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Chapter 16 - The NYGirls

 

 

 

When she was a little girl Alexandra had an antique Dolls' House.  Like little George with his toy city, she spent a lot of time moving her imaginary characters around; dressing her dolls; giving them tasks; and making changes to this or that.  She outgrew that toy when she discovered computer games in The Cloud and then started writing her own code.  After that she has always been on the lookout for ideas that she might develop into a new game.

Around a year ago she and Charles were babysitting and flicking through the old elimination reality television shows on the video wall.

"What about a game around a 'girl group' who could act like a single celebrity, like a millionaire or bachelor, or could be a judge that gets involved in fashion and cooking eliminations; or who 'tell all'; and 'act out'; in shows like the Real Mistresses of Montreal?  That could be radical," she'd suggested.

"Yeah. That's a great idea! I'll help," offered Charles, who was also fourteen years old at the time. 

Alex likes to theme her games around old books, movies and TV shows.  She decided to base her 'girl group' on the characters in a favourite turn-of-the-century television soapy called Sex in New York.  So that was how her 'NYGirls' game came to be created.   

It was pretty easy for the kids to set up. 

The whole thing, selection of the suitors all the locations, concert performances, the numerous meals and travel arrangements, as well as all the scheduling, is managed by virtual assistants and agents written or modified by Charles and Alex and hosted in The Cloud.  Even the girls' trite songs and rhythmic music are written by compositional software, tuned, by social media analysis, into the popular zeitgeist.

The actual girls were chosen from the vast number available on social media.  In the selected cases, their very large number of linked social media 'friends', made them unwittingly strong nodes in social media and The Cloud.  Alex and Charles are into network theory and rapid dissemination algorithms.  So, the choice of participant was partly an experiment to see how quickly memes are disseminated in different circumstances.

That still left a vast number to choose from so Alex thought it would be amusing to select girls who were similar in appearance to the four women who had starred in the old television soapy. But not thirty-something.  How could women as old as Alex's mother be considered sexy?  It's like they never make Juliet young enough. 

Charles and Alex have always admired Angela, Charles's twenty-year-old half-sister.  She's feisty.  So, twenty-something it would be.

Obviously, the girls are real people so they had other names before they were chosen for the game but Alex insisted that Candy, Miranda, Samantha and Chelsea should be their actual names and real identities. 

"They're not to be four actors just playing a character. They mustn't think of themselves as actresses.  They are Stars and Celebrities," she proclaimed.  "They're not to act - they must just sing the songs, dance a little, and be themselves."

Like the majority of young people, the selected girls can't read or write and rely entirely on their VPA's to communicate with their vast array of friends. 

There was no need to change their names by deed pole.   It was the easiest thing to do a 'global find and replace' across all the selected girls' personal records in The Cloud.  Obviously, this included their official records like: their birth certificate; any other licence or legal document; identity data associated with images and medical records; any historical document or message that referred to them; and any reference to them in communications and the electronic records of their friends.  

Instantly their VPA's addressed them by the new name.  So did everyone and every thing interactive: their home appliances; public transport interfaces; security systems; and so on. Their old name had simply disappeared, it was an ex-name. They could find no trace of it anywhere. And, importantly, they had no credit unless they acknowledged and used their new name at the virtual bank.

Within a day they'd had to start answering to the new name.  Their vast numbers of friends, most of whom they had never met, were the quickest to accept the name as if it had never been different.  As they too are functionally illiterate, they mainly identify their friends by image.  And in conversation people are always calling themselves something different these days. 

In the face of overwhelming evidence, even their parents and siblings soon thought they must have been mistaken about the old name.  Possibly it had just been a nickname.  There was definitely no official record of the old name and even when they looked up their own old messages and e-birthday cards they exchanged in the past, it was evident that they had been using the current name themselves all along - but it is a bit strange. 

What amazed Alex and Charles was that each girl woke up one morning with a conviction that they had somehow been wrong about their own name. 

This had an unexpected side-benefit.  From then on, they and their close family were so uncertain about their own memories that they could be persuaded of almost anything. 

After this success Alex and Charles use this renaming technique on any person they want to control, like the Seragigolós and Seracocottes at the club, a couple of whom now think that they have always liked having 'zipless fucks' with strangers.  One thinks her name is Erica Jong and another Isadora Wing, the author of and protagonist in Fear of Flying.    As Erica Jong had written in 1973:

"The zipless fuck is absolutely pure.  It is free of ulterior motives... For the true ultimate zipless A-1 fuck, it was necessary that you never got to know the man very well."

Charles and Alex are amused, as only naughty teenagers can be, by the serendipitous use of family names for two of the NYGirls

Charles' mother, Samantha, probably likes her namesake being a celebrity in the popular reality MV show but step-Mum, Miranda, would be appalled if she ever saw the show.  Alex had quickly turned it off just the other day when Miranda came home unexpectedly.  She had had to divert Miranda from discovering her namesake with a long dissertation about soft verses hard core media content.

