Your name is ${name}. You are a customs agent who has found a shipment of counterfeit Virtual Reality headsets. As you and your agents look around the seemingly-abandoned warehouse, you find the crate you're looking for. prying it open, you see a collection of about sixteen VR headsets, all identical. They rest in a bed of paper packaging material as a faint chittering sound becomes silent.

You pick one up. It's heavier than you expected. Although it appears to be made of plastic, the material feels more like leather than anything else. Your subordinates take the crate into custody, while you keep a single headset to take back to the lab. As you return to your car, you carry the curious thing under your arm. You set it down on the passenger's seat when you receive a text from your office. There's been a 'fluid' spill and the lab won't be open until tomorrow. With a sigh, you bring the curious headset back to your apartment.

After preparing and eating a frozen meal, you sit on your couch in your pajamas, absentmindedly flipping through channels. Your eyes turn to the headset again, as it sits on the table by your door.

"Why the hell not?" you say as you pick it up.

Pressing the power button doesn't make a click, rather an odd squishing sound, but you can see the screen light up inside the device, displaying a curious pattern.

You place it on your head and see a brilliant pattern before your eyes, as your ears are filled with the most wonderful sounds. A tuneless musical pattern that seems to constantly shift. An apparatus gently closes over your nose, filling your olfactory senses with an overwhelming bouquet of spices, flowers, and every other pleasant scent all at once.

The headset seems to fasten itself to your head now, intensifying the experience as all your senses are delighted by this strange device. You start to hear a voice. It sounds like your own, but you don't remember thinking the words.

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