<strong>Denver, 2087: Undisclosed AA Research Facility 10 months ago</strong><br/><br/>"Break it down what exactly a half billion nuyen in experimental therapy has created here Doctor." Mr. 'Johnson' said as he took in the woman in the vat in front of him. "I see some slinky SURGE vixen who could have come into being in any of a dozen or so street labs or just bought from one of hundreds of strip clubs. "What is so special about her?"<br/><br/>"Several things in fact are unique about her, Johnson." Alex Smith said as he brought up the holo displays via his implants. "She, as you can see, was only a marginal astral sensitive metahuman of average statistics. As you can see.." the bio rolled back. "We have managed to 'prune' elements out of her genome, augment the genes that are astrally active and..well her transformation is amazing on several levels. We have a complete managed SURGE cascade that was for the most part within acceptable standards, we have someone who was only a marginal adept at best into one that our expert says is a full on mage adept. Not entirely an unprecedented advance in and of itself, though we're not sure how good a mage she'll be. Then there is.."<br/><br/>"The plumbing change? You made her out of a guy. Complete hormonal and genetic change on a level that no one else can do. That is beyond the scope of the project." 'Johnson' said. "I very much doubt that our 'volunteer' won't enjoy the new plumbing in addition to the tail, fur and ears."<br/><br/>"And that brings us to why I asked you to come by for a visit. The gender shift was an unexpected result of the gene therapy that excised the mana-restrictive elements in her DNA. For her, the 'Y' Chromosome was quite.. restrictive. When our therapy shifted in new elements from the 'donor' element, the SURGE event fully shifted her to her new gender. Reinforcing our reports that we still don't fully understand the genetic structure of the mana sensitive. What I need from you.. is to make her.. 'useful' once the therapy is done. I understand you're very good at..<br/>'memory editing' and creating..what is it called.. 'legends?'"<br/><br/>"Oh yeah, I can put something together, bring in my team and we'll wipe her back to source code and build a whole new girl out of her." He said with a grim smirk. "I'll need to ask some questions about what she's got under the hood, so to speak."<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Denver, 2088: The Velvet Glove, New Years Eve Party. </strong><br/><br/>The Velvet Glove, or as it was known by it's staff the 'Glove', was the premiere exotic entertainment venue. It wasn't JUST a strip club, it was a fully certified erotic entertainment complex. A mix of dance club, strip joint, restaurant, virtual nexus, brothel and at anytime another six to ten things that weren't typically on the list. All of them well known, publicized and followed on all manner of public media.<br/><br/>It had another side, the hidden side where deals were made and Nuyen passed between hands that would rather be unseen, that made it convenient for the rich and powerful to use it as a place to work and arrange the less than legal actions that made for the day to day subcurrent of the Denver region.<br/><br/>Tonight though, most of the shadow bargaining was set aside to celebrate surviving the year. The shadows weren't still, merely placid. More than a handful, but not many more, were still working the shadows for that. 'Johnson' was sitting in the booth watching the holostage while a handful of his 'specialists'<br/><br/>On the stage, the 'curtains' of light parted and the fox woman he'd slipped into the staff sashayed onto the stage. 'Champagne' was the latest of an endless procession of entertainers that had strutted one of the many multisensory platforms that riddled the building. She was nearly unique as being a magically adept SURGEr who could literally dance into a man's (or woman's) life and in an evening talk them into all manner of things for another single touch.<br/><br/><div align="center">(http://www.rabbitvalley.com/pictures/champagne-2009-64102.jpg)</div><br/>He'd like to claim it was all due to his 'creation' of Akiko Tan, the Japanese girl that his team had build up around the Doctor's experimental subject but it wasn't all to his credit. She had emerged, bonded deeply with some bizarre spirit that guided her as she was evaluated. She was passion personified, able to manipulate nearly from the moment she first spoke. The experts, the ones who never met her directly and only via camera and virtual interaction, said she was a Mistress of the Speaker's Way. To call her persuasive was an understatement. He had enough drugs in him to keep a glacier cool in the Sahara combat zone and she was still turning him on from here.<br/><br/><em>She's doing quite well.</em>The Doctor's dry voice observed thru his shades.<br/><br/>"Yes Doctor, your little experiment is doing quite well. She settled into the Tan cutout easily enough so my ASIST implants filled in the fugue state your process created. She's quite the little minx, word is she's scored with nearly everyone she's set after. I know that I resisted her from sheer weight of technology, but how come you've not tried her out?"<br/><br/><em>"Sadly she is no longer what appeals to me sexually." </em>The Doctor said wryly.<em>"I prefer my lovers in a more..genteel appearance, something in their 20s in a nice ascot and Oxford colors."</em>His classical 'school' accent held a hint of dry humor.<br/><br/>"Yeah, I've seen your boyfriends." He smirked. "Most of them look like fashion models and speak like you do. Dry, boring and awesomely smart. Very boring for my purposes. Ms. Tan, on the other hand, is a god send.. or if you follow her thoughts.. a goddess send." He chuckled as he watched her move in, parting the crowd as she approached her next target. "I'll keep you appraised on her, don't worry, but I need to get going. We got a new recruit coming in. If you are really lucky, the new girl might pass screening and I'll have you a new lab bunny."<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Akiko</span><br/><br/>Akiko was riding the music, enjoying the ride of lust that everyone in the room as she closed in on her target. She smiled at the woman as she wove thru the crowd of bodies as she writhed and danced to the woman she was sent for.<br/><br/>"Hi.. I'm Akiko.. folks here know me as Champange..." she purred, laying a little mojo in her voice as she spoke the next words.<em><strong>"You want to go neck with me don't you?"</strong></em>