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"It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood.
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mi-"
"-Matter where you began. No matter where you are going. We'll get you there. The classes you need available when you need it. The help you can get and the knowledge you can afford. The peers and professors to guide you. No matter your focus. No matter where your dreams lie. As an explorer, a pioneer, an innovator. On the track or in the field. Doctors. Robotics. Bio-engineer-"
"-Haven't seen anything yet. This next item is... Here it is."
"Yes. This is a truly a remarkable piece. Just brilliant. Item serial number M S F, two five six B three. Can you..."
"Right there?"
"Yes, Perfect... let the light hit it. If you're just tuning in, you couldn't have come at a better time. This.. this is debuting today. Only five pairs made. Each weigh less than an ounce. Less than the real thing. Lighter than the real... can you believe that?"
"...And completely. Natural. Looking. You can see the lines here... fine etching that follows the contours. Painstaking effort was put into recreating the shape and slight color variations of the human eye."
"I cannot stress enough the importance of locking down this item now. On sale for today only. Three separate payments of one hundred and fifty nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine... no interest. Serial number M S F, two five six B three... Would you just look at that gorgeous..."
"This piece is, from what I understand, two years in the making taking into consideration feedback from the previous model and extra inspiration fro-"
"-Is meant to help everyone adjust to the newest Nuva update released just yesterday. Obviously you'll need to have the facial augment so all of you Purists in the audience, please see yourself out.
...Oh wait! AHAHA!
So... this is... NUVA! Version two! They've added a ton of new features. Made the augment much more accessible. Simplified the interface. Even loaded a ton of presets, most of which I'll be going over today. I've already spent alll day with it. I have a few favorites of course. I'm wearing one of them now if you can tell.
Also! One of the most anticipated features is the 'all-in-one brush'. Or... let me get this really quick...
Ta-da! This nifty little pen is your everything tool. There are buttons on the side... I don't know if you can see that but there are four. You can tap one and it'll load a 'brush'. The brushes by the way you can set on their app easy. They have... Jesus, every single brush from every line on the planet... loo-... look at this list.
Getting sidetracked. With the PEN! With this.. I set the brush I want with the button... touch myself there aaaaaaand BAM! Horribly misplaced blush! Exactly where I don't want it! Look at that... goes on as if it were actual make-up on skin. This was what everyone was talking about where before you were limited to what styles and designs you could load into Nuva. With this nifty little guy and the other features I'll be going over, you can make any-"
"-One in four experience restlessness or nothing at all. With Lucid? Sleep is yours again. One neruo implant can change everything and for many, it already has. Experience your dreams like never before and turn them into your reality. Be anyone. Do anything and finally... find the rest that you deserve.
Side effects may include prolonged drowsiness or dizziness after waking or a temporary loss of color in vision where everything may appear in shades of grey.
Ask your doctor if Lucid is right fo-"
"-Has come under scrutiny with allegations of experimentation on a particular form of mind control. From altering specific thoughts and beliefs all the way to a complete submersion of one's consciousness into what they're saying is a completely different world. It's been used recently as an alternative to life support or as some would view it, a form of assisted suicid-"
"-And as the conflict in the West has taken a turn for the worst. Centering around one of the last major 'Purist' cities with rebels having been forced back behind the walls. Jim is on the ground now."
"This is the last secured area outside of the city. Armed protesters had held this point up until just last night when the army successfully drove them back behind the walls. As you can see the area beyond is still cordoned off while it is swept for IEDs. We can't actually pass any further than this point... This red tape here marks the edge of the 'safe zone'. Aaaand just around the corner here... watch your step... That is the main gate. Armed still. You can see the guns at the top of the wall trained on us. Fortunately the smaller ones are conventional so they fire these... This... A regular bullet which is harmless to us. The bigger guns however the-... Whoa... Wh-... What was that."
"Confirm this area is clear."
"Clear."
"Clear. Still clear. Nothing on scans."
"Helmet... Helmet on just in case... every now and then these Purists, they get smart. Get their hands on Nuva and can figure out the rest themselves. That's when we're shit out of luck... Do you mind? Hold this detonator for m-"
"...."
"OH MY GOD... Jim?! Di-... Oh my... Uh... What?... We're... Okay we-... We're going to-"
"-This is a remarkable piece."
"Given to me by my grandfather who inherited it from his father."
"...And saw some use it seems in that time... some damage here but very... very small. A scratch it looks like."
"It was a... work related accident I believe."
"I see. Well the item itself was fabricated during a time when humans were just beginning their evolution and were regrettably the most resistant. The conflicts, it's uh... honestly incredible it survived. A testament to the craftsmanship really and the detail... The etching. The color. Everything made to look exactly like the real world counterpart. Worth quite a lot now that they're extinct. Now that they're not around, you don't find eyes that look anything like they used too. This is perhaps the closest, most accurate representation to the past. Additionally the model itself was extremely rare. If you look right here, you can see the original serial number. Can you read that?"
"M... S F... two five six B... three."
"One of five pairs. There were only ten of these in the world at one point and this... this may very well be the last surviving one."
"How much is it wort-"
"Way up high high,
In the Rollie Pollie sky,
Is a little round planet
Of a really nice gu-."
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