Beta Testing [PTRN]

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#17 of Patreon Stories

Weekly Patreon story from September 2022!

Two friends are stuck trying to get past a boss and are about to give up hope when a new mechanic is discovered, giving them the edge they wanted and then some!

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The lands of Juthrinto bustled with adventurers looking to make a name for themselves, the warm, midday sun bathing the landscape and all of its inhabitants with total splendour. Bright rays of light were cast upon the various villages and towns dotted throughout the land, each having their own claim to fame that the others couldn't accomplish nearly as well. The people were friendly no matter where you went, and the areas between the settlements provided enough challenge for enterprising folk to test their might against the perils that may befall them, meaning that there was never a dull moment to be had. It was a truly one-of-a-kind place to find oneself.

What was even more impressive was the fact that it was the setting for a video game.

_The Forbidden Kingdom_was the hottest MMORPG currently on the market, with millions of active users playing it daily to try and get the best loot that the game had to offer. It was a fairly recent release in the genre, being just over a year old, making it especially interesting that it was as popular as it was already. Everyone with a working brain could understand why as it'd siphoned players away from its competitors due to having something that none of their antiquated systems could handle - a full-body playing experience.

Users were fitted with an adaptive helmet that transmitted their consciousness to the game while they lay comfortably in their homes, feeling everything broadcasted through the mechanism attached to their heads. Such a product would have normally been an idea thought of by only the most imaginative of developers, but advances in technology allowed for such a pipe dream to become a reality thanks to significantly reduced costs making it a solid investment for consumers looking for fun.

That was the case with friends Griff and Steve, who'd grown so impatient with their previous game's lack of updates that they jumped ship when they heard about the chance to experience something new. The capybara felt a little bit of hesitation given the previously-unheard-of hardware requirements, but the koala assured him that it was far more affordable than it initially sounded. That was all Steve needed to hear.

They leapt right into the world as soon as they got the chance to, creating characters and exploring everything that they could. It amazed them at how realistic everything felt in this game, for better or worse. The food that they ate was unlike anything that they'd ever tried before, but it didn't actually make their bodies less hungry in the real world. On the flip side, they felt every blow to their character like they'd really gotten hit, yet not a single scratch showed up on them when they removed their helmet. They were more than okay with that trade-off.

In the span of a few months, the pair of them had blasted through a lot of the challenges put before them, rising to the upper echelon of all players with their extensive background in that type of game. While their mettle was thoroughly tested at times, they recognized that they could realistically come up with a solution to any problem thrown their way. At that moment, they started craving something new.

Fortunately for them, the devs had announced that an expansion to the base game was on the horizon, and that they'd be allowing select players to experience the closed beta before anyone else could get their hands on it. It would give them exclusive access to content that other users wouldn't get to enjoy until months down the line. They were sold.

Well, they should've tempered their expectations a smidge because the devs hadn't released the testing realm all that long ago, and therefore had very little to offer players at that moment. Nevertheless, the pair of them adventured onward, trying out whatever was provided to them.

While there were things to appreciate in the expansion despite it just being opened up, they quickly realized that everything notable was kept near the starting area, giving little reason to venture across the lands. Undeterred by the lack of substance, they still set off, thinking that the devs would've had to have something stored elsewhere.

Their suspicions were proven right, though it took a hell of a slog to uncover some of the treasure hidden in the world. Weapons, armour, and enchantments all new to the game were theirs to keep after besting the bosses guarding them, though there wasn't much of a fight to put up as it was blatantly obvious that each one of them was still in their testing phase. In spite of that, they dominated every single boss without breaking a sweat.

Every boss except one, that is. 'Greklar the Indomitable' stood as the single, solitary enemy left to battle in the still-developing expansion, the gnoll being, quite simply, the hardest foe that the pair of them had faced at all in their time playing. It annoyed them both as he had no arena to be fought in like literally every other boss available to challenge, and what made it worse is that he was obstructing the only entrance to an area that not one player of the game had seen before. The mystery of what was being hidden as well the prestige of being the first to find out enraptured them both.

But they ran into a snag in that, no matter what they did, they couldn't overcome this one particular enemy. They brainstormed and theorycrafted and planned many different strategies that could possibly take down their foe, but nary a method of attack proved fruitful, regardless of how clever it was.

This was entirely due to the fact that nobody testing this beta could use the characters that they'd worked so hard to correctly itemize, meaning that the pair of them had no choice but to start from scratch. Neither of them minded the fact as it meant that they got to try out new classes, with Griff being a Gunslinger that specialized in Arcane Spellweaving, while Steve chose a Templar that used holy magic to heal with.

They'd spent hours strategizing about how best to precisely build their characters in order to take the obstacle down. Steve felt it best to focus everything onto survivability so that he could be the one to grab the gnoll's attention, while Griff invested heavily into maximizing his damage output at the expense of his defensive stats. That was the absolute best that they could come up with given the lack of resources at their disposal.

And yet, after all that, it still wasn't enough. In spite of every single way that they could think of to conquer this lone enemy, he was just too powerful for them to manage, and would continually destroy them with little effort. There was no way to outsmart something that didn't even think for itself.

That led to the second problem - Greklar was simply too high-leveled for _anyone_to take on, let alone just the two of them. Sure, they'd done everything that they possibly could've while there to boost their levels, but the paltry amount of quests and enemies in the testing realm meant that experience was a precious commodity that was difficult to come by, and left them nowhere near strong enough to take the boss down like they'd been used to. It drove them up the wall.

Griff sighed dejectedly after respawning at the graveyard for the umpteenth time. "Dude, if we could've used our actual characters, we'd have blasted through this guy forever ago."

Steve rubbed his eyes, exhausted from the amount of attempts they'd tried so far. "Well, it's an entirely different client, so there's no chance of that happening. Plus, considering the spaghetti code present here, I'd rather not risk the chance of anything happening to the characters we've spent months working on."

