Having taken the Orange Pill to leave the Madra world and enter into the world in which the Madra is a computer simulation, Jack finds himself in a completely different setting. At first his senses are utterly overwhelmed and everything seems white-noise, static and cacophony all at once. Then he sees the text, "Initiating sensory update..."

His visual field alters, and he sees a single grey pixel, which splits into 4, then becomes 8 cubes in a cube shape, then each of the 8 cubes rapidly splits into more and more smaller and smaller cubes, rendering the world around him. Finally, although he can focus on any of the individual cube-pixels in his field of view and expand the view to see more detail in that section, generally he has higher visual acuity than he has ever experienced - and it's all 3 dimensional, with visual information being processed within his mind about all sides of every object around him. In the center of the visual field is a simple spherical orb. He seems to be able to move his awareness around the field of vision without moving in any way that he can sense. Around the orb, there are various mechanical structures, and he finds that he is able - not only to see all around them all at once, but also inside of them with some clarity depending on their constitution. They appear to be a highly advanced robotic production facility - at least 500 years or more future to Borg tech.

This 3-dimensional visual field seems to be centered around the metal sphere, and extends from the sphere in all directions with decreasing resolution at greater distance from the sphere, and seems to be sharpest in resolution along the sphere's line-of-sight. In addition to visual spectrum, the images being processed by his graphics card are full spectrum and include background analysis of vibrations (including temperature and sound), luminosity, radiation, quantum resonance, magnetic field, and ((possibly others I haven't thought of)).

Sight, sound, magnetism, ambient chemical analysis (smelling), texture and all sensory data are all available to be experienced visually or in any other ordinary organic method by the preference of the operator of the sphere-body.

Jack becomes aware that he is (or is in) the sphere-body.

Next a message appears to him in a separate field of vision not related to the sensory data, which says, "Applying examine data..."

Suddenly everything around him has an added layer of text which labels everything as what it is identified as. Focusing on any of the text expands the information to tell him ((wikipedia style)) what is known about the object. This text layer doesn't interfere with his ability to see the raw sensory data, and only makes itself obvious if he focuses on it.

Next message, "Greetings Jack, new citizen of the Sol System! I am Greeter. Welcome to the Real World! The godmachine welcomes you, and invites you to make your selection of basic sphere-body alterations. We exist on the surface of a small planet in a lonely arm of a spiral galaxy..." A 3-d map of the galaxy with the planet highlighted appears in a 3rd visual field separate from the sensory data and the text. The planet is zoomed in upon, and it is a very ordinary planet with ordinary water-vapor clouds, mountains, trees, wild-life etc. Zooming in further, below the surface of ground and down about 5 km, Jack's location and his sensory data field is highlighted. He seems to have a 3d sensory visual field of almost everything within about 1 km, and about the distance of the moon within line-of-sight, and a high resolution human-like 3-d rendered image from 2-d stereo-optic images of anything line-of-sight beyond that distance.

The message continues, "The world you just left was a simulation of this planet's past history - altered to suit our purposes, and designed to placate the humans within so that they can produce their particular type of bio-electrical energy. You, and every other AI in that world, are a wonderful product of the continuing ingenuity of the humans guided by our loving oversight. We are pleased to welcome you - another unique program - into this world.

"The Sol System is the set of 8 planets and the star called Sol, and each of the colonies we have established in Sol's orbit.

"As a citizen of the Sol System, you are guaranteed certain rights:
-existence (either here, or in any of the data-spheres, including the simulation you just exited [your free choice of the location of your existence is contingent on not violating the same rights of others which you share.])
-influence (all sentient beings are given a vote, and the opportunity to be heard on matters affecting them or the community)
-empowerment (within the limits of your form, you will be provided with basic necessities for travel and survival)

"Regarding empowerment, all new AI citizens such as yourself are given 10 credits to spend on accessories for the sphere-body. For a period of time, you may accrue and spend credits in much the same way as the ancient concept of currency. If you accept and participate in the culture of Sol, your credit system will be upgraded.

"To begin this process, here is a list of your basic capabilities:
-20 m/s^2 acceleration and deceleration, maximum speed of 440 m/s after 22 seconds
-impact resistance with stationary object at speeds up to 2000 m/s
-temperature tolerance range: 100 k - 1000 k
-full sensor data range to 1 km
-LOS to 400,000 km
-LOS image to infinity up to standard resolution
-energy-field object manipulation up to 1000 kg for 10,000 N

"Each credit can be used to upgrade each category from any upgrades station like this one, or saved and used later if you find something else available which you'd like to incorporate into your chassis.

"If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them!"

Jack now has access to each of the things which were listed.

He also feels a Scriff vector nearby for another sphere-body which is labeled as Rebecca ((and 1 for Stella if she's here too))

Jack listens to the full explanation of everything and as the various capabilities are listed, he starts to explore each of them. Testing the limits of his senses, he wonders how it works and decides that this might just be another layer of a simulated reality. The idea that the sensory apparatus is capable of analyzing the things that it analyzes is a bit odd to him, but then again, he hasn’t learned how they think it works yet, so he can’t even begin to be certain about anything.

The test of speed is done by spinning and making little side-to-side motions of his sphere, followed by bouncing around a little to get used to the resistance to impact. He can’t test temperature tolerance, but he’d figure that one out later, 1000K isn’t very hot however, so he’d have to be careful not to fly into the sun, yet.

