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Avatar Me! Internet journalism was the perfect job for Nat. He had built up several different online blogs, each with their own area of interest and all with enough followers that the advertising space on the pages paid enough to live on. Okay, he was single and he lived in a flat on his own, but he could pay the rent and he owned his battered old car outright. A few of his columns were tragically simple, consisting of a computer program that pulled media releases from selected companies, filtered them for specific types of products, reformatted the articles to fit the required layout and dropped them into a blog. That worked for some subjects, and generated reasonable amounts of traffic, but for some of the better paying blogs, he needed to really work at finding new subjects to write about to keep the readers interested and coming back. His blog on subcultures in modern society was the biggest headache he had now. He'd covered all sorts of people from small close knit farming towns to goths to people who would travel across the country to take photographs of trains. That's what had led him to start a series of articles on fetishes and fetish wear. Nat had never heard of Avatar Me! until he came across their site while googling for female masks and skin suits. He'd heard of some sites that were completely fake, and used photos of real women instead of their products. He was certain that this site was fake. The photos were just too good. The company was Australian, and appeared to be somewhere near Sydney, within a few hours drive from his flat. To top it off, the site mentioned that they were going to have a media launch of their new "Avatar Me! v1.2". Debunking this site would be a great piece for the current series of articles. He clicked the "enquiries" link and sent a message with his contact details and a link to the articles published so far in the series. An hour later, he received an email back. His series on fetishes "wasn't what the product was designed for, but it could certainly be used for those purposes." He'd be welcome to come along to the presentation. The email explained that there would be a media launch for a small selected group, and that photographs and a promotional video made using footage from cameras throughout the complex would be provided. Guests would not be permitted to photograph or record during the presentation for security reasons. The launch would be preceded by a tour of the history of their products leading up to v2.0, and was to start at 1pm the following Friday. It was expected to run until around 5pm, after which they'd be invited out for the evening. If he signed a confidentiality agreement and a release allowing him to being filmed during his visit, he would be contacted shortly with the details of the venue. The confidentiality agreement and release form were attached to the email. The confidentiality agreement indicated that some things that he might see at the presentation were commercially sensitive, and that he agreed to only release the information that was listed on a release approval form, after the embargo date specified on the form. Now his interest was really piqued. "I've got to be there!" He completed and returned the forms. He laughed and mumbled to himself, "they can't even work out what version they're releasing! 1.2 on the web site, 2.0 in the email. In spite of that, they seem confident in their product! This looks like it'll be fun." Two days later, he received an envelope in the mail. It contained a card, printed with a corporate letterhead, confirming the date and time and giving an address about an hour's drive from his flat. Included with the letter was a plastic covered visitor pass attached to a lanyard, which the letter said was required for security reasons, including entering the building. --- The following Friday, he drove to the address on the card, arriving 20 minutes early. He found a neat, modern two storey building nestled tightly between taller buildings, set back to provide visitor parking at the front. The facade was of light sandstone, with ornate Japanese style pebble gardens either side of the stairs leading to the door. The place looked like someone had really made an effort. He slung the visitor pass around his neck and walked up the stairs to the doors. A sign on the doors directed him to scan the pass alongside the right hand door. A light on the scanner changed from red to green and the doors slid open. There was a reception desk in line with the front doors, with the Avatar Me! logo set into the wall behind it. The place had a nice feel to it, and he noticed that there was music playing softly in the background. As Nat approached the reception desk, he saw two attractive young women behind the desk, wearing matching dark green short sleeved wrap dresses and AM! logo earrings. Name badges were pinned on their left lapels, with a photo ID hanging in a pocket underneath. One was Kylie, the other was Anisha, who smiled at him and said "Hi, I'm Anisha. Please take a seat while we wait for the others to arrive. Feel free to indulge in the nibblies and drinks." Nat was taken with the sound of her voice. It sounded as beautiful as she looked. Anisha was slim, in her early 20s with an ivory complexion and slightly wavy shoulder length brown hair. The hem of the dress came to just above her knees. She was wearing black pantihose and a pair of 2" heeled black court shoes. Her name was printed on a badge pinned neatly to her dress. He realised that he was staring at her, and turned away slightly embarrassed. By 1pm, three other visitors had arrived, all men. They chatted briefly, and it turned out that they were all single and were all unemployed aspiring journalists looking for a story that would give them their big break. All four of them had abandoned other "desk job" careers out of boredom. A few minutes after the last one arrived, Anisha came out from behind the desk and told them "I'm going to start you on a tour to show the history of our product development. You will change guides as you progress through the tour. For security reasons, we ask that you stay together as a group and move between exhibit rooms with your guide. Each exhibit room has a toilet off to one side. At the end of the exhibits, you'll move through to the auditorium for the unveiling. I'm sure you'll enjoy your afternoon!" --- Anisha led them from one end of the reception area along a short, curved corridor into the first exhibit room, holding a curtain aside as they entered. She stopped at the centre of the room. "This is the first of our pre-Avatar-Me! displays. These are some of the products that inspired our first protoypes. Before "Avatar Me", there were various products available for crossdressers, including fabric covered foam padding for the hips and buttocks, elastic body shapers and breast forms popular with those who wanted to present a realistic public image, through to corsets, latex and silicon masks and moulded body parts appealing to the fetish market." As he entered the room, Nat saw that the items were arranged on clear mannequin body parts, displayed so that you can see the garments inside and out. The group spent several minutes looking at the objects, while inundating Anisha with questions. By the time they had finished looking at the display, another woman was standing at the doorway at the other end of the room. She was dressed in the same uniform, but had a long mane of very wavy blonde hair, a deep tan and had a noticeably more athletic build that suggested that she was an avid surfer. She looked about 18 and Nat noticed that she had a small tattoo of a butterfly on her left breast. She said "Hi, I'm Bree. We'll now move on to some of the technology that others before Avatar Me! hadn't thought to use in making this type of product." As they walked out of the room, down a very short corridor and into the next