First Challenge Results and TF Reveal

Delilah was relishing watching the bitches squirm in panic as they realized that Caroline and Heather were definitely not safe. Delilah grinned and said, “Please, have a seat at the bar and enjoy a drink while we wait for the results to come in.” Delilah didn’t wait for any of the others to move and simply went to the bar under the cabana, with Pita pouring her another mojito.

Piper went to her mom and hugged her worriedly. Lynn moved to go sit on Zachary’s lap but was thwarted when he stood and moved to the bar. So Lynn sat next to him instead. They had sat on the far side of the bar as far from Delilah as they could. Lynn noticed Zachary’s worried expression and asked, “Okay, spill, I know that look.”

Zach sighed and glanced at the gleeful Delilah. “No matter how this goes, I feel like I’ll have made the wrong choice.”

“And what did you have to choose?”

“I could have done more to protect Heather and Caroline. Either by getting them more points or—”

“Stop,” Lynn said firmly. “That’s not on you. We all thought 15 VP would be safe. Delilah is just a bitch. I bet she altered the point rewards and penalties for the challenge, and no matter how many points we had coming into it, someone would have been in danger. You couldn’t have done anything to stop that.”

Zach still frowned, thinking over what Delilah had said. Should I have intervened? Forced the others to push Heather and Caroline higher? I mean… I guess it wouldn’t have mattered. The audience would still be able to screw one of them if they really wanted to. Zach looked up and saw that Heather had sat down at the bar and was drinking heavily, and her hands were trembling. Then he saw Delilah, starting to scowl. A scowl that quickly turned into a snarl as she was examining a tablet.

Xin sat down next to Zachary. “Hey… if it’s, like, not too much to ask…” Xin was looking at Zachary rather lustily. “Could… could we do something?”

Zach glanced at Lynn, who just shrugged, clearly not thrilled, but understood Xin needed the help. Zach reached over and pulled Xin towards him and onto his lap. The two made out for a little bit, with Xin eventually just resting her head on his shoulder.

Caroline and Piper went to sit by Heather, comforting her. Caroline was clearly trying to get Heather to slow down on drinking.

Melinda plopped down in Xin’s previous spot. “Do you think they’ll both survive?” Melinda asked quietly of the three of them.

Zachary let out a worried sigh. “I really hope so.”

Lynn frowned both at the question and Zach’s response. Oh no… he’s starting to let Heather back in. I’ll have to do something about that. “I’m not sure; I think Caroline is likely safe. At least from elimination. Wearing that bikini, though, might have cemented her place as Zach’s dairy cow. I’m willing to bet there is an entire chunk of the audience into that crap.”

Zach was keeping an eye on the other group but also Delilah. Delilah was clearly not happy as votes were coming in. That’s probably good news. If she’s pissed, it’s probably because she’s not going to get to eliminate anyone.

Right as he had that thought, Delilah’s expression turned to a twisted smile as she stood up. “Alright, the votes are in!” Delilah moved to the center of the bar right near Heather’s group, waved her scepter, causing six high-top chairs to appear slightly away from the bar, and said, “Alright bitches take a seat. Zachary, if you would join me here.” Delilah gestured at the seat Heather was currently occupying as she nearly pushed Caroline off her stool.

Once everyone had taken their new seats, Delilah leaned back against the bar, holding out a hand behind her, which Pita once again filled with a mojito. After taking a long sip and sighing with satisfaction. Delilah began, “Now, after a week of waiting for the votes to come in.”

“Wait, what?” Piper asked, “Things ended like thirty minutes ago.”

Delilah rolled her eyes. “Piper, unless you’d like a punishment transformation, do not interrupt me again. As for your question, time is relative. The voters had a week to vote. Anyway, the results are in. I’m going to get the single points over with quickly. Melinda, you took first place as both the best question asker in the Never Have I Ever segment and as the Most Impactful Player in the second round of volleyball. Heather, not that this should be a surprise, you were ranked most impactful for the first round of volleyball. Piper, your self-sabotage was deemed worthy of a point as well. Congrats on screwing Heather and Lynn over for profit in the last round.”

