Chapter 5 - Its on! (2/2)

"It sounds like NPCs are going to be able to directly control the players if the players desire war amongst themselves and can't work it out in the arena. A simulated arena in a game that is simulated, makes my head hurt thinking about it"

Finally sitting down on the VR bed, Gray gave it a light bounce. The VR bed was so soft to sit on that it was like he was sitting on a cloud.

"I can't wait to sleep on this thing!" then Gray stopped himself when he realized that a normal bed wouldn't cost more than his college education. "Oh right, time to take this thing for a spin! I've never done full dive VR before so it will be new to me!"

After inspecting the setup and verifying that everything was plugged in correctly, he did notice that Alterra had upgraded his connection to use Alterra Corporation's direct Hyper-optic direct connection to the Internet.

"This… this thing has more bandwidth capacity than my workplace… seems like a good use to me!"

Gray laid down on the bed and pulled the neural link chamber over his head, then said "Start up!"

Nothing happened…

Gray pondered for a minute then said "Activate!"

Nothing happened again…

Gray was getting a little annoyed so he just started saying anything he could think of.

"VR On!"

"Materialize!"

"Transform!"

"Go Go Gadget VR bed!"

"When your powers combine, I am Captain Planet!"

"Big bucks big bucks no whammies!"

Finally, that seemed to do something… is what Gray told himself. In reality, Gray finally looked it up and saw that to actually turn it on you have to squeeze the included remote to sync it with your unique DNA so someone else can't use it or "accidentally" turn it off while you're playing it.

Gray gripped the remote in his hand, a warm sensation passed through his fingers then a pleasant computerized voice said "Welcome! Would you like to begin?"

Gray started to feel giddy as he said with extreme enthusiasm "YES!"