Gender glitch in virtual reality

Cheers all. I’m Adam, an economics student from Europe and this is almost an unbelievable story which occurred to me during one of my gaming sessions. Let my story be warning for you all, that no matter what companies say, there are always defects that might break the product. And in some instances, like this time, it might have some unexpected results. But before I’m able to go to my personal story, I need to give some background information about the technology. If you do not care, feel free to Ctrl+F and jump to *-*

Virtual reality had come long way from the old school technology where user watched the display inside the helmet and swung the hand-held controllers in real life. Today’s technology enables way better immersion to the virtual worlds. By utilizing advanced sensors on your body and head, one can basically leave their physical body behind and find themselves in whatever location created by the world creator.

That level of virtual reality would have been considered as sci-fi just few years ago. But due the high advancements in the fields of neurosciences, all sorts of possibilities were now coming to public use. User could use all their senses, for a degree, while being connected to the system. You could touch objects, smell flowers, and even taste the food. Obviously, most of these senses had some serious safety rules placed upon them. It might be reasonably fine to feel the slap while being in the virtual world, but it would have some serious consequences to your mind if you had to experience pain of broken bones while testing some physics engine. Anyway, all of this meant revolution in the industries of entertainment, engineering, education, pornograph… Ok, I suppose the last one in the list could be classified as entertainment, but you probably get the point.

The game I was going to play is now shattering the gaming industry. It was the first fully virtualized world where just about everything was possible. When I booted it up first time, I just knew that I would not be returning to PC games ever again. Being able to utilize all the senses, for a degree, was unbeatable. Within the virtual world I was able to wield huge weapons which I couldn’t even lift in the real world. All thanks to finely adjusted physics based on inbuilt rules of the game. It is all very difficult to explain, but just trust me when I say that it really felt like real world.

The world creation was actually one of the most awesome things designed in the game. There was no need for admins to maintain the environments after the creation. Everything was done by utilizing the inbuilt application which would mimic the real world. Grass is green because of virtual water and sun. Flowers bloom because bees pollinate them. Animals would continue to be born, hunt, eat and die as the seasons change. Alright, it is not completely without control. Admins are needed when SW bugs happens. The world would become quite unbalanced if e.g. predators would breed like rabbits. Or game breaking events might happen if it rained non-stop for weeks. That being said, reboots and refinements are always needed.

Character creation was one of the things that were still quite heavily restricted for safety reasons. The system actually creates the character for you when the sensors are placed in correct places on your body. Your avatar is then auto configured based on the sensor data as well as your private health data. Obviously, the user needs to give their consent to use the private data, but that is the requirement to play the game. All that information is needed so the system can create as accurate presentation of your virtual character as possible. You can do some minor cosmetic changes to your avatar, but that is it. This is mainly because you control your avatar as you control your own body. Our brains are extremely powerful things. If your avatar isn’t as close to your physical body, your mind would start sync with your avatar, and you might find some physiological changes in real life. For example, it does not take much to push us off-balance if we in matter of seconds lose or gain a lot of weight. We might be able to figure it out quickly but prolong exposure for such might even have surprising effects to our hormonal balance. There are so many ways how things could go wrong.

Obviously public wasn’t too happy that they couldn’t experience the virtual life from the perspective of someone else. And that is understandable, people simply want to be someone else. No one seems to be happy to be theirselves. Because of the major business opportunities, companies are doing huge amount of R&D regarding to improve their VR solutions. But currently the companies are simply too afraid of potential lawsuits to allow more comprehensive modifications to the avatars of players.

But even with all the restrictions, the game is still super awesome. It follows similar logic as the old school MMORPGs with the exception that you can actually feel and experience everything you do like in real life. Game makers have made it easy to build and craft stuff, but if you wanted to do it hard way with your actual skills, it was encouraged. Your self-made stuff was usually with higher quality which enabled people to trade their creations and thus more complex economy was created. But most people just came to fight with giant monsters and each other’s. Or drink beer and have sex with random people at the local taverns. Yes, even that was possible between consenting adults. But there are other applications available where that has been developed further and where it is more anonymous than it is this game. Not to mention that surplus of male players did not really encourage this behavior… Anywho, I believe that is enough introduction to the topic. Let’s talk about me next.

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‘Here we go again’ I said to myself when I booted up the VR game. Like always, I paid attention to place the sensors at correct locations on my body before launch. It might take numerous reboots to launch the game if the sensors were not 100% correctly placed. I can assure you that it grows old very quickly when you need to read all the warning signs, only to be returned to your body to try again. I’ve memorized those warnings by now and could even repeat them in my sleep.

“If you experience any abnormal functionalities, logout immediately for your own health and self-being. Please contact your physician before continue playing the game.”

‘Yada yada yada, let’s go already’ I mumbled. I had only three hours to play today and I really did not like the idea to waste it while booting the game.

I was planning to do some experience grinding while waiting for my mates to join in. After that we can start pushing to more dangerous areas of the area. It is relatively safe to quest near the town of Arag, but it would be better to travel in group to camps further away. Dying is not a painful experience due the restrictions but it takes time to respawn and fix your equipment. I rather save my money for new stuff instead of constantly repairing the old.

“Now entering the Azure Forest”

‘Wait what?’ I said out loud. I did not logout anywhere near Azure Forest. I haven’t even visited that part of the map yet. My gear rating is not good enough to travel there, not even with my usual group of people. While the world is loading, I kept looking the map. The area where I was spawning was completely black, as in unexplored. Well, this is going to be interesting… It might be little problematic to get my ass back to my standard questing area, but at least I will get knowledge about rest spot or maybe even a town in middle of nowhere. It might be even useful to try to grind next to the rest spot and gain huge amount of exp. Killing some trash like wild dogs might be doable even though I am somewhat under geared.

“Loading complete. You will now spawn to the game.”

‘Alright let’s see how this goes’ I said just before my vision started to emerge.

I found myself inside a room… at somewhere in Azure I suppose. Guess I spawned to some tavern’s safe spot. I moved a little to see that everything works while my personalized User Interface loaded up. I fell on my knees. Something was not right, I felt very unbalanced. I got up from the floor just before the UI booted and showed red and yellow warning signs all over. Mostly the system warned me about having too low strength stat for my gear and some incompatibility to gender specific gear.

‘Well, that is just weird. Did I mismanage my gear or something?’ I wondered. Now that I paid some more attention to myself, the gear did feel off. It felt loose at some areas but restricting at other places.

‘Fine, let’s undress and gear up from the beginning’ I thought. I took my helmet off and it released my hair which fell down my face and blocked partially my vision. For a man with short hair, this woke me up completely. I was about to say, “What the fuck?” but I couldn’t go further than one syllable.

‘Wh…’ femine voice that came out from my mouth did not belong to me.

‘THE FUCK!?!’ I shouted with girly voice.

I removed hair from my face and saw a mirror at the room. I tried to rush to other side of the room but fell again. My UI reminded me about incompatible gear and me not meeting the requirements. I had to remove the protective gear to properly move around. Even though I hurried, it still took me over a minute to undress. This isn’t like old school MMORPG where you can just click everything off, I actually had to unfasten all the straps and links to remove the armor.

Finally, the UI looked green, and I walked to the mirror. The mirror confirmed what I now already figured while I was undressing. The image that stared back was not my own. It was an image of beautiful, long-, redhaired girl. If I had to guess, she looked like 22 to 25 years old. Well, I suppose, not “she” as much as “I”. “I” was hot. I kept staring me perky C-cup breasts that were still mostly hidden by black brassiere. At least I assume they were C-cups, it’s not like I’ve done a lot of measuring in my life. My gaze descended lower to the trained abs and slim waistline. Black panties hid my nether regions, and I rotated my lower body to saw a butt to die for. That ass demanded to be touched and groped.

I leaned forward and touched the beautiful image in the mirror. I felt slightly dumb after I understood that I would not need to be content with cold surface of the mirror. It was my body. I watched down and saw the assets that was given to me. My fingers came in contact with soft and smooth skin of upper side of my tits. I felt a shiver running through my body while I let my hands slide all over my chest and waist. Everything felt a slightly more sensitive, but also more intimate with lack of a better word. I noticed how my breathing had become quicker and I felt myself blushing. It was like I wasn’t thinking properly anymore, I just knew that I had to go further.

It took me a while to figure out how to remove the bra, which I was wearing, to unleash my stunning breasts to play with. I touched my nipple and electric jolt was shot through my body. ‘Is woman’s body so much more sensitive than man’s?’ I thought while I continued exploration. My nipples hardened from the touch, and I felt myself arousing. At least I thought it was arousal. It was like I was heating up from everywhere in my body and not just from the usual place.

Instinctively I tried to readjust my dick under my pants, but I only felt smooth and damp surface of the black panties I was wearing. Suddenly I realized that my manhood had been replaced by incredibly sensitive pussy which was strongly reacting to my touch. With growing excitement, I quickly removed last part of clothing I still had. I stared beautiful shaven pussy of my mine in awe from the mirror. My hands slid from my tummy, lower to the waiting pussy lips. I felt my smooth pussy mound and my excitement grew further. When I reached to my newly found vagina, my eyes closed and satisfying sigh escaped my lips. Touching my womanhood felt several times stronger than touching my dick in physical world.