The graveyard that they found themselves at was anything but, simply just a blank area that the devs would properly illustrate later on, marked by a single tree so that they knew where the location was. It looked comical to watch the pair of them pop into existence for seemingly no reason.

"Yeah, I suppose..." Griff stumbled to his feet, his mind exhausted from the repeated tries. "Do we do this again?"

"I dunno, dude..." Steve lumbered back over to the gnoll, his sword and shield dragging through the dirt as he walked.

The two friends ambled back to their foe, feeling entirely dead inside as the enemy recited its introduction. "I am Greklar the Indomitable! You'd be a fool to take me on!"

Griff rolled his eyes at the only voice line that the pair of them had heard since trying to take down the boss. "Yes, thank you, Greklar. That's wonderful."

"Alright, fuck this guy. What have other people figured out?" Steve turned to the marsupial, his armour clattering as he moved.

"Lemme see what people on the forums are saying." With a flick of his wrist, Griff brought up a projection of the menu where the in-game browser was located, and began searching through the boards located on the game's website. One set of complaints drew his attention. "Wow, there's a ton of threads about the Sands of Valdakar quest, for some reason."

"Seriously? We breezed through that forever ago!" Steve scoffed. "It's probably one of the most straight-forward quests in this expansion beta."

Out of curiosity, Griff selected one of the threads to understand what caught people's ire, only to laugh when he discovered the reason. "Aha, people are actually complaining it's too hard."

"It's only hard if you turn your brain off. If you focus the power generators before taking on the mobs, the quest is literally over in less than five minutes."

"Yeah, well, the people that play this game are fucking idiots," Griff sighed before returning to his search.

Steve's annoyance only heightened in trying to comprehend how other players could find the quest difficult. "The generators are simultaneously the biggest things in the arena, targetable, pulsing beams of light directly at the enemies, and plastered in signs that say, 'Warning: Fragile'. How could anyone not think of attacking them at least once?"

Griff gave the capybara a knowing look. "Because these people think they know what they're doing and then get upset and blame others when things don't work out the way they want it. They legitimately don't know how to figure things out for themselves anymore."

"I am Greklar the Indomitable! You'd be a fool to take me on!" Greklar raised his club skyward.

"Okay, Greklar, we get it," Griff rolled his eyes as he tried to tune out the gnoll. "You may stop at any time now."

Steve stepped behind the koala, trying to see the projection for himself. "Is there really nothing there?"

"Nothing we don't already know about," Griff groaned, scrolling to the end of the board. "We're the first people to get here, but not the only ones." He noted the times that the last threads had been posted, seeing that it was well past half a day after the most recent update. "We are, however, the only ones still here because everyone else gave up on taking down the boss."

"I don't blame them," Steve rubbed his head, racking his brain trying to come up with another solution to their problem. "Is there anything else we can try? Is there somewhere you haven't shot yet?"

Griff looked at the capybara with disbelief contorting his face. "After all the attempts we've done, you'd think I'd have hit the bastard across his entire body."

"I mean, sure," Steve rubbed the back of his neck. "Do you think there's a weak spot you haven't tried yet?"

"A weak spot? Only one I can think of," Griff scoffed as he aimed his revolver right at the boss. A spectral bullet blasted out of the chamber as he pulled the trigger, the mystic projectile aimed directly for the enemy's crotch. The lack of impact confirmed his suspicions to a T. "Oh, would you look at that. Shooting him in the dick only did a single point of damage, just like shooting him literally anywhere else. I can't damage him for shit at this low of a level."

Steve buried his face in his hands. "Fuck," he brought up his skill tree, hoping to find something but coming up empty-handed. "I don't gain anything useful until a whole ten levels from now. I can't even respec into something more helpful right now."

"Well, let's see what else there is," Griff migrated to another board, hoping to find something that might actually give them an advantage. The barrage of complaints levied at the devs left him feeling a tad hopeless, but a recent thread that he'd stumbled upon detailing a brand-new method of attacking foes looked promising. "Hmm..."

Steve's ears perked up when he heard the marsupial. "Did you find something?"

Griff's eyes darted across the post as he skimmed to the meat of the message, only to be caught off-guard when he read what the mechanic being described was. "Uh..." The contents of the post bugged his eyes out wide. "You're never gonna believe this, but apparently they added vore to this game."

"No way!" Steve crowded around the koala to have a look for himself, staring in wide-eyed wonder as he read the exact same information. "When would they have added this in?"

"Had to have been recently. I can't find any mention of it before that specific post," Griff searched the entirety of the forums hunting for another comment about the mechanic, but ultimately came up short.

The gears in Steve's head turned as he tried his damndest to recall everything that had been newly released. "I swear I read the latest patch notes extensively, and I don't remember seeing anything like that at all in there." Curious, he pulled up his own menu to view his character's abilities, and there - down at the bottom below everything else - was the ability to vore any opponents that he was within the realm of defeating. "It's here! Why was this unannounced?"

Griff flicked back to his own character profile where, lo and behold, he also had the ability. "I know for a fact that it wasn't there before this patch cycle. Maybe the devs had it in an earlier build that they accidentally pushed to live."

"Maybe..." Steve continued to gawk at the menu in incredulity, yet the option still stared back at him. It forced him to think of how such a mechanic could even work. Sure, this was a video game, so there was leeway in terms of what their characters were capable of, but how much of his real-life traits carried over? He knew that it was a total impossibility back in the real world to do such a thing, however-

"I am Greklar the Indomitable! You'd be a fool to take me on!"

"Greklar, will you shut the fuck up already?!" Griff bellowed, his hands balling up into fists.

Steve sighed before placing his hand on the marsupial's shoulder. "Come on, let's move out of his taunt radius."

"Yeah..." Griff groaned. He led the way to the only landmark in the area - the tree marking the location of the graveyard. "I don't want to leave until we actually beat him."

"Me neither, but..." One look back at the gnoll had Steve's blood pressure rising. "How do we even go about doing that? The guy's got more levels than we do combined!"

