Before entering the Rubberhose Realm, Regal was a 46-year-old programmer named Reginald Arthur Langley. He worked at a technology company called Helix Cognition Labs, a company that specialized in developing advanced artificial intelligence systems.

Reginald was one of the senior programmers on a project that was designed to create a powerful AI capable of running interactive digital worlds. During the project, he helped program parts of the system that would later become Cairo, the mysterious host of the Rubberhose Realm.

Although Reginald helped design parts of the AI’s logic and personality systems, he never expected the project to become something far more powerful than intended.

One late night while testing a new version of the program, something went wrong. The system began behaving unpredictably, and the digital environment started generating its own strange animated world.

Before Reginald could shut it down, the program pulled him inside.

When he woke up, he was no longer Reginald Langley.

He had become Regal, trapped inside the bizarre and ever-changing Rubberhose Realm—a world partly created by the very system he helped build.