Today was finally the day. Her whole life Caroline Eikler had been admiring modded prosthetics from afar, but due to her rather old-fashioned parents was never allowed to get some herself. Now that she had moved out from home and saved enough money it was time to make that dream reality.
As she put on her outfit for the day, a simple top under a long sleeved zip hoodie and long jeans, she couldn't help but let her eyes linger on her body. Not the oversexualized torso whose head featured short blue hair and square glasses, but the bland, white prosthetic limbs. Credit where credit’s due, they pulled off the ball-jointed doll look quite, but after spending her whole life with limbs of this type she desperately needed something new.
As Caroline left her bedroom, she was greeted by her friends/roommates already waiting for her.
Katherine was a kind girl, who didn't have a single mean bone in her body. Her smaller and slightly pudgier build didn't diminish her natural beauty. She was quite the animal friend, so it didn't come as a surprise her prosthetics resembled the legs of a cat with paw-shaped hands. They even came with a special setting that allowed her to become quadrupedal at will. (It was hard to convince her not to take her cat tail anal plug with her for this trip.)
The quiet and unassuming Rosa was probably the only one in their friend group, who was an even bigger modded prosthetics nerd than Carol, though that was in part due to studying robotics herself. She didn't actually have any arm prosthetics, instead devices were attached to her shoulders that allowed her to mentally control a pair of floating hands. Her comparatively normal-looking legs hid powerful hard drives. (Their memory contained about one third school and hobby work, one third video games and one third porn.)
Last but not least was the fashionable Juniper. Her limbs may look fairly basic at first, but once activated they could project various colorful patterns across their “skin”. Just as planned it had made her quite the hit at parties. She was Carol’s best and longest friend (occasionally with benefits).
With everyone ready they immediately set off to their destination. They could've just gone to the next best workshop to get Carol’s very first mods, but being an unmodded cyborg at her age had become a rarity in their circles and so her friends had demanded that they had to do it somewhere special. Thankfully the perfect opportunity was just around the corner. The Prosthetic-Modification-Convention, short ProMoCon, a big convention centered around the rapidly growing prosthetic modding community was being held in their town. What better place to get her very first mods than there. Especially because it wasn't far by train.
When they reached the mess hall, Carol’s and Rosa’s eyes were sparkling with excitement at all the cool and unique mods they were seeing in the entrance area alone. A man with several hydraulic pipes sticking out of his arms was easily carrying crates larger than himself. One woman was invoking the image of a harpy with her winged arms and bird legs, while another had her limbs encased in what seemed to be big paw-shaped.
“I know you can’t wait to get your own mods, Carol,” June spoke up as she held open a floorplan. “So you can choose where we're going. Do you already have an idea of what you might want?”