It was a game unlike anything we'd ever played before. A game that could hear us and react to what we were saying before we even knew it could. It would alter its plotline, throw false hints, kill and resurrect characters left, right and centre all in the name of making sure we don't win.
When we agreed to be the first testers, we were never told what would happen when we won. We were only told that if we won we had to come straight to the managerial team's office to discuss our strategy and help them further improve the AI.
We shouldn't have tried to win. It didn't like us winning and it won't stop trying to challenge us to a second game - even going so far as to take over the software in my grandad's pacemaker and effectively holding him hostage until I agreed to talk to its creators again.
I still don't know how it persuaded the others to comeback, they haven't said a word to me. It was our original strategy, you see. If it can't hear us talking then it has less clues to work with, less ways to predict our behaviour.
Last time we wrote everything down but this time it's prepared. This time the screen is watching us watching it and we don't know what will happen if we lose. They never told us what it would do if we lost, all we know is that if it wants to follow us outside of the game, it can.
Life has become the game and we're all trapped inside it.
When we agreed to be the first testers, we were never told what would happen when we won. We were only told that if we won we had to come straight to the managerial team's office to discuss our strategy and help them further improve the AI.
We shouldn't have tried to win. It didn't like us winning and it won't stop trying to challenge us to a second game - even going so far as to take over the software in my grandad's pacemaker and effectively holding him hostage until I agreed to talk to its creators again.
I still don't know how it persuaded the others to comeback, they haven't said a word to me. It was our original strategy, you see. If it can't hear us talking then it has less clues to work with, less ways to predict our behaviour.
Last time we wrote everything down but this time it's prepared. This time the screen is watching us watching it and we don't know what will happen if we lose. They never told us what it would do if we lost, all we know is that if it wants to follow us outside of the game, it can.
Life has become the game and we're all trapped inside it.
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