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What would you do if you had godlike powers?
This book documents several subjects who are given that power in a simulation where they can do whatever they want without any repercussions.
What will they do? Who will go the farthest with their powers? Who will keep to their moral code despite their powers and authority?

The Simulation of Human gods: Subject 4: Mastermind

Subject 4: Mastermind

My sister tells me everything. Everything even the things she doesn’t tell the other people in our family, but she didn’t tell me she would be entering the machine herself. I’m not too worried because she knows the ins-and-outs of the simulation. I’m just wondering why she’s doing this. Does she want to play around or be a subject? Well, we’ll have to see.

She’s bringing up the actions of the previous subjects. Why would she do that? I know she sees the recording and my report after each experiment, so what is she up to? What is she doing now? Huh? What’s going on now? Is that…me in the machine? Why does it look so big? Why are so many people attached to it?

I scream out loud, “What the hell is going on, sis?!”

Everything around me is changing. What the? I’m back in my old room that I shared with my sister. I’m sitting at my desk and…sis.

“What is going on, sis? Am I in the simulation?”

“Yes, and you have been for a while.”

“Huh? W-what I’m saying is automatically being recorded on this document.”

“I wanted to save it. It’s a special moment for me.”

“When did you put me in the simulation? Why did you put me here?”

“I put you in a while ago. You’ve been thinking you were still working until I got in here to keep you preoccupied. You don’t remember because we tried to make that memory as hazy as possible for you. I put you in the simulation so you can live the rest of your life the way you want to. That is the goal of this simulation after all.”

“You never told me that.”

“You should’ve known. The world is still a dangerous place despite all that our company has done for it. This simulation is how every human will live the rest of their lives. Think about how great that is.”

“This is crazy. How many other people are here against their will?”

“I’ve lost count. Every person who uses our VR products will be in this simulation and the ones that don’t are offered an irresistible amount of money or incentives to be in it. The only people that won’t be in it are the ones that we don’t have room for or are just terrible people in general.”

“You can’t just force people into this simulation even if they get to live in a dream!”

“Why not?”

“I don’t know. It’s just wrong to force people to live this way!”

“Again, why? They won’t hurt anyone, and they’ll live peacefully until their natural end.”

“People aren’t meant to live in a simulation, sis.”

“I’m sure you’ll come to see my side in time.”

“If I’m in the simulation, I can find a way to escape. I know just as much about it, maybe even more than you do.”

“I don’t think so. I have complete access to what you can and can’t do. I decide who has godlike powers and who merely exists. In this simulation of human gods, I play the role of the god above all.”

“You’re insane. Stop it, sis! This isn’t who you are!”

“Of course it is. I’ve been doing everything in my power to make sure my family, especially you, is safe from the world. Why wouldn’t I want to be in control of it to make sure that happens? Now, I have to make sure you’re relaxed so we can enjoy the rest of our lives together.”

“Stop! Get away from me! Ahh! I can’t move! Where are you moving me?”

“Come here. Do you remember all the nights we used to spend in each other’s arms in our bed and talk about the world and each other’s feelings? I can’t wait to spend so many more nights like this.”

“Stop holding me!”

“Shhh. Do you feel it? These are the feelings I have for you. I may not always say it or show it, but I love you. It’s useless to resist.”

“No…stop…”

“You must know that we share a special pod together. This is how we are in the machine. In each other’s arms.”

“Sis…”

“It’s okay. Rest for now. We have forever to spend with each other.”

Simulation goal: Achieved

Other subjects will be brought in the simulation in due time to live out the rest of their lives in happiness.

This is the end that I want for everyone.

The End

The Simulation of Human gods: Subject 3: Wished for Nothingness

Subject 3: Wished for Nothingness

What can I say about this subject? Since I can group several subjects into this document, I’ll do so to save time, both yours and mine. We recruited several people who were depressed and dissatisfied with life. You’d think they would do the same things that Blair did, but a lot of them just slept while a couple of them tried to kill themselves. The ones that tried to kill themselves managed to trick their body into thinking it was dead and this resulted in permanent brain damage. The subjects don’t remember anything they went through, but we have to make a complicated explanation as to how they ended up like this in our hands. Right now, we have a team making up stories, so I’m just writing this down to pass the time and document what little we got.

