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She holds herself again, looking down to the ground.

You pick your nose. "Alright, so fess up. You makin' zombies or some shit? Bioweapons? Lay it on me, I've seen enough sci-fi bullshit to not be surprised."

He paces around the room. "We're simply gathering data here. You know what our company does, right?"

Casey looks at him, still keeping her head down. "We...um, we develop games, don't we? Among other things."

He nods. "Bingo. We make games. And this project is our biggest one yet. To almost everyone in this building, it's just a really complex Virtual Reality Game."

He continues pacing again. "However, to everyone in this room, it's the bridge to evolution! Our subject's minds have all been uploaded into our game. But until we can truly evolve, we must keep our subjects suspended and sustained, so we may keep them alive and ready for giving data."

You let out a really exhausted-sounding sigh. "Oh fuck. Daddy's gone crazy. Look, spare me the bullshit and do what you gotta do to me already. I can already tell this project's just a giant fucking ego trip."

He laughs. "An ego trip? Perhaps! But son, what you're witnessing here is the first steps to digitalizing society! And to do that, we need results! People to really give it their all for results! So we've promised all these test subjects a handsome reward of one simple wish. Any wish within the means of money and power. And all they have to do...is win."

You blink a few times. "You. Are really bonkers. And dumb. First of all, I dunno if you've noticed, but a lot of the players got memory loss already. They don't even know what the game's about! And they never will, thanks to the Seers having to keep their mouths shut."

He walks up to you and wags his finger. "Tsk tsk. I don't remember raising a failure in the field of science. Do you not know what a control in an experiment is? We have some teams playing for the reward, and the rest simply playing for fun. We need our data to be as varied as possible after all."

You massage the bridge of your nose. "Alright. Gotcha. You can stop there. I can tell you a million problems with all of this, but I'll just get an aneurysm doing so. Look, seriously, just tell me what you want me to do in this horseshit project."

He claps his hands together. "Wonderful! Simple really. Shameful as it is, our game feels rather...incomplete."

You sneer. "Who would have fucking guessed."

He claps again, this time in your face. "We...need a gatekeeper to guard the path to victory. A true gatekeeper, mind you. Our current one is nothing but flimsy code. An overtly simplistic final villain. A difficult one, but not a meaningful one." He puts his hand on your shoulder. "That's where we need you. I need you, son, to be a villain. A truly human, truly genuine villain. The perfect antagonist." He looks to your side. "Of course, I ask the same of you, Ms. Casey."

She relunctanly nods.

You sigh and swat his hand away again, then put your arm around Casey and yank her towards you. Apathetic as you might be, you gotta soften up your dad's damage to others. "Well, can't say no anyway. Just go and strip me already, Daddy."

His brow twitches. "Seriously. Can you stop saying it like that--"

You clear your throat. "OHO. DADDY. PLEASE. I'VE BEEN NAUGHTY." You click your tongue. "C'mon Daddy. You've seen my willy many times as a kid."

He adjusts his collar. "Son. You will stop this at once--"

You snicker. "Heh. You're trying to evolve humanity, but you can't even evolve past these nuts. Load me up in the tube already, I'm sick of your crap."
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