All characters, places, and events in Virtual Reality are fictional. Any similarities with real life people, places, and events is purely coincidental.
There was a white man sitting on a mahogany wood chair in a dark room. The room was so dark that almost nothing was visible except for that man. This man had a luscious beard, scruffy hair, and jet black eyes. This man wore black square glasses, a brown leather jacket, a 2022 AGDQ Chicory t-shirt, a wristwatch, jeans, and black sneakers. This man was tinkering with what looked like an Oculus VR headset.
There was a loud knocking noise coming from the other side of the room. Then a muffled female voice shouted “What is taking you so long Dan? You’ve been in there all night.”
“I’m working on something game-changing Nia. It’s something very big I tell ya. This is so big that it might impress my boss at work.” the man who must’ve been Dan replied.
There was a loud creak, light illuminated the inside of the room revealing about twenty more VR headsets by where Dan was. Nia entered the room.
She was a black woman. She had a green dyed pixie cut, black half-moon glasses, a black crop top with the words ‘Don’t Mess with This Gurl’ embroidered in white, jorts, and black sneakers.
“I highly doubt this would impress Mister Arse… *stifled giggle*. Nothing impresses him. But *giggle* maybe he might respect you a tiny bit more. God why is your boss’s name so funny and why did he get that name in specific?” Nia replied back to Dan.
“Oh his face says it all. And if he talks crap about me and my ideas and creations one more time I’ll literally rip my suit shirt off, show off my chest hair, jiggle my torso, and resign in his face. It’s not like I need the job, I already have millions of dollars.” Dan barked.
“You so have to record that if you do it.” Nia snickered.
“Will do. In fact I already have a concealed message just in case.” Dan said.
Dan turned the chair to face Nia and lifted up his shirt revealing the words ‘Mr. Arse, I resign! Watch me jiggle my thangs’ in black marker.
Nia fell to the floor laughing.
Dan let go of his shirt hiding the markered message and said “I should get to work.”
Nia got up off the floor and replied, “Alright I’ll drive ya, then Corey can take ya back home.”
* * * * *
Nia and Dan were standing at the sides of a red 2024 Audi A4 parked in a snowy driveway. Nia was on drivers side and Dan was on the passenger side. Dan was holding onto the VR headset he was working on earlier.
“Bro why didn’t I bring my boots…” Nia mumbled.
They both got into the car and strapped on their seatbelts. Nia started the ignition.
“Radio or naw?” Nia queried.
“I’ll take some music.” Dan replied.
Nia turned the car radio on which was playing Teardrops by Bring Me The Horizon. She then turned the radio up so high that nothing else could be heard except for the music.
Dan turned down the music and barked, “Good song, but let’s not have the volume so high that it would make me say, ‘Oh god, my ears is so messed up’.”
* * * * *
About twenty minutes later they arrived to an empty parking lot that was close to a large office building that was literally out in the middle of no where. The building looked like your typical skyscraper. Gray walled, large rectangular windows, steel double doors and a large sign that said Qifjér LLC were the features of this building.
“Who’s idea was it to put this building here?” Nia mumbled.
“I have no bloody idea. Probably some rich foreign dude with a name I probably wouldn’t be able to pronounce.” Dan replied.
“Well anyways we’re here so you better get to where you need to be. See you later.” Nia said.
Dan opened the passenger door, got out with the VR headset in hand, and closed the car door.
Nia then drove off to the distance.
“You’re here early mate.” said a voice from behind Dan’s back.
Dan jumped and turned around yelling “Jesus Christ man! Y’know if you continue to sneak up on me like that when I’m not looking I might accidentally knock your teeth out. I don’t want to do that.”
There were two people standing behind Dan. One was white the other was Asian. Dan knew that the white person was Corey. Corey had blonde hair that covered his left eye with a triangle arc, green eyes, stubbles of hair forming a mustache, a dark brown leather jacket with the words ‘Be Gay, Do Crimes’ painted on the back in white, an orange t-shirt with a null sign on it, gray jeans, and black shoes. The Asian had black hair in the same hairstyle as Corey, gray eyes, a necklace with a white cross, black rounded sunglasses, black lipstick, a black tank top that cuts off at the stomach, an unzipped black jacket, black pants, and black sneakers.
“Heh I’d take the risk.” Corey said with a smug look on his face.
