Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw

Author:Yahtzee Croshaw [Croshaw, Yahtzee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

wal s to be seen.

I suddenly became aware that I was hearing not two, but

three sets of footfal s. The third one was trying as hard as it

could to sync up with mine. I stopped, and heard a faint

stumble as they were caught off guard.

"Who's there?" I cal ed.

"It's me," said Meryl. "Meryl. Hi."

"I meant..."

Suddenly, a cold breath of wind swept by, ruffling my

sleeve. I spun around, and my firebal deformed madly and

disappeared, as if some great and terrible magic force had

simply absorbed it. Meryl grabbed my shoulder.

"Where are you?!" I yel ed.

"I'm here!"

"Meryl, shut..."

Her voice had come from several feet away. The hand on

my shoulder belonged to someone considerably closer.

"Erin," I said, careful y. "Do you know the Magic

Resistance?"

Something dark and bag-like was pul ed over my eyes,

then something long and stick-like whacked me over the

head.

doublebill signed in at 22:13PM doublebill: hey man

doublebill: cant sleep

sunderwonder: I told you to stop trying to talk to me after

work

sunderwonder: especial y after 10

sunderwonder: that's my special me-time

doublebill: sorry

doublebill: were you jerknig off

sunderwonder YES

sunderwonder: what do you want

doublebill: are you as concerned abot simon as I am

sunderwonder: in the sense that im concerned hes going

to suffocate with all those dicks in his face

doublebill: be serios

doublebill: you think hes been acting wierd lately

doublebill: more than usual

sunderwonder: yeah but since hes not talking as much im

not complaining

doublebill: al he does is sit at his desk playin the build

takling to that pet npc of his

sunderwonder: yes yes yes we al work in the same office

you know

sunderwonder: ive seen him sitting there with his mouth

hanging open like a retard

sunderwonder: guess he gave up on making any real

friends

doublebill: that's the thing

doublebill: simon talks abuot barry like hes realy a person

sunderwonder: I know, its creepy

doublebill: no I mean

doublebill: maybe barry IS a person

sunderwonder: ok time for you to shut up and go to bed

doublebill: just listen

doublebill: if barry can converse with smion like a person

then that means our ai passes the touring test

sunderwonder: oh wow your right

sunderwonder: what a truly momentous day in the history

of technology

sunderwonder: is what I would be saying if Als hadnt

passed the turing test years ago

sunderwonder: weve been over this, passing the turing

test doesn't mean anything

sunderwonder: even if it seems like a person its always

just running on preset responses to preset stimuli on more

and more complex levels

doublebill: yeah

doublebill: but maybe the human mind is no different

sunderwonder: oh god

sunderwonder: you've been watching star trek again

havent you

doublebill: no

sunderwonder: you answered too fast

sunderwonder: you total y have

sunderwonder: it always makes you talk like captain

picard

doublebill: fyi it was ds9

EIGHT

The bag was yanked roughly from my head and my octopus

retinas were immediately dazzled by a spotlight. I was

sitting hunched forward with my arms tied behind a

backrest and my ankles bound to chair legs. Even had it

been a decent size the chair was too hard to come within

earshot of comfortable, but it seemed to have been sized

for a schoolboy. That fit, because there was an intensity in

the room that evoked a meeting with the headmaster.

"Mr. Wonderful?" I hazarded, even though I

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