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Skyrimmed
“Dude, the VR is working,” says a guy leaning into the bedroom of his roommate.
“Sweet!”
They gather in the guy's bedroom, which has been turned into a set for a science-fiction movie. The entire movie takes place in the cockpit of ship, which is the room. His bed is just a mattress hidden behind some plywood siding.
“Alright, here put this on,” says the guy, donning a black headset.
The roommate puts it on. “Damn, Dan, this really feels like I’m in an Elder Scroll.”
“Yeah!” says Dan, fiddling with the settings on his computer.
“WOAH,” says the roommate. “The horse just got ripped apart by physics and now I’m flying high in the air.”
“Shit!” says Dan. “I thought it would stop doing that…”
The roommate widens his stance as if he might fall. “Oh, shit… I’m really spinning.”
Dan bangs out something on the keyboard. “How about now?”
“OH! Now the air has caught fire!”
Dan goes back to typing.
“OH GOD!” The roommate says. “I’m spinning and falling and on fire!”
Without warning, he pukes.
“SHIT, DEREK!” says Dan.
