Planning for some Sin

Mary was jostled gently to consciousness. Mary’s eyes fluttered and closed as she was incredibly comfortable and warm. She felt a tickling sensation at her nose and turned her head instinctively to get away from it, but it kept following her. Then Mary heard, “Baaa, baa ba!” Mary was shaken a bit more forcefully than the first time.

“I’m up!” Mary said, sitting upright. She found Aubrey standing over the bed. “Aubrey? Why are you here?”

Aubrey tapped her wrist and then held out her phone with her hair showing the time. It was already late morning.

“Ah. I guess we slept in.” Aubrey nodded vigorously and then pointed at the rest of the bed, who was still sound asleep. “I’ll get them up.” Aubrey shook her head and walked out of the room. Mary petted Flora’s hair gently. “Hey there, Kitty, time to get up.” Mary noticed a twitch from Flora’s ears. “I know you’re awake, Kitty.”

“Mroooow.” Flora groaned as she languidly stretched her arms and legs. Flora sat up, “Only because my pillow abandoned me.” Flora gave Mary a quick peck on the lips. “Good morning.”

Mary and Flora both looked at Merida holding onto Hilde really tightly. Both smiled, gave each other a look, nodded, and got up, leaving the two of them happily dreaming. Flora was about to get dressed, but gave herself a quick sniff and decided she needed to bathe.

Mary followed Flora down to the bathing pool. She was clean as she always was now, but the hot water was still soothing after last night’s vigorous exercise. Flora spoke in a hushed tone not to wake the others. “Mary, do you think I did the right thing last night? Having Merida use her boon?”

Mary got a contemplative expression, while she grabbed shampoo and started to lather up Flora’s hair. “I don’t know. I think it will end up making you both happy, and make Hilde happy too. I will say I did actually agree with Merida, you and she needed to give Hilde an answer sooner rather than later.” Flora leaned back into Mary, nestling her head between Mary’s breasts as Mary started applying body wash to Flora’s chest. Flora was quite enjoying Mary fondling her breasts. “I guess the question is, do you feel like things are worse or better?”

Flora furrowed her brow in consideration as she lowered herself into the water up to her nose. She fully submerged herself to rinse out her hair, then just surfaced up to her waist. “Better, probably. Though not what I wanted, or expected before last night.”

“So? I’m sure quite a few of us would say that about things because of this show.”

“Huh… I guess you’re right.” Flora gazed at Mary affectionately and then blushed deeply and hid beneath the water as much as she could.

Mary realized what Flora was embarrassed about and blushed as well. Oh… That… was a revelation. “Flora…”

Flora picked up on Mary’s hesitation. “Mary, don’t. I…”

Mary and Flora both felt a little awkward, and they both knew the other one felt that way too. After a moment, they both just laughed. Flora went over to Mary and embraced her. “Mary, it’s okay. You don’t have to be ready yet. I know you care about me. I have to say, being able to understand you without words has its upsides. Is this anything like how you feel with Isabella now?”

“Not at all. Isa… I still can’t properly say her name. I wonder why. Anyway, with Isa, it’s like her body is literally speaking to me. For you, it’s more like I can sometimes understand what you want from a few gestures or expressions, but it isn’t the same at all.” As Flora let go of Mary, Mary went to the side of the pool and shot a message off to Cassandra.

Flora asked, “Whatcha doing?”

“I just used two of the favors I snagged from Chloe to get rid of the incapacitation on you and Chloe. Any suggestions on what to use the last favor on?” Mary asked the question seductively as she pressed up against Flora and reached a hand down between Flora’s legs. Flora quivered as Mary stuck two fingers inside Flora. Flora leaned forward and nibbled at Mary’s horse ear.

Flora could tell that Mary actually had an idea of what she wanted to do with it, but was trying to get Flora in the state of mind to want it, too. “Mary, that’s not a fair tactic.” Flora held Mary’s wrist, not forcing it away, but still stopping Mary’s hand from moving much. She whispered into Mary’s ear. “I can tell what you’re up to now. What is it you want? Do you want to upgrade one of my TFs or something?”

Mary smiled, “You know… that isn’t a horrible idea. I was considering something else. Though I am genuinely curious as to what you would want.”

Now, Flora actually pulled away and gave Mary a deadpan stare and a slight frown.

