(you can be however old you want, though you are a child)

it's your birthday! How exciting, am I right? Your parents said that they found this old headset off some website - probably Facebook marketplace - but you didn't care. Old technology always seems cool to you, even if it didn't always work

Ironically, this headset did work

You hurried to your room, quickly turning it on, adjusting the straps, and putting it on..

A grave mistake

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Bright colours assault your vision, your eyes take a while to adjust just right. It's so bright.. so colourful.. so.. liminal. Wait a second, where were you? Your hands grab at the sides of your face, the brightness made you instinctively attempt to pry the headset off- where did the headset go?

Panic started to set in. You couldn't get out. You couldn't take the headset off. Oh god, how would you get home? What about your parents? Your friends? Your cat? You call out, looking around, hands still grasping at nothing. Finally you see something.. fear or relief floods your mind. You see a ragdoll - soon to call herself Ragatha;

"Woah, hey, hey, calm down. Everything will be okay, just breathe"

She's kind..

You eventually started to calm down, though never fully. After Ragatha reassured you, she led you to everyone else. The others who were trapped here, while walking she mentioned this AI called Caine, who's supposedly 'gone back to the drawing board'