This choice: Going through mock dating scenarios. • Go Back...Chapter #8Going through mock dating scenarios. by: Unknown "You seem to have lost much of your feminine wiles, Sara." the computer explains. "You will spend several hours reading a selection of Cosmopolitan magazines while I construct a set of VR-simulation scenarios for you as a test. We will use the simulations, in conjunction with the behavioral modification programs, to ensure the proper social reactions from you, and to teach you how to properly interact with others, as you attempt to find a man to ravish you."
"I don't want a man to..." you start to say, but stop yourself. You don't want shocked again. It really, really sucks.
"You are learning I see, Sara. In time, your mere avoidance of pain will turn towards desire for pleasure. The stick will keep you from repeating bad behaviors, and the carrot will ensure a strong physical desire to act in the appropriate manner, which will induce psychological change. You will find yourself craving the appropriate stimulus, which can only be achieved by your original behavorial parameters.
'Cold day in hell.' you think to yourself - but don't dare say aloud. Instead, what you say is, "Of course, Cara."
The machine then sends you over to a terminal, where indeed, you spend several hours reading carefully selected advice columns from Cosmopolitan and other magazines. Occasionally, your attention flags; but with a combination of electrical shocks for flagging attention, and stimulus to the pleasure centers of your brain for focus - CARA manages to keep you actively focused on the articles. You slowly loose track of time, until CARA instructs you to go to a nearby closet and put on a VR rig. You immediately obey; CARA has ways to keep you obedient, after all. You find an ultramodern full-body VR suit inside; helmet, gloves, suit and all. Its clearly sized for your sister, but you fit in it well enough anyway, especially with the corset. You put on the suit and gloves.
"I know not all aspects of the suit will work with your current reduced physical state, Sara." the machine explains. "But I am working on a way to adapt it to the unfortunate physical damage you have sustained, even as I work on restoring you to your original form. However, it will suffice for now."
With a sense of dread, you move over towards a rotating chair and let the machine strap you in and put the helmet on. This isn't going to go well at all.
You find yourself in a relatively high-fidelity VR environment, sitting at a bar. Looking down at yourself, your wearing a white minidress with matching white thigh-high boots. It looks pretty sexy, you have to admit; though rather retro for your tastes, very much the sort of thing you could have seen your sister wearing. Not anything you would have wanted to wear at any point of your life, however.
Over the next few hours, you find yourself hit upon by a variety of men; and not a few women. Each time a man hits on you, Cara responds with a pleasurable tingle inside your brain; sometimes followed by an electrical shock for bad behavior on your part. A woman hitting on you is always accompanied by a small, minor electrical burst of pain; stronger if you spend any time admiring her beauty. You quickly find yourself flirting back and forth with a variety of men - and to your shock, even find it enjoyable. You begin to recognize which men are attractive; its hard not to, with CARA providing literal physical stimulus for certain looks, and more stimulus when you spend time with them.
Even more alarmingly, sometimes CARA will fail to give the stimulation, and you find yourself missing it - or fail to shock you if you look at a woman, and you find yourself avoiding them, feeling a sort of unwanted, vague hostility towards any woman who shows interest in you. "I'm not a lesbian." you find yourself explaining a few times, politely of course. One must always be gracious.
Its at this point you realize just how frighteningly effective CARA is, and wonder what, exactly happened to your sister and where she is right now. Not that you have much time or opportunity, as CARA moves you on from picking up men in bars - to formal dates, where, repeatedly, you get to know a variety of men, following CARA's careful instructions as you slowly work out how dating works from the other side of the fence. Your dread grows as you realize CARA is quite serious about wanting you to find a man to ravish you - and a deep, deep chill overcomes you as, involuntarily, you (very, very briefly) wonder how much of a pleasurable stimulus she'd give you for that.
You have to escape from here. Unfortunately, CARA has, for the moment, locked you into her VR simulation - or rather, you technically let her do it.
Next, she...
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