“I swear, I mean it.” Flora’s eyes flicked up for a second, and Mary heard individuals entering the water behind her. Not just one or two, either. When Mary turned around, she saw that everyone on the team except Ellen had joined them. “Umm… not that I mind, but Aubrey, Chloe, why did you join us?”

Chloe answered, “Because we were getting tired of waiting, so I guess we are just going to be doing a team meeting naked in the bath. Aubrey and I have been up for a few hours. I managed to finish the task for a basic set of traps for the base, while Aubrey was working with the orcs to help fortify the base some more as well. We noticed something and feel like we need to do something to correct it.”

“What are you talking about?” Flora asked.

“It’s about Mary.” Mary looked at Chloe, confused. “Specifically, your score and level. We need to figure out how to boost them, since if the bonus CP we all got from incapacitating people is any indication of things, I’m willing to bet Mark is rolling in points.”

“There’s just one problem, Chloe,” Mary said, “I don’t have TFs to copy that would let me be a combatant like Mark does.”

Chloe seemed to hesitate, “Okay… so… that might not be completely true, but we need Ellen back to even try this, also possibly, the BP store.”

“Whit are ye talkin' aboot? Just come oot and say whit ye’re thinkin' o' already.” Merida pressed.

“Well, is there a reason you can’t partially do what Ellen does? I don’t know how much she’s getting help from her class, but if you copied Playing a Part, and bought one of the body suits or borrowed Laura’s from Ellen… I mean… She got lesser versions of Laura’s TFs, without her class. I could imagine if you used a Sam bodysuit, you would become a dragon.”

“I’m going to stop you right there.” Mary held up a hand. “I’m not wearing a bodysuit of anyone without their explicit consent. Not happening.”

“Well, then, what about one of us? If you put on a Hilde suit, you might not be able to go as fast as her, but I bet you would go fast.”

“No.” Hilde said, “I’m not okay with that.”

“But—”

“No buts, Chloe,” Mary said, cutting her off. “I’m honestly not overly comfortable with the idea in general. If it wasn’t a central part of Ellen’s class, and one of her TFs, I’m not sure I would be okay with her doing it either.”

Chloe frowned, but didn’t press the issue. “Fine, but we need to figure out some way for you to get ahead. Otherwise, Mark is going to outscore you. I, for one, would prefer to receive an actual upgrade instead of a fun upgrade.”

“I’m doing my best here, but I’m going to be honest, maybe you should give up on that.”

“Seriously, Mary!?” Chloe wasn’t the only one to be disgruntled. “I thought you were going to be fair about this.”

“I am, but without crossing a boundary that I don’t want to cross, I don’t see how I can catch up with someone who is likely going to earn more incapacitation points. Instead, focus on getting your individual scores higher and keeping this base secret.”

Flora diverted the conversation away from the topic. “Let’s focus on what to do today instead. We’re down, Ellen, sort of. Aubrey is Symbietta responding when you use the ring?” Aubrey shook her head. “That’s not good. So, does anyone have suggestions? I’m honestly not sure what to do at this point.”

Since Aubrey’s breasts were full, Chloe spoke for her, “Well, Aubrey and I discussed it with Petra a bit. Aubrey is going to need to do stuff with the orcs today. Besides that, I have a few ideas. Personally, I think we should go for the next idol. I’m willing to bet using it will get us another base upgrade, and considering the most recent one, I believe that we want more of those.”

“What was the upgrade?” Flora asked.

“It improved the defenses of the Sanctum. Besides moving the sanctum deeper into the lair, and don’t ask me how it moved an entire room, but it did, there is additional space for setting up further defenses. I might be mistaken, but there are cages that I think are meant to house the infected.”

“Hmm… but that would only matter if they end up finding our base. Are we sure we shouldn’t worry more about our own scores?”

Mary replied, “I could be wrong… but I’m willing to bet that the other team will eventually be given at least our approximate location if not our exact location on the last day of the challenge, no matter what happens. The real question will be how long they have to respond after being given that info, and how much help they can bring to bear. It would make the ending more exciting that way.”

“Damn, that would be really bad for us. If that happens, can we even win?”

Mary nodded, “Absolutely, but I think we’ll need to improve our defenses. I’m willing to bet the other team has quests that help locate our base. They almost have to for them to have a chance.”

Flora nodded, “Okay, then, Chloe, I think your idea is probably a good one. I take it you’ve already found a task for it on the board?”

