.. then something was recorded that the team did not want uncovered."Which team?" he asked"Four." What are you going to do about it?"Glorious, as the ...hip, was responsible for disciplinary action. The High Command set it up so no human was guilty of inhumane or excessive punishment. The AI was sentient,,, but also organic. One could say almost human. There was that tiniest of gaps that separated lab bred from born wet.The home system ... which included thousands of suns and millions of planets. Fuck, I didn’t know which one it was. I’ve seen some crazy shit in my time. Everything you might think is fucked up and weird in life gets multiplied by fifty when you add stupid amounts of money to the mix. And the film industry has plenty stupid amounts of money.My skin was starting to crawl; my lips and mouth were dry. Yeah, you go ahead and fuck yourself, demon. I got your tail. You can have mine when I’m dead.I would be repeating that thought often over the next…lifetime. But, as I said, I. They spoke on the phone between times. Pam was French and wore the plain high hemmed black dresses I imagined all French waitresses wore. Even passing fifty her legs suited them. The temptation to see what I might see each time she sat was almost irresistible. One time she locked herself out of her place. She rang our place. Trace was out but I drove over to help her. I could remove the louvers from her laundry window but was too big to get through. I hoisted her to the sill and steadied her as. To that end, I wanted to make sure that I resolved conflicts as much as possible using dice, as if this was an actual RPG campaign. While I have manipulated results on occasion in order to keep the story moving, many elements of Book 1 happened because of odd results changing my plans- everything from Theodore’s initial hit point total, to Voss’ continued survival, to Calliope sitting out the mansion infiltration, to the exceptionally generous treasure drops from various enemies are all the.