Tonstad39
God of wisdom
The year is 2130 A.D, you are in line waiting in line for one thing: A login to a London VR parlor. Virtual reality is a common feature of both major cities and small towns the world over, used for many things ranging from visiting permanent residents of cyberspace, to video-games that let you to experience whatever you want to experience.
The line is a colorful mix of androids, cyborgs and pure humans like yourself. While there has been long term conflict between the groups in some countries, you inch in line behind your best friend Ace. Ace is a plastic robot with aluminum undercoating and dual 8K cameras, the both of you met at university in a Remedial Algebra class.
You're both seniors in college even though you personally have no idea what exactly to do with your life with a Political Science major. The walls and windows are sleek yet feature Victorian revival gilding and the line barriers have also been painted brass to fit the ornate vibe of the room. You're nearing the front of the line and the ticket booth is only two people away from you and Ace being next in line.
“Can we do this thing together?” Asks Ace excitedly
“Of course we could” you reply “But we would need to pay for two and I doubt that I have that sort of money”
“With all those credit transfers from your mother I would think you would!” Exclaimed Ace cheekily before moving up in line
you reply “She’s just been a little lax in recent years”
“Mama’s boy” stated Ace
“Shut up” you say with a laugh “You’re just jealous”
“Jealous of what?” Asked Ace coming up with a mental syntax error
“Jealous that I got to grow up with people who love and support me” you say “Your mother was an automated assembly line in the engineering armpit that is Texas!”
“OOOH” said a stranger in front of Ace “You just got fried!”
“Nobody asked you!” Exclaimed Ace as the stranger walked up to the ticket booth
You reach into your front pocket to get out your holo ring before putting it on your finger as you look in anticipation at the ticket booth. ‘Finally, an escape' you think not having done this in two years. Possibilities rattle your mind for in Virtual reality you can be anything and do potentially anything. This train of thought was interrupted by the ticket droid saying “Next”
“Oh” you say as you come up to the box office with your holo ring fitting snugly on your finger “Are you two together or separate?” Asked the droid “together” you answer “That’ll be £610 please” said the droid before you press a small button on your holo ring causing a red laser beam to emanate out the front of it. After touching a visible light sensor on the register console, the ring transferred a sizable percentage of your already meager income in a matter of femtoseconds.
“Enjoy” said the droid
“Oh, we will” said Ace happily
You and Ace go into the hallway where you find an array of VR headsets, plugs and ports that connects the player’s brain directly to the VR servers both in the parlor and beyond. People wearing the headsets would seem motionless or vacantly walking around as the AI of their helmets control their bodies while the brain is used as a controller for a virtual body.
“It’s been two years” you say in anticipation
“Indeed it has” Said Ace endearingly sitting down near a helmet at the end of the hallway just where it begins to meet another. You sit down next to your best friend as the both of you put your respective helmets on. Your vision goes from seeing a decently lit hallway to total darkness at the second you put the helmet on.
Ace would have a USB lead jut out from beneath his helmet to plug into a port in the back of its head. You, however open your eyes to a sudden white flash as nanomachines prep your brain for leaving its spinal cord. The process is relatively painless as a minute later you are greeted with the all too familiar sensation of nothing, hearing nothing and feeling nothing. You have previously heard lobby muzak and felt your clothes, but now that your plain is disconnected from the spine everything became absolutely nothing.
You haven’t died as the helmet’s AI keeps your physical blood pumping and your muscles moved every now and then so the wearer doesn’t atrophy. The helmet is also responsible for keeping the body nourished and taken care of while the user has vacated. Your experience as of now isn’t tied to a material world, now it is experiencing the virtual world. This means that nearly everything that your polygonal counterpart feels, you feel as your brain is the controller as well as the monitor, making the immersion into the virtual world is perfectly seamless.
You begin to see a bay reality that you haven’t seen in years, a white void with a mirror to showcase your avatar as the words “Welcome back, ___” appear two feet away from your face in black helvetica font. Your avatar starts out with an exact likeness of you in real life, with ___. Your avatar is completely nude by default, you make the avatar move the way you would move in real life. You wiggle your fingers around and make a few faces to the virtual mirror and your avatar does exactly that. Each limb and appendage as the same tactibillity as it would have on your physical body.
After you have gotten acclimated to your digital body, the welcome text floats away from you vanishing in the mirror. “I remember this” you say expecting to be player two, like last time. Different text now appeared behind you backwards “customize yourself and your reality, Player one” in the mirror it would seem easy to read as you look at the mirror wondering just what sort of reality to lock your friend into. “___” you say tapping the mirror revealing a number of alternate models before you type in ____.
rules
1. Vote by filling in the blanks or by choosing a preselected poll
2. No pornographic themes alloud
3. Don’t be too OP
[POLLS]
1. What is your name?
A. Ashley
B. Jenna
C. Sean
D. Eric
E. Make up a first name
2. What do you look like?
A. Dark brown skinned with black curly hair and brown eyes,
B. Brown skinned with straight black hair and blue eyes
C. Pale brown skin with hazel eyes and dark brown hair
D. Fair skin with blonde hair and green eyes
E. Write in a human appearence
3.What reality do you want to be in?
