An Alliance and Survival... As both a threat and a reward.

She scowls and her hands which had begun to move back to her sides, again self consciously press against her breasts as the voice again insults her by calling attention to them, however despite the crass method, the words seem to reach her, helped by the more rational voice speaking as well.

"An alliance... With the Sirens?" she murmurs and there's similar confusion echoed out from the hidden watchers.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend and right now, the Sahuagin and the salesman are everyone's enemy," Yulia states and the mermaid nods just slightly, acknowledging her words with some ****.

"Alright... I suppose doomed either way, we don't have much choice, but to trust you on this," she says as she shifts to the side, moving, with a graceful flick of her tail, out of the way so, Yulia and her friends can enter.

Yulia heads in first, Goma following and Lemiel entering last, "the Tower Above appreciates your agreement. May the blessings of the One True God, follow you," she says and the Mermaid Guard hesitates and then bows her head slightly as Lemiel passes.

inside the ruins give way to opulent and well cared for interiors. A love for aesthetic beauty is immediately apparent as the interiors are awash in medleys of colours, combined with an artists eye for contrast and compliment. Mermaid's do in fact seem to all be female or at least no males are spotted as the group moves through the lavishly decorated stronghold, eventually arriving at the throne. The throne is made of pink and light blue painted stone carved to look as though the sitter is reclining in the open maw of a clam. The sitter is a woman, the "goddess" presumably. She has dark purple hair that is adorned with shells and flows out from her in waves, it's difficult to measure, but it seems likely her hair is long and voluminous enough that she could easily obscure herself entirely behind a curtain of it. She has dark skin, marked with intricate and colourful tattooed lines that seem to catch and reflect the light, making her skin appear to shine and glisten. she is surprisingly curvy, with ample breasts, but also a delightful round shape to her stomach and sides as opposed to the slim and lithe form of the other mermaids. Her eyes are golden and peek out from a light green veil that covers her face, obscuring any fine details. Her breasts are exposed like the rest of her kind. The only clothing worn being the veil and a pair of green elbow length fine silken gloves. Her tail is a dark shimmering green and is adorned with gold bangles that stay in place through some means utterly unknown to the viewer.

Beside the throne is Lri. She appears to be stuck in some sort of organic contraption made out of underwater plants. round fleshy red plants suckle on her arms, pinning them above her head while she's sat on a purple mass that forces her legs open. Her head is being enveloped by a blue tube like length that covers her up to her collar bones. A pair of flower like heads are attached to her breasts and seem to be sucking on them, long stems flowing down to a pair of barrel like plants that are see through and seem to be visibly filling slowly with milk.

Lastly a spiral patterned grey conical protrusion invades Lri's cunt as it's forcibly rested on the mass, glowing red lights playing over the protrusion's visible parts and as the group enters, Lri begins to squirm violently before her pelvis and stomach begin to glow the same red colour and the protrusion retracts, some unseen presence seems to strike her lower back, forcing her to press her hips forward towards the edge of the mass, shortly before a glowing red orb begins to be slowly, but surely **** out of her and drops into a waiting bucket like plant at the front of the mass. Once the orb has dropped out of her, the protrusion stabs back out and into her, dragging her back into position in the center of the mass as it fills her again.

"Let her go!" Yulia yells, seeing Lri's situation and the mermaid "goddess" waves a hand and Lri is released, the flower heads popping off her breasts and the protrusion retreating again, the red plants suckling on her arms release and her arms drop to her sides and finally the tube enveloping her head draws back, a long thick protrusion revealed, forcing it's way into her mouth and down her throat before it too is pulled out of her and she falls forward off the mass floating down onto the ground, coughing violently, "oh... You... Let her go. I wasn't expecting it to be that easy," Yulia admits and the goddess waves a hand dismissively.

"I already heard your talk with my guard. I am accepting your proposal, tentatively. You may have your friend back and as a sign of goodwill and a hope of reciprocation," she says and waves her hand again. One of the glowing orbs that Lri gave birth to exits the receptacle and floats over to Yulia, "take it. It's part of your friend anyway... Her extracted and crystalized magical potential in fact," she explains and Yulia reluctantly reaches out and takes it.