In addition to singing, or as some critics have said: shouting to music, the girls participate in celebrity dancing; millionaire dating; and house eliminations.   They also make celebrity appearances in various cooking elimination and survival contests that the kids have also set up, according to Alex's whim.  Playing with them is just like playing with dolls; or the old 'Sims' computer game.

The NYGirls are now at the centre of world attention. 

The Dating Show runs itself.  It simply follows the tried-and-true formula for reality MV.  To communicate with the girls Alex and Charles constructed a mature age Avatar who resembles the one time magazine proprietor and club owner Hugh Heffner.  Each girl also has a professional dance partner and voice coach. They're all simply intelligent 'bots' or software agents hosted in The Cloud.  

In the Dating Show each NYGirl is established as the true-love goal of an elimination group of Studs: good looking twenty to thirty-something boys, with a sprinkling of girls for Samantha who has been told that she can swing either way.  Initially the girl-on-girl experience was confusingly unfamiliar but now Samantha has recovered the lost memories of those schoolgirl liaisons that she had somehow completely blocked out.

Studs are selected from social media data and the standard formula is followed: group activities to heighten the competition; one-on-one dates to test the chemistry; and regular eliminations.  Heavy petting, and/or embracing, even spending a night together, is allowed and encouraged but no actual copulation.  That would be porn, and the subject of Charles' very profitable separate venture: PornMV.  This is Romance.

Deciding on four girls was a happy accident.  It allows the NYGirls Sexperience to go out 24/7 using four channels simultaneously.  While ViewOyeurs are fascinated by even the most intimate things the NYGirls do, the boring bits need to be edited out.  The four-channel schedule allows each girl's waking day to be edited down to just six hours.  Each day these segments are broadcast sequentially - delayed by: six hours; twelve hours; and eighteen hours. Each day the girls take turns to be broadcast first.

This means that ViewOyeur at home, anywhere across the entire planet, can choose to experience the point-of-view (visual, aural, olfactory and physical sensations) of their choice of NYGirl because each is available, albeit with triple repetition, 24/7.  So too are the amorous experiences of any of their Studs.  At any time ViewOyeurs can mix and match to change places with any of the NYGirl or their Studs to experience their point of view and sensations of the same events.  It just depends on how much time ViewOyeurs have and are prepared to pay for. 

To achieve a worthwhile six hours of material the girls are directed by the virtual agents every minute of the day through a tight production schedule.  But they are loving it.  They are leading an exciting life just being themselves; every hour a new adventure; every meal a gourmets delight; every man an Adonis; even their tantrums and disasters giving a ratings boost; and they've each quickly developed a huge celebrity profile as one of 'The Stars everyone wants to be - or have - for a Date & Dance'.

Although the NYGirls Sexperience can be enjoyed on an MV, serious fans soon graduate to experience anytime 'full immersion'. 

Charles and Alex have been abreast of full immersion technology as long as they can remember because little George's father, Ross, is a leader in the field. 

Alex quickly decided that the NYGirls should have their own line in haptic underwear and advanced devices called:  NYGirls Gear:

 

NYGirls Gear
Total Immersion you've never experienced before

 

 

NYGirls Gear offers you our newest ultra-cool NYGirls v-Fascinator - head adornment that delivers Total Immersion virtual reality.

[images - NYGirls and their Studs modelling female and male v-Fascinators]

With Total Immersion you'll achieve total reality

The NYGirls range of v-Fascinators has been tested by Dale and Frankie, the celebrities we love to hang out with. 

They both complained:

"Now I can never go back to plain old virtual reality!"

This is what they say you'll love:

  • The stereo images projected directly into your eyes from sexy or matcho bee-like antennae;
  • The HiFi sound, with environmental noise cancelling, injected deep into your ears;
  • The full scalp and facial sensations provided by RMS (remote nerve stimulation);
  • The scent gland that reproduces the exact smells; and
  • Brain Monitoring that listens to your thoughts and does as you desire. 

To celebrate the new v-Fascinators, NYGirls Gear is showcasing our new range of matching fully erogenous NYGirls bodystockings

[images - NYGirls modelling bodystockings]

They're the active underwear we love to experience - at rest - at play - or anywhere!

Like celebrity friends, our unspoken wish is our command when we match our fashionable NYGirls v-Fascinator with NYGirls Gear active underwear.

That's right.  By simply desiring it, your NYGirls Gear responds to your wishes. 

We asked Candy to tell you why she loves NYGirls Gear. This is what she said:

Imagine walking in the street in your ordinary dull everyday world. 
You'll need to watch where you're going.  But you can have some sound and some ghostly images as well as enjoying that gentle massage that you desire. 
On your train journey home, you might desire a more intense and exciting visit to my world with the NYGirls.  Or perhaps there is another site in The Cloud that excites or pleases you more? Your NYGirls Gear is not just for experiencing us - it works anywhere inside The Cloud.
Reaching home at last you can relax in total safety and fully immerse yourself. 

