Rent-a-Vice

What doesn't kill you...kills someone else, and leads you down an ethical rabbit hole. In the near future, paying users can rent the "virtual experiences" of other people. These "feeders" sublet their own bodies, at the risk of their own lives, so that customers can safely enjoy extreme, potentially self-destructive vices, like binge eating, cliff diving, or worse.

"Rent-a-Vice" is a 150,000-word interactive cyberpunk-noir mystery novel, and 2018 Nebula Award for Game Writing Finalist, by Natalia Theodoridou, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

You're a private investigator with a bad habit, an ex, and mountains of debt--troubles so deep that you stand to lose custody of your kid. When a mysterious client asks for your help finding their missing lover in the seamy world of virtual experience, it's up to you to gather evidence, experience the technology for yourself, and solve the case.

Delve into the darkest corners of the clandestine Rent-a-Vice industry. If you believe the etho-politicians, VE compromises the well-being of society, and normalizes vice and disorder. But what are users after? Is it entertainment, or something deeper? And is there anything in it for the feeders, other than profit?

As for you, will you resist your own vices, or go all in?

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bisexual.

• Fight or embrace your personal demons, struggle against the machinery of power, and find friendship in unlikely places.

• Save those in trouble or extort them for your silence, or go rogue and burn the entire industry to the ground.

• Expose corruption or exploit it for your gain.

• Test your skills as a PI while you share other people's experiences of life and death.

• Trade favors to retain custody of your child; reunite with your ex, or find romance with someone new.

• Become a champion for the marginalized, usher in a new ethical standard, or step on corpses to climb to the top.

什么不会杀死你...杀死别人，并引导你走向道德的兔子洞。在不久的将来，付费用户可以租用其他人的“虚拟体验”。这些“喂食者”在自己的生命危险中转租自己的身体，以便顾客可以安全地享受极端的，潜在的自我毁灭性的恶习，如暴饮暴食，悬崖跳水或更糟。

“Rent-a-Vice”是一部15万字的互动式cyberpunk-noir神秘小说，以及由Natalia Theodoridou创作的2018年星云大奖的游戏写作决赛，您的选择将控制故事。它完全基于文本 - 没有图形或声音效果 - 并且受到你想象力的巨大，不可阻挡的力量的推动。

你是一个私人侦探，有一个坏习惯，一个前任和一大堆债务 - 麻烦如此之深，以至于你失去了对你孩子的监护权。当一个神秘的客户请求您帮助在虚拟体验的阴暗世界中找到他们失踪的情人时，您可以自己收集证据，体验技术并解决问题。

深入探讨秘密的Rent-a-Vice行业最黑暗的角落。如果你相信道德政治家，VE会损害社会福祉，并使恶习和混乱正常化。但是之后的用户是什么？是娱乐，还是更深层次的东西？除了利润之外，馈线还有什么东西吗？

至于你，你会抵制自己的恶习，还是全押？

•扮演男性，女性或非二元;同性恋，异性恋或双性恋。

•战斗或拥抱你的个人恶魔，与权力机器作斗争，并在不太可能的地方找到友谊。

•拯救那些陷入困境的人或将他们勒死以保持沉默，或者流氓并将整个行业焚烧到地面。

•暴露腐败或利用它来获取利益。

•在分享其他人的生死经历时，将您的技能作为PI进行测试。

•贸易有利于保留您孩子的监护权;与你的前任团聚，或与新人发现浪漫。

•成为边缘人群的捍卫者，引入新的道德标准，或者逐步爬上尸体。