“So uh Corey, who’s this with you?” Dan queried.
“Her name is Haddie.” Corey replied.
“Trans I’m guessing?” Dan queried.
“Yes.” Haddie said.
“Gotcha.” Dan said.
The three of them walked up to the building’s front entrance and they all went inside.
The room was very barren. There was a staircase, an elevator, two doors that lead to restrooms, a black leather desk chair, and an unoccupied desk with an HP computer on top.
“I see the attendance lady isn’t here yet.” Corey said.
“Thank god. She takes like about an hour of slowly scrolling through a large list of names before I’m allowed to go in the elevator.” Dan barked.
“We need to wait for her unless we want an angry middle-aged man yelling at us in a high-pitched French accent.” Haddie replied.
“Awww, do we have to?” Dan grumbled.
“Yes.” Haddie barked.
She pulled out a black phone from her jacket pocket. She then started tapping on the screen.
Dan could hear the title theme for Night in the Woods play from Haddie’s phone. A minute later he heard the Video Outpost “Too” theme.
“Are you playing NITW on your phone?” Dan queried.
“Yes.” Haddie replied.
Dan turned to Corey and then said, “Hey Corey do you know how to program and/or make games?”
“Yes I do, in fact I spend a lot of time on creating stuff in Unreal Engine whenever I have time off. I also spend a ton of money on assets as well. I can create assets too. I also know Java.” Corey replied.
“Nice! You by any chance want to develop something with me?” Dan said while raising up his hand that held the VR headset.
“Sure why not. This could be fun. Although I’ve never worked on VR games before if that’s what your implying.” Corey replied.
“I think its pretty easy to get into if you already have skills in devving. I’ll hand you one of the VR headsets I got when we get to my house.” Dan said.
“Alright!” Corey said ecstatically.
After about thirty minutes Dan looked at his wristwatch and then barked, “What is taking the attendance lady so long to get here?”
Corey walked up to the desk, sat down in the chair, and then started typing on the laptop.
“What are you doing…?” Haddie queried.
“The person who logs attendance ain’t gonna be here. They usually are pretty punctual. I’m logging our attendance. And speaking of that we’re in.” Corey replied.
He then stood up and walked to the elevator, clicked the call button, and when the door opened he walked in.
Dan and Haddie followed suit and went inside the elevator.
Dan looked at the floor of the elevator and saw a box with a toaster inside.
“Who leaves a toaster in an elevator?” Dan queried while Corey set the elevator to go to floor 20 which was the top floor.
The elevator doors shut, Kevin MacLeod’s elevator music started playing, and then the elevator started going up.
Haddie looked at the toaster and then said, “I got the very same question. I only worked here for a week and I still don’t know the customs that co-workers here have.”
“Stuff here’s crazy man. You have no idea what’ll happen every time you come here.” Corey replied to Haddie.
“I might use this.” Dan said while still looking at the toaster.
“What? You’re like going to bake toast at work?” Haddie replied sarcastically.
“Oh no, no no! This toaster would make a hell of a display if our boss trashes on my VR headset idea.” Dan said.
“By baking toast?” Haddie replied.
“No! I’m not baking toast with this!” Dan barked.
The elevator stopped and the door opened, then a loud high-pitched female voice with a French accent shouted “You’re late!” angrily after the music stopped.
Haddie clenched her teeth at the ear-piercing voice.
Dan picked up the toaster’s cord with his unoccupied hand and he, Corey, and Haddie stepped out of the elevator.
The room was pretty much empty except for a large glass table with a ton of metal chairs aligned on each side. There was about twenty other people in the room including the boss Mister Arse.
The boss had a greasy shaven head, black eyes, squared glasses, a handlebar mustache, a goatee, a full tuxedo outfit, and black business shoes. He also had a fat build as well.
The boss went to the furthest end of the table while Dan, Corey, and Haddie went to the closest end of the table. Dan put the VR headset and the toaster on the table. Dan pulled out an iPhone handed it to Corey and said “If I stand up on the table, start recording.” Dan then handed the VR headset to Haddie and said “Hold this for me. Don’t want that to break if things get messy.”
Dan grabbed the toaster cord and plugged it into a power outlet in the wall.
“What is this garbage?” the boss shouted in an unamused voice.
“Oh screw it. Corey start recording.” Dan barked.
Corey started recording with Dan’s iPhone.
