Nyx awoke to the gentle, warm spray of cum against her face. She smiled up at the patron, who gushed another pair of ropes onto her cheeks before letting the rest dribble onto the sheet beneath her. She sat up out of bed to lick his cock clean, then thanked him when he deposited his 15 Gold into the piggybank next to her bed. Another satisfied client, and all she had to do was lie there and take a load!
The mirror revealed the extent of the damage. In her world, bodily fluids never dried. Normally that allowed for gross tapestries of gore in fight scenes, but a pleasant side effect was that the bukkake of loads on her face could drain down onto her tits when she sprung out of bed. She'd need to clean up, eventually. But it was nice to feel at least five guy's worth of liquid love on her body, knowing they all paid for the right to use her body.
The little display above the bank flashed with the current amount: 14098 Gold. It was almost enough! The journey to the Final Gate, and a chance to leave this world, was an expensive one. Only the best could manage it, and most of them had already left. Those that remained behind used their skills to extract money from those who couldn't make the trip by themselves. They were Smugglers, getting players passed the difficult bosses and traps that would instantly kill a low level player. The price they had quoted her was 15000. If she paid that, she could be free.
Thinking of that chance at freedom made Nyx a little uneasy. There, buried behind a wall of denial, was the knowledge that she wasn't always Nyx the Prostitute. There was a real person somewhere in her head, someone who had gotten stuck in this game world when the program went haywire. She could still picture that person. Short, overweight, glasses. And...male.
She looked down at herself. The dissonance between the person she'd been and who she was now made her uncomfortable. To her perception, she was a beautiful pink-haired woman. Her perky, cum-dripping breasts bounced with every step. She flaunted her assets for the mirror, showing off an unrealistic-looking posterior that practically begged to be forced to jiggle from the impact of a hard fucking.
But she was also that other person too. Somewhere out there, locked in a VR Pod, was a pudgy guy on life support, whose mind was trapped inside a fantasy world. It had been her body. It still was her body. But...it had been so long ago. It was hard for her to recall what it was like to be out in the real world. What would it be like to be a guy again?
"Nyx, you got a customer! Low Level Gear this time," said a voice over the in-game chat. She shook out of her reverie and went to clean herself up. As much fun as it was to be slathered in semen, it had a turn-off factor to some people. Once she looked and smelled fresh, she slipped on her comically slutty version of a default adventurer's outfit. Tattered skirt and blouse, shoddy bracers and boots, and a wooden sword belted to her side. It was one of her common costumes. Plenty of people had a fetish for ravaging a low-level player. She waited by the door, doing her best to look innocent.
The door swung open. A brute in leather armour stood erect in the frame. He entered by ducking a little, allowing the handle of the sword on his back to narrowly avoid hitting the wooden frame on his way in. The gear he wore was enchanted, humming with high level magics that took visible form as auras of light around each item. Even to someone with little combat experience, Nyx knew this guy had to be a heavy hitter.
When her eyes rose to face him, her jaw hung open. Despite the scars, the greyed hair, and the tattoo of a serpent on his neck, she couldn't help but think this guy looked familiar. A memory fought to surface in her mind. A memory of what seemed like a lifetime ago.
"Dennis?" she asked. The man looked disturbed too, though it didn't show in anything but his eyes.
"My God...is that you Nick?"
Nyx blushed, not knowing what to do. "D-don't...I mean, this is just what...I...oh, fuck, just..." She hid her face with her hands, hoping to make the shame go away. The next thing she felt were two strong hands gripping her shoulders in a reassuring manner. She calmed down, letting her fingers fall from her eyes.
"It's alright, it's alright. I knew you were in here somewhere but...I didn't remember that you did this kinda thing on the side."
Nyx nodded shakily. "It was just cause I was horny. I mean, it was free Gold for being a slut online. Why not do it? But then the Overload happened...and since I wasn't logged onto my main, I got stuck in here." She pressed a finger to her breastbone. "I...oh God, what have I been doing?!"