A. Afghani war
B. A medieval fantasy
C. an intergalactic expedition
D. Writer's choice
E. Write in
4. What do you want to be?
A. dragon
B. penguin
C. chimpanzee
D. Writer's choice
E. Write in
OOC: Virtual lands OOC
Archive sans voting: Virtual Lands by Tim Onstad
The line is a colorful mix of androids, cyborgs and pure humans like yourself. While there has been long term conflict between the groups in some countries, you inch in line behind your best friend Ace. Ace is a plastic robot with aluminum undercoating and dual 8K cameras, the both of you met at university in a Remedial Algebra class.
You're both seniors in college even though you personally have no idea what exactly to do with your life with a Political Science major. The walls and windows are sleek yet feature Victorian revival gilding and the line barriers have also been painted brass to fit the ornate vibe of the room. You're nearing the front of the line and the ticket booth is only two people away from you and Ace being next in line.
“Can we do this thing together?” Asks Ace excitedly
“Of course we could” you reply “But we would need to pay for two and I doubt that I have that sort of money”
“With all those credit transfers from your mother I would think you would!” Exclaimed Ace cheekily before moving up in line
you reply “She’s just been a little lax in recent years”
“Mama’s boy” stated Ace
“Shut up” you say with a laugh “You’re just jealous”
“Jealous of what?” Asked Ace coming up with a mental syntax error
“Jealous that I got to grow up with people who love and support me” you say “Your mother was an automated assembly line in the engineering armpit that is Texas!”
“OOOH” said a stranger in front of Ace “You just got fried!”
“Nobody asked you!” Exclaimed Ace as the stranger walked up to the ticket booth
You reach into your front pocket to get out your holo ring before putting it on your finger as you look in anticipation at the ticket booth. ‘Finally, an escape' you think not having done this in two years. Possibilities rattle your mind for in Virtual reality you can be anything and do potentially anything. This train of thought was interrupted by the ticket droid saying “Next”
“Oh” you say as you come up to the box office with your holo ring fitting snugly on your finger “Are you two together or separate?” Asked the droid “together” you answer “That’ll be £610 please” said the droid before you press a small button on your holo ring causing a red laser beam to emanate out the front of it. After touching a visible light sensor on the register console, the ring transferred a sizable percentage of your already meager income in a matter of femtoseconds.
“Enjoy” said the droid
“Oh, we will” said Ace happily
You and Ace go into the hallway where you find an array of VR headsets, plugs and ports that connects the player’s brain directly to the VR servers both in the parlor and beyond. People wearing the headsets would seem motionless or vacantly walking around as the AI of their helmets control their bodies while the brain is used as a controller for a virtual body.
“It’s been two years” you say in anticipation
“Indeed it has” Said Ace endearingly sitting down near a helmet at the end of the hallway just where it begins to meet another. You sit down next to your best friend as the both of you put your respective helmets on. Your vision goes from seeing a decently lit hallway to total darkness at the second you put the helmet on.
Ace would have a USB lead jut out from beneath his helmet to plug into a port in the back of its head. You, however open your eyes to a sudden white flash as nanomachines prep your brain for leaving its spinal cord. The process is relatively painless as a minute later you are greeted with the all too familiar sensation of nothing, hearing nothing and feeling nothing. You have previously heard lobby muzak and felt your clothes, but now that your plain is disconnected from the spine everything became absolutely nothing.
You haven’t died as the helmet’s AI keeps your physical blood pumping and your muscles moved every now and then so the wearer doesn’t atrophy. The helmet is also responsible for keeping the body nourished and taken care of while the user has vacated. Your experience as of now isn’t tied to a material world, now it is experiencing the virtual world. This means that nearly everything that your polygonal counterpart feels, you feel as your brain is the controller as well as the monitor, making the immersion into the virtual world is perfectly seamless.
You begin to see a bay reality that you haven’t seen in years, a white void with a mirror to showcase your avatar as the words “Welcome back, ___” appear two feet away from your face in black helvetica font. Your avatar starts out with an exact likeness of you in real life, with ___. Your avatar is completely nude by default, you make the avatar move the way you would move in real life. You wiggle your fingers around and make a few faces to the virtual mirror and your avatar does exactly that. Each limb and appendage as the same tactibillity as it would have on your physical body.
After you have gotten acclimated to your digital body, the welcome text floats away from you vanishing in the mirror. “I remember this” you say expecting to be player two, like last time. Different text now appeared behind you backwards “customize yourself and your reality, Player one” in the mirror it would seem easy to read as you look at the mirror wondering just what sort of reality to lock your friend into. “___” you say tapping the mirror revealing a number of alternate models before you type in ____.
rules
1. Vote by filling in the blanks or by choosing a preselected poll
2. No pornographic themes alloud
3. Don’t be too OP
[POLLS]
1. What is your name?
A. Ashley
B. Jenna
C. Sean
D. Eric
E. Make up a first name
2. What do you look like?
A. Dark brown skinned with black curly hair and brown eyes,
B. Brown skinned with straight black hair and blue eyes
C. Pale brown skin with hazel eyes and dark brown hair
D. Fair skin with blonde hair and green eyes
E. Write in a human appearence
3.What reality do you want to be in?
A. Afghani war
B. A medieval fantasy
C. an intergalactic expedition
D. Writer's choice
E. Write in
4. What do you want to be?
A. dragon
B. penguin
C. chimpanzee
D. Writer's choice
E. Write in
OOC: Virtual lands OOC
Archive sans voting: Virtual Lands by Tim Onstad
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Personal preference.
