open log » ❝ The VR Program ❞

[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: August 5th, mid morning.
Location: Anywhere characters happen to be/the VR.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: From August 5th to August 8th, characters are plunged involuntarily into the VR Program.
Warnings: Potential violence within the threads.

When the chance arises, she's quick to take it. The programming is incomplete, she knows; the simulation isn't ready — but she's not likely to get another shot at it. And so she moves, slipping through security codes to input the command. The machines hum to life with nothing but a flicker of a green light in a dark room, and it takes only seconds to establish connections. The signal is sent out; the weapons respond.

In a single pulse, reality drops away.

There will be darkness at first as the mind realigns itself to the signals being sent it. Slowly, the darkness fades, forms take shape. People take shape. The setting is terribly familiar, plucked from the user's own mind. It might feel like a dream at first, with events playing out as if predestined, the would-be dreamer moving through a familiar and unalterable route in them. But as things begin to feel more and more realistic, as more senses more fully connect to the simulation, awareness will change. This is not a dream. This is more than a memory.

Welcome to the VR.

Only 20 minutes later, in some underground quarters, Doctor Sponde is roused from an undignified sprawl. He's hastily briefed and shuttled toward the command center, looking grim. He knows the problem demands an immediate fix, but… well, this is some complex machinery. It could take some time. It could take days. He gets to work.

Comments

Hope this is okayyy I don't know ME sobs

[acemedium]

[... She'd been running. She'd been running, right before this, from one crazy scenario to the next, and immediately she ducks something (someone) flying and her she skids across the floor and nearly falls]

Ah---

[There's a vaguely familiar voice screaming and movement all around her, followed by more voices, unfamiliar ones this time, screaming about killing (and that's familiar) and "I will destroy you," but it's seeming to come from, well--- people around her age, really. And that vaguely familiar voices leads Maya to look up just as something grabs hold of her arm, then she's being wrenched back and-]

H-Hey!

fffff so sorry this is forever late

[hellodeadpeople]

[ Jack's at first surprised to see the intruder on her memory, but upon seeing who it is, it registers that the little person is familiar. With a blast of biotic energy, she flings the random child or guard that had been yanking her around across the room and steps forward to drag Maya close to her. Not that Jack's protecting her or anything. She's just less in the way here. Or something. Yeah. :| ]

Hey, it's the little badass. How's that working for you now?

same here ;a; I thought I responded to this

[acemedium]

[That gets another yelp out of her, and as soon as she begins reorienting from the pulling Maya skitters closer to the only familiar, non-attacking person in the room - that is, Jack. Not quite touching, but the supposed little badass is definitely panicked and out of her element]

[How's that working? Try not at all]

I-It's happening again! Everyone's attacking!