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//N4R8-OR: ONLINE//
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The void between worlds is vast. It serves as the home for powerful beings who can create life. Beings like Creators, who can create stories and worlds from nothing. Warpers, beings who can clone Creators' worlds and use their characters to tell stories of their own. Consumers, beings who can influence creations if they so want. Few creations ever get to see this wonderful void... Until now.
A redheaded girl with glasses wearing a lab coat with a pink undershirt is currently fiddling with a camera trying to get it to turn on. Standing next to her is a blonde boy with a black shirt and lime jacket wearing a red cap looking quite bored. The boy had a prosthetic arm with a glowing green core at the centre. The core seems to make solid light as a lime colored ball appeared in his hand and he started bouncing it.
They were standing in what looked to be a large, dark theatre accented by lime and pink neon lights on the wall. There were other lights too but only the lime and pink ones were lit up. Attached to the ceiling near the back wall of the theater was a sports announcer-esque booth.
After a few minutes, the girl grinned and the camera started to count down. She hurriedly stood in front of it and tried to calm down, waiting for it to finish.
"Ahem. Hello everyone. I am Profe Syonal, a warper!" said the girl with a smile. "I am currently doing an independent experiment. Envisioning Realities, is what I call it. The intent of this study is to see if any change occurs on residents of a certain creation (and by extension, that creation itself) when they get called to watch lives, usually, though not necessarily, their own. It may seem simple but a sentient mind is so fascinating and unpredictable. What was a certain 'yes', can become different shades when certain variables are added! It just makes you question certain things!" She couldn't contain her excitement and became rather animated the more she went on about her experiment.
She continues her excited rant. "Questions like, if left completely to their own devices would they remember when finished? If not, do they get instincts? How far do these instincts go? How much change will occur in the reality? Would certain embellishments (e.g. music, opening sequences, break times, snacks) make significant changes to their remembering? How would they react when seeing themselves or other people from other timelines and realities? Oh, there's so much data and knowledge I can gather with this experiment!"
By the time she finished her rant, she was practically pirouetting with excitement. The boy beside her looked on with a fond smile before coughing to signal her attention.
"Hi! I'm here too."
"Ah, right. Almost forgot," Profe said with a sheepish smile. "This guy is a close friend of mine. Meet Dano Vess. He is helping me out with this experiment and volunteered to help with the housekeeping while I take notes. He is my best friend even though he infuriates the hell out of me."
Dano was nodding approvingly until he heard the last bit and got a bit offended.
"Okay, I'm sorry. I'm a bit clumsy. Sue me."
"It's not that you're clumsy, though that is part of the reason, but the other part is that despite your high intellect, you repeatedly keep doing stupid crap. Once, I saw you whack a nail with a sledgehammer."
"That was one time and it happened a long time ago!"
"It happened this Monday and you proceeded to repeat it three more times because the nail broke and, quote 'maybe I wasn't hitting it hard enough'." Profe said with a deadpan voice trying her hardest to stifle her giggles.
Dano blushed and retorted, "Oh, like you're one to talk, Prof. I know for a fact you managed to burn the water in the water dispenser. I don't know how exactly, but you did it."
This time it was Profe's turn to blush. She made a retort of her own and then they squabbled for 10 minutes about this and that.
Profe suddenly raised her palm and said, "Okay, how about a truce. We call it a draw and we never reveal these things to the others because they will never let us live it down."
"I'm cool with those terms."
They shake on it.
"Now get on with your vlog before it gets too long and your viewers get bored." Dano said
"How many times do I have to tell you, it's a virtual log for research purposes!" Profe replied.
Dano simply raised an eyebrow and put up a finger, "One, the way your acting makes this way less formal than a virtual log for scientists. Usually, they're much more stoic and just share their findings. Yours has a whole spinning section after you shared your experiment."
He lifted up another finger, "Two, you do realize that vlog is just a shorter version of virtual log, right?"
By the time he finished, he looked rather smug while Profe was doing an expression that resembled a pout. He laughed at her expression.
"You look cute when you pout."
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"Wh-what?" Profe said with a blush on her face.
Dano realized what he said a little too late and he too started to grow a blush.
After a bout of silence, their faces getting redder and redder with each passing second, Dano cleared his throat and, with a blush still on his face said:
"I-I'm gonna go get a drink. You want one?"
"J-just some water, please!" was the squeaky reply of the red-haired and red-faced scientist.
After the boy left the room, the girl tried to calm herself down and continue with her vlog
"...where was I? Oh right! Dano suggested I transcribe events just in case something happens to the video. He's thoughtful like that." She looked down with a fond smile, blushed again, then shook her head to clear her thoughts.
"Anyway, meet N4R8-OR, or as I dubbed him Nera! This guy is only one unit. There are a bunch of units installed around the house. He's equipped with a camera and will be transcribing events as they happen. This includes the realities I'll be having the creations see, the creation's reactions, me and Dano's commentary, and also thoughts which was definitely intentional and definitely not a bug," she said with a nervous laugh.
"In fact, he's been transcribing since the start of this filming!" Profe picked me up and showed me to the camera. I'm a security camera with a microphone and legs shaped like the turrets from the Portal universe. She put me down and then started thinking about what else to say.
"What else, what else... Some of my friends may jump in or be enlisted by me to help from time to time but for the most part, it will be just me and Dano... I think that's everything..."
She started walking out the theater thinking aloud.
"Y'know I'm starting to think Dano was right. Maybe I should upload this log to the internet. The people can review my findings! Oh! That AO3 site has a bunch of files on different realities, it will have loads of peers that can help me with my research! Yup, that settles it, I'm uploading this to AO3!"
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