(Fair Warning ~ This gender swapped, action/adventure, sci-fi hentai litRPG features elements of non-consensual sex, sex with aliens, monsters and other non-humans, tentacle stuff, seduction, coercion, dominance and submission, male/female sex -well kinda, maybe however you want to classify the gender-swapped sex...on top of the violence, fantasy elements, and plot stuff... Or it may not...every chapter's a little different. If you're still in...please enjoy, and thanks for reading! ~Karin Mac)
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Logging In.
It started with an email from a buddy of mine.
Holy shit, bro! You have to check out this new VRG I found! It's fucking unbelievable! Meet me at
The Grid
tonight, I'm strapping in at 7!
It was from Tommy, we'd been tight ever since we were kids. He'd always been way more into gaming than me, but ever since virtual reality tech had reached complete neuro-immersive capabilities...he'd become a little obsessed. I didn't judge him, I played regularly, but he could have been the poster-child for all those groups lobbying to have the VR games outlawed.
See, these games were jacked directly into your brain. When you were inside a game you would see, smell, feel, hear, and EVERYTHING else, just like you were there! Of course, people began to worry that this would allow the game corporations to do things like mind-control and all the other dystopian bullshit that sci-fi books and movie have always warned us about. Not mention the groups that feared addictive qualities, and of course more than a few old timers who just didn't like anything new.
The government made those corporations do all kinds of studies to prove that mind control was impossible. Some subliminal suggestion was found to be effective, but no more than your average Pepsi commercial. Plus, the companies producing this tech were making tons of money, and giving big political kickbacks, so VR gaming wasn't going anywhere soon.
Anyway, Tommy wasn't the kind of guy to get excited easily, and hyperbole was never his thing. If he called a game "fucking unbelievable" then it was worth checking out.
I ground through the afternoon at work, unable to stop myself from wondering what kind of game could be so "unbelievable." I'd played the fantasy VRMMORPG's and walked in their sprawling, magical country sides. I'd tried the realistic combat simulators, which were intense, but undercut by the fact you still knew you couldn't actually die. I'm not even too proud to admit that I tried one or two of the porno games, which...alright, those were pretty fun...until you had to get out of the rig and face the operators. You felt like a real pervert then.
When I finally got off work, I swung by home to change out of my monkey suit and grab some dinner before heading off to meet Tommy.
The Grid
was an off-books VRcade that only the most avid gamers knew about. Them and the few friends they brought, like Tommy had me. It was actually an early access facility, games that had moved beyond beta testing but weren't quite ready for commercial release. Sometimes games that were never going to be released commercially for one reason or another.
I was never 100% comfortable in the games at The Grid. Sometimes there were still glaring bugs, that ruined the fun or sounded dangerous even. I'd heard rumors about a girl that ended up stuck in a game for two days once, because her logout prompt was buggy. Not sure how I'd deal with something like that. I played pretty casually, truth is I was never very good at any game I played. I just wanted to escape reality for a few hours, have a little fun, logout and go home.
It was after seven by the time I got to The Grid. I went inside to find someone working the counter who I didn't recognize. Since, I wasn't a frequent visitor though, this didn't trigger any red flags. He was tall, a little too old to be working admissions at a VRcade, but smiled at me like he knew me.
"Welcome to The Grid," he beamed. "What game are we playing tonight?"
"Oh shit," I replied, Tommy hadn't mentioned the name. "I just realized I don't know...buddy of mine sent me an email today, said there was a new game, said it was-"
"Fucking unbelievable?"
"Uhh, yeah?" I nodded. "Guess that's the going consensus?"
"Seems to be...5 btc, please."
It was the usual rate. Five bitcoin for as long as you could play before the Vitals Monitoring System sensors determined your vitals might be dipping too low and forced you to logout for food and water, or to get some sleep or whatever. I tapped my cellphone on the pay terminal and the man smiled again.
"This way..."
"Wait," I said. "I'm actually supposed to be meeting my buddy Tommy...is he here, do you know?"
The man paused, scratching his chin. "Tommy? Oh, yes, he said he was meeting a friend but he went ahead and logged in. Said to see you on the other side."
That sounded like Tommy. Especially when he was in full on obsession mode with a game. I nodded, and the man led on. He took me to a room at the back, knocked on the door twice. A gorgeous young woman opened the door and smiled at me. She was wearing a lab coat and glasses, and was simply way too hot to be working at The Grid.
"Oh hello," she said through a perfect-toothed grin. "Ready to try the new game I see?"
I chuckled, feeling myself blush. "Sure, I hear it's-"
"Fucking unbelievable!" she cut me off.
"Geez, is that the name of the game or something?" I laughed.
