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[color=F9FF22]” This is so confusing to me. All this talk about everything goes over my head slightly. Got any insight to lessen my confusion, Kazuma?” [/color]

Benkei did his best to break down exactly what all the conversations were spiraling over. [color=98A9B1]“Well, you know how the tagline of Pariah Online is [i]Make Your Dreams Reality.[/i]. The peripheral connects us at apparently our REM levels of sleep, and puts us in a shared dream. I guess the main questions are exactly, how do you ‘create’ a dream, and also, how would someone ‘hack’ a dream.”[/color] 

He looked around the room at both players and denizens. [color=98A9B1]”I’m worried because at this point, this is no longer a game. There’s no UI, our controls are strictly manual, and there’s the problem with dying. At what point is it even worth calling this a game anymore? We experience pain, hunger, and...other natural things.” [/color] When he’d asked a denizen where the toilet was, he’d received a fairly incredulous look. Before, they’d simply been avatars. But now? They actually had to use the bathroom. They would smell if they didn’t bathe. 

Games didn’t do that. 

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