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==Summary==
==Summary==
−The game doesn't have a plot as such, rather it is a collection of events.
+The player controls a Lain avatar and navigates a hierarchical system of computer files. The events of the game follow Iwakura Lain and her psychiatrist Yonera Touko. The following is a rough summary of the game's events as related by Keisuke Shindo. [http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lainpsx.txt]
+*Lain (11) begins to visit Touko (27) because of hallucinations.
+*Touko teaches Lain about psychopathology.
+*Lain enters junior high, gaining a friend named Misato and an interest in computers and networks.
+*Lain's father disappears under mysterious circumstances, and she programs an AI into a robotic replacement of him.
+*After 3 years of counseling, Touko thinks Lain has no more problems.
+*Touko begins to diagnose Lain again after finding out that Misato does not actually exist.
+*Lain programs her father into the Wired and destroys its robotic body, subsequently beginning to program her own personality into the Wired.
+*Touko experiences frustration over her lack of mobility at work. Her boss kills himself.
+*Touko experiences relationship difficulties, getting dumped by two men in succession.
+*Touko becomes emotionally unstable and Lain begins to diagnose her.
+*Lain meets her Wired entity and kills her physical self.
+*Lain appears before Touko and kills her, absorbing her personality into the wired.
==Characters==
==Characters==