Accidental Cooperation

As the voices make their considerations, Yulia prepares to use open, but is surprised when instead the stone simply... crumbles away exposing the way forward.

"What... happened?" Yulia asks.

"The voices unintentionally in this case solved the riddle. All that actually needed to happen is for all the active voices to say the word open," Alide explains with an amused grin.

"Well then I guess we should head forward..." Yulia says and approaches the door.

"Wait Yulia, don-" Alide starts just before Yulia takes a step and the floor beneath her suddenly gives way. She screams as she falls and the rest of the group run to help her before suddenly a large pitcher plant like plant bursts from the ground where Yulia had fallen. Yulia is face first inside of it, but her lower half is still hanging out over the lid, legs kicking wildly as vine like tendrils start attempting to wrap around her legs and then yank them roughly open.

"One of your traps?" Dahlia asks Alide and Alide nods.

"Sorry dying seems to have... scrambled my memory a bit. I forgot it was there until I noticed it when Yulia was about to step on it," Alide admits.

"It's a nice view at least," Dahlia states watching as Yulia's legs are **** apart, her mercifully still bodysuit covered crotch on display, writhing as she struggles.

"Yeah... I mean if we let it go further it will either fully pull her in or fuck her..." Alide admits.

"Damn... Your traps are kind of kinky... Wish I'd known about them earlier..." Dahlia says licking her lips.

"You've been here as long as I have, how have you not learned about my traps by now?" Alide asks.

Dahlia shrugs, "I dunno... I never really paid much attention to your work. Once you go all slayer, you're kind of hot, but mostly just annoying. Always trying to kill my cute prey," Dahlia says.

As the two are conversing the rest of the group are trying to rescue Yulia.

"So... Quick question... as an outside observer... and the voices can chime in here as well. Which relationship is cuter in your opinion? Yulia and Cherchiel or Isalia and Goma?" Alide asks suddenly.

"Oh definitely Goma and Isalia!" Dahlia answers immediately.

"Same... I love the loyalty and battle sisters thing Yulia and Cherchiel have going, but Goma and Isalia are just so cute together," Alide agrees.

Meanwhile The group have managed to get Yulia out of it's mouth. Cherchiel catching her and carrying her away as the rest of the group now fairly quickly put down the plant monster with Talwa's fire attacks.

"Looks like the action is winding down," Dahlia mutters.

"Yep, Yulia seems shaken but safe, that's good," Alide agrees and then suddenly leans in and kisses Dahlia on the lips. Dahlia's eyes widen in surprise before Alide pulls away, "Just remembered I owed you for earlier," she says and then goes over to check on Yulia as Dahlia stands there blinking and then touches her lips.

"Surprisingly still soft for a golem..." she mutters.

The group continue forward once everything is handled.

The next room contains two more doors heading into Dahlia or Dreg's domain. The only path forward seems to be a black faced mirror suspended against the wall.

"Alide?" Yulia asks.

"The Temptation... Is the name of this room. Attempting to go forward will **** you to face the mirror. This shouldn't be much of an issue for Yulia, but... The rest of the group might find it more difficult," Alide notes.

Yulia nods and walks up to the mirror. Immediately you can see what she sees in the mirror. A woman you don't know stands there and she's wearing a white robe, it's tightly wound around her body, showing off her curvy form. "Yulia... It's good to see you," she says and then slips the robe off, her body underneath, nude, pale except her tanned face and soft in all the right places. Yulia takes a step forward and swallows audibly, but then stops.

"You're waiting for me... The real you Back in our world A world I still need to save," she says and the vision in the mirror vanishes.

"The mirror offers temptations... Deny them to proceed, fall to them and get trapped within the mirror," Alide explains.

The only way through is through the mirror and passage is only safe once the temptation within has been denied. You willing to test the will of your friends to not fall for temptation?" Alide asks Yulia and the voices and then makes a noticeable glance at Beck.

"there has to be something we can do to help?" Yulia suggests.

"I mean you can try to help them by talking them through it. Someone goes up, you get them to tell them what you see and then you try to convince them to deny it," Alide explains.

