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The Holo-Scene, Tuesday

Raven might not be much affected by changes in temperature, but she still noticed humidity, and last night had been downright steamy. So when she was flipping through ideas for her holosuite theme for the day and stumbled across an arctic expedition option, she jumped right on it.

Other people had to be a little tired of summer by now, too, right?

The Holo-Scene lobby was downright nippy today, with the cold coming out the open door of Holosuite One, while Raven poked away at the controls to see if she could add any ice age giants to the current population of holographic polar bears, walruses, and caribou.

Ooo, wooly rhinos!

Welcome to the Holo-Scene!
Special today: ice age adventure!
Ski down a glacier! Hunt a mastodon! 100% frost bite free!
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The Holo-Scene was open.

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Raven was modelling the very best giant-cruelty-free-fur-coat fashion to get you in the mood.

Miguel had to get a workout somehow, right?

So here he was, in his UMF suit with jeans and a t-shirt over it, walking in to wave hi at Raven.

"Hey. How hard to hunt are mastodon?"

Raven shrugged. "I mean, cavemen did it. But they are really large."

"Large aggressive, or large cow?" Miguel asked.

". . . You've never been chased by an angry cow, have you."

"...No?"

Raven chuckled. "I can program some in if you want. In case the mastodons aren't challenging enough."

"How hard is either?" Miguel asked, now utterly confused.

"If you're looking for some kind of universal 'difficulty to hunt' rating, it doesn't exist. Just go try it out and if it's not your style, ask the computer to give you something different.'

"How about...a bunch of mastodon?" Miguel suggested.

They were called a herd, city boy.

"Yeeeah, I think we're going to try you on one mastodon first."

And maybe a surprise woolly rhino, just for spice.

Miguel squinted at her. "You're not making them super smart or anything, are you? I've taken down an entire squad of guys on hoverbikes before, pretty sure I can manage one big mammal."

He thought about it.

"Then again, the cops were pretty brain-dead."

"Oh, well, if you've taken down hoverbikes," Raven said, not looking up from the control panel where she was setting up Miguel's simulation.

Ah, there were the prehistoric cows. Awesome.

"Have fun."

Miguel was going to end up so glad he had a healing factor.

He gave Raven one last suspicious look, then saluted her and headed for the holosuite.

For sore muscles, sure. But the holosuite safeties would keep him from getting worse than that, even when he was inevitably trampled.

Wasn't technology fun?

Miguel was in there for nearly an hour before he came out, sweaty and a little sore from exertion, and pulled off his mask.

Mostly so he could give Raven a stink-eye. "I thought you said no cows?"

"Technically those are called aurochs."

"So they're big prehistoric cows?" That stink-eye wasn't going anywhere. "They nearly took off an arm before I saw they were there. And for the record, I still took them down. They're all stuck in a holographic ravine."

So there.

"Hurraaaaaayyyyyy," Raven shifted her hand into a pompom and waved it, still not looking up from her computer console. "You win the prize!"

Miguel rolled his eyes. "A free hour of holo time?" Hey it was worth a shot.

"I was thinking more a vague sense of accomplishment."

"Yeah, I had that before the prehistoric cows, thanks." Miguel sighed and rolled his eyes. "What kinds of things can those program, anyway?"

Choose your own adventure!

OMG I REMEMBERED TO POST.

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