-The Aurora throttles up surprisingly fast, and soon you, oddly enough, feel yourself being pressed back into your seat as the fighter rockets into the sky-
-You're in flight! In virtual reality, but still!-
Santiago: Wendigo 1 has cleared the deck. Wendigo 2, you are go for launch.
-A few moments later, the weird starfighter takes off from the flight deck-
Santiago: Wendigo 2 is clear. Wendigo 3, launch when ready.
-Quartz gets the same prompt-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."Baru: "Well, I have no idea! That's why I need to test them!"
"But uh..."
~she looks through the bottles of various shapes and sizes displayed on her stand, double-checks some sort of list in front of her, then picks up a small vial with a creamy, white liquid and hands it to Einar~
"...the main ingredient in this one is activated almond milk, so it can't cause any physical transmutations. Couldn't tell you for the life of me what it *can* do though."
~Einar, you handle the more... exotic ingredients in the potion particularly well~
~for a very brief moment, your vision gets a little blurry and your ears start buzzing, but your hearing returns to normal and your eyes re-focus quite quickly~
~and once they do, you notice something~
~or, to put it more aptly, you notice a whole lot of things that you did not notice before~
~you notice that the letters on the front of Baru's potion stand are slightly misaligned; that one of the buttons on her coat is missing; that one of the pictures hanging on the wall in the hallway is a little off-center; that there is a weirdly-colored stain in the carpet near your feet; and you notice many, many more small things that aren't quite the way they should ideally be like~
~you just drank a Potion of Detect Imperfection, and your outstanding Con Save made the effect even more potent~
Baru: "So? How do you feel?"
~...is that an accent in her speech? You could have sworn that Baru has always been speaking perfectly fine, accent-free english until now...~
-Einar looked at the sign then at Baru with a mildly confused expression on his face-
Einar: this is...weird. I think my senses are heightened beyond the norm, I can tell you have an accent now, and I can even see the slightest misalignment in your sign...and I think I can even see the chinks in my own armor now.
Baru: ~nods~
"Yeah. I kiiiinda hit a roadblock optimizing the formula for my blood cleansing draught, which is mostly that I can't entirely remove the side effect of inordinate involuntary exsanguination in 10% of the subjects. So I thought it would be fun to find a side project to clear my mind a little."
~she motions at the bottles of various shapes and sizes in front of her~
"Suuuuuurely a brave and noble warrior like you would be willing to help out a friend's scholastic pursuits, right?"
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Asagi: Whooohoooo! Go, g-forces, go~!
Meanwhile
-Mercuria sees everyone huddled around a booth...and Einar puking nearby-
Mercuria: Did you finally end up giving these people food poisoning, doctor?
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Asagi: Full throttle go.
-She pushes throttle to max to launch her virtual fighter-
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