CrazyPerson
Grim Reaper
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Bio:
Jessica was pretty sure she had the right address. Well, mostly. The invitation had been clear enough, an email with a perfunctory greeting, a location, time and date, and more attachments than she’d seen on a single email, ever since that freshman group project left her to compile everyone’s essays into a coherent document.
Thing is, the building at the address didn’t exactly scream “Virtual reality made here” - it was an anonymous office tower, the kind she’d only been to once, visiting an old school friend at her workplace. Great view over downtown, but not exactly kind of place students got into.
“What can possibly go wrong?” She thought as she walked in the front door. Only one way to find out. Looking around, she saw something else she wasn’t used to seeing: A decent coffee machine, and by the looks of it, you didn’t even have to sign up to some prof’s special-interest club to get some. Right next to it was one of these old-timey black boards with stuck-on letters listing every company in the building.
She grabbed a cup of homework miracle sauce, and checked if this mysterious ‘E.G.G. Corporation” appeared in the list - which made her quickly revise her earlier notion: apparently students did get here. At least, she was pretty sure the company on the first floor wasn’t actually called “Bally’s Investment Wanking”, and “Anal penetration testing” probably wouldn’t be able to afford a penthouse office. This did leave some entries a jumble of leftover letters, though, so maybe “A. .G. MR Carp.” on the fourth floor was the place?
"Ya headed for them E-Gee-Gee folks?" Came a voice from behind her, which turned out to be a weary-looking security guard watching over the lobby. She nervously responded “Erm, almost, visiting a friend who’s working right next door to them.” At which the guard just gave a sigh, rolled his eyes, and said "Listen, lady. I’m not paid to care what they do up there that gets everyone who shows up so flustered. But the shit I’ve seen ma night shifts, I doubt you’d even get into my top 10. ‘Sides, the place next door to them tests adult diapers, and you look a bit young to be doin’ that."
Just as she wondered if she’d offended the man and would have to find it on her own, he continued “Stairs are through there, up 3 flights, just across the hall. Or, if ya prefer the ‘vater, up to 3, down the hall, second right.”
Up there, she was quickly greeted by a young receptionist, and after a few minutes of waiting, got picked up by her “tech”, a busty nerdy girl in some odd sort of dress/labcoat combination. Her tech badged her through an unmarked door, through a twisted corridor, through more badge-locked doors, and more twists.
Along the way, as Jessica remarked on the list down in the lobby, her tech explained “Yeah, sorry about that. As you’ve seen from the invitations, we don’t exactly advertise much. We know you’re cool with what we do here, but unfortunately not everyone is so enlightened. So we figured we’d try to get a few years of calm alpha in a nice building before every church in the contintent pickets us for corrupting the youth.” The tech paused briefly mid-sentence through every door until it clicked shut behind them.
Eventually, they ended up in a small, featureless room with a large white pod in the corner. “Um, where’s the VR arena? Where’s all the stuff?” - “In a datacenter downtown! You don’t want to go there, though, it’s all hot and stuffy.” Came the cheerful reply. “Doesn’t anyone read the fucking manual anymore? The details are proprietary, but you just get into the Egg - how did you think we got the name? - and BAZOOM, you’re on the fun side of the datacenter. Well, at first it’ll be Josh’s new settings menu, which is a bit weird. Sure beats manually tweaking system parameters from the debugger, though. Oh, those were the days...”
Name: Jessica
Age: 20
Level 0 Trait: Sword.
Description:
Attitude: A college student-slash-fast food worker with an unreasonably cheery personality considering that she's a college student-slash-fast food worker. In most aspects of her life she can be adequately described as an athletic tomboy with a dangerous blend of confidence and impatience, and she usually more than willing to throw herself at any problem or challenge until she comes out on top. She's an energetic sort and most of her free time is spent at some physical activity or another.
When she was invited to test the EGG she quickly decided to give it a try for three reasons in particular: first being that it's full immersion VR and who hasn't dreamed of that since they were a toddler, second being that she's always been interested in European martial arts and certainly wanted to give melee combat a try in a risk free environment, and finally that she's a bit of a closet pervert who has never been brave enough to try to act or find a partner willing to try her fantasies and has read many enticing rumors about the game's content since she received her invitation. Obviously getting triple-stuffed by virtual tentacles is a much more reasonable first step in that direction than asking a boyfriend that she doesn't have.
Age: 20
Level 0 Trait: Sword.
Description:
Attitude: A college student-slash-fast food worker with an unreasonably cheery personality considering that she's a college student-slash-fast food worker. In most aspects of her life she can be adequately described as an athletic tomboy with a dangerous blend of confidence and impatience, and she usually more than willing to throw herself at any problem or challenge until she comes out on top. She's an energetic sort and most of her free time is spent at some physical activity or another.
