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"Breathless virtual challenger"

Playing a VR aquaphilia game that he's a fan of, Lenn swam through its virtual ocean, happy to have leveled up his breath holding ability to the point where it's beginning to close in on his real ability. Going deep, deep down, trusting to be kept from drowning by the air bottles he'd found over time, he happened across a fancy door with writing on it... He knew from experience that a sort of dungeon would be past it, with some kind of upgrade at its end. He read the writing: "With feet of steel and lungs of the same, a new ability shall be your aim: The depths' pressure shall bother you no more, allowing dives to the deepest seafloor." Lenn touched the door, and it didn't open. That meant he'd need certain accessories on, and he returned to the distant surface to adjust his loadout, already knowing what he'd have to equip.

After taking off his usual casual setup of Speechstone (Allowed him to talk to fish), Clear Bubble (Let him talk clearly underwater and without using up air, as he normally couldn't in the game), and Speed Fins (Made him swim faster), he switched to most of what he'd often use for clearing dungeons: Hydroventilator Necklace (Let him survive drowning longer) and Spare Bottle (Gave an extra air bottle). He wished he could use the Desperation Fins for their way higher swimming speed when low on breath, but he couldn't have two things on his feet at once. Mentally preparing himself, Lenn took and held a deep breath as he equipped the Steel Boots. Instantly he sank underwater, rapidly making his way back down toward where he was before. He soon landed back on the seabed with a thud, and wasted no time in returning to the door, touching it again. This time, the door began to glow and opened, and the dolphin darted inside.

Quite some time passed, and he'd begun to struggle to keep holding his breath, his breath meter getting low... He paused for a moment and took an air bottle from his belt, turning it upside-down before uncorking it and pushing its opening to his blowhole, carefully sucking in its air to ease his lungs, his breath meter refilling. Hopefully the remaining two bottles were going to be enough, leaving a dungeon - or drowning in it - would reset everything in it if he didn't finish it. Determined to get his powerful upgrade and see more of one of his favorite virtual worlds, he pressed on.

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lolboy4

22 hrs, 35 mins ago

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squirtlerocks07 and I did an RP based on this.

S: one day, Lenn was in his home, getting ready to play a VR game that he really enjoys playing, as he was getting ready to do that, someone comes to knock on his door, I have decided to pay Lenn a visit since I haven't seen him in a very long time

L: Lenn puts down the headset he was about to put on, and heads to the door, opening it. "Oh hey, Emilio! Been a little while since we met, what's up?"

S: "Hey Lenn, good to see you! I was just coming by to visit you, maybe even hang out. What are you up to?"

L: "I was just about to play "The 8th Sea", this really fun VR game about exploring a cool ocean while leveling up your breath holding and finding treasure that helps you out. I'm actually pretty close to being able to hold my breath in the game as long as I can in real life!"

S: "Whoa really? Never heard of that game, but it sounds intriguing... never really played any VR games either so I don't know the full lore behind them" I rub the back of my head a bit and blush

L: "I've actually got an extra headset if you want to try it out! Just keep in mind, everything in it but drowning feels real, so you're probably going to be nervous at first..."

S: "Wait what?? What do you mean it feels real? Isn't the whole point of VR that everything is not really real?"

L: "Usually, but this one essentially puts your mind fully into the game, so it's like you're actually there. It's still obvious that it's not real though, don't worry."

S: "Oh jeez, realistic breath holding in a game?? I don't know how I feel about that... but I guess I could give a try..."

L: "We could always just hang out in more shallow water instead of going deep. Believe me, that can still be fun. Come with me." He leads the way to the room he was in before you got here.

S: "Well its a good start i guess"
I follow Lenn into the room, fidgeting my fingers a little as we go inside

L: Lenn hands you one of the VR headsets and grabs another for himself before sitting on a couch. "Get yourself comfortable, you don't want to come back to feeling sore. Once you've got that headset on, turn it on and we'll meet up in a virtual lobby of sorts, I'll get us into the game from there."

S: "Well, ok then..." I then sit down next to Lenn on the couch, getting as comfortable as possible before putting on the headset and turning it on, still a little scared deep down

L: Lenn puts on his headset as well, and turns it on. You quickly find yourself in what looks like a light grey room, a grid design on the floor and walls, with a system menu on one wall, and Lenn next to you. "Hope this isn't too weird for you. We won't be here long though, don't worry."

S: "This is... weird!" I look around the place, still in shock that it feels like I'm actually in this room with Lenn

L: "It's basically the main menu of the VR system. I don't usually stick around here, I just get right into whatever game I want to play. Speaking of..." Lenn taps one of the buttons on the wall, and the room fades out, briefly leaving you and Lenn in some sort of void... Before a new scene fades in, the two of you on a fairly large island in an ocean.