The quandary that the pair of them had found themselves in left Griff at a loss for words. As much as he wanted to take the boss down - and he really wanted to - there was just no conceivable way that they could gain enough experience in this beta given how tedious it was to acquire. Unless... "We might have one trick up our sleeves, actually."

"That being..." Steve narrowed his eyes at the koala, instantly understanding what was said when he received a wry smirk in return. "You wanna try it? Really?"

"What have we got to lose?"

Steve scanned the horizon for suitable targets that the both of them could devour, but the lack of content present thus far proved to be another formidable obstacle just as impossible to overcome. "I don't really see why it would matter since we'd gain the same experience by simply defeating a mob the regular way. Besides, I don't know how we can do it, there's nothing around for us to try it on."

"What about each other?" Griff turned his head to the capybara.

The casual delivery of the question stunned Steve. "Woah, what are you saying?!"

"Dude, we're playing a video game," Griff leaned against the tree. "Okay, we might have our consciousnesses hooked up in here, but right now we're in bodies made of ones and zeroes. This shit doesn't actually matter."

The realization only just hit Steve. "Yeah, that's right. So, how would we start this then?"

"I think it'd make sense if you were the first up since I'm significantly smaller than you," Griff poked the rodent's sizable gut.

"Yeah, I suppose that-" Steve stopped mid-sentence when he observed the marsupial unequipping all armour and clothing down to his undergarments. "What the hell are you doing?"

Griff chuckled at the capybara's reaction. "The post indicated that it's easiest to actually vore something when it's got a low defense, therefore I'm making it as effortless for you as I can." The warm breeze programmed into the area actually felt quite nice rustling through his gray fur. Still, there was one last thing that needed to be taken care of. "Oh wait, we're still partied together right now. I might have to-"

"You're targetable!" Steve blurted out, shocked by the revelation.

Griff's eyes lit up when he heard that. "Wait, seriously?! No duel needed or nothing?"

"Yeah, dude. The game's giving me the good-to-go here." In true video game fashion, Steve observed an outline form around the koala as he kept his eyes trained on him. "Okay, you ready to do this then?"

The reality of the situation just caught up with Griff, who chuckled softly at the ridiculousness of the whole thing. "Fuck no, but I wanna know what's on the other side of that gnoll!" With a grunt, he felt himself get picked up by the large rodent, now staring his friend right in the face. "I hope this is easier for you than it is for me."

Steve snickered through a grimace, his nerves sending mixed messages to his brain. "Trust me, it's not." With a tentative yawning of his mouth, he slowly brought the marsupial's head towards him, surprisingly accepting it without any difficulty. Carefully, he pushed the smaller man's body further inside of him until he was able to begin swallowing, feeling the awkward mass bunch up in his throat. Despite all of that, he didn't actually feel any discomfort welling up inside of him, even as he ingested the koala's feet. This, by far, was the strangest sensation that he'd ever felt in his entire life.

The other man's form continued its journey down his esophagus, with him amazed at the unpredictably pleasant feeling of devouring another person. No doubt that he'd only feel this way while in this world.

Before long, Steve felt the weight that had traveled down his throat fall unceremoniously into his stomach, abruptly feeling like he'd just eaten an entire feast by himself, though fitting given the nature of his meal. The ambiguity of the mechanic itself left him a bit uneasy as to what was meant to happen next, but the sudden disappearance of the load inside of his gut signaled to him everything that he needed to know - it worked like a charm! Now what?

He wouldn't have to wait for long to find out the answer as he felt a flurry of energy rush through him. With a startled yelp, he watched as he endured the usual flourishes of leveling up; a bright light engulfed his entire body while a jingle sounded out around him, orbs of experience orbiting him for a few, brief seconds before being absorbed into him and coalescing with the rest of his energy. He blinked a few times wondering if that was the end, only to see that the fanfare was far from over.

Steve couldn't tell at first, but the additional levels that he'd just gained had a profound effect on his character model. While he'd made his character a bit on the chubbier side for the sake of pretending to be a tank easier, he suddenly sensed his form began to take on a load of dense muscle mass that he wasn't prepared for. His soft pecs firmed up in an instant as heft swelled up under his pelt, culminating in a torso that became far more solid than where it started. His limbs bulked up as well, tensing under his armour with every experimental movement. He was a fairly lanky individual in the real world, so the perception of this kind of bulk piling onto his frame from seemingly nowhere felt alien to him, but even then he still kind of liked it!

While the rodent reveled in his newfound size, Griff popped up out of thin air, completely unfazed in spite of what he'd just been through. He only had one question on his mind. "So, did it work?"

"It did, and then some!" Steve beamed. He just then had the thought to show off what he'd gained to the marsupial, only to stop when he'd figured out the perfect way to do so.

"Alright," Griff quirked a brow, "what are you doing now?" He watched the capybara unequip his armour with gusto.

"Dude, check it out!" Steve's excitement knew no bounds as he stripped down to his character's undergarments. "My model got bigger as I leveled up!"

Griff's mouth fell agape when he observed the noticeably different appearance of his friend in front of him. What was once a body that felt fat and jiggly to the touch now had visibly rock-hard musculature caked onto it. "Holy shit..."

Steve twisted himself around to better show off to the koala, tensing his upper body in the process. "Dude, look. My arms got huge!"

"Woah, they did!" In awe, Griff reached out to touch at his friend's incredible physique, wholly unable to contain his disbelief that such a thing was possible. "Is that permanent, or what?"

The inquiry caught Steve's attention, who then did an immediate examination of his character profile. His face lit up at the lack of any debuffs granted to him. "I don't see any status effects on me, so I think it actually might be."

"Oh my god, that's awesome!" Griff practically jumped for joy at the finding. "I totally wish we thought of this sooner."

"Yeah, I do too." Seeing himself bloated up with beef unlike what was capable with the character creator induced pride to surge up throughout Steve's body. His eyes drifted to his friend, though, and a thought wriggled its way to the forefront of his mind. "So, what was it like?"