Dan lifted his shirt up revealing his markered message making Haddie and Corey snicker. Dan then jumped up onto the table showing his markered message to the boss which made them faint. Dan took his shirt and put one end in his mouth and then started doing a Take the L dance.
Corey started laughing very hard at what he was spectating.
The table below Dan started cracking so he got off and set his shirt back in the right place.
“Everyone stand back I’m going to do a magic trick!” Dan barked.
Everyone who was seated got up and stood back. Corey and Haddie backed up from their current positions.
Dan pulled out two forks from his pocket.
“What are you going to do with that?” Haddie queried.
“Don’t try this at anywhere!” Dan yelled while he shucked the forks into the toaster slot.
Dan got sent flying across the room hitting his back against the wall. Large sparks of electricity sparked from the toaster. The lights went out and everyone could hear the elevator going down very fast.
“Holy shit!” Corey yelled.
Dan walked up to a window looked out and saw that there was a fire escape. He smashed the window and jumped onto the fire escape. Corey and Haddie followed suit. They all started going down the fire escape.
“Now that was fun…” Corey said.
“That was dangerous!” Haddie barked.
“Danger might be my middle name.” Dan replied.
The fire escape cut off a single story above the ground. Dan looked downwards at where the fire escape cut off.
“I’m going to jump.” Dan said.
“Your going to break your leg if you jump from this high up.” Haddie barked.
“No I’m not! Watch me!” Dan barked back.
Dan jumped off of the fire escape. There was the sound of pavement being hit and a loud crack followed by a loud “Ouch! My bloody leg!”.
“Y’know there was a staircase that led to ground level right?” Haddie barked.
Corey crouched down, grabbed the edge of the fire escape, then pushed himself off the edge while holding tight to the fire escape.
“What are you doing?” Haddie queried.
“Getting down.” Corey replied.
“M’kay, I’m going to take the stairs inside like most people would.” Haddie said.
“We ain’t most people.” Corey replied.
Corey stretched his legs outwards, then his grip slipped from the fire escape having him land on the ground in a split pose.
“Damn!” He barked in a pained voice.
“Ouch,” Dan barked, “180 degree split.”
Corey got up and then looked up at the fire escape to see that Haddie was not there.
“Where’d she go?” Corey queried.
“Right here.” said Haddie’s voice.
Corey turned around and said “OK, I see what Danny means when sneaking up on someone could result in someone losing their teeth. Nearly punched you in the face.”
“Corey help me up!” Dan barked.
Corey grabbed one of Dan’s hands and lifted him up. Dan held tight to Corey’s side.
“So uh where’s your car?” Dan queried.
“Me and Haddie walked here.” Corey replied.
“OK so we’re going to walk about ten miles while listening to You Don’t Get Much by the BoDeans.” Dan replied back.
“Y’know that would make it more entertaining” Corey said ecstatically.
* * * * *
Nia was sitting in the chair Dan was in before he went to work. She had her legs crossed. She was staring at a VR headset she took out of the VR headset pile.
“I wanna play one of these.” she said.
There was a loud vibrating noise coming from her jorts. She put her unoccupied hand down her jorts and pulled out an iPhone. She opened Facebook Messenger. There was a notification from Dan so Nia opened the DM.
‘Broke leg, will be home 1 hr. Bringing Corey and his friend Haddie.’ Dan wrote.
Nia then typed ‘u bein a dumass n doin stupid stuff again?’ then clicked send.
‘Naw’ Dan typed, ‘Oh, and please don’t touch the VR headsets in my workspace.’
She looked at the headset and said to her self, “Too late. Already touched it.”
She put the headset onto the table.
There was a sound of a door creaking open from outside the room. Nia got up and muttered “What the…?”. She pulled out a short combat knife from her jorts and then stood back against the wall beside the door to Dan’s workspace and closed the door leaving Nia in a pitch black room.
There were two sets of footsteps coming from just outside the room. The door opened then Nia pounced towards the person that opened the door and held the knife to their throat.
“Jesus Christ Nia!” the person shouted.
“Oops sorry Digby. People sneaking in without saying anything puts me in guard mode.” Nia said while letting go of the person and stuffing the knife back into her jorts.
Digby was a white man with frizzled red-dyed hair, blue eyes, an unbuttoned blue and white checkered plaid jacket, a black blink-182 shirt with a white logo, black pants with rips in the legs, and brown leather boots.
