In his room of course!

Damien suddenly found himself all alone in the lobby of an outrageously lavish hotel. Perhaps 'palace' might've been a better term, honestly, the way everything was cushioned and gilded and shone. Though the reception desk at the end did place this firmly in the 'hotel lobby' realm, especially given where he was. Damien strode up to the desk as confidently as he could while looking around for signs of Nymeera, or the girls. Though perhaps he shouldn't, he was still sporting an uncomfortable amount of wood, the sensation of Suki's plush backside pressing into him still teasing at his mind. He tried pushing the thought out of his head and focusing on...well anything else. The desk was unmanned, so he naturally walked around to see if there was anything behind it, maybe on the computer, or contained within the shelves. Perhaps he'd find the locations of the girls, or a keycard, maybe a map of...wherever the hell he was. Something!

"Wrah!"

Damien jumped almost a foot off the ground as he nearly stepped on a small purple fox behind the desk. "What the..." The fox was almost babyish in stature, but had a long flowing tail behind it that curled around it's tiny body. Small beady red eyes peaked up at him from behind the coat of shiny purple fur while the fox regarded him curiously. He couldn't help but note that the fox was sporting Nymeera's color scheme... "Let me guess... You work here?" Damien asked, suddenly suspicious of the outwardly adorable little thing, completely hidden behind the reception desk.

"Wrah..." the fox cried out softly, its tail rising up to tap away at the keyboard. The screen changed to show Damien's face, and a chime rang out as an elevator door opened. Damien glanced away toward the elevator he spotted earlier, a plain looking thing completely out of place in the opulent wealth drenched lobby, but the elevator remained closed. The fox then began to pad softly out from behind the reception desk, turning toward him as it began to lead him toward the opposite side of the room. "Wrah!" It barked and bade him to follow. Damien cautiously walked behind the tiny little fox, its body something he could fit comfortably in both hands, though the tail was long enough to tap him on the nose and swayed gently behind it.

"Was this here the whole time..." Damien was led to another elevator, this one far more opulently built, it's walls made of glass. The fox waited patiently beside the open elevator as Damien stepped inside. There were a great many buttons decorating the inside of the elevator, hinting at parts of the Hotel to be explored including: Pool, Gym, Spa, Garden, Pleasure Deck, Rooftop, and many more, but the one that drew him was the large button at the very top. Master Penthouse. He pressed it.

The doors slid shut and the elevator began to smoothly ascend. As it did Damien looked out the glass walls at the idyllic paradise spread before him. It looked like the Hotel was built in the middle of a college campus for one, familiar looking buildings surrounded by a lush forest that spread for miles to either side, but was relatively thin. Beyond the forest Damien could see a large lake, surrounded by rock structures, and towering over it all was a massive mountain...he blinked. Wait those weren't clouds near its peak, it was a massive volcano! What the hell Nymeera!

Damien comforted himself with the knowledge that Nymeera wanted to make them into a sex harem, which was an odd comfort but it at least meant she wasn't likely to kill them. It looked like she'd brought them to a university in the middle of a national park, though he couldn't be sure they were anywhere he'd be able to point to on a map. With Nymeera's abilities she could easily have just created this space out of whole cloth and dropped them on the moon for all he knew! Though the clear blue sky seemed to suggest otherwise...still, there was a strangeness to the sky that Damien couldn't quite put his finger on. A purple shimmer if he looked at just the right angle, gone so quickly he couldn't be sure he didn't just imagine it.

The elevator opened and Damien was turning away from the strange new landscape and back into the Hotel proper, where a literal red carpet awaited him, complete with rose petals, leading to a large oak door, polished and imposing. Was this how the girls would feel coming to his room? He would assume they'd have to, and his height, which he was sure was a few inches taller than usual, was doing a lot to mitigate that imposing feeling. He had to wonder how someone like Dana would feel, looking up at this door, rose petals scattered at her feet, thumbprint scanner at eye level... He sighed, the thumbprint scanner was a little much. He put his thumb into it and was rewarded with a green light flashing and a heavy lock being slid open. The door swung inward and Damien had to take a moment as he stepped into his room...his penthouse room.

The first thing he noticed was the space, the ceilings were high here, much higher than he was used to in a hotel, but then again he'd never been in a penthouse suite before. Next he noticed the furnishings. It wasn't just a single bedroom with tv and desk and bathroom adjacent, no no Nymeera made this into a luxury HOME! There was a bar next to the living room, fully stocked, with stand up wine coolers holding chilled bottles, as well as some cans of beer. The living room was big enough for...well 10 he presumed, with a large couch in front of a giant flatscreen TV, and next to that was a large patio overlooking the local landscape. Damien found himself moving out to the patio, and immediately a warm breeze wafted over him. The temperature seemed to be balmy, almost tropical despite how high up he was, and he WAS high up. The other buildings of the campus were dwarfed by the hotel and he almost missed the large jacuzzi sitting blatantly alongside the hotel. This wasn't just wealth, this was indulgent wealthy... Damien felt almost dizzy, and it wasn't just because of the height. He did peer over the high guard rails, looking down at the tops of the buildings below.