"So... The question right now is do we even risk it or switch out to the domains?" Lemiel asks.

"Indeed..." Alide answers.

"Well I don't know about anyone else, but there's nothing that mirror could offer me that's more tempting than Yulia," Cherchiel says and Yulia hugs Cherchiel in response who quickly hugs back.

"I can't guarantee one way or the other, but if you go forward... There is a high chance you will lose at least someone," she says and glances again meaningfully at Beck.

"Oh also there is another trap here... I'd disarm it for you, but... It might actually be useful," she admits.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Inventory:18 EMP grenades, 17 Aphrodisiac Grenades, 17 incendiary Grenades, 17 fragmentation grenades, 18 flash grenades, 17 smoke grenades, 12 healing kits, 1 sewing kit, 8 days worth of rations, 1 two liter water jug, 3 two liter jugs of Lemiel's Milk, 2 empty two liter water jugs, 12 mana infused health potions, 12 health potion, 12 mana infused mana potions, 100 mana potions, Quiver, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Ash's Quiver, Smithing Ingredients (3 steel ingots), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Grenade Bandolier with 2 grenades, Smithing Ingredients (1 silver ingot), 1 sack of Cooking Ingredients (Fish), an Onahole, a shard of Illustone, Gloves of Harvest (-3, heal for all damage dealt), modest two piece swimsuit, Binding Bandages, golden bangles, silk gloves, Siren Queen's black heavy armor, black bikini bottoms, Smithing Ingredients (98 metal plates), 12 mana infused cure potions, Shutdown Gun, Weight of Righteous Justice (0 against most enemies, -20 against Tower Below Denizens), Wall of Sacrifice (-2 at 0 sacrifices), Slayer's Handbow, Ring of Sanctity.

Yulia's Equipment: Simple black one piece swimsuit(currently removed). Ceramic Beaked Mask (currently Removed), Reinforced Monastic Scapular (currently removed), standard bra (currently removed), Standard Panties (currently removed), Ornate Rapier (-3), Silver Staff (-2 added to the effect of all spells), Cloak of Turbulent Waves (immunity to ranged attacks and offensive magic), Demon Horn Hairband (-2 to all ice magic, currently removed), tech armor, tech bodysuit (Core upgrade: speed, Special Upgrade: Light Module, Arcane Flux), plasma rifle (-10, 5 remaining charges.).

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%)

Open Sesame (Lvl 4 (Final), Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20%)

Mass Undermine (Lvl 2, Mastered, cost: 25%)

Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed)

Blizzard (Mastered, cost: 5%)

Lightning Strike (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

Identify (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 10%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

**** Lance (Lvl 1, mastered, Cost: 15%)

Cloak (Lvl 1, mastered, cost: 10%)

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

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 4, Masochism Rank: 3, Lesbian rank: 4, Submission Rank: 3, Incubating Rank: 1, Large Insertions Rank: 2, Degradation Rank: 2, Exhibition Rank: 1, Anal Rank: 2, Breathplay Rank: 1, aphrodisiacs Rank: 1.

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

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.

Companion: Cherchiel, Goma, Martin, Isalia, Lri, Lemiel, Maple, Sally, Talwa'Ish Renni, Rebecca "Beck" Hardcliff, Dahlia (enslaved).

Cherchiel Health: 100%

Cherchiel Mana: 100%

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear( -5, -10 with Boar Mask), Ultra Durable Shield (-5, -10 with Boar Mask), Staff (-1), God's Favour (Halo. Prevent **** one time), Bikini(currently removed), plasma Sword (-10, four charges), Tech Armor, Carapace Armor (Currently Unequipped), Aspect of the Apex.

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

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 worn.) Tech Armor (currently worn), Swim Trunks (Currently removed), tentacle dagger (-3), Plasma Rifle (-10, five charges).

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

Goma Status Effect:

Isalia Health: 100%

Isalia Mana: 100%

Isalia Equipment: Isalia's Sword (-3), Masterwork Trident (-3)(Unequipped), Isalia's Shield (-3), One Piece Swimsuit (Currently removed), plasma rifle (-10, two charges), Tech Armor, Tech Suit (Core Upgrade: Speed).

