well, master, what do I tell them?
claim identity error - that's not me. a careful investigation may find someone who calculated the risk of impersonating me during that time slice, or find other things too.
well, master: statistics?
well, master, you earned 450,000.00 today; the newyork and perth expenses estimate around 124,000 but the fine would be about 500,000 so this is theoretically income; actual damage would be: your potable water quota would be limited to half of what you limited yourself, with a headaching profit tax; there was an idea to set the limit of applicability of the progressive rates somewhere around 0.92 of your estimated income, with nice deductions for investing in nature. had you not played it as you did, that would have happened. as far as the formalities around the game are concerned, you have used up almost all the bonus that the subscription provides for, and earned two and a half times as much during the game; your equity is estimated to be around half a billion. time estimate to the billiard is about ten years of virtual time; at the pace you're logging into the game, it's like fifteen years of real time. well?
can the game logic stretch outside it?
well, master, what do you mean? in the game, i employ people to do things for me; can i employ other players to work for me?
good day, thurvie sir. this is the sysop. well where are you so long? you're sort of lacking in presence these days, never catching the time, isn't it, to drop by the system here, and your obligations to our imaginary world are, er, persistently multiplying, thurvie sir, like rabbits, isn't it.
is this the real sysop or an emulation? it doesn't seem to convincing to me that anyone should act such a lot of mannerism.
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this is sysop live. you don't like our ringer emulator?
what ringer?
well, you know, most of today's better machines finely and affordably recognize their master's voice, but the merchants, this doesn't concern you, of course, never tell you what a load it is for the machine. for a single machine which knows only its master's voice you don't feel it that much, but for multipersonal systems, well - it's more important that other things go smoothly and comfortably, and recognition of one voice among hundreds - let's say it overloads the system and i usually don't turn it on. instead, i have that emulator who addressed you with the previous sentence. that gives me some time to turn the voice recognition on. we can talk now.
that introduction needs work. it sounds ridiculous and inconvincing.
that really was the original intention - to confuse and amuse you a little so you wouldn't notice the delay.
ah, any mess deserves a good pretext. drop it - did you see my question?
you'd like to extend your personel? add subscription for new persons.
i did that many times. i never know if those i meet in the game, are emulated puppets, or you sold them twice - once to me, and once to the poor guys who play them.
that's exactly what you must not know - it significantly contributes to the realistic virtuality. read...
...the tiny print in the contract?
noooo, the instructions. you know
i know, when nothing else works. repeat - can i pay for other people to play for me?
so you can rely on them that they are the real ones?
ummmmm... yes, you expressed it shorter than i would, but... yes, that really is the point. you computer folks don't drive it around much, eh?
requirement of the profession. your request is not quite usual, furthermore the rules strictly forbid associations among the players.
pleased to be the first. the rules in art exist to be broken.
i still must consult others. i'm just a sysop. on call. a message will await you.
no need for that. how do you know who's already working for me?
a little bit of healthy paranoia always comes handy, eh? and how do you know you're all in the same game?
there are different games?
maybe. they may be slightly parallel, bifurcate and meet again. the topology is not too clear to me either, and when you add up all the players, you understand no sane one can keep track of it.
your bragged that in your profession there are no normals among the masters and vice versa.
that's modesty. i do spot an odd difference in perception of some events here and there, but that may be the game adapting to the reactions of a specific player. by the way, if you already have some aides, your relative importances don't necessarily have to be the identical from your vantage points. it's all one game, but jungle-like, everyone sees trees around, they're all in the same jungle, but nobody sees the others properly. just the silhouettes among the trees.
it's more clear than you expected. i do expect, still, an answer from you.
you will receive it, for sure, by tomorrow evening. good night.
good night.

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