Adventures in Lust and Pixels (Closed)

[NotShyGuy]

(Closed for ella_v)

Jin Mantrell stepped out of his car into the parking lot of what looked like a fairly normal office building, though if his suspicions were right, he knew it was nothing of the sort. He felt curious as to what exactly would be waiting for him inside. Last week, he'd received an e-mail from a company that wanted him to prototype a "truly new, groundbreaking form of interactive gaming" for them, as they had described it. He was optimistic, but he had his doubts. He'd heard similar hubbub about things like 3-D gaming and motion control gaming and those had not panned out to be nearly as "revolutionary" as their creators had thought they'd be. Still, he had to see what this was about. He had done playtesting and bug finding for a few other companies before and he was curious to put this new technology through its paces.

He walked through the front doors, seeing the company logo above the doors. The words, "Transcend Interactive" with drawings of an eye, ear, hand, tongue, and nose. He entered a relatively quiet front lobby and a receptionist pointed him towards one side wings and told him follow the blue line.

Jin stopped outside a pair of double doors and found himself actually a little excited. He had no idea what lay beyond here. 'It really could be revolutionary,' he thought to himself, but tempered his expectations, 'Or it could be nothing. But you won't find out until you go in.'

He opened the doors and walked through, it was time to see just what he had come here for.

 

[ella_v]

The room behind the doors looked more like the reception area of a highly accomplished law firm. A young woman in her early twenties was sitting at a desk and looked up at the visitor through her dark rimmed glasses. She had blond hair that was bound in a pony tail and in combination with her professional clothing she looked more like a lawyer than a girl you would expect at a company in the entertainment business.

"Hi, you must be Jin Mantrell. I am Dr. Abigail Brooks. Welcome to Transcent Interactive." She smiled at her visitor and shook his hand. They moved over to her desk and Abigail offered Jin a seat before the started to talk about her project. "We are currently developing a totally new way of interactive gaming, which will revolutionize the gaming world. We have by now created our first prototype and are staring to run some test with it. Since you have already some experience in this area, we were very interested in you when we received your application. We will have to go over some legal documents before I can tell you more about our project. But I am sure that you will enjoy being part of our team."

She pushed a some paperwork over to Jin. "This is the contract that we had mailed to you in advance. Just sign it and we will be starting right away. Furthermore you have to fill out this health information. The testing procedures will need you at perfect health, since the experience will be stimulation your mind and your body at the same time."

"I just let you read through this stuff while I am getting some coffee." She got up and walked over to a coffee maker, that was hidden in a cupboard. While waiting for the machine to warm up she looked closely at Jin and studied him closely.

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin took a look at the documents that Dr. Brooks had given to him. It was all fairly standard medical liability waivers. He'd seen something similar when a few testers had started complaining about migraines after testing 3D gaming for the first time, but nothing quite this comprehensive. He signed the waivers, the company seemed to be professional and on-the-level, not something some college friends had built and wired together in their dorm room. Besides, how dangerous could a video game be?

Next, he started on the medical form, filling out his information. He was 5' 9" with dark eyes and light brown hair. He checked the all the "No" boxes that asked him if he had any medical problems, physical or mental, or any family history of the same. He did his best to keep himself in good shape and the list of "No" boxes checked showed it.

After filling out the forms, he began to look around the room, trying to get a feel for the place, and also looking for clues as to what he might have to look forward to. The look was very modern, but at the same time, inviting. The books on the shelves mostly dealt with the brain and the senses and reactions to stimuli. Taking a look at the desk he saw a stack of business cards with the doctor's name and pocketed one, just in case.

Jin's curiosity had only grown since meeting the doctor. The medical forms, this mysterious revolutionary prototype, just what had he signed up for?

 

[ella_v]

Abigail’s high heels were making sounds on the floor when she returned with the two coffees. "Here you go. Do you need any milk or sugar?" The young woman was about 5’7’’ with her shoe and her lightly tanned skin was visible through her semi transparent nylons. Her tight fitting withe blouse under her jacket was showing Jin that Abigail’s body was in a very good state.

