New game

As weird and alluring as the other helmet was, you could not resist the temptation to check out the smaller one. It looked exactly like one of those new VR sets you had seen commercials for, and when you read the label you could not help but feel thrilled. Maybe what you just had in your hand was the beta test for a new virtual reality game! Who could resist the temptation of trying something like that out? You put the helmet on and activated it.


Just like you expected, the first thing you saw was a videogame screen. Judging by the music and the design of the menu you figured out it must have been some kind of generic Western-style RPG. Nothing really original, but maybe experiencing it with a VR set would have been a blast. You noticed that besides the option of starting a new game, the ‘continue game’ option was also available. Most likely the programmers had a game already started to test the device. ‘Sweet’ you thought. If you continued the game you could have skipped all the crappy tutorials and dive straight into the adventure. You selected the option and entered the magical world of Game of Twilight.


You have no way to tell how much time has passed since that day. Days? Weeks? Months? It is impossible to assess it, since time goes by at a faster pace in the game, but you experience it just like everything is happening in real time. You have been stuck in the game for so long that you can barely remember how your real body feels by this point. The VR set is indeed amazing. It really does feel like you are actually in a fantasy land. You can feel the wind blowing through your long hair, and the weight of the armor over your frail frame, and the smell of your perfumed skin. Why did it have to be a girl?


You were quite unlucky indeed, beside very incautious. Not only you took the very stupid decision of trying out an experimental peripheral for virtual reality that trapped you in a videogame, but the programmer who started the game you continued had created a female character. And a rather cute one too. The programmers are apparently working on a way to get you out of the game somehow, but as of right now you have not received any news from them in what feels like an eternity. The best suggestion they have given you so far is to do your best to complete the main quest so that by finishing the game you will be automatically returned to reality.


Easier said than done! While you are in the game you are bond to its rules. There is no fast travel, no mod, and no cheat code. You have to explore and save the fantasy world of the game just like you are part of it, and it is massive! Why do every game need to be an open-world these days? All you can do is hope that those scientists figure out a way to get you out of there before things get too dangerous. For the time being the best you can do is to keep going and do your best to save the land of Phiolloterra from the Dark Lord and his army of evil. Good luck with that.