room, Nat noticed that the corridors were curved and the doorways offset, so they were following a curve. He wondered how many rooms there were and whether they would come full circle. "In here, we have some of the existing technologies that we applied to make the version 1.0 series Avatar Me! products. These include materials used in the garments, including professional 'amputee prosthesis' grade silicon skin, adhesive gel backings as used on reusable gel bras and breast forms, as well as manufacturing technologies such as 3D wax deposit printing for making moulds directly from computer models and adaptations of existing robotic technology for hair insertion and pore punching. The Avatar Me! version 1.0 series were a combination of perfectly fitted, ultra-realistic, breathable skin with realistic hair, which adhered to the body and to itself so that edges vanished even on transitions between real skin and the prosthetic. This display shows that it was achieved using technology that existed by 2004, literally years before our company began." As before, the men spent several minutes looking at the various exhibits and inundating their guide with questions. This pattern continued, with a different woman collecting them from one room, guiding them to the next and answering their questions. They ranged in age from late teens to one he thought was probably in her early 50s. One was noticeably pregnant and another had disproportionately large artificial looking breasts. A couple had tattoos in various places, but the only variation in uniform seemed to be the their shoes. He thought it odd that every name seemed to be the next letter of the alphabet after the one before. They worked their way through v0.9 prototypes, then on to the production v1.0 garments, which used a 2-layer approach of a zip-fronted pull-on shape garment that had shoulder straps, breasts, an elastic waist cincher, hip, buttock and thigh padding and pockets to hide male genitals, covered by a set of thin separate skin pieces that overlapped to achieve an incredibly realistic appearance. The result looked great but it was complicated to apply and remove, as the adhesive used needed to be saturated with water containing skin cleanser to make it release and rinsed with clean water to flush away the cleanser to make it stick. To apply, the pieces needed to be soaked in water and cleanser, the undergarment put on and rinsed under a shower, the arms and legs put on and rinsed, the torso put on and rinsed and finally the head put on and rinsed. The wearer ended up stepping out of a shower soaking wet, hair and all. Removal was similarly complicated, requiring the pieces to be soaked off in the opposite order, usually by lying in a bath. Version 1.2 garments were much like the v1.0 series, but used slightly different materials, and somehow managed to look even more natural and realistic. Nat was experiencing information overload. He had been looking at web sites just last week where the products shown on the very first display were still the current products. Ill fitting masks, stretch silicon suits that had a massive edge around the neck and all without the realistic finish of these products. Then the displays finished with the v1.2 series and moved onto technology that went into v2.0. --- Nat was utterly lost. An electricity generator powered from the heat of a person's body? A computer made from conductive plastics so that it wouldn't trigger metal detectors or show up in an x-ray? Flexible, mouldable liquid crystal? A process that could disassemble and reassemble human hair including altering the pigmentation, thickness and texture? A process that could disassemble and reassemble nails to different lengths? Variable colour and focus contact lenses? A flexible inflatable material that could be inflated by different amounts in different places, and which could have water distributed into it to give it weight and movement? A corset material that can expand and contract under computer control? Variable texture artificial skin surface? A bi-directional direct brain interface? Software to adjust mannerisms, body language and vocal characteristics without requiring conscious change? Nerve networks in artificial skin? The genital simulation display really surprised him. Something that fits both males and females, can hide male genitals, creating an artificial vagina so realistic that it could fool a gynecologist, but can also disappear when the male organs are let down for male appearance, and when worn by a female, can create fully functional artificial male genitals that can disappear to reveal the wearer's female genitals covered in the artificial skin. This stuff had to be science fiction, but they had working models! He even tried on the cap for the direct brain interface and saw a heads-up display in his mind that was still there when he closed his eyes. He was sure that it was a trick, but couldn't see how it was done. He was able to use his mind to play with an avatar creator on the computer. The only limitation was that the avatar had to "fit him". He created an avatar of his "ideal woman", including dressing her "to go out and party" from wardrobe selections that the computer suggested. When he finished, he could see her rotating on the display in his mind. The guide at that display, Hanna, encouraged them all to try it. All of the men had a go at creating their avatars, and they had a laugh as all of their avatars were shown animated on a computer screen, waving, smiling and dancing around in a circle. --- At the end of the tour, Ivy guided then into the auditorium, which was dominated by a large projection screen. Once they were seated, the presentation of 'Avatar Me! v2.0' began by introducing the various research components that they'd just seen, one by one. As each component was introduced, it morphed from the shape of the prototype device that they'd seen earlier into the form that it took in the finished suit, changed to a bright colour and moved across to join an assembled view that was slowly revolving in 3 dimensions. As the components were added, the suit became more and more solid and complicated. The final object added was the skin colour and texture variation, which grew from a small rectangular research plate that slowly varied in skin tone (including gaining and losing freckles and broken capilleries) and changed from wrinkly to smooth, transformed into a slowly rotating ball with colour and texture moving around on its face. As it spun, a nipple and areola rolled across, then a tattoo of a butterfly. It slowly moved across the screen to the suit. As the ball touched the suit, it poured out sideways, enveloping it and leaving a smooth, white, naked shape that was so smooth that it looked like a coat of paint was applied to a mostly featureless mannequin, slit down the back from the top of the head down to the buttocks and peeled off. The skin had ears and a fairly generic shape of a human face, complete with holes for the eyes, nose and mouth. The mouth showed curves in the shape of lips with something like teeth in the mouth. The back slit was open, and the lining was visible. The body rotated so that the audience were seeing the back then stopped. The image rippled several times as the projection screen moved sideways to reveal a real body standing in the same place, on a turntable, with skin visible in the slit. The arms reached around to the back. One index finger touched the top of the slit on the head while the other touched the bottom of the slit. A computer display simulating the heads-up display they'd seen earlier appeared on the other side of the screen. Avatar Me v 2.0.9 (c) Avatar Me 2011 Closing enabled. The fingers slowly traced their way along the slit, and the slit joined and vanished behind them. As the fingers met between the shoulder blades, the slit vanished. The suit shivered slightly then shrank onto the person inside as the turntable