Caution

"Chickening out?" Dahlia asks sounding surprised and amused.

"Quiet you..." Yulia growls and Dahlia rolls her eyes.

"What I can't even insult the voices now? You just don't want me to have any fun!" Dahlia pouts.

"As much as I would have loved to see you continue down my path, I do think you made the right choice," Alide says, "and since we aren't going this way, I might as well show you the trap," she says as she approaches the mirror. As she reaches directly in front of the mirror, the wall just beside the mirror erupts with a bunch of vines that wrap around her and yank her against the wall, pinning her in place as they begin to coil around her. She flexes her golem form however and easily tears them from the wall, escaping.

"As I said, it could have been useful in the sense that someone who did fall to temptation might have tried to make a break for the mirror and the trap would have prevented them from entering, at least once," she explains.

After that demonstration the group goes to the door heading into Dahlia's domain. "Warning... Any of you who don't have protection will again be Incensed once you enter!" Dahlia reminds everyone before they pass through the door.

On the other side Yulia blinks.

"We were at least three rooms into that path, right?" she asks.

"Yes indeed," Alide answers.

"But it put us back at the first room of Dahlia's path?" she says gesturing to the room they are in which is indeed the room before the rope and **** rooms.

"Yep..." Dahlia answers taking a deep breath, clearly enjoying being back in her domain.

"Fucking Tower bullshit..." Yulia mumbles.

"Oh quick sidenote... Demonic spells don't have higher levels. They are unique spells, the same I believe is true of Angelic magic," Dahlia clarifies.

"It is," Lemiel confirms.

"I don't know exactly how Puppet works, but it doesn't seem to affect the mind of the victim. They are after all clearly able to mentally resist commands, though a properly worded command might bypass that? I don't know it's not my spell, it's Liloth's. My spell is way cooler!" she says proudly.

"Well regardless... Let's get through Dahlia's domain quickly and see who's next..." Yulia says and the group passes through Dahlia's domain, idly deciding on the Rope Room since it's still empty. They soon pass through to the Negotiation Table and the door that will take them to the next domain.

"We ready?" Yulia asks. There's a chorus of wary responses, but the general sentiment is that they are in fact ready.

The group passes through the door. On the other side they find a bright pastel field. The sky is baby blue, a bright yellow sun hanging above, in the distance a house like a child's drawing stands and Yulia blinks.

"Oh wow..." she mutters and then gasps as Lydia appears directly in front of her.

"Hello! Glad to see you here! Welcome to my domain!" she says.

"It looks like a child's drawing..." Yulia states sounding nervous.

"Well of course. I let the children design it!" Lydia says.

The general effect of seeing what a child's perspective looks like when rendered realistically is... The gnawing sense of wrongness and that your eyes are lying to you. The entire group, Alide and Dahlia included seem ill at ease in this pastel nightmare world, Lydia however is completely unbothered by this abhorrent creation. Yulia quietly hopes the children never actually saw the fruits of their imagination.

"I assume the path forward is through the house?" she asks and Lydia nods.

"It is, but... Well... I'm not allowed to just let you through here," she says.

"Are we going to have to fight?" Yulia asks and Lydia shakes her head.

"No no... I don't fight unless I absolutely have to. I made some guardians. Good luck," she says and vanishes. Two figures appear behind the house and approach. They are two massive stick figure humans. Each about 15 ft tall.

"Are we ready to fight... Stick Men?" Yulia asks, uncertainly.

(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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