The first day in a new FEViR? game is always… weird. Lex doesn't know how else to describe it. First you mindlessly tap through the pages ofwarnings (as if anyone reads them and as if they're legally binding)followed by the character creator saying
[System warning:
For lower neural tency, lower rejection rates and highersynchronicity in Full Immersion Virtual Reality? environments it isrecommended to create a character close in appearance to your real world self.
Enjoy the game responsibly.
All our love and care,FEViR? management team.]
And then you get scanned, because you sort of believe that maybe starting with a character not like yourself could cause problems andthe st thing you want is to get a beginner sword through the kidneybecause a griefer took advantage of your g after loading in and nabbed your two beginner items. Because they're a dick.
Lex has had that happen, just once or twice.
He does add an extra half inch to his dick though. Because everyone does.
And then you're in the game with the dozens of other new pyers, many of whom did not heed the warning and are getting their lousy beginner gear nicked.
Or it's supposed to be like that. But either this game is not as popur as Lex was lead to believe, or he's really unlucky with his spawn point.
He waits for a couple of minutes, unwilling to stay in the cold snow forlonger than he has to, but even more unwilling to move away when he'sthe only one here. The minutes pass. He remains alone.
Frick.
He rubs his arms and trudges along what is probably the path to what is probably a vilge. The snow covered lumps look slightly more intentional than a snow drift, anyway.
It takes him twenty minutes of gruelling marching to decide that he wasright to think the distant bumps were man (or fantasy humanoid) made,and another fifty to actually get there.
He tumbles through the door of the lump with an "INN" sign swinging beneath the eaves.
Every eye in the building fixes on him as he enters. And then all but two turn away.
"Shit, man! You're a pyer, too?" The tall white man — somehow in gear thatlooks much better than what Lex is wearing — comes and cps him on theshoulder.
He seems relieved to see Lex.
"Where iseveryone?" he asks. The other people in the inn have the distinctmanners of NPCs. Very clever, highly developed,could-probably-pass-for-real-people-if-you-were-drunk-or-tired NPCs, but NPCs nonetheless.
"Fuck if I know," the other pyer says. "Could be the artificial staggering thing they're doing? You're the onlyperson I've seen in months."
"What?" Lex says, aghast.
"Could have logged out but…" the other pyer shrugs. "You know."
Lex does. In FEViR? you can put yourself on auto if you don't feel like actively pying. You give off the whiff of NPC for a few hours, and your consciousnessis brought back for the next interesting bit. God only knows how theykeep the pyer time synced up, but they do, and it means you don't have to spend real world time pying the boring parts of life. You justskip through. And then you get to be first. Though, apparently, not quite with this game.
And he did just spend more than an hour trudging through snow. Maybe he should have used it.
Lex pulls out his money pouch, slipping a couple of fingers inside to getan estimate of his starting wealth. At least five coins, maybe as manyas fifteen. Probably five silver, ten copper. "How much does this pcerun you a night?"
The other pyer waves him off. "They're allbooked. Three copper will get you a meal though, and as the only brainpowered company I've got here, you're officially invited to share myroom." He holds out a hand. "Orion"
"Lex," Lex replies, and with the introduction he can now see Orion's basic stats in the game overy. "Level thirty?" he says in wonder.
Orion chuckles, beckons him over to sit at one of the few free tables. "It's been a busy few months."
"I guess so…" Still, grinding to level thirty with no other pyers to keep you company... Lex can't imagine it. "You're having fun then?"
Orion's reply comes quickly and with full certainty. "Absolutely. The lore iswild, and the customisation items are like you wouldn't believe."
"Cool," Lex says, because he is a master of small talk.
"You got any you're aiming for?" Orion is waggling his eyebrows now. And okay, maybe that feature was the one that tipped Lex into committing his hardearned real world money to buying this game. It cimed that while youshouldn't start as anything but yourself, with the use of in game items, your character can become whatever you want. You just have to score the right drop.
Most of the promotional material dispyed tall elves, girls with cat earsand humans that are more muscle than anyone can hope to accomplish inreal life. But they also have a line of what have to be jokeads, implying that sure, those are options, but "flying fish" and"slime" are equally valid targets. As well as "Rick Astley" and "TheQueen." And those insane choices by the devs are why the preorders for World Vector broke every record there is to break.
"Sorta want to try the beastfolk ones," Lex admits, handing over what areindeed three copper coins from his starting purse to the sweet lookingdwarf girl who asks if they'll be eating.
"And can you bring ussome beers?" Orion asks the girl, before shaking his head at Lex. "Don't go for those. It's way too weird growing a tail. I tried it for twodays, but it was like I had a third leg, and it was only an inch long."
"Oh," Lex says. And he supposes that makes sense. But he still wants to giveit a go himself. Just because Orion didn't like it, doesn't mean Lexwill feel the same.
Their food arrives and it's surprisingly good. Some type of stew with lots of garlic and a little spice that drivesaway the st of the cold from outside.
Orion buys them more beer, and Lex is pleasantly buzzed when they stumble up to his room, closingthe door and muting all but the loudest sounds drifting up from thedining area.
At which point Orion starts pulling Lex's shirt off.
