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How do you tell your girlfriend that she is an interactive part of a computer BDSM torture site? And how do you keep her from going to the police?
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Alex set his cell phone down on his desk and brought the four computer monitors in his desk arrangement to life. One was a permanent monitor of his "Screams" websites and showed traffic, income, etc; the second monitored the more traditional porn sites that he maintained for various clients, the third was a control computer used solely to update the sites; and the fourth was his personal computer on which he did all the programming and testing. The computers were on a satellite link. Each computer had a separate IP and none, except his personal unit, was traceable to this location.
"How he hell did she log onto the 'Alice Screams' site?" he muttered to himself. His eyes jumped from screen to screen trying to figure out what to do. He could see that she was logged on using his control sign-in and password. It was different for each site, but was always the email logon he had helpfully given each girl.
"Stupid to use their own names on their sites," he muttered to himself, and then added, "but that can't be changed right now."
He ran his fingers through his hair and exhaled heavily. This was very bad. Somehow she saw herself and she knew what he had done. His hands hovered over his keyboard waiting for his mind to give instruction to his fingers.
Suddenly he shouted, "It can all be changed! I can make it go away!" He remembered the basic program outline. The programs call up the avatar and insert it as needed. All he had to do was change the avatar specifications in the avatar folders. Even the "videos" just recreated the flow of the site and called up the avatars as needed. The entire site didn't have to change, only the avatar had to change.
He still had some major modifications to do to all of his sites, but for now, a temporary solution was at hand. He renamed the entire sub-directory that was Alice to DONT_USE. And that dark haired blond that wasn't on line yet - Beverly - her sub-directory he changed to Alice123. It was as simple as that.
Alex quickly downloaded the changes to the servers and watched on the monitor as Computer Alice morphed into Computer Beverly. Now he had to get over to Alice's and learn how she had found out about the site and why she was so hysterical. He had known that she might get mad if she found out her avatar was on a porn site, but this was way beyond that. He was still certain that she had not discovered he had implanted her or that the implant connected her subconscious emotional responses to the avatar on the website to give totally realistic life-like responses. She couldn't even suspect such an interactive implant because such technology did not exist - at least it did not exist on earth. And it would not exist on his websites if he had not cloned the technology when the lizard people asked for his assistance.
A few minutes later, Alex was knocking on Alice's door. She opened the door wearing what she had been wearing since she woke up from her nightmare, which was exactly nothing. Her body was still glistening with sweat and she smelled of fear, but she didn't care. She pounded both fists on Alex's chest and screamed, "What the hell did you do to me, Alex?! Why are my nightmares on a pornographic website? And why is one of the monsters that tortures me using your voice?"
"Alice, I can explain. You aren't going to believe this, but I can explain. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. The connection was supposed to be one way and only while you were asleep. You were never supposed to be aware of any of this. I would never do this to you intentionally, and besides, I really didn't have a choice anyway. The Coughmex..."
Alex's rapid and rambling explanation stopped suddenly as Alice slapped him hard across the face and then kicked him swiftly in the balls. He dropped in the doorway groaning and gasping.
"What do you mean, you had no choice?!" screamed Alice. You asked me to pose for that avatar. You set me up. That was your choice! I am going to call the police and you can explain it to them."
Alex recovered slightly and gasped out. "I've changed the site. You can't prove anything."
Alice glared down at him with her phone in her hand.
Alex continued, "There is no way to absolutely connect me to the site. Besides, what happens on those sites isn't possible. The police will think you're nuts. Please don't make that call. It will only make it worse for you. Please let me explain."
Alice now stood trembling above Alex as he lay prone in her doorway. She was standing directly over his head and as he looked up he was looking straight into her still-shaved slit. "You kept it shaved," he said and immediately regretted his words as Alice's foot stomped down on his stomach.
"Please, tell me what has happened to you and let me explain," Alex managed to grunt out as he struggled to get to his feet. "Maybe I can help you."
Alice turned and walked back into her apartment. "Get your ass in here. You have five minutes and then I am calling the police."
Alex pulled himself to his feet, pulled the door closed behind him and staggered to the table where Alice sat. "Could you put something on?" he asked. It's kind of hard to talk to you while you are sitting there naked."
"The whole world has seen me naked because of you," she replied coldly. "Deal with it."
"OK. It all started when I put out an internet spam-bot to promote my avatar creation business. A couple of my friends are part of a hacker group and I gave them a few avatars in payment for an ad that would travel the net and pop up on likely sites. It said I had the best avatars in the universe. I used an avatar-style image of you as an example on the ad. There was no way that I could have known that the Coughmex were monitoring the net."
"The WHO?" interjected Alice.
"The Coughmex..." sputtered Alex. "... the lizard guys. At least Coughmex is as close as I can come to saying what it is that they call themselves. Anyway, they were passing by and saw the ad and stopped in to see me."
"Passing by? Two lizard guys just drove down your street and stopped and said hello?"
"They were passing by earth, and they beamed down here or whatever. They said they were lonely in space and their computer generated... uh... companions... wouldn't work because they were too far away from their home planet. They explained how certain Coughmex were implanted with a transponder that enabled them to interact with computer programs. In effect, their emotional and physical responses guided the avatar. It all happens at a subconscious level and only while you are asleep so you never know what is happening - or at least that is the way it is supposed to work."
"And you implanted me! You rotten no good pile of shit!!!"
Alex ducked under the table and yelled out, "Like I said. I didn't have a choice. They specifically wanted you. They gave me a ton of gold for expenses and furnished the designs for the equipment and the transponders. I created the websites with a few enhancements from their technology. There are currently 22 avatars - different sizes, colors and genders. They are spread out around the world so that some of them are always asleep at any given time. No one else has reported any of the problems that you have."
"So take this out of me and take me out of your porn playhouse."
"I can't."
"What do you mean you can't."
"The Coughmex specifically requested you. If I take you off the site permanently, they will come back here and.... and..."
"What, kill you? I'd gladly help them annihilate you!"
"No, not me. They said they would destroy the earth if I didn't help them."
Alice suddenly found herself running back into the bathroom to throw up. When she came back into the kitchen, Alex was seated at the table.