She pressed her head into his chest. It felt so good to have a familiar presence, even if it was just a virtual avatar of her old friend. Only after she stopped shaking did she pull out of the embrace and look up. Her glittering violet eyes gave her the airs of a vulnerable magical princess, begging to be rescued.
"I'm just glad you were okay," Dennis said. "When I saw you weren't with us in the early days, pushing endgame content, I thought you must have been logged off during the Overload. But...I guess you were fucking for Gold on your slut account when it happened." He looked off to the side, breaking eye contact. Nyx could only imagine what he was going through in his head.
"My...my character's stats are all in charisma and performance skills. I can't fight worth anything like this." She twirled around, showing off the absurd proportions of her idealised facsimile of the female form. Dennis didn't hide that he was taking in the feast for the eyes enthusiastically. She blushed at that. Nyx knew Dennis in the real world. This was wrong somehow!
"Ah. And I guess you've been saving your Gold to pay for a Smuggler?" he asked. After Nyx confirmed it with a nod, he cracked a smile. "Well, you're in luck. I'm in one of the top Smuggler guilds in the game. I can get you out of here, free of charge."
Her eyes widened. "For free? W-why?"
"Because you're my friend, dummy. But...I have one request." He hooked his finger around the thin strap to her top, tugging it downward. Her hand reached up to catch it before it slipped off her shoulder.
"What's the big idea?" she asked. "Didn't you just say I was your friend?"
Dennis mussed up her hair. "Of course you are. But, c'mon, you look super fucking hot right now. Why not have fun with it?"
Nyx shrugged that off, trying to articulate all the reasons why this was inappropriate. In her body, however, she felt a rising warmth in her belly. The kind she knew meant that her libido didn't think the idea was wrong at all~
"But...I'm a guy in real life!"
He laughed. It was deep, booming sound that made Nyx's heart flutter. "I specifically asked for a G.I.R.L slut. Didn't know it would be you."
"A...g-girl slut?" Nyx asked.
"You know, a Guy In Real Life. I guess there's quite a few of those. Dudes who got stuck looking like hot ladies during the Overload. Most of them are regular fighters now, pushing back the monsters with the rest of us. But some of them...well...some of them are just horny little whores who sell themselves for Gold. Isn't that right, 'Nyx'?" He used her character name as if it was a taunting insult, then tilted her chin up with his finger. "You can be Nyx with me. It's okay. Just relax for a bit."
She twitched, shaking her head lightly to escape from his touch. "That's...I mean...what if everyone else knew? What if my parents..." All the things she'd done since the Overload flooded back to her now. A wall she'd built to keep the dissonance at bay was crumbling.
"I can see this will be harder for you than I thought. I have something that can help," Dennis said, but she couldn't hear him. The memories were flooding up, threatening to overwhelm her
A clicking noise and sudden coldness against her neck made Nyx gasp. The wave of remembrance and self-doubt vanished. She looked over to the mirror to see a golden choker with a pink gemstone pressing against her throat.
"W-what?" she asked, tugging at the jewel. He approached behind her, holding her shoulders in his heavy hands.
"It's a little thing I picked up off a Game Master. Used to use it to control wayward players from getting too out of control, but since the Mods all went insane, they're been turning up in the hands of perverts and unscrupulous-types all over. It'll help you focus on what's important." He watched her try to unhook the necklace for a bit, enjoying her feeble struggle. With a rumbling, masculine authority he commanded her: "Stop."
Her hands fell to her sides. It was like the word had come from inside her head, instead of from him. Nyx whimpered, shaking a little. "What is...what are you doing?!"
He brushed her hair. "Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to make this easier for you. The Overload took a lot out of you, having to maintain two separate personalities like this. I want to help. The Amulet will make you obey. The Amulet makes everything I say turn to truth. You understand this, don't you?"