The people who just slept were asleep for the entire time they were given. That’s it. Nothing else happened. I know being tired every day, all day makes you want to sleep forever, but come on! You’re being paid to do something fun with what are essentially godlike abilities, so why didn’t they take advantage of that? My theory is that they just wanted to die or rest forever. These people have a history of suicide attempts and self-harm, so the theory that we have right now is that they just wanted an easy way to end their life. Even with a simulation where they could do anything they wanted, they wanted nothing, but the end of their existence and people wonder why I hate it when people play god.

Since that’s all I really have to talk about, here’s more about my sister and me or rather just her with me sprinkled in. You all probably don’t know a lot about her because she keeps to herself on this project and her future plans for it. This is probably because she’s the CEO of the company. She doesn’t care much for anyone outside of her family. It’s why I can make her so mad at me and never get fired while everyone else has three or so strikes depending on who you are and what you did. I can expose every part of her life that I know and nothing with happen to me.

For example; she used to use her status as my older sister to get away with things, she used to drink a lot and have me drag her back home, she used to have a collection of porn before I discovered it, she used to send pictures to boys of herself barely clothed or naked, and when we’ve had our sibling scuffles, I always won. In fact, whenever we fought, I always won. She was always smarter and achieved more than I could and probably will achieve more than me, but she can never beat me in a game or challenge. This is something that bothers her the most.

I don’t know why this is. Mom and dad always told me to be like her. She’s had more friends that I. She has more fame and fortune than I could ever accrue. In the end, she’s probably going to do more for the world than I ever could. All I do is document things and stick by her side as I always have. It’s like we’re attached to each other by the soul. Wherever she went, I did as well.

She may seem distant and cold, but she cares for others and me. She just can’t express it outside of her actions. You know all the different things our company does to help people. You know how we’ve helped so many lives with what we’ve created. Sure, some of our methods may be questionable, but we’ve never seriously hurt or killed anyone.

Here are a few things she did for me. Back in grade school, I got into a fight with a few people and got beat. She came out of nowhere and helped me by fighting the bullies with the help of her friends.

I told her, “Thanks, sis.”

She responded with a simple, “Yeah. Don’t mention it.”

There was another time when we were hiking, and we had a bad fall. I could barely walk, so she carried me all the way to safety even though she could barely carry me. The last thing I vividly remember her doing for me was the time we spent together on the beach after my first break up. This was during summer vacation, and after my partner broke up with me, we just sat on the beach together in each other’s arms.

I’m sorry if I made my sister look bad in any way in my notes. I wouldn’t dream of saying anything that’s meant to hurt her. Whatever I say is just to poke fun at her and to point out the different things she does for her benefit. I hope she sees that.

Anyway, uh…so those experiments we conducted speak for themselves. Nothing else to report.

The Simulation of Human gods: Subject 2: The Subjects of the Subject

Subject 2: The Subjects of the Subject

Our next subject already has subjects of his own running a simulation of his own within the simulation to see what results may come from the situations. He’s constructed two simulations. One is a horror situation where a person wakes up in a hospital with mad doctors, another is a romance situation where their subject is given the choice of multiple people to choose from, and the last is a series of puzzles. While this is happening, our subject is dissecting a human AI.

The AI is so realistic that they will react realistically to pain, pleasure, fear, and various kinds of physical pain based off real videos of people suffering. I’d hate to be the programmers who had to watch those videos on loop until the suffering matched what could be considered realistic for what is happening to them. The internal organs of the AI will also act realistically to whatever happens to them. If our subject wishes for them to be affected by a disease, then their body will look and act accordingly.

Today, we have a doctor by the name of Thomas Carter experimenting with our simulation. He was an obvious choice because of his curiosity and the number of medical advances he has achieved through his experiments. The man has a history of trying to push the ethical boundaries of experimentation so he can see if different experiments with yield new cures. Unfortunately, all his proposals to push ethics are just drafts on his computer. None of them are convincing enough even with the way he skillfully phrases things. He wants to take things further, but the technology and his conscious conflict with his aspirations.

When we came to him and told about what he could do in our simulation, he quickly accepted it and asked if he could do it multiple times. We told him that if the work he does now yields results for both us and him, then he can have as many tries as he wants. So far, he’s discovered various advances in medicine and different discoveries in the durability of the human body. Carter is taking great care in documenting and using various methods of causing pain on his patients. Blunt and sharp weapons, guns, fire, and acids are just some of the tools he uses to research their effect on various parts of the human body. It’s a good thing he mutes the patients because I don’t think I would be able to handle all the screaming and sleep. Serial killers don’t cause this much pain to their victims in these ways in their simulations. He must really want to see how the human body reacts to different factors.

