Oh, all right - I can take a hint (although I'm trying to cut down on doing this)...
From Chapter One of BSBW, incorporating your suggestions:
Marie and Nadia were off picking fruit for the night's dinner. Jean was working on improving the shower that we had built the night before. He insisted on doing it himself, saying something about how a man should be able to do things on his own. It wasn't important enough to argue the point with him, but that left me with nothing to do.
After checking the still that Jean had built, and seeing that there was almost enough ethanol in it to run the bike for long enough to recharge the helmet's batteries, I decided to look through the songs I had picked up in Mega-Tokyo.
After a few minutes, I noticed that one of the songs I didn't remember ever playing had the "simulacrum" tag set. I didn't expect to see that tag set on a new song; I only had simulacrum songs for the Warriors, and I had those before I left home. It might have been a system glitch, but something made me want to check it out anyway. ""
"that I got 'cause if I do
I will surely,
surely lose a lot>"
Sure enough, it was a simulacrum song. At first, I thought I had summoned up a copy of Lisa, but I quickly realized that she was a different girl. She was an asian teenager, about the age where metagifts usually start to manifest back home, wearing a ludicrously-short skirt and a ridiculously-large bow over a sleevless white leotard, with boots, gloves, and jewelry rounding out her ensemble. It was just like Leese's costume after I played "Invisible Touch" for her, but in different colours and with different details. I [i]still didn't know what Leese was thinking when she designed that outfit, but it seemed to be contagious.
"[/i]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
From Chapter One of BSBW, incorporating your suggestions:
Marie and Nadia were off picking fruit for the night's dinner. Jean was working on improving the shower that we had built the night before. He insisted on doing it himself, saying something about how a man should be able to do things on his own. It wasn't important enough to argue the point with him, but that left me with nothing to do.
After checking the still that Jean had built, and seeing that there was almost enough ethanol in it to run the bike for long enough to recharge the helmet's batteries, I decided to look through the songs I had picked up in Mega-Tokyo.
After a few minutes, I noticed that one of the songs I didn't remember ever playing had the "simulacrum" tag set. I didn't expect to see that tag set on a new song; I only had simulacrum songs for the Warriors, and I had those before I left home. It might have been a system glitch, but something made me want to check it out anyway. ""
"that I got 'cause if I do
I will surely,
surely lose a lot>"
Sure enough, it was a simulacrum song. At first, I thought I had summoned up a copy of Lisa, but I quickly realized that she was a different girl. She was an asian teenager, about the age where metagifts usually start to manifest back home, wearing a ludicrously-short skirt and a ridiculously-large bow over a sleevless white leotard, with boots, gloves, and jewelry rounding out her ensemble. It was just like Leese's costume after I played "Invisible Touch" for her, but in different colours and with different details. I [i]still didn't know what Leese was thinking when she designed that outfit, but it seemed to be contagious.
"[/i]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012