‘Aaah!?!’ I shouted in alarmed confusion when I accidentally touched lightly my clitoris. I laughed when I realized what I had done and prepared to touch myself again. I gently slid my fingers to the top of my clitoris, and I reacted even strongly than before. So strongly in fact that I fell on my ass. I decided that it might be better if I stay grounded if I wanted to continue with my exploration. Now laying on my back, I proceeded to study my lower body. I played with my labia, and I noticed how wet my fingers and pussy had become. In fact, I was soaked down there. My other hand fondled my boobs that had become even more sensitive while my arousal had grown. I’ve never been very vocal during sex but now my lustful moans were echoing in the empty room while I was pleasuring myself to the first climax as a woman.

Finally, I decided to push finger inside of me. It felt so fantastic. My tight pussy hole was sucking my finger inside of me. My finger slid further effortless due all pussy juice that I was producing. But still I felt every millimeter of it. Gently I pushed the finger further and further inside until it was all the way inside. I started to do small circles inside of me and I knew that something big was building inside of me. I left my nipples alone and moved my other hand to my play with my clitoris.

My moans grew louder when the seconds passed on. My body acted on its own by raising my ass from the floor and pushing forward against my fingers. It’s like my body had to get my finger deeper and deeper inside of me. I kept rocking my hips against my hands and suddenly I blew up like never before. I knew the orgasm was coming but it still swept over me with intensity that I was not prepared for. It was like my whole body was exploding and not just from my groin. My face had become fully red, and I was screaming from the pleasure. Only my back and feet touched the floor while rest of my body was convulsing in perfect arch. I only noticed that I was still masturbating when my pussy started to ache. Pleasure was so great that it started to hurt. I removed my hands but still the orgasm did not cease. For a man, the climax is over in few seconds. But since I was a woman now, I was experiencing something completely different. It was unparalleled.

When I returned to planet earth, I was panting from exhaustion. Different kind of feelings shot through my head after my body had otherwise calmed down a bit. Happiness, sadness, joy, fear, shame etc. It was very difficult to focus on anything. I do not know why, but I found myself crying on the floor. Then I started to hyperventilate without any warning. It’s like I could not control how I felt or acted at all. Later when I had time to think, I realized how differently women react to their feelings. I had been experiencing being a woman for blissful 15 minutes, so I was completely oblivious how my body reacts to different situations and thus I had very little control over myself.

After a while I was able to clear my thoughts and get back up. The floor was soaked of my juices which had leaked while I was experiencing first orgasm as a girl.

‘Well, this was something new’ I said with girly voice.

‘I could actually get used to extended orgasms’ I continued while grinning like an idiot.

But quick realization of the situation wiped my smile quickly and pushed me back to verge of next panic attack. The warning message which pops up during the launch came to my mind. “If you experience any abnormal functionalities, logout immediately for your own health and self-being.” I would call this as “an abnormal functionality”. I was too focused to be lusting over my new body that I had completely forgotten severity of the situation. I had read from somewhere that during the first human tests of the system, they had tried a female avatar which had wildly different hormonal levels than the male test subject in real life. They realized later that test subject’s body started to produce way more estrogen than before and he ended up with nice set of boobs. He recovered, but it took some time. I really did not want to get perky C- cups attached to my physical body or sound like a girl for rest of my life.

In haste, I gathered all my gear from the floor and stored them to my inventory, so I would not lose them when I log back in. Then I prepared to logout.

“Unable to logout. Please enter safe area to logout from the game safely.”

‘What? Why cannot logout here? Why this wouldn’t be safe area if I am able to login to here?’ I thought in growing panic.

The message was repeated when I tried again. “Unable to logout. Please enter safe area to logout from the game safely.”

I steeled my nerves, as well as I could, and tried to figure out a way from this mess. I sorted my map as per known safe areas. Area around me was completely black except the small spot where I was at. I could not say if there were any safe areas close to me. The closest that I was certain about was right at the entrance of Azure Forest. If I hurried, I could get there in an hour. Maybe with some luck I would be able to find safe area while travelling and logout earlier. I searched the all the containers and cabinets I could find from the empty building. I was able to find gear which requirement I was able to meet in this body. It was not really gear as it did not have any defensive values, but at least I do not need to run with my black panties through the forest. Although, wearing a black skirt and a white top did not really make me feel much better.