Nabiki stared disbelievingly at the four Ranmas around her. Her eyes flitted from one to the other, unable to fathom what this new strangeness meant. This lasted until one of the males opened his mouth and asked in an utterly un-Ranma voice, "Dude! Why'd'ya go and come in here as Nabiki, that bitch? I thot we were all gonna play as Ranma? And why'd you choose 'sex slave' instead, like, 'fighter' or something"
"No," said the other male, who was holding Nabiki's leash, "That's genius! I mean, we all would love to take the real Nabiki down a peg or two - and what better way to do it than to create a character of her and sign it up as a sex slave? This way you can publicly humiliate Nabiki without fear of repercussions. She'll probably never even know, but everybody who sees it and knows the real Nabiki will get a good laugh at her expense."
"Yeah!" said the other male Ranma, a big grin spreading across his face. "Uh... but... don't that mean your humiliating you're self, too, when your playin' like that?"
"Don't be stupid," said the female mage Ranma. "Of course she isn't playing the character as a full-immersion virtual, like we're doing. She's doing it by remote control." She sneered at the male Ranma. "Only a really kinky pervert would play a class like 'sex slave' in full-immersion mode." She turned to Nabiki for confirmation. "Right?"
"Absolutely correct!" said Nabiki instantly, making sure not to betray anything of what she felt. She might get out of this yet!
"Oh, I get it!" said the male Ranma, who in Nabiki's private opinion probably didn't. "So, like, what's yer name?"
Nabiki found herself almost blurting out her real name, but caught herself in time. "I'm- Uh- I- I'd rather not say," she said clumsily, then quickly amended, "If word got back to the real one..."
"Of course, of course!" The male Ranma with a brain nodded. "Very good idea, actually. So I'm Ichiro-"
"Niko-" continued the female mage.
"Sanko-" continued the red-haired thief smoothly and looked at the other fighter promptingly.
"Huh? Waitaminnit, I thought you were Hi-"
"Yes, Yotsuro! But in this game I'm Ichiro, okay?"
"Oh, yeah, right! Yotsuro, that's me!"
"See that you are. And you," said Ichiro to Nabiki, "will obviously go by the name of the real McCoy. No sense in creating a Nabiki to use and abuse and not calling her by that name, right?"
"Err, obviously," conceded Nabiki.
"I guess we're all set, then. I had hoped that a few more of our classmates would join our little 'Ranma Party', but we'll do fine, I'm sure."
The thief snorted. "What did you expect? If you two weren't our boyfriends, we wouldn't have come either."
"Speak for yourself," said the mage. "I thought an adult VR RPG sounded wicked cool. You should see the spells I bought!"
The thief sighed. "Oh Yu- err, Niko!"
"All right, stop the bickering," said Ichiro. "It's time we got started. So let's take out new sex slave and..."
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