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THE NEWCOMER
Path A by Jay
[Choose Path A to eat the goop.]
After staring at the tin can for a few more seconds, Cyberreyn finally decides to pull up a stool and sit down.
With a sigh, she searches the room for any other possible alternative -- nothing. She returns her tired attention to the pile of processed protein poop -- that is, soup. Leaving the tin can on the table, she holds her nose in her right hand, and spoons up a glob of soup in her left. Hesitantly, she forces the glob into her mouth. And quickly, she gags on the goop, sputtering a spray across the table, almost choking.
"Ugghhh!" she double-coughs in disgust. "F*ck this! I'm getting some 'real' food!"
As she leaves the mess hall, Cyberreyn vaguely seems to notice another odd shadow appear and disappear along the wall of pipes. But with "real but virtual" food on her mind, she dismisses it like a crumpled piece of newspaper floating in the wind.
"Hmmm," the newcomer wonders silently, "what should I have?" Then answers just as silently, "Mmmm, shrimp primavera overlooking the Atlantic Ocean!"
After Cyberreyn hurries to the Operator station, she excitedly tells Flicker her mouth-watering idea to have an old-fashioned cooked meal on a Cape Cod veranda during a nice and warm summer's day.
Flicker laughs, "You'll have to get used to our food someday!"
Choose Path A1 to have Flicker load up the Cape Cod construct.
Choose Path A2 to have Flicker insist she eat in the real world.
Original Version - Click here to see the original version posted by Air2Face.
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