What happens next?

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There's a loud ringing noise in your ears. You try to open your eyes, but nothing happens.

"Why can't I see?" You ask nobody in particular.

"You've just been resurrected." A man's voice replies "It's 2085."

This doesn't make any sense! How can you be resurrected? You're not dead!

"What do you mean resurrected? I'm not dead!"

"Yeah, about that..." A second voice, female this time.

"You died in 2015." The first voice again.

Wait... what did the stranger say? Something about an egg...

"Yeah, don't have an existential crisis, but..." The female voice snaps you back to the present.

"You're a Cranial Organic Living Intelligence Neurosis. COLIN for short." continues the man.

"I'm a what?"

"A brain in a jar."

"So why can I hear you?"

"Jo's wired up your speech centre and auditory cortex; so now you can speak to us and hear us."

"Wait, who's Jo?" You ask.

"I'm Jo," The female voice replies.

"Right, so who's the other guy?"

"I'm Chris. That leaves one other member of the team."

"Hi." Another male voice. This one sounds familiar, but you can't quite place where from.

"And who are you?"

"My name's Ben."

That's why he sounds familiar! But wait, surely it can't be the same one...

"Wait, Ben? But surely not the same Ben..."

"Yes, the same Ben. And don't call me Butt Shirley."

"Wait, you still work here?"

 "Yep. You never signed off my work experience, so I never actually finished."

80 years at school, completely held up for a minor piece of litigation? Yeah, that sounds about right. The school system hasn't changed since you left. Something occurs to you though...

"So what happened after I died? Did my invention work?"

It's Chris that replies.

"Well, we don't know, because we don't actually know what it does. The patent was never completed because you died before properly registering it."

"And you want me to tell you so that you can try it?"

"Exactly."

Ah. This is a problem. You can't remember what it does, probably because of the whole being dead thing. So you tell them this.

"Sorry, I wish I could help you guys, but I'm afraid I don't remember what it does. My memories are probably still reasserting themselves."

Jo replies:

"Do you have any idea how long it'll take for you to reremember?"

"Sorry, no. I don't specialize in life after death studies."

"OK, I've just run the numbers and I reckon at least a week." This time it's Chris who answers.

"So what am I supposed to do in the meantime?"

"You can stay with me?" offers Jo.

What do you do?

Go with Jo

Stay at the lab