You decide that you actually don't want to wear your standard uniform. Wouldn't make sense, after all, as you don't even need to work today. So you search through the closet for something else, and manage to locate a perfectly good sundress kind of casual thing. You haven't worn it once in your time here, but you find that it fits well enough. And it feels a lot more liberating than the uniform, certainly. You place your used uniform into the laundry chute, then head out to get some breakfast.
As you walk off to the elevator, you find yourself in need of more news to keep you occupied with something. You guess the one about marriage looks promising. And it is a bit interesting - in a rather strange twist, Skandi City authorities have decided that it's quite okay for somebody to marry their property, as evidenced by the latest cases in which several Skandi City men have legally requested permission to marry their property - one man has legally married a particular mountain in northern Scandinavia, while another has married his longtime employee, a secretary of the Jonathan line. In either case the authorities of Skandi City have made no attempt to refuse or dissuade these individuals from doing such a thing, citing that it's really their choice if they want to enjoy being throwbacks to older, less progressive times where one truly did own whatever they married, albeit this is an admittedly different twist on the tradition.
Well, that's sufficiently weird. A natural marrying an engineered person? Certainly unorthodox, though you suppose they can live as they wish. You can't help but wonder what must have transpired for a man to wish to marry a mountain. And what's going to happen on the wedding night, too. But perhaps it's best not to think about that. Instead, you should focus on food. You go up to the employee cafeteria, finding it rather empty at this hour, and fix yourself up some food.
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+1] You work the food dispenser a bit, managing to get a rather invigorating blend of various nutritious pastes, plus a glass of orange+ juice, and settle in to have a nice meal. Fifteen minutes later, you're quite done, and feeling perfectly wonderful. After cleaning up what remains after your feeding session, you consider what reservations you could possibly make with Jonathan Two. You suppose you could go to the engineered cafeteria, which you can't really reserve, since it's a cafeteria and open for set hours each day, or you could just host him here, which would be perfectly viable, since nobody's supposed to eat here in any official capacity today.
As you think about it, you see a Jasmine wander in, Jasmine Fifty-Three, to be exact, fully garbed in the standard uniform and looking a little bedraggled. She stops midway through her path to the kitchen, looking at you with mild puzzlement.
"Um... hello there. You seem to be up already. What's the occasion?" she asks you.
- East City emergency services undergoing collapse in face of unprecedented disaster, authorities claim.
- East City residents running scared, authorities claim relocation unnecessary.
Skandi City men attempt to marry own property, are unimpeded by authorities.- Common people express shock at extent of personal surveillance measures.
- Bharat City tightening up security measures and reevaluating transport protocols in response to East City disaster.
Name: Jasmine Thyme Model 376
Gender: Female
Attributes: heightened senses of taste and smell, increased manual dexterity, improved intellect, unobtrusively good looks, improved interpersonal ability, slight owner fixation, cranial netlink implant.
Skills: skilled chef, proficient at maintenance and repair, proficient at making smalltalk.
State of Mind: calm.
Inventory: sundress (worn).
Notable Physical Abnormalities: branded.
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Topic: (SG) Less Than Perfection - now dropped (Read 25787 times)