arlo walsworth is a 93 year old man slowing losing his mind to dimensia, trapped in a hotel complex by his family to wait his end of days but despite the amount of shame that comes with putting a strong independent man in such a situation he has generally accepted his life and soon to arrive death. this all changes when the system hits all humanity at the same time, giving him the unique moniker and race as the oldest human to be transferred to the systems dominion. The system, pragmatic in its ways, only activates for people who had a strong will, strong goals, and a strong wish for change. Arlo may have survived through a global banking collapse, the plague and the Great War but can arlo survive the Great Change?