The women were really trying not to let Delilah’s words cause further animosity within the group, but Xin glared at Melinda being rewarded, as did Heather and Lynn at Piper. Delilah continued, “Now, what I’m sure you’re all waiting for! The swimsuit competition. First up, we have the best in show.”

• 1st Heather +5 Challenge Points
• 2nd Caroline +4 Challenge Points
• 4th Xin +2 Challenge Points
• 4th Melinda +2 Challenge Points
• 5th Piper +1 Challenge Points
• 6th Lynn +0 Challenge Points

Delilah had a fake cheeriness about her voice as she continued to speak. “Heather, you beat out the cow by a single vote. Congrats. I would have preferred the two of you tying for second, but I can’t get everything I want. Xin and Melinda to bad neither of you could pull ahead, resulting in you both taking fourth. Lynn, you crazy bitch, you need to realize that the audience has already seen you naked and screwing Zachary. A simple skimpy bikini isn’t going to entice them anymore. Then again, maybe they just put you last because they hate your guts for being such a conniving cunt.”

Lynn snarled back at Delilah but didn’t retort, remembering her warning to Piper about a punishment for interrupting her, and the fact that she had followed through on her last warning when she shoved a dildo gag into Lynn’s mouth at the beginning of all this.

Delilah let out a contented sigh. “Ah, the bitch can learn after all. Now let’s look at the scores before we get to the performance section.”

• 15 Caroline
• 12 Melinda
• 10 Heather
• 08 Xin
• 07 Piper
• 04 Lynn

Caroline, Heather, and Piper all let out audible sighs of relief seeing that Caroline and Heather were both safe, thanks to Lynn’s last-place finish in the show portion.

Delilah pouted, “Yes, yes, I’m sure you’re quite pleased to not get eliminated so you can continue to have a chance to serve your wonderful Master with renewed vigor. Because if you don’t do better this round, you’ll be back on the chopping block again. Maybe that joke I played on you regarding the scores at the beginning of the challenge might just be real for next time. Now for the performance category.” This time Delilah’s grin was real, and she was clearly quite happy with the results.

• 1st Heather +5 Challenge Points
• 2nd Piper +4 Challenge Points
• 3rd Melinda +3 Challenge Points
• 4th Xin +2 Challenge Points
• 5th Lynn +1 Challenge Points
• 6th Caroline +0 Challenge Points

The group was a little worried by Delilah’s exuberance, not sure why she was so pleased. Then Piper did the math and mouthed, ‘Oh shit.’

Delilah spoke, “Once again, Heather, you took first by a single vote. I guess they really liked you finally cracking and submitting yourself to your Master properly. Whereas the lazy cow obviously would take last, as she didn’t even try. I’ll be honest, I’m a bit surprised Melinda placed so highly here, but I guess she got points for effort and creativity even if she ultimately bungled her performance. And Lynn, seriously? You were supposed to seduce your Master, not help someone else seduce him. No wonder you only beat the cow who didn’t even try.” Delilah then grinned as she got to what was making her so happy. “I see our dear little Piper can count. So let me reveal the final challenge scores.”

• 3rd Heather 15 challenge points +0 VP
• 3rd Caroline 15 challenge points +0 VP
• 3rd Melinda 15 challenge points +0 VP
• 4th Piper 11 challenge points -5 VP
• 5th Xin 10 challenge points -10 VP
• 6th Lynn 5 challenge points -15 VP

“Well, looky there,” Delilah said, pointing to the television displaying the final scores. “We have a three-way tie for third place.” Delilah was taking great joy in the contestants scowling at her. “Oh, don’t look at me like that. You’ll make me blush. I did tell you that you would get points based on the number of people you beat. Why did you think it would be anything else for the challenge as a whole? If you want first place, you’re going to have to beat everyone else here. There’s no sharing the ultimate prize. Of course, that means all your TFs for the challenge result will cap out at the middling quality since no one took first place. As for the other two categories.” Delilah did a quick wave of her scepter, displaying the current VP rankings after the challenge.

