(back in the pod, druzy begins to feel himself again)

"survival, and diplomacy, I felt so restricted in that body; "

(through the speaker)" The process will take 11-14 days, .....you wanna come in here?"

@[email protected]

"there is a digital simulation of a 3d space,......my house..or headspace, no house sounds better"

@[email protected]

"like this"

(her body goes limp and she faceplants into the floor)

"....muehehehehehe "

(opens her eyes in druzys "house")

@..da [email protected]

(see's druzy)

@...okay, I don't know what I was expecting, but.......a [email protected]

(shrugs)"..wat-evah, I-do-wata-want. it's my house.but I digress, WELCOME TO MY HOME!"

@so what did you want me here [email protected]

"to waste time, and I donknow, .. hang out."

@thats literally all we [email protected]

"I meant without the filter of a persona, and in a place were we can play videogames, or....expiriance a feelie"

@....feelie?..is that some sex [email protected]

"no,it's like a movie, but you are IN it."

@.....are any of them [email protected]

"almost half of them actually....people still get horny in the future, and can't afford a drain pit"

@...I'm not even gonna ask what that [email protected]

"well, the playroom is this way."

(they walk down the hall to a room that looks like a mix between a workshop and a mancave)

@oh, cool a pool [email protected]

"I actually wanted to have you begin in here, but restrictions said you had to have a body first."

@..cool,..that's...nice....so we playing or [email protected]

"oh, we are playing pool, rainbow-dash hair, and I will win!"

@(peeringly)...which one you sayin my hair looks [email protected]

(chalking the cue)"The FIM one, otherwise known as the best one."

(mimics action)@good, I was worried I'd have to mess up that pretty little face of [email protected]

"I'm surprised you know who that was"

@hey, I may not have had cable....or internet growing up, but tapes were a thing my family got for me..sometimes they would make me watch [email protected]

"let's not go into that now, this is a time to have fun..not to talk about sad pasts. (breaks the billiards) else I would have to talk about how 3 rooms are a mansion compared to my former living arrangement."

@good call. [email protected](hits the 9 ball, sinks it)

"we're playing 8-ball, got it"

@yep. 11-ball(hits and misses the pocket)@

"my turn. 1-ball(hits and misses) frick."

(she gets ready)

"so I guess you never played a videogame?"

@i have gon to an arcade, but no, not at home.. not my [email protected]

"I have full immersion environments in here, with full sensory output, so you would feel everything"

@like I said, not..my..thing. 15 [email protected](hits and sinks it)

(druzy plops into a chair)"I really need to make some stuff to do outside, it's been a week, and I still only have the bare necessities...i have plans, but not much yet."

@well, make some grass or something. then you can complain about it like some middle-aged [email protected]

"(sarcasm) thanks for the advice... I will do that, but I'm not gonna do that over grass,..flowers maybe, but not grass."

@heheheh...i just noticed, you seem more like an actual human in here than you did in a body,..why is [email protected]

"because the body has its own brain, so it has its own personality, that one was meant for diplomacy as well as survival, so it ended up calculative, manipulative, and passive-aggressive."

@(re chalks) so my ass-kicking should be directed to... the [email protected]

"....uh......yes?.. yeah, I know it sounds like an excuse, but it's the truth."

@(rolls her eyes) Yeah, whatever, just make another one that's not an asshole to talk to [email protected]

"oh, I am, well..at least not that kind of an asshole. more like, YOUR kind of asshole"

@..HAAH, more assertive now as well, aren't [email protected]

"yes, back to..almpost when I was in space...now I can enjoy the violent videogames stored in here again; as well as feel passion for the art."

@.....what do you...identify [email protected]

"(thinks)...kinda a mix of both, I always have, I liked both male and females that way, and I liked mechs, building things, dresses, makeup, monumentous feats of strength, RTS's, life simulators, tanks, bugs, flowers, bazookas, cooking, conquering fictional places using violence or strategy, robotics, guns, and anime. it fluctuated, I know that at least."

@...so a-....no, I can't insult that... I like.... other girls; so I can't insult a person on their preferences; I'm not my parents....but I can still call you a huge [email protected]

"that's fair"

@14 ball(misses) [email protected]

"i have some mock-ups of different bodies i could make for the deity role (throws 2d screens into the air, showing the different ideas) any good ones?"

@(looks them down)...that one, that one and that one seem better than the others,...especially compared to that one with [email protected]

"pendulous breasts and loose green garments? yeah, i made that one as an obvious nonchoice to poke fun at the character archetype."

@yeah, [email protected]

"so the remaining choices are: small female body with no sexual appeal personality-wise and no boobs or butt , wearing a leather cloak, leather pants, teeshirt and leather choker all-black leather; a mature female with a biker jacket, black metal corset, and biker gear, with a personality of a hatful viper: let's cross that one off, else we'll have 2 yous -"

@[email protected]

"and the last one is a big dude that would fit right in a gears of war game, armour included"

@.......tubs would try to out muscle that one, and i think it would do the [email protected]

"...so my first bodies will be a genderless tree nymph and a black rock shooter wannabee...if i was male, I'm definitely aren't now...and i am strangely okay with that."

@[email protected]

"you won't be laughing when you feel the bruise on your nose when you faceplanted before coming here."

@you son of a bitch. let me out of [email protected]

"okay, if you leave, i win by default though."

@....then im staying to finish [email protected]

"good.(under breath) time will go faster, and your body will need less nutrients this way."