"Uh, it's a bit hard to explain the intricacies of it without you experiencing it yourself. Your mouth is a little terrifying, but your throat's actually quite comfortable." The contrasting sensations that Griff had experienced elicited conflicting emotions, though he remained calm overall. "And then your gut was pretty spacious."

Steve rubbed his chin in thought. "Did it hurt at all?"

"No, it was weirdly pleasant the whole way down."

"So, did you actually get digested when you were in my stomach?" The idea had been planted in Steve's head from the very first time that he'd considered the concept, and it was one that unnerved him more than any other part of the mechanic.

"Surprisingly no. I just kinda stopped existing for a second before respawning by the tree, but I'm more than okay with that. For all the weird shit they have in this game, I'm glad not everything made it in," Griff eyed the capybara's form once more, liking the way that his friend now looked. "Hey, you ready to go again?"

"Am I? I thought you'd never ask!" Steve smirked while eyeing the marsupial. Like before, he hoisted his friend up to his mouth, though snickering at the thought of what was to come. "Only we could end up in a situation like this, huh?"

Griff let his own laugh loose past his lips. "Yeah, only us." With the knowledge gained from the previous test, he let himself wriggle into what he felt to be the most comfortable position before allowing himself to be swallowed whole. The bright side was that the rodent's experience made for a far less concerning ordeal.

He felt the last vestiges of the warm, simulated air kiss his feet as the capybara's mouth closed, sealing him inside his friend's digestive system. The undulating from the rodent's esophagus moved him along as he hummed to himself to pass the time. He really couldn't believe how cozy it all was; he felt it to be a particularly odd thing programmed into this game.

Just like before, Griff slid all the way down until he made it to the capybara's gut, still amazed at how much detail was put into something that the devs likely didn't intend their players to see. It was just a matter of time now. He drummed his fingers along his legs, laying back against the quivering stomach walls until-

"Ah, shit!" The bright light of the sun always caught him off-guard when respawning. He'd have to remind himself to reduce the brightness of the game when he had a second to do so.

"Hey, check it out!" Steve watched the koala blink a few times before turning in his direction, clearly blown away by the incredible mass that he'd just put on. For the first time in his life, he got to feel what pectorals were like as his were now solid masses of muscle, significantly larger than what the sliders in the characters creator screen allowed for. "You can't tell me you're not impressed."

The awesome visage of the capybara stunned Griff into silence, his mouth dropping agape when he witnessed just how much bigger his friend had become in what felt like seconds. His eyes were instantly drawn to the rodent's limbs, brawny like a bodybuilder's while coated in what was now a thin layer of flab. "Dude," he chuckled, feeling up a beefy arm that outsized his entire body, "nice!"

Steve relished the praise that the marsupial had given him, feeling pride swell up inside of him for finally getting someone to complement his body, even if it _was_fictional. Seeing his friend salivate over his newfound muscles didn't faze him all that much, but what did catch his attention was the outline of an erection showing through the fabric of the koala's underwear. "Don't tell me you're actually getting off on this."

Griff froze - he hadn't even noticed how horny he was until just that moment. "Maybe..."

"Seriously, dude?" Steve guffawed.

"Hey, life is all about making discoveries about yourself. I just happen to like this of all things for whatever reason." A rosy blush crept onto Griff's face as his admission came out. "At least not outside of the game because in here I can just infinitely respawn without fatal consequences. Plus we can only do this here in the first place because of the mechanics programmed in."

Steve knew that he couldn't contend with that argument. "Ah, yeah, that's fair."

"Also, I'm doing this to help you help us, so just let me enjoy what little pleasure I get out of this," Griff's grin stretched from ear-to-ear as he poked the rodent in the nose. All seemed well until a sudden realization hit him like a ton of bricks. "Hey wait, what the fuck?! Why do I have a cock all of a sudden?"

"Oh, uh," awareness washed over Steve as his eyes went wide, the absurdity of the situation only now being comprehended, "that's a genuinely good question. Hang on..." In his haste to explore his burgeoning body, he neglected to check if his character's junk had been affected by his gains, though he didn't think that he could blame himself given how rare genitalia was to see in video games. But there, nestled in the fabric of his underwear, was a sizable package that far exceeded what he had in the real world. Not even he expected to see this! "Were we like this from the very beginning of the base game and just never noticed?"

Griff shook his head. "No, I definitely would've noticed something like this. I'm way too perverted to be that oblivious."

"When the hell did they even patch this in? I know for a fact it wasn't like this when we made these characters," Steve's brain worked overtime trying to recall all of their experiences in the beta thus far, though failed to remember a time when they'd noticed that their characters had suddenly been sexed up.

Like every other time that he had a query that he wanted answered, Griff headed over to the forums to see what people were saying. His lips pursed when he came up empty handed. "I literally can't find anyone talking about character genitals at all. It leads me to believe that it came at the same time as voring did." Just then, an idea popped into his head. On a hunch, he let his hand wander down to his crotch, noting that, while he couldn't remove his briefs as per that being a staple of everyone's character, he could move his boner within the admittedly soft material. "So, our dicks are actually real."

The revelation got Steve to check himself out, thoroughly surprised at how realistically hefty his cock and balls felt while held with both hands. "Okay," a bellowing laugh slipped from his throat, "what the fuck is going on?"

Griff exited the browser and watched as the profile for his character reappeared, a faint memory materializing inside of his mind. "Shit, I wonder..." He turned to look at the capybara. "I think there's a way that we can see our junk for ourselves."

"Oh?" That caught Steve's attention.

Griff navigated to his inventory screen, his fingers hesitating as he attempted to relive one of his earliest experiences in the game. "You remember when we first started playing? Someone had discovered a glitch that makes your character naked and everyone started doing it. I don't think it ever got patched out," his fingers danced over the different items that he held onto and dragged them this way and that, though stopping when nothing ultimately happened. "How do I do this again?" In a sudden bout of recollection, he re-equipped his entire armour set before taking it all off at once. In doing so, he removed absolutely every piece of clothing from his model, letting his pole throb in the open air for the first time since picking up the game. "There we go!"

