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Final Trial

Final Trial
It takes a few minutes after everyone talks with the generic mannequin. The easygoing conversation, the bragging from Gant, Keith's exasperation, it all stops when a very heavy and ominous presence fills the room.
It's the Sergeant. He's standing on the doorway, arms crossed. The shadows on his face wriggle, he seems to be rather furious, but is restraining himself from lashing out
Slowly the Sergeant enters the workshop. Behind him, the door slowly disappears, fading away, until where the door was now there's only a smooth wall. The Sergeant raises an arm, the entire room shakes.
All the mannequins fly up to the ceiling, the one that was now Damon Gant turned back into the empty husk the mannequin was before. The one with a t-pose has the same fate. Once all the mannequins are up on the ceiling, the operation tables are uprooted, bolts and screws flying around. The tables are twisted in the air, formed into knots, disassembled and assembled all over again, until several rustic podiums are formed and deposited on the ground.
Seven podiums, with him at the center. The Sergeant crosses his arms and speaks:
Is it a rhetorical question? Who knows. You still have to answer, though
"I think it's about time this circus stopped"
"I should have guessed you bunch would take advantage of all that noise and ruckus to sneak in here. I was careless, I admit. 'Oh, this is over in like four hours, it will be okay if I step away to deal with that'. Careless."
All the mannequins fly up to the ceiling, the one that was now Damon Gant turned back into the empty husk the mannequin was before. The one with a t-pose has the same fate. Once all the mannequins are up on the ceiling, the operation tables are uprooted, bolts and screws flying around. The tables are twisted in the air, formed into knots, disassembled and assembled all over again, until several rustic podiums are formed and deposited on the ground.
Seven podiums, with him at the center. The Sergeant crosses his arms and speaks:
"Get on those spots. Tell me...
...how much do you know?"
FINAL PART START: 1/2
Slowly, the stabilize function works. Several words appear and disappear, indicating what sectors are fixed. Sectors related to the administrator's device fly by, there's some repairing about the simulation itself, some graphical corrections...
...and then it crashes. The progress bar stops when the simulation performance is at 12%. The AI performance is at 80%.
'FATAL ERROR. STABILIZATION CAN'T BE PERFORMED.
PERFORM SYSTEM MAINTENANCE'.
Looks like you can't do anything about that. It's out of your hands]
...without a programmer, it can't be fixed further.
[Welp. The application closes, but it seems the administrator's device's options are working now, at least. The Stabilize function is likely to not be able to do anything else, but there are other options now:
>MOVE MINDS
>EDIT SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
>EDIT DIRECTIVES
>GIVE LEAVING RIGHTS
That's not the only change, though. Apparently some of the stabilization affected something else too. Did you notice how the AI's performance has increased?
Slowly, the Sergeant starts changing. Looks like some of that stabilized him as well]
FINAL PART START: 2/2
The end result is a face you know.
Slowly, Sergeant extends an arm, examining the clothing on it. This is...it's certainly him]
...okay, that's an interesting side effect.
[He looks away]
I didn't expect you'd be seeing my face again.
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She's actually legitimately surprised. How about that?]
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[Delayed apology!]
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[Makes sense, though.]
Well, it's not like it really matters to me. People probably would've figured it out once strip searches happened anyway.
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Currently as things stand...this simulation is going to collapse without maintenance. Unfortunately for all of you, the lead programmer of this project has been MIA for months.
[...everyone has been MIA for months, but he doesn't mention that]
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Wait, what?
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[She sighs.]
When did you have time to write all those articles? And - why did you want us to make a bad impression with you?
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[ she's impressed and surprised! but she can't help but smile, just a little bit, in relief. ]
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[Most of the shouting seems to be gone along with his other appearance]
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[ even if just a little?? ]
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I don't... understand. [they probably don't have time to cover it, though, if the simulation is going to crash soon]
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It's not that complicated.
[IT'S PLENTY COMPLICATED]
The point is that right now other things are more relevant.
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Yeah, okay. Fine. But that still doesn't let you off the hook!
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That's all you have to say for yourself.
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[He seems to be kind of distracted right now]
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[she didn't even talk to him initially though so she's just gonna focus on these programs ok.
What does edit directives do. The rest seem straightforward.]
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>EDIT DIRECTIVES
Looks like it allows you to edit a few things. Among the few things that are untouched, there's something that seems to define what task needs to be completed to earn a medal.
There's space to input a new task. Think wisely, everyone]
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[How much broader can you get.]
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[She moves on to Move Minds. Presumably this is where her body transfer idea was going.]
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