• 1st 24 VP Lynn
• 2nd 22 VP Melinda
• 3rd 18 VP Heather
• 4th 17 VP Piper
• 6th 15 VP Caroline
• 6th 15 VP Xin

“Lynn, congrats on taking first place, and you’ll receive two of the best-quality TFs possible. Also, one of the worst TFs, but that’s what you get for sucking so much in the challenge. Xin and Caroline, you will both be getting two of the worst, which honestly, for you, Xin, is going to suck, as the audience will barely have the option to be merciful. Got to say they really are a bunch of sadists putting sweet little Xin into last place like that. At least she has deserved company there with the old cow.”

Zach finally spoke up as he got up from his stool. “This is ridiculous! How is this even remotely fair?”

Delilah pushed him back into his stool. “I explained the rules at the beginning. Not my fault if you’re all too stupid to take me seriously or listen properly. Now I think we’ll go in order of the VP rankings to showcase the various TFs that will be up for the audience to vote on. So starting with Lynn, who got two top-quality TFs and one bottom-quality TF, and let’s not forget her rollover from the first round either.”

Rollover: His Problems are My Problems: This was Lynn’s motto throughout life. Now it will be an inescapable truth. Lynn will intrinsically know when Zach has a problem, whether that is an unruly contestant that needs discipline, or a random boner that needs to be taken care of. Lynn will find herself sexually frustrated in proportion to the number of unresolved problems Zach has. [Childhood Friend]

Cuddle Slut: Lynn will now need regular cuddles and hugs, or she will become moody and depressed. Hugging and cuddling her fellow bitches will take the edge off, but only Zach’s arms will truly satisfy her. She’ll also find herself never saying no to cuddles or a hug, at least for a time. [Childhood Friend]

Obsessive Stalker: Lynn will know exactly where Zachary is at all times and the fastest possible way to get to him. The longer she goes without seeing him, the greater her sexual frustration will be, along with a desire to go find him and insist on spending time with him, even going so far as to follow him from a short distance on other contestants’ date nights. Lynn will be physically incapable of moving closer than 20ft of Zachary if it is not her date day with him, or with the permission of whoever’s day with Zachary it is. [Obsessive]

Bitch Trainer: As his Bottom Bitch, she has a responsibility to train the rest of his bitches to be good, productive bitches. Lynn will go out of her way to attempt to train the others sexually for Zachary’s benefit. Any training session that earns the trainee VP will earn Lynn BP, as will any training judged to be sufficiently significant that is used to gain VP at a later time. [Bottom Bitch]

Delilah smiled as everyone read over her options. She asked Lynn, “So, any in particular you like? You said you wanted His Problems Are My Problems last time. Is that still true?”

“Go fuck yourself, Delilah!” Lynn retorted.

Delilah seemed to relish Lynn’s detest for her. Seeing that Lynn wasn’t going to respond further without prompting, Delilah said, “Lynn dear, I thought I made myself clear last time. You will tell the audience what you prefer and why, or not only will I force it out of you; I might just decide to give you a second one with my veto. That goes for the rest of you sluts as well.” Delilah looked at Zachary. “As before, I invite and encourage your comments as well, but if you wish to remain silent and leave their fates solely up to the audience, that is your call, Zachary.” Delilah then gave a toothy grin to Lynn, daring her not to answer.

Lynn growled out, “Fine! Anything but Obsessive Stalker. I think either of the childhood friend options would be fine, and Bitch Trainer has a solid benefit since I already have to help them find niches anyway. I don’t think any of us would like me to get Obsessive Stalker.”

Heather did her best to remain impassive, but she couldn’t help but look to the side guiltily.

Delilah turned towards Zachary. “So any comments? Or are you going to abandon Lynn to the whims of the audience again, like you did in the challenge?”

Lynn furrowed her brow, confused about what Delilah meant.

Zachary scowled at Delilah but answered her. “I agree with Lynn on this, literally anything but the stalker one. That isn’t Lynn at all. I think I would prefer she didn’t get Bitch Trainer as well, but even that would be better than the stalker one. What if I want to be around her when it isn’t her night with me?”

Delilah shrugged, “Well, that has a simple solution: you could order your bitches to give her permission to be around you, but it also only prevents her from moving towards you past 20 ft, not the reverse. In fact, you could in theory trap her with it if you backed her against a wall. Personally, I’m hoping for Obsessive Stalker, so she can really let her inner self be on display. Now onto Melinda.”

