Lung Boost Victim

The Lung Boost Victimhttp://41.media.tumblr.com/447145d4bc1608390153c780bbdadd18/tumblr_nnhfu1W5nT1ut29ano1_1280.png is a minor character in V.E.R.S.I.O.N.. He was a volunteer in Coalescence's research program into neuro-imaging. Under the program, a transponder is placed inside a person's temporal lobe, which would scan neural activity to create a perfect, virtual simulation of the brain. This virtual brain can then be used to run any hypothetical scenario; a person could tell what effect certain augmentation, a salary rise, change of diet or new medication would have on their life, as the simulation behaves in reality exactly as the real person would.
However, to make sure the simulation works, the volunteer agrees to let the simulation take control remotely of executive decision making for a brief period while under observation of a technician (for the volunteer, this feels like briefly taking a nap). However, unfortunately for the Lung Boost Victim, he was just undergoing active-reboot just as he was coming into a shop operated by Niklas to get a Lung Boost Augmentation (his role in the program being unknown to Niklas), paid for by bitcoins. However, because he was still rebooting, the decision was not remembered by the victim's conscious mind, even though it was recorded by the technicians in the remote simulation. Thus when the victim regained consciousness while receiving the augmentation, he had no idea where he was or what was happening, causing him to panic and start hyperventilating. This caused his lung boost augmentation to activate, flooding his bloodstream with extra oxygen. However, since this is meant to occur when a person is low on oxygen, his bloodstream now had too much oxygen, causing him to undergo a stroke and die.
The victim had a cousin who asked Bastien what really happened to her cousin, as she refused to believe he would have gone to get a lung boost augmentation as he apparently believed such augmentations were scams.
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