"You can jump off if you want," said an amused voice from behind him. Damien spun around to find Nina, no Nymeera sitting on his couch, dressed very casually in leggings and a tank top.

"Excuse me?"

"I'm serious," Nymeera said light-heartedly, standing and walking out to the patio with him, she looked up at the sky and Damien followed her gaze. That purple shimmer he couldn't quite be sure of might've glistened, but the sun was very bright here. "The AV field I put up over this place prevents any unsexy injuries from happening. You could leap off this building right now, land on the ground below and walk away no worse for wear..." She put a finger up and the sky suddenly crackled with purple energy where her finger was, making it look like she was actually TOUCHING the sky! Damien's sense of perspective was being thrown off and he had to look away. Nymeera just giggled.

"AV field?"

"Anti-****. You can't even stub your toe, or break a nail here, much less produce actual bodily harm to yourself or others. You also can't leave." Her grin turned dangerous and sly, but Damien was used to this by now. She wanted to get under his skin, and that had worked for a time, but he wasn't a young man to be teased and titillated by a pretty woman anymore. Sure he was lonely and he felt that loneliness strongly at times, 'Nina' had taken advantage of that easily enough, but he wasn't going to be yanked around by his dick every which way. She might be essentially a god, but she wasn't going to hurt him.

"Good girl," he said, trying very hard to keep his voice level and calm, authoritative, and suppress the nervous fear he felt rush through his fingertips. Nymeera's eyes widened in surprise, before her lips turned up in a deadly smile.

"Oh, are you trying to condition me?" she asked venomously, more amused than threatened, which only made those nervous tingles worse.

"Just trying to see if the transformations work on you as well," Damien said, trying to play off his attempt as idle curiosity. Was it getting hotter out here? The smoke from the volcano continued to drift along the peak...was that the reason for this warmth? Or was it their locale?

"Good Students," Nymeera said, quoting the Transformation from memory. "Good girls obey their teacher. Whenever Damien gives instructions to a Contestant, and they follow it he will feel compelled to reward them...etc etc. I'm not a Contestant, and so you can't reward me. You should listen more closely, wording is important you know..."

"Oh I'm aware," Damien said, forcing his nerves down hard as they spread to his chest, making his heart beat faster. "Weapons of Mass Distraction..." Damien paused then shrugged, "Okay I can't recite it word for word, but I know that in Suki's Transformation the word 'Contestant' was never stated, and it was specifically said that only the Master was immune from her...effects."

"Her big, beautiful knockers?" Nymeera laughed musically. "Yes, anyone and everyone can be affected by Suki's...feminine wiles, even I now find her extremely attractive as well as...hypnotically gifted." Nymeera licked her lips hungrily, "But before you start thinking you can use that against me, I must warn you that while I'm affected by her Transformations, I'm still the Host of this show, and as such my mind and body are given certain protections to allow me to continue my duties unabated. After the show...well who knows what can happen, but before those 30 days are up I might as well be immune." Damien frowned, that was certainly interesting, but not what he wanted to hear. Of course she could just be lying, wouldn't be the first time, but then why would she give the girls Transformations they could use against her? "Now wait a moment!" Nymeera said suddenly, moving extremely close. "You weren't thinking about creating Transformations for the girls that could affect ME now were you?"

"The thought crossed my mind..."

"Oh you naughty boy!" Nymeera laughed, as though the idea of resisting her was just so damn funny... "I'm flattered that you're thinking of me so...fervently, but you really should be using that brain power to make those girls into your lovely haremettes. After all, you wouldn't want a repeat of today would you? Getting Transformed yourself, and just layering on their...burdens?"

"You mean when you vetoed the two options of mine that actually won?"

"Don't get upset, they weren't your options. I helped you out since you made a silly deal without understanding what all it entailed, now you do, and now you can properly prepare for next week. Which is only 5 days away I might add. Shall we adjourn to your bedroom?" Damien blinked, he certainly wasn't expecting Nymeera to proposition him right out the gate! She smiled, leaning close, her large breasts pushing up out of her top and pillowing together in a display that could give even Suki some healthy competition...

"Someone isn't focusing..." she teased, tapping his crotch with her finger, and immediately Damien felt his cock stir, hardening at just the slightly touch.

"Grr... What did you just do?" he demanded, trying to fight back against his body, against the arousal pooling blood between his legs.

"Damien," Nymeera chided gently, "You have to remember, you're a younger man now. Your body is younger too, not just physically but chemically. You'll find that it's easier to get aroused, easier to stay aroused, and you'll find yourself with more hmm...endurance. Don't feel too bad, you don't have it nearly as bad as the girls do, their bodies reverting back to 20, or younger, their libidos will be much higher than they're used to. I expect you to take good advantage of that..." Nymeera winked at him, gesturing for him to follow her back into the penthouse, wagging her cushiony backside at him as she did. Damien sighed, but followed, his cock must still have been worked up from Suki earlier, and now it was just looking for any excuse at all... Self control was going to be difficult, but not impossible. He wasn't under the misgiving that he could avoid having sex with the girls, but he could at least not **** himself on them like a horny beast.