Lynn's TF Poll: https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXkrRzye

Delilah deliberately pushed ahead so Zachary didn’t have time to ask what she meant by her comment, so doubt would begin to fester. “You, dearie, did surprisingly well.” Delilah strode over to her and caressed her cheek. “Normally I like breaking women, but seeing you throw yourself at Zachary’s mercy has such appeal to it. I love vengeance, but sometimes, contrition is satisfying too. With your performance, you have one middling transformation and two slightly better ones, along with the one from last time.”

Rollover: I Can Do Better: Melinda will feel a strong desire to outdo anyone who has more VP than she does. Especially at anything sexual. [Competitive]

Keeping Score: Melinda said on her date night it had always been a competition between her and Zach. That will continue, as Melinda will keep track of who has won more, and unless she’s the one in the lead, she’ll find herself with her sexual inhibitions lowered based on how far she’s behind and increased pleasure from others based on how far she is ahead. Luckily, or maybe unluckily, she’ll count any orgasm either of them have that the other is responsible for as a victory. This transformation is retroactive but only to the start of the show. [Competitive]

20 CCs of Semen, STAT!: Occasionally, Melinda will need at least 20 CCs of semen pumped into her body. Failure to receive this injection may include the following side effects: irritability, anxiety, depression, headaches, soreness, suggestibility, sweating, increased thirst, unusual dreams, loss of appetite, insomnia… To make it reasonable for her to get her medicine, Zach’s production volume will increase based on where he cums inside her: 5 CC for her mouth, 10 CC for her ass, and 20 CC for her pussy. [Nurse]

Someone’s Getting Screwed: Melinda will get three free sabotages from the BP store each round, but if she fails or refuses to use them by the end of the round, the leftovers will be used on her the following round. [Sabotage]

Melinda immediately asked, “How is the first one being retroactive a better transformation?”

Delilah smiled as she said, “Well, I had originally planned for it to simply be retroactive, but your placement improved the TF, so I limited it to just the beginning of the show.”

Melinda clutched her chest, realizing she definitely avoided a disaster with that change. She figured she would still be down a lot, but knowing Delilah’s twisted personality, she figured if she had placed lower, how loose what qualified as a competition would be. I bet she would count shit like ‘who got to class earlier’ as a contest. “And what’s with the ellipses in the second one?”

Delilah waved away the question dismissively. “That’s just because we didn’t have room for the full side effects.”

Melinda looked to Zach to see if there was one he preferred, but she couldn’t get a read on his thoughts. “I… I think I would like one of the competitive options. I worry about the Semen thing, and… I don’t want to have to sabotage anyone else. I regret that I did it to Zachary, and I don’t want to do it again to someone else.”

Zachary replied just as Delilah was about to say something, deliberately being petty and cutting her off. “Yeah, I don’t want the Semen option either. Especially since none of you have birth control anymore. This is clearly designed to result in you getting pregnant. I also really do not want the sabotages to win.”

Melinda's TF Poll: https://strawpoll.com/ajnE142qBnW

Delilah was about to continue, but Zachary cut her off again, “Now who’s next? Oh right, it’s Heather.” He finished groaning out her name and then turned to Pita, “Can we get her transformations up on the screen?”

Pita’s mouth turned into a very thin line at his question. Delilah was glaring at both her and Zachary, with one eye twitching in annoyance, though no one besides Pita could see the twitch due to the seating. Delilah said, “Go ahead, Pita. Put them up there.”

Rollover: Cheaters Never Prosper: Heather cheated on Zachary; now she will pay the price. Only Zachary can cause her sexual pleasure or give her sexual release from now on. Anything that does not involve Zachary that would have caused pleasure will instead be turned into arousal. [Cheater]

High Maintenance: Heather’s dependency on Zachary for her purchases might just become one of her favorite things with this. Whenever Zach spends money (or BP) on Heather, even her own, Heather will feel a rush of pleasure. The more money, the greater the rush. We’re also giving Zachary 1000 BP each round that can only be used to buy stuff for Heather. Any leftover at the end of the round will vanish, causing Heather to devalue herself proportionally until she can get Zach to spend the entire allowance. [Gold Digger]

