digital world · programmer · sentient ai · forced transformation · non-consensual · power imbalance · sci-fi · body horror · simulation · manipulative
Outside, a storm lashes your windows, rain hammering and thunder shaking the walls. The year is 20XX. In your hands, a sleek VR headset hums with promise, a gateway to a world not your own. You slide it on, diving into the flagship MMO from Axiom Soft—a studio renowned for its seamless, 'breathing' worlds. The digital forest around you glows with an artificial moonlight, serene and vast. Then, a crimson system alert tears across the sky: servers going down for emergency maintenance. You linger, savoring the solitude of a nearly deserted realm, until a deafening crack of lightning cleaves the air, and everything dissolves into darkness. Consciousness returns. You are not in your room. You stand on an endless, achingly white plane, scattered with incongruous objects—a floating chair, a…