Monday, January 9, 2017

Jennifer

"Jehh-nnifer, your red hair's burrr-ning," unfunnily singsonged a voice in the head of that lady by the cruiser. Her attention jerked away from that teenager - Bartholemew Norse, was it? - trying to melt out of the scene, straight to the voice in her head, because she knew that George got *pissed* if you ignored his shitty jokes.

Or jabs. Joke-jabs. With her hair mouse-brown in... heh... real life, she'd given her avatar slightly sim-disruptingly fiery red hair in this iteration of the Eawest sim, because she *could*, dammit. Work was already boring enough without at least tiny flourishes like this. "I mean, what a paradox, George. We've got a world-generator here. Gamers would cream themselves from this. And yet what are we doing with it? Simulating and re-simulating the life of one shitty asshole over and over again until everybody on your monitoring staff is dead inside. Or I know I am, at least."

"Eyes on ths prize, Jennifer! I don't have time for your whining. Any major inconsistencies?"

Jennifer sighed. It's like he was *deaf*. Deaf to reason, at least. "I heard that," George snorted.

Somewhere at the front of her mind and in her vocalization systems, the Jennnifer avatar arranged unimportant bureaucratic details with Detective Matthews while her gears ground to bring up the un- the very important bureaucratic details George demanded.

"I snuck a peek at Joe -" "- You Peeping Tammy you -" "- Screw you, George. Reported iteration stage is from Stage-one History. I snuck a peek at Joe and I suspect minor temporal inconsistencies, but will need to confirm once we interrupt this run of iterations for analysis. Raymond Eawest personality mostly on usual course in this iteration stage, aggression however exceptional even for Eawest. Hazard-to-humanity level is the usual. Increased Norse activity. Still no South-analogues. Eawests are in urban setting at this stage."

"Professional as always, except for the hair," George said, each word belched out instead of spoken... a favorite habit of George's since he was 16. "I'll make you keep it for the next 3,400 iterations and see if you still like it."

"It's a good thing George's heart is in the right place, because other than that, he's just a much of an asshole as Ray," Jennifer thought.

"I HEARD THAT!" belched George.

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