With the Chronivac in her possession, Amanda realized this Thursday was going to be a lot more fun than she originally thought, given she was stuck home thanks to poor school funding leading to corroding pipes shutting down the school unexpectantly on Tuesday.
As it booted, it shot through a few rules and limits on what the Chronivac could and couldn't do, and a few notable properties. Amanda didn't catch them all, but she saw many of them:
1. For some reason, the Chronivac has no effect whatsoever, mentally, physically, and/or spiritually, on anyone on the autistic spectrum or on someone who is schizophrenic and not currently on medication. We still do not have clear data on what causes this, but it is theorized it may have to do with their unique mental states.
2. Any change that implements cannot be reverted until the timer expires, and if the timer is set to permanent, then that target can never again be their original/previous form ever again.
3. Individuals merged into others will have their minds, souls, and personalities incorporated into their hosts, their hosts permanently retaining all memories and personality quirks of anyone merged into them, unless specified by the Chronivac.
4. The Chronivac cannot terminate life. As such, the Chronivac will not permit a female-to-male sex change and/or an age regression to before puberty if the target is pregnant, as doing so would cause fatal harm to the fetus. One must wait until the child is born (or could accelerate the mother's gestation) before being permitted to enact said changes. The same is true for attempting to turn someone into an inanimate object permanently. Doing so effectively kills the target, so the Chronivac prohibits such changes.
5. Anyone who has ever used the Chronivac to transform another can never lose the knowledge of the Chronivac, regardless of how much their memory is wiped and/or how low they or another user renders their intellect.
Amanda thumbed through a number of options the Chronivac provided; options for turning herself and/or others into animals, mythical creatures, other genders, other ages, even bimbos, which Amanda took note of this one because of some things her sister Stephie had said around her, but decided to keep looking for now, eventually finding the full custom settings feature, but upon seeing all the sliders, decided to keep checking the prefab functions. After about ten minutes, Amanda came across a name of a peculiar prefab file setup that caught her attention.
"Pleasure Island Pro... Protocol?" Amanda read. She opened it to see what it was about, taking her time to focus on and sound out harder words. "Pleasure Island Protocol is a function to create order by preventing those within a certain area from misbehaving under threat of transformation. Originally created by a software engineer named Circe Kanassas in 1994, this Chronivac prefab algorithm tested on a deserted Greek isle in Hellenistic Era, before being refined on a test site off the coast of Italy in the 19th century. In it's current state, it exists in main branches, the user being able to choose to activate any ONE (1) of them at a time. Smaller variants have been made, but could be buggy. Those branches..."
Amanda, while smart for her age, was still, well, her age, and grew bored with all the technical jargon. She just wanted to get to using the Chronivac, and from what she read and kept her attention this piqued her interest. She had felt that her 17-year old older sister Stephie and 14 year-old brother Doug was being mean to her, and her parents Kaitlyn and Peter weren't being nice either, not letting her stay with her autistic best friend Jenny today, who lives on the floor above them in the four-story apartment condominium they lived in, instead leaving her under the occasional eye of their grumpy elderly 78 year-old neighbor and landlord of the complex, Edith Holmes, who just checks in on her from time to time, leaving her alone with the family's cat Mittens and dog Hector pretty much all day.
"This could teach them a lesson..." she smirked, not knowing the full implications of what she was doing. Of what she glanced over, there were key details that someone who was older and more patient would have noticed, such as:
- Unless modified, the general area of effect is around 1 cubic kilometer around the Chronivac
- Unless modified, the user will also be subject to the effects of the Pleasure Island Protocol
- Unless modified, the Chronivac will emit a signal that will instill an "itch" in those in area of effect to misbehave at least once as to try to get targets to subject themselves to the effects of the Protocol in some degree
- Regardless of the conditions of the Protocol, one constant of the Pleasure Island Protocol across all rulesets is that it causes futanarification, i.e. making targets mostly female but with functioning male genitals possessing internal gonads. Creator Circe Kanassas insisted on this function as a monitoring feature to ensure the Protocol is working and/or in effect.
"Wow, this is a lot more complex than I originally thought." Amanda worried. "...but I want to try this out!!" she ultimately had steeled her resolve, but, seeing the three primary options and the oddly named subfolders, she decided to simply choose one by the most scientific method she knew.
"Eeny meeny, miney moe..." Amanda covered her eyes, cycled up and down with the arrow keys on the keyboard, and then made a choice at random.
She made her choice, but what was this variant supposed to do? On the screen, while Amanda couldn't see what they were about, we, as third-party viewers, can.
- Pleasure Island Protocol A: The classic original Pleasure Island Protocol, somewhat made famous by the story of Pinocchio, where those who misbehave, use drugs, and/or do lewd things slowly turn into adult futa donkeys.
- Pleasure Island Protocol B: A modified version of the original PIP, the coding made by otaku programmer Emi Atsuko, which causes targets that misbehave, use drugs, and/or perform lewd acts to slowly become dumb bubbly college aged futa bimbo donkey girls.
- Pleasure Island Protocol C: In part believing in their purity, in part their virility, and in part being a fan of MLP, the third major branch of Pleasure Island Protocol was written by debugger Karl Ossoff, a variant that makes the targets that misbehave, use drugs, and/or perform lewd acts slowly become unicorns.
The subfolders below the main branches contained other possible variants, as mentioned before, but a warning was posted above them stating that these variants weren't fully tested and possibly not properly coded and debugged, thus there could be hidden error in those branches (Basically this is a way to allow others to create stories for variants outside the main three).