"Here we are! We're in the game now!"

S: "Oh wow!" I look around the place, shocked to see how real it really looks
"Impressive, so um...how does this all work?"

L: "Well, your interface should be loading in any second now..." As he says that, you see a breath meter fade in - staying full right now, of course - as well as a level indicator next to it, currently at 1.

"Essentially, as you hold your breath, whether you're underwater or not, you get experience that eventually improves how long you can go. And, the point of the game is to just explore and hang out! There's a ton of stuff to see, and even the island has a few things on it, but it's mostly underwater."

lolboy4

22 hrs, 35 mins ago

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S: "Huh... so you have to hold your breath just to get experience points?? Ugh! Greeeeat..." I was clearly not looking forward to that, considering I have to start all the way at level 1 when Lenn is at like level 40 already

L: "Don't worry, there's something that can help. There's items specifically meant for multiplayer, and as frustrating as it was to be kind of let down by finding them when I was alone, it's finally time for them to come in handy..."

Lenn opens up what seems to be an inventory, selecting something in it. You see the message "Lenn equipped Friendship Bubbles, raising your level to his.", and a "+46" appears next to your level.

S: "Whoa! Hang on what?! My level just went up! I'm level 47 now! That's cool! Now were like the same level now!"
that made me feel a bit better

L: "That should give you about a 16 minute breath hold, so you'll have plenty of time to look around underwater. Have a look in your inventory as well, you'll have the same items I do and you can have up to 3 equipped at once." Lenn demonstrates how to open the inventory.

S: "Lets see here" as I open up my inventory, I see all the cool stuff that Lenn has
"Oh cool an item that lets you talk clearly underwater, that'll come in handy, and i see some others that look promising too..."
I read the description of each item, satisfied with the ones I look at

L: A few others stand out to you: "Speechstone: Allows talking to and understanding fish." "Speed Fins: Raises swimming speed." "Spare Bottle: Gives an extra air bottle." "Bubble Wand: Allows blowing oversized air bubbles that other players can breathe." "Efficient Fins: Lowers the breath usage of swimming." "Breath-Catcher: Drastically increases breath recovery rate when breathing at the surface or from air pockets." "Meditation Necklace: Sitting in place while underwater significantly lowers breath usage, but also experience gain."

Lenn: "Oh, and if you see anything that mentions air bottles, those are little bottles you can breathe from underwater to refill your breath, and they can be used again once you surface."

S: "Wow look at all these... ive never breathed from air bottles before, i dont know about this...."

L: "They take a bit of getting used to... But, I'm pretty sure you know how to breathe big bubbles from hanging out with Blubby, so I'll put on Bubble Wand and I can just give you air."

S: "Alright...I guess... but Lenn i still don't know about submerging in general, you know how scared i get easily of this stuff!"

L: "Yeah, it's always tough for you... I'm sure this technically not being real will help though, and we can do a bit of sightseeing to help you relax as well."

S: "But it feels real Lenn! Too real... the fact that I have to actually hold my breath in this so called game is just, scary!"

L: "I've never really found it scary... But I guess I'm biased, I'm a dolphin. I know you'll consider this worth it once we get in there though."

S: "Ugh... well I'm already here so, I guess I have to try it now..."

L: "Let's try to get this started so that part that's scary for you is over with..." Lenn gets into the water, staying on the surface for now.

S: "Wait, won't I need swim goggles?"
I get in the water too after a bit of hesitation

L: "Nope, not here, you can see just fine underwater without them. There's an option in the inventory to give yourself custom goggles if you want though."

S: "I-I think ill make me feel a bit more better if I had goggles on..."

L: "Alright, open up your inventory and see what you can come up with. There's also a few premade ones you can pick from if you want."

S: I nod before I open up my inventory, seeing that I could customize my own pair of goggles, I decided to keep it simple and make them orange colored with some cool stripes before equipping them, they are over my eyes now
"How do I look? Heh"

L: "Ooh, nice, those look pretty good! And I guess that means it's pretty much time now... Do you feel like you're ready?"

lolboy4

22 hrs, 35 mins ago

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S: "U-um..." I still wasnt sure deep down inside me, but I didnt wanna delay this anymore then I had to
"O-ok, I think I'm ready then"

L: "Right, let's go. And you don't need to worry about preparing by breathing deeply for a while, you get the same time regardless." Lenn holds his breath and dives.

S: of course I was too nervous to go underwater as always
"Ugh! It happened again!"