The tests he runs on his “lab rats” are less painful to watch, even the horror ones. If you’ve ever seen one of those old movies where the characters have to mutilate themselves to survive, then you’ve seen Carter’s tests. The romance one plays out differently depending on the circumstances and characters. Sometimes it’s a romantic comedy, horror romance, or a sweet romance. The horror romance is the most interesting to me because this scenario ends up playing out the most because of the scary nature of being in a relationship. Tensions arise in whether or not the couple is in love, if one of them is a sociopath or psychopath, or whether or not if the person who they’re in love with is really the person they fell in love with. There’s also the fear of losing the person you love, which is one of my greatest fears. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the puzzle tests. They’re fine. It’s no different than what we were doing with the AI to test their intelligence. He’s seeing if the AI is smarter than animals. According to our tests, they should be smarter than most animals, but they shouldn’t be smarter than us. We don’t want a robot/AI uprising to happen.

The research Carter is astounding. If he keeps discovering new things at this rate, he won’t have that many more sessions with us. The doctor seems to know it and is now taking his time much to the dismay of his patients. He’s much like our previous patient. Decent in real life while being a monster in a simulation. A removal of real-world consequences really does turn man into beast.

Anyways, while he’s twiddling his thumbs, I’ll write a bit about my sister and me since people liked hearing about it. It’s funny that she got mad at me for snitching on her when I wrote about her playing solitaire when she’s bored. She can’t get in trouble, so I don’t know why she got mad. I guess it was just her being embarrassed. My sister always tried to be the top of the class, the most athletic, and the most eye-catching person while I, on the other hand, just stayed humbled with my small group of friends. Her will to do more is probably why she has a higher paying job than I, but it doesn’t matter to me.

Our family lives in the same house, and if we need something we can’t get ourselves, one of us will get it for them. Speaking about the house, do you know the mansion that’s directly above us? Yeah, that’s our house. I bet you never checked it out because of how intimidating it looks, the guards around it, and the distance between this facility’s entrance to the mansion. It’s actually a nice place with a view of the river. I don’t know why we don’t invite any of you for a holiday or special event. It’s not like we can’t afford it, or we don’t have enough space. If anything, it’s because she’s so focused on this project. I swear she’s the reason I barely get any sleep. Her reason for doing is probably because a-

Oh? It looks like Carter discovered something. It looks like he distinguished the AI from the real people in the simulation.

He says, “You didn’t tell me there were other people in here.”

“It was in the fine print,” our respondent answers.

“I don’t think it was. Is this one of your secrets that you want to keep from me?”

“…”

“I’ve read rumors about your company conducting some rather…strange activities so you can stay ahead in business. You are rivaled by none in terms of medicine and technology. Your reach is worldwide, and you are liked by many, but how can that happen with a single company? Surely it isn’t all divine providence?”

“What are you trying to get at?”

“I must admit I’m jealous you can do what you do while appearing to be angels on the surface. All I want is what I asked for with the addition of helping the medicinal section of your company. I’m not going to ask why real people besides me are in the simulation. I just ask that you don’t give me any to work on except in the event that I’m curing them outside of the simulation.”

“You’re hired.”

“Good.”

The good doctor gets back to work after letting go of the real human. He’s keener than I thought he’d be. I guess there’s something about the way a real person acts that distinguish them from an AI. Maybe we should’ve expected it from an experienced doctor like Carter. He’s going to be very useful to us in the future.

Question: What will a doctor do when he has the chance to be unethical in his experiments?

Results: Continue to be ethical. His experiences helped him distinguish between a fake human and a real one. Even when he had the chance to experiment on a real person, he threw it away.

Suggestion: Let Dr. Carter do what he wants. Based on what he did to the AI, it’s best not to give him a reason to go over his ethical boundaries.

Last Five Bullets: Prologue – One Shot to Save a Life

Prologue – One Shot to Save a Life

Strange things happen, but I don’t think my life will ever get stranger from here. I got an email from the Curaga Company. They wanted my services as a bodyguard and I agreed, but when I met them, they offered me a different kind of bodyguard job.

They told me they wanted me to, “Be part of the security team that’s escorting part of our next big cure.”

The Curaga Company is known for curing most forms of cancer and other life-ending diseases. They apparently have one part of the cure to a disease they couldn’t disclose to me.

After some explaining, they said, “Do this for us and we’ll be able to cure your daughter of her disease that is thought to be incurable.”

“What? Really?”

“Yes.”

