Börje Lindstrom

It all feels so real.

The breeze rustling the trees. Scent of baked bread from the town bakery and tang of cows from the pasture carried on the air. Even the sun warms the skin.

But it isn't real. Your meat body is laying, sitting, or reclining with a full-dive immersion headset on. Non-invasive probes interfacing with your brain implant to divert your sensory experience into a digital game space while your body enters a simulated deep sleep state, motionless except for your continued breathing.

It's like a lucid dream.

Then a man brushes past, bumping your shoulder and you feel slight pain at the rough impact.

"Newb." The man turns, smirks... no... sneers at you. "I'm Börje. And you, newb, are about to be my latest source of entertainment."