Is Anyone Playing With Power?

As Rhett begins to go over the Power Play section of the game, you begin to look over the new challenge card you received to replace the naked sex one you played with Claire and the bio cards on the two ladies you have available from this week. You sigh as the Kiss challenge appears. It’s the lowest-value play in the deck—easy to land, but useless if you're chasing real points. The bio cards are more interesting however.

Name: Delilah Zheng

Age: 22

Major: International Relations

Bio:

Delilah Zheng is the future power player every diplomat secretly fears. Focused, poised, and always calculating, she’s already brokered two interdepartmental truces and turned a campus protest into a published thesis. Raised between embassy gates and boardrooms, she learned early how to command respect without raising her voice. She dresses for power, not seduction—but that hasn’t stopped half the frat house from fantasizing about her grading their treaties. She isn’t against intimacy… she just hasn’t seen anyone qualified enough to be worth the negotiation.

Statistics:

Availability: 18

Fertility: 51

Kinkiness: 22

Sexual Rumor: The last man to get her shirt off had to sign an NDA—and he only made it to her collarbone.

And that explains why even Graham was only able to get a naked kiss from her. This Lady is going to be a hard one to score anything with. You begin to wonder whether that new Kiss card might be your salvation. Then there’s Helena…

Name: Helena Vasquez

Age: 18

Major: Finance

Bio:

Helena Vasquez is barely out of high school but already dresses like she owns the building—and the board meeting inside it. A freshman in Finance, she’s here to win, and she knows appearances are part of the portfolio. Beneath the immaculate hair and high heels is a girl with sharp instincts and stronger boundaries—except, perhaps, when the right person calls her “babygirl.” Her decision to sign a **** contract with Graham raised more than a few eyebrows, but insiders whisper that she understood exactly what she was doing. Independence isn’t something she lost—it’s something she loans, carefully, and always with interest.Statistics:

Availability: 44

Fertility: 63

Kinkiness: 89

Sexual Rumor: Though usually highly independent, this Lady has always been Daddy's Good Little Girl.

And again, Graham’s success with her starts to make sense. A finance major with babygirl tendencies? She was practically born for someone like him to be her Daddy. Of course, the deal you made with him guarantees you can secure a massive score with her too. This one will be very beneficial to your hand… and probably the easiest time you’ve ever had interacting sexually with any woman.

You listen in to the conversation about whether to use power plays or not. Rebekah is the first to speak up, immediately getting your attention. “We’ll take a free reserve, Rhett. Jenny of Diamonds.”

You suck in a deep breath. She’s leaving you open to aggressive power plays and trying to build a diamond straight flush. There are already issues with the top and bottom of the flush which will make it even more problematic. At least you are only holding one card right now, so its’ unlikely anyone will try to disrupt your hand yet.

The card appears on the giant screen behind you and graces your tablet at the same time.

Rhett looks at Rebekah and grins. “Our fresher has an aggressive manager I see. Yes, she is the gamer girl some of you may have seen taking the recent regional championships in a game she’s never touched before. And that, my friends, is the niece of Professor Yvonne Moreau. A difficult Lady to impress.”

You wait, half expecting someone to play a points slasher against you to slow you down. It doesn’t happen. And you start to realize why. Cassie, Simon and even Milo are all watching their own hands. Selene has control of Milo and you’re a little surprised she doesn’t try to get **** for your play against him last week. But then, she isn’t really competing, she’s just enjoying tormenting a player for fun. Hell, she’s even blaming Milo for losing cards he had no way to save. As to Graham. He just marked his intention. He’s in the game for fun, but between what he said to you and what he’s done to steer a couple of players towards joining his business, he’s building for the future that matters to him.