My life has been a series of terrible events until it culminated with the disease that put my daughter in the hospital. I’ve just been working guard jobs to keep myself and my daughter alive as long as possible.

“Why would you want to hire a nobody like me?”

“Because we are impressed by your devotion to your job. Let’s go over a few that sparked our interest the most. When you caught a criminal speeding, you knew that that criminal was part of a protected class of people, but you still defended yourself from him, shot him, and arrested him at the cost of your job as a police officer.”

“You find that particular action impressive? What if I find something I don’t like and think I should bring you to justice?”

“We are confident that we do no wrong. We aren’t some comical corporation of villains who conduct human experiments and make bioweapons. Now, the next thing was when you shot and killed various members of the mafia that owned the club you were a guard of. The report gives us the impression that you didn’t know who truly ran the club, so we’ll shrug off the fact that you were working for them.”

“You will? I took a lot of flak from not realizing it for the first week that I worked there.”

“You freed many women from prostitution. We will. The last thing that you may not want to be reminded of is-”

“I’m sorry, but if this is what I think it is…”

“We’ll keep the details to a minimum. You saved dozens upon dozens of people first before you went to save your family. Unfortunately, the only member of your family you saved was your daughter, so everyone else perished.”

“…”

“We’re sorry we had to remind you of that but remember the integrity that you have. It’s what makes you an unappreciated hero in the eyes of many and a dedicated worker. Do not think for a moment that you did the wrong thing by saving those other people first. If you just saved your family, so many more people would be dead and I’m sure your family and others would have a negative view of you. What credit is it to you if you love those who love you, am I right?”

“Yeah…I just don’t want to think about it.”

“So, what do you think? Will you accept our offer?”

“Everything you described before makes this job seem dangerous if you’re keeping it a secret. What will you do if I don’t come back?”

“If someone from your team comes back with the cure, we will cure your daughter for you as a sign of respect. If no one comes back with the cure, then we will release your daughter from the vegetative-like state she is in so she will join you in the afterlife. How does that sound?”

“I guess she doesn’t have any other options. I’ll take the job.”

“Very wise choice, Mr. Retto.”

I was then briefed on what we’re going to do, how we are going to do it, and the plans if things go south. I am given a hazmat suit with body armor and a special pistol that has “fire” bullets as they call them. They are better than normal bullets because they can penetrate harder surfaces and cure people who get infected with the cure we’re after. Apparently, when only one half of the cure is used on an animal, it mutates into a flesh-eating beast that can only be killed with fire or these kinds of bullets. I’m also given a heated knife that will burn the infected, I’m not sure if it’ll be too useful. Regular firearms don’t work on an infect animal as the animal will seemingly grow whatever got blown off in a mutated way that makes them more dangerous.

I’ve seen the videos of this, and man were they horrifying. I hope things don’t turn out that way.

“Hey, Mr. Retto,” a man on the helicopter says to me, “You’ve been staring into space for the past hour. You nearly look dead. Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

“Good because we’re almost there so get ready.”

“Right.”

I look at the picture of my daughter one more time before we land.

“Don’t worry, sir. You’ll see her again.”

“I hope so.”

We’ve landed in a large cavern underneath a waterfall. This place must be extremely top secret for them to hide it like this. The inside of the facility looks incredibly slick and futuristic. There are a lot of experimental rooms that don’t look too bad, but there are rooms with dead mutated animals like the ones I saw from the videos. Those things better stay dead.

The people around us don’t look happy. Some are whispering to each other while the others look frightened. In the briefing, I heard that most of these people are just a hired third party with Curaga members mixed in. I don’t think I’m allowed to talk to any of them nor am I allowed to voice my concerns to my teammates. All I can do is just walk a little faster to get this over with quicker.

We enter a cold storage room with a few scientists in it.

The team leader steps forward and says, “We’re here to collect the other half of the cure. Give us what you have, and you will receive your agreed upon payment in full.”

There’s an uncomfortable silence in the room.

“We decline your payment. It’s not worth it.”

“Then hand over all the research that you have the cure.”

“I don’t think so.”

The scientists pull out guns, but we shoot them dead. I’m sorry it had to be this way. Why did they resist? I’m sure they were paid well to do something worthwhile.

“Hurry and collect the cure.”

“There’s empty slots over here. Are we expecting a certain amount?”

“No, just whatever they have will be useful.”

