You open up "Buhjka" a popular web browser on Galvinar. You look it up to no straight answer, you also google "Are sphinx's real?" And there is no resault, you really must be an experiment in this simulation. You search around for sphinxes only to have pages of mythology and traditional folk sotories about sphinxes. Youn. Begin to see through a big glitch in the simulation whereby you just appears to have come up from a vacuum, taking you out of the experience. You end up thinking "well, at least my schizophrenia acts up less in virtual space than in the material world."
What will you do?
1. Search for more exploits on the internet
2. Search for Exploits inside your visor
3. Refresh the results page and hope the simulation corrected itself
You refresh the results the first time, no resaults, second time still no resault when on the third time, the first result is a news article about a sphinx attack and how the experiment broke loose. Now you wonder what story the simulation plans on doing with this.
"Metagame" a voice in your head says "you want to customize yourself again, to get a form that can walk!" You lie down with your head held down growling in grief "No, I just want to naturally complete a simulation!" Your inner voice booms "No, you must metagame, you will get to be in a better simulation." You go back to the holograph projector hoping to ignore the voice in your head "just ask them" your inner voice says. This went on and on for hours until a researcher walks in with a plate of Botcas meat and lays it down in front to you saying "After you eat, follow me to do some tests" you twitch nervously, suppressing the urge to cheat, you revenously ate savagely tearing up the large chunk of meat as your inner voice says "NOW, Ask them now or be stuck in this reality!" After eating you wipe your mouth and visor with your front paw and say with a visible twitch "yeah, lets go away" you say now following the researcher. You go across the labritory to a slightly darkened room "lie down please" and you lie down as your inner voice booms "Metagame! Metagame!" You resist the urge as they seem to rub fingerprint dust on your front right paw.
Once they have dusted your paw with fingerprint dust, they say "put your paw on the paper" you do so and an impression of your paw is left behind as you ask "well what is this for?" The researchers respond "It's for our research, now go back to your cage please. You do just that, you go back to your cage as your inner voice says "it would've been much better if we metagamed" "just shut up!" You say going back to the holographic projector and you scroll through until you see an analytic page that reads
"amount of time you have been in suspended animation: 2 days, 1hour, 43 minutes
amount of time in current simulation: 2 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes
forms tried: 2
simulations done: 2"
"I must've been out for two days" you think to yourself "I wonder when this simulation will end" after another hour, a researcher walks saying hello" you reply "hello yourself" the researcher asks "what's wrong" you say "I don't feel confortable in here, I want something different!" "I understand" said the researcher "but you are very dangerous so we need to keep you here until accomodations are made!" "The way you were talking, you'd think I was an unintelligent beast, I've been in laboratories and I don't believe you are any better than humans!" The researcher is shocked and says "I'm sorry, but here is the only place you'll be safe!"
"I can't fly, I can't run, I'm just being held up in this white room and I don't care how long my room takes to make, this is very clusterphibic and the bleak white and metal is also starting to get to me!" You say, the researcher responds "actually, I wanted you to attend a meeting that will be about your outcome "well, I look forward to attending, but I don't want o be held in here like an animal! I want to be out now!" The researcher motions you to follow her as you walk behind her, climbing a couple of steps, down a sterile hallway and into a boardroom, they have chairs and a pedistol for you to hop onto, you lie down on it as it lifts up to bring you to the level of the table. "We hyave all come here to discuss the outcome of the sphinx" you say "I want a home where I can live and be able to fly around without being held by laboratory fuckwits!" The researchers are shocked by your vulgarity, but sill end up discussing the legal and moral ramifications, but all you hear is "blah blah blah"
what will you do?
1. Stay on the podium and endure boring bureaucracy?
2. Walk down from the podium and find a way to escape the laboratory.
You barely pay attention to what the researchers say, but talk of your own cabinet when suddenly your inner voice says "Do it NOW" you try to pay attention, catching onto bits about you having your own cottage in the woods and when you get the opportunity to speak you say with a growl in your. Voice "yes, but I don't want a new house to be built, I want a cabin right now! I also want it to have electricity and indoor plumbing, just because I'm part lion, doesn't mean I like living like an animal!" The researchers respond "yes, but we need to have everything accessible to you, mr uhh""it's cybersphinx you say "and go through with the plan, but I don't want to be kept in here like an animal!" "I'm sorry, but this is where you will be kept untill other arrangements can be made!" You argue back "well how long is this supposed to take, how do I know that your telling the truth, good day!" You say walking to the door, but being unable to open it for you can't get up on two legs to turn the handle. A dialog box appears in your vision that reads:
"simulation paused
what do you want to do since this simulation is causing you this much grief
1. Continue the simulation
2. Customize yourself while suspending this simulation
3. Suspend this simulation and start up a different one"
The simulation fades out and you are now back in the vacuum that were in two days ago, mirror and all and you begin to think "thank goodness, I was becoming clusterphobic in that simulation" the dialogbox on the left hand side of your vision appears: