Game: ViewScream

[errours]

Who: spacefaring idols!
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 130, late afternoon

[ There’s a musical chime from your phone. And then the world around you goes black.
—And cold. And then speckled with points of light—more and more, a shimmering tapestry of stars—

…Then, abruptly, there’s hard metal beneath your feet, the cold gone, and you’re in a wide room done in steel and chrome. Flickering computer monitors are set into the walls amidst switches and panels.

Is this the future is now dorm? Heart Soldier? No, the thick windows show you to be surrounded, still, by stars: This is a spaceship. Or, rather, it’s the Game Tower as a spaceship. Text scrolls across the various screens:

Welcome, THEMiS crew.
Contact with anomaly in: 40 minutes.

Seated across from all of you at the front of the room, in a swiveling chair that suggests a captain’s seat, is a red-haired woman in a cream silk dress with a high slit up the thigh. Her crossed legs are covered in burn scars up to just above her knees, but her smile is all relaxed confidence. ]


Welcome, idols. I’m so pleased to be your Host today.

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Right!? And they can't even enjoy it!

Blandly:]

Nice view.

[crossmyheartandhope]

It's pretty badass.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You ever seen it up close back home?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Dunno. Don't think so?

If I did, I don't remember yet.

...you?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Thinks about that for a second, trying to recall---]

I think so.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah? What was it like?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[What's a good word. Awe-inspiring? Boring. Powerful? Mmmm, not quite.

Oh. Right.]

Limitless.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Limitless, huh?

...sounds like it's really something.