She picked up the documents and looked over the boxes that Jin had checked. "Looks like we won’t have any problems and that we can start testing right away." She smiled at Jin and signed quickly her part of the contract. "The remaining part of the paperwork will be handled by the human resources department." She handed Jin his copy of the contract before she filed away the other papers.

"I guess you are already quite curious about what we are doing here at Transcent Interactive. About a year ago we started this project as an experimental development. We wanted to create the ultimate gaming experience that you don’t just experience with your eyes, but with all your senses. What we are working on is real virtual reality and not just some 3D world that you look at through a device. You will become part of the game and experience all the emotions and feelings that you can in the real world. You will feel excitement, fear, love, anger, power, and helplessness and be the hero of the game yourself. There is nothing more real than this, except the real world of cause." Abigail smiled at Jin and waited for her explanation to sink in.

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin took an appreciative glance on Abigail as she returned with their coffees. Even if the technology turned out to be a complete flop, maybe this interview wouldn't be a waste after all. He was glad he had pocketed that business card after all.

When she finished explaining the details to him, he slowly took a sip of his coffee as he tried to process what he had just been told. It almost sounded too good to be true, but the tone of Abigail's voice assured him that it wasn't. Real virtual reality? It was the holy grail of interactivity, something that could truly mimic all 5 senses and provide a truly virtually interactive experience.

He felt his heart begin to beat a little faster and a little harder in his chest. He set the cup of coffee down on the desk and folded his hands in his lap, not wanting his nervous trembling to betray him. "Sounds interesting," he replied, trying to keep his voice steady, though in fact he wanted nothing more than to jump up and demand to see it. "Ok," he admitted with a grin, "Sounds more than interesting. It sounds amazing. What exactly do you want me test about it?" His mind reeled with the possibilities of this device.

 

[ella_v]

"I think I will have to tell you a bit more about our project. Transcent Interactive is one of the leading companies in the field of 3D gaming. The general problem in this field is, that you need very powerful computer for generating more and more realistic virtual worlds, which are too expensive for the broad masses. Furthermore, it is very complex to turn an emotion or feeling into a digital code. Hence, the company has always been looking into alternative ways of creating these complex experiences. One approach has been to work together with neurobiologists, that is where my work and this project comes into play." Dr. Brooks got up and motioned Jin to follow her. She walked over to an electronically secured door, which opened after she had swiped her card and typed in a 6 digit code.

They walked into the room, which looked more like a doctors office than a technological lab. There was a large chair, that looked like it was taken from a dentist’s office, in the middle of the room. "The most powerful computer in the world is the human brain. We can create complete worlds in our imagination and experience a very reality near world. Our idea was to use this ability and to enhance it, so that we can steer the experience and create a world with specific rules and characters. That way we can concentrate on building the perfect game, while the player is building his perfect world on his own. I don’t want to bore you with the details, but I guess you get the core idea of our work."

Abigail walked over to a computer, that was placed at a controlling station at the far end of the room. "This computer is creating the parameters for a virtual world, which are send to the players brain. The player’s imagination will then create the image, the related emotions, and feeling. The computer controls the imagination, but the actual world is created by the player herself. All we have to do is adjusting the world to the players actions and her emotions." She smiled at Jin in order to see whether he had any question before the continued to the actual goal of the tests.

"The playing experience can be very realistic and it affects the players body and mind. For example, when you are running in the game, it will feel like you are really running and it will affect your muscles. You will tire out and feel exhausted. During these tests we want to find out, how a normal player is reacting and what experience are acceptable and where it starts to be harmful. Furthermore we want to test the general technology."

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin slowly nodded as he listened to Dr. Brooks' explanation of how the machine worked. It was elegantly brilliant in its own way. The brain was already capable of creating virtual realities, when we dream, when we recall memories. Even our perception of current reality was dictated by electrical signals sent to the brain through the senses. Instead of building a computer to imitate those signals, they had just built one that could control and channel them, making them clearer and sharper in the process. It was brilliant.