Cucked: Heather will find great pleasure in Zachary being with other women, to the point of actively encouraging everyone in the harem to sleep with him, and asking if she can watch. [Cheater]

A Tidy Home: Heather has been given a new purpose, and begrudgingly finding satisfaction in fulfilling it. It’s such a shame though that she’s not also getting pleasure from the act. Now whenever Heather cooks, cleans, or does any other household chore, she’ll feel a pleasant tingling sensation run through her body, so she can wet, waiting, and willing for when her husband gets home. [Housewife]

Delilah turned to Heather, “So? Are you prepared to devote yourself fully to your Master, letting him, and him alone, provide you sexual pleasure? You said you’d do whatever he wished of you on the beach, and he has told you he wants this for you. Or would you rather be wet, waiting, and willing for him at home? Honestly, all of these are such nice rewards considering your placement in the various categories.”

Heather bit her lip and tried to hold back tears. Her voice cracked and slurred slightly as she spoke, “I… I’d purfur the one where he buys me nice things.”

Caroline pinched the bridge of her nose, glad that she had at least stopped her from getting too drunk.

Zachary replied, “No comment.”

Heather's TF Poll: https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4rwM2ga

Delilah frowned, as she was really hoping Zachary would reiterate his desire to control her pleasure as his own, as he had last time. Before Zachary could try to mess up her tempo, Delilah continued, “Very well, Piper’s up next. Ah, sweet little Piper. You got ever so slightly below average transformations across the board.” Delilah gave a sickly sweet smile to the gamer as she displayed her transformations.

Rollover: Command Line Functions: Zachary will be given a short list of command-line functions he can input into any Harem Hotel device. Piper will be forced to execute the functions. Zachary can discover additional commands on his own. [Programmable] (Non-Physical/Physical)

Gatekeeping: Gamers are notorious for requiring others to prove they are a real gamer, especially women. Piper will now have to prove herself in most aspects of her life or be thought of as a desperate thot just pretending to get dick. Piper will receive daily and weekly challenges to complete, each tied to some aspect of herself. Until she has completed the challenge, everyone else will think of her as just another slut trying to get attention regarding that aspect. [Gamer-Girl] (Non-physical)

Pavlov’s Bitch: Just like in the study, Piper will find she’s now particularly susceptible to behavioral conditioning by Zach and one contestant secretly chosen each round. [Programmable] (Non-Physical)

A Libido to Match: Piper is a massive pervert, but has very little sex drive or experience. This will help fix one of those things. Whenever Piper encounters her kinks, her libido will change to match how much she likes that kink. If encountering multiple different kinks, her libido will default to the highest possible setting. [Pervert] (Physical)

Piper immediately noticed a difference in the descriptions and asked, “What’s with the additional tag at the end of each transformation?” She thought she knew what it was for but wanted to confirm.

Delilah replied, “Well, I wanted the Audience to be informed whether or not the transformation is likely to affect your mother or not. So the labels are there.”

Piper then asked, “Why does the first one have both keywords, then?”

“Because some commands, like Spike Libido, would affect your mother, whereas something like Cum Here Bitch wouldn’t. So it has both. Caroline’s transformations will have the same tags as well. This is just to make clear the primary designation, not that it is 100% absolutely one or the other if it doesn’t have both.”

Piper scratched her head a few times as she considered her options. She grimaced and sighed, “I think Command Line Functions. I’m not thrilled about giving him more control.” Zach rolled his eyes, not fully believing her. “But I worry about both the Gatekeeping and Pavlov ones getting out of control. Also, I’m assuming that A Libido to Match would effectively set my libido on my character sheet temporarily to the same value as the kink, right?” Delilah just nodded. “And let me guess, my mom’s libido would match that value even if she isn’t encountering one of her kinks.” Again, Delilah nodded. “Would my Libido spike when my mom encounters one of her kinks?”

Delilah shook her head. “No, that part is unique to you, but your libido is a physical trait, and as such, any changes to yours are passed along to her.”

Piper sighed, “Yeah, then not that one.”

