Hi everyone, thanks for dropping by. I have one guy in on this too so far who I hope will be okay playing a boy dog, but we'll wait to see what he says. If people want other players I can extend invites to more people. I'm in no huge rush to start and because there are a few options for us here and a number of ways we can play this I think we will need a while to plan things, so Jessica, don't worry about not having access to the forums for a while, I don't<em>think</em>we'll start before you get back.<br/><br/>Now - has everyone read at least part of the doujin (http://www.aerisdies.com/html/lb/douj_8574_1.html) that inspired this game? I think you need to, or at least the section that begins at around page 63. The doujin is pretty dark and contains some nasty stuff that I do not want to go anywhere near such as the amputations... however that aside, the doujin will be our basic background, which is this:<br/><br/>It is the present but in an alternative timeline where the world is exactly like ours, apart from one certain set of events that makes it very different. The world will be easy to play therefore, you play it as the one outside your window. You just need to suspend disbelief a big chunk to start off with...<br/><br/>The world suffered a viral outbreak many years ago that killed off all domesticated animals. Dogs, cats, horses, sheep, rabbits, cows... those sorts of animals. There followed a renaissance in terms of peace, medical and scientific advances and a secure social order. This led to very severe overpopulation. The combination of these two factors led to some pretty stark laws being passed some decades ago which has led to the conversion by new scientific methods of healthy young people into the domestic pets of today. This has been going on some time and the suppression of old information in books, the internet and other media means that many young people no longer even remember what the old animals were like - to most people dogs and cats have always been much like humans except they run on all fours, are unclothed and have no rights whatsoever.<br/><br/>The benefits of these new laws were several - first, the population boom was controlled and second the dwindling food resources for all were stabilised, though today meat is unknown except as seafood and some game birds. The third benefit was that crime rates tumbled and of course sexual crime rates plunged almost to zero since anyone could force themselves on a dog and no-one cared. They were animals after all. Rape of women ceased to exist as a meaningful crime statistic.<br/><br/>Pets were created by the random sweeps of Collection Squads who scoured the malls and schools of major cities about once every quarter, randomly stunning a couple of dozen young fit people and taking them away to the 'pound' in armoured trucks. No-one objected, no-one argued. The taken people were considered 'dead' and while their families mourned their loss, the insurance companies paid out on their life policies and the loss of earnings could even be compensated by government subsidies to families or employers.<br/><br/>The 'Sotai' (a term meaning 'blank' in Japanese) were taken to the labs and processed. The customary changes to all dogs (male and female alike) were:<br/><br/>Compulsory changes:<br/><br/>Add fully functioning and articulate ears and tails. Human ears remain but are non-functioning.<br/>Adjust musculature and joints so that dogs are fully comfortable crawling on hands and knees quickly and are very flexible and strong. They can wash themselves by tongue.<br/>Heightened sense of smell and hearing.<br/>Girls are neutered. Boys DNA is modified so they can still produce sperm but it dies within minutes of leaving the body, so they are infertile (allows sex with female owners).<br/>All body hair below eyelashes is permanently removed.<br/>Lobotomy. Dogs have no sense of self-awareness, cannot speak and have no desire to walk upright. All memories are removed.<br/><br/>Optional changes:<br/><br/>Skin pigmentation may be altered to produce a dog-like colouring or pattern such as a shiny black for a Labrador, rich reddish-brown for a Red Setter or a spotted black and white for a Dalmatian. Human skin tone is sometimes retained though.<br/>Adjust/corrupt hormonal balance so that dogs are constantly in heat - girls wet and ready with swollen sensitive nipples and boys permanently erect and wet.<br/>Girls can be made to lactate (controlled or uncontrolled).<br/>Female breast and nipple size may be altered (bigger or smaller).<br/>Female hips/rumps may be made bigger.<br/>Male genitalia size may be increased (girth and length and testes size).<br/>Add hormonal digestive imbalance so that solid waste is not produced but the stomach converts it all to liquid and it is released as urine. The rectum is then completely clean and empty and can be used for playtime.<br/><br/>Dog 'sotai' after the compulsory changes are examined and catalogued and their details uploaded to a national database. They are then sold online and any of the optional changes are made according to customer preference before delivery.<br/><br/>The fun I had in my previous 1-on-1 game was that, as in the doujin, a girl had her lobotomy process accidentally skipped and was made into a dog but fully aware with all her memories. Of course she then suffered all that lovely stuff involving intense humiliation and shame of being nude in public and the fear of public sex and rape (dogs are freely allowed to copulate in the park or in the street for example). Sex between owners and dogs is not permitted in public but many dogs are sold as 'love dogs' and used by their owners for sexual release that covers all tastes and levels of abuse. A revenge twist was added to my previous game whereby the man who bought the part-converted dog was an ex-school friend of hers. He had lusted after her in school and confessed to her and she had rejected him. So the game was a combination of pet play, humiliation/shame/rape/BDSM story and revenge story.<br/><br/>As to how we play this I'd like to ask what format people would like to follow.<br/><br/>We could have players more or less pair off into owner/pet sets and have the game set within a community. This is quite vanilla though and if people want to do the humiliation side of it, the animals will be required to have their memories and intelligence intact. With one animal that would be believable but for several it wouldn't. This is where a further twist from my old game comes in; we invented a secret underground club or society consisting of rich, powerful and corrupt people. Also very perverted people. These individuals used their club funds to pay senior workers at the conversion labs to<em>not</em>lobotomise the animals and rather than have them sold over the internet buying system, the animals were crated up and delivered to a given address. The society then transported them to their own premises where the self-aware animals were sold on to the individual members as pets and for abuse.<br/><br/>It is against the law for an animal to walk upright, speak or display self-will, so when one does it is either killed or taken back to the labs to be properly converted. Usually the sotai are raped and maltreated by the Collection Squads in the trucks on the way to the labs and further abuses are heaped upon them during processing. This is because the young men and women will have their minds wiped and have no memory of their lives prior to conversion, so there is no 'harm' done. The problem with having intelligent animals on the streets is they will tell people what the labs really get up to and how the loved ones of the bereaved families are raped, degraded and abused prior to becoming docile, happy and frisky pets.<br/><br/>The secret society therefore holds all the cards - they can abuse and humiliate and rape to their hearts desire and the victims cannot ever complain or object. The scientists never say anything because their complicity in this trafficking would certainly end their careers and they are getting comfortably rich in the meantime since they charge the society far more for a self-aware pet than a dumb one would fetch.<br/><br/>This gives us a much more raunchy setting. We can either play society members living at home, or at the club itself and the pets can enjoy normal days out for walks, down to the mall or exercise in the park, and then be taken to the club for all manner of BDSM related fun, even being dressed up in humiliating outfits such as maids or waitresses to serve drinks and food.<br/><br/>We can still go with a one owner/one pet set up or we could go more for a group of friends and a communal group of pets who are shared around, passed from owner to owner singly or in groups for whatever fun we wish.<br/><br/>I have put this OOC in the extreme section simply because it is a fairly dark game, a pretty grim world. I'm a fan of enema play and while that is not the same as scat it can put some people off. Though we could in fact work in the non-con boards if people prefer.<br/><br/>Feedback please!