His mind overflowed with the possibilities, this could change not only entertainment but education, communication, military, even pornography. None of these sectors would ever be the same. Sure, it was still incredibly expensive and complex now, but the first computers had been the same way. Now smartphones were more powerful than the first supercomputers. The idea had just needed a seed and this was it.

Jin could no longer keep the excitement out of his voice when he asked, "Just one question. When can we start?"

 

[ella_v]

Abigail had to laugh when she saw Jin obvious excitement about the project. "That is the right spirit and we can start right away. However, we will need to equip you with a Mind-port first. That is a small connector, that is implanted into her neck and connects the computer via your spinal cord to the brain. It is nothing big and it does not harm you in any way. Actually, I have one myself, so that I can connect with the system as well."

She turned and lifter her ponytail out of the way, so that Jin could see the dime sized metallic Mind-port. "Once that is done, we can start with the setup routine, during which I will show you a video with various images that range from child TV shows to violent movies. There will also be some erotic stuff in the movie like kissing and even up to some kinkier sex scenes. The computer will map your brain activity during this time, so that the system can figure out how your mind needs to be stimulated. I will also be able to see, what kind of characters and actions you react most on, so that we can try to match the games onto that later on. This process will continue every time you will use the system, however, we will need this for the initial run."

"Any questions? Otherwise, just go into the next room and a colleague of mine will implant the Mind-port into you. That will only take a few minutes, in the meantime I will set up the initiation process."

 

[NotShyGuy]

His ears perked up when she mentioned sex scenes. Could this machine to that? The more he thought about, the more he couldn't see why not. 'The porn industry is going to go absolutely insane when they get their hands on this,' he thought to himself.

Despite Abigail's reassurances, Jin was a little nervous about getting an implant in such an important place. But his nervousness was greatly outweighed by the possibilities of what he was being promised. 'Come on, it's for science,' he though to himself. He nodded and said, "Ok, let's do it."

As he was about to go through the door into the next room, a minor warning bell went off in his head. Perhaps he'd seen too many movies and read too many books, but there was something that was nagging at him that he had to ask. "Doctor, you mentioned that the actions in the game will affect my mind and body realistically, right? You have safeguards in place right? If someone gets hurt or even dies in the game, there isn't any sort of risk...is there?"

 

[ella_v]

"Well, Jin, I would not say that there isn’t any kind of risk involved. Of cause you can’t die from getting shot or killed by some kind of weapon in the game. You will feel the pain and the effects of being hit, but you will not die. However, the excitement and adrenaline might push you over the limit, so that it is possible that you might faint or even get a shock. In the worst case this might result in a stroke, but of cause you will always be monitored during our test, so that the risks will be a small as possible. Nevertheless, we are in a testing phase, so we don’t yet know all the effect that the games will have on the players, and therefore there will be a remaining risks."

She smiled at Jin in a calming way. "During the development of the machine I have spent quite a few hours using it and I have not felt any side effects, beside being better in shape than before." Abigail moved her hand over her well shaped body to stress her statement. "And I sometimes am not sure whether I am in the real or virtual world, but in those cases I look for my Mind-port since that one is only present in the reality not in the virtual worlds."

 

[NotShyGuy]

"Alright," he said nodding. A stroke wasn't exactly the same thing as getting a migraine for a few hours from staring at a 3D display, but that was a risk that he was willing to take. And it wasn't as if he was completely alone in this, they'd be closely monitoring his vitals throughout the entire test and he had no medical problems. He was sure he'd be fine. And he knew that he could regret it for the rest of his life if he turned down the chance to experience this because there was some tiny risk involved

And even Abigail had gone into the machine herself and there were certainly no problems with her that Jin could see. "Alright, I'm convinced. I guess I'll see you later. And thanks for giving me this chance," he said to her. With that, he went through the doors into the next room to receive his Mind-port.

