Terra's loft [open to those on the network]
And now, a bit of peace. Finally.
Too many successive days of dealing with people -- an unfortunate necessity when establishing oneself in an academic community of any kind -- had left Terra drained and a smidge off-colour. As something of a distraction, he had come to the conclusion that a diversion was needed ...
Settling himself into a much-abused wireframe recliner, he booted up the micro-computer server he had moved from Giga. Once it was running smoothly, he picked up a trio of cables and brushed his shirt-tails out of the way to socket them neatly into three of the ports in his abdomen.
As the real world dissolved around him, he idly speculated on what the cyberrealm of Reality Vanish would resemble outside of the tamed network ...
Too many successive days of dealing with people -- an unfortunate necessity when establishing oneself in an academic community of any kind -- had left Terra drained and a smidge off-colour. As something of a distraction, he had come to the conclusion that a diversion was needed ...
Settling himself into a much-abused wireframe recliner, he booted up the micro-computer server he had moved from Giga. Once it was running smoothly, he picked up a trio of cables and brushed his shirt-tails out of the way to socket them neatly into three of the ports in his abdomen.
As the real world dissolved around him, he idly speculated on what the cyberrealm of Reality Vanish would resemble outside of the tamed network ...