Clang-snap-clang...the sound of Lisa biting into the apple echoes throughout the Virtuoroom. It sounded more like someone opening a cardboard box with a rusty can opener, but that is part of the experiment, Lisa thinks, as she finishes her bite. However, her eyes go wide as Larry, her test engineer co-worker, changes before her eyes. His overweight avatar in a brown virtuosuit becomes the Green Demon in his signature black virtuosuit. And while she has heard of him, she never thought she would ever see him. His presence fills the room, especially when he speaks.

"Wow," the deep rattling voice of the Green Demon says, "they really need to work on the sound of that. No one is going to eat an apple in here if it sounds like a car crash with every bite." He chuckles, echoing eerily all around her in the empty room. Closing his fist, he asks, "Now, Lisa, I want you to tell me how my latest creation makes you feel." His wicked smile would make Lisa shudder, if that feature had been programmed into her virtual body. She wants to spit the apple, which tastes like an orange dipped in motor oil, out of her mouth but her programmed eating will not allow it. She helped write that program, so she knows she will chew 10 times and then swallow.

What did he do to me? she wonders...