CORDYCEPS: Too clever for their own good (джен)

Примечания автора:
(will update with one chapter a day)
I wrote this for nano, and the entire plot grew out of an attempt to reverse-engineer an explanation for a standalone snippet of fiction inspired by one of those KID visual novels. The constraints of the scenario produced a plot almost without my having to deliberately plot it, and the events of the story follow inexorably from the conditions and characters involved. The plot happened without my having a lot of choice in the matter.
This is not the story I wanted to write, and the misfortunes herein are deeply frustrating to me on a personal level. I'd like to apologize in advance.
anyway have fun reading this story about nerds with exasperating problems!!!
e: There now exists a Russian translation, courtesy of Sithoid!