Alien

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You take a deep breath of the oxygen-rich air as you look out of the door of your ship. You have landed in the corner of a neglected field and if the nav is correct you should be in early 20th century England - somewhere in the South of the country.

The yellow sun is well over to the West, so it must be afternoon and you know that it will be light for quite a while yet at this time of year. The temperature is pleasantly warm as you stretch your new body. You are an amorphous vaguely human shape at this stage.

Looking around, you see that your ship is apparently a rusty old shipping container. A good disguise as they are pretty ubiquitous and get repurposed for all kinds of things, a lot better than the old phone box you could have used. This one looks abandoned, tucked into some bushes.

You go back in to review the mission parameters with your team:

Examine the sexual mores of the local population with special reference to paedophilia, it says. To this end you are provided with fully adjustable constructs, capable of simulating human bodies of either sex and any age. There's also the usual EULA for the software and hardware, which you accept without reading the 96 closely written pages of legalese.

The ship is fully supplied with suitable contemporary clothes for all ages, but your instructor had suggested that you start as a baby with nothing but a blanket, on the grounds that babies are nearly always welcomed. You decide to take three of the housefly-sized fully autonomous cameras that will automatically lock on to anything of interest. They work in pairs to get 3D and can operate for six hours before returning to base.

You can return to base at any time and swap forms. The plan is to try out younger bodies without speech to accumulate local idioms before moving on to older forms. You will also have to move at some point to test differences between small and large settlements.

Once everything is set up, you check the comms to see how the other ships got on. There are six of you, scattered around the Country. You are not supposed to contact each other except in an emergency, and your Team Leader will be monitoring you from their permanent base in London anyway.

So. The first thing to decide is gender. Although you are aware of other alternatives, you have decided to stick with male and female:

Are you: