Forsaken 2027

by Sharon Leslie

  I truly don't know if I'm happy about this. I think although these are NPCs; they have programmed feelings too, especially the ones that the sub routine EIs run. They are nearly life like in their interactions. Look at Col Saunders, he was so lifelike he could have been Mr KFC himself, though a rather overweight one.

  Chapter 37

  Opening The POD

  They separated into teams, Sophie, Toni and Bethany picked the kitchen to look at first while Cain worked with Lesley. Cain and Lesley went over to the bed area and chairs while the others went through the cupboards. "Well, that is all the wall units gone through," said Sophie as Toni and Bethany were on their knees looking through a few of cupboards and three draw units. Toni laid on her back while Bethany reopened the draws one at a time. They did this so Toni could check nobody had taped the letter beneath them.

  Cain picked up each chair and gave them a shake, making sure nothing was down the back or sides, while Lesley on her knees looks underneath them. Chairs searched they moved over to the bed, stripping the quilt then sheet. Together they flipped the super-sized mattress, leaving it propped against a chair. Cain then lifted the base at one edge as Lesley looked under it and for anything taped to the bottom.

  Their search completed they remade the bed while Toni and her helpers put everything back in the cupboards. Cain walked over to the POD, and they looked at the pipes and cylinders, but could see nothing. Cain was turning to go when he noticed Lesley stood at the side of the Perspex POD cover rubbing the thin coating of ice away.

  Lesley's hand came snapped up to her mouth as she stifled a small scream.

  "What's wrong?" Cain asked as he walked to her side. Noticing the layer of ice was slowly melting.

  "There's a beautiful woman inside, a beautiful naked woman, she has large breasts, trim waist nice hips and long blonde hair and her eyes are fluttering," Lesley said. Then she let out a scream and jumped back as the woman's blue eyes snapped open, looking straight at her, then closed again. Everybody came over and looked, but the woman's eyes were still closed.

  "Don't worry about it, we are all on edge. It's easy to believe you've seen something happen when there is no proof it happened," said Sophie. "Trust me I'm a doctor, well of animals but the facts are still true." Taking another look, Sophie was about to ask Toni something, and she formed the words, when the woman's eyes popped open, this time staying open. Sophie's scream was louder than Lesley's.

  "So, I imagined it did I?" Lesley said, then laughed as she continued speaking. "So, how do we get her out of there? I can't see any release catch, can any of you?" They all looked around the POD, Cain used the strength of his legs and lifted the two heavy cylinders enough so Toni could see underneath them. Nobody found the message or the way to release the POD cover.

  "She is shivering," said Bethany, "her nipples have gone erect, her skin is covered in goosebumps. We need to get her out now."

  "All of us grab hold of the Perspex lid and try to lift it off," said Cain. They all grabbed around the Perspex lid trying to prise it open, but to no avail.

  The woman inside started noticeably shivering, and her lips turned blue. They could tell she was struggling to breathe.

  "Could you shoot it and make a hole in the cover?" Lesley asked, "would that let air in?"

  "Let's try again before we try that. Who knows the damage we could do, if we tried shooting through the Perspex," Cain replied. Everyone tried again, they grab an edge or just pushed on the surface in case the lid could slide open.

  They all pushed, tried lifting but nothing was happening, that was until the woman inside watched while gasping for breath. In a panic, the woman banged on the Perspex, but everybody else had stopped.

  "One more time," said Toni, "we can't just do nothing. Let's try once more before Cain has to try shooting the cover. Everybody push down on the lid, we’ve tried every other way. Come on, this has to work." They all put their hands on the cover at the same time the woman banged her fist on the inside of the lid. They all pressed down together something seemed to give, they could hear an audible click.

  Releasing the lid, they could hear inrushing air as the Perspex lid finally opened. Everyone hugged each other, shared high fives, and exchanged kisses as the lid fully opened.

  "Where am I?" said the woman. "I recognise nobody here, are some of you new medical staff or prison wardens? Why am I naked? What are you all wearing and why are you all armed?" she added, as she tried covering herself up then gave up. Taking a bathrobe from out of the shower/toilet room, Toni handed it to the woman, who quickly wrapped it around herself.

  "Hi, I'm called Toni, this hunk here is my boyfriend, partner, maybe significant other, we'll see. Sorry, his real name is Cain. That beautiful one who looks similar almost identical, her with the brown hair, her real name is Lesley. I have the purple hair, so it's easy to tell us apart. The woman on your right that is Sophie while the woman down at your feet is Bethany. Now, just so you know, these are our real names, you can only use them when typing in party chat, not in speaking when in the game."

  "Seriously, is this some joke? Has Jasper De Vries, sent you to finish what those women failed at in the shower block, yesterday?" the woman asked

  "Sorry, but can you come and sit down? We need to talk to you, and we will get you some clothing, you'll feel better clothed. Come sit in this chair. We would like you to tell us your full name, your gaming tag, says they call you, Stomme Trut001," said Toni.

  "The one thing none of us knows is what," Toni looses her focus as Rahab speaks to her.

