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Date Posted: 17:02:40 07/04/01 Wed
Author: Walter
Subject: Another day, another day...
In reply to: El'Jarrun 's message, "El'Jarrun felt as if it was an eternity since he was waiting for visitation rights." on 23:43:26 07/03/01 Tue

Things had been quiet in the brig, a much welcome change for most, but Walter was prone to boredom. He liked to spend his free time fantasizing he was someone important, a famous hero, robot, or failing either, some kind of relation or reincarnation of some such icon. But he was nothing but a desk clerk, and only the holorooms held appeal now to his otherwise dull existence. Yet as exciting as that aspect was, Walter in fact had yet to try the holorooms for himself.

First he used the excuse that they were too new, would probably be too crowded. Then after the WR@ struck, most of the systems including PHOTRON himself were off line or glitched. But it was slowly coming back online, and there had already been some training exercises recently. Walter could go anytime on his SBRaccess, and use his rec-time to defend legendary COM from the dread Shard, stand side-by-side with Rynox as he fought off Simian Omega in LEGOtopia, or even outwit TM II BoGoŽ himself. Unicron, Jhiaxus, the TLA, the Electriad; the list of foes to vanquish was nearly as limitless as the heroic roles he could cast himself in. But Walter was in a rut, and had not even motivated himself to meet PHOTRON, a holographic intelligence that maintained the HR and who would probably get along great with Walter.

Everyday it was the same thing: wake up, clean up, sit at the desk, have greasy takeout at the desk, go home and watch holos, sleep, and start over. Breaking the comfortable tedium required more energy than Walter possessed. The twenty-six year old nobody sighed and wondered when the warden would be returning from the medlabs. Everyone was relieved he had survived his ordeal at the hands of Dinotron and Scaleblade, and the rumor mill was fresh with gossip of his impending fatherhood. More to the point, when he walked up and down the halls of the brig bellowing orders, life was interesting, marginally more anyway. Walter sighed and asked El Jarrun again who it was he wanted to speak with...

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