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THE NEWCOMER
Choose-Your-Own-Path Fiction-Experiment
Created 5-24-2003 by Jay Manaloto & John True
Based on concepts by Larry & Andy Wachowski
Overall Structure - View the overall ever-expanding and ever-changing structure of this choose-your-own-path parallel-universe-type story.
Beginning by Jay
"Aaaah!" screamed Cyberreyn as she awoke suddenly in her bunk. She quickly recognized the metal door,
the patches of rust, the paths of bolts along plates. She was still in her quarters, onboard the hundred-year-old hovercraft
"Nosferatu," the hum of its engine reminding her she was no longer in the Matrix. This was no longer a dream.
She gave up going back to sleep, pulled on her tattered gray and dark-gray rags, and yawning, she headed to the kitchen, or mess hall, or
whatever the crew called it.
"Hi, Cy!" welcomed Flicker, one of the operators closer to her age. Scratching his new beard, he couldn't
help but notice Cyberreyn's blood-shot eyes, disheveled short black hair, and drooping posture. "Bad dream?"
"Something like that," she said.
"Here," Flicker replied, "you can have the rest of my soup." In his dirty fingerless-glove, he held out his half-finished tin can of synthesized
proteins, minerals, and whatever else that was supposed to be.
"Don't you mean 'goop'?" She shivered in revulsion at the slimy puddle sloshing around in that can.
"Suit yourself." With a shrug he left the can on the table, and headed out to wherever he was heading.
Cyberreyn yawned again. Last week, she was in her apartment, studying hopelessly for the Mechanical Engineering finals she couldn't pass.
But one night, a tall Asian man in dark glasses and raincoat came to her. He called himself "Kan-chiang"
and offered her a choice. She chose the red pill.
Choose Path A to have Cyberreyn eat the goop.
Choose Path B to have Cyberreyn avoid the goop.
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