"Where's my Tomb, dude?" Ryan asked impatiently.
"I'm telling you, this is the spot you marked on the map" I responded for the second time.
"But there were animal head-pot-things and a casket and everything!"
I sighed. The quality of students the professor had been assigning to me had completely collapsed recently. Three hours ago Ryan wandered off and then came running back going on about some discovery.
"Fuck" Ryan shouted, kicking an odd shaped rock.
A strange passageway opened in the side of the corridor. They both stared at each other in shock before Ryan ran right in to look at the discovery.
What they found inside was not in any textbook. A room full of strange alien technology, a skeleton lay on the floor partially crushed. On the table in front of him was some sort of console. It looked like it had been partially connected.
Ryan picked up the cable and immediately plugged it straight in. "Nooo," I screamed out, pushing him away from the console, but the cables connected and... nothing happened.
"Dude, what the fuck?" said Ryan as he got to his feet.
"You can't just go around messing with..."
"And what are we going to do? Stand here for an hour deciding what to do with it?"
That was actually a good point. Could we have just ignored the obvious thing to try that would get us some answers?
"I suppose you're right Ryan, look sorry I. OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT THING ON YOUR NECK!" I screamed as I saw a small metallic spider bury its way into his neck."
But before I knew it I felt something on my neck too! A sharp pinch then something wiggling to my spine. Then the feeling was gone.
"Wait. Was this on before?" Ryan said looking at the console which had now lit up.
Neurolinguistic interface established.
Debugging display online
N1: Human male
N2: Human male
Priority Objective: Repair technocore
Optimal Strategy: Religious Appeal
"What the hell does that mean?" said Ryan as we both realised there was someone standing behind us.
We turned around and there stood an Egyptian goddess.
"Mortals, I am the goddess Isis, thou art sworn to serve me, are you not? Wouldst thou repair my sanctum?" The "goddess" spoke noticeably in perfect English.
"Yeah, we don't believe in those anymore," I said, turning back to the console.
Strategy failed.
Subjects: males in late adolescence
New Optimal strategy: Hyperstimulate Mating instinct
"Fine, I'm not really a goddess, but I am a hot chick. I can definitely offer you boys something you want." Her previously modestly sized boobs promptly inflated to EE cups.
"Nice, but today I could see five bigger sets on the internet whenever I want." Ryan said, turning away again.
New intelligence acquired, Humans surpassed stage 3 civilisation.
Updating tactics.
"But can your virtual women give you oral pleasure?" Isis asked, seductively cupping her tits.
Ryan's interest peaked and turned his attention back to the projection.
"No, and neither can you, we know you are just a projection in our heads. You can't touch anything" I said, trying to ignore her and focus on the technology in the room. In the hand of the skeleton on the floor, a glinting crystal catches my eye. I'll try and grab it when I have an opportunity. I'm hoping the AI can't read my thoughts.
"That's where you are wrong sweetie. I can touch you boys." She walked forward and put the back of her hand against my cheek, when it made contact I felt real skin, in fact my nerves seemed to explode as if it was the most sensuous contact I had ever had. "I can make your sensual experience incredibly pleasurable."
My nose was assaulted with an overpowering scent of lavender and incense.
"Or I can make you extremely uncomfortable," she continued.
"ARRRGH" I screamed as my hand suddenly felt like it was dropped in a furnace. But a moment later the pain was gone! I checked my hand but it was completely undamaged.
The image of Isis walked over to Ryan, as her hand passed through his jeans a tent promptly formed.
"Now all you have to do is move a box and connect some cables. Can you do that for me?" Isis asked seductively.
"Sure," Ryan meekly agreed while clearly staring down her cleavage.
While she was distracted I dropped down and picked up the thing in the skeleton's hand. It was a long transparent crystal attached to a chain. I quickly pocketed it and glanced at the debug console.
Immediate goal: Acquire ZP-battery for reactor initialization.
The woman disappeared and then we heard her voice on the other side of the room. "Open this cabinet and take one of the boxes to the central console." She instructed.
We ran over but she was pointing to empty space above a pile of rubble.
"What cabinet?" I asked.