Tirin and Trina have reached their destination, the fix-it-shop that Trina's detective, Hemrock Hames, traced Genesis to. Detective Hames explained what happened to Genesis and how she was hired to help protect Wendy from a gang of malcontents who were disappointed that Wendy hadn't yet fixed a certain broken Imperial Droid. Tirin sees the bike that Reny had used to find Wendy, now stripped of all it's valuable parts. Detective Hames informs Tirin and Trina that a certain member of the Emperor's staff, named Ephraim, had commissioned this group of malcontents to fix the broken Imperial droid, for reasons unknown. Ephraim, fearful that his suspicious activities would be found out, had all parties involved arrested by the Emperor (all of this happened in Chapter 24). As Tirin is trying to figure out what to do next, she gets a call via neuralink from Reny who is not too far away at the Emperor's stronghold. Reny has had her hair redone by the Emperor's stylist. Reny believes that the Emperor's memories about what happened on Riutho (Chapters 20 and 21 may be coming back. Memories that include how he first met Reny, how he became infatuated with her, and how he realized that she and her buddies were time travelers. As you may recall, he had his memory being erased here. It would be bad for him to regain his memories because as the most powerful person in the universe, he would LOVE to be able to time travel. Reny tells Tirin that the Emperor is grooming Reny to be his Queen. Reny also relays that Wendy and her friend Julie have been relegated to the Emperor's "Hacker" harem where they are responsible for appeasing the royal artifical intelligences, Joshua and Ewing. Reny implores Tirin to rescue them as well.
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12 thoughts on “Chapter 25 page 41”
Guesticules
Wait… is Joshua the computer? o_O
Can ah repeat mah suggestion of purging that entire system, not just Numpie?
Merceneiress
Yup, two separate AIs helping the emperor with his universal schemes, plans, monitoring, etc.
Guesticules
Just because they are artificial, doesn’t mean their perversions aren’t real 😛
Weiser
She. became a sex toy for s futuristic fuel pump? Oh man, this is so weird!
Merceneiress
When the AI engineers suggested a way to “control” the AIs, the emperor’s answer was of course via sexual deprivation 😁
Guesticules
Which Emperor? Numpy-Wumpy (musta blocked that term from memory) or Numpie Junior?
Guesticules
Reny didn’t need to implore Tirteen to rescue Wendy, just let her know she was also there (wasn’t that how Reny got caught up in this in the first place? she went looking for Wendy, right?)
Merceneiress
That’s right, Reny went looking for Wendy to see how she was doing, but Reny has a soft spot for Wendy and doesn’t want her being the Emperor’s harem slave (and by extension, Wendy’s friends)
E Hines
As long as, when she takes her strap-on back out, it’s not coated in used 10W40.
On the other hand (as it were), Reny has an ideal means with which to ejaculate neutralizing malware into the system. An ideal backdoor entry….
Eric Hines
Guesticules
You mean ‘Wendy’
Merceneiress
haha! but the Emperor already knew this would be a potential backdoor opening – he advised the engineers to avoid ejaculate — the act only stimulates the AI, not the strap-on wearer
E Hines
Yes, but Wendy and Julie are in the hackers harem; they’ll have the skills to adjust the device and override the receptacle’s protection.
Eric Hines