"How do I... Put it back?" she asks nervously.

"You can't, but don't worry. She'll be fine. Her magical ability will replenish with rest, but that orb can work to supplement your own casting. Drawing magic from it instead of yourself to cast your spells keeps you from being drained. Think of it as a back up power source you can use. Of course it will run out eventually and unless you want to bring her back so we can drain her again it can't be replenished," she clarifies.

Goma hurries over and grabs Lri, carefully bringing her over to Yulia. Lri is awake, but very weak and seemingly having difficulty moving on her own.

"You know..." she says and then coughs and shudders, "when I saw I was going to be working with you I jokingly asked myself who'd you end up getting me fucked by now..." she says and then begins to sob, "I... I didn't actually mean it..." she whimpers between sobs and Yulia hesitates before gently patting her shoulder.

"We'll get out of here and get you some rest, you'll feel better," she says and Lri nods in a broken way, managing to move an arm to wipe at the tears in her eyes. Yulia takes her from Goma and gives the Goddess a slight nod. She wants to leave, but she should stay and see if the voices have anything to say to the "goddess" of the Mermaids.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Equipment: Simple black one piece swimsuit. (all the following currently missing) Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular(currently removed), standard bra (currently removed), Standard Panties (currently removed), 2 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of strong aerosolizing aphrodisiac, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 1 health potion, 5 mana potions, 6 vials of Semen, Ornate Rapier (-3), 4 arrows, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (3 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Grenade Bandolier with 2 grenades, Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), 12 silver throwing knives, twenty feet of Spidersilk rope, 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels, can bind a Demon or Angel), Demon Horn Hairband, Gloves of Harvest (-3, heal for all damage dealt), modest two piece swimsuit, Leech Mask, crystalized magic orb.

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Masterful Unlock (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%-10%)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 12%)

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed, Cost currently halved rounded down: 1% per 1% Health healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 2%)

Lightning Strike (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

Identify (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 10%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 5%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%, Cost currently halved rounded down: 7%)

God's Light: (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 3, Masochism Rank: 3, Lesbian rank: 3, Submission Rank: 3, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions Rank: 2, Degradation Rank: 2, Exhibition Rank: 1, Anal Rank: 2.

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak. (Countered previous Permanent Increase)

Faithless: Yulia gains no effect from support spells cast on her, but offensive spells cast by her double in effectiveness. Lasts until faith is restored or replaced.

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Water breathing: Can breathe underwater.

Trauma Rank 1 : Costs of all spells doubled for the remainder of the floor.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia, Lri.

Cherchiel Health: 10%

Cherchiel Mana: 0%

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit (add -1 to all physical actions (currently removed), Staff (-1), God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), Bikini, Boar Mask.

Cherchiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat Level raised to High

Water breathing: Can breathe underwater.

Goma Health: 100%

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma Equipment: Ritual Knife of Escaping Threads (-1, -3 with boar mask, automatic -5 when being used against tentacles, webs or other binding methods), Hunting Horn (-2 for each ally affected), Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit (Negate most physical damage, Currently Removed.), Swim Trunks, tentacle dagger.

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%), Puppet (Mastered, 10% per active command)

Goma Status Effect: Atrophied: Permanent Decrease to Physical Attribute. Combat Level lowered to weak.

Pregnant: Starting to visibly show her pregnancy. Combat Level already as low as it can go. No further effects at current.

Water breathing: Can breathe underwater.

Isalia Health: 10%

Isalia Mana: 0%

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3) (Unequipped for now), Masterwork Trident (-3), Isalia's Shield (-3), Black Leather Armor (currently Removed, becomes invisible in complete darkness), One Piece Swimsuit.

Isalia spells known: Life Drain (lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 5% per 1% Health healed)

Isalia Fetish: Submission Rank: 1, Domination Rank: 1.

Isalia Status Effect:

Water breathing: Can breathe underwater.

Lri Health: 10%

Lri Mana: 0%

Lri Equipment: Twin Daggers (-3).

Lri Status Effect:

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