text: [Themes: Science Fiction, space opera]
  
  Hugo detects that you are playing this game on an interpreter that uses the Glk API. Does this interpreter normally have a status bar? (If this question confuses you, answer "yes")
  
  Please answer YES or NO:
  
  [Author's Note: You've built dreams and brought to life legends. But all that is useless compared to your beloved masterpiece, a creation of tremendous value that holds the keys to unlimited adventure -- as well as great peril. You are the World Builder.]
  
  > go north
  You've built dreams and brought to life legends. But all that is useless to you -- a means to an end. And now, the culmination of your long work is nearly finished.
  You gingerly take the imager device from its dock, the final precautionary tests complete. The narrow strip of metal resonates deeply within you as you scrutinize it, a felt echo of your own essence. Now, all that is left is for the imager to be installed so your consciousness can be attuned with your creation.
  
  January 11, 2012
  IFID: 7D41B470-B518-4241-A71C-50D107E1EEEA
  Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
  
  (Enter "ABOUT" to access background information and credits.)
  
  Automatons scurry to and fro in the complex of interconnected machinery, which churns and whirls across the vast convex surface of the Sphere.
  None of the sprawling apparatuses and cybernetic miracles are worth anything compared to the masterpiece that lies prone and powerless before you.
  
  > examine the masterpiece
  The figure of an artificial man stands rigidly, staring vacantly downward from empty eyes. The android is flawless, a perfect imitation of natural life -- except for the empty rectangular socket above his right brow, revealing circuitry that spoils the preternatural beauty of his human form.
  
  > About yourself
  You are human, and you are the World Builder.
  
  > Inventory
  You are carrying the imager.
  
  > examine the imager
  The device looks like a small, slightly-curved metal band, featureless and smooth on the outside.
  
  > put imager in the man
  You slide the smooth, rounded rectangular bar into the groove on the android's forehead. The invisible field draws the device into place soundlessly, recessing it to the level of the skin.
  The figure of the android shudders for a moment, and then it raises
  its head, its mechanical eyes opening wide to focus on you. The imager begins to blink in the forehead, the metal pulsing softly with white light.
  
  > talk to the man
  He hears, but he cannot listen. Not yet.
  
  > look at the android
  The android stands poised before you, its eyes locked onto your face. The imager insterted into the forehead throbs slowly, pulsing with bright white light.
  
  > examine imager
  The imager is a small silver bar above Hugor's right brow, hanging out over his scorched face.
  
  > Wait
  Time passes...
  
  > look at Sphere
  The Sphere is what you call the hollow planetoid you constructed to serve as your workshop and laboratory. Miles of equipment and consoles stretch across the inside surface of the artificial globe, diligently attended by your robotic assistants. The transparent alloy of the outer wall beneath allows an unobscured view of the cosmos.
  
  > turn on Hugor
  You meet the android's cold gaze. Your nano implants detect the interface signal from the imager, rendering the transmission visible to your eyes in a sort of non-sight, separate from the three-dimensional world. You follow the signal through the imager, into the intricate being.
  The imager flares brightly, and the android inhales deeply through
  his nostrils. Suddenly, you are conscious of the android through your link to him. More than that, you can feel the echo of his consciousness of you.
  
  "You are Hugor," you tell him. "Welcome, my son."
  
  > talk to Hugor
  "You were created for a very special purpose," you explain, still looking earnestly into his eyes. "You posses within you the key to endless wonders and mysteries. Together, we will have many great adventures."
  
  The light of the imager diminishes to a faint but steady gleam.
  Hugor opens his hands and looks at you, raising his right hand toward you vaguely.
  
  "Father," he says. He blinks. "I am Hugor."
  
  > talk to Hugor
  "You were created for a very special purpose," you explain, still looking earnestly into his eyes. "You posses within you the key to endless wonders and mysteries. Together, we will have many great adventures."
  
  > check your inventory
  You're not carrying anything.
  
  Hugor's arched eyebrows draw together. "Father... I do not understand," he says.
  
  > tell Hugor about yourself
  (Plese use the command "TALK TO (CHARACTER NAME)" to initiate dialog.)
  
  > talk to Hugor
  "You needn't, Son. Not yet. In time, you will learn to use your gift."
  You motion Hugor over to a clearer area. "Come now," you say, "We won't be trying it out here in the Sphere, but you may as well begin to get a feel for how it works. Look around you. Your vision is as capable of rendering dimensional lines as it is of light photons. You can also touch those dimensional lines, as easily as you can bend down and touch the floor of the Sphere. Now, look inside yourself, feel the mystery that I created you to persue, and..."
  Hugor suddenly whips his head around to look at you, jerking down the hand that he had raised in the air as you spoke. "No." He shakes his head, softly at first, but then wildly and vehemently. "No," he repeats, his voice crackling mechanically. "Does not compute. Error. Sequence abort." His voice is consumed by robotic monotony; no trace of the naturalness he possessed for a moment remains.
  
  > talk to Hugor
  "Hugor, stand by to receive autocorrect passcode," you say calmly, transmitting with your nanotide neural implants the sequence to initiate Hugor's debugging routines. The imager receives the signal, but in response Hugor only turns away from you with a hiss.
  
  Hugor unsteadily backs away from you, throwing up his hands in front
  of him as if to ward you off, fingers bent claw-like. Suddenly, the air before him shimmers and bends, being replaced for a moment by a small vortex of light. The area around the vortex erupts in blue energy, sending Hugor flying backward and vaporizing the nearest equipment.
  
  > talk to Hugor
  "Stop, Hugor!" you command. "You don't know what you're doing. You could both destroy yourself and cause grave harm to others!" But Hugor does not respond.
  
  The instant Hugor smashes bodily into a console against a far wall,
  he leaps back to his feet, looking around uncertainly. The right-most part of his face is burned off up to his nose, revealing his metallic internal structure beneath his human aesthetic. A tendril of smoke rises from the damaged imager. You look with your nano-sight, but the dimensional signal that linked the android to you is reduced to garbled jibberish, giving you a headache.
  
  > take the imager
  Taken.
  
  > turn off Hugor
  At the speed of thought, you initiate in your own mind the nano-signal to deactivate Hugor, but the broken imager spits out chaotic interference, failing to receive. You glance at a console, about equidistant between you and Hugor, from which you can initiate a stronger overide to bypass the imager. You lunge for the console, both physically and remotely through your nanotides. But with his super-human strength and reflexes, Hugor reacts faster, simultaneously sending out interference to block the signal from your implants and crossing the distance between himself and the console in a single jump to smash it to ruin with his arm.
  
  Hugor runs to the nearest port along the Sphere, covering the
  distance in moments. You signal the docking system to deny him access to the cruiser bay, and the nearest automatons shuffle towards him, hemming him in. He throws the robots out of his way and slams his scorched fist against the closed docking lift, but the reinforced alloy fails to yield even to his great strength. He raises his hands, and a shimmering field appears before the lift. The field expands horizontally toward the lift, which disappears in a burst of molten slag. Several loyal automatons fall into the vortex, and are gone.
  The vortex disintegrates, and Hugor disappears through the hole he created.
  How could he have gained so much control over his ability already?