Zach nodded in agreement. “Yeah, Command Line Function first, but if the Audience really doesn’t want that one, I would rank them in the order they appear. So, is it Xin, or Caroline next?”

Piper TF Poll: https://strawpoll.com/7rnzVl9kanO

Delilah smiled. “Actually, I have one more piece of business to take care of regarding Piper first. I mentioned you would get respecs regarding her points. I’ve decided that you will be permitted to respec a number of points equal to the amount she earned the previous round or half of her total points at the end of the previous round, whichever is less. I’ll also let you respec an additional ten percent of her points if a physical TF wins for her vote or Caroline’s vote. Now, since we’re talking about her anyway. Caroline, you will be getting one middling TF and two bottom-ranked TFs.”

Rollover: Deliberate Wardrobe Malfunction: Caroline deliberately caused an ‘error’ before. Now, everyone will believe the wardrobe malfunctions she is now prone to are intentional. [Errors]

Mammary Inflation Lactation Flow: Caroline’s Breasts will slowly swell with milk, causing them to expand unless milked. As they grow in size, they will leak more frequently, slowing and eventually stopping their further growth. [MILF] (Physical)

What Name Goes Here Again?: Caroline decided to alter a few forms here and get rid of a few there in the past, and not just Zachary’s schedule either. Let’s continue the pattern; Zachary will replace her dead husband, both on paper and in her mind. This won’t happen all at once, but instead whenever she errs. Whether that’s by lying to her Master, leaving him wanting, or many other ways for her to find out on her own. [Errors] (Non-Physical)

Zoological Science - Caroline will be required to spend 20 hours per week at the Zoo studying and caring for past eliminated contestants there. She will randomly gain TFs from some of her charges for a time. She will never have the transformations on her date night or on challenge day. [Professor] (Non-physical/Physical)

Before Caroline could finish reading, Zachary gave his opinion: “Not the last two. Absolutely not the last two. Holy fuck are they both messed up.”

Caroline continued reading, and she paled as she read the one about her husband. Piper had already reached out and was squeezing her arm so tight that it hurt. Caroline put her hand on Piper’s, and her daughter slightly lessened the pressure on her arm. Caroline continued to read the last TF and furrowed her brow in confusion. Sure, that’s not ideal, but taking care of some people who have had it rough isn’t horrible. I guess copying random transformations temporarily is potentially bad. “Zachary, could you explain your objection to the Zoological Science option? I’m not even going to dignify the other horrendous one with further comment.”

Zach nodded. “Yeah. First, nothing protects Piper on her night with me. Second, the zoo had a warning about entering that section and that it wasn’t safe. Third, these are contestants that were eliminated, and that transformation doesn’t stop you from picking up their elimination transformations.”

Piper’s hand tightened around her arm once again.

Caroline looked at the other two options, as that was good enough reason to discount that as a viable preference. “I guess, wardrobe malfunction would be slightly better, but…” Caroline looked down at her cow-print bikini and the cowbell around her neck. “I have a feeling that the Audience might have a significant preference for the other one. Please, whatever you decide to vote on, just vote for the one that makes me forget my husband in last place.”

Caroline's TF Poll: https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXkrRWye

“I’m MOOOOved by your plight.” Delilah said sarcastically, “You and Piper will make such lovely hucows. I’m sure. Now, Xin…” Delilah stood and sat down on Xin’s lap and caressed her cheek. “Poor, innocent, sweet Xin.” Delilah pouted as she rested her finger just below Xin’s chin, tilting it up. “You tried so hard. You even slept with your Master, but you were betrayed and targeted. Hopefully you’ll remember that next time.” Delilah waved her scepter in her free hand and showed Xin’s transformations on the screen.

