Gamer Girls

Kelly was muttering expletives to herself as she finished trudging the unnecessarily lengthy route she had been **** to take to an apartment she never would have wanted to visit even if it's owner hadn't recently become her master. She wasn't sure what kind of nightmare she would be walking into, but on entering the surprisingly spacious and neatly kept living room, the most unexpected sight that greeted her was Haley, sitting on the couch and looking thoroughly miserable. The pair shared the same unspoken mixed emotions as their eyes met - sadness that their closest cousin had also been claimed, combined with some consolation that they were at least in this together.

It was pretty clear what the main interest of the two young men who lived here was - video games. All three of the major consoles were present and simultaneously hooked up to a widescreen TV, and there was an almost disturbing amount of gaming related merchandise decorating nearly every room - action figures, plushies, posters, alphabetically ordered guide books and such. It mostly looked familiar but unidentifiable to the cousins, neither of whom were gamers. They had both played a handful of Nintendo titles, mostly Mario related, while Kelly used to like the dancing games in the arcades and Haley had dabbled in Pokemon as a kid. But really, none of the paraphernalia they were surrounded by was of any interest to them.

"Our second guest of honour is here!" Carl announced triumphantly as Kelly reluctantly took a seat next to her fellow captive.

"Now everyone has arrived, are you going to tell me what it is you rushed home ahead of me to set up?" Martin asked with both curiosity and irritation.

"Indeed. I am delighted to announce that, courtesy of the Petersen curse, a groundbreaking and sexy new era in video games is coming exclusively to this very apartment, right about now!"

After his proclamation Carl, who tended to scribble down his more complicated commands to get the wording just right before reading them to Haley, handed his notebook over to Martin by way of explanation. The command she had been given had been proudly circled and read as follows:

Haley, you are now synchronised to my Xbox Series X controller. Any button commands you are given to perform actions in games myself and/or my roommate Martin devise or wish for you to play in, you will carry out instantly and automatically. You will never feel any pain or get injured in reality during any such games.

"And that actually works?" Martin asked with incredulity after reading it.

"It absolutely does. You have to map the buttons to her for each individual game the first time you play it, which is a little time consuming, but it's totally worth it"

"Okay, this I have to see" Martin challenged as he folded his arms sceptically.

Carl somewhat smugly picked up his controller to give a demonstration. After it had been switched on, Haley stood up and walked towards the centre of the room, which had been designated as the official play area for this new style of real life gaming. He began skilfully manipulating the buttons on his controller as he lazed on the couch. As he did so Haley punched, high kicked, performed a hundred hand slap at lightning speed, then crouched down and appeared to emit an electrical charge from her body, before jumping back up, yelling "Hadouken!" and sending a ball of energy part way across the room, which thankfully dissipated before it hit anything or anyone.

"Holy shit, that's amazing!" Martin marvelled "I think I'd like to do that with Kelly!"

"Well, that was the general idea, duh! This doesn't really work single player"

"Okay, then Kelly, you are now synced to my PS5 controller" Martin ordered keenly, remembering Carl's command to Haley as best he could "Any button commands I give you for any games I want you to play in you will carry out instantly and automatically. You cannot feel pain or be injured in real life during any such games"

"Huh, why have you put her on a controller for a different console?" Carl sounded a little disgruntled.

"Because the PS5 one just feels more natural to me. I play better with it" Martin shrugged.

"But if we want to battle them shouldn't we be using the same style of controller for the sake of fairness?"

"Why? We both cross play online don't we?"

"Yeah, I guess that's true"

"Wait, you want to turn us into physical video game characters, Master Martin?" Kelly asked in disbelief, interrupting the discussion over which controller she should be synced to.

"You want to make me battle my cousin, Master Carl?" Haley added, equally unimpressed.

"Haley, keep quiet when the Masters are talking" Carl ordered her haughtily.

"Kelly, the same goes for you please" her respective master added, marginally less abrasively.

"So what games did you have in mind for them?" Martin was intrigued as he resumed the conversation with his buddy.

"I've got two immediate ideas I'd like to test out - Strip Fighter and Spell Fighter. Obviously they are both variants of Street Fighter with fairly self explanatory twists. In Strip Fighter, after each round the winning player gets to choose an item of clothing for the losing girl to remove. At the end of the battle, the losing girl dances naked for the winning player, or perhaps some other sexy forfeit of their choosing. In Spell Fighter, rather than using their feet and fists we have them fling magical spells with real life status altering effects at each other. But there must be loads of other games we can think up as well. Something Pokemon adjacent maybe? Or a deck builder like Slay the Spire? We could have a lot of fun coming up with the cards for that"

"Or just use the ones from my board game and sexy them up a bit?" Martin suggested.

"Sure, that works for me"

"Are they not going to break all our stuff fighting and zapping each other?"

"We have quite a bit of space in here, and we can use the curse to create invisible barriers they can't cross. I've also put in plenty of safeguards so nobody can actually get hurt, inside or out of the games. That energy ball Haley seemed to fire wasn't real, just our altered perception of what she can do - but it still has an impact in the game. Pretty clever, huh? But, if we did need more room for a specific game, we could shrink them and have them play on the table top, or even zap them into the TV, I would imagine, if we wanted them in an environment we can't create in our apartment. But I think having them full sized and in person would be the optimum gaming experience whenever we can manage it"

"We could buy sexy costumes for them - turn them into Chun Hay-li and Kemmy!" Martin suggested excitedly.

"Dude, I still don't think you get quite how much this curse can do for us. We don't need to waste time with costumes, we can just alter perception, so they could be naked but appear to us, and anyone else, as if they are dressed and styled however we want them to be. Then their clothes could literally just vanish whenever something in the game triggers it. God, we could stream this shit and make a fortune. We'd be famous!"

Haley and Kelly shared a look of confusion and concern. Whatever they had anticipated before coming here, this wasn't it.