Opening the menu.

The five varied girls lounged in various positions around the bedroom, brainstorming while Dahlia and Crystal brought them up to speed.

"So you can only change outfits through the closet menu, not by reaching into the closet itself."

Dahlia leaned up against a wall, legs parted slightly, "Yeah it sucked. We figured it out the hard way."

"But you say that you were able to drop the trench coat?"

Crystal exchanged a look with Dahlia, "Oh yeah... I guess that's true huh..."

Evaline shrugged and reached to her neck, undoing her dress, "What are you..." Crystal trailed off as the long black dress slid off in a silken waterfall, leaving Evaline completely bare aside from a gold necklace and her earings. She shivered, "Freeing."

"Well... now we know that."

Catherine was holding her hand up to block out the sight, "Ev, could you put your dress back on?"

"Do I have to?"

"It just... makes me a little uncomfortable to have you walking around in nothing. Especially since I don't know your body."

"You could get to know my body..."

"Ev!"

The oriental woman giggled, bending down to pull her dress back up, "Oh come on Cat, you're always telling me to live a little right? Well I'm living."

Crystal cleared her throat, "On that subject actually... Dahlia and I..."

Dahlia gave her a surprisingly murderous glare and Crystal raised her hand placatingly, "Figured out that sometimes the avatars... push through. I don't really know how to describe it. Just, if you feel like you're behaving abnormally then..." She exchanged glances with the nervous girls, "Try not to?" She finished lamely.

Evaline looked thoroughly annoyed, "Are you saying me dropping my dress was out of character?"

Jenna held her fingers up in a pinching motion, "Little bit. You are kind of a prude."

Crystal spoke up before it could devolve into an argument, "Point being, be careful. While we try and figure out how to open the menu's we don't really have any guidance other than what that asshole at the casino gave us."

Pensive, Jenna reached up and touched her ear like a com piece. She jumped as a white square opened up in front of her, "Um... I think I figured it out."

So as it turned out, the menu depended on intent. Touching their ear didn't work for anyone else but Jenna, however reaching out to touch an empty space opened it for Crystal while Dahlia flicked her wrist to open hers."That's how I look at my fitbit!" Dahlia said excitedly.

"It's how I turn on my computer." Crystal smiled.

They looked at Jenna and she embarrassedly glanced away, "It's how I imagine secret agents do things."

The menus themselves were basic pixellated things, just like the opening menu had been. There were several tabs: "Characters, Quests, Items... Holy fuck this is an rpg."

Evaline looked over and grimaced, "I wish you'd stop saying that, my avatar wants to listen every time you do. What's an r-"

"Role Playing Game. I have some ideas about how to deal with all this now... we should check out our Quests, that's how we'll get out of here."

"Woah, guys, look at the characters tab! We all have abilities and stuff!"