I've got some suggestions for you:

- Would you'd like to join our virtual audience? You can get up real close. I love that.
- Or maybe you'd like to experience what it's like to be me? You'll see and feel and smell exactly what I see and feel and smell as I go on dates to exotic places, dance the night away, or walk on the beach at sunset or dawn.  
- Or maybe you're a guy who would like to experience me, or another NYGirl, as my latest Stud? You'll experience me exactly as he does - my scent, my full wet lips, my firm body, perfectly real to your every sensation.
- Or just maybe, you're a bit kinky and want to try it all?  I know I would!

We love all your desires.  We're waiting!

xxx Candy

 

NYGirls Gear - Advertising Copy

 

The VPA's of ViewOyeurs, identified by their on-line behaviour in The Cloud, have been instructed to 'drip feed' their owners with a constant stream of tantalising information and images like this until they purchase.

Charles has written a number of routines to create marketing slogans.  The copy above is an early example of 'bot' generated text.  It turns out that committed ViewOyeurs are constantly on the alert for new Total Immersion sensations.  As a result, the prototype marketing 'bot' also came up with the promotional taglines:

'You ARE Samantha' and 'Did you enjoy your date with Samantha'.   

Obviously, it's not limited to Samantha, a similar advertising campaign, now appearing on MV banners and feeds and transport ads, applies to each of the NYGirls.

To boost ViewOyeur engagement there is also a popularity contest: - The NYGirls Peoples' Choice:

'Act within the next five minutes to vote against the next suitor you want Candy to eliminate - 20 credits will be transferred.' 

This is made even more exciting and involving because the ViewOyeurs can pay to experience, in 6D, what it is to be the suitor or to share Candy's experiences of her suitor. Virtual experience is charged in six-minute increments:

'Touch her heart to experience another six minutes with/as Candy!'

Thousands of female ViewOyeurs fall briefly in love with one of the suitors as a consequence of directly experiencing his courtly love making, as if it is to them alone. In 6D they can feel his strong arms about them and enjoy his tentative hands erotically exploring their body as they passionately kiss. 

When a suitor is eliminated, red eyes prevail and sick days rise across the world.  Fortunately, the show is archived in The Cloud so ViewOyeurs can repeat past experiences with an eliminated suitor at any time. But most, like the NYGirl they follow so intimately, prefer to move on: 

"I've flicked that one, who will she/I enjoy next?"  Female ViewOyeurs are like girls in a 'candy' store.

So successful is the show that promotional agents for upmarket holiday locations, restaurants and nightclubs vie to be chosen to host the Celebrities and their dates.  Huge fees have developed as the NYGirls became world famous. They promote everything from feminine hygiene to men's business clothes.

Charles had seen a problem. 

"Your girls aren't software constructs you know," he told Alex.  "They've past lives, friends and family. They've egos, that you're presently force-feeding like a foie-gras goose. They've developed exaggerated opinions of themselves, their talent and their importance. And grandiose expectations for the future."

"How long do you think they'll continue, before they think they're too famous for all this dating, dancing and attending live gigs 24/7.  What will you do when they burn-out?"

Alex already had a solution:

"That's easy.  I'll just replace them.  This often happened in old movie series and TV soaps."

"There are plenty where they came from. Hundreds of lookalikes in social media.  Most have already been told how much they look like one or other of the girls and know all the songs.  Some of them already half think they're the celebrity in their own fantasy world.  How easy will it be to change their name and for them to recover new past memories?"

"Obviously I'll reverse the obstreperous or burnt-out girl's previous name change."  

"She'll be 'miss unknown' again and no one will think she was ever a Celeb.  She'll be like Bottom waking without his long ears in a Midsummer's Night Dream.  She's already uncertain of her memory and now back with her old name she'll think she's been dreaming or mad, hallucinating the whole thing."

"If she still proves troublesome it will be easy to have her committed. It might be fun to have her caught shoplifting, or something like that, to reinforce her air of delusion."

As with all Alex and Charles's businesses in the real world, the credit flows into their 'slush fund' are enormous. 

But their personal consumption is modest, after all, they are teenagers living at home, amusing themselves playing in The Cloud while babysitting. So they use their enormous real world credit accumulations to create more and more fun games in the real world.  And they're providing employment and entertainment for millions of real 'Sims' out there. 

Meanwhile, when they are busy on their screens or happily arguing about the intricacies of their real-life games, little George plays happily with his huge toy city, that grows week by week as he adds extra modules. 

They help him play with it too and have already taught him some basic code to control his little cars. Yesterday he programmed a road race, like in action movies, and an enormous smash up.  It was awesome.  For his birthday they've got him some little model people he can learn to program to march about his streets and live in his little houses. 

When he's a little older they may show him how to do it in The Cloud using real people.

 

 

 

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