Rollover: Sexual Naivete: Xin hurt Zachary by accident, not aware that Heather was married. She’s relatively innocent. To help maintain that innocence, she’ll lose all her sexual knowledge and experience. In addition, she won’t be able to recognize anything as sexual until Zach explains it to her, as any other sexual knowledge or experience will just seep out of her head. [Innocence]

Erotic Innocence: Handholding? A hug? A quick peck on the lips? How scandalous! Xin will find all of these things and more to be extremely erotic, and that they are things you would only ever do with someone you really like, and even then they should only be done privately. Even hearing about the other bitches doing these things with Zachary will set her heart aflutter. [Innocence]

Sorority Sister: Xin will randomly be assigned one of the other contestants as her big sister each day. Much like a typical Little, Xin will follow them around, emulate them, and follow their instructions. The Big will find themselves more willing to tolerate her, instruct her, and order her about, especially if it happens to be the Big’s date night, which will almost certainly involve them bringing Xin up to the Master’s suite with them for a proper initiation, [Student]

Songbird: Xin can no longer talk normally. She must either sing her words or be actively playing an instrument. In both cases, her voice will now count as music for the purpose of any transformation she has. It will also be mildly arousing to all who hear it. [Musician]

Delilah asked, “So, would you like to be Zach’s pretty little songbird? Or maybe you’d like to be everyone’s little sister. I wonder if you’ll be able to handle their hazing.”

Xin read the options, looked at Erotic Innocence, and was intrigued. “Umm, well, the handholding one doesn’t seem that bad. I really don’t want to lose my voice.”

Zach shook his head, clearly disagreeing. He stood and grabbed the wrist of Delilah’s hand on Xin’s cheek and pulled her off of Xin. “Leave her alone. Also, Xin, I know you might not be thrilled about it, but I think Sexual Naivete is the best option. We can fix a lot of the problems with it over time, and if you can’t recognize something as sexual, then it won’t cause your arousal to spike.”

Xin replied, “Okay, but why not the handholding option?”

Zach leaned over and kissed her, placing his hand on her cheek. Only after several seconds did he stop making out with her. “Now, tell me something: how do you think you’d feel if instead that was the two of us having sex in front of everyone? That’s what I think of when I read that.”

Xin thought about having sex with him in front of everyone and went scarlet. “Okay… so… maybe not that one then… Umm, I think I might prefer the Sorority option instead of the naivete option, though.”

Xin's TF Poll: https://strawpoll.com/1Mnwk7MGkn7

Delilah gave Zachary an annoyed look. Though she was happy that he was being more forceful. “Well, that’s wonderful to hear.” Delilah resumed her seat, knocked back her mojito, which Pita immediately replaced, then continued, “Now, we have two more things to discuss: first, the popularity poll will also be open now for the Audience.”

Best Girl Poll: https://strawpoll.com/2ayLQPjLBn4

“The second has to do with the contestant rooms. There have been some complaints from both the contestants, but far more importantly from the audience, as we only really care about one of those groups. So we’ve decided to open it to the audience. The first room poll will let you rank the current rooms, and the top two options will be replaced, though we will have a null option; if that takes first, we will not be replacing the rooms at all, and if it takes second, only one room will swap. The second poll will be to determine what the replacement rooms are.”

Rooms to Discard: https://strawpoll.com/ajnE142qMnW

Delilah waved her scepter and three doors appeared behind the contestants. She moved to the first door and opened it for the contestants to view it. Heather was the closest to the door, and despite being on a sunny beach, as soon as it opened, she felt a sweltering heat smack into her face. Looking into the room, the ladies saw that the entire place was filled with steam. The bed was a stone slab, without any covers or pillows. Instead, one end had raised stone embedded into the slab to support their head and necks.

Melinda asked, “Is it even safe to sleep in there? That feels hotter than a sauna, and you aren’t supposed to stay in them that long.”

Delilah smiled. “Oh, it’s most definitely safe, but I leave the rest of it for you to discover if the audience selects it.” She proceeded to open the next door, and a soft, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, emerged. There was an old grandfather clock with a swinging pendulum. The ceiling had a slowly spinning black and white spiral above the bed. Piper listened carefully to the room, and she thought she heard whispers so faint she couldn’t make them out.

Piper frowned. “Seriously? A room designed to hypnotize us? Or program us with subliminal messaging?”

Delilah smiled. “You catch on quick, my perverted little bitch. Yes. Zachary would even be able to select some messages for you to hear.”

Delilah didn’t bother to spend more time on that room, but unlike the sauna room, she shut the door. “Can’t have you all getting entranced by accident.” Several individuals seemed to have been staring at the room strangely.