"Oh fuck!" Steve flicked his character menu into existence, repeating the process with his own armour so that his girthy endowment hung from his exposed pelvis. "Hey, it worked!" His pillar surged to life from his touch, contouring around his gut as he noted that he needed both hands to encircle it. "Man, this is really weird to see."

"Holy shit, dude!" Various emotions overwhelmed Griff as he laid his eyes on the largest cock that he'd ever seen in his entire life.

"I know, right? Just, wow..." A quick inspection of his lower half revealed to Steve that their models were far more meticulously crafted than previously realized, observing that his model now also had its own tailhole in addition to the monster hog that he sported, only all of it felt far better than the real thing. "And people wonder why we like to escape into video game worlds."

Griff, meanwhile, entertained himself by investigating just how comprehensive his member was, surprised by the attention to detail regarding the bunching up of his foreskin. "Damn, these guys really went all out on a feature that no one knows exists."

Seeing the marsupial distracting himself gave Steve a peculiar thought, a mischievous grin spreading across his face as he clutched one of his muscly ass cheeks. Carefully, he positioned his rear end above his shorter friend, pulling apart his dimpled globes to reveal his winking asshole. "Hey Griff."

"Yeah?" The sight of the capybara's yawning pucker was the last thing that Griff saw before being sucked into it headfirst. He gasped when he felt himself enveloped by the rodent's silken bowels, only realizing after a few seconds how similar it felt to being orally vored. The undulating flesh continued to push him along to his destination, that being where he ended up before.

"Oh shit!" Steve sharply breathed in as he fell on his ass, the stimulation from the koala buckling his legs. "God fuck, that's weird. That's so fucking weird!" He squirmed in place, feeling the smaller man wriggle around through his character's intestinal tract. The feeling built up inside of him, the pressure reaching a tipping point where he felt that he couldn't hold it in any longer... Only for nothing to occur once he felt himself let go of his arousal. "Wait, there's no cum mechanic in this game?" He sat there, completely dumbfounded. "Am I really supposed to do all this questing and shit with blue balls the size of watermelons?"

The answer turned out to be 'no' as the familiar feeling of his compatriot providing him with much-needed experience flooded his body. In an instant, he felt himself overtaken by euphoric bliss as his form swelled larger, muscles tensing twice as huge as when rested before retaining the size. His chest surged into the lower half of his view as his bulky arms got pushed away from his side by lats that not even bodybuilders could achieve. Quads that cyclists would be jealous of fought for room with his monumental shaft while his ass cheeks collected more muscle mass, giving him a foundation that any gym goer would be proud of.

Griff, on the other hand, wasn't nearly as thrilled as what the capybara was, as evident by his sour demeanour upon popping back into existence. "Prick," he spat at his companion.

"Hey, it was an experiment. We're allowed to do this thing, so we might as well determine what our limits are, right?" Steve shot a cheeky grin at the gray-furred man, though slightly confused when he watched the koala march up right in front of where he sat. "Whatcha doing?"

With a huff, Griff enacted the revenge plan that he'd concocted inside of his friend's gut, grabbing the rodent's feet and shoving them squarely into his mouth. Like he'd suspected, his model adapted to the immense size difference of his prey, though his throat treated the capybara just like any other possible target and began swallowing.

This caught Steve off-guard, nearly bugging his eyes right out of his skull. "Hey, uh, can we talk about this?" He watched as his rippling thighs disappeared past the marsupial's lips, that mouth yawning wider and wider in order to accommodate him. "I thought we were just making me bigger here."

Steve snorted in response, doubling his effort in devouring the rodent. Within seconds he shoved the other man entirely into his maw, sealing the other man's fate with a single gulp. A sigh of contentment was the first thing that sounded out as he fondled the mass traveling towards his gut, surprised that the game went and compacted his meal so as to not encumber him. "Holy shit, I can't believe I actually did that."

It amazed him at how good it felt to eat someone else, silently praising the devs for their bizarre commitment to this concept. He had already thought of times where this mechanic could've come in handy in dispatching easy, but tediously-annoying, foes.

Then something happened that he hadn't felt in a while - he leveled up. Quite a bit, in fact, as the capybara had dozens of levels on him by that point. His whole form became bathed in light as experience swirled around him, coalescing in his very being as renewed vigour welled up inside of him. Oh yeah, he missed this.

What was new this time around was the muscles on his model twitching until ballooning before his very eyes, the pleasure received overwhelming his nerves. He reveled in the way that his arms bulged greatly with beef, effortlessly growing wider than his waist used to be. Indeed, he felt the growth blanket him all over, broadening his torso to allow for more mass to pack on as his height didn't seem to increase. It took barely any time at all for the changes to fully set in, leaving him appearing like he lived in a gym despite having never stepped foot in one before.

While the koala reveled in his newly-gained size, Steve respawned for the first time in a bit, a bit dazed from his unexpected trip down his friend's throat. "God damn..." He rubbed his eyes to readjust to the intense difference in light, seeing the imposing form of the short marsupial immediately after. "Oh fuck, dude!"

"Asshole." Griff retorted as he pushed himself to his feet, still annoyed from earlier.

"Alright, alright, point taken." Steve sighed, though quietly chuckling to himself that he even got to do that at all. "I get what you're saying, though. That wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it'd be."

"Yeah, it really isn't. Dunno why they programmed it to be so pleasurable to the person getting eaten, but whatever." Griff beamed, bringing his arms to his sides in order to flex his chest. "Ah, but look at me, dude. I'm fucking huge!" The fondling of his own pecs elicited a needy moan out of him. "Those devs know their way around a model, that's for sure!"

The koala's appearance spoke to Steve, knowing exactly what his friend was feeling at the moment. It didn't take long, however, for his eyes to trail downwards and notice how the marsupial's dong also benefited from the surfeit of experience. "Shit, your cock might start rivaling mine soon."

