Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Another day in Yoville

After going to the grocery store, I enter my computer and check my emails.
My avatar pops into Facebook to check on her apartment and pick up her paycheck. As she socializes with its locals, bunch of cartoon characters with huge heads and small bodies, she realizes that the town has gotten dark. Corruption has filled the town. Scammers everywhere, pimping and making an easy buck. Typical life of an internet chatroom. What else is new, she thinks to herself. As she hangs out in front of her apartment building, chatting with a large crowd of neighbors, she meets someone trying to sell something. She chats with him to find more about him. The more she chats with him, she realizes that he is a pimp, who works for the Yoville Godfather. She chats with the Godfather's pimp, privately, at his apartment. Another guy joins, but leaves soon after. She continues to chat with him to get to the bottom of all this. But he keeps going in circle, repeating the same thing over and over. He keeps saying that they are just trying to help the little people make a better life for themselves. Something doesn't sound right, she thinks. He tells her he will triple her income if she does a task for the Godfather. She tells him she is not comfortable with the whole situation. Besides, she is happy with her life, although she is struggling as an indie. He gets on his cell phone and chats with the Godfather. They promise her if she cooperates, they will triple her income as well as give her a house. She repeats that she is happy with her apartment, and her other homes on IMVU. They threaten her if she doesn't cooperate they will make sure she doesn't return home. She says that it is OK because she also has a life and many homes in IMVU City. The pimp starts to give up, and says he needs to find other people who are more interested. She replies, "That is OK. I am wise. Go find someone gullible." She leaves. She pops in at the factory and the pimp appears there. She thinks to herself, has he been following me all the way here?
When she enters the building, he mutters something that sounds like he wants to kick her out from the factory. He is threatening to fire her for not cooperating. As she tries to get her other paycheck, the power goes off. Suddenly, nothing works. Frustrated, she decides to leave, and aimlessly walks in the streets of Yoville, thinking about all the mess and what the internet world is coming to. She is aware of internet life and chatrooms, but she can't believe how all these scammers, hackers, phishers and other corruptions are infecting the world wide web.
She arrives at the apartment building and hangs out there, popping from her room, where she answers her messages, before she goes down to the lobby and chats with some friends. She sends some messages before hanging out in the front of the apartment building with a crowd from her apartment building. She chats with a neighbor named Christine and then runs into the Godfather. But he doesn't say anything to her and she ignores him.
After a while, she pops back into the factory and notices that the pimp has left. She sighs in relief as she walks to get her paycheck. It works. She walks happily back to her apartment building, where she continues sending messages to friends as well as doing odd jobs on the side. Then, she decides to go home to her apartment to go to sleep, for it is now 11:11pm. As she takes off her clothes and wears her cotton nightgown, she also takes off the bug she has been wearing. She feels she did a good job for the Internet Govt as a spy, collecting information for them. She sleeps in peace with her pets, Perry the parrot, Chinchin the chinchilla, and Paprika the goldfish.
Meanwhile, I continue sitting at my computer, in Southern California, working on my writing and marketing as I wonder what my heroine will do next.

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