| Summary:
Rembrandt, Maggie, Mallory and Diana are caught in the middle of a bizarre and
deadly fast food franchise war. The Sliders barely slide away with their lives only to
appear in a world where its people are dedicated to pleasure and hi-tech recreation. Quite
a change from their previous venue, this world is dominated by Mark Einman, an
entertainment mogul who through holographic generated adventures can make one's every
fantasy come true. The Sliders decide to take advantage of their new surroundings. They
declare themselves "on vacation" and sign on for Einman's state of the art
entertainment experience, The Arcade. Mallory elects to role play a civil war soldier
while Rembrandt embarks upon a holographic 1970's detective adventure. Maggie and Diana
decide to play it low key and hit the Roman health spa. Later, after the games, Rembrandt
and Mallory share their disappointment with their adventures feeling that the scenarios
are little more than holographic violence-fests. The people of this world seem more
interested in satiating a peculiar bloodlust than actual role playing. Rembrandt and
Mallory decide to leave but are unable to locate Maggie and Diana. Things really get weird
when holograms of Maggie and Diana appear as characters in the fantasy games. It is later
discovered that people were being kidnapped and connected to the virutal reality machines.
Rembrandt and Mallory finally finds Diana and Maggie and rescues them from a never ending
virtual death. |