 

[ella_v]

The implantation of the Mind-port was a routine operation for the doctor that greeted Jin. He quickly sedated his patient and inserted the Mind-port into Jin’s neck and connected it with his spinal cord. After roughly an hour the operation was successful and Jin was slowly gaining his conscious again. When he returned to Abigail, he was just feeling pretty much like before, only now he was equipped with an opening in his neck.

In the meantime, Abigail had set up the system and added a new user to the system. The next step was to run the initialization routine with Jin, so that the computer could map out his brain activity and his body’s reactions. "Welcome back, everything is prepared for the set up, just sit down in the chair and relax. You will feel a short push against your neck, when the system connect with you. After that the movie will start on the screen over there. While the routine is running you will not really be able to move around, since the system will block those activities, in order to be able to read your brain activity without any interfering actions of your own."

She walked over to her control desk and pushed a few buttons. "Ready when you are."

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin woke up from the operation feeling a little groggy, but none the worse for wear. He felt an odd sensation in the back of his neck where the Mind-port now was and had to fight a strong urge to touch it. His arm kept trying to reach up without his even thinking about it. 'It's just like contacts or a watch. Just give it some time and you probably won't even notice it's there,' he thought to himself. 'Let's just hope I never need to take an MRI.'

After taking one last chance to stretch, he sat down in the chair that Abigail showed him and felt a light pressure on his neck as he was hooked up. It was a strange sensation, not quite like anything he'd ever felt before. Strange, but definitely not unpleasant. Nervous, but excited as well, he said "Ready, doctor. Let's do it."

 

[ella_v]

"Just fell free to call me Abigail, by the way. We will be working together a lot from now on, so being formal all the time will just feel strange." The young woman checked her screen and noticed that the computer had connected successfully to Jin’s brain. A diagram of his brain was indicating the brain activity in different colors and some graphs monitored his body functions. "Ok, I will start the initiation sequence now, just relax and enjoy the video and don’t try to influence your thoughts, just act by instinct."

A short tab on her screen started the program and the video started to show on the screen in front of Jin. At the same time the computer disabled his ability to move freely, so that he had to watch the movie. Images or some popular computer games and movies appeared on the screen. Those were later followed by some short sequences about some locations like Paris, New York, or Tokyo. There were also pictures from the Caribbean, the African outback, and the Brazilian jungle. In between there were famous actors and actresses as well as people of very different looks and ethnics. The movie was nearing its end when there were some erotic and sexual scenes filling the screen in front of Jin’s eyes. Abigail watched her screen closely, she was curious what kind of stuff her test subject’s brain reacted on strongly.

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin settled down as best as he could and relaxed as the video began to play out in front of him. Perhaps unsurprisingly, things started out with scenes from video games and he recognized more than a few, some he remembered fondly, others not so much. Shooters like Call of Duty he remembered as fun, but they didn't really give him a reaction. It was the RPGs that he reacted most to and a few action games that had interesting settings and characters. From sci-fi settings like Fallout and Mass Effect, to fantasy settings like Dragon Age or Fable to historical settings like Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed.

Movies followed shortly after and Jin's reactions were more of the same. A wide range of movie subjects appealed to him from cowboy westerns, Roman gladiators, and Caribbean pirates, and modern-day spies, to medieval fantasy, science fiction, and the post-apocalyptic.

The real world locations were mostly made up of places that he had always meant to go, but had only been able to visit a handful. Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, the Caribbean, the Brazilian jungle. As people, including actors and actresses began to flash by, some of whom he admired for their talent, others for beauty, and a few for both. His tastes were expansive, white, black, Latino, Middle Eastern, etc.

The scenes suddenly shifted and erotic and sexual scenes began to play out before his eyes. He tried to do as Abigail asked and act naturally, and although he couldn't move his body, it didn't stop an erection from growing in his pants as the sexual scenes became more intense. It was clear he was definitely having a very strong reaction to the more erotic material.

 

[ella_v]

Dr. Brooks watched her monitor and followed the progress of the initiation process. She was happy to see that Jin obviously had a preference for RPGs, since those gave her the chance to test for a lot of different settings, while shooters usually just followed the same pattern. The movies and people read out did not result any surprising findings, Jin seemed to be into lots of fantasy and historical movies, which was kind of going along with the reactions from the games section.