She hurried me inside, shutting the door behind me. Seeing the set up took my breath away. Before me was a huge wall lined with boxes, reminding me of a mausoleum. They were made from some nearly translucent polymer and back lit by radiant neon lights. I could just barely make out the shapes of bodies lying in some of them. Across from that was a huge control console, like something you'd expect to see at SpaceX.
Normally the game rooms were just full of cots or recliners, and you logged in with a helmetlike neuro-rig. The operator would have a single desktop computer on some flimsy folding table, to monitor the game systems, but nothing like this.
The pretty operator walked over to the wall, found an empty case and tapped the control panel. It slid open smoothly and inside I could see a much more streamlined version of the neuro-rig. This was next level stuff.
"So, uh, what's with the coffins," I joked trying hide a sudden nervousness.
She grinned at me. "This is where the tech is headed, a more luxurious experience and all that...y'know, like when they started putting recliners in movie theaters."
Seemed obvious when she put it like that, still I wasn't thrilled at the prospect of being sealed in a plastic tube, just to play a VR game. Still, my intrigue overrode my apprehension and when she motioned for me to lay down, I did.
The bottom was some kind of malleable silicone, molding itself perfectly to my back. It was so comfortable my apprehension vanished, laying on those lumpy cots always left me sore and cramped, this would surely eliminate that aspect of gaming.
She helped me put on the new neuro-rig, barely more than a headband, and asked if I was ready, then tapped a button near my shoulder. I felt the coffin sliding back into place. The neon light brightened to a blinding, almost painful proportion and suddenly I felt the sickening lurch as the neuro-rig took me in.
Tutorial.
Everything was a formless white void for a moment. Then a face appeared before me. Actually, a row of faces, and above them a flashing words that read:
CHARACTER SELECTION
.
Damn, I preferred games where I could customize my avatar. At least this game had a huge list of pre-fab characters to choose from though. I scrolled through, seeing only names and faces, wasn't much to go on. I noticed some of them were blocked which I assumed to meant those had been chosen by other players already. I wondered if this were some kind of PVP arena game...guess I'd find out soon enough.
Eventually I scrolled past a face that kind of resembled mine...or at least how I imagined mine would look if they ever made a movie about me. This face sported rugged good looks, a sharp jawline, piercing green eyes, dark cropped hair, and went by the name Mercer.
Reaching out with my mind to select Mercer, suddenly the face beside his started flashing instead, and the words:
YOU HAVE SELECTED LEX!
Flashed before me. Who the hell was Lex? This was a pretty glaring bug, nothing could ruin a game as quickly as running around in a body that you didn't like being in. That's why most VRG's let you customize your avatar these days.
There was a sudden sensation as if I was rising upwards, and then I came through a sort of energy portal into an actual room. It was always something of a relief when you came out of the void into the actual game simulation with familiar dimension and space. This chamber was a perfect cube, with seamless metallic walls.
I stepped forward off the energy portal, and immediately noticed an odd swaying feeling from my chest and hips. I looked down at myself to see a pair of breasts. I quickly took in the rest of my body... My avatar had silky, bright green hair falling past a pair of rounded shoulders, slender arms ending in distinctly feminine hands, a narrow waist with gently curving hips and a full round booty leading down to a pair of long legs. Lex was a fucking GIRL!?
I was wearing a shiny purple half jacket, over a blue tube top which left my stomach bare. Below that was a pair of skin tight booty shorts, the same purple as the jacket, which didn't quite cover my ample butt cheeks. Below that, a pair of black, knee high, high-heeled boots. Not just a girl, I was your typical sexy video game babe. Fucking unbelievable!
I know lots of people play opposite gendered avatars in VRGs and I don't judge, who cares? It's never been my thing though, in fact the thought had always left me mildly uncomfortable. Especially in the games with sex mechanics, and...wait!
I quickly stuck my new, feminine hands into those skin-tight shorts and probed my crotch. Sure enough, I felt the soft fleshy folds of labia and the opening of a vagina...my vagina. It was smooth and hairless, sensitive to the touch, and sent a pleasant little shiver up my spine just from my meager inspection. This game certainly had some form of sexual pleasure mechanics.
I wondered if I could just log out and choose another avatar. I opened my HUD and inspected the stats. Lex...I was a HUMAN intergalactic BOUNTY HUNTER (Lvl 1) with 50HP. I specialized in energy weapons, with a weakness in Close Quarters Combat. My inventory was empty and there was a list of special skills that had to be unlocked before I could see them. It was a pretty standard layout for a VRG but where the logout command usually was, instead there was a flashing button:
START GAME
.
Guessing I would have to start before I could log out, I tapped the button. Immediately I heard static in my left ear, as if I were wearing an ear piece. Then a predictably gravelly male voice began to speak.
"Lex, this is Lt. Commander Dreg of the Intergalactic Space Navy, thank god I reached you!"
