Issue 1 Downtime

Ayami was flipping through channels in the common room.

"Dumb....stupid....seen it....news....reality TV...stupid sports thing..."

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Cecil walked in the room and glanced at the TV before turning to Ayami. “Nothing on, as usual?”

"I swear, British TV is the worst."

"I'm fairly certain Yank TV is even worse."

"Never been, so I wouldn't know, but it's probably all doomsday preppers and the like."

“At some time or other most of the cable channels became nothing but fake reality TV.”

"Ugh. It's like a cancer. Or some other kind of disease."

“What gets to me is that apparently people actually watch that stuff. There is this one show I saw last time I was there where a bunch actors go around pretending they are illegally distilling alcohol. It is not just a show where the characters are doing it, it is done documentary style even though it is obliviously fake."

"...no, there couldn't be anything that dumb. You're making it up."

"That show is real. Do you really think I could actually come up with something that stupid?"

"Well, if it does exist, someone had to."

"Yes, someone must have. That is actually kind of scary."

"The world is a terrifying place," Ayami said, deadpan.

"Not scary in that way. Its just that I can't imagine what kind of person comes up with shows like that."

"An American," She said, after some thought.

Cecil gives Ayami a strange look before breaking out laughing. "Why did I think of that?"

"See, you just need to hang around bigger brains."