My name is Marcus Latch, I can not begin to tell you how many jokes about my last name I got in grade school, middle school, high school and college. Any way it all started when I found a trunk full of collars in the three story, plus basement, complex my grandfather left me in his will. I couldn't tell why since I only saw the man a total of 5 times over the course of my life and last time was just after graduation with him asking me what I want in a life partner, the conversation took a turn for awkward and weird when I said I had never so much as been on a date in my life. I'm not a bad looking guy, of course I'm not a good looking man either. I'm predictably average in my appearance, actually I go beyond average with looks that are so plain I just seem to fade into the background. My parents constantly didn't notice me, people I started making friends with forgot who was the following day, and teachers constantly missed at role call through every stage of education. The only people that seemed notice me were, ironically, the grandfather who left this place and everything in it to me in his will, my only friend Janie (her real name is Janella, but anyone who calls her that more than once is liable to get a black eye and swollen lip) and my computer with some of the latest biometric locks. I am a 32 years old, have brown hair, blue eyes and am of Irish and German descent (with a bit of Scottish, Russian and Italian thrown in for good measure), ame 6'5" and have a profession in security (by profession I mean I design and make security systems for everything from homes to computers and everything in-between).
Anyway what made it really weird was I found this weird futuristic arm band along with the collars, at the time I went 'what the hell I can use this' because I was going to a costume party and going as a cyberpunk wizard, I know how contradictory that sounds (however when you have mostly forgettable existence you also take strides to have memorable costumes so that at least something about you is noticed by the majority). I slipped it on to see if it fit when a holographic display popped up and said, "registering, one moment. Marcus Latch <
> and <
>. Scanning for <
>... <
> found," a holographic display of a generic collar popped up, "attention, 7 default <
> present with 33 <
> deploying <
>, a small sphere launched from the armband, "attention Configuration will take 17.485763 hours, please go about standard routines until Configuration is completed," with that the holographic display disappeared.
"Note to self find out who made this thing and request schematics for unit," I said out loud, which was habit I developed for when I was alone. I find myself alone a lot. With the strange armband, which I would be trying to look into later, my costume was half completed luckily the party wouldn't be for a week and the rest of the outfit was more a matter of getting little things to complete the look. I decided to check the basement, this would prove to be another surprise. When I started looking through the basement I found seven more trunks filled with collars of various design and appearance. At each one the armband repeated the process from the first one, all in all I was told that in a total of 47 and a half hours all the collars would be "CONFIGURED" as to whey someone would make such an item, and what it had to do with collars and chokers for people to wear was beyond me at the time, to an extent it still is.
I was sleeping when the first COMPLETION message was sent to the band, aside from the collars designed for people to wear, which mostly had me wondering why anyone would amass a collection like some kind of hoarder. What followed next had me begin to question my sanity. One of my new neighbors came to visit the day after my finding the Collars. Her name is Sandy, a woman blue eyed blond woman Greek complexioned lady with a pair of EE breasts who hasn't been able to keep a boyfriend for more than a few months despite being a highly attractive woman and amazingly successful (and reasonably intelligent) fashion model. Yeah, Sandy started visiting me so that she could whine her latest set of problems. Apparently her boyfriend dumped her for a flat chested brunette with a butt a little bigger than hers in addition to her agency deciding she needed a month's reprieve from the circuit, which she new was code for we want to keep you but have to let you go next year because you aren't drawing in the figures you did a year ago. Sandy never got my name right, no surprise there, at least she was closer to my name this time around with calling me names like Marv, Matt, Max and Mel. I knew it would be a mistake, but I invited her join for the costume party in a few days and directed her the first trunk full of collars, which I had hauled down to the den for some reason. She got a sparkle in her eyes at the mention of being able to decide on her outfit, and actually got my name right by calling me Marc before dashing over to the trunk and tossing it up, neither of us noticed the 'Probe' fly out of the trunk and back into my armband (which I discovered wouldn't come off my arm no matter what) and make the display a <
> signal for half a second. Sandy continued to shift through the collars before stopping at one that was adorned with pink and violet hearts.
When Sandy put it on she suddenly got a blank stare, I looked my armband's now active display and it read, "Connecting to <
> Unit Designation <
> Subject Name Designation <
> Rewriting Subject <
>, Alert Unit can not be removed without Administrator approval, Alert Psychological rewrite will have 27 hour residual effect when Unit is removed, Alert if Subject Desires new Unit Administrator Approval not needed after prior Unit has been removed. Attention subject is 27 years old and fully capable of child bearing." I started thinking what did we just get into, and that's when I suddenly noticed that my clothing (underwear and all) had been removed and I was staring at Sandy and her jiggling size 19 EE breasts.
"Sandy what are you doing?" I inquired.
"Making myself ready for Master and myself to take part in Master's acts of pleasure."
I pinched the bridge of my nose and sighed before saying, "don't focus on that, right now I want you put your clothes back on and look around for materials to make the outfit you had in mind when you decided to put on the collar, make sure the outfit is family friendly because there will potentially be underage individuals present at the event. We will 'discuss' this after the party. Have I made myself clear?"
"Perfectly master," said Sandy as she put her clothes back on, I was also doing the same.
"Before you go tell me how you managed to remove my clothes so fast."
"That one's easy, Master," she said with a loving giggle, "the art of quick clothing removing and dawning is crucial in my line of work," with that she left and I heard the door close followed by her yammering about materials required for her costume like the whole event had never happened. After she departed I brought up the information that had been logged on her archived information. I was surprised to find section marked Sexual Fantasy, even more surprised that said Fantasy was very close to what just happened. She actually fantasized about someone manipulating her mind and dominating her sexually in addition to mentally. I decided the next time we were alone I would bring what just happened after she dawned the collar and we would discuss it. Despite everything that happened I was still an individual who wouldn't press that kind of advantage. I then made notes that said, "Warning Mind Altering Collars" and attached them to all of the chests. That chance came sooner than I thought.