again began to rotate slowly. Suit closed Scanning body - Done Internal clean - Done Attachment - Done Hair recovery - Started Water acquisition - Started Inserting optic lenses - Done Nerve link - Done The wearer selected a menu option Demonstration mode Then another menu was selected Description of avatar Gender - Female Age - 21 Race - Celtic/Irish Build - medium BMI - 23.5 Hair - Auburn, collar, light wave, fringe Skin - fair, light freckles Eyes - Hazel/Green Installing avatar The body began to transform. As it rotated to face them, a bulge of male genitals came into view before disappearing up into the body. Testicles up - Done Penis up - Done The body changed shape. Over a few seconds, the waist shrank, the hips and buttocks expanded noticeably, then the breasts expanded to size. Setting coarse shape Waist cinching enabled - Done Hips/buttocks - Done Bust - Done Fine details began to change. Starting at the toes, the shape transformed from vague smoothness to the shape of a real person. At the neck, the upward progress paused as the arms and hands took shape, then the shape of the face transformed to the shape of an attractive young woman. Setting fine shape Feet/Legs - Done Genitals - Done Torso - Done Hands/Arms - Done Head - Done Hair began to appear. A patch of fine, pale auburn, almost blonde hair appeared on the crotch. The whole body, arms and legs gained a subtle blonde shimmer of short, sparse, almost invisible hair. Long, dark auburn eyelashes and paler perfectly arched brows formed. Bright auburn hair began to sprout from the head, extending within a few seconds to collar length. Hair Body - Done Face - Done Head - Done The skin began to change from its initial white, again starting at the toes, where the nails took on a golden shimmer. The skin coloured, complete with freckles, and swept up the legs, up the body, paused as the areolas and nipples took on a soft peachy pink colour, then continued up to the neck, down the arms to the hands, where the nails took the same golden shimmer as the toenails. The colour then proceeded up the neck and face. Finally, the eyes took their colour. Skin and nail colours - Done Eye colour - Done Vocal settings - Done Mannerism settings - Done Ready The turntable finished a complete revolution as the model stood still. She smiled, looked down and blushed slightly. With a light Irish lilt, she said "Could I have some clothes please?" Ivy rolled a small trolley across the stage from behind the remaining section of the screen. On the trolley, there was a complete set of clothing including underwear, a short orange satin dress on a hanger on a post at one end, matching 4" stiletto heeled shoes, a handbag and jewelry. The other end of the trolley was a padded seat. "Most guys prefer to watch women taking off clothes than putting them on," the naked woman quipped as she put a g-string on. She then slipped her arms into a bra and leaned forwards to settle her breasts into the cups as she did up the hooks. She sat on the seat and pulled on her sheer skintone pantihose. Next came the dress, which she slipped over her head and zipped up. Finally, she sat back down, hooked her earrings into her ears, popped the necklace and a couple of bracelets on and slipped on her shoes. As she sad "one final thing", the computer screen showed Makeup - [subtle] [day] [evening] [party] [custom] The party button was pressed and she was instantly wearing slightly overdone makeup, perfectly matched to her outfit and just right for a party. --- Crossing her legs seductively and smiling, she said "Hi, I'm Jane. Are you guys ready to put on your Avatars and go out for dinner?" The stunned silence lasted for about 10 seconds. Nat and the other men were looking at each other, at Jane and at Ivy. Ivy smiled widely. "We're not going to force you to put on an Avatar Me! v2.0, or to go out for dinner with us while wearing it, but we are offering you the opportunity, and now that you've seen what it can do, we hope that you'll take it." "If you try on your avatar, including the clothes that you selected to go with it, and don't believe that you are as convincingly female as all of your guides have been today, you will have the option of taking it off and going as yourself, but we were hoping for a girls night out," added Jane with a smirk. Nat, picking up on the comment about the guides, asked "Do you mean that all of the women we've seen today were wearing these Avatars?" Ivy smiled, nodded and added "and not one real female." Until that point, Nat had never even considered crossdressing himself, but he was so intrigued at the transformation that he'd seen, he said "I'll try it on but I won't commit to going out until I see how it looks." The others all agreed. Jane said "I hope that you guys are okay with changing together. It'll be much easier if we help you to put the Avatars on. We'll give each of you a dressing gown. You can take your shirt off, pop the gown on, take off your pants and underwear and put the bottom half of the suit on. Once you have it on up to the waist, you can pop off the dressing gown and we can help you get the arms and head on. The top half is a little tricky on your own the first time." "Oh, and don't worry about hygiene. The suits are not only completely self-sterilising, but will sanitise the wearer as well." The men all agreed to this arrangement. The projector screen went blank and rolled completely aside, revealing five more little trolleys like the one that had carried Jane's clothes. Ivy and Jane spread four of them out across the middle of the room. The men could tell which was whose by the dresses hanging on the ends. On each trolley, there was a dressing gown, an Avatar Me v2.0 and a set of clothes. Ivy pointed out that the seat end folded open, providing somewhere for them to put their male clothes and belongings. Nat took off his shoes and socks and put them in the trolley. He then took off his shirt, put on the dressing gown and stripped from the waist down, as suggested. Ivy showed him how to gather up the legs of the suit and helped him get it on up to his knees. She had him stand and told him how to work the suit up to his groin. She said "If you aren't circumcised, you'll need to pull your foreskin back, push the end of the cover up to push the internal cup over the head, then pull the foreskin back down over the cup. If you're circumcised, simply push the end of the cover up and push the internal cup over the head. Make sure that the testicles and penis hang correctly into their separate pockets as you pull the suit up firmly into the creases on either side of your crotch." Once he had the suit in place up to his waist, he took the dressing gown off and Ivy told him to gather up the arms like he'd done for the legs, put both hands in and stretch his arms out sideways to pull them into place. She then helped him to put the mouthguard-like cover over his teeth, align his nose and eyes, then fit the ears of the suit onto his ears. Finally, she said "You're ready. Put your index fingers on the ends of the seam as you saw Jane do earlier. Once the display shows 'closing enabled', run your fingers together to close and activate." As he touched his fingers into place, the display turned on in his head, just like it had with the cap when he created his avatar. When the slit closed, he felt a lot of odd things including what felt like a half second full body sponge bath followed by a half second all over blow dry. The suit then seemed to suck itself onto his skin and glue itself there. Every hair on his body prickled for an instant then something crept into his eyes. The status messages were the same as when Jane put her suit on until it got to where Jane had selected demonstration mode. His suit simply said Express mode Installing avatar Done She could feel the air moving around on her naked skin, she could sense the shape of her body, her hair brushed on her shoulders and she felt a little