Rent-a-Vice

Okungakubulali ... kubulala omunye umuntu, futhi kukuholela phansi emgodini we-rabbit wokuziphatha. Esikhathini esizayo esiseduze, abasebenzisi bakhokhela bangaqasha "ama-virtual experience" wabanye abantu. Laba "baxhasi" bafaka imizimba yabo siqu, engozini yokuphila kwabo, ukuze amakhasimende angathokoze ngokukhululekile ngokweqile, okungenzeka kube nezingozi ezilimazayo, njengokudla ukudla okudliwayo, ukudonsa phansi kwamadwala, noma okubi nakakhulu.

"I- Rent-a-Vice " iyi-150,000-ye-interactive yomsakazo we-cyberpunk-black novel, no-2018 Nebula Award for Final Writing Game, nguNatalia Theodoridou, lapho izinqumo zakho zilawula indaba. Yonke isekelwe ematheksthini-ngaphandle kwehluzo noma imiphumela yomsindo-futhi ifakwe amandla amakhulu, angenakulinganiswa emcabangweni wakho.

Ungumphenyi wangasese onomkhuba omubi, i-ex, nezintaba zezikweletu - izinkinga ezijulile kangangokuthi ume ukulahlekelwa yisitoreji sezinyane lakho. Uma iklayenti eliyimfihlakalo licela usizo lwakho ukuthola umthandi wabo olahlekile ezweni elithuthukisayo lomlando we-virtual, kungcono kuwe ukuqoqa ubufakazi, ukuzwa ubuchwepheshe, nokuxazulula icala.

Dlulela emaceleni amnyama kakhulu embonini yeTheng-a-Vice. Uma ukholwa yi-etho-osopolitiki, i-VE igxilise inhlalakahle yomphakathi, futhi ijwayelekile ukwenza izinto eziphambene nezinkinga. Kodwa benzani abasebenzisi emva? Ingabe ukuzijabulisa, noma into ejulile? Futhi ingabe kukhona okukhona kuwo abahlinzeki, ngaphandle kokuthola inzuzo?

Ngokuqondene nawe, uzokwenqaba yini imikhuba yakho, noma ungene konke?

• Dlala njengendoda, insikazi, noma engekho ibhanari; gay, eqondile, noma ngokobulili.
• Ukulwa noma ukwamukela amademoni akho, ukulwa nemishini yamandla, futhi uthole ubungane ezindaweni ezingenakwenzeka.
• Gcina labo abasenkathazweni noma ubaxoshe ukuze uthule, noma bahambe futhi bashise yonke imboni emhlabathini.
• Khombisa inkohlakalo noma uyisebenzise ngenzuzo yakho.
• Hlola amakhono akho njenge-PI ngenkathi wabelana nabanye okuhlangenwe nakho kokuphila nokufa.
• Ukuhweba ukugcina ukugcinwa kwengane yakho; hlangana no-ex wakho, noma uthole ukuthanda nomuntu omusha.
• Yibani iqhaza labo abahlukunyezwayo, basebenzise izinga elisha lokuziphatha, noma isinyathelo ngezidumbu ukuze zikhuphukele phezulu.