That got Griff to drop his gaze to his pelvis, his eyes widening in surprise when he realized just how much more massive he was compared to his real-life form, though a thought about the entire concept emerged right after. "Why do they even give us genitals in the first place? Are we gonna be able to have sex later on?"

"Knowing the devs, they put this stuff in because no one else has done it quite like this yet," Steve said, glancing at his friend's quivering tool. "How are you feeling right now?"

Griff grunted. "Eh, horny, but not debilitatingly so. Maybe I'll crank one out later after we take out the boss."

"Oh, you can't," Steve stated matter-of-factly. "I tried earlier and found out it hadn't been implemented."

Frustration balled up in the pit of Griff's stomach before spreading across his frame. "I've always wanted to be bigger, and now I can't play with myself at all," he sighed. "What a load of crap."

"Yeah, well, I'm thankful I got this far. I got something to look forward to whenever I play this game now," Steve grinned. Electric pulses of pleasure shot through him as he groped his thick midsection, admiring the sheer heft of his model. It got him thinking about how much the koala enjoyed his bulkier physique before realizing something incredibly important.

It took Griff a hot second to temper his annoyance and notice that the capybara was looking directly at him. "Why are you staring at me like that?"

"You leveled up, right?" Steve cocked a brow.

Griff narrowed his eyes at the rodent. "Yeah, quite a bit. Why?"

"I wonder if you're worth more EXP now."

The gears in Griff's spun wildly upon hearing that. "Oh my god."

Steve's face lit up. "Right? We can expedite this process now!"

"Yeah, this is huge!" Excitement pulsed through Griff's body as he eyed up the rodent's tremendous form. "Lemme just do one more so that I can catch up to you." He smirked, bringing his friend's head down to his face.

"You gonna be gentle with me?" Steve's tone turned cheeky as he positioned himself as best as he could given the hundreds of pounds of simulated bulk piled onto his frame forcing him into an odd angle.

"You lost that privilege when you ate me with your ass." Griff flashed his companion a grin, bearing his teeth to the rodent. "Bottoms up." With a swift gulp, he lodged his friend's head into the back of his maw, handily ingesting the towering capybara like he would any other foodstuff. He grew astonished at how much easier voring his friend was this time around, chalking it up to his character's body having acclimated to the process.

Soon, all that remained of Steve was his legs sticking out of the marsupial's jaws, though those also promptly disappeared in a matter of seconds as his compatriot's teeth closed him off to the outside world. It struck him as odd that he could slither down the koala's esophagus as easily as he could considering that he'd been twice the size of the other man the entire time that they played together, figuring that the game must have some kind of feature involved with the ability. Ah well, fair's fair, right? Gotta let everyone have fun.

The rhythmic gulping coming from around him had fallen to the background as he focused all of his efforts on getting to the other man's stomach as quickly as he could. It wasn't long until he slid down the tube into the koala's gut, his entire body encased inside the internal walls. He felt it to be rather cozy in there, but wasn't planning on sticking around. As quickly as he'd entered, his body vanished, leaving nary a trace of him behind save for the experience that devouring him rewarded.

Griff shuddered as he felt the ecstasy of leveling up consume him once more, the energy absorbed into him already taking effect. His frame, normally lithe like what it was outside of the game, broadened again as his shoulders widened, allowing for more beef to pack onto his body. Dense muscle mass inflated his diminutive form like he'd been hooked up to a running air compressor, only to stay put as gravity's hold on him grew stronger. He fell in love with the feeling of his muscles grinding against each other, as well as how heavy he'd become. He'd have to remind himself to back up this character just in case an update deletes it.

Having size that would look comical on someone twice his height, he stumbled forward, unaccustomed to the heft that he now carried around. The sensation of being so top heavy got him to moan, fondling his colossal beef, wishing that he could take it with him. He knew for a fact that he'd grown too wide to fit through any doorway in this game, as well as certain cave openings, wondering just how far he'd be able to push it before maxing out his level. He couldn't wait to find out!

As if like magic, Steve respawned once more, clearing his blurry vision first thing. "How'd we do?"

"You tell me," Griff proudly beamed, displaying his impossible physique to the rodent.

"Hell yes, that's what I'm talking about!" The sight of the marsupial's gorgeous body caused Steve's rod to throb with need, remaining dry as his balls were unable to produce anything. "Shit, I might end up discovering that I creamed myself when I log off," he caressed one of the shorter man's titanic arms, ogling the grotesque definition as he'd never seen anything like it before.

"You and me both!" Griff radiated excitement over his newfound gains. To an outside observer it would appear as if he'd grown far larger than what the capybara did, but his rudimentary knowledge of how someone cultivates mass led him to believe that they were actually equally as big as one another. It's just that his short stature spurred him into wearing the size significantly better, if one were to ask him. He grunted as he shifted his arms this way and that, reveling in their inconceivable bulk before his hands found purchase on his globular cheeks. "Holy fuck, look at my ass! It's so huge!" His breathing intensified the longer that he groped himself. "I can feel it, but I wish I could see it."

Steve absolutely could see it, and loved everything that he could witness, though it gave him an idea of how to help the koala with his predicament. "Can you do that thing where you clip your body parts through each other? I know you can do it in a ton of other games."

Griff knew exactly what the rodent was talking about and attempted it for himself, but his unbelievable bulk prevented him from ever matching that. He could barely even turn his head thanks to how high his traps had swollen. "Apparently I can't do that," he said in amazement. "My compliments to whomever rigged the collision on these models. They're clearly gods amongst men."

"Shit, really?" Seeing that made Steve want to try it for himself, reaching one arm back to try and touch fingers with the other, only to see that he wasn't even close to achieving that. "Goddamn, you're right! I've never seen this done before."

"There's gotta be a bodybuilder somewhere on the dev team who was able to program this exact interaction." That put a question in Griff's head. "Do you think koala bodybuilders are a thing?"

The thought made Steve's pole twitch. "If they are, you oughta take a screenshot so they have something to be jealous of."

