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Virchers

Vircher
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Virtual entities who live in the spheres of virchuniverses. Virchers may be uploads, copies of uploads, simms (subsentient or semisentient native inhabitants of a virch) or digis (indigenous digital sophonts). One may also encounter infomorph scions of various aioids, and the avatars of real-life sophonts (vusers) or of AI gods.

 
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    Virchophobia is the irrational fear of virches. Virchophobes who find themselves in a virch will suffer from anything from restless anxiety to full-scale panic attacks. Generally virchophobes have no trouble avoiding virches, and once they have realized their disorder will be able to live almost normal lives. Virchophobia sometimes includes the fear of virtuals or a-life, but these fears are generally classified separately.
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    Any digital space or environment; pertaining to virch or a cybercosm.
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    Generally, an aggregation or collection of thousands of interconnected virchworlds or cybercosms, all sharing the same basic ontology and lay-out, to make traveling from one to the other easier. Sometimes also used to designate a single extremely large virchworld.
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    One's av (avatar), the body one takes when 'facing in virtual reality. By means of the virtual body, even the sensorium of the ordinary body is transformed to appear and feel different than it does in rl.
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    Sex in virtual reality incorporating a visual, auditory, and tactile environment. The sex partner can be a real or simm person.
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    Science and art of engineering, designing, and/or studying virtual worlds and universes.
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    The belief, common among many long-term virchers and long-term copies, that only virch is real, and ril is an illusion.
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Development Notes
Text by Thorbørn Steen
updated by Steve Bowers 2017
Initially published on 01 September 2008.

 
 
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