L: Lenn soon surfaces again. "Man, even when it's completely safe? I guess it doesn't help that it feels real..."

S: "No it doesn't, if it was all fake I probably would be fine, but the fact that it feels real made me nervous as useal!"

L: "Maybe if we focus on the parts that don't match up with reality then... I did say earlier you'd have a pretty long breath hold here, one that I think is longer than you can do in real life. It's gonna be fun to make use of that, right?"

S: "Well, I guess so... it is a bit of a longer breath hold then what I can do, but getting over the fact that it feels real is what I'm concerned about...you did say drowning doesnt feel real right?"

L: "It doesn't, no. How do I best explain it, um... Have you ever needed to cough, but then actually coughing doesn't help? It's sort of like that if you end up breathing water in this."

S: "Uhh... I'm just not even gonna think about it honestly, I won't be drowning anyways..."

L: "Yeah, as long as we stick to relatively shallow water you won't have anything to worry about. I'll do everything I can to keep you from drowning, okay?"

S: "Ok then...at least until I feel comfortable enough to go deeper... I'm ready this time"

L: "Right, hopefully it goes better this time. We'll go at the same time this time, that should help. 3, 2, 1..." Lenn gasps and dives again.

S: after a few moments of hesitation I take a deep breath and holds it before diving under as well

L: Lenn nods at you, smiling. "Thblere yoblu gblo! Noblt sblo babld, riblght?" Despite his voice always being clear underwater normally, here in the game it's distorted like most other people's voice would be.

S: I was confused as to why his voice sounded like this

"Ybleah...i gbluess sblo but, Whbly arble yblou talkbling in bubble spbleech? Cablnt yblou talblk cleblarly? And iblsnt thblere somblething thblat cabln gblet us to tblalk clblearly?"

L: "Oblh, hblang obln..." Lenn quickly opens his inventory again, equipping something. "Right, that's better. If you want to do this, equip the Clear Bubble."

S: I nod before equipping the Clear Bubble
"Testing...oh thats better...much better..."

L: "Yeah, this game doesn't let you talk normally underwater without that, even if you actually can. Although maybe Sni-tii would be able to sort of bypass it, pretty sure her being able to talk clearer is just from skill... Anyway! We've got a whole ocean to explore!"

S: "I guess that could be true, well...I'm down here anyways, so lead the way then..."

L: "Yep, I'll take you on a tour of some spots I like. It's kind of funny that we'll be the same speed here, I won't have to slow down for you!" Lenn starts swimming along, and sure enough, he's not going too fast even though he's swimming in a normal way for him.

S: I nod before following him, able to easily keep up thankfully, but I was still nervous about this deep down

L: There's quite a lot to see, the virtual ocean packed full of interesting things; multiple reefs, caves, even shipwrecks and what look like ruins. In the distance, the seabed seems to drop off into much deeper water.

S: "Whoa...there's so much to do down here! Its a bit overwhelming... I don't even know where to go!"

L: "Even I was pretty surprised to see how much is here... We'll take it one thing at a time. Right now, without thinking, what's the most interesting-looking place you can see?"

S: "Umm..." I looked around again then I point towards the ruins
"Over there seems promising!"

lolboy4

22 hrs, 35 mins ago

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L: "Alright, let's go see what that's got. To tell the truth, I'm not sure I've been in there before... I keep meaning to check it out, but I always get distracted." Lenn starts heading for the ruins.

S: "Really? Well I guess were gonna find out right now then huh?"
as I follow Lenn towards the ruins, I glance up at my breath meter, it was halfway empty because of my anxiety, and I can already feel my lungs being burned a bit as I grunt out in strain, covering my mouth
"I-i don't feel like pushing myself tho..."

L: Lenn is straining as well, though since he's more used to it he doesn't cover anything for the moment. "W-we should definitely go catch our breath before we actually go in there."

S: "But what if I- ugh, nevermind your right, lets go get a fresh breath"

I then swim up to the surface and gasp for breath once I get there, my breath meter refilling itself

L: Lenn surfaces next to you, gasping as well to recover his breath. "It's still weird to me that I can't hold my breath as long here as I actually can... You doing okay so far?"

S: "Yeah, i-i think so...I just really don't wanna push it right now, I wanna take things nice and easy for now"

L: "Well, we don't have to actually go inside those ruins if you want, we could just stay out here and see what's around them. I kind of doubt there'll be much though..."

S: "No no...I still wanna see the ruins... if I just had a reliable source of air with me so I don't push myself you know?"

L: "There has to be something for that, there's such a huge variety of items..." Lenn starts looking through the inventory again. "Oh, you said you didn't like the bottles, and the downsides of this shouldn't matter right now, so how about this?" He points to one of the items: "Scuba bottles: Converts your air bottles to scuba gear, with 5 minutes of air per bottle, but prevents experience gain and entering dungeons."

