The girl shook her head slightly when he asked if she’d heard him. “You kinda just went limp and fell over. You’re lucky you didn’t hit your head.” Avery told him sternly. He could have gotten seriously hurt, great start for the product launch if some early releases put some kid in hospital. She pulled out the manual again and quickly loaded the game in; it took a few minutes to load so she took the time to get Rick ready for the in game experience. “I’m gonna give you the headset back and we’re gonna run a calibration okay?” She told him.

Plugging the device into the computer she launched the software and sent it into calibration mode, which was basically a lot of physical prompts so that it could accurately interpret the mental signals to physical actions in game. He could still hear and see her and he was  still conscious as messages began appearing on the screen like ‘touch each finger to your thumb’, ‘raise left leg’, ‘raise right arm’, ‘count to ten’, etc. “Okay, I’m gonna leave you to get comfortable and finish the calibration on your own. When you’re down lie down and the game will ask if you want to launch it when it’s done installing, just use your hand to click yes and you should be sent into the game no problem.”

Standing Avery made her way out of his room and back to the living room where she collected her own system and moved back to her room where she began setting up her own system, softly singing a song as she did so. At this rate he should be in there by now and maybe get about ten minutes of game play or so before she got in. If she got in game and he wasn’t online Avery was going to assume Rick messed something up somehow and needed her help.