pressure on her bladder but knew that that could wait until she was dressed. "Wow. I'm female. I don't just look female, I'm even thinking of myself as female!" she exclaimed in a voice that matched her body perfectly. Without really thinking about it, she put her g-string and bra on the same way as Jane had, then sat to put her pantyhose on. She was fully dressed by the time that she realised that everything just came naturally. She'd put on her engagement ring on, and was admiring the solitaire diamond when she realised what the ring meant. "Hey, what?" she began, holding up her hand. Ivy laughed and said "We'll be six girls going out together. A hen's night is the ideal excuse. Someone has to be the bride-to-be. If you don't want to be it, I'm sure someone else will. Do you want to be it, Natalia? The name just seemed to come naturally. He had been Nathan, shortened to Nat. She was Nat, short for Natalia. She smiled and said "Sure. I'll be it," then headed to the toilet. The programming was quite amazing. She used the toilet, then went to check her hair and makeup in the mirror as she washed her hands. She realised that she wasn't wearing any makeup and used the menu to install her party makeup. Everything happened as if that's who she had always been. After washing her hands, the heads-up display briefly popped up a message about "Water 100%". She realised that her breasts and bottom felt heavier than they had a few minutes earlier. Now, she felt right. By the time Natalia returned from the toilet, Ivy had changed into her party dress and all the others were wearing their avatars, dressed and wearing tacky hen's night accessories. They had been named Lee-anne, Matilda and Olivia. Natalia donned a "bride to be" badge and a veil while the other new girls took turns to go to the toilet, then they headed out for dinner. Jane led them down a short corridor through the reception area and out the front door. They piled into a waiting "maxi-taxi" and headed off to a restaurant. --- They had a great time. They all forgot that they were actually males under their avatars and just enjoyed the whole experience. The restaurant had a middle eastern theme complete with belly dancer. As the bride-to-be, Natalia was invited up to dance with the dancer. She didn't think that she knew anything about belly dancing, but she was able to shimmy just like the dancer was doing. She marvelled at how flexible the dancer was and wondered how hard it would be to get to be like that. She also wondered where she could get a costume like that. It was to die for! After the restaurant, they walked along the road to a nightclub, where they danced for a couple of hours. She was propositioned by several men, using lines like "While you're still free" and "I'm better then him. I'll change your mind. You'll want to marry me instead." Eventually, the whole group decided that they were ready to head back. Surprisingly, even though she hadn't been taking any notice of her alcohol intake, Natalia realised that she was nowhere as drunk as she should have been after partying this hard. She commented about this to Ivy, who confirmed that they had a "sensible drinking" rule in the programmed behaviour rules so that the guests would be able to drive home after the night out without being drunk. Jane had rung the taxi company and the maxi-taxi arrived as they stepped out the door of the nightclub. They piled in and returned to Avatar Me! The clock in the taxi was showing 11:30pm when they got out. --- Jane walked up to the security scanner on the door and opened it by simply waving her hand across the sensor, then held her hand there until the group had all entered. They returned to the auditorium and began stripping out of their clothes. Natalia suddenly realised that she'd spent over 6 hours wearing 4" stilettos and her feet felt fine. Stripping out of the clothes was a bit of an anti-climax, but removing the avatar was something that Natalia just didn't want to do. She knew that she really didn't have a choice, though. Shutdown was fairly simple. Stand near something that could catch the water that had been distributed into the suit while it was inflated, place the index fingers at the top and bottom of where the slit had been and hold them there for 5 seconds to bring up a shutdown menu on the heads-up display. Select [shutdown], move your hands to where you were going to drop the water and select [ok]. All the hair retracted into the skin, the suit unstuck and did another clean cycle then paused for several seconds to rebuild you own hair before opening the slit. Nat felt odd being able to again feel the suit as something outside his body. It came off easily in the reverse order of how it went on. Once off, it did a couple of seconds of self-cleaning then went limp as it powered down. Just as the programming had made it all feel natural while it was on, it disappeared when the suit shut down, and he was back to being an ordinary male. He dressed in his own clothes and sadly prepared to leave. When the 4 men were ready to leave, Jane handed each of them a promotional DVD covering part of the day, and told them that they would receive more material within a few days. By the time Nat got into his car, it was midnight. He drove home, and went straight to bed, where he dreamt about being Natalia. --- The following day started late. He just couldn't get the previous day out of his head, and decided to go back to Avatar Me! and see if they'd sell him the suit he'd worn. It was Saturday, but he'd just have to gamble on them being there. After again driving the hour to Avatar Me!, he arrived to find that they weren't there. Not that the place was closed but that the entire building was gone! There was a fairly busy carpark between two tall buildings. The first few spaces at the front looked exactly how the carpark in front of the Avatar Me! building had, but there was no building. Not only that, but the other end of the carpark opened onto another street. The block was too small for the building that they had been in last night. He knew he hadn't dreamt it, but the building wasn't there and didn't look as it it ever had been. He asked a factory worker who was getting into his car in the carpark if he had been there the previous day, and was told "No, yesterday was the company picnic day." He walked along the carpark from end to end a few times and couldn't find the slightest hint that there had been a building there. It was a plain concrete carpark, and the concrete was not recent. He drove to the restaraunt and asked if anybody had seen the group there the night before. The waiter remembered the group and said that they were the hottest chicks he'd ever seen in the place. Did he know who made the booking? One of the women had, by email. The waiter gave him the email address that was used for the booking. It was the same email address as he already had for them. There didn't seem to be any point in going to the nightclub. Nobody there really knew the group. --- Dejected and very confused, he drove home to find that he had an email from Avatar Me!, with a link to an account-only encrypted web site. The email told him to use the username and password on his visitor pass to enter the site. He logged into the site. First, the bad news. Under the confidentiality agreement, you will be able to report on the products up to v1.2, but not v2.0. Click here to download the release form for the v1.2 products. He downloaded the release form and read it. It clearly defined that everything in the displays up to and including the v1.2 garments could be released, with the embargo date being the following Friday. That would give him time to put the article together, and the v1.2 stuff was still far ahead of anything else on the market. Note that the presentation that you saw is not the same as other groups saw. "I guess that makes sense. The web site did say that they were releasing version 1.2. I