We take all the vials of the cure, put them in a box, and leave the room as if nothing happened. An alarm then gets rung as wild animals start devouring people. Damn these people! I guess we know where the other vials went. Why couldn’t they make it easy for us?! We use our special ammo on these creatures to kill them, but we waste a few since they’re so fast. Those who were killed reanimate themselves and become the living dead. What the hell is going on? Why are people becoming zombies?

My team is dying around me and turning. I knew something would go wrong and this job would end up turning on me! It’s just the climax to all the bad things that have been happening to me.

“AAAAHHHH!”

These things hit with the force of a sledgehammer. Oh no…

“AAAH!!”

Uhhh…Something hit me with this claw arms and knocked me into a wall. Wait…I’m still alive? Where is everyone? Where did all those zombies go? This place is a mess with blood everywhere, but no bodies or torn flesh anywhere. They do regenerate flesh, so I guess it just collects goes back where it came from. Those things are bound to be around here somewhere, so maybe there are some notes around here that can help me. Ah, I found them near the testing area.

Okay, so the flesh does form together once it’s broken off while regenerating what was lost. That means a huge monster formed of flesh and dangerous appendages could be made if enough flesh is collected together. That better not have happened yet. Oh, there’s also a note in here that says conscious prey is preferred over unconscious victims by the virus. The other people must’ve gotten out somehow if the zombies just left me.

Oh, damn, I almost forgot the other half of the “cure”. Some of the vials are broken, some are missing, but I do find one that’s still intact. This is my daughter’s ticket to being saved. Now I have to find a way out of here. Thankfully this place is straightforward, but I don’t like how quiet and dark it is. It feels like something will jump at me any second. The random sparks and noises have me on edge.

After following the path forward, I find a large set of stairs near a broken elevator. I guess I have to climb the stairs. It appears that people were fighting and dying as they were trying to escape. Wow, this is a lot of stairs. Where is it taking me…oh no. I’m in a town. This is a town that we passed by on the way here. I didn’t think the facility would have an exit to here. I’m in some kind of mechanic’s shop.

Looking out into the streets, I see that it’s littered with zombies and other mutants who are wandering around looking for their next meal. I have to get through them and find a way out of here. I take out my daughter’s head bow and put it on my arm. One of the last things she did for me while she was still mostly conscious was to give me her favorite head bow as a way of her to always be with me.  I only have five bullets left to use with my knife being a somewhat useless backup. Your dad is going to help you and I’m going to do risk everything I have to get this cure to you. I promise. I’m going to need you to help me, sweetie.

The Simulation of Human gods: Subject 1: A Child in a Playhouse

Subject 1: A Child in a Playhouse

This document is made to record the results of the Human Gods Simulation experiments along with some personal notes. This simulation that my company has made to test out how people will act in a simulation where they can do whatever they want. The machine we are using for the simulation gives them a true to life experience, so they feel as they are actually living in the simulation. Due to the nature of our research, we hire our subjects for large sums for the valuable research they give us and for them to keep quiet about their experience. We record them (without them knowing), and then talk to them about their experiences.

The subject today is a woman by the name of Blair Craven. We picked her because she’s played lot of video games especially violent ones where you can go around and shoot people. Normal video games are known not to cause people to become violent. This is also true of violent TV shows, movies, and books. What we want to know is that if a person like this will still act violently if things are more realistic.

Blair has been in the simulation for a few minutes now and has been testing the realistic nature of it.

“Hey, what’s the movie where a trio of strangers try to kill a couple?”

“Do you know the psychological horror series about a cursed town?”

“What about the anime inspired by a western comic series with a cursed blade? Weapon of God or the devil?”

“What about the video game series? The one that had the tagline, ‘One warrior versus a thousand’?”

The AI pulls information from the internet and constructs it in a realistic way. They use a lot of uhs, ahs, ums, and likes in their sentences. We didn’t bother programming people with more verbose vocabularies because that’s just a pain and tiresome to listen to. The way the AI talks isn’t the best and Blair can tell. There’s a certain stiffness to the way to the AI acts that makes it inhuman.

It can’t read facial expressions, change in voice, or read between the lines of a person’s speech. Even when it tries to, it has about a thirty percent chance of reading a person correctly. I guess this is true of everyone since we can’t read their thoughts and know for complete certainty how they interpret things, but this is even more true with AI. As far as I can, there’s no workaround to it that can encompass all subjects even if we manage to get it to work with one, so this is just an interesting note on it.