Lenn: "And I'm pretty sure you have two air bottles like I do, so that'd give you an extra 10 minutes."

S: "Well this would be a good idea, but it says it doesnt give experience points, and I wanna level up here! But you did say it probably wouldn't matter anyways so...I guess ill have to do"

L: "We can always just get you leveled up some other time. Doesn't even have to be underwater, holding your breath up here would work! But, experience gain is affected a lot by how deep you are, so it'd be slow."

S: "I would never in a million years hold my breath above water... ugh! I don't want it to be slow! Why do i have to be such a scarcity cat!?"

L: "I'm sure we'll be able to find a way to make it fun for you... Maybe after this we could just try out talking to some fish for a while to relax? That might be fun."

S: "That might be nice actually...so yeah maybe we could try that..."

L: "Alright, after we've checked out the ruins, there's this neat lagoon at the island with a reef in it, it'd be perfect for hanging out with fish. Their AI is really good, it's sometimes hard to tell that they aren't real."

S: "Oh yeah? Alright cool! Lets go down back down"
not even hesitating this time, I take a breath and go back underwater

L: Lenn takes a breath and dives back down with you, starting to head back toward the ruins again.

S: I follow him down, pinching my nose shut as I keep calm

L: Clearly just as confident as before, Lenn heads toward the ruins without hesitating, ready to see what they have.

S: they eventually reach the ruins after a bit
"Whoa, check it out!"

L: "It's a pretty impressive place, for sure... There's gotta be something good around here, hopefully a new item."

S: "Yeah, lets check it out!"
I eagerly went inside the ruins and looked around for anything cool or interesting

L: Lenn heads in with you. "Now, if there's an item of some kind, it'll be in a chest, not just laying around. So, there's no way we'll miss it."

lolboy4

22 hrs, 35 mins ago

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S: "Good to know"

as the two keep exploring the ruins, there wasnt much in there, just looked like your standard exploratory place with some cool elements to it, it didnt seem like there was any chests in there either, however, when they get to a specific part of the ruins they immediately gained some experience points out of nowhere! Now they are both level 60, it was a ton of points!
"Whoa!"

L: "Wait, what!? How did we just get all that!?" Lenn quickly looks around, trying to figure out what just happened.

S: there wasnt any indication of how they got the points, it sort of just happened
"I-i don't know! But I'm not complaining about it! We're level 60 now! I wonder how long we can hold our breathes now..."

L: "At the rate that getting levels was improving it before, we can probably both go longer than I can in real life now!"

S: "Epic!" my tail wags a bit at that, in fact as I glance at my breath meter, it was now going significantly slower then before
"Dang! Well we saw the ruins, maybe we could go talk to some fish now? I really wanna make sure I feel better about being down here"

L: "Yeah, I think we've seen everything there is to see here, let's go see what those fish are up to." Lenn starts swimming back out of the ruins, happy to now be able to hold his breath way longer.

S: I follow him close behind and soon we get out of the ruins no problem
"So um, where do we go to meet some fish hmm?"

L: "We actually shouldn't be too far, I'm pretty sure we're on the right side of the island to get to that reef I mentioned. It'll be more obvious at the surface, and we may as well get air anyway."

S: "Sounds good to me friend, just lead the way and ill follow"
I then swim up to the surface, gasping a little for breath

L: Lenn surfaces next to you and just breathes heavily for a couple seconds, as he looks around. "Ah, there, you see that part of the island where the beach goes low enough it's underwater? Through there is the reef."

S: "Oh yeah i see it! Cool! Well lets get over there then! I wanna talk to some fish!"

L: Lenn starts swimming toward it with you. "Make sure to equip that Speechstone, otherwise they can't understand us and we can't understand them." He equips it himself, and also unequips Friendship Bubbles since your level is just the same as his now so there's no need for it.

S: I nod before equipping the Speechstone
"Alright done! You know ive never been this eager to go underwater before, but I don't wanna waste any time here!"
they soon get to the spot, all the fishes are waiting underwater

L: "Okay, this is the place! Let's go meet those fish!" Lenn dives down after a deep breath, just about certain you'll be fine to do so on your own this time.

S: sure enough, i take a deep breath of my own and dive underwater too, pinching my nose shut as well as I go under, ready to meet some fish

L: A few are already swimming up to you and Lenn.

Fish: "Cool to see you again, Lenn! Who's your friend?"

Lenn: "This is Emilio, he's new to all this as of... Maybe half an hour ago."