don't know why they showed us version 2.0, if we aren't going to be allowed to write about it, though." You have already signed a confidentiality agreement that prevents you from publishing anything about the v2.0 products. As you are already aware, you have a government security clearance. "How do they know that?" If you agree to join the field testing team, you will be employed by a contractor to the federal government, and will be subject to all of the corresponding secrecy laws. "Government? What?" Field testing may require the use of products for extended periods, including occasionally requiring testing of new software or hardware in unusual circumstances. While the products are not considered dangerous and you will not generally be placed in dangerous situations as part of the field trials, it is impossible to guarantee safety. Do you wish to join the field testing team for Avatar Me! products? [Yes] [No] Nat sat back in his chair with his mouth hanging open. He was in shock. He was being recruited by a secret government organisation that had put on a convincing demonstration, from a building that vanished overnight. He could be Natalia again, and get paid for it? He obviously had to click yes! A courier will come to you shortly. You will need sign the forms brought by the courier, which they will witness. Your main identity for long-term testing, Natalia, will have a complete background including her own car, flat, clothing and identity documents. The documents will all be legitimate and officially issued. It will take approximately 24 hours for all of the arrangements to be put in place. In the meantime, you might enjoy watching a few of the videos that explain our company's relationship to the government, functionality that is built into the product, and why you found a carpark where our building was yesterday. Three video titles and previews came up on screen. He decided that he really wanted to know about the disappearing building first, so he clicked on it. --- The video was taken from a camera mounted about 3 storeys up, directly across the road from the carpark. It was a kind of time-lapse that changed speed as it went, with a little graphic in one corner showing how many times real time it was moving and a clock showing the time. It started at midnight Thursday, as the night shift workers drove out of the carpark. At 6am, two semi trailers drove in and stopped side by side, paused then drove forwards again, except that when they drove forwards this time, the backs of the trailers stayed still while the fronts went forward, stretching them in the middle. The trailers both lowered stabiliser legs like cranes have, then moved around a little on the legs. Once they were in place, they began unfolding. First, the roofs rose upwards to about double their original height, then folded out like umbrella frames, dragging two large canopies out. The material joined along the middle to form one large roof, which filled the space between the buildings on each side. The sides swung out to form a floor that extended all the way across between the other buildings. The front steps and gardens came out of the trailers, closely followed by the facade. The clock showed 6:20 and the building looked just how it had when he'd arrived. The picture changed to a different camera. This one was inside the building, right up in one front corner. It looked like a construction site. It had carpet on some parts of the floor, but grooves and holes in other places. Two sets of tall upright cylinders moved into the ceiling above two larger diameter cylinders, which appeared to be mounted one on each trailer. Sections of metal tracking spread out as if to support a ceiling. Two bald men in overalls and joggers were pushing furniture around on wheels. They rolled the reception desk into place and stepped on something under it that seemed to retract the wheels and set it in place. The table and chairs that they'd had drinks and nibblies were wheeled in on a trolley and lifted into place. A set of wall panels were wheeled up into place behind the reception desk to form that wall. More wall panels were rolled into place. On one side, there was a short corridor from the reception area towards the back of the building that he realised was the one between the auditorium and the reception area. The next pieces were more confusing. Two sections of curved wall were wheeled into place to form a curved corridor between the large cylinders. Another few sections were rolled into place to form the corridor that they had used to move from the reception area to the first display. Some sort of material ceiling lining rolled out from near the front wall, covering the reception area and the corridors to the middle of the large cylinders. The clock showed 7:00. The view changed to another camera mounted at the other end of the building. Another pair of curved wall sections were rolled into place to form another corridor between the large cylinders. A large cabinet was rolled into a space that ended up being alongside the screen end of the auditorium. A toilet cubicle was rolled into place at the side of the auditorium. More panels were placed to form the corridors in and out of the auditorium and the wall on that side of the room. The screen frame and chairs were being placed in the auditorium as another ceiling rolled into place over the rest of the scene. The clock had advanced to 7:20. Nat was amazed. There had appeared to be nine display rooms, but they were actually only two. The cylinders in the roof contained the displays, which were swapped in and out of the rooms and the rooms rotated, so they transferred back and forth in those curved corridors, giving the impression of a much larger building. The display changed again. This time, it was a camera in one corner of the auditorium. Once they'd put the chairs in place, the two bald men unfolded a pair of camp stretchers, threw a quilt over each, rolled two clothes trolleys out of the store room, discarded their overalls and shoes into the spaces under the seats, put on nightshirts and went to bed. A uniform dress hung on the clothes hanger on the end of each trolley. As they got into bed, the lights went down as if by remote control. The video sped up, showing several hours in a few seconds. The speed went back to normal as the clock showed noon. Both men woke, and transformed into Anisha and Kylie, the two women who had been in reception when they arrived. They casually dressed in their uniforms, folded their stretchers and stuffed their quilts into bags, put them on the trolleys and wheeled them into the store room. Anisha then drew the screen into place and walked into the corridor leading to the displays, while Kylie stayed in the store room. The display split in half. The left side followed Anisha while the right side followed Kylie. Anisha went into the first display, and a status overlay came up, saying "Room 1. Rotation started, reverse to room 2. Display A in place." Kylie packed away the overalls, underwear and work shoes, re-loaded the two trolleys with Ivy and Jane's party clothes and rolled them out behind the screen. "Room 1 rotation complete." As Anisha moved from room 1 to room 2 to check that everything was working properly, Kylie pulled the other four trolleys out of the cabiet and placed them in a row. "Room 2. Rotation started, reverse to room 1. Display B in place." Anisha went into the toilet while the camera stayed on room 2. Kylie put the Avater Me! suits and dressing gowns on the trolleys. "Room 2 rotation complete." Anisha walked along the corridor to room 1. "Room 1. Rotation started, reverse to entrance." Kylie opened a door onto the corridor between reception and room 1, took their lunches, the nibblies and drinks from a portable fridge in the large cabinet and carried them out to reception. "Room 1 rotation complete." Anisha walked out to reception, sat and started eating lunch while Kylie went