"What the hell are you doing?" Lex snaps, jerking away from Orion.
Orion blinks, his mind slow to change tracks after the copious amounts ofbeer. "Sorry I…" he trails off, then his expression changes to one ofhorror. "Fuck, sorry. It's just. I've been here so long, you know? Without another person, and now you're here and it's like, might as well pop my character'scherry, y'know?" He stumbles back another step — well out of Lex'spersonal bubble. He clears his throat, and before Lex can object, he'spulled down his trousers to reveal— "I've got the pussy for it andeverything."
Lex is so fucking confused.
He sags down withhis back against the door. Somehow being right at the exit is a comfort, though Orion could overpower him in an instant if he wanted to. Level thirty. The game blocks pyers from raping each other (without some heinouslylong opt ins anyway, for couples with a fetish that baffles Lex,) but violence is above board, and with no other pyers in the area, if Orion wanted to use violence to suggest Lex agree to sex, his options would be to do it or log out. And he only just started pying.
Besides, what happens in the snow covered starter vilge in the middle of nowhere stays in the snow covered starter vilge in the middle of nowhere, right?
"You really want to?" It's just… it's weird. Just because the game lets you have sex doesn't mean you have to have sex.
"Absolutely," Orion says. "Something about fucking NPCs feels off, y'know? Like theycan't really say no because they're programmed to be helpful orwhatever. And I have no idea how to get this thing off." He gestures tohis crotch and Lex is so pleased to know that his ears can heat up with embarrassment in the game.
"So why did you even…?" Lex asks, because Orion is implying his current equipment is not what he joined the game with.
Orion shrugs. "Wanted to try it out."
"Oh-kay," Lex says, slowly. He looks at Orion's crotch, still bare apart from the patch of hair that seems very tidy above his slit. "Can you getpregnant?" He figures he might as well ask all the weird as heckquestions at once, though each one seems to bring him closer and closerto sobriety. His dick twitches though. So he's at least a little intothe idea of sex with Orion.
"Nah, I have a pussy, not a womb," he says.
"And uh, you're a guy, right?"
"Yeah, and so are you. Look, it doesn't have to be that complicated, alright?We have a nice fuck, you stick your —I'm sure very nice — dick in myshiny new vagina and we go from there."
Well, when he puts it like that.
"Okay," he says, and Orion starts taking off Lex's clothes again, though hegoes straight for the fastening of his trousers this time. "Hang on," he says, and Orion looks ticked. "No, it'll be better if I, uh, get you started," he swallows, "a bit." And he reaches to gently rub his fingers against Orion's folds.
Orion's expression becomes one of utter bafflement as Lex guides him to sit onthe bed with his legs spread so Lex can try to get him the least bitslick and opened before just ramming his dick in him. But hefinds his clit and rubs it at the same time as he slips a finger insidehim. Orion looks like Lex just solved a riddle that has been stumpinghim for weeks.
"Women— well not women, obviously — need uh, some prep. For it to feel good, their first time," Lex expins. He is so not the best person to give this guy how to get your pussy off 101. "If there's going to be penetration."
"I want your dick in me," Orion says, almost mechanically. Which Lex isgoing to put down to Orion having no idea how to process the fact thathis vagina is getting distinctly wet under Lex's ministrations, and not a sign of him sucking at fingering pussy.
"Okay, well," Lex says, and unfastens his trousers and removes theanachronistic underwear to give himself some quick strokes. He usesOrion's slick to coat himself, and then lines himself up with Orion'sslit. He's just beginning to ask and you're sure? again, when Orion all but climbs onto his dick.
The sensation is every bit as good as sex in the real world.
"You good?" he asks, because it seems polite, though with how Orion picks him up, nearly effortlessly — level thirty — and rearranges him so he can ride Lex, his pussy clenching down on Lex's dick in time with his thrusts,he thinks he can tell the answer and doesn't need words from the man. He can just lose himself in the sensation of it.
Lex comes in shortorder. He's still a little concerned about pregnancy, but if Orion issure he doesn't have a uterus then maybe he doesn't have a uterus. Andmaybe the game doesn't support pregnancy anyway. It seems like it wouldbe a pain to implement, but this is a game which made him walk for anhour in the snow, so who knows what they're thinking.
As Lex'sorgasm fades, something starts to feel… weird. Orion rides him throughit, and his expression slowly turns into a sneer. When he pulls offLex's dick, a notification pings.
[New item acquired!
[My darling's darling cock ring]
Effects:
Auto-equip
When this item enters your possession it is automatically equipped
Increased libido II
Decreased phallus size (time modifier, unknown modifier)
Decreased scrotum size (time modifier, unknown modifier)
Cursed item!
To remove this item removal criteria must be met. Removal criteria met: 0/2
Growth
This item can evolve! Evolution criteria met: 0/2
Alignment: Void
Oh, that old thing? I needed my sweetie to learn to containhimself and went a smiiiiidge overboard. But he looks sooooo cute now!!And I think he likes his tiny teeny weenie really~~
It still needs more improvements, so I'll keep working on it!!!! Fight fight!!
— Vuide of the void]
Lex has enough time to think "Oh, frick" before Orion's sword slices through his neck.