Before Mary could switch back to the Chronivac, something caught her eye, a forum post titled: “Cathy’s Livestock Farm!” Mary clicked on the forum post seeing “…
Cathy’s Livestock Farm!
198.91.26.40:3276
Come join me on my farm! All Domestication transformation enthusiasts are welcomed! Although Male Animals, Horses, and Farmhand spaces are limited thou they scale with the active player base, any additions are welcomed!
To join, in the menu bar select “World” and click on “Multiplayer”; you’ll be prompted with an IP address and a password, enter: 198.91.26.40:3276 and leave the password blank (I don’t have one).
From there you’ll make your ‘Farm Names (one male and one female)’ and human avatar. While here you can customize your various animal forms, or leave it and you’ll become a livestock version of you human avatar. With human avatar ethnicity matching as close as possible to a productive livestock breed. Human avatar speaks English and can be understood by all avatars, but each livestock will have their own language that only matching livestock can understand. All humans have the freedom to roam around; however livestock are normally restricted to their defined areas.
The theme is modernized traditional, we have some modernized equipment such as milking machines for the dairy producers and tractors for heavy loads but most of the work is done on horseback and with pack donkeys. We have a full mix of livestock: work horses, labor donkeys, dairy cattle, dairy goats, sheep, lamas, pigs, egg chickens, and four slots for pets: two cats and two dogs. Time is accelerated so 1 day in game equals 1 hour in the real world:
(-:00 = 12:00AM; -:15 = 6:00AM; -:30 = 12:00PM; -:45 = 6:00PM)
(365 days = 365 hours IRL = 15.2 day IRL)
…” Mary looked over the post once more, thinking “joining a farm server for my first change is not a bad idea.” Mary switched back to the Chronivac and followed the instructions going to “world”, clicking on “Multiplayer”, and then entered in the server’s IP address and port number.
After a few seconds of processing, it was connected and Mary was greeted with her avatar screen which used her own body as a base. However it would not let her continue until she made a change to herself. “most likely to maintain player’s anonymity” she thought starting off by altering her ethnicity from her Mother’s Central Europe and her Father’s Eastern Mediterranean mix to mostly Norman French with a bit of English and Scottish, she also upped her age from 14 to 19. She also named herself girl avatar “Maria” and boy variant “Marius”.
Producing a woman that was idle proportioned with fiery red hair. Her avatar would be dressed in a green dirty button up short sleeve blouse with the top few buttons open showing off more or her cleavage, sturdy light brown cargo shorts that hasn’t been washed in a while, and brown hiking boots. She was also wearing a dark brown backpack, containing spare clothing, food and water, and other hitchhiking provisions.
According to the currently selected RolePlay “Explorer” is that she is exploring the countryside via hiking, regional transit, and hitchhiking. “Not my style” Mary thought clicking on the dropdown menu.
She changed RolePlay “Homeless Wonderer”; the avatar’s clothing changed to dirty pink shirt with a black bra as she can see it though the shirt, a dirty cargo shorts and simple shoes without socks. Her back-story is that she has been walking from town to town looking for a place to stay, but every town saw her as unwanted filth. Those few who did welcome her treated her as a slut and thus source of revenue. She is despite for a place to belong. “Nope” Mary thought reselecting another option
Again she selected another RolePlay “Overstressed Student”; the avatar’s clothing changed to a red halter blouse, tight fitting blue jeans, regular black shoes with an inch heel and a light brown messenger bag filled with books, binders, a laptop, and other study material. Her back story is that she is from the nearby university town and came on the recommendation by a few friends that is a nice place to relax. But those friends seemed to know more about this place then they let on, one of those friends drove her here and disappeared while checking e-mails on her laptop. “That sounds fun” Mary thought.
Using the tabs above, she looked over the different livestock breeds she’ll become:
A light brown 3 year old Jersey cattle breed, she opened the job dropdown list which was initially set as “Heifer” and selected “Dairy/Breeder” and the avatar’s udder ballooned and the body condition showed “18d Heat Cycle” . Playing pretend she changed it to “Pregnant, 8/9” with the lower belly just above the ballooned udder also ballooned clearly suggesting the expected gestation. This time she changed her job to “Meat/Breeder” and the udder size shrank down considerably but the bulkiness of the avatar increased greatly but the “Pregnant, 8/9” status remained. Before moving on she switched it back to “Dairy/Breeder” but she forgot to change back the body condition.
A reddish-brown Alpine goat breed, she also set the job to “Dairy” with only “Dairy/Breeder” as the second option and similar to the cow the avatar’s pair of fat cone shaped goat udders ballooned.
A very dark brown feathered Marans chicken breed, the job was pre set to “Egg Layer” with the other options being “Breeder (mating)” and “Broiler (meat)”. Here, she increased the average size of her laid eggs from “Large” to “X-Large”, resulting with the hen’s torso increasing in size a bit to accommodate larger eggs.
A Chestnut Norman Cob horse breed, with the job preselected and locked to “Rider/Breeder” and body condition “22d Heat Cycle”. Mary clicked on the dropdown for body condition only the latter set of 3 out of the 11 months of pregnancy were available, thus she left it on “22d Heat Cycle”.
A large pink sow greeted her eyes when switching to the pig tab, with the job locked to “Breeder/Meat” along with body condition set to “18d Heat Cycle”, but she changed that to “Pregnant, 5/6”.
She made a quick glance over the other animal breeds such as donkey, dog and cat, before returning to the human avatar screen. Making one more glance over her human avatar, she clicked “Save & Join”
The world around Mary blurred and soon she entered a void of nothingness, not even her senses worked, she just existed. The next thing she knew she was sitting in the passenger seat of a sedan looking at a driver seat while holding her smart phone wondering “where did Jason go?”
Marie stuffed her phone into her light brown messenger bag and getting out of the car, which was parked along a gravel road ear a farm. Placing her bag’s strap on her shoulder, she looked around.
Mary could feel everything and knew about the server but had to fulfill the role of the overstressed student, although she still had control of decision making it was more like a mental backseat driver than actuality acting out a defined role.
Marie looked around questioning “where did Jason go? I thought he stated this was a useful place to relaxation, research, and hopefully getting a large portion of my summer paper done on factory vs. traditional farming.”