  [I do, but let her tell you her story]

  "Sorry about the interruption, some pest keeps talking to me, that what your name is, and we can't just call you the woman or a woman, can we? But we can call you Stomme if that is ok with you?" Toni added Don't tell me, let her say what it means.

  Unpacking Truths

  Stomme, initially cried, as it all overwhelmed her, the people, their questions and waking in a POD naked. Sophie helped her, she whispered to her. She led her into the shower/toilet area, to use the toilet and refresh herself. A few moments they returned. Still slightly sobbing but now wearing one of the spare combat outfits, the female named Stomme talked. Quiet at first but with growing vigour by the end.

  "My name is Daphne, not Stomme. That means stupid in Dutch while Trut means bitch. I do not understand what is going on, I am twenty-eight, and I am serving time in prison for running a non-existent brothel. They set me up, well he set me up, a corrupt politician called Jasper De Vries." Daphne did not notice Toni and Cain looking at her with shocked looks on their faces.

  "I was before they sent me to jail, an investigative journalist. But De Vries had evidence against me along with the judge who was blind to the truth. My editor and even my solicitor they were corrupt, most likely on De Vries payroll. I found evidence that De Vries was receiving monies from a rich person as the EC minister for infrastructure he was selling prime pieces of land and buildings for a pittance to a Jason Valkoinen.

  I had all the evidence I needed and went to my editor so it could go into the paper on Saturday fifteenth of September twenty twenty-nine. The police arrested me, three days before the date. My scumbag editor said I had been vague about what I was doing over the past six months.

  They held a fast trial in my case, I wasn't allowed bail and nine days later. As a person involved in running brothels, they harshly deal with them. I allegedly accepted a plea bargain, reducing the time I would spend in jail. That was three days ago on the twenty-fourth of September 2029.

  I remember being forced to go to the shower block, being physically dragged there by two huge bitch warders. Unsurprising, the shower block was empty, but I still didn't want to shower. I tried fighting against the guards, but they beat me, one Tasered me. As I was flopping around on the ground, that is when one warder stripped some of my clothing off me, and hit me several times until I tried doing as I was told, taking the rest of my own clothes off. I was shaking so much she finall
y ripped everything off me.

  She stripped then forced me to have sex with her; she had a stupid tattoo of a hummingbird just below her navel. Anyway, as she was roughly fingering me and laughing at my predicament as I laid over her knees. I remember everything suddenly going black. To be honest, I thought my mind had protected me from the assault. I wake up when I don't know and find four beautiful and deadly women and a hot bloke looking into my POD.

  Why am I here? And why do I have big boobs, blonde hair and why am I white? Oh, yes, just in case it comes up, I am not married not any more; I have got no children. My partner left me, the judge allowed him to divorce me during the trial. He wrote accusing me of not letting him have free sex with my brothel workers.

  He said I pimped him out to keep my girls in check. Knowing what a real man was they would stay to get service by him. Seriously, the judge bought that crap. I thought I loved my husband, but he was crap in bed, he couldn’t even bring me to an orgasm. I hate Jasper De Vries, and I want to see him dead." said Daphne.

 

  Cain, Toni and Sophie went to sit with Daphne and brought her up to speed, while Lesley and Bethany went looking for some food they were around thirty minutes in their tasks when a system prompt flashed up on everyone's HUD, including Daphne's.

  "Neuken me, what is that?" Daphne asked

  "That Daphne, is a system-wide message, telling everybody playing Forsaken, that the system will shut down in eight hours. To be honest, we want you to join our clan, Joseph and his DreamBabes," said Toni

  "If you answer a question or two for me, then I will join his clan," Daphne replied.

  Daphne asked her questions and together Toni then Cain answered them. The hardest one Toni answered first,

  "Yes, we all sleep with Cain. He has forced none of us, in fact rather reserved until we get going. We have found out we all needed to sleep with Cain for us to access both a hidden portal and get Harem bonuses. That is all five females need to sleep with him. Each of us have, more than once, Cain here has plenty of staying power and a nice penis, we all think so, don't we girls?

  Cain has a nice-sized penis. Out in the real world, Cain and me, we are in a relationship. Although it is new, it is strong, we both have deep feelings for each other. We have known each other for two years, more or less."

  "So, the question you will find the hardest to accept is that not only have they placed you in a VRMMORPG without your knowledge or acceptance. Your time line is out, a lot. The date is not where you think it is. You said the last you remembered was that you were in prison on the twenty-fourth of September 2029, having that shower.

  Then everything went black for you while being raped in the shower. Although you have only now just woken up, time has passed, it is now a quarter past eleven in the evening.

  Today is Sunday the twenty-third of September 2035. The politician who framed you, so you tell us, Jasper De Vries. He is now the leader of the EC parliament, based in London." said Toni.

  {I've passed all the information about the women on to John. He assured me that Lesley, Sophie and Bethany will have two teams of armed security, 24/7. While Daphne was telling you her story, especially about Jasper De Vries. I had Rahab hack the EC parliament servers and his email accounts, all of them.