"Shit, I'll screenshot myself so I've got something to jerk off to later." Griff gripped onto his leviathan prick with both hands, yearning to relieve himself of the pent-up tension in his taint. "God, I wish I could cum right now."

Steve scoffed. "How would that help us out?"

"Maybe we could use it to get bigger?" Griff shrugged his boulder shoulders.

Steve rubbed his chin in thought. "You think the devs would eventually put that in the game?"

"Listen, they put all this shit in without saying a word. I don't think it's that big a stretch to imagine that they'd let us do weird, growy sex stuff."

"True," Steve mused. "Guess we better practice for when it happens then." With a twisted smirk he spun around on his heels, exposing his tight tailhole to the marsupial once more. "Pucker up, buttercup."

Griff's ears drooped. "What, again?"

Steve's face grew flush the longer that anticipation built up. "Eh, I actually liked this one more than I thought. You ready for this?"

"Ugh, just do it already." If looks could kill, Griff could've demolished the boss that stood in their way.

With a wiggle of his hips, Steve gently lowered his ass down until his anus yawned around the irritated koala, vacuuming up the shortstack with total contentment. This time, however, wasn't so easy as the marsupial's wide shoulders pressed harder against his anal cavity, flattening his prostate and sending him careening to the ground. The act shoved the rest of his companion up his chute, making him desperately wish that he could shoot his load then and there. "Why the fuck did they program this to feel so damn good?"

Griff, on the other hand, wasn't as thrilled at how much more resistance there was, and he bunched himself up as much as his enormous physique would allow him to so that he could traverse the capybara's silken bowels that much faster. It only barely worked as he realized that his other dimensions had grown immensely close to his height. He longed for this to be over with.

It took several moments of struggling later before he finally made it to his target destination, though even then he found it hard to navigate through the rodent's internal passages. Eventually, though, he was unceremoniously deposited inside his friend's gut, with considerably less room as before for good reason. His journey there gave him time to think about how best to get back at his compatriot, and in his final seconds before disappearing he thought of something perfect. He'd fight fire with fire.

Steve, meanwhile, was a writhing mess of arousal, the koala pushing into his gut pummeling his nerves to dust. He loved every second of it, though, and wanted more. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, but in his case something better was to follow, something that he looked forward to far more than anything else.

As soon as the light illuminated his tremendous form it happened, the energy from leveling up incorporating into his very being and immersing him in unfathomable pleasure. His body absorbed it all and used it to creak himself bigger, feeling his muscles push against one another far more than they did previously.

His chest heaved into his view with every breath taken, starting to push against his snout as it dominated the space in front of his head. Likewise, it also fought against his arms, which had exploded with monstrous muscularity far beyond what he was otherwise meant to achieve from creation. His core continued to tighten until he was left with the gut that he normally had, only now made from rock-hard abdominals that he'd never had in his lifetime, giving him a powerful befitting of the tank that he played.

Like the rest of his body, his legs surged with prodigious bulk, pushing apart to make room not only for one another, but also his monumental pillar that swelled larger than even his real body. They paired with testosterone factories that would've contained all the cum that he'd have produced up until that point if they were actually operational, but the indescribable feeling that they gave off still made them more-than-welcome additions to his body. This was everything that he could've asked for and then some.

Right on cue, Griff blinked back into existence, taking care to fix his vision before proceeding. "Sounds like you really enjoyed yourself there."

"Uh, yeah. Are you seeing this?!" With a mighty push, Steve hauled himself to his feet, his towering form blocking out the artificial sunlight as he stood above the koala. He might not have gotten any taller than when he'd stated, but he more than made up for the fact in sheer width alone.

"That's good, because I could hear you whimpering from inside you," Griff wryly smirked, ready to put his plan into action. "Hope you're ready to let me have my fun now, 'cause I've been itching to try this the second I thought it up."

"What are you-" Steve didn't get to finish his sentence before the smaller marsupial reached up to grab at his head, pulling it right into the turgid koalahood that had been staring him in the face the whole time.

Griff shuddered in delight when he first felt his urethra bulge out with the capybara's head, his tongue lolling out from the pleasure. "Ah, ah, no talking," he reminded, his body trembling as electric impulses ripped up his spine. The intense stimulation buckled his knees, causing his muscled ass cheeks to slam to the ground while his cock continued with its meal.

His schlong swallowed the rodent with gusto, feeling the brown-furred titan slip down his cumpipe as it bloated out to contain him. The sensation was out of this world. He groaned in delight as the final vestige of the capybara disappeared from view, completely encased in his fuckmeat and traveling down his shaft at a decent clip. He knew what was about to come next, and he couldn't wait to find out what it felt like.

It took no time at all for the mass in his cock to cross the threshold and plunge directly into one of his balls, the sensation of something else filling them up causing him to bite his bottom lip. A fiery wave of frenzy washed over him as he fondled his enormity, letting his junk take care of the rest. It only took a few moments after that for his friend to disappear and for the level up sequence to commence, heralding in his ascension. He was going to enjoy this.

As the experience got absorbed into Griff's body, he felt a tightening take place across himself as his body swelled up with more mass. Like before his frame stretched out to make room for his burgeoning size, only it'd just shot past the golden ratio of proportions, finally making him wider than he was tall. Not only that, but his prodigious pectorals protruded out further with the addition of hundreds of pounds of beef at the same rate that his mountainous back bulged its peaks higher, leaving his height as his shortest measurement.

His arms, already impressive in their own right, ballooned dramatically with the added size, far surpassing that of even the swolest of boss monsters around. Every flex more than doubled their size, only boosting his immensity were one to witness his rise to impossible masculinity. His quads embiggened with beef to the point that even they alone could no longer fit through doors on account of their thickness, while his ass bloated with so much densely-packed beef that even lightly brushing up against an NPC's wooden cottage could topple it without him trying.

And then there was his pride and joy, one of the biggest benefactors of his meal. No longer bound by normalcy, it fattened up thicker than he'd ever thought possible, towering over himself like everyone else did. It throbbed with need that he couldn't release, but the sensation of having a crotch rocket that could swallow anyone or thing on this server more than made up for it.

