video • un: washington

[sixth]

[ Although the image is mostly Wash's face, there's enough background in the shot to make it clear that he's standing in one of the Eluvio's corridors. There's a door behind him and just off to the left is a sign that reads: SIMSPACE. Once the feed's going, he jerks his thumb back toward the door. ]

If I don't come out of here in like a day, send someone in to get me.

[ He pauses, making a slightly exasperated, slightly apologetic face. ]

And hey, if using this thing unleashes some kind of virtual reality nightmare on everybody, sorry. [ Does that require a little clarification? Maybe it requires some clarification. ] I've seen the old movies. I know how this shit goes.

[ Agent Washington. Always a pessimist. He offers a faint, tiny smile. ]

Otherwise, if anybody wants to visit one of the beaches on my homeworld, come on down. I can give you the grand tour.


( ooc: i figured the eluvio could use its own version of the holodeck! i posted a thing to the locations list so if there's anyone else who wants to take advantage of these things, be my guest! )

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( un: maine )

[rumbling]

don't push yourself on that leg, wash.

[sixth]

Just planning on sitting. Don't believe me, come down here and make sure I don't.

[rumbling]

[ He might. ]

did you do what the doc told you to before you left?

text; un: altea

[juniberries]

Virtual reality?

Does that mean this ship has a holodeck?

[sixth]

Yeah, it's like, you go inside a room, put in a program to say, visit the mountains, and it's like you're there. You can smell it. Feel the air against your skin. But you never leave the room.

[juniberries]

I know how it works, in fact I have one similar on my own ship, but I am just surprised that I have not happened upon the one on the Eluvio.

Do you know if the program is able to replicate memories of places? Or are the settings already pre-programmed?

TEXT, UN: REAPER

[hellshot]

Not one bit afraid of uncertain things like the virtual world?
You know, they sometimes say that if you die in one of your fantasies, you'll die in real life, too.

[sixth]

Considering how many times I've almost died in real life, dying in a fantasy would be par for the course. I think it'll be all right though. Maybe.

You been in these things yet?

[hellshot]

Not the dying type, or did it just not take?

[Why does the tone of this bit sound particularly wry.]

I have not. Not here. Been in enough of the damn things for virtual training back in my SEP days. Don't need that much nostalgia.

text | ( un: 2cool )

[glitterpants]

I have several requests and you let me know if this is doable, my brother.

1. I want to go the Nippon Budokan arena and play a solo concert with programmed, adoring fans applauding and admiring talent.
2. I want to go to a world of any kind that is without malice and hate, a tranquil place of world peace, where there is no wrong doing.
3. A love hotel.

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[sixth]

1. Don't see why not. You can program people on this thing.
2. Sure. Just might be the only person there.
3. What's a love hotel?

[glitterpants]

1. I formally extend to you a private invitation, then. wwwwww ^^
2. Non, non... i want to witness a world where there is no malice.. i want to see the people be so happy without evil in the world..!
3. ;)

un: rogue leader; voice

[taggingwomprats]

What is that, some kind of holo player?

[ Luke has not explored all that much. Woops. ]

[sixth]

You mean like holograms? Yeah. I think.

[ A beat as he tries to work that out. ]

Real lifelike though. You can't tell it's fake.

[taggingwomprats]

What, really? Most holograms aren't that great.

[ He's used to flickering, blueish images. ]

I've never seen a completely lifelike hologram.

video | un: carolina

[leaderboards]

You find a simulator and the first thing you think of is a beach?

[ can wash do anything with carolina showing up to judge him a little? apparently not. she wouldn't let him train right now anyway, not until she knew his leg was healed enough to get back to action. ]

[sixth]

[ Congratulations, Officer. A+ fun policing work. ]

First thing I thought of was home. [ It's all right. Wash is a downer too. ] Since that got glassed by the Covenant.

[leaderboards]

[ jesus, way to make her feel like a jerk. carolina doesn't look like she regrets what she says a whole lot and while the expression doesn't linger here, it still flits across her face, awkward and foreign and apologetic. ]

Right. So, does the sim compare?

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[yokunaru]

[There's a pause as Yuuri wonders if he was joking about certain things or not.]

Did you really need someone to check on you? [Then, with a slightly more concerned tone--] And what do you mean about the old movies? I must have missed those.

[sixth]

[ He huffs a soft chuckle under his breath. He's mostly joking. Mostly. ]

Nah, it's fine. I should be fine. [ Maybe. He clears his throat. ] Yeah, there were all these sci-fi movies that came out in, I don't know, I think it was the twenty-third century? Something like that. A whole genre of the things. All about how technology would end up killing us. They were really popular, especially on Earth.

[yokunaru]

Twenty third? [He's a touch bewildered, before he finally lets out a chuckle of his own.]

Oh, that's why I haven't seen them before. Back home it's only the twenty first century. So, how does that...simspace thing work?

text | un: artsy

[angele]

I might have to wait and see if the whole nightmare thing happens first before I decide.

[sixth]

So I'm the guinea pig, huh? Mission accepted.

Video | un:NEKOMARU!NIDAI!

[nodyinteam]

Virtual reality?! But that's just science fiction!!

[Or so he thinks.]

[sixth]

That's what I thought too.

[ Even though his life is practically science fiction. ]

I mean, something this advanced anyway. We have some virtual reality in my time, but nothing like this.