S: I turn to look at the fish, smiling a little shyly

"Hi... nice to meet you, whoa this is trippy"

L: Fish: "Lenn was pretty surprised when he was first able to talk to us too, and we were surprised to be able to talk to him! Now it's pretty much normal to see him around, he trains here sometimes."

Lenn: "It's a pretty nice place for that, even though I don't get as much experience from it as I would deeper down."

S: "Right, yeah... although I don't think we're gonna be doing any training here, heh... I just wanna relax, its hard enough as it is for me to be underwater"

L: Fish: "Fair enough, just relaxing is always nice. Kind of hard to imagine not enjoying being underwater though..."

Lenn: "That's a whole thing with him, he doesn't usually like diving."

S: "No I don't, I only dive with close friends of mine in real life, and even then I'm still scared sometimes"

lolboy4

22 hrs, 34 mins ago

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L: Fish: "Aw, that sucks... Well, I'd be willing to help you out if you come by here again and you're scared!"

Lenn: "I've got the feeling this won't be the only time he and I are here together, so that'd be nice."

S: "Being here, isnt so bad I guess, but yeah I might get scared again so I would appreciate any help when that happens, so thanks... I mainly dive with a treecko friend of mine, or at least try to, he's my bestie and we're always there for each other"

L: Fish: "I don't really know what a treecko is, but your friend does sound nice. Maybe you could bring him along sometime?"

Lenn: "I bet you'd have a lot more fun with all this if you did, Emilio!"

S: "You know what? I'm sure treecko would love to join! Wait, lemme see if my phone is here, I may be able to show you a picture"
I reach down in my pockets and sure enough my phone actually transferred over, its waterproof thankfully so smiling I pull up a picture of me and treecko together underwater and show it to the fish
"He's the little green guy"

L: The fish looks at the picture. "Oh, cool! Yeah, it'd be good to meet him!"

Lenn: "Didn't know you could bring a phone in here, that's neat."

S: "I didn't expect it either but ill take it! Yeah Treecko is real cool, we always got each other's backs"

L: Fish: "He's a pretty great guy then! I've got friends like that myself, it's nice."

Lenn: "Same here, but I don't really get scared all that often."

S: "Yeah, Lenn is pretty brave... but its nice to have friends who care about your fears and all that and wanna help you get better at not being so scared of it"

L: Fish: "For sure, yeah. I always get kind of nervous when I leave this reef, but my friends help me feel better about it."

Lenn: "That's actually pretty close to what it's like for Emilio to dive, neat!"

S: "Wow, interesting... we are very much alike it seems, cool!"

I give the fish a little pet

L: The fish nuzzles your hand, and does its best to hug you with its little fins as well.

S: "Awww!!" my tail wags happily as I hug the fish back, being careful so I don't squish it
"You know your pretty cool! I'm glad I got to meet you!"

L: Fish: "You're cool too, I've never seen anything like you!"

Lenn: "Yeah, there isn't exactly much land around for people like him to live on..."

S: "Yeah... heh, but seriously I am pretty glad I met you...mmm!" I cover my mouth for the moment as I felt my face finally flushing red, glancing at my breath meter and seeing it more then halfway empty, mainly from all the talking

L: Fish: "Oh, Lenn gets that look sometimes... That means you need air, right?"

Lenn: "We'll just need a quick air break, yeah."

S: "Y-yeah..." I quickly scramble up to the surface and gasped for air when I get back
"This sure has been fun, but my real self is probably tired of sitting on your couch lenn!"

L: Lenn surfaces alongside you to catch his breath as well. "Right, yeah, we shouldn't stay too long. I tend to end up a bit sore after longer sessions in here."

S: "Yeah, I definitely don't want that, maybe we should get outta here, but thanks for showing me this awesome game!"

L: "No problem! We should definitely do this again sometime! I'll take you to meet my favorite character in this when we do, too. Anyway, to leave, just open up the menu and hit exit, you'll wake up in real life again."

S: "Cool, alright then!"

I opened the menu and hit exit, immediately I felt my real life self walking up, I take my headset off and look around

"Ahh, back in the real world"

L: Lenn is still next to you, and wakes up a couple seconds later, taking his headset off too and stretching. "Swimming in there wasn't so bad, huh?"

S: I stretch as well
"I guess not, there wasnt any drowning involved so I enjoyed myself, thanks again...but now I think im gonna walk all this off, catch you later?"

L: "Yep, fair enough. See you!" Lenn starts putting the VR headsets away.

lolboy4

22 hrs, 34 mins ago

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S: "Bye!"

I then walk out and decide to go on a little jog, I had a fun time with Lenn for sure

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