Lois & Blaze read "Tower of Voices" by TheLeherengin, Part 1

"Has this 'TheLeherengin' ever reviewed our story?" The scarlet succubus asked.

"No," Lois Lane said, and sighed a little. Once again, they were in the space between the pages, the limbo where characters went when not about their own stories. The naked demon lay on the table as the equally naked reporter dipped one pale hand into a jar of oil. Lois let her eye roam over the hills and valleys of Blaze's naked body. It was lean and fit, the muscles of the back and limbs well-defined, the small breasts hidden, the pert buttocks a saddlebow that looked like there should be a little tail that jutted off the end of the spine...but there wasn't.

The reporter slid her hands over the small of the demon's back, to spread a glistening sheen over the blood-red hide. Some thought their little reviews focused too much on sex and too little on the stories themselves...

"We don't do masochist mode reviews in hopes that someone reviews our story," Lois said at last. "We do them because they're masochists who want us to tear into their fiction. Give us their honest feedback. And the only reason we've been avoiding this particular story is because 348 chapters deep and counting."

Blaze sighed. She tapped at the screen. "Alright. So 'The Tower of Voices' by TheLeherengin, a fantasy story where people log into a game which is also a nexus of all realities. With an active forum thread for feedback, suggestions, etc. A part of the interaction that makes CHYOA a community instead of a collection of wankfics."

"And those who comment on the forums are the 'voices' that Yulia hears that guide her journey," Lois added. "Which is kind of clever."

The reporter's hands began to kneed the demon's back. Up the spine, the bony ribs stark against the flesh.

"There's quite a bit of front-loaded stuff to sort out before we get to the story," Blaze noted. "We're introduced to a lot of women, but only one gets to go forward everyone else gets an epilogue where they disappear."

"It's a very linear narrative," Lois said. "Which isn't a bad thing. Lots of stories are fairly linear. So we follow Yulia, a healer of the Erimalian Church, into the tower."

"On through the Doors," Blaze said as the reporter's hands reached up to her lower back. The demon drew her long, dark hair aside as Lois reached further up her body.

She wonders momentarily whether she might still be able to help somehow, but then notices more tendrils starting to emerge and slip out from the grate, seemingly starting to search the room. She takes that as her cue to leave and she runs from the room avoiding the tendrils on her way and once back in the rest room she slams the door, cutting off the sound of the goblin's choked cries and the wet, squelching sounds of the tendrils ruthlessly violating her unwilling holes.

"It doesn't exactly lack for sex, right off the bat," Blaze said. "Although like TheLeherengin's other stories, I wouldn't say sex is the point. More like setting the mood. This is the kind of story where sex is probably never going to be willing, soft, loving, positive, or the result of mutual attraction. But it's also probably not going to be dirty, filthy, nasty, and exciting in the way really taboo sex can be."

"You don't know that yet," Lois said. "We just got started. One violated goblin means nothing."

Blaze grunted in reply, and read on as Lois Lane's thumbs dug into her shoulders.

"There's a bit of a disconnect between the chapter prompts and the actual sequels," Blaze noted. "In The Gate, the prompt is 'Dare Yulia to venture into the ominous room?' and the actual chapter is 'A friend?' In reality, there doesn't seem to be any question she would go into the room, the only question is what she would find there."

"I have to admit, that is a bit disconcerting," Lois agreed. "But we get to our first choice, and it's ':Alide:' and 'The Choice.' I think we'll just go with 'The Choice.' Flip over."

First and most importantly. If you are going to suggest murdering someone, perhaps don't do it in earshot of said person

"This is good advice generally," Blaze agreed. The demon turned over as Lois dipped her hands back in the oil. The reporter smiled a little as she dripped oil onto the flat plane of the scarlet stomach, saw the puffy little pink nipples already erect. Lois very carefully avoided those breasts as she ran her hands up and down the demon's torso.

"It's a bit hard to summarize the action, chapter to chapter," Blaze murmured. "People talk, things happen, Yulia goes deeper into the tower and overcomes various obstacles, but it's...basically a fantasy RPG game, minus game mode. Is that what people call LitRPG these days?"

"That's the name of it," Lois said as she dug her thumbs along Blaze's red thighs. The shaven pussy was little more than a puffy slit, but to the reporter's trained eye, it looked a little wet. "But things look to pick up, even if it's in a bit of an expository way."

"Let's say I unlock her inhibitions regarding lesbians. That can happen in stages. For example in stage one she might just feel more flustered around women, stage 2 she might start struggling to think rationally and be more inclined to do whatever an attractive woman asks of her, stage 3 she might have to start resisting the urge not to immediately offer herself to an attractive woman she meets and stage 4 she might be completely unable to resist trying to immediately fuck any attractive woman she sees, so as we can see, a fetish can become more debilitating over time which gives me ample control and ample options when it comes to playing with her fetishes. The second problem is you assume that she has a limited number of fetishes, but that's not entirely true. The seed of enjoyment lies in pretty much everyone and I can coax out seeds she might not have ever developed otherwise. There's plenty of options, sub fetishes, like for instance her bondage fetish could easily translate into a humiliation fetish as well if I wish, wouldn't be hard," she explains.

"'Fetishes in Potentia' would be a better title," Blaze groused. "But at least we're getting somewhere. I don't want to say the sex scenes are perfunctory, but they also aren't...extravagant. It's a paragraph in a longer chapter."

"Early days yet. We're not even 10% of the way through the story," Lois added as she began to work her way back up Blaze's body.

So they read of Yulia's encounter with the armor, the defeat of the giant spider, meeting a new friend named Ash with food, an obvious trap...back to Alide...all the while Lois inched closer and closer to the demon's erogenous zones. Lois let her hands circle those small, palmable breasts as Blaze read of Yulia blushing and Alide licking the cleric's cunny. The demon's voice grew soft and slow at that point, to relish the little descriptions, even as Lois ran one finger down to tease Blaze's netherlips.

Then the chapter ended, and Blaze sighed.

"Okay, so it's not all **** and bondage. I was wrong," the demon admitted.

Lois grinned. "I wouldn't call it an erotic masterpiece, but hey, consensual lesbian activity is a step in the right direction."

So they read on, as Yulia overcame an Incubus, and then a BDSM angel...

"In other circumstances, I would have enjoyed that," Blaze stopped to frown. "But if felt rather perfunctory. Also, you notice how Yulia always cums? I know women that in real life can't even cum with a partner, and here she is having an orgasm just from a whipping."

"Porn logic," Lois said, as her hand cupped the demon's vulva, just to feel the heat. "It's not like Zeebop hasn't done some of that in our story. How many times have I cum from getting my ass railed? Anal orgasms aren't exactly realistic either."

"Point," Blaze sighed. "It just feels...well, it's not the kind of story I would normally turn to."

"That's part of the point though, isn't it?" Lois said. "To read out of our comfort zone? If for no other reason than to see how other people write these scenes. Can you imagine if TheLeherengin did a chapter of our story?"

Blaze pursed her lips. Her hips squirmed against the reporter's palm.

"I don't think they'd enjoy that," the demon said finally. "Okay, so Yulia leveled up her masochistic tendencies, gets molested in her sleep by a dude named Dreg, and...you know this is really infuriating. We're asked 'Ignore the voice or Confess?' and the choice given is 'Penitence.' There is a singular disconnect there! That is not one of the two fucking options!"

Lois rolled her eyes and moved her hand away from the demon's cunt. Blaze was getting heated in more ways than one...

"I think we'd better get used to it," Lois said. "Let's leave off at chapter 35 for now and come back later."