Chapter 15: The Beta Test Begins. (2/2)

Eventually the day had arrived, two hundred people were brought into a large facility Although it felt ar due to the sheer size of the building It shared a si, industrial white with cobalt blue details As the group walked through the facility, they passed several large roo several rows of VR capsules lined up like soldiers perforroups of people working with cables in some of the other roo up the capsules in preparation for the other groups

The group of testers were brought into a briefing rooht the basic operations of theout, and how to contact the outside world in the case of an eh the technology was revolutionary, the thought of your

They made sure to emphasise the safety precautions their htest hint of danger Arthur had experienced all of this first hand, especially being unable to fall asleep in the capsule They really were excessive when it came to safety, and it wasn't just because Arthur's father made sure no harm would come to his son, but there obviously was that influence, and threat, loo over every discussion the developers roup was lead over to the first roo There were two hundred VR capsules in this roohtest, rather the rooroup walked around they were told that each VR capsule had a plate with their names written on it, everyone eventually found their own capsule

Arthur knew upon entering the room which capsule was his Not because of his past, but because unlike the silver polish every other machine had, his was a faint ns, it looked as though his capsule had been wrapped like a car Thedetail of all was that the word "Merlin" was printed in large rune-looking letters on the front

This was the birthday present the developiven Arthur In the previous timeline Arthur had received a painted 3D model statue of Fluffernutter, the local cat in the beta test world's beginner village

Due to Arthur's actions, he had changed the timeline in an unexpected hich left hih he didn't hate the custoht soured it was probably due to sos he talked about when the developers visited him while he was hospitalised

Arthur et a statue of Fluffernutter h he would see the real Fluffernutter real soon

Eventually everyone entered the capsules as instructed, each capsule started lighting up Arthur could feel his hair began standing on end as he entered the capsule As he rest on the seat within the capsule, a slight tingly sensation ran through his body It wasn't uncomfortable, in fact, Arthur found coht hiraphic projection appeared in front of Arthur, showing the current diagnostics of the e bold letters, and along side it was a loading icon, this indicated that theits connections to the new user

This was a le user and labelled, not all brains operate the sa to the needs of a specific user Over extended and repeated use, thethe user ital avatar

Eventually the synchronisation was coh his body, this was a sign that theelectric currents changed fro warraphic projection on screen changed, the next as "scanning", with yet another loading icon A greena 3D eneral appearance to use as a base for their avatar

Within New Genesis, there were rules during character creation that helped with adapting and being coital avatar, one of those rules was that your height and general size could not be changed drastically froame But this would update to fit your real body to keep consistency

The capsule finished scanning Arthur, the next word to appear on the hologra", as soon as that word appeared on screen, the capsule tilted back forty-five degrees, causing Arthur to be indown position than a seated position

The words on the holograed oncein?"

Arthur closed his eyes, took a deep breath in to cal the word, "Yes"