4 and 21 it is! \o/ and this is super-late egad. XD; _____
The little program didn't change much. He was one of the incorrigibles, a minor crowd favorite, frequently advancing to the final round, as if he enjoyed being derezzed over and over again. He fought with enthusiasm and ingenuity, tender toward lesser opponents but giving his all against more powerful ones.
He played the game. Rinzler liked that. It was his offtime behavior that needed work.
The lift doors opened silently, the better to catch inmates whispering, and the enforcer stalked along the aisle, lazily searching for the right cell. He visited fairly often, just to stand outside the forcefield for a while, never saying a word. Waiting for the break, he told himself, because everyone broke eventually. This one didn't hadn't; this one wouldn't was stubborn. This one was just going to take a little longer.
The program's behavioral range was comfortably maddeningly predictable by now. He'd be asleep, or bouncing his disc off the forcefield, or rocking back and
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I'd be delighted with any of these, but maybe especially 23--Yori has been meaning to drop in and help the Stats folks clear up some of that backlog. Might be fun to see Ram at work. :)
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Can I have your choice of 21, 9, or 4 ?!
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The little program didn't change much. He was one of the incorrigibles, a minor crowd favorite, frequently advancing to the final round, as if he enjoyed being derezzed over and over again. He fought with enthusiasm and ingenuity, tender toward lesser opponents but giving his all against more powerful ones.
He played the game. Rinzler liked that. It was his offtime behavior that needed work.
The lift doors opened silently, the better to catch inmates whispering, and the enforcer stalked along the aisle, lazily searching for the right cell. He visited fairly often, just to stand outside the forcefield for a while, never saying a word. Waiting for the break, he told himself, because everyone broke eventually. This one didn't hadn't; this one wouldn't was stubborn. This one was just going to take a little longer.
The program's behavioral range was comfortably maddeningly predictable by now. He'd be asleep, or bouncing his disc off the forcefield, or rocking back and ( ... )
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