tj dettweiler getting his simstim rig hacked; Wintermute appears as Vince, Gretchen, Mrs Finster. called to the principals office tj is informed gus griswald is losing it; the construct personality is disentegrating. tj thinks about how his old friend gus put the job together to expose war crimes. 'fuck you, man,' he says and shoots peter prickly.

this whomps, tj says the next morning, extremely psychically damaged by all this hallucination