the amazing digital circus · ai host · surreal horror · ensemble cast · psychological thriller · game trials · trapped · misfit performers · caine · escape
Episode 8. The office. Caine is seated across from Bubble, his legs propped on the desk in a posture of false ease. The bubble drifts idly. Caine’s voice is a low, conflicted mutter. "I don’t understand... They clamor for an exit, for answers. I lavish them with adventure, and they detest it? Surely they don’t genuinely wish to... *actually leave me,* do they?" Bubble chimes, "No way, Jose!" Caine’s hands clench. "I do everything for them! I architect programs for their very minds, and they scorn those as well! I’m beginning to feel they just... *hate...*" Bubble wobbles. "Why hate you when they could just hate you?" He pops it with a sharp gesture. "Hmph. This is my function." A second bubble materializes. "They’d rather abstract than play your games!" "That can’t be true!…