to the toilet in room 1, closing the door to the store room on the way past. The screen changed from split vertically to split horizontally, with the top showing the camera in the corner of the reception area and the bottom showing the street outside from high on one side of the facade. The video sped up a little, showing his arrival followed by the other 3 journalists, and their movement to the first display. As soon as they entered room 1, the top of the screen split into two, with one showing room 1, the other following Kylie from reception through a door, through a hidden area into the exit door of room 2, where she morphed into Bree and swapped shoes for a pair taken from a hidden space under the display. The bottom half of the screen showed a view of the 2 rooms and the display changers, showing the room that they were in slowly rotating so that the exit door aligned with the corridor leading to room 2. The status overlay messages came and went. The video sped up again. The group moved to room 2, display A rose up into the ceiling, Anisha adjusted her dress and changed her shoes as she morphed into the noticably pregnant Cate, room 1 rotated, display C moved into place and Cate collected them. It wasn't obvious, but there were curved sliding doors hidden by the curtains at both ends of both rooms, and when the group were in a room, the doors were closed until the corridor was ready for them. The video sped up further, showing the group in one room while the other room and woman changed. Kylie became Bree, Diane, Fiona then Hanna, while Anisha became Cate, Ellen, Grace and finally Ivy. Some changes included a change of dress size as well as shoes. Nat realised that the shoes varied in heel height, making the women appear different heights. While Ivy was showing them the final display, Hanna had gone out through reception to the store room, done something to each suit, loaded the selected clothes for the avatars onto the trolleys then rolled those four trolleys out behind the screen, stripped naked in the store room, dropped water into a hole in the side of the storage cabinet and morphed to the power down hairless white look of the Avatar Me!, put on a dressing gown and sat on her clothes trolley. As the group left room 1, the view from above shrank off the bottom of the screen, leaving the group watching the presentation on one side and the former Hanna on the right. As the time approached, she stashed the dressing gown under the seat of her trolley, walked across to the turntable position and opened the back seam. The video went to high speed as they skimmed through the process of changing, dressing, going out, coming back, changing back to males and leaving. It stayed in high speed as Ivy and Jane transformed back into the two bald men, took an hour nap, put their overalls back on and packed the whole building back up in the reverse order of how they'd put it up. The trucks drove out the other end of the block at 2:30am. --- Nat was in awe at the capabilities of the Avatar Me! suits. He'd just watched 2 people successfully appear to be thirteen (including the men who set up and packed up) over the space of a few hours. If he hadn't seen the video, he would never have believed it. No wonder there was government involvement. What a spy could do with one of these! The doorbell rang before he started another video. "Good timing", he thought. The courier was a spotty faced young man. "Hi, I've got some forms you've got to sign and I've got to witness." He also carried a small parcel. Nat asked "is the parcel for me?", to which the youth replied "There's a woman moving into the flat next door. I've got to deliver this to her after you've signed your forms." "Oh right." He read quickly through the forms. It all looked fairly consistent with government and corporate secrecy agreements, in triplicate, with each copy having to be signed separately. The youth watched him sign all of the pages, then witnessed all of them, pulled the 3rd copy off and handed it to him. Nat watched as the young man went to talk to two men who were just starting to move furniture into the place next door. One of the men nodded, signed for it and took it into the flat then came out and went back to moving furniture in. So far, he'd only seen the removalists. He wondered how this new neighbour would complicate his new job. With that, he closed his door, returned to his computer and selected the video on "Government involvement" --- The video started with Ivy smiling at the camera. "Hi. This is a brief overview of government use of our products to date and plans for the future." A sequence of fitting sessions showing people being fitted with v1.0 garments followed. Ivy explained that some of the disguises were designed to allow an agent to impersonate another person, while others were simply used to change an agent's appearance. Some of the disguises involved the full padded gender change outfit, while others were parts, such as a head and pair of arms that changed a man from looking like an office worker to a very different looking man with quite distinct short sleeved tan lines. There was even a short haired young woman who put on a lightly padded version of the undergarment and full set of outer skin pieces to become a slightly plump middle aged woman. Ivy explained that each disguise was made for a specific person, for a specific job. Often, parts of a disguise could be re-used by the same person for another job, but the most complex and expensive parts, the heads, were rarely re-used because of the risk of recognition. She continued, explaining that the fitted moulded nature of the v1.0 and v1.2 garments meant that changes in body weight could be compensated for in the pull-on undergarment, but changes in weight could cause arm, leg and face fitting problems. "Several government agencies, including military and non-military, want to use the version 2.0 suits. A couple of suits have been used successfully in low risk exercises but there are inevitably questions about the ability of the suits to withstand high-stress situations and long-term continuous usage, and that's why independant field trial contractors are required." Originally a part-time one-man business run from a converted garage, the company grew fairly quickly to full time for 2 people. When a pair of v1.0 avatars were used in a bank robbery, the police took an active interest in the company, initially threatening charges of collusion for creating the disguises used in the robbery. Because the company provided all of the evidence needed to expose the criminals and get them imprisoned, the police instead insisted that every person that was going to have a garment made would require a criminal check and that a database of avatars containing photos and details of each owner be made available to them. This was workable but became very complicated, very quickly. After a wanted criminal was arrested following the criminal check carried out using his full body scan, it became impossible to continue to operate from their original location. As the company was already doing an increasing amount of government work, they relocated into a civilian contractor area of a military base, while setting up a full body scanner and shopfront in a van for private customers. The portable building came about to replace the van with a more professional look for selling the Avatar Me! v1.0. The original layout, which is also used for v1.2 presentations, has the displays up to v1.2 in an open layout instead of the rotating rooms. It had been used that way over 40 times. When they needed to present v2.0 to high ranking security personnel at various locations around the country, they wanted to outdo the 'spooks' so they designed the v2.0 layout to present 'as much of an illusion as our products'. The presentation that Nat had attended was the 5th time that they'd done the v2.0 presentation, but the first time that it was a field