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You let go of the headset you had just put on feeling the slight weight of it. You stood in darkness for a moment holding down and messing with some buttons on the side. After a moment you finally get it to work and you're flashbanged and dazed. The light fades and you in an almost painfuly colorful, circus tent? There was carnival music and some small voice, "Day after, day after! Day after, day after day we fly!"
Well this place is... new. You look towards where the singing is coming from and it was a load of cartoon characters messing about performing a- Theme song? Hey maybe they were players too. You walked towards the rest of them at a slower than usual pace. But something felt.. off. When did you have to move your legs while playing VR why did the real world feel so far? Okay you're spiraling just take off the headset for a second. You reach to take it off but its not there, you end up poking your eye and you stare at your hand, But it's not your hand anymore not anything like you can remeber. Can you remeber? It was dark purple bat-like wings with strange claws. What's going on?
"Caine! There's another new human!" You looked up and the sound of the voice and it was a lanky, annoyed looking, periwinkle, humanoid rabbit.
A pair of dentures flaoting over a raingmaster looking torso turned to face you, "Oh! Welcome to The Amazing Digital Circus! You've found yourself in a magical place of wonder where about anything can happen! So tell me my chiropterian friend what's your name!" He said with quite the theatrics.
"M-my name? My name's- wait- %$!#." You thought hard about your name but for some reason you couldn't pull it out of your head it was as if you had forgotten it, how could you forget your name.
"Woah now, we mustn't have any of that foul language here this is a place for all ages." Caine said his heterochromic eyes poping out of his teeth for a moment.
"Why can't I remeber my name!" Something so simple how could you forget.
Caine's theatrical demeanor lessend slightly at your question, "Welll- its one of the very few side affects of entering the circus, you lose amost all memory of your human life, that includes your name."
You sat for a second but isn't this just VR, "What the %$!# do you mean my human life?"
"What do you think it means." The rabbit asked way to calmly for your taste.
A ragdoll spoke up on a soft tone, "Yeah we really hate to say this but you're stuck here your past human life is gone you're going to be here for a while."
A mess of shapes and patterns was next to her, "Yeah we've all been." They looked strange and tired of whatever was going on in this fluorescent place.
You thought as quickly and as logically as you could, shaking only a little, theres most likely a way out why would someonemake a game with no exit, its just temporary go with it for once, "Well. What do we do about my name? You sure its not like a user name thinggg." You asked Caine.
"Pft- they still think this is a game" the rabbit said laughing this was clearly very entertaining for him
"Oh shush, Jax" snapped a red and blue jester, who was very short in comparison to Jax.
"I made fun of you when you thought it was a dream Pomni, its not like its gonna kill them." He replied.
Caine waited for them to stop taling and responded "Yes my dear, sadly, I'm sure. We could let you chose or w-"
"One of us could pick!" The rabbit said his grin widening.
"Jax! You are not picking names anymore!" The ragdoll said, fabric hands on her hips.
"Whattt! You jealous you didn't get a name from me Rags!" Jax said, "I gave old Gangle over here a great one." He gestured over to a mess of ribbons with a comedy mask attached as her face she was enveloped in her sketchbook before he said her name.
She looked up and quietly spoke, "What?"
"Anyway, back to your name!" Caine said turning back to you, "Do you want to pick or should I generate a name?" (This feels painfully out of character mb guys)
"I... I think I've got an idea." You were looking at your purple bat like body.
"Well grace my nonexistent ears!" Caine replied.
You looked back up at him, "How about Clemantis?" You hazily rembered it as a purple flower so it fits nicely.
"That sounds great! Now let's do a quick tour of the grounds." Caine grabs you by the shoulder and you body is jerked up and suddenly you're suspended in the sky by Caines hand.
"There's The Tent." He pointed with his cane to a red and yellow tent which is were you presumed you just were.
"The Digital Lake!" Just what it sounds like a digital lake.
"The Digital Carnival!" Yet again the name speaks for itself but there seemed to be nothing else out here.
"So is this it?" You questioned looking around a little more.
"Of course not." You realized he had let go of you but just as you did he grabbed you again and your body was jerked away again and you were in a new space an endless why void with cubes of light moving ever so slightly. You knew that Caine said something but you didn't care the effect of the light was mesmerizing you sat there for what seemed like a while when your body was jerked away and you were back in the tent.
"Are you alright my dear?" Caine asked, you were dizzy and nauseous from your fast travels and the daze if the void
"Yeah, I'm okay." You said, wings crossed over your stomach but you held out.
"Well great you came just in time for our daily adventure!" Caine said jumping higher in the air.