The year is 2089. Virtual Reality technology has become a hit. Nearly every household has a traditional headset along with gloves and a treadmill. This is primarily due to MULTI. MULTI is a VRMMO that contains everything. A universe within a universe. Due to the advanced servers and internet, everyone plays on the same server. There are no loading times. MULTI covers everything. There are planets dedicated to medieval skyrim-esque adventures, planets covered with sprawling, cyberpunk cities. Epic space battles or warring pirates. There is no limit to what you can do. Planets are created monthly due to an advanced AI and MULTI INC.'s thousand-man team. Procedurally generated planets are always explorable. Players can build, create their own factions, and take down others.

It was all fun and games, until the incident.

MULTI INC. sent out thousands of emails, inviting thousands of players to one of their test facilities around the globe. The players were, of course, ecstatic, but they had to sign an extremely strict NDA. After entering one of their remote facilities, they reveal to them a new technology. MTech. Multi-Virtual Technologyl The MTech is a device that looks a bit like a CAT scan. When someone enters the MTech POD, the machine scans their biometrics and administers a painless surgery. From there, the machine used their brain as the VR Experience. It can simulate their five senses perfectly. When using MTech, processing power is unlimited. Everything is absolutely photorealistic. From each hair follicle to each leaf. TThe pods and the buildings are locked. No one gets out. Everyone from the outside world is locked out of using normal VR headsets to play the game.

tl;dr: people get stuck in a vr scifi game and are forced to survive and eventually find a way out, the rp takes place (5) in-game years after the incident.

anyways, would anyone do it? it would probably start off as researchers finding a signal from the depths of MULTI, revealing new hand-made planets being created from within the game. our protagonists would then create a team to explore MULTI, get lost in side quests, and find out how to escape.

(also, due to MTech, MULTI INC. is able to replicate neurons. the NPCS in the game are as alive as you and me.)

oh, also, if someone dies they get sent to LIMBO, a world full of eldritch horrors. if they die in LIMBO, they die for realz.

truly epic

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MULTI INC. sent out thousands of emails, inviting thousands of players to one of their test facilities around the globe. The players were, of course, ecstatic, but they had to sign an extremely strict NDA. After entering one of their remote facilities, they reveal to them a new technology. MTech. Multi-Virtual Technologyl The MTech is a device that looks a bit like a CAT scan. When someone enters the MTech POD, the machine scans their biometrics and administers a painless surgery. From there, the machine used their brain as the VR Experience. It can simulate their five senses perfectly. When using MTech, processing power is unlimited. Everything is absolutely photorealistic. From each hair follicle to each leaf. TThe pods and the buildings are locked. No one gets out. Everyone from the outside world is locked out of using normal VR headsets to play the game.

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anyways, would anyone do it? it would probably start off as researchers finding a signal from the depths of MULTI, revealing new hand-made planets being created from within the game. our protagonists would then create a team to explore MULTI, get lost in side quests, and find out how to escape.

(also, due to MTech, MULTI INC. is able to replicate neurons. the NPCS in the game are as alive as you and me.)

I have numerous questions based on the above text:

1.) The pods and the buildings are locked? How about food? What about defecation and muscle atrophy? Wouldn't MULTI INC. be able to get into and out of their own facility to at least care for the bodies of those trapped inside?

2.) Researchers discover a signal? Are these researchers inside the simulation or those monitoring the situation? Are they people playing the game who somehow find this signal or new areas? Are these people from outside, hired by MULTI INC or volunteering to enter the simulation and rescue those inside? The text isn't really all that clear here.

3.) MULTI INC can replicate neurons... but so what? Are you saying they can create artificial intelligences? Why not create the NPCs based off the characters interacting with them. It would be rather easy to scan the expectations of the players, establish a consensus, apply a random quirk or two from a select few players and create a very realistic simulacrum.

@Assallya

1. It's a shady conspiracy-esque experiment by the company MULTI. They have solutions to all of those problems.

2. Researchers in the game, figuring they were left for dead, find new planets and realms being created after a year hiatus. Game-time is also slower than real time. One real year feels like five years within the game.

3. AI, yeah. AI does go further than the NPCS, tho. MULTI INC. primarily used the game to create an AI by viewing character interactions. After the breakthrough MTech technology, they were able to perfectly create a human consciousness. All of the advanced AI was activated after the incident, creating a perfect intelligence.

I apologize for the vague writing, it was pretty late and I'm currently writing on mobile.