The Holo-Scene, Tuesday evening

[tigerundercover]

It was finally time. It'd taken weeks of preparations, but Raven's business was finally ready to be opened. The juice bar was stocked, the costumes were all freshly cleaned and pressed (or artistically smudged and rumpled, for those who wanted a grubby look), NPC employees had been hired, catering deals had been handwavily struck, everything looked pretty and cheerful and welcoming.

Time to open.

GRAND OPENING!
Come join us for a tropical luau! Free food and drinks, tonight only!

[open! Holosuites are fully moddable and first-come, first-serve, but multiple separate threads can happen in one as long as they're set for different time blocks! It rents by the hour. You can play laser tag if you want, cops and robbers, the-floor-is-actual-lava-(but-with-safeties-to-keep-you-from-actually-dying). . . . Or get some sexy fantasies going -- though if it goes NSFW it needs to go in your own journal instead of the comm. Otherwise, go nuts!]

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The lobby

[tigerundercover]

Come on in, take a look around, get a fruity drink at the juice bar and find out what the whole "holosuite" deal is!

Re: The lobby

[what_the_shock]

This sounded a bit more Miguel's speed than something early-twenty-first-century. So hey, he was curious, he'd stop by.

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Hi, welcome, all that," Raven greeted with a little smile and a wave. "You're my first actual customer, congrats!"

Re: The lobby

[what_the_shock]

"And I didn't even get dive-bombed today!" Miguel grinned back. "So what've you got here, anyway? I heard 'holo', I had to see what it was."

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Well . . . have you spent any time up at the school's Danger Shop? That's probably the easiest way to explain it."

Re: The lobby

[what_the_shock]

"Never seen it," Miguel said, shrugging. "Danger in the name doesn't sound too enticing, though."

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Yeah, that's some poor branding on their part," Raven said with a shrug. "There's actually safeties out the wazoo. You have to confirm, like, three times that you want them turned off. Basically, these suckers are fully immersive holographic projection rooms. You go in there, and you'll swear all the plants, animals, people, rocks . . . were all real. And we can program in pretty much any program you like."

Re: The lobby

[what_the_shock]

"Interactive holos? Huh. Sounds a bit like cyberspace back home. You don't have to plug in, though?"

Re: The lobby

[spin_kick_snap]

"So this is that project you've been spending all your time on," Kathy teased, coming in dressed in a bikini top and jean shorts, with a big plastic flower pinned to her hair. "I was starting to worry this place had eaten you! But look at it!" She did a slow turn, marveling at the whole thing. "Worth every second, jeeze!"

It was her best friend's opening day. Where else would she be but here?

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Tada!" Raven said, spreading her arms and grinning. "Doesn't it look great? I wanted to give it a little bit of that modern, clean and bright gym feel. But still make it fun."

Re: The lobby

[spin_kick_snap]

"It looks so great!" Kathy enthused, clapping her hands. "It'll be such a nice contrast to whatever the rooms are set to, you know? And I love the idea of a juice bar here. I can totally see us running around a city, popping out to drink, like, three banana smoothies, and then diving back in."

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Exactly! It'll be a great way for a quick recharge between murders adventures!"

Re: The lobby

[spin_kick_snap]

Totally normal and non-lethal adventures, right!

"We should do that one you love so much!" Kathy enthused. "It was something about being a spy, right? Oh! Oh! Are you part of, like, the La Résistance in WWII era France? Or was it off in some, like, Space Battles sci-fi epic? Or, ooooh, Russia and the Cold War?"

That last one was even Raven-era appropriate!

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

. . . Maybe a modified version of that one.

"That last one. For some reason people three hundred years from now are super obsessed with mid-20th century Europe. There's, like, a million programs about the 1960s."

Re: The lobby

[spin_kick_snap]

"Weird," Kathy said, wrinkling her nose. "I guess they really like...the Cold War and disco?"

All the free love, maybe? Either way, it was very weird.

"So...the Holo-Scene," she added. "Why is that pinging in my brain? You definitely took that from somewhere, right?"

Re: The lobby

[geniuswithasmartphone]

"Man, everythin's gettin' high tech around here," Hardison said with an approving nod. "'Sup, TA? You gonna show me around?"

Let him get his hands all over this pretty, pretty new tech? Please?

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Of course! Do you want to hit the luau first, or poke at the empty suite and see behind the bells and whistles?"

She was certain enough of the answer that she was already heading towards the empty holosuite's door.

Re: The lobby

[geniuswithasmartphone]

"Lookit you just assumin' that I-I wanna see all the tech insteada cele-celebratin' my TA's special day..." Hardison stammered, lying his ass off as he eagerly followed her to the empty suite. "Just makin' assumptions, wild assumptions just everywhere..."

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

Raven laughed. "I've met you, Teach. Besides, you've seen a hologram before. You can get your roast pork sandwich after you've gotten to see the really fun stuff."

Re: The lobby

[geniuswithasmartphone]

"Best student I ever had," Hardison said happily. She might have had some competition if Tali had ever brought him into outer space, but she hadn't so no real contest. "How much you figure out about how it all works, anyway?"

Re: The lobby

[tigerundercover]

"Almost nothing," Raven said proudly. "I can open up and change programs and do a some basic tweaking and editing," that part was easy when all you had to do was say 'computer, make this adjustment', "but the hardware?" She waved a hand high above her head. "WHOOSH."

Re: The lobby

[geniuswithasmartphone]

"I promise, all my maintenance rates are super-reasonable," Hardison teased. "Hell, lettin' me tinker around with all this tech might be enough, come to think of it."

Holosuite 1

[tigerundercover]

Welcome to the tropical luau! Set in a holographic reproduction of the bordello pleasure planet Risa, this holosuite contains a beautiful tropical cove, with a sparkling white sand beach, clear aquamarine water giving gorgeous views of color fishes and corals, and lush palm trees over a full spread of the best Hawaiian luau recipes that Luke's could offer -- which were pretty damn good.

And entirely real, so no one would go home and suddenly find themselves hungry again.

Holographic waiters of every skin color, body type, and gender circulated the party, making sure no one wanted to for anything, be it food, drinks, or company. Want a back rub? They were happy to oblige. Want a naked backrub?

. . . Well, for that you were going to have to book private suite time for later. No hanky-panky at this party please, heavy flirting only.

Holosuite 2

[tigerundercover]

This one is currently turned off, though the door is also open, just in case anyone wants a demonstration of just how the magic happens.

Or wants to rent it out for an hour to get a little more physical with one of the Risian hosts.*

* Naturally no NSFW in the townie comm, but if you want to write/play out a sexytimes fantasy set in holosuite, you can link it here.

OOC

[tigerundercover]

Let's all just pretend I didn't mean to post this yesterday and forgot, hmm?