Life Hacks/Hallomod(Sammael-Useful-Friendly)/Ask her about Cora
"So what's the deal with the doll?" you ask casually.
"What? Cora?" replies Rose.
"You mean her name is actually Cora?"
"This one's is. It's actually Cora Verum."
"True Heart in Latin? Very poetic."
"Yeah," she says with a slight blush, "I get sappy sometimes." She moves over to Cora. "Would you like to meet her?"
You were going to ask how it is that the Holiday's got her name right, but you put that aside for now. "Yeah, that would be great . . . I don't want to restart time just yet though."
"No big deal," she replies, "you can share your Time Dilation with a lifie if you want to. It's a bit of a pain in the ass with Life Controller's physical interface, but it's no big deal if you have a neural interpreter changing it to a neural interface command." She turns to Cora, leans down to the doll's ear, and says, "Wakey, Wakey, Cora Verum."
Cora turns her head slowly, which is kind of creepy, then stands up in a clumsy, doll like fashion . . . which is actually kind of adorable. She turns her head straight to you, then falls to her knees and genuflects before you. "Oh great one, I never have tasted the seed of a god. I am thine, and thine alone."
You're a little taken aback for a moment at the demonstration of utter submissiveness. "Get up, Cora," you say, blushing. "You don't need to subjugate yourself to me so thoroughly."
"As thou wishest great one," says the doll as she stands. You know that she can see Black Rose, but she isn't giving the slightest sign of reverence, or even recognition to the devil that created her. "What is thy will, that I might serve thee, master? Doest thou need the pleasure I can bring?"
"Not right now," you say to the doll, then turn to Black Rose. "What's with the Middle English, Victorian England spoke Modern English?"
"Oh, with the persistent use of Middle English in religious circles, I was pretty sure having the dolls speak it would increase their appeal. Just tell her to speak in Modern English, or any other language, if you don't like it."
"Cora, you will speak in Modern English from now on."
"Yes, of course master," replies Cora. "I dare not presume, but may I ask who this woman is?"
"She doesn't recognize you?"
"Yeah, she wouldn't," Rose says with a chuckle, "none of them do. It was part of my subtle subterfuge. Watch this . . . " She turns to the doll. "Cora, I am Sammael, the Satan, called Abaddon, Beelzebub, Belial, and Lucifer. I am your creator."
"You had no part in the making of me, Evil One!" Cora says venomously. "Must we consort with such a monster, master?"
"You see," says Rose with a laugh, "there is absolutely nothing you can do that will get her to acknowledge or accept that I am her creator in any way whatsoever. She is programmed to despise me."
"Was that wise?"
"Oh, she's no danger. I put that in there so people would think I was trying to throw suspicion off of myself, while I was actually trying to verify that I made the dolls."
"You like convoluted plans don't you?"
"Yeah, that's kind of my thing."
"I have a question," you say. "The Holiday's," you motion to the clan frozen in time behind you, "were already calling her Cora. Is that just coincidence or . . . "
"It was intentional. Part of the magic conveys the name of the doll to observers."
"So can you tell me how to share my time dilation settings with a lifie?"
"I guess, it's been a while since I've had to do it manually so bear with me." A light blue screen appears in front of her. "Okay, first you dilate time. Next select all lifies that you want to bring into your rate of time. Reset time dilation. Re-select the lifies. Re-implement time dilation. From then on until you reset the time dilation to normal they will share your rate of time passage."
"That seems unnecessarily convoluted . . . and I didn't notice time going back to normal when you brought Cora in."
"It is unnecessarily convoluted. The maker of Life Controller never wanted players breaking lifie continuity. People begged for it, and when he finally implemented it, he made you jump through all these hoops to get it to work. He said it was so you didn't accidentally bring a lifie in . . . but really it was just him being pissy. As far as not noticing the time change, that because it happened at the speed of thought. Neural Interpreter, remember?"
"Cool, that must be awesome to have."
"Yeah, if everyone had one the game would slow down to unplayable levels . . . if it didn't crash. I actually tried to get a Neural Interpreter hack spread around the game at one point to cause just that kind of chaos, but the admin caught it too quickly and banned it. Not all my plans turn out well."
"Nobody's perfect."
"I'd like to meet this 'Nobody' and judge her perfection myself," says Rose with a laugh.
You share her laugh, then ask, "Hey, since you made Cora, do you think you could remove the fear they added . . . and make her not cursed?"
"That would actually be rather easy . . . but it could attract unwanted attention. I could probably get around it, but if you ever encounter an admin or moderator with her in tow they could find out that I tweaked her code . . . which might not bode well for you."
Do you ask her to fix Cora?
Or bring home the relationship building first?
- Hit on her
- Ask her about God Warning! This passage contains an alternate interpretation of the Judeo-Christian God YHWH as relates to his nature in the story as a person playing a god in a video game, as told through the character that was playing Sammael (the Satan). This is not intended to be an accurate representation of YHWH by any stretch of the imagination. If you feel this might offend you please avoid this option. Warning! Claimed--Elerneron (talk) 09:18, 2 January 2017 (CET)
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