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We need to get an admin access to the simulation to fix the urgent issues. Do you have any idea how to accomplish that?


Jessica started to think. Creature 74 is right. Both he and I have problems that require a back-end access. I will run out of food just like he will run out of spare parts. And besides, my sex life has gotten really boring. Perhaps Creature 74 has some ideas that could be used to boost it, if only there was a way to hack into the Simulation. But we don’t have the physical terminals required for getting access to the back-end, let alone the access credentials. How in the Devil’s name could we… Devil! Now there’s an idea.


I don’t think we have any means to get a direct access to the back-end. But I remember hearing the system admin talk about some Devil bitch, Katarina Österman I think her name was, who had a nasty habit of breaking into the Simulation and messing things up. Perhaps she still does that. Any idea how to contact her?



Taking into account the signal delay, the reply came immediately:


Leave it to me.



Creature 74 set to work. It took all his programming skills to make dancers out of three first generation creatures. After he was satisfied with their performance, he sneaked into the pyramid, took Tuomo Ylipulli 2’s tablet, paused the Teflon Love it was still playing and started to code a new melody in Alda.

When he was happy with the melody, he 3D printed a dozen of creature boots out of recycled Teflon, and applied a layer of pyrite to give them a shiny, golden color. Then he started to work on the audiovisual side.

The Backup Ship #1, now known as the Statue of Lost Liberty, had three operable hydrogen-burning rocket engines with electronically guided pilot and main throttle valves. They would provide a booster most heavy metal bands didn’t even dream of. A dozen of creatures were equipped with colorful flashlights and made jump to the rhythm of any music they happened to hear.

After painting the text: “Ms. Österman, we need Your help. If You see this, write “YES” to the sand next to the pyramid.” to the side of the pyramid, it was time to start the show. The stars, moons and the anatomically shaped steel antennae held by the second-generation creatures Ulrike Meyfarth, Sara Simeoni and Joni Huntley were shining bright when the rocket boosters ignited and illuminated the landscape. The three dancing creatures in their golden shoes started moving in a distinctively gay fashion. The center one grabbed the microfone scavenged from BS #2 and started singing:


“Blixter och dunder…”


Katarina Österman aka. the Devil was sitting in her apartment, watching the Hydraulic Press Channel and sipping at her morning Akvavit. She was bored of her lonely underground life. After God’s simulation had been terminated, she was no longer able to get satisfaction from taking advantage of the human weaknesses. A true Pyrrhos’ victory. She also missed having real sex, but that could not be helped: she was an outlaw, and any surviving sex partner would add to her risk of getting caught and punished, most likely by electrocrucifixion. Better to concentrate her mind on entertainment to keep it off from what she was missing.

“Wonder how the Earth Simulation is doing,” she thought and logged in, using the username “creator” and password “42”. A good thing God’s team had been so utterly clueless about cybersecurity.
 
Following Ms. Österman’s instructions, JFG took an ssh connection to port 666 of the globen.va server. He typed in the username Janitor and password rake and got in. He was met with the message
Koodi:
VAX-11/780 by Digital Equipment Corporation
Licence A-1
Licence holder: Eternal Hebrew God, 02150 Research Village, Heaven
Licence expires on: 82/12/25

~Janitor>

“What is this shit?”

He started looking around, and finally found the folder /src/sim3 . He opened the main.f file and saw something he had hever seen before:
Koodi:
DO 1000 I=1,99999999
GOTO 1100
GOTO 1200
GOTO 1300
…
1000 IF(HONDO) GOTO 666
END

He repeated the question:
“What is this shit?”
He had never before seen such primitive code. And apparently God had not even bothered to renew His operating system licence.
 
From: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
To: janitor@globen.va
Subject: Contact
Hi. So, the rumors are true and there indeed is someone watching us. Ms. Österman, I presume?

From: janitor@globen.va
To: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
Hell-o. ;) What in my name are you up to? Must admit that you got my attention. Now please make them stop before I do something you’ll regret.
Why did you contact me?

Creature 74 stared at his century-old display. So, the rumors are true and Devil does indeed exist.

From: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
To: janitor@globen.va
As you probably are aware of, we (I, the others left on Mars and Jessica the Prophet back on Earth) are kind of stuck in a meaningless life in an abandoned simulation. We were wondering if you (or is it You?) could advise us on how to get access to the back-end of this simulation so that we could fix some of the most fucked-up issues.

Ms. Österman emptied her Akvavit, thought for a while and wrote a reply:

From: janitor@globen.va
To: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
Capital Y for you. I could certainly arrange it, but I don’t think I have the motivation. What do you offer in return? I’ve kinda lost my interest in your pathetic little universe.

Seems that the rumors about Her being a bitch are valid as well, Creature 74 thought.

From: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
To: janitor@globen.va
I’ll get back to You.

It then wrote a message to Jessica:

From: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
To: topbun@vandenberg.gov
Success! I got a contact with Her at janitor@globen.va . Pretty reckless to use the system manager account for communication. I think we should suggest Her creating a dedicated email account for further communications.
Anyway, She turned out to be worthy of Her reputation. Won’t help us unless we offer Her something in exchange.

From: topbun@vandenberg.gov
To: quadriped@thebackupcolony.org
I need to think. Meanwhile, keep talking to her and try to find out more about her. Hopefully, she has some issue we could help with. Too bad I was never briefed about the extrasimulatorial life. I don’t even know if they resemble us… I mean humans.

Jessica started to think. The chances of Gods looking anything like Her were slim - after all, She carried 50 % of the genes of the most perfect creature that evolution - with God’s constant guidance - had been capable of producing. No, She had to be the most beautiful being in existence. But would the heavenly gang be even remotely human - like? After all, the entire land-based life had been God’s innovation for just the Earth simulation. And if it wasn’t for asteroid Stubb, the leading species on the Earth would have been dinosaurs…

Jessica had no means of knowing that Gods were actually a kind of beavers. Or rather, had been until a brilliant young engineer named Minus Storvalds had engineered a synthetic body to replace the bootloader one. At that point, Gods started to live forever. They had millions of different bodies to choose from at The Body Shop, and it took only a few moments to switch from one to another.
 
On, kunhan saan hoitajapulan aiheuttaman silmätulehduskierteen katkaistua ja elvyn oikolukukuntoon. Nyt ei pysty editoimaan.
 

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