Challenge #3 Aftermath: End

"So what's the threshold?" The cat girl's sudden question as they descended the stairs made Misty jump.

"I'm sorry?"

Tracy leered over at the plush ravenette. "The first week when you were **** naked you about blushed yourself to **** during lunch, but today you and the Professor put on a hell of a show in front of Laura, Evelyn, Penny, and me. That's like only half the harem but way more focus on you. I was just wondering how many more people could watch before you started to freak out."

"Oh. Well it's not exactly a numbers thing, it's more the feeling of being in a crowd. Gabriella doesn't count, she helps me being near. I've been intimate with you and Laura before, and no offense." She turned to the elven woman trailing behind with the last, before turning back. "Evelyn's so quiet I forget she's there at times." The green haired woman just shrugged.

"What about Penny? She's new, and was staring hard enough to count for several people." Tracy grinned back at the robotic woman who smiled.

"It was very fascinating! You were just taking your clothes off, but in such an interesting way. And all the kissing and touching and rubbing on each other was very exciting!"

Misty felt more and more embarrassed as Penny went on, until face flaming she stumbled and almost misstepped off the side of the stairs. But a hand caught her, and calm flooded through her making everything okay. "Be careful dear." Misty smiled up at the reason she could be so bold. The woman she cared so much for.

The woman that she loved.

The cat girl hopped off the last step and turned back to the others. "So why do we have to leave again?" Tracy asked Evelyn.

"Anyone in the master suite at dinner time has to stay the night, and this is not a date night." She was far less nervous around the cat girl than she had been, but she still unnerved her some. "I don't make the rules, don't even know if it would count against curfew, but best not to risk it as things are."

"We don't want to get in trouble Tracy." Penny said cheerfully. "The rules of the tournament are very important."

Gabriella shook her head at the robotic woman's words. Not that she disagreed with the sentiment, but that she seemed to have a very strange grasp of what was going on. Of course allowances needed to be made, she'd just been snatched from a supposedly fictional word. And one in which the robotic woman stood out in as an anomaly even there.

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As the five women entered the dinning room Carla called out from where Candy, Anna, Stacy, Susan, Kim and her all sat along one table together. "Evy! There you are, where did you all run off too?"

"We were in the master suite with Laura. I'm sorry you couldn't find me, what did you need?" Had she made a mistake sticking with this group? She was supposed to be available to all at need.

Kim noticed her abashed look. "Hey, it's okay. You just missed out on bathtub sex and a jam session, but you can make it up to us after dinner." The green haired woman blushed at being called out in front of everyone, and quietly went to gather a plate of food.

"You've been sleeping with Shar's assistant?" Stacy asked the duo. "You assumed she'd join in earlier, how long has this been going on?"

Carla leaned back in her seat. "Not long really, she's totally new to sex and was curious so Kim seduced her. Oh and she helped milk Susan the one time."

"We'd really bonded over the music thing." Kim explained. "And after I lost my shit I wanted to make it up to her. Couldn't leave a thousand year old virgin to suffer any longer."

Susan nearly choked on her food. "Thousand year old virgin?"

"She's an elf yeah? They live for thousands of years. I've read Tolkien you know." Kim said defensively.

"That doesn't mean she's a thousand years old, she could be just a few hundred and maybe she had a reason. Like a vow or something?"

Carla just shrugged and got up. "Not that she's said, but maybe she forgot. She has some memory issues." She grabbed Kim's leash, and the two made their way over to sit with the green haired woman. They needed one more person for their bounty and weren't letting her get away again.

"Speaking of memory issues, are you not going to say anything?" Anna asked Susan.

"What?" Susan asked confused.

"She's talking about Nimue bringing up your grandmother." Stacy said. "Again, since she also said something this morning as well since I'm assuming that's who Agnes was. Does this have something to do with you wearing that cow bell?"

Susan reached up and fingered the bell. "Oh, that. Yeah apparently my grandmother was on a season of Harem Hotel Nimue hosted. She's buried in the rose garden."

"Holy shit! Are you serious? Are you okay?" Anna reached over to give the busty woman a big hug.

"Yeah I'm good. I never knew my grandmother, none of us did. Her memory was erased, no pictures or portraits left, nothing. Apparently she got eliminated, like I almost was. This was hers." Susan shrugged. She still wasn't sure what to make of Shar's revelation.