When she was invited to test the EGG she quickly decided to give it a try for three reasons in particular: first being that it's full immersion VR and who hasn't dreamed of that since they were a toddler, second being that she's always been interested in European martial arts and certainly wanted to give melee combat a try in a risk free environment, and finally that she's a bit of a closet pervert who has never been brave enough to try to act or find a partner willing to try her fantasies and has read many enticing rumors about the game's content since she received her invitation. Obviously getting triple-stuffed by virtual tentacles is a much more reasonable first step in that direction than asking a boyfriend that she doesn't have.
Jessica was pretty sure she had the right address. Well, mostly. The invitation had been clear enough, an email with a perfunctory greeting, a location, time and date, and more attachments than she’d seen on a single email, ever since that freshman group project left her to compile everyone’s essays into a coherent document.
Thing is, the building at the address didn’t exactly scream “Virtual reality made here” - it was an anonymous office tower, the kind she’d only been to once, visiting an old school friend at her workplace. Great view over downtown, but not exactly kind of place students got into.
“What can possibly go wrong?” She thought as she walked in the front door. Only one way to find out. Looking around, she saw something else she wasn’t used to seeing: A decent coffee machine, and by the looks of it, you didn’t even have to sign up to some prof’s special-interest club to get some. Right next to it was one of these old-timey black boards with stuck-on letters listing every company in the building.
She grabbed a cup of homework miracle sauce, and checked if this mysterious ‘E.G.G. Corporation” appeared in the list - which made her quickly revise her earlier notion: apparently students did get here. At least, she was pretty sure the company on the first floor wasn’t actually called “Bally’s Investment Wanking”, and “Anal penetration testing” probably wouldn’t be able to afford a penthouse office. This did leave some entries a jumble of leftover letters, though, so maybe “A. .G. MR Carp.” on the fourth floor was the place?
"Ya headed for them E-Gee-Gee folks?" Came a voice from behind her, which turned out to be a weary-looking security guard watching over the lobby. She nervously responded “Erm, almost, visiting a friend who’s working right next door to them.” At which the guard just gave a sigh, rolled his eyes, and said "Listen, lady. I’m not paid to care what they do up there that gets everyone who shows up so flustered. But the shit I’ve seen ma night shifts, I doubt you’d even get into my top 10. ‘Sides, the place next door to them tests adult diapers, and you look a bit young to be doin’ that."
Just as she wondered if she’d offended the man and would have to find it on her own, he continued “Stairs are through there, up 3 flights, just across the hall. Or, if ya prefer the ‘vater, up to 3, down the hall, second right.”
Up there, she was quickly greeted by a young receptionist, and after a few minutes of waiting, got picked up by her “tech”, a busty nerdy girl in some odd sort of dress/labcoat combination. Her tech badged her through an unmarked door, through a twisted corridor, through more badge-locked doors, and more twists.
Along the way, as Jessica remarked on the list down in the lobby, her tech explained “Yeah, sorry about that. As you’ve seen from the invitations, we don’t exactly advertise much. We know you’re cool with what we do here, but unfortunately not everyone is so enlightened. So we figured we’d try to get a few years of calm alpha in a nice building before every church in the contintent pickets us for corrupting the youth.” The tech paused briefly mid-sentence through every door until it clicked shut behind them.
Eventually, they ended up in a small, featureless room with a large white pod in the corner. “Um, where’s the VR arena? Where’s all the stuff?” - “In a datacenter downtown! You don’t want to go there, though, it’s all hot and stuffy.” Came the cheerful reply. “Doesn’t anyone read the fucking manual anymore? The details are proprietary, but you just get into the Egg - how did you think we got the name? - and BAZOOM, you’re on the fun side of the datacenter. Well, at first it’ll be Josh’s new settings menu, which is a bit weird. Sure beats manually tweaking system parameters from the debugger, though. Oh, those were the days...”
Apologies for the text flood - I won't be this verbose every post, but I figured it's an intro, and I had some time where I couldn't do much but type that up. Hope this didn't get too out of hand.
I also figured the initial is a bit railroaded with little actual interaction, so I just wrote a few intro scenes together. That said, if you'd prefer to play out some of these interactions more, you can totally just pick a point to play to and I'll move the rest into the next post.
Otherwise, the next post will just be the settings menu - I figured this post was getting a bit too long to put that in here, too.
As I'm new to this: Any feedback or improvement suggestions appreciated!
I also figured the initial is a bit railroaded with little actual interaction, so I just wrote a few intro scenes together. That said, if you'd prefer to play out some of these interactions more, you can totally just pick a point to play to and I'll move the rest into the next post.
Otherwise, the next post will just be the settings menu - I figured this post was getting a bit too long to put that in here, too.
As I'm new to this: Any feedback or improvement suggestions appreciated!