The bedroom was smaller than Damien expected, the bathroom next to it was almost the same size. There was a large bed, big enough for 4 comfortably, but that was about it. The only other thing of note was a sort of tablet mounted into the wall near the bed. It was almost disappointing, considering the lavishness of the rest of the penthouse. "What's this?" he asked, moving to the screen, as it was the only thing really out of place in the room. He tapped it and the screen lit up displaying the words: Master Control before resolving to a menu.

"Well that's the thermostat!" Nymeera said happily, crawling across his bed on all fours and joining him next to the device. Damien's cock throbbed at the sight of a beautiful woman crawling across his bed like that, but he was too curious in the "thermostat" to be too affected by it. "It does more than that but this is how you can set the girls' rooms each day."

"I can set the temperatures of the rooms? Why do I get the feeling this is going to turn into something sexual..." Damien questioned, tapping the 'rooms' display. Immediately a list of settings was brought up on screen:

• Brain Freeze Cold
• Pillow Side Cool
• Bedroom Warm
• Beachside Heat
• Hot as Fuck
• Random

"What the hell?"

"Well, when I say 'thermostat' I don't REALLY mean temperature of the rooms. More like...attitudes of the girls," Nymeera said from her position on his bed. Damien just stared at her, dead eyed.

"So none of these options will affect the room's temperature at all? Is that right?" Damien said, noting that there wasn't a number to adjust, but a slider for each option to tick, right now the slider for "Random" was turned on, and everything else was off. "What do they do?"

"Well what's the fun in that!" Nymeera laughed, laying down on Damien's bed and posing herself subtly, not that Damien's eyes were ever going to miss her curvy body on display before him. "You set the 'temperature' and a colorless, odorless gas flows into the girls' rooms at night and influences their behavior, very slightly I must stress, we don't want to change their personalities just...open them up to new possibilities. You, as the Master, pick the setting you want to experience, and you can watch everything unfold from the comfort of your bed!" Nymeera leaned over and tapped the "Display" setting. The wall opposite Damien's bed opened up and a large television revealed itself, turning on and showing a split screen capture of four different rooms, all of which were currently unoccupied. "Well the girls aren't in their rooms yet so nothing will happen now. The gas only has enough of a dose for one spray per day, and it will dissipate within a couple hours, along with the...effects. It's set to automatically trigger a random 'temperature' every day at 10PM, but you can make it spray earlier, so long as at least one contestant is in her room."

"Can I choose to make it not spray at all?" Damien asked futilely, knowing the answer...

"Of course not! You don't want that gas to get backed up into the vent systems! Why, just imagine the horrible consequences of that!" Nymeera said, eyes alit with evil glee as she imagined exactly that. "Regardless, this is something just for you to get...in the mood with. The girls won't even notice they're acting differently, it's all consequence free!"

"I'm an ethics professor Nymeera, causing harm to someone else, even if that person doesn't notice the harm you cause, is still causing harm...that's not even CLOSE to 'consequence free.' What will you do if I tell them about this?"

"Nothing, you can do whatever you want, you're the Master after all."

"Yeah? Can I use this on you?" Damien asked, trying to sound threatening, but Nymeera just licked her lips seductively, almost like she was goading him...

"Like I said, you can do whatever you want, but it won't trigger unless one of the Contestants gets affected. Remember that whole talk we had about listening closely to wording?" Damien remembered, he also remembered that Nymeera said a contestant must be in her ROOM for it to trigger, that wasn't the same as forcing someone to get affected. She liked to play with loop holes? He could play with loopholes.

"Where are the contestants anyway?" he asked, noting that all the rooms were empty...

"Well I just left them in the lobby, so they're probably heading over to buy clothes or explore the area. Would you like to watch?" Nymeera asked excitedly, patting a spot next to her on the bed and producing a remote from...somewhere private surely. Damien hesitated...but yeah he did want to know what the girls were getting up to. He noticed the Nymeera was silently asking him to climb over her to get to the spot she indicated, but he wasn't going to do that. Damien walked all the way around the bed before taking his shoes off, unlike Nymeera still wearing her heels by the way, and climbing into bed with the fox woman.

"So how does this work?" Nymeera laughed.

"How does a remote work? You just find the right button, and push." She handed him the remote, and instead of numbers it had names, the names of all the contestants. "Who's first?" Nymeera asked, snuggling up close to him, and reminding him that his dick still hadn't been taken care of... Damien's first thought was of Suki, she was the one who was most on his mind since... Well it was probably a bad idea to look for Suki right away.

"Okay let's look for Dana first..." Damien said, wondering how she was getting along in her new body.

"Ooo Suki's room mate perfect!" Damien hesitated...

"Roommates?" he asked, looking down at Nymeera who was pressing her body closely into his. She smiled up at him innocently, and he hated how cute she looked like that...

"Of course, you did notice there were only four rooms right? I'll explain everything while we watch, just pick a girl already!"

Damien rolled his eyes and decided to just push a button at random.