“Yep, two of them actually. The idols of greed and sloth.”

“Sae, split up or dae ane efter the ither?” Merida asked.

“I think if we want to do both today, we have to split up. One is in the far east, and the other is in the far west. Going directly from one to the other would take a long time.”

“Sae hoo dae we want tae split up?”

Flora sighed, “Without Ellen, we really only have one way to split up if we want the groups to be even. Chloe, what were the risk levels?”

“Greed is high, and Sloth is medium.”

“Shit, meaning that it is almost certainly meant for us to split up, but to have Ellen so we can do them both at the same time. Aubrey, can I have the ring, so I can try and contact Symbietta?” Aubrey tossed the ring to Flora. “Hey Symbietta, you doing okay? I want to know if you think you might be able to help us with a dungeon or not.”

“Horny…”

“Well, crap. Symbietta responded, but just one word: horny.”

Mary suggested, “Flora, I think Hilde and Chloe should do the Sloth dungeon, and the rest of us go to the other one. If you want the teams to be even, then I should be the one to join them.”

“Baaaa?” Aubrey’s questioning tone was clear.

“Well, the dungeons have had to do with the sins, mostly about not succumbing to the sin. Chloe and Hilde both have TFs that might make succumbing to greed easier, while Aubrey and Flora have ones that make succumbing to Sloth more likely. Merida, unfortunately, has issues with both, but I think greed is safer for her group, as I worry people might just lie down on top of her as a pillow.”

Hilde and Flora both nodded in agreement about Merida.

“Go with them.” Flora decided. “Aubrey is the strongest member of our team by far. Chloe will Aubrey be able to handle her stuff with the orcs and do the dungeon?”

“Yes, but you might not make it back this evening. It will depend on how fast things go with the orcs.” Flora stood and stretched. “Well, let’s get dressed and get going.”

Mary grabbed Flora’s wrist. “You and I have something to do first.”

“Mary, don’t you think that can wait?”

“Nope. I’m not talking about using the last favor anyway. I need to swap out the copied TFs. Aubrey, I need you to stay too.” Aubrey nodded with enthusiasm. Flora sat back down in the water.

“Fine, but you should save that favor for later. We might need it to remove an incapacitation. You too, Chloe.”

Mary nodded, “Alright, the rest of you, shoo. I don’t feel like Flora would be happy if we got distracted by having an orgy.”

“Especially after I just got clean from the last orgy.”

Hilde placidly said. “Last night wasn’t an orgy. I’ve seen orgies; that wasn’t one. That was a four-way.” Hilde stood as well and got out of the bath. Mary watched as Merida and Chloe followed suit.

Chloe said, “Don’t take too long with this.” Then left.

Mary moved over to Aubrey. “Flora, I hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to start with Aubrey. Aubrey, mind sitting on the edge of the bath for me?”

“Baaa.” Aubrey nodded and pulled herself onto the edge of the pool. Aubrey was about to say something about Flora, but saw that Flora wasn’t there anymore.

Flora moved to the side to get a better view.

Mary looked at Flora and gave her a look, trying to say, ‘I don’t think Aubrey would appreciate you watching, like that.’

Flora rolled her eyes and walked up the steps. Mary saw that Flora wasn’t leaving, just waiting.

“Now, my little lamb, let me see to you.” Mary pulled apart Aubrey’s knees and began to tease her clit. Mary also reached up and grabbed Aubrey’s breasts, squeezing down on them, causing a jet of milk to come out at intervals.

“BA BAA. BAAAAAAA.”

Mary continued to milk Aubrey as she stuck her tongue deep inside. Mary was in a hurry, so wasted no time bringing Aubrey to climax. Aubrey lay back, panting. At least until she felt something wrap around her waist, wrists, and ankles and move her into the bath.

“Baaa baa?” Aubrey bleated, confused. Then she noticed Mary had golden locks just like her own, and was doing to her what she had recently been doing to Chloe.

Mary sat her down gently and said, “You should get cleaned up. While I like the look of your milky tits, I feel like it would be uncomfortable to wear milk-soaked clothes.” Mary climbed out of the pool and went up the stairs to find Flora sprawled out on the bed.

Flora looked at Mary, “I thought you were getting the Pink boon, which is why you went with her first. So things would go faster with me.”