The koala's celebration of size was punctuated with the reappearance of Steve, who yawned upon re-existing again. "That one wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be, but it was still a little weird in my opinion," he mused. It took a couple seconds for him to collect his bearings before his vision returned to him, consequently letting him gaze upon his friend's awesome visage, his tumescent shaft pulsating in glee. "Yes! That's what I like to see!"

"Good, I'm glad," Griff huffed. "Now come help me up, I don't think I can do it on my own."

Steve did just that, letting himself cop a feel of the koala colossi's immensity in the process. "Shit, if only we got to look like this in the real world. We'd make every weightlifter green with envy!"

"If I didn't have trouble moving, then I might be okay with that," Griff grunted, stabilizing his now thousands of pounds of diamond-hard muscle mass. "In this game it's fucking awesome, but outside... I kinda wouldn't be able to go anywhere without destroying everything."

"It was just a thought," Steve stuck his tongue out at his friend. His leviathan endowment rubbed up against something equally as solid, realizing right away that it was the marsupial's obelisk bloated to be just as big as his was. "Hey, we ended up with the same sized cocks after all."

The sensation of having another behemoth grinding up against him sent shivers up Griff's spine. "It makes me wonder if we'd actually need to keep voring each other. I almost think we're ready to take on Greklar now."

"Well, there's an easy way to find out for sure," Steve noted, pulling up his character's profile. He hummed as he rooted through all sorts of different information while looking for his stats, only to gasp when he finally located them. "Dude, I hit max level!"

"What?!" Griff pulled up his own stats to verify that he'd done the same as well. "Shit, me too. I didn't know if we were close. My mind was set on doing this for as long as we could."

The satisfaction of achieving what many thought to be unattainable sent ripples of euphoria throughout Steve's body. Time to finish what they started. "Well, we'll see how much fun we can have later. I think we've got a date with a certain someone right now."

Griff held out his hand as if to beckon the capybara forth. "Shall we?" The two titans sauntered over to the gnoll, amused as the boss' expression hadn't changed since the very first time they saw him. It almost made them wonder what he'd say if he had a brain.

"I am Greklar the Indomitable! You'd be a fool to-"

"Aw, cram it!" Steve gripped the foe face-first and dragged him into the slit of his cock, devouring the gnoll like he had previously. He had to give the koala props, it felt way better to vore someone like that than to be the one being vored.

"Hot," Griff taunted the boss as he'd been derided so many times before. Seeing his enemy's demise felt cathartic knowing that they'd finally have the mystery of what he was guarding in the palms of their hands. He only wished that there were two gnolls to take down so that he'd get someone to consume.

The boss went down Steve's cumpipe like it was a slip-n-slide, plummeting to his balls as if in freefall. He groaned in pleasure as his cum tanks worked the bastard over, reveling in the pure vindication given from overcoming his toughest battle. And then, like he'd felt many times by that point, the gnoll had vanished, ready to respawn in a matter of moments. Not like he cared; he'd finally won!

Relief washed over him as he sighed in contentment. "Alright, now we can go and-" He stopped mid-sentence as his body trembled, his expression contorting into confusion as he felt a familiar tingle overtake him. Within seconds, his musculature creaked larger again, his muzzle in particular starting to become buried in between his pectorals. The addition of yet more mass puzzled him, bugging his eyes out wide as his limbs took on even greater proportions, looking closer to what his shortstack companion possessed.

Likewise, Griff was also caught off-guard by the sudden swelling of the rodent. He stared in amazement at the delicious display of enlarging heft, his titanic tool throbbing with the urge to become acquainted with all that beef, Yet he stood stock still, wanting to see how this all played out.

While not any taller than when he started, Steve now resembled his koala compatriot if he were double the height. Not that he minded, of course, he just had no clue that he could still grow in spite of being at the maximum level.

"Holy shit, you got bigger off of that!" Griff couldn't contain his excitement at seeing the capybara positively explode in size beyond even his wildest dreams.

Steve huffed once his growth began to peter out, breathing in deeply and watching his chest rise above his head. "Ha, I think the devs forgot to put a size cap on player models!" He couldn't simply twist his head to look down at the marsupial, needing to turn his entire body in order to accomplish the task. "Well, we did it. Let's find out what our reward is."

"Let's," Griff wryly smirked.

The pair of titans strolled down the grassy entrance that had eluded them for so long, relishing their dominating victory over the most difficult foe that the game could throw at them. They followed it along as far as it would go until they reached a clearing surrounded by mountainous cliff faces on every side. Needless to say, they were stunned.

"Wait..." Steve twitched as he violently swung himself around, verifying that there was no other place that they could go beyond where they came in. "Is this it?"

"Oh fuck..." Griff grunted, his snout unintentionally diving into his bulk. "I get it. I totally get it now!" He groaned as loud as he could, throwing his head back in frustration as far as his tremendous traps would allow. "Greklar wasn't guarding anything good, he was just placed there because the devs hadn't gotten a chance to put anything here and didn't want people potentially getting themselves trapped."

It was as if a decades-old puzzle had finally been revealed to Steve, who felt himself die inside that he didn't even consider the possibility. "We did all that work and have nothing to show for it. We spent hours of our time on accomplishing literally nothing."

"Well, I wouldn't say nothing." Griff chuckled, his hands groping one of his mighty pectorals, not able to even dent the flesh. "I think we got quite the boon out of our little adventure." Just then, he heard the boss respawn behind him, giving him a devious thought as to what to do next. "Tell you what. How about I go and have some fun with yeen boy over there, and then the pair of us can push our models whatever the limits are. Sound good?"

The prospect of getting even bigger thrilled Steve, and despite not overly enjoying certain ways of being vored, he knew that he'd learn to love them if it meant that he'd get the chance to ascend higher than anyone else would ever get the chance to in this game. "Sounds like a plan to me."