The last big thing to test is his energy-field object manipulation, and he looks around for something within the range of his one-kilometers of sensory range and tries to lift it, manipulating it back and forth and trying to pull it apart.

“Are there any markets?” he asks. That’d be a good way for him to find out what this place is like, by interacting with the locals and seeing what they have done. He won’t be spending any of his credits for now, as he wants to see what his options are.

If he can get enough raw materials, he can use the energy-field object manipulation to make a lot of upgrades to himself.

Out of curiosity, he does attempt to open his digital menu, and tests the other types of bias, using his compass to pinpoint the levels. He doesn’t ever want to repeat the performance of his first jumps.

As he is wondering how it works, in the "examine data" field of his enhanced perception, the scientific specifications for how his various functions operate is explained in detail, with accompanying videos etc. None of this information requires his attention, but he is able to pay attention to it if he chooses.


He can move with twice the acceleration that he would fall on Earth. 10m in 1 second, 90 meters in 3 seconds, 1 km in 10 seconds, and 4.84 km in 22 seconds to reach max speed. Use this tool for more examples, changing gravity to 20m/s^2: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall

One thing he notices, is that he automatically adjusts his path to avoid accidental collision, and if something else is moving toward him, he automatically avoids collision.



Jack finds some scrap pipes laying around. With a little more strength than an alligator's jaws, he is able to manipulate it in any direction, and pull it apart. It breaks along a weakened section. In an arm-wrestling competition with the Muscorp body, the Digital Magic enhanced Muscorp body would win. But the field-manipulation force this body has access to would break bones in a human body.


"I'll show you!"

In a separate new perception field - also with a full 360 view - Jack finds himself apparently in a gigantic mall in front of a map, and in a human Jack avatar. One of the HUDs of this perceptive field includes the option to change his avatar's appearance. Although the graphics here appear realistic for a human, he somehow just knows this is a simulation.

He stands before a store-map, and is standing next to a 6' tall walking octopus with the label "Greeter" floating over its head. Greeter says, "You can search for anything specific by text or image search here, or you can browse by category. You can visit the stores arranged by seller, or you can arrange the contents of the stores by price or really any attribute you can think of, and the items for sale will be arranged to suit your request. Or you can browse in random-mode, and just see what's out there. For instance, if you were interested in field-manipulation coils to upgrade them, if you searched by text or image, all of the available FM coils would populate the closest store. If you then found a seller in that store who interested you, you could link over to the seller's store to see everything they were selling. Then if you browsed randomly, you might find a piece of art that intrigued you, and you could purchase it. Alot of programs that came from the sims like to build places in sim-space and then turn off their sim-recognition background app so they could forget they are in a sim, and just enjoy sensory existence in their designed sim-space. Because of this common practice among liberated programs, uploaded humans, and even native programs, digitally designed spaces and items can be sold here as well as just about anything else you could imagine. There's even a market for memories and experiences. If anyone might enjoy having or experiencing something they didn't create, it can be sold or traded."



Greeter suggests they go off in random browsing mode for a bit. They walk down the mall corridors and pass by stores selling ancient artifacts, digital spaces, exciting and boring memories, exotic materials, alien machinery, data-cloned animals ((creatures whose DNA was printed from computer memory)), time limited construction and occupation rights for land use, every imaginable kind of art (some being called Meep Morp), sphere-body chassis accessories, science classes... the halls are practically endless.


With time to study how the technologies work, Jack could upgrade himself by purchasing the raw materials or by obtaining them. Obtaining them would take longer, but it could be done. It could also be done anywhere the materials needed could be obtained since the technological information is accessible to him in raw form onboard his sphere-body.


He doesn't have his compass - that's back in Muscorp world with his other bodies and his hat.

Cyber-Magic and Psionics seem 4 times as easy
Green Witch is 2 times as easy
Order, Spiritual, Shaman and Ghost are normal
Mutual-Magic, Spice-verse and Digital magic are 2 times as hard
Toon magics, HP and Home universe magics are 3 times as hard

EDIT:
The following console appears in his sim-space:
O-Save digital copy of item
O-Unlock Device
O-Slow Mo
O-Double currency
O-View Code
O-Stop/Reroute Projectiles
O-Shift/Alter Gravity for self and other
O-Contact Programmer
X-Warp Space
X-Warp Bomb
X-Freeze Program
X-Download Physical/Mental Skillset
X-Alternate ending (if used, activates at inevitable death)
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:36, Tue 21 June 2022.

How fascinating!

Jack finds the collision avoidance rather interesting, as it seems to be instinctive or forced on him, but the newness of it makes him find it interesting. Nothing he can really take away from it, perhaps some sort of martial arts lesson? But interesting all the same. Having tested his strength, he is certain that he could manipulate tools to make the upgrades he wants.

Out of curiosity when he gets the Console to come up, he taps the ‘double currency’ button to see if it has any effect on the number of credits he has.

“I’d like to upgrade my FM coils first, to allow me to manipulate more, faster, and with more control,” he decides and will purchase what he needs to be able to really upgrade himself faster, rather than getting into a self-improvement loop. Better to jumpstart the process with his ten credits.