Mary climbed onto the bed. “I think the extra healing will be more useful. Not to mention.” Mary’s hair snaked around Flora. Flora found herself lifted into the air, gagged, her arms bound behind her back, and her legs bound so she couldn’t unbend her knees. “I so like the sight of you tied up and at my mercy.” Mary brought Flora to the perfect height so she could eat her out while kneeling on the bed. With some of her loose strands of hair, Mary began to tickle Flora’s sides and nipples. Flora’s hips clenched, and she brought her knees together as Mary heard muffled laughter coming through Flora’s gag. Mary pried Flora’s legs apart and enjoyed the mewling pussy in front of her. It wasn’t long before the muffled laughter stopped, and instead, a low sexual growl was coming from Flora. Flora’s entire body was quivering, and Mary granted Flora release.

Mary didn’t immediately free Flora when she was done. Instead, she lay next to Flora on the bed and stroked Flora’s hair, as they cuddled. “Did you enjoy that, Kitty?”

Flora just purred and rubbed her face against Mary’s since she was still gagged.

“I figured. I still wanted to check, though.” Mary removed Flora’s gag. “You don’t mind being tied up?”

“Not really. Though I would appreciate it if you would let me go now.”

“Hmm… but if I let you go, we’d have to get up, and I couldn’t keep petting you.” Mary scritched behind Flora’s ears as she said that, eliciting a purr from Flora.

“That’s a good argument, but we do really need to do stuff.”

Mary grumbled but got up and got dressed.

When everyone arrived in the lounge, a set of magic items appeared on the table.

“Cool, new loot,” Mary said. “Who’s it for?”

Flora read over the note cards. “Looks like it is for Merida, Aubrey, and Hilde, mostly. Additionally, some of the items we received before were improved, rather than a new item being given to us. I was wondering if we could do a quick review of what everyone has? I’m not actually sure I know what everyone’s stuff does. For me, I have an Endless Quiver, which can store a bunch of different ammo types and let me draw the right one, bracers of archery which just make me hit harder, a cat’s eye ring that gives me darkvision, this pendant that causes some of my ammo to return to my quiver, unfortunately it didn’t activate for that arrow of slaying you made Chloe, finally my armor is at a +1.”

Flora turned to Merida to continue, “Well, I have twa staffs now. Ane o' Curse Removal and ane o' Relocation.”

Chloe asked, “Oh, I meant to ask, Flora, why do you still have those piercings in? I thought we had removed all the curse gear from the first dungeon.”

Flora did not answer Chloe and just signaled for Merida to continue. “Leavin' the rude ask o' why the lass o' anither has studs… I have twa mana gain items, and then this charm, which lets me swap spots wi' Merigold, Meribelle, or Mira, for a mana cost based on how far. Last, I got this brush taeday.”

“What’s the brush do?” Hilde asked.

"It gies me a health boost if some ane combs ma hair and fur for ten mins wi' it."

Mary, Hilde, and Flora all said, “DIBS!” at the same time.

Mira appeared beside Merida, “OH FOR FUCKS SAKE! I’ll fucking do it so that you three don’t fight over it. Or Meribelle will, since she’d be happy to do it too.” Mira just grabbed the brushing kit from Merida, sat down next to her, and started to brush Merida’s tails. Mary, Hilde, and Flora all pouted, but didn’t want to start a fight.

Chloe asked, “What’s this staff of relocation do?”

“Various teleportation effects. One spell that takes a bit longer to cast lets me teleport myself and several others to any place I’ve visited before. Then I have faster spells that allow me to teleport myself or others short distances. Distance and willingness affect the mana cost.”

“That’s sweet. For my stuff, essentially all of it is alchemy-related. I have a pouch to duplicate rare reagents, and just give me more. My base reagent satchel was upgraded twice for significantly more daily regenerating ingredients. To the point, I think I should be able to produce as many basic flasks as I could want each day. A recipe book, alchemy tools that speed up the process to make anything, and a +1 apron of protection.”

“I did notice that the apron seems to be covering significantly less than it did a few minutes ago. Did it just get upgraded?” Hilde asked.

“Yes, which I think is a recurring theme in our gear. The other team’s gear, too. Not sure if people noticed, but Allie’s armor covered significantly less than on the first day.”

Mary nodded, “Of course, standard game logic, the cooler and hotter the armor, the better it is.”

