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22:36, 28th March 2024 (GMT+0)

The Door

PAX is hosting a massive video game cosplay competition with large cash prizes up to $25,000, and also many random spot prizes of $1,000 for whoever those handing them out feeling giving them too, which has drawn in both professional an amateur cosplayers alike.

Thousands have come to Seattle, to compete for the grand prize, hope for a spot prize, or simply to hang out with like minded individuals for a few days. Some are dressed in fully tailored professional-looking outfits, while others wear something bought online, and some are wearing cardboard armor sprayed black.

While enjoying the convention, three cosplayers open a white door (for whatever reason) and suddenly find themselves standing in an eternal plain of green grass under an empty blue sky. An eternal two-lane road runs down the middle with parallel sandstone footpath. There is a white mailbox on a post, with a metal garbage bin beside it, between the path and the road. A simple wooden door stands 30 feet from the road, closed in the middle of the grass.

Additionally, the costumes the cosplayers are wearing, and the weapons they are carrying, have become real. Armor that was once cardboard is now a full suit of hardened steel, the painted Nerf gun is a sleek rifle ready to fire laser bolts, and the cosplayers now know how to use them just as well as the character they're playing.