[Charles knew it was all a simulation, knew it because he'd seen it loaded, but he was still have major difficulties disregarding the Law of Gravity. This was his sixth attempt at jumping off of a building and the sixth time he'd found himself lying in a pained heap on asphalt.]
G-damnit. [He groaned and levered himself up] Okay, trusting you enough to actually jump off a building is freer than I'm meant to be. This is a total failure.
[Reality 6]
[Charles stood shivering in the darkness of the overworld, hardly trusting himself to breathe. Something about his personal Matrix had gone terribly wrong years ago, so that he'd lived alone in a wasteland similar to this in many ways, struggling to survive with companions he now wonders were ever actual people or just glitches in the system.
Standing here now, realising how much he'd been dreaming of the real world, his main feeling was anxiety for the missing tech he'd worn that had kept him sheltered from radiation. He'd been told it was safe to stand here for short periods, but he still felt convinced that he was killing himself with each breath.
He smiled at the person standing beside him, a quick, unconvincing flash of his teeth as he asked.]
"Would you believe me if I told you this is actually better than where I'd been trapped for the last decade?"
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[Charles knew it was all a simulation, knew it because he'd seen it loaded, but he was still have major difficulties disregarding the Law of Gravity. This was his sixth attempt at jumping off of a building and the sixth time he'd found himself lying in a pained heap on asphalt.]
G-damnit. [He groaned and levered himself up] Okay, trusting you enough to actually jump off a building is freer than I'm meant to be. This is a total failure.
[Reality 6]
[Charles stood shivering in the darkness of the overworld, hardly trusting himself to breathe. Something about his personal Matrix had gone terribly wrong years ago, so that he'd lived alone in a wasteland similar to this in many ways, struggling to survive with companions he now wonders were ever actual people or just glitches in the system.
Standing here now, realising how much he'd been dreaming of the real world, his main feeling was anxiety for the missing tech he'd worn that had kept him sheltered from radiation. He'd been told it was safe to stand here for short periods, but he still felt convinced that he was killing himself with each breath.
He smiled at the person standing beside him, a quick, unconvincing flash of his teeth as he asked.]
"Would you believe me if I told you this is actually better than where I'd been trapped for the last decade?"