Hotel Reverie story
Hollywood star Brandy Friday is invited by the entertainment technology company ReDream, who agrees to remake a classic romantic film, Hotel Reverie, by immersing her consciousness into the story using AI-based virtual production technology. Brandy stars opposite a re-creation of actress Dorothy Chambers, and throughout the remaking, they fall further in love. However, the ReDream technology malfunctions, and everyone within the film, except Brandy and Dorothy, is frozen in time; the two spend countless romantic days together. The now self-aware Dorothy discovers that her "real" counterpart died of heartbreak due to not being able to be with her female lover. When the ReDream technology starts up again, time is reset to the moment the initial malfunction occurred, leaving Dorothy and Brandy heartbroken. The film concludes, and Brandy is extracted. Months later, ReDream sends Brandy a phone to talk to an AI simulacrum of Dorothy, with Dorothy telling Brandy she has "all the time in the world."
15 total · 3 choice · 8 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| impossible love | choice | The story hinges on a budding romance between Brandy and the Dorothy digital clone on the AI-based virtual "set" of a remake of the titular fictional film noir "Hotel Reverie". Although the story ended on an ambiguous note, it appeared that Dorothy had little to no agency outside of the script of her story, and obviously no access to reality. |
| speculative virtual reality | choice | The story concerns a technology, "ReDream", through which the Hollywood star Brandy Friday was put into a virtual world generated from an old film. Characters from the film were semi-sentient and semi-independent. One character, Dorothy, seemed to become almost real. |
| virtual lover | choice | The story leads up to Brandy receiving a digital clone of the virtual Dorothy, with whom she had fallen in love over the course of the story. |
| brain-computer interface | major | Brandy was connected to a device that put her inside the virtual world of an old film. |
| digital clone of a person | major | Virtual Dorothy was a simulation of the character in the film noir "Hotel Reverie", but also somehow had memories of the actress who'd originally played Dorothy. |
| extramarital affair | major | Dorothy was married but became romantically involved with Brandy. |
| filmmaking | major | The story concerns a filmmaker trying to revive an old classic by using a novel technology called ReDream. |
| girlfriend and girlfriend | major | The story leads up to Brandy receiving a digital clone of the virtual Dorothy, with whom she had fallen in love. |
| spouse murder | major | The story within the story revolved around murder attempts made on Dorothy by her husband. An obnoxious pooch became collateral of the clumsy assassination attempts. |
| what if I found out I was a simulation | major | Dorothy had much difficulty processing that she was a virtual recreation of the long-dead actress Dorothy Chambers when confronted about this reality by Brandy. |