Cal Shrugs. "Yeah, why didn't you?"

N: "Go fack yourself, dude."

C: "How about I take you to him?"

Nathan turns around. "You can take him to me? I mean me to him?”

END#3

The Avali Species was created by RyuujinZero.

N: "Yeah, because that's obviously what everyone would do, just storm the CEO's castle. Easy. How in the H-E-double hockey sticks did you even manage to get where you are?Why haven't I thought of this plan before? It's genius!"

C: "I’m afraid I don’t understand. Aren't pachinko machines what you want? They're cash cows.

Nathan stays silent for 10 seconds.

"Why don't you just take it back? Says Cal. "The rights I mean?"

N: "Like it's that easy."

C: "Look, just go up to the CEO and demand it. I'd do it if I were you."

Nathan steps back, frustrated and silent for 5 seconds.

N: "It wasn't supposed to be like this. We could be doing something bigger with this. With the Contact but your company just wants to play pachinko with it."

N: "I don't even know what skins are. What the hell are you even talking about? Are they skinning people here?"

C: "The keychain statement is inaccurate. It's a System of Communal Catharsis. The Contact is a place for people to connect and communicate through their favorite mediums."

N: "What about the others? Where's Chess? Where's the memory bank? You've just turned this into some cheap game."

C: "Chess is still there, it's just one of the different skins."

N: "One of the skins?"

C: "You know, the map layout? Hey, aren't you Nathan?"

N: "You know what I'm talking about. You turned my device into godd@wn keychain.

C: "Ok, now isn't that a little overdramatic? Does this place really seem that bad?

Nathan observes the villagers joyfully cleaning the pigs with rags.

Cal's expression is blank.

C: "I'm afraid I don't quite understand."

N: "You facked with the source code! You know who I am, right?"

Nathan cringes

N: "I didn't say that! Look! Just, ... Your company is destroying the Contact."

C: "It appears to be doing fine so far."

In the road cutting through various farms is a red villager with neon purple lights, wearing in a leather vest with a cowboy hat, Cal Roscoe.

C: "Howdy, anything I can do for you?

N: "Are you Cal?"

C: "Why, yes I am."

N: "I'm Nathan, I made the Contact and I want you to give it back"

The Avali villagers were bipedal creatures with the posture of raptors and the bright colors of exotic birds. Their bodies were covered in soft shimmering fur. Large, expressive fins adorned their heads, and their tails twitched and swayed with every emotion as they tend to the farm animals.

The landscape was full of sand dunes and rock structures, the complimentary cacti dotting the landscape. Avali villagers are tending to pigs in animal enclosures formed by mushrooms with neon lights. The lights are moving along to "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo playing from somewhere unknown.

Twenty minutes later

The Avali Species was created by RyuujinZero.

Colors are rapidly combining and morphing until a landscape forms. The ground solidified into what looked like wet sand but was dry. The sky brightened the landscape with a blueish hue, the sun shining bright.

"Yeah. You're Nathan, right? Just... When you get there, tell Cal his steaks are burning. Again.(In a fond tone towards Cal) "
She promptly hangs up.

"Steaks, what does -"

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"Fuck me. I'm an a$#0l3."

N: "Ok, ok, I just need to talk to him now!"

A: "Eeaaasy, mister! Don't you go circling around in circles!"

N: "Look, just, where is he, please?"

A beat

A: "He's in the wonderful world of Clay. You should know, it's in your thing, isn't it?"

N: "In The Contact?"