Now entering Jack's Office

[heroantagonist]

[It's a long ride up in the elevator. The floors passing you by start to merge together into a jumbled blur, leaving the whole experience altogether surreal and boring.

Eventually though, it ends. Finally, you're deposited in a yellow hallway, rows upon rows of computers on business desks encased in large glass windows. A disc-shaped cleaning bot handles the long stretch of hallway you march down, rumbling incessantly as it passes. More potted plants. More Hyperion logos, getting worse by the second-

And then you enter Jack's office.

The man (the myth, the legend) himself is probably behind his desk. So why don't you drop in and say hi? Just be mindful of the rules...]

Comments

[securityconsultant]

[...]

You'll change the profile if I ask?

[it'll swing back to the meeting halfway in just a sec-]

[heroantagonist]

I mean, yeah? I’m the one who put those together, after all.

[securityconsultant]

[...................................................

sus

but on the other hand...]

Yeah. Change it to- [SecUnit is its initial want, but it's already shared a name with others, so-] 'Rin'.

And what do you mean they might be fine if someone doesn't die?

[heroantagonist]

…Really. Well, I’m not going to judge you for your choices. Hey, you want that? It’s yours.

All I’m saying is that this is a test. That’s it.

[securityconsultant]

This is a seriously fucked up test that none of us signed up for.

Especially not the kids.

[heroantagonist]

Nobody signs up for hero business… except for when you take a job for someone, I guess.

Hell, sometimes kids have it the worst out of anyone. Don’t you want to save them from that?

[securityconsultant]

I want to save them all from this. But I can't do that very easily if you try to get them to kill one another over shit that may not even be true.

[heroantagonist]

Well… clearly we all need to try harder.