Stacy looked at Susan's collar, thinking. "So she got cow transformations too then. Two generations isn't very long ago, and buried here? So why is Shar hosting instead of Nimue if she was host then? Is this that 'prequel' nonsense that Hardric person was blabbering on about in their letter?"

"You got one from him too?" Anna asked puzzled.

Before anyone could answer Tracy sat at one of the vacated spots with Penny taking the other. Setting her plate down she asked. "So what are you guys up to? Jam session and bathtub sex? Stacy, Susan, how could you forsake me?" She mock cried, mimicking being stabbed in the heart. Then Tracy laughed and dug into her dinner.

"These group matches are very exciting, but shouldn't one of the judges have been there to keep score?" Penny of course, like Kim and Carla, hadn't gotten anything to eat.

Stacy looked over at the modified robot girl. "Looks like you've been busy as well." She told Tracy, turning back to Penny. "And they keep track of scoring just fine." She showed the orange haired woman her bracelet. "And if you mean Evelyn, she was supposed to be participating."

"She ran off with Laura to see Shar apparently." Tracy told her sister. "We ran into them in the pub and all just hung out in the master suite after. Bunch of us collecting bounties."

"Well it's too late to collect on mine today." Stacy said. "I'll just grab it again tomorrow."

Tracy shook her head with a grin. "Nope. Evelyn said you can't grab the same one in a row. You'll have to take another bounty first."

"Fuck! I am not crawling for Laura!"

"Well I don't think there are many left."

Anna shook her head. "Just that and the milk bath one, but you could pick either and just not do them. I don't think anyone is grabbing the anal bounty. I'm certainly not."

Susan ruffled Stacy's hair, careful not to touch her ears. "I just got a bunch of bonus points, I don't need to grab any more bounties."

"I suppose." Stacy grumbled. "But I'm still not taking the crawling one."

Tracy pointed over at the musicians flanking Evelyn as she tried to eat. "Kim might grab that one anyways. She seems to like crawling."

"They are welcome to it."

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Much later, after Evelyn had made her goodbyes from Carla and Kim when Misty had been very firm about no sex in bed while she was trying to sleep. She made her way back to Shar's room.

Carla/Kim +1000 BP.

After talking to Laura she still didn't know what to do, she could only think of one way to solve her dilemma. With a sigh she reached out to knock on the tall woman's door.

Come in Evelyn.

She heard before she could even touch it though. Pushing open the heavy wooden door she walked in and came over to Shar's bedside. "Sorry to disturb you but I wanted to ask permission to give the audience a survey.

So eager to give up and join the harem? Shar grinned with the thought and Evelyn realized the redhead now had bandages over her eyes.

"No! I mean, not really. I don't know. Why are you wearing bandages now?"

Apparently regrowing your eyes really itches, Nimue placed these so I don't touch them. This is a big decision to put in the hands of the audience Evelyn, are you sure that's what you want?

The elven woman raised a hand to her own face, just hearing that made her own itch in sympathy. "I don't want them to make the choice, I just want to gauge their opinion. See how popular it would be either way."

Shar nodded her head from her pillow. Fair enough. I was going to be making a poll anyways, Nimue want's to give Susan a alternate prize and I can't just let a contestant out of a transformation without consulting the audience. Write up your poll and one about letting first place swap out a punishment or not. Oh and Evelyn, just so you know, if you do join the contestants you will be getting transformations to equal theirs. That's three at this point.

Evelyn inhaled sharply, she hadn't thought of that. Still she had to know what the audience thought. "Thank you. I will do that now."

And Evelyn, know that you are valued in your current capacity. You may feel out of your depth around Nimue and I but you were a host yourself and lost that by no fault of your own. I will see you have your own show again if you stay the course.

The green haired woman nodded and then fled the room. It was good to hear even if it only added to her confusion.

Making her way to her own office she quickly drew up the two polls. Then took deep breaths to steady herself before using her bracelet to pull a camera focus on herself.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. We have a couple of quick questions for you to weigh in on. First, do you think I would be better staying in my current capacity as assistant host, hoping to serve you in the future with another show of my own. Or do you think I should officially join Laura's harem as the ninth contestant?

https://strawpoll.com/xVg71j98Kyr

And secondly a question about our first place contest winners. Should we let them swap out a punishment for a boon?

https://strawpoll.com/kjn1D8GKxyQ

Thank you very much for your consideration and I hope you continue to enjoy the show. The poll will last through the next day of the show."