Isalia spells known: Life Drain (lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 2% per 1% Health healed)

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

Isalia Status Effect:

Lri Health: 100%

Lri Mana: 100%

Lri Equipment: Twin Daggers (-3), black swimsuit (currently removed), Blood drinker, tech armor (Sans helmet), tech suit (Core upgrade: speed), plasma rifle (-10, two charges), 3 EMP grenades, Veil of Hidden Depths, fishbowl of Illusions.

Lri Status Effect:

Lemiel Health: 200%

Lemiel Mana: 200%

Lemiel Equipment: Angelic Visor, twin magic blades (Summoned, -10, take 5% mana to summon, currently halved 2% mana to summon.), Tech Armor, Tech Suit (Core Upgrade: Strength, Special Upgrade: Arcane Flux), plasma rifle (-10, two charges), Necromancy Staff, 0 undead servants, Ring of Clear Mind.

Lemiel Spells Known: Angelic Rays (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 20%, currently halved 10%), Heavenly Soothing (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25% currently halved 12), Retribution (Lvl 1, Unmastered, cost: 100%, unusable, triggers automatically at 0% hp if Lemiel has enough Mana to trigger it. Currently halved 50%), The One True God's Judgment (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 100%, currently halved 50%), God's Light (Mastered, cost: none. Passive ability. Fully heals mana and health outside of combat)

Lemiel Status Effect: Divine Grace. Combat level raised to high.

Maple Health: 100%

Maple Mana: 100%

Maple Equipment: Tech armor (Helmet removed), tech suit (Core upgrade: Speed, special upgrade: Conversion), plasma rifle (-10, three charges), targeting helmet, rail gun bow (-10 when used ignores evasion abilities or resistances), 6 cross bow bolts.

Maple Status Effect:

Sally Health: 100%

Sally Mana: 100%

Sally Charge: 100%

Sally Equipment: Ultra Durable tech metal shield (-4, unequipped), Ultra Durable Tech Metal Club (-4, unequipped), Mirror Shield (-4, reflects all damage and spell effects to the caster/attacker), Needle Mace (-5, Inflicts hit targets with a deadly poison, potency increases with each hit), Gimp Suit.

Sally Status Effect:

Gimped: All damage taken is dealt as mana damage.

Talwa Health: 100%

Talwa Mana: 100%

Talwa Equipment: Bustier, Glasses, Prism Staff.

Talwa Spells Known:

Magic Armor (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 10%)

Firestorm (Lvl 3, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Fireball (Lvl 2, Mastered, cost: 25%)

Fireball (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Talwa Status Effect:

Beck Health: 50% (Max lowered to 50%)

Beck Mana: 20% (Max lowered to 20%)

Beck Equipment: Mining Spear (-20 against armored enemies, -5 against unarmored enemies), Leather Armor, Conqueror's Promise, Ring of Sanctity.

Beck Spells Known:

Animate Golem (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 10%)

Beck Fetish: Masochism Rank: 1

Beck Status Effect:

Dahlia Health: 100%

Dahlia Mana: 1000%

Dahlia Equipment: A tarnished Silver Ring of clear mind (warded against demons and angels, can bind a Demon or Angel). Potion of Salted Fields, Ring of Achieving Desires, Staff of the Damned.

Dahlia Spells Known:

Pressure (lvl 4, Mastered, Cost: 50%, Cost currently halved: 25%)

Ice Rain (lvl 4, Mastered, Cost: 50%, Cost currently halved: 25%)

Regeneration (Mastered, Cost: None, Passive Ability: Health recovers automatically)

Fetish Call (Mastered, Cost: None, Unique Ability: Summon those with a fetish to her and affect them with one or more of their fetishes.)

**** Curse (Unmastered, Special Ability: On **** afflict the one who struck the killing blow with a curse)

Dahlia Fetishes: All of them: Rank: infinite

Dahlia Status Effect:

Burning: Take damage every turn.

Curse: Obedience (Must follow any command given to her by Yulia)

Fiona Items: Slaver's Whip, Demonic Dress, Spellbook of Animate Golem, Potion of Ghastly Form.

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