The Initial Test

"Did it hurt?" the attendant asked reassuringly. Cindy hadn't felt anything, and even now with the chip supposedly working, she didn't feel anything out of the ordinary. "No, nothing at all." she replied with. "Great! Now, I'm going to have to test that the chip is working by lowering your pain threshold, not by much, just to make sure it's working correctly, alright?" the attendant said. "Great!" Cindy said, still apprehensive but also excited that she was about to feel the very first effects of he Universal Inhibitor. The attendant took one of the remotes off of the table, and navigated it's interface until a slider came up. At the top the slider was labelled 'Default' and at the bottom it was labelled 'Numb', meaning that pain was almost but entirely removed. It was currently set to the 'Default' position, as were all other sliders.

The attendant then produced a small rubber mallet with a pointed tip. "Now, I'm going to strike you, not with excessive **** obviously, on your thigh, and you tell me if you feel pain, alright?" "Alright!" Cindy said, who barely could keep her excitement in her pants. The attendant moved down to Cindy's thigh, and hit it with the pointed tip with decent ****. Cindy's leg twitched involuntarily, and at the same time Cindy said "Ow!". The attendant chuckled. "Alright, now I'm going to slide it down just a bit, so you should still feel the pain, but way less pronounced."

He showed her on the remote control, and as he slid the slider on the screen slowly downwards, Cindy suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and calmer. "Ooh wow this feels... Different..." Cindy exclaimed. "Like a warm blanket?" the attendant asked. "Yeah, well not quite but pretty close, yeah." Cindy replied, as the attendant was raising the mallet again. He struck Cindy's thigh in the exact same spot, with almost exactly the same amount of ****, but her leg twitched much less this time, and Cindy didn't exclaim anything. "Did you feel anything?" the attendant asked. Cindy had to actually think about how to answer that question, but eventually said: "It didn't really feel like pain it felt more like if someone pressed the palm of their hand quite hard against my leg." The attendant grinned and said: "That's a very unique description but I think that makes the point. The chip is fully functional!"

He now turned to Henry, who was watching everything with wide eyes. "Alright, now to you sir." the attendant said, holding out his arm with the remote control for Henry to see. "I assume you've made yourself at least a little familiar with this device?" Henry looked at him, then back at Cindy as if he'd just witnessed a miracle being performed. "Uh... yeah, sure, sure I have" he said in a hurried tone. "Good, so just to be absolutely safe, there is this button here..." the attendant pointed at a large red button on the side of the remote control with the letter 'R' stencilled into the metal "...which will immediately reset all changed settings back to default. Also, if either remote control runs out of battery, the chip will automatically reset as well, understood?" The attendant looked at Henry with a warm smile, like a puppy waiting to be rewarded for a task well done. "Yeah, that's... Useful." Henry said, taking the device from the attendant and rotating it around. "Great, now if you will sign the document..." he gestured to the paper-thin display in Henry's other hand "...I can get you both on your way!" Henry nodded solemnly, and hastily read through the document, and then signed his name at the bottom. "Awesome, you two have a good time now!" the attendant said, as Cindy and Henry got up to leave.