Elias sat in the silence of his workshop, the rain still drumming against the window. He looked down at his hands. They were shaking. He looked at the shattered coffee mug on the floor.

The machine ignored him. The cooling fans began to spin faster, a high-pitched whine filling the air. The static on the screen resolved into an image. It was a house. His house. Engulfed in flames. And standing in the front yard, clutching a melting plastic soldier, was a little boy with Elias’s eyes, watching the fire trucks arrive with a strange, detached curiosity.

: Verify that Remote Desktop is allowed through the Windows Firewall for both Private and Public networks, and white-list mstsc.exe in third-party security software.

This usually means a gaming service license file is broken.