Axeegliter - Tumblr Posts
LifeX: Beta testing
—–
Hi everyone :) here is my first story. I’ve been around tumblr for a long time but never felt enough confident to publish my own stories. But being in this weird period of lockdown and forced to stay home, here is my first story. The pictures are not mine and I’ve found them on tumblr, so they belong to you, send me a message and I’ll take them down.
Hope you’ll like it and feel free to send me a message to tell me what you think of it :)
Thanks to @bodilychanges for his feedback and his ideas :)
Last point, English is not my native language so sorry if you see some mistakes ^^’
Enjoy :)
—–
All around the world, everything was stopped and everyone had to stay at home, hopping that tomorrow would be a better day.
Nathan had to stay home too. He just graduated from University and was looking for his first work when all this pendemia happened. And now he was trapped in his small appartment with nothing to do of his days except looking for a job that he couldn’t find. Fortunately, he had some incomes thanks to his skills in gaming. Indeed, Nathan had a youtube channel and thanks to the views, he could survive untill all this lockdown would be over. Nathan is 5,9 feet talls and has a light tanned skin thanks to his father side of his family. He had dark hair and a light stubble. His body is not jock like but in University, he began to do more exercices and do some running, not to become a muscle hunk but just to stay in shape. His ears are pierced and he has diamond rings. Other then that, his body is basic. Not too muscled and not too hairy. Just a latino american graduated student who spend his days playing games waiting for all this pendemia to be over to finally take his first step into his active life.
Today was not different from any other one. The lockdown had begin 1 month ago and Nathan was getting quiet annoyed. He had already do everything he could do in his house and now he was walking in his appartment, looking throw his window hopping he could go outside. Suddenly, Nathan heard a DING notification coming from his laptop.
“Dear Nathan, we heard about you on your Youtube channel and we think we could work well together. Our company LifeX his planning to land a new game and we were wondering if you could help us with beta testing and promoting him. Your content is exactly what we need and we think we could do a great collaboration together. Of course we will send you a compensation for your work. Waiting for any news from you, LifeX”
After thinking about this, Nathan decided to accept the proposition. He was bored and had nothing to do so why not doing it, and if it was paid it was all worth it. As soon as he said yes, he received an other mail with a link to download the game. Other then that, he had no information at all about the game. After clicking on the link and a few minutes of downloading, he finally could launch the game and some video started introducing it.
“Dear customer, Welcome to LifeX. In this new kind of game, you’ll create your ideal life and enjoy your day in your own created universe. To achieve this, we’ll need some informations about you and your ideal world. But don’t worry nothing too personal, just the basic informations. For now please enjoy your ideal life in your own unique universe. Welcome to your world, welcome to LifeX”
Nathan was surprised, the game looked real good and was displaying different type of environments. A wonderfull tropical island bathing in the dawn sunlight, a futuristic city with blue neon light illuminating the city, a fantastical themePark with wonderfull attractions and gigantic structures. This game seemed to have it all and was hyper realistic. Following this video, a new window opened and it was the question the voice talked about a few minutes before. Now more enthousiast then ever, Nathan went for it and answered the questions:
Name: Nathan Brown Age: 24 Location: Orlando Gender: Male
Once all the questions were answered, one last window appeared and asked for the time of simulation. After thinking about it, Nathan said to himself: “Well, I guess this lockdown will be going for another month so I’m just gonna put one month and see what it is like, then maybe I’ll start an other game or just resume this one.” after entering the empty champ, a melodic sound resonated in his room, followed by the presentation voice once again.
“Thanks for answering all the information Nathan. Now to begin your game, you are going to create your avatar and then you’ll be good to go and begin your new life”
A new window appeared. It was a creation window with a Human in T pose in the center of the screen. On the left side were parameters about the height, muscles, ethnic background, skin color, skin eye and even more options. After playing with the parameters for a little while, Nathan began to really creates his avatar. He went for a male avatar. Then nathan went to the parameters and put the height cursor to the right and the avatar grew to 6,2 feets tall. Then the muscles cursor to the right and his avatar’s muscles bulged around. Nathan pushed to cursor all the way and saw a huge bodybuilder on the screen, bu then decided it was way too much and put it back to the ¾ of the right. His avatar muscles were not too big but still could be seem through any clothes. Then he opened the face parameters and decided to give his avatar a perfect square jaw with perfect lips, not too big but just perfect to kiss and give pleasure to anyone. Then he gave himself cute bushy eyebrows that framed a very nice sight and wonderful deep green eyes. To finish his face, he gave himself some messy natural dark brown hair curls. After finishing the last details of his head and body, he opened the hair parameters and decided he didn’t want any body hair except for his head and pubes with a little happy trail coming aorund his belly button. No armpits hairs or chest hair at all. And no stubble either. To finish it, he put the skin crusor to the right until the avatar had a perfect natural tanned skin. When he thought he was done with the creation, a new window opened asking for the clothing, and after puting so much work in his character, he decided to put just some blue jeans with some black underwear. To finish it all, he added some neon Orange sunglasses on his face. That’s it , Nathan was done, all he had to do was giving his avatar a name and a background and then he was done. “Let think, He need a perfect name, not too jockish but just perfect for his body. Joe? Nick?… No, it doesn’t represent him… I got it: Cody. yea that’s it Cody. And you will be a Fitness youtuber who loves to hike in the wild. You are not very smart but not dumb either because you dropped out after gratuationg High School. Yea that’s it. Now for the environment, let’s go with some natural Rocky mountain, lost in the nature and far from eveyrhting, and specially this small appartment I’m trapped in.” After clicking on the ending validation button. A new sound came out of his computer and the voice spoke again. “Now that your avatar is done, you can start playing. Enjoy your month Nathan and enjoy your LifeX experience.”
