Getting Ready for the New Night Encounter

Inoshana and Malza were in Inoshana’s room. As Inoshana looked through the closet of her chosen room, she started talking with Malza, “You know why I’m here, it’s part of your mission statement; but why are you so opposed to taking part of similar interactions? From what I’ve gathered, all the ladies here that other than us have already had such interactions with Yuri.”

“I just think I should maintain my dedicated decorum for as long as possible.”

“That beverage you left at the poolside was lovely, why did not partake of it?”

“He mentioned how one of the ingredients in the beverage can potentially heighten sexual desires, at least in humans, and I didn’t want to find out if the effect was greater on myself.”

“Yes, just being in his vicinity is making it difficult to ignore your heightened sexual state; it must be infuriating dealing with that sort of thing while he is in sight.”

“More than you probably think, I didn’t think he would be that inciting. Chances are he has some sort of passive ability that heightens such a state in his potential partners.”

“Good, I want to see how long he can keep me up at night; the goddess likely would like to see me take part in the coming intimate encounter. The goddess’s power brought this place to our world, after she made a few adjustments, and she imbued it with all the power that runs through this place. Since her touch is most present on these grounds and facility, she likely can watch things here most effectively while blocking off the view from anyone she doesn’t want looking into this place.”

“You just picked this room during the tour, which was over an hour ago, what are you expecting to find in there?”

“Our goddess’s always know how to provide what we require,” said Inoshana casually, she then pulled out a translucent twilight-colored nightgown, “as you can see. Chances are, Nocturia has been watching everything going down here and given a few gifts to each of us with chosen rooms here.”

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“This is so fun,” said Althana as she watched the big screen in the movie room as Yuri worked some unusual control system to move the image of the device moving down the passageway of the tunnel. “What did you call this device that is moving through the tunnel, again?”

“There are a few names I’m aware of that could be said, but for simplicity’s sake we’ll just call it a ‘ground drone,’ that means it’s designed to operate primarily on the ground, there’s another type that can fly that I think might be in storage somewhere around here, but the signal used for communicating with it is easier to lose below ground. This unit,” said Yuri as he continued to drive the drone, “has some nice little features that make that less of a concern. Now, just to be sure, you’re sure this is the tunnel that most likely leads to your atelier?”

“Yep, the entrance to the passage was in the direction of the town, and that map of the tunnels leading off the grounds had the one you’re inspecting with this device. I hope I can get the chance to take a look at these devices and their control systems to see about recreating them.”

“At best,” said Yuri as he noticed a set of steps through the camera ahead of the drone, you could probably find a way to draw up schematics that some generation in future will look at and realize that advancements at that time will make production viable. As technology and innovation seem to stand now, in this world, I don’t think you would be able to recreate the drones. At best, you could probably figure out a way to remotely command a homunculus.”

“That works for me,” said Althana as she watched the device move up the stairs with its special wheel system. Once it reached the top of the stairs, she saw what looked like one of the lower levels of her atelier. A few minutes later she saw proof it was her atelier. “I’m so happy we figured out the right tunnel, and it took that thing only a little over half an hour to get there. I’m guessing it will take anyone walking the tunnel a bit longer than that.”

“Most likely,” said Yuri as he hit a series of buttons and flipped a switch as he turned off the massive screen, “now then, I believe there is a request for the revitalization potions that you promised to transport up the fox’s room.”

“I’ll get right on it,” said Althana, “It’ll be a bit longer to the destination because of the travel time in the tunnel.”

“Go make yourself something in the kitchen,” said Yuri as he turned to a smaller screen next him that popped out of the chair in front of him and fiddled with it, “I’m going to check on a few more things that might be able to help you out down there.”

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Inoshana took a looked outside the window, twilight seemed to still be a few hours out, as Malza made her way out of the room and positioned in her own. She looked over at the nightgown she had pulled out and threw on the bed before smiling at it a bit; the garment really did leave nothing to the imagination, it would barely be more than going naked. Not that any of that would matter, seeing as she wouldn’t be wearing it for very long. The thought of barely wearing her sleepwear only for it to get disregarded in next to no time was an exciting prospect.

Inoshana started fondling her breasts, which were considerably well-devloped, in excitement for what would be happening later that evening, and well into the night, hopefully until morning. She stopped her self-fondling and brought her hands down, she started thinking about the figures of all the women around Yuri, most of them were well-endowed, just not quite as well-developed as Inoshana herself, and the ones that weren’t were practically flat in the chest area but had other aspects to their figures that more than made up for that distinct deficiency. Regardless, Inoshana knew that all these women would likely get blessings from her goddess, eventually.

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Yuri did indeed confirm there was a sort of mobile platform that could move through the tunnel, but it seemed to stop short the point it met up the atelier’s underground network, but not by much. The whole thing stopped short of the destination by about fifteen feet. Yuri headed down to the kitchen, he needed to grab a few things from the fridge and let Althana know.

When he got down there, he noticed that Althana and Thelsia seemed to be exchanging notes with each other. “Good news, ladies,” said Yuri as he checked the status of the sports drinks in his fridge, noticing several were already removed, I guessed those were taken by Alma and Usagi for their own reasons. “It looks like there is a remote platform in the tunnel the you can make use of, it’s supposed to be rated for noticeably heavy cargo, so it should be able to act as ride for the lighter members of the party, but will move barely faster than a human at a casual walking pace.”

“Perfect,” said Althana, “I can head on over to my atelier to mix up a few potions then,” she turned her attention Thelsia for a moment as if to indicate she wanted to request something without saying it before returning her attention to Yuri, “and follow it up by coming back the same way.”

“I suppose I could track how long that system takes to get from one location to another, and use my own walking speed as a control,” said Thelsia, “but I’m not sure the usual method could work out for us here, focusing on the spell for that sort of thing while trying to focus on other matters regarding the project could prove tricky.”

Yuri finished his inspection of the fridge and went over to a drawer, where he pulled out a small silver-like device and brought it over to the mage, “This is device known as a ‘stopwatch,’ it’s used for tracking times, usually regarding sports and athletics, this is a bit of an older model where I’m from,” he said as he handed the device to her and she saw the face of the device, “You’ll notice it tracks things in increments of five up to 60, those increments are a measurement of minutes.”

“This will do nicely,” said Thelsia, “and when I get back to the atelier I can return to town and the guild to give my report before returning here.”

“Ooh, can I…”

“No,” said Yuri and Thelsia in unison.

“I’ll see if there are any older models I have duplicates of or wouldn’t mind losing while you two are away and give you an answer after you return.”

“Thanks,” said Althana.

“This device will revolutionize so many fields,” said Thelsia as she observed the device, “how do you work it?”

“Tap the top of the dial to make the hand move, then tap it again to stop it, I think you can figure out the rest from there; besides, it’s not very fun if I explain everything for you.”

“True,” said Thelsia as she got up and gestured for the gnome to follow her.