You followed your girlfriend from one booth to another before finally reaching a larger booth located near the central pool. Inside the pool multiple people where either testing out some monofins/mersuits and others where performing acts in the water which made waiting in line to enter this rather large booth pass by a little bit faster.
“So what is this?” you inquired
“Not totally sure, but everyone is talking about it.” Your girlfriend answers as you look up at the sign, it showed a mermaid and merman on either side of the name of the booth. “Build your own merperson”
You shrug as you finally enter the building, once in a worker dressed in business casual lead the two of them toward a separate room. The room itself was almost totally dark, aside from two large screens located about arm’s length away from two glowing pads on the ground.
“Alright, please step onto the pads and extend your arms out and hold still.” Ordered the worker in what everyone who ever worked customer service knew was a board pretending to be happy voice.
“What is this?” inquired your girlfriend as she stepped on a pad and you stepped on the other. Both of you extended your arms as suddenly multiple flashes of light caused your eyes to close for a moment. When you opened them again, you were looking at a very detailed version of yourself on the screen Infront of you.
“Can I have your names?” inquired the worker
“Katie.” Your girlfriend answered
“Chris.” You answer as the worker typed in the names as they appeared on the screen.
“Alright, before you is your mermaid or merman builder.” Explained the worker as to your amazement multiple icons appeared around your image on the screen. “You can use the icons to build your merperson body. Allow me to demonstrate.”
You watch as he touched the image of your body and with a flick of his wrist your cloths where gone. They weren’t really gone; you still had your cloths on in real life but the avatar before you was bare-chested. He then tapped an icon on the screen and selected a fishnet shirt appeared on your body.
“So this is like those figure building websites for D&D figures?” you inquired, as you got the idea.
“Something like that, but we are limited to merpeople but there are over 80 million combinations of tails, cloths, hair, jewelry and the like.” Stated the worker as he tapped another icon as a simple black merman tail covered your avatar’s body. “You can fully customize your body, you can change your weight, age and height within reason, they are to remain within healthy limits. However race and gender can be fully changed. If you want to the randomize button is in the top right corner and if you want to switch and work on each others simply hit the icon top left. Once your done press finish and we will go one to phase two.”
“Thanks.” You say.
“This is so cool.” Said your girlfriend Katie as she began to play around with the touch screen looking at all the options.
“It is impressive technology.” You answer as you began to search options, there where a lot of them. “So how do you want to do this?”