  He is meeting with a Richter Krueger in London on this coming Wednesday. I know you had dealings with Krueger, so I need not tell you what he does, for the highest bidder. I think it is safe to assume the target will be Daphne.} Enoch told Cain.

 

 

 

 

 

  While the group was messaging each other, Daphne had to think hard, she sat nursing a large mug of tea. How can 6 years have gone just like that? I mean, I was getting raped in the shower, obviously on De Vries's orders. Sick perverted bastard. I received a four-year sentence, how come I'm not a free person?

  How can I even be in a game? I've played VR before as part of my research into VR sex clubs, now that was fun, but games set in the past after the war. I'll deal with the game part later. But what about their clan, party or Harem? Do I want to be in a harem? Daphne thought.

  They all seem to get on well, I've seen the little intimate touches, they all give to each other. Can I accept being in part of this group? I've had female lovers in the past, but never more than one at a time and never had a man added in the mix. It may just be fun, they all seem OK with it.

  There does not seem to be a hierarchy although I bet Toni is the top female because of her real-life relationship with Cain. Look, there they go all touchy-feely, nothing said but the touches and looks. Toni may be the top female, but the others are touching, feeling, with one another. Yes, I think I would like to be part of this group, in a game no less, maybe in the real world too, now that would be fun.

  Lesley and Bethany, made the meal from ingredients they found. They handed out a plate of tuna-pasta-sweet corn to everyone, including Daphne. They sat around the table to eat after they finished, Toni went to sit on Cain's legs in an armchair. Sophie sat the chair's arm, her arm around Cain's shoulders. Lesley sat in the opposite chair with Bethany curled up on her legs, her head resting on Lesley's shoulder. They waited on Daphne to make her decision.

  Chapter 38

  Harem All Joined

  Look at them all just waiting for me, to decide. "OK, yes I know it's all strange, odd even, but I believe what you have told me. Some things I will have to work out, but I would like to join your group," Daphne said.

  "I'll give you a chance to step away, and we will try finding another woman. If you join the clan as another DreamBabe, you will make yourself a target for Jason White," Cain said.

  "I'm already a target of De Vries and Jason Valkoinen. So, I'm in, please send me the party invite, and how do I change my name?" Daphne asked.

  "Do it lover boy, then we can have fun finding the message after we've watched Daphne, Toni and you have fun while we watch from the sidelines," said Lesley. Accepting the party join request, Toni told her how to change her name, which she easily managed. Happy now her name had changed, Daphne had two pop-up messages appear on her HUD.

  "Wow, they're neat, how do I save them, get rid of them?" Daphne asked. While reading the large one about her first then a small one about the harem.

  "Yeah, I'm level 13, that is fantastic, I'm not starting the game as a noob. What are your levels? What does Lesley mean, about sidelines?" Daphne asked.

  "Can one of you please tell me how to get rid of these two messages, damned annoying things floating in my field of vision, no matter where I move my head." Daphne asked.

  Cain posted the new group stats so Daphne could see where everybody was regarding levels and health.

  Daphne went over to Toni and Cain, asking them what did Lesley mean by having sex and putting on a show. They told her about the quest to find Vince, Toni's former colleague, an undercover frau
d policeman, who was investigating Jason White.

  Vince, they told her was part of the development team that wrote the game; he wrote a separate piece of code that activates hidden portals in each of the game zones. Well, assuming we find the document or letter which tells us how to bloody well manage it.

  They left Daphne to think about things, and everyone sat in their chairs and sofas and relaxed. Lesley went out and back up to the bookshelf and grabbed the first four books from the Monster Hunt NYC series. After reading the blurb beneath the poster, she wanted to see if the book would scratch an itch she was having.

  Bethany grabbed Sophie's hand, dragged her back to the bookcase to pick up a book or two since Lesley said the one she was reading really was good. Upstairs, Sophie picked up the first three of the Cherry Blossom Girls, while Bethany selected, 'The Last Warrior of Unigaea' Box Set.

  Daphne felt shocked, not that she had to have sex with Cain and Toni, she'd previously had female lovers that wasn't a worry to her. Under an appraising look and question from Toni, Daphne cleared her throat and said, well only two; but she never included men in the bedroom at the same time. What she said was that she didn't feel comfortable with her having sex while the other women watched her. Couldn't they have sex too, the bed is large enough, who knows we all may join in together?

  She could feel herself blushing at the thought of possibly having sex with more than a woman and man at the same time. Daphne knew she wasn't adventurous in the bedroom, not compared to fictitious women she'd read about. Here and now they were talking about her having sex with a white man, and she'd never had sex with a white man before, nor a white woman. Now there were possibly four women, who may have sex with her, or be watching her.

  "It isn't sex for us, maybe at the beginning for the others, but we've gotten attached to each other, so we make love, and it is beautiful. Nobody pressures anyone into doing something they don't want to do. We are one loving and caring Harem, that sounds silly I know, but that is how we all feel. Cain loves each one of us, fully and without placing one above the other. You'll see, he'll treat you the same as any of us, including me. He does what he has to, he helps me in trying to find Vince, to free him from this game.