“Is that why my armor is a fucking Plate Bikini now?” Aubrey asked Mary mentally. Mary looked around but didn’t see Aubrey in the room.

“Where are you? Come out, you might as well show us. Also probably.” Aubrey poked her head up above the bar and then crouched back down to hide. Mary sighed and said, “Aubrey, come here, please. I don’t want to warp your perception of what is normal, but you don’t have anything to be embarrassed about.”

Aubrey sheepishly came out and partially covered herself with her long hair. Her armor had indeed become much skimpier. She did have a plate bikini top, but still had an armored skirt, greaves, and gauntlets. She also had a large bell around her neck. Chloe wolf whistled as she checked her out. Aubrey noticed Mary was also checking her out, which turned her cheeks a pleasant pink. “Fine, I’m out here. Happy? Also, Mary, could you convey what my items do? I can’t talk to multiple people at once using Ellen’s ring.”

“Of course, just tell me what they do.”

Mary went ahead and relayed Aubrey’s equipment. “Well, apparently, Ellen’s sending ring just got upgraded. It now has nearly no cooldown, but is still one message back and forth at a time. Aubrey has an amulet of health. Her hairband of Ba-Vine Strength makes her stronger with tits filled with milk. That bell on her neck taunts foes to attack her. Her gauntlets make it so she can’t be disarmed. Her greaves have a charge ability. These last three are all affected by her Pink boon, but her cape is still lucky, her armor is an effective +2 armor, and is weightless to her. Her greatsword is also an effective +2 and… Milk Slashing? What does that mean?”

Aubrey pouted but walked over to Mary and planted the tip of her blade on the floor. Aubrey showed the butt of the hilt, now screwed off. There was a hole in the hilt, and Aubrey sent her the message, “If we fill my sword with milk, I can launch it as a ranged attack.”

“Oh! That’s neat. Chloe, could you make sure Aubrey’s sword is full before we leave? She needs some milking anyway.”

“Happily.”

Everyone looked at Hilde, who just rolled her eyes, “+2 handwraps, Sash of Evasion, Cloud Stepping Shoes, Amulet of the Spectral Hoof, Fancy Pants, Headband of Ki Leeching.” Hilde did not elaborate further, and it was clear she wasn’t going to.

Mary gave Hilde a slightly annoyed look but explained her gear, “I’ve got the Wand of Charming and Ring of Harmlessness, though I’m not sure I should really use the wand that much. I got this Corset of Seduction, which apparently increases the likelihood of triggering special effects on my abilities and generally makes me more persuasive. Chloe made me this choker to boost my healing. The serving tray duplicates the food I produce, and I can throw it at people, sort of like Captain America, and it will come back to me. I haven’t tried out its effectiveness. Finally, my dress is at a +2 for defenses.”

“BAAA!?” Aubrey complained, pointing at Mary’s outfit compared to her own. Mary’s outfit, while still sexy and a bit revealing, had not undergone the same changes that Aubrey’s armor had, and still looked like a dress.

Mary shrugged, “Take it up with Cassandra. I don’t make the rules.”

Flora asked, “Anyone know what Ellen has?”

Hilde replied, “She has a multitool and a necklace that lets her store various forms. The necklace’s real benefit is that it is faster to swap to those forms, and they can get to near-perfect.”

Chloe continued, “I know I gave her something to improve Symbietta. Symbietta can now secrete an aphrodisiac, lactation poison. Also, wasn’t one of her items from the dungeon a potion for Symbietta as well?”

“Aye, it was.” Merida nodded. “It is what made Symbietta able to talk and have human-level intelligence.”

Flora waited to see if anyone would add anything. No one did. “Okay, everyone knows their tasks for today. Let’s get to work.”

Symbietta was so tired and so very horny. Ellen’s body had kept acting all night while Symbietta tried to get some rest. The others had tried to contact her, but she couldn’t really be bothered to respond. Bleh, I thought this would be fun. It was at first, but now… I just feel empty. At least I got Ellen a good chunk of XP and introduced the gluttony plague to the Mad Cow-girls. Maybe I should go to the capital to **** the other team to make cleansing this plague a priority. Then again… they might catch Ellen in her current state. Symbietta sighed and let Plague Ellen have control of her body again while she recovered. Hoping Ellen wouldn’t get into too much trouble in this locked room.