Karen was stuck in the dirty basement storage room going through the container of junk they'd bought in the Container Wars spoof they'd done with the other sororities at Faber College. They'd found a few good items in the storage unit they'd bought, but there were a few items they needed to research. Being the only 'geek' in residence at the Pi Delta Pi sorority, she was tasked with checking out some of the electronics that had been stashed in the container. She'd been able to go through the old computer games and various console games pretty easily. Most of it was only of value to collectors, but the condition of the dusty packaging made most of it useless.
There was one strange console with a game she'd never even heard of... Jumanji.
She plugged it into the tv and let it go through its startup while she plugged in the old d-pad controller. The graphics that came up on the TV were cheesy, but they were slightly better than the fake lion's roar and the lame drums. The splash screen seemed promising, "A game for those who seek to find, a way to leave their world behind".
Karen's eyes lit up at that, "Now that'd be awesome!"
She clicked the New Game button and the screen transferred to a character selection screen. It was pretty plain, didn't even show images of the characters.
How lame!
"Uhg! It's just a stupid kids game."
She tossed the controller in disgust, shut off the TV and picked up the only two items with something: an original still-in-the-shrink-wrap Leisure Suit Larry and Grand Theft Auto games. She knew they'd get a decent amount for those two items. Collectors were always looking for old games like that... as juvenile as they were, they appealed to most male gamers. She made her way up the stairs, excited to show what she'd found. Maybe the other girls would stop giving her such a hard time about being a nerd.
So focused on showing off, she didn't notice the eerie green glow in the darkness behind her.
The following day, Karen went back down into the basement den with a new pledge, Janice.
"We just need to take the box of crap to the flea market and get whatever we can." Karen picked up a pile of worthless games and dropped them back into the box they'd come in, while Janice picked up their collection of console accessories near the TV.
"What about this?" Janice asked curiously, barely containing a snicker.
Karen glanced over, "Oh, that, it's just a-... What the-...!!"
The Jumanji game from yesterday was different. Much different! The sleek console looked state-of-the-art. The old d-pad controllers were replaced with wireless controllers that looked like they'd fit into her hand comfortably. Even the game was different: Ju-MAN-ji. The muscular, bare-chested black man on the cartridge label was incredibly handsome. Just looking at him made her legs quiver.
"Wow! That's amazing!" Karen breathed. She felt a flush of excitement as she turned on the TV.
Gone were the dated graphics as a video played like a movie trailer. The man from the cover spoke in a seductively deep voice, "For those who seek to find, a way to leave their world behind... Welcome to Ju-MAN-ji." The scenes that followed showed various women's faces screaming in the throes of passion. Some in pleasure. Some in pain. Their contorted faces made it hard to tell which was which. The slapping of skin-on-skin with the overlay of the screams blurred the line between pleasure and pain all the more.
Every other scene included the stud of a man involved in seemingly x-rated embraces with different women. She barely noticed the drumbeat in the background building a crescendo as the scenes unfolded faster and faster. The moans, groans and screams filling her ears grew louder and more passionate. It all broke off with the loud crack of a whip, silencing all the women's cries.
The only sound left in the room was the heavy panting coming from Janice.
Karen glanced over and was shocked to see Janice with her hand down her pants, her eyes still glued to the screen.
"Janice! What's wrong with you?!"
Janice jerked guiltily away from the TV to look at Karen. Janice's eyes grew hard and she gave Karen an angry look.
"Karen, what's wrong with you?!"
Karen faced paled as she glanced down to see her own hand stuffed down her shorts. She quickly pulled her hand out and looked at Janice guiltily.
Janice hadn't bothered removing her hand and Karen could see the slow movement of her hand still working.
"God! That was HOT!" She grinned at Karen, "Let's play!"
Karen couldn't agree with her more. She strapped the controller to her hand. She swiped her hand to switch to the screen to select a character. There appeared to be four options: Jennifer Everdeen, Scarlett Romanov, Alicia Croft, or Kate Selene. Karen scrolled through them quickly. Jennifer was a fit platinum blonde and gave a title, "Size doesn't matter". The busty redhead Scarlett character pursed her lips at her blowing her a kiss when she came up, "Kiss of heaven". The brown-haired athletic Alicia batted her eyelashes coquettishly, "Loaded Gun". Dark haired Kate wore equally dark skin-tight leather-like clothes on her lean body. She turned around to reveal an incredible bubble-butt, "Backdoor girl".
When she flipped back around to Jennifer, she hadn't noticed much of a difference, so she selected that one with her controller.
Janice connected another controller and clicked the button to join. The icon became active, but whenever she moved over a character to select, it had a graphic in red. "Must be 18 to play!"
Janice balked, "WHAT THE HELL!?!!"
Karen stared, "isn't your birthday in a few days?!"
"Yeah, but how does it know I'm only 17?!"
Karen shrugged, "not sure." Her eyes were stuck back on the picture of the man on the cartridge fantasizing about what it'd be like to be wrapped in those arms.
Janice whined, "Damn! I really want to play too!"
"I guess you can watch... or why don't you go get Sara and Wendy. See if they want to play."
Janice's eyes lit up, "yeah! That'd be hot!" She shot Karen a quick glance and blushed furiously, but Karen's eyes were still on the game. "Don't start without us!" She jumped up and ran to the stairs.
As soon as she was gone, Karen looked back and forth between the TV and the hot model in apprehension. She glanced over at the stairs, before looking back at the TV and clicking the start button.
Janice returned a few minutes later with Wendy and Sara, "I swear! This isn't like anything you've ever seen! It's so hot!!"
At the bottom of the stairs she pulled up short, confused.
The TV was off and the game was silent... and there was no sign of Karen.
"Karen?!... Where are you?" Janice looked around concerned for a moment, but shrugged it off, thinking Karen had just chickened out. "Whatever. You're not going to believe this!"