testing recruitment exercise. Because it could download memories, the spooks wouldn't allow the brain interface to be used on them, but on each occasion a low-security 'candidate' had created their avatar and then put it on. The groups would then go out for dinner as a mix of spooks and avatars. The ability of the inexperienced operatives wearing avatars to behave exactly as they appeared thoroughly impressed the spooks, and they approved funding for field trials, provided that some additional features (mostly software) that they specified would be added to the suits. If successful, over 1,000 v2.0 suits would be deployed to various government departments and agencies. --- That was a lot to take in. He was one of only a few field testers. He wondered if the other 3 men that had been to the presentation with him were all in the field testing now. There was a knock at the door. A builder was standing at the door, while his apprentice carried some tools into the flat next door. "G'day mate. We've got a bit of work to do in the flat next door and it could be a bit noisy. We should only be about two or three hours. You might want to go out for a while." Nat replied, "Oh, okay. I'll be fine here but thanks for letting me know." There was a bit of noise in the background over a period of about 2 hours. Some of it sounded like it was just the other side of the wall of his living room, while some was further away. Nat did his best to ignore it, and went back to his computer to watch the final video, about the features built into the suits. --- Jane appeared on the screen, smiling. "You've already seen and experienced the basic functionality of the Avatar Me! version 2.0 suit. I'm now going to run through a few of the more complex and obscure features that you're probably not aware of yet or might have missed during the presentation." "The suit provides enhanced senses. The integrated contact lenses provide night vision functionality" As she spoke, the view changed to show the view from inside a suit, changing to monochrome night vision as the lights went off. As the view moved into partial light, it stayed in night vision mode but the bright part was filtered down to be only slightly brighter than the dark part. A menu overlay flashed briefly Night vision auto mode off threshold set and the vision returned to normal, making the dark area too dark to see. "Microphones built into the ears provide enhanced hearing, complete with tuneable full spectrum noise cancellation. The inner ears contain integral ear plugs, so that you can protect your ears from loud noises or mute sounds from your own ears while using enhanced hearing. We're yet to test it on a deaf person, but we believe that the enhanced hearing will work perfectly for them, as it feeds directly into the brain." The picture and sound changed to a motor mechanic's workshop, with a running engine drowning out all other sounds. A graphic equaliser style screen appeared, superimposed over a spectrum analyser showing the background noises. A [voice optimise] button was clicked and the engine noise dropped into the background, while a male voice could be clearly heard saying "that chick is hot. I'd do her!" Jane was blushing when she returned to the screen. "The skin can blush, as I just did, can simulate bruising that progresses through the correct sequence of colours and patterns over time, and believe it or not, is able to stop bullets up to about 9mm. If you're aware that a bullet is coming, the area will swell to absorb the impact but you will bruise. Even if a bullet is stopped, the impact can cause internal injuries including broken bones, and will almost certainly damage the suit at the impact site." Slow motion footage was shown of a sample skin panel on the face of a ballistic gel body block. The sample swelled just before a bullet struck it, and the gel block shuddered at the impact, but the bullet didn't penetrate. "Don't try this at home", Jane quipped. "Something that I'm not going to show you but you'll probably try at home is playing with your female bits. We're confident that every detail in that area is absolutely accurate, and you'll quite enjoy it. Oh, except at that time of the month. You won't get pregnant no matter how hard you try, but you will have menstrual cycles complete with mood swings if you wear a female avatar of child bearing age for any length of time. Unlike real women, you can adjust a few things about your cycles and suspend them if absolutely necessary. Wearing a menopausal avatar also has its challenges." She rolled her eyes then smirked. "You see, these are characteristics that real women have, and an avatar has to copy them to be truly realistic." "One thing to note here is that in order to create a penetrable vagina, the penis must more flacid than should be possible, and in fact was considered medically unsafe before we developed the version 2.0 suit. To achieve a safe vaginal simulation, the penis is normally slighly erect and fills the vagina from inside its own pocket. When something is inserted beyond the labia minora, the penis is forced to shrink excessively and muscles that cannot be controlled consciously are placed in a special pattern that moves the penis to the back. Simulated vaginal muscle contractions, including during orgasm, are largely pulses of blood through the penis. These ripples remove the medical risk. For this reason, the standard programming of the suits is for a woman who orgasms and has multiple orgasms more easily than average and has stronger vaginal contractions than average. In short, she really goes off in bed. This can be turned down where a specific person is being simulated but there is a limit. It's simply not possible to safely simulate a penetrable but non-orgasmic woman without muscle contractions." "There is also enhanced male function. Not only can we vary penis size and shape but, based on eastern religious teachings, we've found out that it's possible to experience multiple male orgasms with or without ejaculation on the final one. Use of this function will eventually train the wearer to be able to do this even without a suit. "Women are famous for having a poor sense of direction. We can fake that in the personality software, but it will always be fake because the suit has an inbuilt GPS and inertial sensors, allowing your position to be accurate to within half a metre even where there's no GPS coverage. We currently have limited ability to import maps, but improvements will be in software updates over the next few weeks. As a bonus, GPS provides a very accurate clock." "We're still calibrating the sensing system for this one. We have integrated a chemical analysis system similar to a mass spectrometer into the suit. Sensor pickups are integrated into he finger tips, balls of the feet, inside of nostrils and lips. A lot of drugs like Rohypnol can be detected quickly simply by touching the tip of a finger to the surface of the drink." She demonstrated sampling a drink, and the display overlay showed the alcohol content and flashed a red warning about the Rohypnol content. "How you deal with something like this depends on the situation." "If you have linked your suit to your mobile phone by bluetooth, you can make and receive phone calls while being completely silent. An internal synthesiser can generate any voice you want, including ones beyond your vocal range. If you can't devote the attention to doing that, you can send an emergency SMS to us. It will automatically include your GPS coordinates. By default, we have enabled automatic emergency SMS sending for a number of events, but you can turn it off when you're confident of being able to handle such situations." "We'll move on to computer interfaces now." She picked up a micro-SD card, put it in her palm and closed her hand around it. The display overlay showed the card as being connected, and she started downloading the contents of it. While it continued, she