Abigail smiled when she noticed Jin’s heart rate increase once the sexual scenes had started. Like so many guys, Jin was easily stimulated by erotic pictures and especially by intense porn material, hence it was not surprising, that he developed an erection. This was a big thing for Abigail, it had been one of the harder tasked to take away the players ability to move, but leave all other body functions in place and active.

The program ended and the computer started to set up the real program. About 75% of Jin’s brain had been mapped during the video, the rest would be covered during the gaming experience itself. Abigail walked over to Jin as he regained his full control over his body. "How was that? Do you feel any pain or a headache?"

"If you are feeling well, we could try a basic game, where you would have some time to learn the control mechanisms of this system." The young woman started to push a few buttons on the chair. "Just tell me when you are ready to do this."

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin blinked hard a couple of times as he regained control of his body. His eyes had gotten a bit dry from watching the video without blinking. As he saw Abigail move closer, he tried to adjust his pants to make his erection less visible until it went down.

"No, nothing hurts. Everything seems fine," he answered her. "Sure," he said to her, "I've got to get comfortable using this thing if I'm going to really test it. Leaning back into the chair again, he felt the Mind-port automatically hook up with him once again. He took a deep breath, 'Here it goes,' he thought to himself. Turning back to Abigail, he said to her, "Alright, I'm ready."

 

[ella_v]

Abigail walked back to her desk and marked down Jin’s answer in her protocol sheet. "Ok, I will start the simulation now. I will meet a virtual copy of me that will guide you through the basic functions of the system. Have fun, Jin." She pushed a button and Jin’s vision blurred for a moment, then he found himself on a Caribbean beach with the sun burning down on his bare skin. He was just dressed in dark blue speedos and was sitting on a bar overlooking he beach and ocean.

A girl, looking like Abigail but without the glasses, in a colorful bikini top and red hot pants stood behind the bar and greeted the newcomer. "Welcome to Pleasure Beach, can I get you something?" She placed a menu with cocktails in front of Jin on the bar. "While you pick one, I will explain you a little bit about your options around here." She smiled at him and leaned forward on the bar, giving Jin a nice view of her breasts.

"First of all, there is the beach, you can go there and enjoy some activities like beach volleyball, swimming and building sand castles. Then we have the bar, where you can meet other players and enjoy drinks and food. And if you walk down that direction you will find a few stores, where you can purchase some clothing to individualize your character. You can pay around here with this credit card, that currently has a balance of $100." She handed the card over to Jin.

"If you have any question, fell free to ask or come back to me anytime. So, have you chosen what kind of drink you would like? I make a killer Long Island Ice Tee."

 

[NotShyGuy]

Jin wasn't sure how exactly the simulation would begin, would it be like falling asleep and waking up? But before he knew it, his vision blurred for a moment and suddenly he was at the bar on a beautiful beach in a pair of speedos. Everything looked as sharp and detailed as the real thing, he could even feel the sun on his skin.

Looking up again, he noticed that the bartender looked almost exactly like Abigail, but in hot pants and a bikini instead of a business suit. 'It's a good look for her,' he thought to himself. As the virtual Abigail explained what things he could find along the beach and handed him the credit card, Jin couldn't help but glance at her breasts several times as she spoke, and send admiring glances to the rest of her body as well. Even if she was just virtual, he did still feel a little guilty about ogling the virtual Abigail.

"I think I'll head along the beach for a bit, but first, a Long Island Ice Tea sounds great," he answered her. He was especially curious if he could actually get drunk on virtual alcohol.

 

[ella_v]

"Ok, no problem." Abigail turned around and got busy with collecting some bottles for the Long Island Ice Tea. Jin could see, that she had a chinese symbol tattooed between her shoulder blades, while she prepared the drink for him. "Here you go, be careful it is a mean one. She took his credit card and charged the drink to it. Don’t forget your care and have fun on the beach.” She smiled at him and walked over to another customer at the far end of the bar.

