App nonsens

Fredric started with clicking on Marcus

Marcus

Age: 33

Relationship: Engaged

Wants: Move department, find spare parts for my vintage car, find time for a vacation

Likes: His second half, binge watching old detective series, working with the technology of the future

Dislikes: Being bossed around by the CEO to do menial tasks, leaving things in disrepair, reality shows

Current traits:

Affection: 25 (friendly)

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Traits

”Huh, this app seems to think he is friendly, we just barely spoke though” not that he minded, seemed like a nice guy, but more convinced that the app was a bit naive with its judgement.

He collapsed Marcus page and brough up ’Miss Hawkford’:

Hawkford

Age: 38

Relationship: Divorced

Wants: Everything to go according to plans, find time to exercise, end the dry spell

Likes: The Isolation of the remote countryside, Sci-fi novels, open mindedness

Dislikes: Not being in control, digging up old memories, hesitation

Affection: -10 (Neutral)

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Traits

“Wonder why she per automatically dislikes me, we never even spoke, also ‘end the dry spell’. This app really is something else, no shame at all” this got him thinking but just for a moment:

“Why would she ever struggle with that, she is attractive. Well this is all probably fictional” he mused, trying to steer the thoughts away from involving the real Hawkford.

“Wonder if I can gear the virtual tamagotchi me to so they can have fun together, not exactly sure how it all works but a few of those traits I saw earlier might help”

He clicked into his own trait tree and started narrowing down two candidates he saw looked promising from a quick search:

500 gems

Tantalizing presence – 200 gems

Your mere presence builds up a slow trickle of lust in those you find appealing. Works in a zero to a ten meter radius.

Sensual touch – 300 gems

Touching others build up a slow trickle of lust, touching sensitive areas builds lust ten times quicker.

He thought those looked like good starting dots, he wondered if the magnification of the second one applied to all sources or just that one, but the description would not say.

This would take all he had though, but he struggled to see a point to being stingy, he didn’t care for the game enough, only humored it for the time being. Fredric took both and closed the app to start a quick search on a couple of materials he heard about earlier.

About ten minutes later, Hawkford reappeared greeting him, Marcus nowhere to be seen. She seemed worked up and strained a polite smile.

“Apologies, Mr?..” she trailed waiting for Fredric to fill in with his name while extending a hand to shake.

“Fredric Bakerson and I didn't catch your full name?” he took the hand and shook it, she shook it professionally, but retracted quick at the end as if it was cursed.

“Jane Hawkford and I’m glad you stayed, this could have been a lot more difficult if you had moved on, I only heard some key words of your talk with Marcus, but now when I’ve asked him it is clear we have matters to discuss, very important legal matters that could have severe legal side effects unless we solve the matter now. I’d like you to meet me at the office here in town in an hour, I will leave now to prepare the paper work, but I expect you to come” she extended a business card as Fredric felt a shill go down his spine. He took the card and stood there looking at it, Jane left immidietly, but he could see her stop and look back in the corner of his eye before she stormed off towards the exit again.

The earlier slip was too good to be true, of course it was. Well, nothing bad happened yet, he didn’t do anything with the information.

‘CEO of Agro-tech limited Jane Hawkford’ the card read, not only had some one heard it, it was the CEO of all people.

He went out of the convention now, there was too much to be distracted by, he went to sit in a nearby park and started plotting the buses he needed to take to get to their office. He had to leave in 10 minutes if he would to get there in time.