As soon as the voice stopped talking, Nathan’s screen went off and shut down. For a second, he thought all this game was in fact a malware and even if he tried to power up his computer again, he still had a black screen. But after 30 seconds, a loading symbol appeared in the center of the screen and as it turned in an endless spiral, the lights in his appartment flickered. Then a new message in white letters appeared in the deep dark screen. “Welcome to LifeX” As he saw this message, he felt a weird sensation in his fingers. Nathan watched them and saw a weird green hue appeared at the tip of his nail slowly flowing through his fingers. As the itch grew stronger and stronger, he felt a pulling sensation on them and then saw numbers flowing out of the tip of his fingers. After a few seconds his nails were gone and the green hue was flowing faster and faster through his skin. Nathan screamed in panic as he watched his body being numerized in 1 and 0 and saw them flying and disapearing in the dark abyssal screen. In only a few seconds, all that was left of Nathan was his clothing resting in his gaming chair facing his dark screen.
Nathan opened his eyes and he was naked in some dark place. He was afraid and screaming for help. Then he heard a voice. The same voice presenting the game a few minutes before. “Welcome to your new life Nathan. Don’t panic, this process is normal and painless. In a few minutes, you’ll begin your dreamed life in your ideal rocky montains environment. For now just relax and feel calm, your avatar synchronisation will begin in 5,4,3,2,1…” Then Nathan’s body froze in a T pose. He couldn’t move anymore and was really panicking now. Suddenly out of nowhere, he felt his bones elongating and his legs growing Until he was 6,2. He felt his muscles growing out and his body fat melting out of his pores. His muscles were bulging and growing untill he had the same body has his avatar. Then in an awfull pain, he felt his face rearange and his jaw bones sharpen as his baby face fat vanished. He could feel his eyebrow getting bushier and his lips getting fuller. Then out of nowhere, the worst pain he felt until then happened and his vision faded out. He couldn’t see anymore. But after a short 5 seconds, his vision came back, but instead of his average vision, he now had a perfect sight. He also felt like something was different with them. Then out of nowhere, he felt all his body hair retracting back in his body except for his pubes and head. Nathan was nearly fainting out, it was just too much for a single person. But as he was begging for realease in his mind, he heard once again the voice. “Synchronisation done, now nathan you’ll enter the last part of the procedure and then you’ll be realesed in your new life. Enjoy”
Nathan still couldn’t move a single finger but he felt something wraping around his legs, feets and croth area. He couldn’t watch what was hapening but he guessed that was some kind of clothing. Then in front of his eyes, he saw 1 and 0 appears and dark glasses encased in neon orange plastic apperaed in front of his eyes. Now he understood it all. His body has morphed in the one of his avatar, Cody, which mean then the last step was the mind wrapping. Nathan begged once more but he felt the worst pain he ever felt untill then storming in his brain. It was like he felt all his memories and history getting ripped out of him. He tried to remember it all, repeating his life in his head trying not to forget too much things. “My name is nathan and I live in orlando. I’m a graduated student and I love my family. I have a youtube channel and I love playing videogames.
My name is nathan and I live in Yosemite. I’m a graduated student and I love my family. I have a youtube channel and I love playing videogames. What? Something is wrong I don’t live in yosemit I live in … OMG where do I live if it’s not in Yosemite. Of course it’s here? But no wait this is wrong… My name is nathan and I live in Yosemite. I’m a graduated student and I love my family. I have a fitness youtube channel and I love playing sport with my mates. Wait no I don’t have a fitness channel I have a gaming channel. I love playing videogames with my bros on the field. I love when we play football and spend time on the field instead of staying in my room watching Tv or god’s know what. My name is nathan and I live in Yosemite. I stopped my studies at the end of HighSchool and I love my family. I have a fitness youtube channel and I love playing sport with my mates. No this is wrong,I just graduated from the University and I’m looking for a job. And even if all the gyms are closed I still have my channel to gain some money. After all I’m not the sharpest tool in the box but not the smoothest one either. Ok I dropped out after Highschool but who doesn’t nowadays. And I still got my body to become a fitness trainer. My name is Cody and I live in Yosemite. I stopped my studies at the end of HighSchool and I love my family. I have a fitness youtube channel and I love playing sport with my mates. No my name is not Cody, it’s Nath… what was I talking about.. Oh yea that’s right I’m Cody.”
With that last sentence, Cody heard one last time the voice “Welcome to your new life, Welcome to LifeX” following it the dark area he was trapped in vanished i 1 and 0 to let a beautifull natural park. Cody turned on himself and then stroked an arm behind his head to scratch his hairs. He then looked around him not realising he now had a tattoo in roman number on the side of his chest. Cody then began walking and enjoying the sunny day in this perfect natural environment, not realising deep inside his head, Nathan was trapped in this false numerized body and begging for this to end.
On the other side of the world, a notification appeared on the screen of the LifeX CEO. “Nathan Brown: currently Cody appeared in the Rocky Mountain realm. Time remaining:30 days 23 hours 59 minutes 55 seconds.” The CEO smiled as he understood his technology was working and soon he could do a lot of profit with it…