The app was the only icon on my phone. I never downloaded it; it just appeared this morning and I couldn't access anything else.
Still lying naked in bed, the sunlight coming through the window was a clear sign I had overslept my alarm. Now looking at my phone I saw my alarm clock app was not even an option anymore.
I was very sure my phone had a virus and would need a hard drive wipe, but I thought I might as well look at the app that had taken the whole thing over. I pressed on the black square with the white letters WTL.
The screen changed to a flower filled background with green lettering that spelled out
[Winner Takes Loser]
, the name of the app apparently.
The load screen quickly disappeared, and in its place, I was given three options.
[Play to 20 points. Winner receives minor prize from loser, with $500 cash prize add-on]
[Play to 50 points. Winner receives major prize from loser, with $50,000 cash prize add-on]
[Play to 100 points. Winner receives everything from loser, with $5,000,000 cash prize add-on]
This was some sort of game. It was kind of stupid to hack someone's phone like this just for a gotcha game. I was broke as fuck with a sub 600 credit score, if this was some sort of identity theft things, they could have mine, it wasn't doing me any good.
I liked the sound of money, so I picked the 100 points option.
The screen changed again, flashing random emoji icons on a loop with the words
[pairing]
under it. It took all of 15 seconds for the app to match me with someone.
[MATCH FOUND]
Christopher Smith, height 5'8", weight 150lb, age 27, penis length 4 inches. Secret fetish, Asian women. Secret crush, childhood friend Lisa Parks age 26 - married with 2 children.
vs.
Robert Tiller, height 5'7", weight 155lb, age 19, penis length 4 inches. Secret fetish, cuckolding. Secret crush, older sister Jordan Tiller age 22 - engaged 2 months pregnant.
"What the FUCK!" I shouted. I understood the app could probably data mined my name as being Christopher, and maybe my height, age and estimated weight, but how did it know my penis length and my crush on Lisa?
A message appeared on the screen.
Congratulations on being selected to participate in our game. The win condition of the game is very simple. The first player to reach 100 points wins the game and receives everything from the loser and we do mean EVERYTHING.
To score points simply look at your objective's menu. Point values are listed under each objective. You can buy tools to help you along the way, however the tools will cost you points.
Warning about tools. They will list how many times they can be used, and how often they can be used. However, there is only one of each tool for the entire game. If your opponent selects a tool before you do, you will forever be locked out of using that tool. Choose wisely.
If you do not have enough points to buy a tool, fear not you are allowed to overspend your account. Your score will not go into the negative but every point you lack to buy a tool will be a point given to your opponent. For example, if you need 20 points for a tool but only have 15, you can still buy the tool with your 15 points, but 5 points will also be added to your opponent's score.
To help get you started we have loaded 10 free points onto each of your accounts.
Also note you cannot purchase points with money, not that you two have any money. All points must be earned by completing objectives or opponent over spends.
Have fun and thank you for playing WINNER TAKES LOSER!
I read the message 5 or 6 times before clearing my head enough to click to the next screen.
I opened up the objectives menu. There were a lot of objectives listed, ranging in points from 1 point all the way up to 50 points. However, they were all greyed out and the text was blurred so it couldn't be read. All except for the first objective.
[Objective: Get Laid. Description: Any woman, anyway. Eligible to repeat 5 times. Reward: 5 Points each time.]
I then opened the tools menu. Here everything was available and listed by points value. There were a lot of interesting tools in there but one that caught my eye.
[Ticket to Ride. All transportation is free and always available for the durations of the game. - Price 5 points]
I liked the idea of having no transportation cost, so I bought the tool. My account dropped from 10 point to 5.
Going back to the main menu I expected there to be an overworld of some sort for me to navigate. I didn't see anything.
How lame I thought to myself, they hacked my phone just to install an unfinished beta test.
Figuring my workday was a complete loss, I got cleaned up and dressed to spend the rest of the day hiking the trails outside of town.
My other apps had appeared back on my phone. I typed the address I was going to into the phone and was shocked as the Uber I hailed pulled up right in front of me in less than 3 seconds.
The driver started driving the moment my seatbelt clicked. He was friendly and talkative. What's more amazing is we seemed to be skipping all the traffic and getting every green light on the way to out of town.
He dropped me off at my desired location, refusing to accept my cash tip. Stepping out of the car, my phone buzzed. It was the Uber app, saying my ride cost me $0.00. That's strange, I thought to myself. Must be a glitch.
The trails worked great for clearing my mind. Being the middle of a weekday there was far less people out than usual. It was wonderful. I stopped at the top of a hill by some benches. There were two Asian girls siting up there. I stopped to flirt with them a little. It turned out they were sisters, the younger one 18-year-old Alyson, the older 20 -year-old Alisa, both college students at the local community college.
I'm no virgin but the ladies don't flock to me either. The flirting was not going well. After a while the girls started to ignore me and go back to their own conversation, I pulled out my phone. That damn WTL app was the only thing available again. I opened it.
The objective menu had not changed. I looked in the tool menu and noticed another interesting tool.