“It’s alright just don’t stab me or my boyfriend please and thank you.” Digby replied.
Another person came into the room holding a frying pan which they hit Nia in the head with knocking her out and causing Nia to fall to the ground.
“Sherry, you were supposed to do that while she was holding the knife to my neck not when she put the knife away.” Digby said.
The other person who had to be Sherry was a Hispanic person with a feminine build. They had blond hair styled into a wavy inverted bob, brown eyes, black eye-liner, pink gloss lipstick, and clothes matching with Digby.
“Sorry.” Sherry replied.
Nia suddenly got up and shouted “Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas chez vous?” at Sherry.
“Huh?” Sherry said in a confused tone.
“It’s French for ‘Why the bloody hell did you hit me in the head with a frying pan?’” Nia barked.
“Who forgot to close the door?” said a voice from outside the house.
“That was definitely not an hour Dan.” Nia barked.
“I know but it means we can do something fun together now!” Dan replied ecstatically.
Dan, Corey, and Haddie entered the room.
“What kind of fun?” Nia queried.
“The virtual reality kind! Oh! Corey can you head up to my room and fetch the contents of the large suitcase that is under my bed. Ignore my collection of magazines that’s beside it.” Dan said ecstatically.
“On it.” Corey replied heading out of the room.
Dan limped to the table and picked up the VR headset on top of it.
“OK how exactly did you break your leg?” Nia queried.
“Oh let’s just say when I got fired there was a ritual where I had to be sacrificed for the workers to appease their goat deity. I got shackled in a massive medieval dungeon. When the cultists were about to throw me into a never-ending pit to appease their ‘Almighty Goat Lord’ I managed to escape. While being chased by the cultists I tripped on a rock…”
Corey came back into the room holding a bunch of things that looked like full body suits stacked ontop of each other.
“And then Corey came out of no where with a minigun and went pew pew pew! That was right before one of the cultists was about to cut me up with a fishing hook….”
Dan wrapped his left arm around Corey.
“Gotta thank him for that.” Dan said.
“How’d you get fired?” Nia queried.
“Oh, I did the most dastardly thing one could ever do. I brought a piece of toast to work.” Dan replied.
Nia and Corey snickered while Haddie sighed.
Dan unwrapped his arm from Corey and grabbed the body suits.
“What are those?” Nia queried.
“These right here will make the virtual reality experience more immersive. It also helps via enabling easier movement controls. Everyone take a suit and put it on. You might want to take off heavy and/or warm articles of clothing so that you don’t feel like your in an oven in the VR suit.” Dan replied.
Dan handed a suit to Nia, Corey, Haddie, Digby, and Sherry. Afterwards everyone starting slipping into the VR suits.
“Everyone got their suits on?” Dan queried.
Everyone nodded.
“Alright now put on a VR headset!” Dan said while putting on the VR headset he held.
* * * * *
The world around Dan shifted. It no longer looked like he was in his workspace, instead he was in a large infinite dark purple grid world.
“Wow this is something new. I never used a VR headset before.” said Nia’s voice.
Dan turned around and saw everyone was there. They only change was that everyone including Dan were wearing only a white t-shirt and blue jeans.
“Indeed! I plan on spending most of my time here. This world… we could literally do whatever we want here. The beginning of a new era is here…” Dan said.
“Whatever we want eh?” Nia queried.
“Yeah! I provided everyone with the tools they’d need to create our own world. Pull out your phones.” Dan replied.
Dan, Nia, and Corey pulled out a phone from their jeans.
“Let’s see what we got on these. Hmm… admin tools, player profile, avatar tools, YouTube, Spotify, Revolt. The heck is Revolt?” Nia said.
“It’s a chat app. The best one out there as well. We’ll be using that to contact each other when we are all not together in-game or IRL.” Dan replied.
“Ahh.” Nia said “Avatar tools?”
“You can use that to change your clothes and appearance to whatever you want.” Dan replied.
Dan tapped on his phone multiple times and then there was a glitch effect and Dan’s appearance fully changed. He no longer had a human body. He transformed into a anthromorphic gray fox with a cel-shade filter and a bunch of messy blue hair on the top of his head. His clothes changed as well. He was now wearing a gray Nine Inch Nails shirt, and ripped black pants.