dropped a USB memory stick into her cleavage. It also connected and began downloading, without affecting the micro-SD. She picked up a UTP ethernet lead and stuck it into an armpit. The overlay showed the gigabit link coming up, then using DHCP to get a connection. "You think that's good? Watch this." She smiled, picked up a telephone lead and inserted into her navel. The status showed it having both landline and ADSL2 on the line. She established an ADSL2 connection, opened a VPN connection and started copying files from the main fileserver of the ethernet network to a remote internet site via the ADSL2 line. "I did that to a high security network, separated from the internet by 4 layers of physical firewalling. The spook who claimed that I couldn't hack it wasn't happy!" She smiled. "There are auto-configuring interfaces in both palms, both armpits, between the breasts, in the navel and on the surface of the breasts and buttocks. The little fingers can also operate as plugs or sockets for some types of connection. Virtually every type of memory card on the market is supported, along with every type of USB device supported by the linux kernel, both UTP and coaxial ethernet, firewire, fixed telephone including voice, fax, modem and ADSL and ADSL2. There's even auto-configuring RS232 and RS422 just in case. Some locations can't do some types of connector for physical reasons. There are openable slots in the crease under each breast where cards can be sealed in but may be detectable on x-ray, and will limit minimum breast size." "Wifi is fully supported. Infra-red receive and transmit capability is also available, using transceivers in the middle fingers. This is mostly useful for remote control of radios, DVD players etc, but can be used for wireless connections to some old computers and printers." "As part of the government's requested features list, we've made the hands of a suit able to achieve brain interface to another person sufficient to put them into a trance like state. The application of hands will provide up to 15 minutes of continued trance after removal. We're hoping to increase the functionality of this, but it's going to be difficult due to the limited head coverage from the fingers. We're also in the process of implementing a slave mode. This will allow a suit to be used to trap and disguise a hostile person. The person would be put into a suit by someone else in a suit that was pre-set to be master to that slave suit. We expect that the trance state will allow the person to assist in putting the suit on themselves. The master suit will have full control of the slave suit, including the ability to open and close it, select avatars and set personality controls. In full control mode, the masking personality will take over the slave completely and the wearer will not know about their own personality. We believe that a slave could be held in this manner for weeks without memory leaks." "In an environment that is electrically noisy or where someone is detecting electromagnetic signals, it may not be possible to use RF communication interfaces. In this situation, IR or hand contact between the master and slave can provide the control connection." --- As the video finished, Nat was reeling at the thought of this "slave" mode, and wondering if it was something that might be done to him as part of the field trials. Log back onto this site at 8am Monday. It's already Saturday night. You'll need to spend all day Sunday on your article on the v1.2 garments and doing the housework in your flat. You will not have time to return to your flat or do any of your normal work between 8am Monday and 10am Tuesday. "Oh." That was a bit of an anti-climax. They were right, though. He'd driven around for part of the day, then watched their videos for several hours. He shut the computer down and headed off to bed. --- Sunday was a very unproductive day. He spent so much time daydreaming about being Natalia again that he took almost the whole day to write his article on the v1.2 garments. He got a bit of housework done in the evening, but not really as much as he should have. He forced himself to go to bed around 10pm, but lay awake for several hours before sleep overtook adrenaline. --- When he returned to his computer on Monday morning, he logged back onto the Avatar Me! secure site as instructed. A map of his flat came up on the screen, along with the one next door. There was a connecting pair of doors highlighted on the map. When your building was originally built, it was designed to be used as upmarket holiday apartments, with interconnecting apartments available for larger groups. This was later disguised by bolting lightweight bookshelves to both doors of the joining corridor. You may need to rearrange the furniture to open the door on your side and search for the keyhole. Your front door key fits the door on your side. "You're kidding!" Rearrange the furniture in your room so that it doesn't look out of place, lock up your flat and close down your computer as if you've gone out. There is a light switch connected to the door of the concealed room. Don't forget your wallet and keys! He'd lived in this flat for years and never realised that there was an interconnecting door. He knew which bookshelves it referred to, but had never noticed a keyhole. He looked closely and realised that there was a knot hole in just the right place for a keyhole. Moving a couple of chairs and a rug, he unlocked the door and swung it open. The corridor was about a metre long, and had a surprisingly large room on one side. He guessed that the builder had been in here on Saturday but it was obvious that someone had done more than just building work. The corridor and room were spotlessly clean. There was an Avatar Me! uniform dress hanging fairly high on Natalia's side of the closet in a dry cleaning cover, with underwear, accessories and shoes in boxes on her side of the shelves. There were empty hangers and shelf space on his side. The floor was vinyl, there was a small handbasin on his side and full length mirrors on the back of the bifold door of the room. A small hinged seat was bolted to the wall on Natalia's side. He put his wallet and keys on a shelf in the closet and closed the door to his room. It was dark! He remembered the comment about a light switch on the door, and sure enough, when he closed it, the room lit up with soft, indirect lighting. In his mind, this was "the changing room." The Avatar Me! suit was in a box on the top shelf. He stripped off, stacking his clothes on the shelves. Folding down the seat, he sat and worked the suit up his legs as he'd done before. Having done it once with help, he found it quite easy to get his arms in, head in, align the holes and close the suit. After the startup sequence, instead of just loading the avatar, it stopped at Normal mode Select an Avatar to install [Nat] [Natalia] [Create new] [Import] He could install himself as an avatar? Interesting. That means that he could wear the suit while being himself. He'd never considered that, but it could be very handy! He selected Natalia. Installing avatar Masking set to 6 Done Info: Your Natalia avatar is slightly different to the one you used for the hens' night, to avoid complications. Guide: rinse your hands to acquire water "Oh, right." She rinsed her hands at the hand basin. Water 100% Guide: The door to Natalia's room is electronically secured. The suit is keyed so you can open the door as if there is no lock when you are Natalia. The clothing supplied consisted of a matching bra and brief set, the dress, black pantihose, black 2" heeled court shoes, AM! logo earrings and her name badge, all of which she put on fairly quickly without even thinking about it. Info: You can access video from cameras in your flat before entering Picking up her handbag, she opened the closet door and opened the video stream that the suit had offered. It was fed across a wireless