Hey Everyone!! :-)
Here's a little bit more of the third installment in the Petri Dish Chronicles! As always, the disclaimer is that this is a draft and, as such, it's unedited and likely full of errors and is subject to revision, revamping, and being completely scrapped and rewritten. But, with that in mind, I'm reasonably satisfied with the basics of it, at least at the moment, or I wouldn't have bothered posting it. Enjoy! :-)
Excerpt from the third Petri Dish book:
“You do? You never told me that. When did you start doing that?”
“I’ve always done it. Ever since I started diddling.”
Petri gasped. “But why? Even when we were starving and needed money for real food in the real world? Why would you do that?”
Chessie sighed. “This is why I didn't tell you. You don't understand the rainbow. Sometimes, the only way to get access to the areas you need to go to find information is if you pay with virtual currency. And some people will only accept virtual currency in exchange for their services. And there are actually ‘things' you can buy ̶ scripts, objects, applications, designs, and other things ̶ that may not have physical form in the real world, but are very real, and have very real uses, here. The type of things I sometimes need to do my job as a diddler. And, most of the time, the only way you can get those things is with virtual currency.”
“And you're wrong, Per Dish," interjected Vlad, "This is a true virtual reality; everything that is experienced here is processed in organic minds, as far as we have been able to measure, the same way they process stimuli in the outside world. It is possible for visitors to eat here. It's not food that provides nutrition to their physical bodies, but it can be tasted and enjoyed in the same way that food is in your world. But that “food" has to be created, much like the food in your world has to come from somewhere, and those who put in the work to create such commodities, naturally, charge for their efforts.
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