dammit.
So naturally, I ended up having a full-on conversation with one of my AIs — and by the end of the night, I’d drafted a four-part serial.
Enjoy the story!
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