Coco Bandicoot's Crazy VR Room Test Ride


Deep inside Coco Bandicoot's workshop the sound of typing echoes along with the dull humming of some generators as Coco stands before her latest work. Before her a square room sits suspended in the air by various pistons and hydraulics with only a single walkway leading to the only door, she's been working on this piece for awhile now.


"aaaaand done! That should do it!" Coco says to herself proudly as she takes a step back from the keyboard and views the lines of code she just wrote on one screen whilst on another some settings can be seen along with a preview video of a roller coaster going along some tracks.


"All the fun of an amusement park in your own home, the others will love this" she says with a smile as she approaches the keyboard and mouse once more and makes some adjustments, changing the settings to mild rides and for three short rides before hitting confirm and with a hiss the door to the room slides open.


"Something quick and simple should do the trick." She says as she heads down the walkway towards the entrance, stepping inside the rooms walls, floor and ceiling are all solid white with the only standout features being some vents and on the far wall opposite the entrance an over the shoulder restraint like what you would find on a roller coaster attached to the wall. Coco starts to walk around the edges of the room as the door seals behind her, inspecting the vents before making her way to the over the shoulder restraint and stopping In front of it.


Outside the room, just as Coco entered and the door sealed, Crash runs up to the walkway just as it starts to retract. He had come to ask Coco a question but was too late, he moves over to the computer, Coco can be seen on the monitor inspecting the room.


Crash scratches his head wondering how to get her attention as he starts to tap random keys and wiggles the mouse and clicking rapidly causing the settings of the test run to change to something much more intense and longer lasting than what Coco had initially set. Not able to make heads or tails of what's on the screen he lets out a dejected sigh as his shoulders slump and he walks off, he'll have to come back later and ask her it seems.


Back inside the room Coco is giving the over the shoulder restraint a good tug, making sure it's anchor properly to the wall. "Okay everything looks good. Nothings loose, so all that's left is to give it a whirl!"


She says enthusiastically as she positions herself underneath the restraint with her back pressed up against the wall, she reaches up and grabs it pulling it down as it makes a clunk sound as it lowers from the locking ratchet preventing it from being raised back up falling into place. After a few clunks the over the shoulder restraint is firmly in place, Coco gives it a push, confirming it's locked and secure leaving her no way of backing out now.


The room starts to hum to life as the white walls light up, projecting images into the room and making it appear like Coco is on the front carriage of a roller coaster. The coaster starts to move as the room jolts slightly to simulate the coaster leaving the station, it approaches the first hill and begins to climb up as the room tilts backwards.


Approaching the top the vents start to blow a light wind into the room to help add to the illusion, finally at the summit of the climb the coaster starts to tip forward along with the room as it begins to rapidly descend back down the hill, the air from the vents blowing more intensely to give the feeling of the rushing wind.


Coco lets out a playful laugh as the coaster zooms down the slope before entering into a loop de loop, she lets out a little shriek and tightly grips her shoulder restraint before laughing it off "I didn't think you'd get loops on gentle rides? Guess that's why I'm testing after all!".


The ride continues to play out with the room turning and wind blowing all the while as it goes through more loops and sharp banking turns before finally making it back to the station and coming to a stop "That was way more than I expected for the settings I input, still it was fun but I'll need to make some big adjustments." She says to herself as the environment around her starts to change into something else.


This time she finds herself at the base of a drop tower, she looks around a bit confused before craning her head and looking up and seeing how tall the drop tower is "w-what?! No way this is considered a mild ride! Something is wrong here!" she says with a slight concern in her voice.


As the room jolts slightly the ride starts to lift off, leaving the ground, a gentle hum can be heard as the artificial gravity system starts to spin up, something she had snatched up from one of Cortex's many lairs and figured would work nicely for this project. The gravity in the room starts to change slightly, giving the feeling that she is being pressed down as the ride rapidly climbs up the tower to it's peak, the wind blowing from the vents as it gets higher and higher.


Coco nervously clings to her shoulder restraint, she can handle this but it isn't what she was expect or prepared for today and worse, if something has bugged in her code the rides could get more and more intense,


she doesn't have much time to think on this as suddenly the gravity shifts once more, giving her a feeling of weightlessness as the ride plummets back down to the ground with the wind rushing past her. She let's out a scream at the experience before giving a nervous laugh when it stops as the ride comes to a halt once more and the room begins to change once more.


This time the room has changed to make it appear like she is inside of an escape pod that's speeding through an asteroid field "Okay, something is not right here! I'm sure I coded this right, what's going on!?" she exclaims as the room wastes no time springing into action, tilting and shaking violently as the pod narrowly dodges and weaves through the asteroid belt, some of them flying dangerously close to the window before barley missing it.


Coco shrieks and screams at the experience, she knows it's not real but the VR is doing such a wonderful job of making her believe it is,
Coco Bandicoot In VR Room Experience, Just holds on tight to her shoulder restraint trying not to get tossed about by the turbulent room and before long the pod makes it out of the asteroid field as everything begins to calm down.


Coco lets out a sigh "Okay, that's three rides that should be the end of it." She pushes on her restraints but they don't budge "Huh?" she tries once more, putting more force into it "Oh no, don't tell me..." the rooms walls start to change once more, another roller coaster but this one looks way more intense than the first one. "This is bad! How long will this go on? I should have set up a fail safe or got someone to monitor the computer!" She struggles with all her might but it's no use, she's firmly locked in place with no way to escape, all she can do now is endure the VR room.


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Some time passes and after many, many adrenaline packed rides the VR room finally comes to an end as the walls go dull and return to the blank white that they once were. Coco stands there in a daze, her head dizzy from all the back to back rides, the only thing keeping her up right is the restraint pinning her to the wall. With a clunk the over the shoulder restraint releases, flying back up and freeing Coco as she falls forwards landing on her hands and knees, the room spinning as she collapses to the floor "Well it works at least, maybe a little to well..."


Coco passes out for a short spell from the mental toll of the experience, when she finally comes back around she reviews her code and finds that it's solid and can only conclude that someone must have tampered with the setting after she entered the room. As a precaution she codes a fail safe into the system to prevent the settings from being changed once someone has entered the VR room, also adding in an emergency stop if the system detects that the rooms occupant is experiencing higher than normal stress levels. Once more she sets the VR room up for some short relaxing rides and enters once more.


She steps up to the over the shoulder restraint once more, standing with her back to the wall she straps herself in again with a clunk and the room starts up shortly after. This time the room puts her in the front carriage of a roller coaster but this time the ride is a lot calmer, with gentle turns and hills that allow it to gain a decent bit of speed.


She holds onto her restraint as she laughs, enjoying the ride but as she holds onto the over the shoulder restraint she can't help but think that she maybe enjoys the feeling of safety it brings her more than the ride as she becomes acutely aware of it's metal bars pressing onto her shoulders and chest making her feel she's in no danger as long as it's securing her.


After the rides are over the restraint is lifted with a clunk, Coco takes a few steps forward before turning back to look at the over the shoulder restraint. "hmmm, maybe I should just keep this for myself..." She thinks out loud to herself, "Yeah...I think I'll remove it and have it placed in my room, just something for me to have fun with." With that last thought she heads out of the VR room to fetch her tools so she can enjoy the over the shoulder restraint in the comfort of her own room instead.



The End

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A Story By OTSREnthusiast Of Coco Bandicoot Trying Out A VR Room, Based On This 3D Art Made By FrennardEnddy,