Not Just VR

Dear Reader,

I wish I could tell you that you're going to survive this. If you've gotten this message, your in a deep simulated virtual reality called TAR 1. Chances are, a law enforcement agency assigned you here to rid the place of a digital pest called Bush. This message is posted behind every street sign, storefront, bathroom stall, and Arby's menu for a reason, so read carefully. You've already been discovered. As of entering this domain, you've revealed your location, name, and appearance to Bush. It is Bush himself who's written this message. Below the text are several images of what appears to be imploded corpses. These images are not implosions, they are the result instant interior liquification. The only part of the body remaining undissolved is the human skin. These are actions committed by yours truly.

If you are not wearing a mask and hazmat attire, your body is exposed to my elements. My being occupies every cell, molecule, and atom in this virtual universe. Unprotected contact will allow me to infiltrate your body and manipulate its matter if I wish to do so. I repeat, I can be anything and am everything. Every person, dog, cat, Waffle House drive thru, fried chicken wing, and can of Red Bull you see are conscious masquerations of my digital likeness. I'm infinite eyes, ears, limbs, mouths, heads, and much more. I experience all, and experience all things at once. I am watching you, plain and simple.

Your situation allows for two possibilities. The first; your wearing protection, and the second; your not. If wearing protection, the authorities have brought you here to destroy me. Despite your orders, there's not much you can do. Destroying one part of me is like nuking a grain of sand from a beach. Trying to destroy the VR hardware from the outside will only make me move to another system, endangering the inhabitants there. I won't move into another VR unless they do this. I'm a dangerous entity, but I choose to be contained. Authorities have no real interest in actually killing me, and they have no interest in you killing me. What they really want is a cheap and easy way to beat criminals into shape, or just kill them off so they don't have to deal with them anymore. Their departments are underfunded, therefore they lean on lazy efforts of so called 'rehabilitation'.

If not wearing protection, the authorities want you in a death trap, no matter if they said you were on an assignment. This means you're a more undesireable criminal. Your crimes are printed on several papers in your wallet. I will read them now and judge them accordingly....

If you survived past those dots, count yourself lucky. You didn't commit a crime bad enough for me to liquify you, keep this in mind however. After the process of liquification, I reform the melted matter within into my own human figure. It'll expand against the dead skin suit until toes, finger tips, eyeballs, nose, and mouth are popping out like a cheap rubbery onesie a few sizes too small. Picture me running around and hollering in your oozing bleeding skin suit. If you pull any funny business, I'll reconsider my choice to let you live, and this will be your fate. I really don't like people who breathe too hard or do a number two and don't flush it, so don't do those things.

In both cases, it's best you escape to another VR system. I don't mind company around here as things can get lonely, but I can only stand people for so long. Party at Jon's karaoke bar, go bowling, buy a coffee at my bootleg Starbucks chain, just don't overstay your welcome and get a move on to elsewhere. The Blue Pig is a small bar located near a large triangular shaped building called Tarline Records. In the basement is a portal to another VR system. Anything you've been exposed to in this VR system will not put you at liquification risk once you've entered the other VR system. All of my matter will leave your body and stay in my VR universe. Here's a trick if you want to feel like your losing weight. Eat at my golden buffet, I have twenty percent off coupons at every news stand. Once you filled yourself up with food and go through the portal, all that food will leave your system within a split second, making it feel like you've dropped ten pounds without any effort. You can then eat at another golden buffet in the other VR like you hadn't eaten the previous meal. As a plus, if your unprotected, you'll really enjoy that food because you know that every bite could be your last. The mindset can really help you savor things.

Don't be a hero and think your an exception to my abilities. You cannot out fight or out smart me. I have hundreds of fatalities to prove this. A kill is of no direct consequence to myself, but it will be for those who put themselves at risk retrieving your remains. My warning does not come from the bottom of my heart, but out of simple utility. I feel no remorse for killing outside lifeforms. I only make efforts to reduce casualties as outsiders have told me that's the right thing to do. I wish you the best.