"Wait one second Andre- Andy." Kevin said. "Let's get the boring stuff out of the way now, then we can all go play." He held up his left arm, and place his index and middle fingers from his right hand in the crook of his elbow to his wrist. As he did, a tattoo appeared on his arm, as though he had just pressed it into place. The tattoo looked like a digital clock, set to 99:99, and below it was a series of colored squares, red, blue, yellow, and green. He tapped the red tattoo, and a transparent holographic 'screen' hovered in front of him. There were only two options on it, and they appeared backwards to Andy and Fai, though Kevin saw them correctly. "Red is the easy one. just two options there. Log out, and return to the Persona system. Fai, if you decide your breasts are too small, that's there you'll go. Oh, speaking of logging out, you can ignore the clock. That's only if we wanted to make sure we logged out in time for something, or when DrallTech opens their V-Arcades and people buy a period of time in the pods. Now then, blue..."<br/><br/>He tapped the blue button, and the screen changed slightly. This one had more options, the one on top should be immediately familiar; Games. "Blue are all your system options. From here you can change what game you're in, which works just like the touchscreen panel outside the pod. Below that are admin rights for linked games. It's greyed out for you guys right now, I'm the admin for this session. With it, you can select a new game for all the players, send individual players to a game of your choosing, and edit their other system menu options for linked players. Below that are the sensory options. Short version, you can turn your senses up or down, enhance your sense of taste, smell, touch, you get the idea. There's also a pain management option under that. Real is fairly obvious, the lowest setting is impact only; a bullet would feel like a strong push against your body. If we play in Battlefield, it may be a good idea to set that to impact. I'm leaving mine on real, I like the feel of the hot sand under my feet. May turn off the sunburn though..." he laughed as he said it. "Lastly, this is the menu you can link to the real world from. Access the internet, the camera on your pod, send an email, you get the idea. Remind me later and I'll teach you to take a screenshot and email it to yourself for a keepsake."<br/><br/>"Okay, next up is Yellow! Yellow is game specific options. It's going to be different every game you go to, but it lets you adjust some things. Like here, we can adjust how busy the beach is..." he moved one slider on the monitor in front of him. and people began to show up out of nowhere, coming in from the ocean, the hotel, from behind the bar. They didn't seem to just pop in like magic,  or like the PCs did, but they did show up rather quickly. "The lowest setting is vital NPCs only. That means just the bartenders, shopkeepers, the ones you need for things to flow. I'll leave a few around for eye candy. According the Lily, they all have the AI fully integrated, you could chat with any of them, even seduce them if you're good. They're all real people with real lives though, is my point. Now check this out." With a flick of a slider, Kevin put away the sun, changing the beach to a beautiful night time scene. "You can even trigger certain events, like this normally happens at 10 PM..." with the tap of a button, a brilliant fireworks display, launched from the hotel, burst into the sky over the ocean. One more flick of the slider and it was sunny again. "Anyone can adjust these options in the mode we're in, not just the admin. There's a few others, like water temperature, how fast time moves, waves, i'll let you play around with that yourselves."<br/><br/>Kevin paused for a breath. "Okay, last up we have Green. This one's a little different. It's kind of an inventory management. In social zones, you can use it as sort of a wallet and item bank. You can also access clothes the programmers designed, if you get bored with the ones you gave yourself." he tapped the screen and his swim trunks began to phase into a bright red pair with the DrallTech logo on the side. For a brief moment, it may have been possible to catch a glimpse behind the fabric as it changed. "If we had to worry about money, it would be listed here as well. Now in the games, especially the RPGs, the inventory system works a little different. It's also your weapons, skills, all your character management stuff. In those games, only the programmed gear is allowed, which means no fancy swimsuits of diamond swords in the Persona center for you guys. You can keep the fake chest though. Whew! That's everything, now I need a drink too. Come on Andrea, my treat."<br/><br/>Kevin tapped the corner of his hologram screen, causing it to vanish. "Oh right, one last thing, when you're done with this and want it to go away  so you look nice, just to this." With the same two fingers, he tapped his wrist twice, and the 'tattoo' vanished from his skin. "Okay, drink. Careful not to get me too drunk, you look more like Fai than Fai, I may start flirting with you." Kevin stuck out his tongue as he headed for the bar.