Jack made his way to class. A basic art history course he like many students was taking to satisfy his gen-eds. While he didn't care much about the subject matter the course was pretty easy, and the grad student who taught the class was a nice enough guy. Most importantly it gave Jack an opportunity to sit in the back and experiment with the reality app.
Jack signed the attendance sheet and made his way to an open spot in the back corner and set up so he could innocuously generate sentences about his classmates. Since it was a gen-ed course there were lots of subjects he could cycle through in the large lecture hall. The grad student fired up the projector and started working through his lecture. It seemed they would be covering ancient Greek art today. Not that Jack cared. He began scanning the app through the lecture hall. The returns the app gave about his classmates were mostly boring:
*Jayden is hungover and bored.*
*Alice wishes she was in her dorm playing video games.*
*Tom is looking forward to getting drunk at the party this weekend. *
*Owen is bored and falling asleep.*
*Candice is taking diligent notes of the lecture.*
*Ryan wishes he was a satyr.*
"Wait what?" Jack thought to himself. He looked up at the student he had just scanned. Ryan appeared to be a pretty normal looking guy with an average build and dark brown hair. He was wearing a simple green t-shirt, shorts, and a pair of slip on shoes. His eyes were fixed on the slide of a satyr statue the professor had just turned to. "Hmm.. that's interesting," Jack thought to himself. He continued to scan the class:
*Karen is sad her girlfriend broke up with her.*
*John is itchy because of a rash.*
*Ethan wishes he was a satyr.*
"Another one?" Jack thought to himself. "Two in one class is kind of funny." This time the owner of the sentence was a wiry guy with medium length dark hair in converse, jeans, and a button shirt. Jake continued to scan:
*Ted is bored and wishes he had taken a different course.*
*Zoe thinks the professor is hot.*
*Brad wishes he was a satyr.*
"No way?!' Jack thought to himself, "yet another one." This time the owner of the thought Jack recognized as an athlete on the football team.
"Just how many guys here wish they were satyrs?" Jack thought to himself.
He decided to try the query function on the app. Instead of scanning individual people to generate sentences it would scan the area and answer general questions asked about people. Switching to the mode lit up a quick warning that sentences produced in query mode could often produce haphazard results because of their more generalized nature. In his eagerness Jack didn't really care and quickly scrolled through them and into query mode.
Jack quickly typed his question: *How many people are in the lecture hall?*
The app quickly responded back: *118 total, 65 male and 53 female.*
*How many human males have wished they were a satyr during this class?* Jack queried.
*Approximately 1 in 10 human males among the 65 total males.* the machine fired back.
"So six people," Jack thought to himself. "This could be interesting. I've only edited some minor feelings and desires so far, can I even change people to mythical species? I guess only one way to find out."
Jack hit the edit function He took the latest sentence from the machine, changing it so it read:
*Approximately 1 in 10 satyr males among the 65 total males.* Jack decided to set it so only he would be aware of the changes. He didn't want to cause a panic in the lecture hall with the sudden emergence of six goat men. There was a good chance the prompt he had built and edited was too broad anyway and it wouldn't even work.
With a quick tap Jack hit *Confirm* on the Reality app.
He quickly got some text back reading....