The game is "Goo Girl Gobbler"

Gary, Bernie, and Sandy watched as Peter started the intro to the video game.

A tiny cute woman, naked, pale blue and transparent as gelatine, climbs up out of the drain of a drinking fountain and waits behind the spout. The viewpoint changes to over her shoulder as a woman in professional make-up leans over to drink from the fountain. The little blue goo girl leaps onto the woman's shoulder and shelters under the collar of her blouse.

The scene shifts to a newscasting studio. The woman in make-up is sitting at a desk next to a man, giving the news.

"We've had disturbing reports from the university today, Sam," the woman says. "Experimental subjects have gotten loose from a secret laboratory. What do you have?"

Her newscasting companion nods. "We're getting confused reports that something is loose in the dormitories," he says. "Here's the university's statement from earlier."

The newscasters turn their faces to watch a video monitor. A white-coated researcher says, "There's no cause for alarm. Our experimental subjects are completely benign, even friendly. Mostly we're concerned with recapturing them so we can continue our research." The video monitor shows pictures of glistening little goo girls of various colors in different poses, nestled in a pair of gloved hands, holding on to a gloved finger, swimming in a beaker of water, looking up and smiling.

The news video cuts. "That's what we have so far," Sam says. "Back to you, Delilah."

The first newscaster. "They're cute little things," she says. "We'll have more later as this story develops. Wait, what's this?"

The little blue jelly girl is standing on the newscasters' desk. She spreads her arms and sings, a sweet, hypnotic little song. Delilah's expression softens as she watches the little creature. Sam's face flushes pink. He loosens his tie and his collar.

"You know, Delilah, you're looking beautiful today," Sam says. "I've always wanted..."

Delilah's face is flushed pink now too. "I want you, Sam," she says.

The two newscasters tear off their clothes. Delilah lies down on the desk. Just as Sam is about to penetrate her, the little blue jelly girl leaps upon his erection, wraps her arms and legs round it, and rides it into Delilah's vagina. The view shifts to an intense close-up of the newscasters' intercourse from the inside, with the little blue woman with a beatific smile, holding tight to Sam's thrusting penis inside Delilah's slick pink folds.

The view shifts to the street. A giant, glistening golden transparent woman peels back the roof of the television studio, reaches inside, lifts the newscasters out mid-intercourse and cups them gently in her hands. After giving the lovers a fond glance and a smile, she lifts her hands to her mouth and swallows them. The view follows the couple, still fucking, surrounded by the transparent golden glow of the giant woman who swallowed them.

Bernie laughs. "Wow," she said. "I can see about ten ways that could squick people."

"What do you think?" Gary asked.

"My mom would say that people are afraid of their bodies," Bernie said. "But that's just Mom. I dunno, I think it's just kinda silly and cute."

"You should see the reviews," Peter said.

Sandy laughed. "Yeah. A bunch of obsessive slimegirl fans saying they'd done it wrong, and a big fight in the comments about gay content."

"Oh?" Bernie said.

Sandy said, "Yeah, the college dorm has some places where the slimegirls can make guys get it on together."

Peter said. "Yeah, you don't have to do that, but some people even hated the idea. But it got a ton of paid downloads, and they started adding downloadable content. And multiplayer, you can be a team of goo girls, or compete against each other. Wanna play?"

"I'm game," Bernie said. "Gary?"

The four friends played a few sessions of "Goo Girl Gobbler", laughing at the silly scenes and the perspective of being a tiny jelly person just trying to get around in a world of giants. "Oh no!" they all cried when Sandy's pink jelly girl got squashed into a puddle under the wheel of a cleaning cart. But the little pink girl reformed and joined the rest of them.

Katherine knocked on the door. "Sally sent me to call you for dinner," she said. "Oh, is that the goo girl game? I can't look." She covered her face. "It made me sick just watching the intro, all those swooping camera angles."

Peter paused the game, and they followed Kate toward dinner. Sally and Jim had set things up out in their back yard, where the breeze helped softened the lingering heat of the day.

Gary and Bernie went to wash their hands and have a quick check-in on the plans for after dinner and the sleepover.

"You can be part of it as long as I'm there," Bernie said. "And I, I really want to see Peter and Jim together too."

"You can play too," Gary said. "With Kate, or Sally, or Sandy, or with the other guys. That's fine with me."

"But we're sleeping together tonight," Bernie said.

"Yeah," Gary said. "Together tonight, together tomorrow."