Disclaimer:
This story is purely fictitious and not suitable for anyone that is below the legal age in their country to view pornographic material. All characters involved in the story are either the age of eighteen or older, and belong to myself. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Reader discretion is advised.
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"Hey. What's two plus two?"
Is it a new Master PC story?
"N-no? Why would you ask such a thing?"
Because you kept telling me about an idea you had while I was elsewhere trying to finish the Raygun story mere minutes ago.
"You're here now, though."
So I am.
"... You down?"
Like the clown that I am.
"You're a good man. Or, woman... What
are
you, anyways?"
We're not going over this again. Go ahead and get started before I change my mind and go back to-
"Sorry that we've neglected the other Master PC tale that we started a year ago, folks!"
It's still a work in progress, but it's the most convoluted thing we've ever done thus far, so bear with us just a bit longer.
"In the meantime, enjoy this mostly non-meta story that we've been itching to do for some time now!"
Behold!
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Master PC: Selfcest
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Chapter 1:
"Just Another Night In"
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Jessie groaned when she walked through the door of her small apartment, lazily tossing her backpack onto the living room's couch as she shuffled off to the kitchen. In the span of a single minute, the twenty-three-year-old college drop-out had grabbed a plate from an overhead cabinet, thrown down a couple of frozen chimichangas onto it, stuffed it into the microwave to cook for a bit, and then relocated to her room to disrobe. Her work uniform, which consisted of a pair of black slacks and a dark-purple polo T-shirt, was ripe with sweat and body odor that her cheap deodorant wasn't able to fully protect against after enough time had passed.
The day had been long, her job as a telemarketer had been as mentally exhausting as ever, and Jessie had been itching to get back home to relax as soon as she'd walked out of the door that morning. With about three hours left in the evening before she needed to go to sleep and get a solid six-hours of rest, Jessie planned on spending that time winding down with a few beers and some mind-numbing video games, per the usual routine. Her life was as average and dull as they come, and while the scrawny young woman yearned for a more lavish, luxurious lifestyle, she was well-aware that she would need to put forth some serious effort to make that become a reality.
Oh well, she carelessly thought. Her family had never been wealthy, nor did any of them really keep in touch with each other. She came from a long and unimpressive line of loners and shut-ins, but didn't really mind all of that. Even if she were suddenly rich and gorgeous overnight, Jessie couldn't imagine herself going out and being all that sociable with a bunch of strangers. Hell, a few of her work friends often invited her out to a bar or some other related activity, but Jessie would always decline, preferring to keep to herself instead of force a sense of enjoyment around those who expected her to be having a good time with the rest of their strange little clique. Nothing against those guys, or bars in general, Jessie thought to herself; she just valued the time that she could spend in peaceful solitude above all else, and it was cheaper to drink at home, anyway.
Admittedly, she had no real drive, she had no ambitions above maintaining a simple and quiet life, and she viewed intimate relationships as a hassle, at the end of the day. Jessie hadn't had a romantic interest since her brief time at the local college in town, only having been enrolled for about six months before easily giving up on it all, and she didn't miss the headaches that came along with trying to please a pretty boy by pretending that she actually had any sort of drive to make something of her life, nor did she have any desire to play the role of housewife to someone who expected her to clean up after and cook for them in her downtime. After the last guy broke up with her, she didn't see the point in trying to keep someone around that couldn't just accept her for the lazy nerd that she was deep down.
At this point, she had everything he needed for the most part, and was honestly content with her boring lifestyle. After she'd gotten dressed in a pair of thin, black pajama-bottoms and an equally thin, dark-grey, long-sleeved shirt, Jessie exited her room to grab a cold beer from the fridge and the plate of cheap burritos from the microwave, then went off into the living room from the small, attached kitchen and plopped herself down onto the couch. She set the items down on her coffee table around the junk cluttering its surface, then grabbed the small bottle of hot sauce that'd been sitting out on one of its corners and doused her food with it. The spicy, bold aromas that attacked her nostrils caused her to wince for a moment, but before long she was already digging into the quickly made meal she'd prepared. During that time, she opened up the laptop sitting in the table's center and was searching through her extensive list of digital games for something to play and pass the time with.
Nothing looked all that fun or entertaining at the moment, she thought. Sure, there were a few titles in the files that still haven't even been opened or played, but that was mainly because they'd been on sale on the online store at some point and Jessie just figured that she would get to them eventually. Even though she'd saved plenty of money by buying them at the time, the funds were ultimately wasted since she never bothered to actually play most of them even once.
With the plate now half-empty and one beer already finished, Jessie was just about to give up and just watch some TV instead.
As soon as she closed the file and got a good look at her laptop's home screen, a certain program caught her eye, one that she didn't at all recognize.
Its icon was a simple, black square with a glittery, green "M" in its center. The letter appeared to be animated to some degree as it twinkled in Jessie's confused gaze, and even shifted out of place in reality itself on some level whenever she moved her head or slightly altered where her view was focused, as if there was a split-second delay for it to readjust and fall back into where it should be positioned. Underneath the icon, it read:
"MasterPCv1point3.exe"
Jessie furrowed her brow, having no idea what the hell it was for nor any memory of installing any program with that title. The strangeness of its abstract appearance kept her from immediately dismissing it as a strange form of malware or spyware, and Jessie found that she was more curious than anything to find out its purpose. Had she bought another game in one of her drunken stupors and forgotten about it completely?
It was possible, but unlikely, she thought.
Welp, there was only one way to find out. But first, she made a quick run to the kitchen to get herself another cold and tasty beverage. Once that was done, she moved the wireless mouse sitting next to the laptop and aimed the cursor right above the icon, then double-clicked.
The screen went black for a few long seconds, and Jessie's heart thumped hard in her chest as she began to wonder if she'd just been locked out of her own PC by some bizzare and elaborate virus. Just as her index finger quickly shot towards the power button, the screen came back to life, and an empty, green box appeared on screen. The following text that was slowly written out in basic, green letters read:
"Welcome to Master PC's Command Center..."
"The Master allows you to become a virtual god to the people around you."
"You now possess the power to bend their reality to your specifications."