The Jump (computer simulation)
Story by Mrs. Puff
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 RACHELâs hand as they enter. RACHEL looks slightly uneasy about this.
ETHAN ...and it doesnât hurt at all. You canât even feel it. The brain doesnât have any pain receptors, so you wonât even realize itâs happening.
RACHEL Ethan, this makes me feel weird.
ETHAN Well, I mean, it is weird, but isnât 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 Donât worry. We can take it slow.
RACHEL Donât get me wrong. I do want to know what itâs like to talk to myself, but...I dunno.
ETHAN Joking What can I do to get you into that computer?
RACHEL Iâm not going to get my brain transferred right now. I might want to get a copy today, and thatâs all.
ETHAN I donât want to pressure you, but itâs not as big a deal as youâre making it out to be. Itâs just a couple pills. And then you just wait as it goes up.
RACHEL And then thereâs going to be another me.
ETHAN Yep. And then youâll be able to get proof from yourself that living in a computer is amazing.
RACHEL But itâs not really me.
ETHAN What are you talking about? Of course it is.
RACHEL No, itâs some robot version of me. Some approximation of me.
ETHAN Rachel, thereâve 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? Isnât that distressing to you?
ETHAN Rachel, youâre bringing a copy of yourself into a paradise. Whatâs wrong with that?
RACHEL I havenât 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 Iâm going to regret this.
ETHAN Youâll thank me afterward.
ETHAN goes to a table and takes 3 pills out of a bottle. He takes a