#vr gone wrong

They recruit Thomas Hobbes before he retires from the military to retrieve the soldiers, except he also gets stuck in the game, where the world turned into a post-apocalyptic nightmare world. 

It was a really interesting premise that was cut too soon and canceled. 

So far Reverie’s still playing it case of the week, but eventually I’m hoping it scales up to something ambitious because I know Sarah Shahi can play that. 

Also, one of the best things about Reverie is its diverse cast unfortunately, the writing still has a lot of kinks. I just finished watching episode 2 and 3, and while I think the Reverie of the Week are a bit more interesting, I’m just not invested in the people in the Reverie. The writers keeps trying to pull on the heart strings way too much, and they seem to think the audience cares about what happens to the clients after Mara saves them. 

Personally, I’m miffed when the scene goes on without Mara and the rest of the team. 

The cliffhanger ending in episode 3 was surprising and I’m wondering if what I’m thinking will happen is going to happen.  

I have a few other things:

- Why isn’t there a special tech room where Mara can enter the Reverie so Paul and the Reverie techs can monitor Mara? 

- I thought Mara has a few more advantages in game than other clients?

- I am frankly surprised it took three episodes before someone threatened to sue them. How does the logistics of the Reverie program even work? Just looking at how tech is adopted in real life, this would cause a lot of noise. Except, nope, none.

- There are some think pieces about apps and how they’ve retrained human behavior and how some/a lot of people get addicted to apps. And yet the Reverie team are always surprised when a client doesn’t want to leave a perfect fantasy world.

- Writers please stop writing clunky dialogue and cribbing from Star Wars and Pitch Perfect. I knew the moment they called one character ‘Vater’ we were dealing with a missing dad issue.

- TBH Westworld did better with narratives/human fantasy and cost. 

Title: VR Mistake

Prompt: Well, that’s enough virtual reality for today. You try to take off your VR headset, but it isn’t there and you can’t feel the warmth of your chair.

Author: Sharkie

Words: 566

Warnings: Swearing, lots of it. Like this little 12 year old main character needs to chill………stupid kids.

Synopsis: Donner just wanted a cool game, a VR experience because who doesn’t want to be emerged in an epic video game? Am I right???? That’s all he wanted. Life likes to put one up against unavoidable bosses.

Dear Oliver

I shit you not, it was terrifying really. Like shit the bed, shut the front door, please kill me Satan; that scary. Okay that’s an exaggeration, but that might be my specialty in this new world I find myself in. I have become that annoying comical character.

Look, I doubt you’ll ever read this and I doubt anyone who does read this will understand what the hell I’m a saying in this idiotic whatever. A fucking letter is what this is, who the fuck writes letters! In a different universe is that answer. LET ME EXPLAIN.

So I got that game you were talking about, and the VR (of course). Now I was at first like “Ah sick dude it looks so immersive and so fuckin’ ace and whatever and oh woah gee whiz, you good sir this is only the type of game a cool cat like Oliver my main bro would play”. Sarcasm right there. I thought it looked cool and you had been wanting to play it, so being a dick I got it for myself first.

“Hunter Zone: The Danger” was just the best conclusion to the “Hunter Zone” series so fuck yeah I’ll play. Then I saw that it was available in VR and so you gotta be shittin’ me that I saw this really cheap VR at this electronics store (forget the name or I’d tell you) and bought it with my birthday money.

That Saturday was the day I’d try it out. It was raining, almost thundering it was so hard. I plugged it all in and then was the moment, my first VR moment. I was standing because, gotta be super super emerged and I wanna throw my entire body into all the moves. I placed it on.

Now I won’t spoil the game for you, and because my hands getting pretty tired; I’mma skip the story element.

It was about three hours later(?) that I finished “Act 1” of the game (there are like fifteen acts I believe) so I decided it was time to eat. I reached up to take off the headset, but all I felt was a…a hood? Wait what? What the actual fuck. Yeah that was my first thought because you know me, I may be an edgy, nerdy teenage boy, but I don’t where no hoodies. Like to keep it classy in comfortable sweaters, especially on cold days like that one. So I was confused to say the least.

I decided to walk around, feel out my surroundings and crouched to the ground. I shit you not, I swear I felt real grass beneath my feet, not carpet. Not carpet. Holy crap in a hotdog it wasn’t carpet. It wasn’t my room.

I decided to test this out completely and locked my eyes on the tree directly in front of me. If I still was in my room, I would run into it, but not hurt myself. I closed my eyes and charged.

So I just woke up three minutes ago and found a quill and parchment in my bag, so I’mma write this to you. Don’t know how you’ll get it, but I hope you do. I really do.

Fuck me man. Fuck me and here comes Hunter himself. I’m gonna die in here without even getting past Act 3. Shit shit shit. Gotta blast!

Your regretting friend,