You called; Answer Part 2

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Mercury: Please restate your query.

Montgomery: I want a beach, damnit. A beach, and women, and alcohol. Aren’t you supposed to be a mind control machine? Why can’t you force me to make-believe I’m on a beach?

Mercury: I’m sorry, please rephrase?

Montgomery: Gah. So no beaches. But you can record thoughts and dreams, right?

Mercury: Recording and Communications are still in Draft, version 0.1.126.

Montgomery: Do you have any recorded?

Mercury: Please wait, processing request. <audible click> Affirmative. Playback beginning. Please be aware that recordings are implanted directly by chemical synapse manipulation. Do you accept responsibility?

Montgomery: Fine. Yes. What do you got for me?

Mercury: Beginning playback… standby. <Chaotic noise>

Montgomery: What the-

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<<<Excerpt 2>>>

Waters: What’s happening to him?

Dane: I don’t know. Mercury shows him accessing a recording, and then his vitals peaked. I’d administer sedatives, but I’m not sure which to use, and after last time…

Waters: What recording? Which? I thought those weren’t finished yet?

Dane: No, you’re right, they’re still in beta. But accessible.

Waters: Which damned recording is he watching?

Dane: A moment…

Mercury: Current playback, file BRI0001.MRI. Recorded June 21st, 2007. Patient: Turner – Bill A. Case: Psychological distress. Recording notes… error, no notes found. Dating suggests file created before feature implementation. Please consult your Mercury administrator for more information.

Dane: Figures, it’d start from the beginning. Who is this Bill Turner?

Waters: Turner. He was a psych patient. Suffered from night terrors. He was a war vet and every night he’d have nightmares about his old outfit.

Dane: So… it looks like we’ve made history. We’ve just successfully transplanted the first nightmare.

Mercury: Event logged.

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Montgomery: <sounds of gunfire and men dying>  Mercury, get me out of here! This is a nightmare!

Mercury: Unable to comply, file animation in progress. Termination may result in system instability and possible memory loss or brain damage for patient, or patients. Please standby.

Montgomery: Damn it! I thought it would be like the movies!

Mercury: Warning. Patient life signs critical. Commencing emergency withdrawal. Stand by.

Montgomery: This… this is horrible.

Mercury: Withdrawal complete. Shutdown initiated. Medical first-responders have been notified. Parsing files for recovery. Good bye. <Loud click, followed by silence>

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<<<Excerpt 4>>>

Admin: //system boot

Mercury: Activation… please wait.

Admin: //diagnos.record v.0.1.126, exec

Mercury: Diagnostics activated, scanning. Warning, massive file corruption detected. Recommend restore and reinstallation of AI recording files.

Admin: //diagnos.main v1.01, exec

Mercury: Diagnostics activated, scanning. Attention, system critical architecture has been damaged by unexpected interaction. File rewrite in process. Proceed?

Admin: Yes.

Mercury: New file created. Architecture rerouted. Execute file?

Admin: Yes.

Mercury: Executing file. Warning. System instability detected.

Cue: <<<<adiag.g>>>>>

Cue: Hello.

Admin: …Hello.

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