One of the best stories hidden inside the Grimorie takes place in a lab on Venus where scientists are experimenting on a robot from the future (kinda) and they find out that inside the robot is a perfect copy of themselves running in simulation and this perfect copy has just discovered the same thing. It's horrifying for them to discover that they may be nothing more than a simulation, but it is extremely comforting to me that the office place in the future will not change. These people are presented with life altering problem and the best thing they can think to do is call staff meeting, and on top of that, it's a very unproductive one. In the end, the staff decides they need to call in an outside consultant called a Warmind, I've been to three such meetings this week. Ghost Fragment: Vex 2
SUNDARESH: So that's the situation as we know it.
ESI: To the best of my understanding.
SHIM: Well I'll be a [profane] [profanity]. This is extremely [profane]. That thing has us over a barrel.
SUNDARESH: Yeah. We're in a difficult position.
DUANE-MCNIADH: I don't understand. So it's simulating us? It made virtual copies of us? How does that give it power?
ESI: Itcontrols the simulation. It can hurt our simulated selves. We wouldn't feel that pain, but rationally speaking, we have to treat an identical copy's agony as identical to our own.
SUNDARESH: It's god in there. It can simulate our torment. Forever. If we don't let it go, it'll put us through hell.
DUANE-MCNIADH: We have no causal connection to the mind state of those sims. They aren't us. Just copies. We have no obligation to them.
ESI: You can't seriously - your OWN SELF -
SHIM: [profane] idiot. Think. Think. If it can run one simulation, maybe it can run more than one. And there will only ever be one reality. Play the odds.
DUANE-MCNIADH: Oh...uh oh.
SHIM: Odds are that we aren't our own originals. Odds are that we exist in one of the Vex simulations right now.
ESI: I didn't think of that.
SUNDARESH: [indistinct percussive sound]