The beach was fairly well visited and a group was playing volleyball and was cheering, while many others were just enjoying the sun and relaxed. The crowd looked pretty much like a real one, there were all kinds of people ranging from well muscled to overweight, from black to sun burned red, and from young to old.

 

[NotShyGuy]

As Abigail turned to go to the other end of the bar, Jin's eyes slipped down to watch her red shorts sway back and forth before turning away from the bar.

Sipping his drink, Jin walked down to the beach and saw the crowd of people. Everything seemed perfect, the sounds, the sights, the smells, right down to the warm sand between his toes. 'Time to put the virtual body through it's paces,' he thought to himself as he went down to where the volleyball game was happening. Tapping the shoulder of one of the players, he asked to join in, and before he knew it, he was serving the ball for the next round.

 

[ella_v]

The game was so real, that it was easy to forget that all of this was not the reality. The wind, the feeling of the sand under Jin’s bare feet, the heat of the sun, and the effects of the strong drink all impacted Jin’s game. The first team he was playing against were two nerdy looking guys, who weren’t any good. But the next opponents - a couple in the early thirties, who were a much greater challenge to beat - were already waiting on the sideline.

The real Abigail was sitting in front of her screen and watched the progress of the simulation. So far everything was working as planned and Jin seemed to enjoy the system. In a small screen on her computer, she could see what Jin was seeing and how the game developed.

Now it was time to start the real testing and to get Jin to process more emotions at once to find out about the limits of the system. Abigail smiled when she changed some parameters in the simulation in order to make the volleyball game a bit more difficult for Jin. She gave the wife a skimpy bikini and large breasts, which moved around when she jumped and dived after the ball. Curious about Jin’s reaction she leaned back in her chair and view her screen with great interest.

 

[NotShyGuy]

While not drunk, Jin was definitely feeling the effects of the Long Island he had ordered. Still, he had managed to beat his first two opponents rather easily, and the combination of winning and his drink had left him feeling great.

His next two opponents came up to the net and he could tell this would be more difficult. They were a couple who looked to be in great shape. While Jin tried his best to play well, the wife's large breasts and incredibly skimpy bikini kept drawing his eyes away. Distracted, his play suffered a bit, and he tried to have his partner cover the wife's hits. Watching her jump and dive, he could feel his cock starting to swell, despite his best efforts to keep it down, which made it even harder for him to move around.

Near the end of the game, the two teams were tied and it was match point. The husband set the ball into the air and Jin rushed the net to try to block the wife's spike. As they both rushed the net and leapt into the air, Jin felt the wife's pillowy soft breasts press against him through the net and completely lost focus of what he was doing. The spiked ball hit him in the face and onto the sand, winning the couple the game. Jin landed on his butt, his ego bruised more than anything else. As he rubbed his cheek where the ball had hit, he suddenly realized that he had completely forgotten that he actually playing a game. With a grin, he shook his head, he couldn't believe it.

 

[ella_v]

The wife held out her hand to help Jin up again. "Are you all right?" They walked off the field together, since two other teams were already waiting for their chance to play. "Good game, it was fun to play against you guys. I am Laura, by the way, that is my husband James." The woman was a bit smaller than Jin, but only a few inches. "And since you lost against us, you may invite us to a drink at the bar." She smiled charmingly at Jin and giggled a little.

The partner that Jin had played with, a big muscled guy, was already loosing interest and turned to watch the next game, so that just Jin and the couple walked slowly to the bar.

 

[NotShyGuy]

Taking her offered hand, Jin pulled himself up again. Smiling at her words, he answered, "Could I buy you two a drink?" though he directed his words at Laura. As the three of them walked slowly to the bar, he took the opportunity to sneak a few looks at Laura's generous bust whenever she turned to speak to her husband.

Reaching the bar, he laid his credit card on the bar and called Abigail over, buying a round of Long Island Ice Teas for the three of them. Raising his glass in a toast, he said to the couple, "To a good game. Feel free to order what you like. To the victor go the spoils."