“You look absolutely like a furry gangsta.” Nia said.
“Maybe.” Dan said.
Nia started tapping on her phone.
“Let’s see what we got to work with for avatar stuff.” Nia said.
“You can basically do anything. You could make an avatar from scratch, or if you want to use a template you can export FaceRig, Garry’s Mod, and VRChat avatars.” Dan replied.
“So your saying I could be Bob the Builder from TF2?” Nia queried.
“Engineer…” Haddie sighed.
“If you wanted to sure.” Dan said.
Nia tapped on her phone a few more times and then she transformed. She was now a pink anthromorphic crocodile with large purple bumps on her head and the same cel-shading as Dan’s avatar. She had dark purple eye-liner, a black no-sleeve crop-top with a blood red ⛧ emblazoned on it, black jorts, and black sneakers.
“Nice goth vibe. I especially like the pentagram.” Dan said.
“Thanks.” Nia replied.
“We need a cat and a bear next.” Corey said ecstatically, “I’ll be a cat.”
Corey then set himself an avatar. He was now an anthromorphic calico with the left part of his head was gray, the bottom part was white, and the right part was black, and the rest of his body was white. He had green eyes, black circular glasses, an unzipped black biker jacket, and ripped black jeans.
“The Nelly look, nice.” Nia said.
“Not going to lie it looks like we’re starting a furry convention of misfits haha.” Dan said ecstatically.
“I just got an idea for my avatar.” Sherry said.
“Sweet!” Nia replied, “Show us what you got!”
Sherry tapped on her phone and then she transformed. She became a anthromorphic yellow dog. She had a small tuft of hair on her head, a Firebird 2016 World Tour Disturbed t-shirt, jorts that were even shorter than Nia’s, a short tail, and sandals.
“Wow, you’ve definitely got the term ‘rockstar chick with hot ass’ down.” Nia said.
Digby glared at Nia.
“What? I was only complimenting your gir— boyfriends avatar. I have no interest in guys, okay man?” Nia barked, “I am going to shut my mouth before I go overboard.”
“Alright just Haddie and Digby left to set up an avatar.” Dan said.
Digby and Haddie clicked on their phones at the same time. Digby transformed to match with Sherry with the small difference he had a masculine build compared to Sherry’s feminine build and yellow fur.
“Please for the love of god don’t ever go ‘Come play with us Nia’ like those girls from The Shining, Digby and Sherry.” Nia barked.
“Don’t worry we won’t.” Sherry replied.
“I mean we could make our own horror movies, with virtual reality gear we could make some pretty realistic horror movies.” Dan said.
Haddie then transformed after Dan said that. She was now a anthromorphic brown bear that was about a head shorter than Dan. She had a feminine build, gray fur, green eyes, a red ombre faux hawk hairstyle, rectangular silver glasses, a purple tanktop, a blue and pink striped scarf, blue Gucci fluid drill pants with black and red stripes on the side, and gold heels.
“Dang, you went with the expensive clothes.” Nia said.
“I saw these and I kindof liked them.” Haddie replied.
“Alright since everyone’s got an avatar set up, lets go do the next important step and setting up our communication. Does everyone here have a Guilded account? Raise your hand if you have one.” Dan said.
Corey, Digby, and Sherry raised their hands.
“I know you three have one. I already have you three on my friends list haha.” Dan said ecstatically.
“I need to make one.” Haddie said.
“Same.” Nia barked.
“Make one real quick you two. When you’ve done with that tell me your usernames so I can add you two to a group chat. In the meantime I’ll add Corey, Digby, and Sherry to a group chat.” Dan replied.
“My profile username is Haddie#3911.” Haddie said.
“Nia_Lewis#6228.” Nia said right after.
“That was quick.” Dan said ecstatically, “Adding you two to the group chat, and… done!”
“Sweet.” Nia replied.
“I recommend installing Revolt on your IRL phones as well, that way we’ll be in touch at anytime and anywhere.” Dan said.
“Got it.” Nia and Haddie replied.
“I think we got enough stuff setup for today. How about we work more on our new virtual reality world, let’s say tomorrow morning?” Dan queried.
Everyone nodded.
“Alright, everyone take the VR suit and VR headset you are currently wearing IRL home with you. They are yours now. I have plenty more where they came from haha.” Dan said ecstatically.