Elisardbeth

Title: The Trainee

Pitch:

Ken is a brilliant but jaded programmer, deep into building his own virtual reality simulation when he’s unexpectedly assigned a trainee. The trainee drinks his Jolt Cola, asks unsettling questions, and seems oddly fascinated with how Ken handles glitches and stubborn NPCs.

Then comes the reveal: the trainee is God.

Not the robe-wearing, thunder-hurling kind — but a tired creator trying to debug the biggest real-time simulation ever built: reality itself. Our world, it turns out, is running inside God’s mind, and there’s a major problem — the simulation consumes so much mental processing power that God is becoming a prisoner of their own thoughts. Unable to think about anything else, unable to shut it off.

As Ken’s own AI begins inserting autonomous NPCs who start rewriting the code from within, parallels emerge between his simulation and the divine one. The lines blur. Has Ken built a new world… or just recreated God’s problem?

Darkly funny, metaphysical, and deeply human, The Trainee is a story about creation, control, and what happens when your side project starts talking back.

Entry, Day Six
Contrary to popular belief, creating a human soul is no simple task.
The first ones I made were, to be honest, a bit crude. I dabbled, experimented—and ended up with a pathetic little creature. It didn’t move, didn’t react, just lay there in the mud, grunting.
I poked it with a stick. Nothing.
It wasn’t until I knelt beside it and breathed into it that something clicked. It shuddered, blinked, and immediately started complaining about the poking.