Bolton's Office Hours

[theoverseers]

[Want to chat with Bolton privately? Here is where you do it! Bolton's office hours will be held in conference room B in the library for approximately four hours in the morning several days a week. During that time the blinds will be drawn and that room will be off-limits unless you're there to talk to Bolton, though the other three study rooms will still be available for use.


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Comments

[ratherdoweddings]

Sure! [She locks the door and sits down.] Did you want to talk about anything? I should probably apologize for Kurumi-chan, but you know how she gets.

[theoverseers]

...Kurumi? Why, what happened?

[He hasn't been great about checking the cameras today]

[ratherdoweddings]

She, um, sort of went on the warpath. The motive must have really got her.

[theoverseers]

[Bolton's attempt at a good mood wilts.]

...Yeah, I would imagine it did. What did she do?

[ratherdoweddings]

Mostly? Burning books and toy cars and getting mad at you because she can't touch the motive itself. [Yurika sighs.] It came from the master computer, right? I didn't know yours was alive like ours was.

[theoverseers]

[He flinches.]

Yeah, basically. She runs everything on the ship that doesn't require human input. She's not alive, she's an artificial intelligence.

[ratherdoweddings]

Ruri-chan always talked about our ship's AI like it was a person. I guess it's because she could communicate with it. Everyone else thought it was just a really advanced computer, which I guess it was.

[theoverseers]

Yeah, I guess an AI that's advanced enough to run a whole space station could seem almost human.

[ratherdoweddings]

Is every station in this world like the one we're on?

[theoverseers]

I don't know. I've never been on a space station before this, honestly.

[ratherdoweddings]

Really? I mean, most of our group haven't, either, but Margulis-san thought that was just to make them homesick. Though I guess I shouldn't be talking about your bosses behind their backs. It is a nice one, despite the... um, everything! The holodeck's a little more advanced than ours.

[theoverseers]

It's almost too real. Now that I could see being just to make all of you homesick.

[ratherdoweddings]

Ours was very realistic, but it didn't have nearly all the customization options this one has. It was mostly just preset options.

[theoverseers]

This one actually comes with some presets! But it pretty much can be anything you can imagine.

[ratherdoweddings]

People used ours for dates a lot. Sometimes with people someone else already liked, Megumi-chan. If there's one thing I don't miss, it's having five love triangles going on at once.

[theoverseers]

Hah, yeah, I bet. At least the couples here seem pretty clear-cut.

[ratherdoweddings]

It's really inspiring how so many people found love! Even if they refuse to admit it. I've been getting on Lightning-san for weeks.

[theoverseers]

[That makes him chuckle.]

Don't get on her too hard. She'll come around.

[Maybe not in time, but eventually.]

Hope is the major thing to make sure you don't lose.

[ratherdoweddings]

Even she said that, and she's always such a pessimist. It really is important.

[theoverseers]

I'm pretty sure even Togami would say that, that's how important it is.

...You'd have to catch him at a pretty sentimental moment, though.

[ratherdoweddings]

Togami-san talking about something that isn't either himself or how we should never trust anybody and we're all idiots?

[theoverseers]

I know, foreign concept, right?

[Just ask about his old school Yurika]

[ratherdoweddings]

I'll keep it in mind! If you say there's more to him than being a selfish jerk, then there probably is.

[theoverseers]

You're so optimistic, it's pretty inspiring. I hope you can keep morale up.

[ratherdoweddings]

I guess it's just the only thing I can do!