The Jump (computer simulation)

This is my first erotic fiction. I'm a playwright, so the formatting will be a bit different than what you're used to. Also, formatting for scene 1 and 2 are different because this board is weird.

A room that looks highly technical. ETHAN is holding RACHEL’s hand as they enter. RACHEL looks slightly uneasy about this.

ETHAN ...and it doesn’t hurt at all. You can’t even feel it. The brain doesn’t have any pain receptors, so you won’t even realize it’s happening.

RACHEL Ethan, this makes me feel weird.

ETHAN Well, I mean, it is weird, but isn’t it so weird that you want to try?

RACHEL ...Maybe a little, but having a billion tiny robots in my brain makes me uncomfortable.

ETHAN Don’t worry. We can take it slow.

RACHEL Don’t get me wrong. I do want to know what it’s like to talk to myself, but...I dunno.

ETHAN Joking What can I do to get you into that computer?

RACHEL I’m not going to get my brain transferred right now. I might want to get a copy today, and that’s all.

ETHAN I don’t want to pressure you, but it’s not as big a deal as you’re making it out to be. It’s just a couple pills. And then you just wait as it goes up.

RACHEL And then there’s going to be another me.

ETHAN Yep. And then you’ll be able to get proof from yourself that living in a computer is amazing.

RACHEL But it’s not really me.

ETHAN What are you talking about? Of course it is.

RACHEL No, it’s some robot version of me. Some approximation of me.

ETHAN Rachel, there’ve been tests. Copies of people react exactly the same way. It is you, at least up until it starts experiencing new things.

RACHEL Then what about me bringing a new person into the world? Isn’t that distressing to you?

ETHAN Rachel, you’re bringing a copy of yourself into a paradise. What’s wrong with that?

RACHEL I haven’t completely thought it out yet, Ethan. It just seems wrong on a gut level.

ETHAN Putting his hands on her shoulders Just trust me. This one time.

Pause.

RACHEL I’m going to regret this.

ETHAN You’ll thank me afterward.

ETHAN goes to a table and takes 3 pills out of a bottle. He takes a