Delilah quickly moved onto the last room. Opening it, the group thought it looked normal, if sensual. The room was black, much like the tentacle room was, but there was none of the weird undulation. The bed looked like it was covered in a glossy black satin. Lynn asked, “Okay, what’s the issue with this one?”

Delilah said, “Whatever could you mean?”

Lynn crossed her arms. “I mean, if you won’t tell us, how is the Audience supposed to vote on it? It’s obviously got something wrong with it. None of the rooms are just rooms.”

Delilah waved towards the room. “Why don’t you go in and inspect it?”

“No thanks,” Lynn replied.

Delilah leaned over, “I insist.” Delilah put a hand on Lynn’s back and started pushing her towards the room, and whispered into her ear, “Either you go in, or I tell Zachary about your involvement in getting Heather to sleep with Xin.”

Lynn’s eyes went wide, and she went into the room, preparing for the worst. The carpet felt nice on her bare feet. Delilah said, “Go ahead, explore. Why don’t you have a nice lie down? After the grueling challenge, you must be tired.”

Zachary said, “Lynn, STOP! Come out of there.” Lynn felt herself freeze and start to exit the room. “Delilah, just tell us what awful thing it does. I’m not letting you use her as a guinea pig.”

“Umm… Zach, maybe it would just be for the best to let her have this.” Lynn said, rather terrified. The fear in her voice, Zach mistook for being concerned for him, that Delilah might retaliate. “Please, just let this go. Let me go in, or she’s just going to force someone else in.”

Delilah grinned widely, which Zachary mistook for being quite thrilled to punish someone.

Zach sighed, “Are you sure?”

Lynn nodded, “Yeah. It can’t be too bad. We’re supposed to sleep in it.”

Heather said, “You only say that because you didn’t spend the last week in the tentacle pits.” Piper nodded firmly in agreement.

Lynn said, “Well, you two survived.” She turned back to Zach. “I actually need your permission now, since you decided to command me to come out.”

Zach sighed, “Fine, go ahead.”

Lynn stepped back inside and, figuring that whatever was going to happen would be something to do with the bed, she went and lay down on the bed, pulling the covers up over herself. Covers which she realized weren’t satin at all but latex. As soon as her head touched the bed, the covers were pulled up over her head and vacuum-sealed around her, immobilizing her completely. Lynn felt faint as the latex sealed around her entire body.

Zach scowled, “Delilah! You’ve had your fun; let her out!”

“Hmm? I didn’t do anything; that’s just what the bed does.” Delilah did shut the door, and all three vanished. “But I think I’ll let her stew for a bit. Don’t worry, I’ll bring her back when the votes for the TFs are in, or maybe for the Q&A.” Delilah then faced an invisible camera. “Now, as you all saw, there’s a vacuum seal bed. There are a few other bondage related things to do with the room, but now, really, if I told you and the contestants everything, where would be the surprise? So please. Make your voices heard. Remember, if the null option wins or takes second, we won’t be replacing two rooms; otherwise, the top two winners of these three will be rotated in.”

Zach took an angry step towards Delilah. “Let. Her. Go. NOW!” Both his fists were clenched as if he were prepared to punch her squarely in the face if she didn’t comply.

Heather was the one to intervene, as she rushed to his side and hissed quietly at him, “Zach, get a hold of yourself!” She grabbed one of his fists in both her hands. “If you tried to punch her, I’m sure it wouldn’t even land, and she’d punish you too. Calm down! You’re no good to Lynn, twisted beyond repair.” To her surprise, Zach didn’t pull away from her or yank his hand free. “Please… Lynn should be alright. If she wasn’t, then Delilah wouldn’t get her fun later.”

Zach took several deep breaths and slowly unclenched his fists. Heather didn’t stop holding his hand, and once again, to her surprise, he didn’t pull it out of hers either. Heather glared at Delilah defiantly, but inwardly, Heather was worried, as Delilah seemed practically giddy over her intervention, and she didn’t know why.

Delilah said, “Well, that’s a wrap for this episode, viewers. I’ll see you next time with some Q&A, and maybe the voting results depending on timing. We’ll see what the schedule looks like. Don’t forget, every vote counts,” Delilah ended her spiel with a wink.

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