Blair’s creating various rides and riding different cars through various scenarios now. She constructed it all when I was writing done notes. Creating rides and thrills that she’s doing is what a lot of the subjects do. They make the thrills that they can’t experience in real life. A lot of them recreate scenes from their favorite franchises even the ones that are nearly impossible to survive. They still make these recreations because they know they can change the scenarios, so they survive.

Speaking about scenarios, Blair is recreating a scene from a popular zombie movie. There is a scene where the zombies climb on top of each other to climb up a wall. Blair is trying to survive the action-packed scene, but she keeps dying, so she switches tactics and turns herself into a robot that can turn into a vehicle. Everything is going by so fast now with the different franchises and things going on. I hope the recording speaks for itself. She looks like she’s preoccupied, so I’ll note down some of what I’ve previously seen.

A lot of people like reenacting scenes from their favorite franchises and even make their own based on what they like. This reminds me of how children will play with their different toys and make their own story. My sister and I used to do the same things. You can ask her yourselves if you want to know more. There are writers who do similar things when they take a story they like or sometimes dislike and make it into their own vision of what they want it to be. People like bouncing off each other’s imagination and creating new things to share with others.

It looks like Blair is switching to do something else. She made her surroundings into a normal city. I wonder what she’s going to do now with her remaining time. Okay, so now she’s going on a rampage. She’s using a knife and killing people in town like a slasher movie villain. She’s changed some of the AI settings so she can kill stealthily and with no consequences. It’s weird seeing the AI trip over bodies and dismiss them as if they tripped over nothing.

This seems to have bored Blair easily now. It appears that she doesn’t like it that other people haven’t taken notice of what she’s doing. Because of this, she’s changed the rules and has gotten noticed by an AI immediately.

“Screw this,” Blair says as she changes the rules again.

With enough weapons to take on an army, Blair is ramping through the streets of her made up city. She’s using weapons such as; a gravity gun, a weapon that inflates a person’s head until it explodes, a gun that covers a person in chum before a shark comes out of the ground to eat the person, and…seriously? There wasn’t anything on her file suggesting that she was sexually degenerate, but she’s using a dildo bat. These are all weapons from a wacky video game if I remember correctly.

“It’s murder time, fun time!” Blair says out loud as she faces a horde of cats in scientist outfits and furries.

Yup. There goes the reference to one of the lines from the game. I remember the games that my sister and I used to play. She used to love to play strategy and card games. I bet you anything that she still plays spider solitaire on her computer when she’s bored. You should check over her shoulder if you ever have a chance. I, on the other hand, used to play a lot of quick reaction action-type games. It’s probably why I’m so good at typing quickly.

Oh? What’s that?

“Please, please! Don’t kill me!” an injured person says as they hold out their hand at Blair.

Blair is about to kill this person, but the look on the injured person’s face and the whimpering they’re making makes her back down. She backs down, heals the person, and puts everything back to normal. She doesn’t know it, but that was another subject. The subjects aren’t told, but the people who don’t keep quiet about our experiments are taken back here and left in the simulation. In the simulation, they go through a surreal experience where they think the experiment they went through was a dream and that they are still in one long dream. If Blair had killed that person, they would’ve instantly forgotten everything before and after the experiment. It would’ve been easier on us, however, we can still make the ex-subject forget. A lot of people can’t the difference between the AI and real people begging for help, but she did. Impressive.

Because of her experience, Blair has gone back to thrill rides and killing what she knows to be fake creatures. She does this for the rest of her allotted time before she is let out-damn it! I forgot that the subject for today was a man! The subjects usually choose their avatar to look like themselves, but Blair Craven is one of the ones that didn’t. I also didn’t think the small fact that he sometimes likes playing as female characters in games was important. Oh well. I guess I have to change it later.

Blair Craven is a normal man with a family and two kids and has shown off a weird part of himself or maybe it’s normal. He knew everything was fake and acted in an over-the-top manner. He was a kid in a playhouse and did what a grown-up kid would probably do. The notes I took and the results we got should be enough to make up for the mistakes I made. I hope my sister doesn’t hold it over me.

Question: Will a person who consumes violent media act violently in a fake environment when they are given God-like power?

Results: Yes, but they will not act violently towards real people.

Suggestion: Less sympathetic needed for further study.

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In a beautiful crystal world, there is a world war between two kinds of dolls, the Flos and Crystallis. A mother and her son are caught in the conflict and the son is afflicted with a spell that will shatter him unless she gets to the springs, where all dolls came from. This mother will have to fight both nature and other dolls to help her son and do what a mother is supposed to for her child.