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WELCOME BACK, (missing username)
CIRCUIT FAILURE DETECTED ATTEMPTING REPAIR
CIRCUIT FAILURE DETECTED ATTEMPTING REPAIR
CIRCUIT FAILURE DETECTED ATTEMPTING REPAIR
REPAIR SUCCESSFUL!
GOOD MORNING!
TODAY IS:
2080/10/9
12:00 PM
YOUR MOOD BEFORE YOU SLEPT WAS:
DISCONTENT
UPCOMING EVENTS:
N/A
OPEN YOUR EYES. THE BOOT UP PROCEDURE HAS FINISHED.
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Birds're chirping.
Air's dull.
Same day.
??? (USER'S EYES ARE CLOSED. UNABLE TO IDENTIFY): "Hey."
??? (USER'S EYES ARE CLOSED. UNABLE TO IDENTIFY): "Wake up!"
Whuh..?
??? (USER'S EYES ARE CLOSED. UNABLE TO IDENTIFY): "I said – WAKE UP!"
A sharp blow woke me up.
Did she just slap me?
That must've hurt for her, poor girl.
I'm in a dumpster.
On me is Shinpi.
She doesn't have her pistol with her, I don't think.
Her holster's empty.
Looks like she's about to cry.
Oh, I was right.
She's crying right now.
Her tears are raining on my cheeks.
Too damn tired to do anything about it, this garbage is oddly comfortable to lay in.
Looks like she finally noticed her eye-boogers since they're gone now.
Doesn't she think this is uncomfortable?
Staring at me while I'm staring back..
Yeah, this is weird.
USER: "I'm up."
SHINPI: "Took you long enough."
She rolls to the side, laying in the garbage next to me.
USER: "Why're we in a dumpster?"
SHINPI: "I'm as confused as you are."
USER: "So many questions..."
SHINPI: "You had a little device on you."
USER: "I've got multiple. Shit, I'm basically a device myself."
SHINPI: "The one in your pocket, I mean. I read it, something called DATALOGUE?"
She pulls out a mini DATALOGUE REGISTER.
Wait, did she just hunk that from me?!
Too damn junked out to scrap for it..
USER: "Yeah, an auto-journal."
USER: "It automatically writes down all of your thoughts."
SHINPI: "To answer your question, no, I do not know what happened. I just slept and woke up naked inside of a cylindrical container."
She stops for a moment.
USER: "Continue."
SHINPI: "The container opened itself up as soon as I twitched my fingers. As soon as I stepped out I saw a corpse. Had a name tag too, but whatever was written on it had faded away. Got my clothes from it."
YOU ARE READING
DATALOGUE
Misterio / SuspensoA cyberpunk story set in the year 2080. A person is sent to a building of infamy. This place, to the general public's knowledge, used to host experiments. Rumors started to spark of it possibly being the first step of harnessing teleportation, tim...
