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Corporate Strategy

Today's chapter—

* Interactive: "Corporate Strategies" 
* Public: "Corporate Strategies" 

—brings this branch to a temporary stop. I am definitely going to return to it, because it was huge fun to game out and write. It also has a slightly different atmosphere, because in this one the fakes not only know that they're fakes, they also subtly act like fakes, thanks to the accidental way that Will has been programming them.

I'm going to be running some polls during the month of September, and I'm going to start with a poll about this last chapter. Which choice do you want to see continued when I resume this branch? Should Will start by recruiting some partners? Or should he make some more doppelgangers first? Poll is here, along with the rules: [Poll completed and deleted.]. It closes on Thursday, August 25.

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Meanwhile, tomorrow brings a change of pace. Rugal, Nostrum and I spent a lot of August doing a round-robin writing exercise, and we'll start posting it tomorrow. It will begin with a sequel to "Prospective Partnerships"  Will is looking for someone to help him do work with the book. He has been very hesitant about making a decision, though, to the point that he is now entertaining some pretty unusual possibilities: Catherine Muskov? Genesis Lee? A girl from Eastman High that he just met?