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[i]It is a gloomy Fall day, and you watch the rain slide listlessly down your window as you contemplate the age of that Chinese takeout in your refrigerator. Just as you are about to throw caution to the wind and finish the last of that General Tso's chicken, you are roused from your comfy armchair by the sound of the front doorbell ringing. You move to the door and open it gingerly, wondering who could be calling at this hour. Looking down, you see a weasely-looking man in Coke-bottle glasses and a smile too wide for his face thrusting a slightly greasy envelope into your hands. 

"Special Delivery!" he says, and disappears around the corner as you grasp the envelope.

You look at the envelope and your name is stamped crookedly on the face, but next to your address is a garish green and pink palm tree and a fairly smug-looking sun with aviator sunglasses. Above the sun, in what appears to be some sort of speech bubble, are the words "YOU'VE WON!!!!!!!!" in bold, red font. Maybe it was the slight hope of escape from this darned rain, the egging-on from that smug-looking sun, or just simple curiosity, but you decide to open the letter right then and there:[/i]

[indent]Dear Sir or Madam,

Congratulations! You are one of the few very lucky winners to have been selected for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! You have won an all-expense-paid trip to our tropical island corporate office and will be given the chance to use our state-of-the-art virtual reality technology! Ever wanted to be practically transported into another world? Your days of ignorant daydreaming are over. This fantasy is now a reality for you and you only! (Participants may not inform loved ones or relatives about this opportunity, or risk being disqualified).
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[i]A free trip? And VR technology? Sounds awesome! You're ready and rarin' to go! So what do you do now? Do you forgo your disease-ridden leftovers to send a reply indicating your interest in claiming your prize? Or do you forget about this scam-mail crap and go get some delicious salmonella? THE CHOICE IS YOURS![/i]

[i]But wait. There is some small print at the bottom of the letter, but you can barely read it. Reading it would break the 4th wall, so you decide not to. Still, you feel as if another person connected to your consciousness reads the text. That's odd.[/i]

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Since the above info may not be enough, here is some explicit, simple, and OOC descriptions of the plot.

This RP is intended to be a [b]comedy[/b]. The goofier, the better. It's very very loosely based on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Let's Plays, I suppose.

A group of evil scientists, masquerading as a legitimate company, want to study how advanced virtual reality and particular environments and stimuli affect the human brain. They contact a group of people whom they have been investigating for some time. These people are the perfect subjects, they feel, as for one reason or another they probably will believe the invitation to be legit and will come to their lab with no questions asked.

Once at the "tropical island," (which may or may not be a shady back-alley warehouse with palm trees taped to it) the participants will be hooked up to virtual reality machines. These machines are unlike any others currently in production, as the person is completely immersed in the digital world. Their real bodies are transferred into an inactive state and their consciousness lies completely within their digital representation. The VR machine simulates all of the five senses, so a person really feels as if they are "there."

Once hooked into the VR, the participants will be placed in various environments together, through which they must traverse and go through obstacles or solve puzzles. People in the VR environments, henceforth called "players," [i]cannot die[/i] in said VR environments. Their actions in the environment may "kill" their digital representation, but they will simply return to the beginning of the course when this occurs, or "respawn." Players can feel free to "kill" each other when stuck, if a glitch occurs and they get physically stuck in the world, or just when the mood strikes them.

There may be other threats introduced into the plot, since death is not one of them. We can work on this, if the need arises.

For most of the environments in which players are placed, their digital representation is simply a digitized copy of their own body. They look and feel the same. At times, they may be placed in different forms, like those of an animal or another person. This will vary based on the digital world they are placed in at the time.

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So after all that, anyone interested? Got any questions/comments/concerns/complements for your insanely clever OP?