Did also you want to ask Tammy out on a date tonight?
"Hey," Tammy says, still in the car next to you. "This might seem kind of crazy and sudden, but do you want to come inside for a drink?" Her hand is shaking nervously.
"Absolutely."
"No, but I do want to see you again."
"No, thanks. I don't think I can give you what you want."
You follow Tammy inside her place. It's kind of a mess, with the laundry pile spilling out from a closet into the kitchen, and unwashed dishes in the sink.
She continues to tremble as she tries to pour you some scotch and tell you trivia about Philip K. Dick at the same time. She drops the tumbler, shattering it on the Formica floor.
"Sorry, sorry," she fusses, grabbing some paper towels. "I'm such a klutz."
"You know, actually, it's late. I think I've got to go."
"Here, let me help you with that."
"It's okay." [kiss her]
Tammy kisses you back with a ferocious intensity. Are you going to go any further?
Yes, I try to seduce Tammy.
I will let Tammy decide how far things go.
No, I excuse myself before things get too intense.
She eagerly goes to bed with you. She seems extremely excited about the whole affair, and is loud enough that you worry the neighbors may come down on you. You…enjoy yourself, but it would be tough to be as into it as Tammy.
"Wow," she says afterward. "I can't believe I just did it with HK HK."
You call Elly and explain that you've found someone who truly appreciates you. Elly doesn't even bother to respond, hanging up on you right away.
For some reason, this feels a little weird to you but you can't quite put it into words. You now have a devoted significant other. What's the problem?
China拎左台灣但反而US勁左?
World Power Balance
China: 44% U.S.: 56%
選phy love 唔同wifey既Love都係變
"You're right, nobody deserves to be bought and sold. Robots that look human were a mistake."
"Maybe I should simply make it so the robots don't have feelings to hurt."
Tammy looks irritated. "Why must you remake the world into something cold and heartless?"
"The robots won't care," you insist. "It's just a pleasant illusion for people."
"A pleasant illusion to have slaves?" Tammy says.
"That's not what I said," you say.
Your relationship with Tammy is strong enough to survive this argument, but you begin to wonder whether the two of you have irreconcilable differences.
When you do roll out the code that makes your robots more insensitive to pain and loneliness and loss, it only makes them more popular. (++Wealth)
So it goes.
When you return home later that night, Miku2 is gone. You're reasonably certain she isn't coming back.
54-year-old HK HK
Humanity: 46%
Gender: male
Fame: 10 (Internationally Famous)
Wealth: 15 (Quite Wealthy)
Romance: Married to Tammy
Miku
Autonomy: 28 (Amazing)
Military: 11 (Stable)
Empathy: 38 (Singular)
Grace: 28 (Amazing)
Relationships
Professor Ziegler (Bad): 23%
Elly (Bad): 37%
Josh (Great): 74%
Mark (Great): 78%
?: 50%
Tammy (Very Good): 66%
President Irons: 50%
Miku2 (Bad): 47%
World Power Balance
China: 49%U.S.: 51%
Summary of Completed Chapters
Chapter 1
On the day you first built Miku, you awoke from a dream about a robot companion to head to the lab. Your graduate school advisor pressured you to make Miku more acceptable to the military. After some back and forth, you ended up making a metal bipedal robot with a humanlike head and humanoid hands.
You then went to a sushi place and a production of Pippin with Elly, where you vowed to not let others get in the way of your dreams. You both went back to your place afterward, kissed, made a rejected attempt to seduce her, and eagerly anticipated showing Elly your robot the next day.
Chapter 2
The next day, you hooked up Miku's motorcycle battery and demoed for Elly. You then took Miku to see Josh, but he wasn't convinced that such robots would sell. Josh told you that evening about how he'd once been a juvenile delinquent, essentially, but turned around because he was inspired by Asmiov's book I, Robot to make a robot company called "U.S. Robots."
As months passed, you became busy teaching Miku about the world through games and taking her to the park.
One day, however, Professor Ziegler claimed that Miku was not appealing enough to the military, and demanded you change her. You refused, and Professor Ziegler kicked you out of his lab.
In time, Mark Ali, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, heard about Miku and asked for an interview. You agreed.
Chapter 3
You gave Mark an interview, and allowed Mark to come back to your place to interview Miku.Mark invited you to his place to try to get to know you better. There, you found that drones often harassed Mark because various automated algorithms had marked him as suspicious.
Mark wrote an article that was generally positive about you and Miku.
Mark's article attracted the attention of one "robotObsession1987," known in real life as Tammy Cooper. When you met up over coffee, she told you that she used to do classified robotics work for a government lab, but left because she couldn't tell what nefarious purpose the technology would be used for.
You found yourself attracted to Tammy, despite or maybe because of the fact that she was kind of a mess. The next day, you went out with Tammy and decided to go out with each other from then on.
Shortly thereafter, your father passed away. You resolved then to work on better medical technology that could save people like your father in the future.
You decided the best way to change the world was to start a business, which you named MikuWorks. Tammy had already volunteered to be your first employee.
Chapter 4
Your first potential client for MikuWorks was Galen Medical, a surgical equipment company.They were happy with the state of your technology, and gave you a contract that allowed you to purchase a factory. That allowed you to build a robot factory in Alaska. You decided to use your own robots for your workforce, but leave humans in supervisory roles. When you finally shipped robots to Galen Medical, they were pleased with the robots you delivered. Your company did well enough that Josh gave up and joined your company.
Your business suffered a blow when Chinese companies, aided by Chinese government hackers,began to steal your technology.
You were visited by a politician, Jacqueline Irons, who asked for a campaign donation. You gave a significant donation, and Irons won the presidency. The newly elected President enacted a series of protectionist bills that ultimately made China angry, and they cut off the U.S. supply of rare earths. Meanwhile, you married the love of your life, Tammy.
The tensions between the United States and China came to a head with the assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister in San Francisco. War followed shortly thereafter.
Chapter 5
You were uninterested in contributing to the war effort in any way. Tammy was worried that she was being targeted by the government's anti-spy measures, and asked you to help her. So you did, and found that Tammy wasn't really wanted for anything after all.
An agent came to your place to try to get you to lure Elly there, because she was suspected of being a spy. In the end, America muddled its way through the war relatively unscathed. Tired of seeing robots used for violent ends, you decided to create a truly beautiful robot.
Chapter 6B
You created a humanoid companion robot named Miku2, but you were fairly bad about allowing her to do anything fun. Tammy was a little worried about Miku2, and with good reason. It seemed Miku2 was interested romantically in you. When Miku2 asked if you were interested in experimenting in doing naughty things with her, you said that was all right with you. Tammy seemed pretty cool about it, on the whole -- you're a pretty lucky roboticist. In the aftermath, Miku2 ran away.
Chapter 7
In 2049, you went to Surprise, Arizona to surprise your mother with a gift for the holidays. You learned it was your surgical technology that had kept her alive this long. On returning to San Francisco, you had a brief stroke, followed by a vision of a robot companion -- the same one you saw thirty years before. In the hospital, the doctor told you you had Algernon's Disease, a rare disease that increased your intelligence, but came at the price of increasing seizures, comas, and possibly, death.
You chose to undergo surgery to remove the damaged tissue in your brain. You survived the surgery, thanks to your own robot surgical technology. You celebrated a birthday party with your young child, Miku4, and Dusa, Miku's artificial child, and looked forward to celebrating many more.
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