Josie Date 3, Part 3: Hungry Like The Wulf

Honey

Ms. Smythe provided the dungeon it’s requisite summary and the shuttle came to life. The foursome finds itself in a small shuttle bay. Ms. Smythe offers to scout ahead and Honey is glad to assist with a cast of Invisibility. Not much later, and Ms. Smythe returns.

“Ship is small, other shuttle bays are empty. Central command room has 2 of the big sword guys at the end of last level, plus a new guy, with an even bigger sword. So, I stun-lock the new guy and Aelene takes on the others? Daph and Honey, you magic down whichever baddie is causing the most trouble?”

A plan set, they set out to execute it. Ms. Smythe enters the central command room first, glaive aloft, and slams it directly into the largest foe’s chest, pining it’s foot to the ground. She thereupon assumes a position at the top of pommel and delivers two kicks, devastating for different reasons; the first, delivered with an extra luminous effect, looks painful, the second stuns the big one.

Ms. Copse-Wood charges at one of the other foes, summoning her reflection to target the other. Then, she and her reflection start slicing. It took 6 blows for Ms. Copse-Wood to find 2 critical hits, but, since these creatures need a head to survive, 2 critical hits was all she needed.

Ms. Daphne fires off a Disintegrate spell, which blows off a large chunk of the stunned big bad. Honey assists with a Blight spell. Ms. Smythe thereupon delivers a 4 hit combo, extending the stun on the third critical hit, and burns the guy to ashes with the last hit. Smearing some of her vaginal excretions on the blade, she pulls the glaive from the ground.

“Well, that was a little anti-climatic,” Ms. Daphne quips, “So, loot and then spend the rest of the day hanging out and making last minute plans?”

The group picks up the loot chest, then exits the level to return to the recovery room. The teams decided to handle the loot all together. Plus, the winners do get a prize.

Scarlet: +30 XP (Killed 2 Level 12 monsters, x0.75 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.875 penalty [overleveled])

Aelene: +28 XP (Killed 2 Level 12 monsters, x0.706 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.824 penalty [overleveled])

Daphne: +32 XP (Killed 2 Level 12 monsters, x0.8 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.933 penalty [overleveled])

Honey: +38 XP (Killed 2 Level 12 monsters, Killed 1 Level 14 monster)

Harper

Harper rouses from her reverie with Josie in her arms. The ultraviolions were “kind” enough to provide a saltwater tank in their room, so Harper carefully extracts herself from Josie’s grasp. She sits and soaks, her gills pumping, her lungs resting, as Josie continues to sleep. She at least gets her spell preparations done in relative peace. And some of the spells she prepares are insane. Utterly broken.

Once Josie rouses, she stares into the tank and Harper waves. Both get up. A hoppalong girl delivers breakfast, looking hungry. Harper feels bad and offers, “Hey, do you want some of my food, ma’am?”

“This one will be fed once this one has finished it’s tasks.”

Josie looks as angry as Harper feels about all of this. By the time they finish eating, another hoppalong is awaiting to lead them to their next destination. The hoppalong attempts to make Josie get back in a cage, but Harper does not allow it. So, the three move to a double-decker box seat. Josie is directed to the lower level of the seats, a large cage which has a barred gate that opens to the arena. The upper level has seats and snacks. Harper gives Josie one last squeeze on her hand, then allows herself to the directed to her seat. It appears that the seats for the “owners” are open enough that all of them can see each other. Across from Harper is a husky? A literal husky? Well, there was mention of a talking dog...

Hovering over the arena is a Jumbotron system with the face of last night’s emcee. He starts his spiel, “Laaaaaadies and Gentlemen! The 569th edition of The Ffau’r Llewod **** Tournament is about to begin! We have gathered 8 of the world’s most existent slaves to fight for your amusement. They are seeded and ready to go! Let’s begin the first round!”

A Heavy Bard troope of ultraviolions start playing a strange heavy metal cover of “Man of the Hour” by Norah Jones on lutes. This world is weird about pop music, I suppose.

“Our first match is our #1 seed Milton, valued at 2.5 million gold, versus our #8 seed, Josephine, valued at 2 gold 8 silver. Obviously, this’ll be a quick one. Let’s get this started!”

Harper feels a rumbling under her seat. The gate below must be opening. The gate across the way opens. The husky barks, “Milton, use the rolled-up newspaper! Beat the worthless one with the rolled-up newspaper!” And out of the gate walks a naked man armed with only a rolled up newspaper. Josie bounds into view from below. The naked man charges and he smacks Josie across the face. Josie just laughs, activates bloodlust, and, with a single swipe, pops the guy’s head off.

Josie: +0 XP (Killed 1 Level 0 Creature, x0.00 penalty [overleveled])

The crowd goes wild. The husky howls in sadness, “My poor pet human!” The dog pulls out a big sack of money that an attendant ultraviolion collects, and the naked man’s head slithers back and reattaches itself.

Glitterdust

Team ME! is ready and about to begin. Skye is sneaking over to stab the big bossman. Tina’s tongue is out as she focuses on keeping Skye invisible. And both Mattie and Glitter are holding the strongest spells they can to drop the hurt once Skye starts to run the big bossman through.

And there goes Skye. The big bad starts to squirt black ichor from three heavy puncture wounds. Mattie and Glitterdust both launch their spells. Mattie’s spell falls well short, harmlessly burning a section of tubes. Glitterdust lets out her Psychic Scream. Good news: the big bad is stunned. Bad news: the other guys are resisted the scream and are fine.

Skye keeps up her grim work, puncturing the baddie twice. Glitterdust moves into the room and lets out another scream. One of the other guys looks properly stunned, but the other guy looks fine still. That’s bad. Tina bounds up and shoots off two bolts of light. Mattie is the last to enter, firing off a shot from both her gun and her ballista at the still conscious one, but he’s still up.

And then he’s gone. And then Glitterdust feels something sharp slashing into her back. She flexes her psychic power to try and shove the source of pain away, but she gets slashed again. Glitter lets out a different kind of scream.

Skye keeps stabbing. The big bad is still alive. Glitterdust summons her wings and flaps up into the air. She feels the sting of the baddie’s blade again, who again resists her psychic push. She looks around quickly and rips out a third Psychic Scream. The big bossman is now dead, but the other two are active. Tina throws another set of light bolts and Mattie fires before taking a defensive position before the baddies strike. One hits Tina hard enough to make Skye visible again; that baddie lights up in silvery light. The other grazes Mattie as the astral elf dodges about.

Skye, now visible, runs up with purpose, skewering the guy by Tina in the arm and spleen. Glitterdust fires down a psychic spear into the other. Silvery bunnies burst forth from Tina, with the bonny bunny shaking her booty. Mattie jukes around and pops her baddie’s head into chunks.

The final baddie, seeing the problem, does the sensible thing and disappears. The loot chest pop out of the big baddie’s chest. Glitter flies down to get the loot. MINE!

“Sparkles, don’t forget that we need to share,” Mattie declares, checking her phone. She thereupon boos, “We didn’t get credit for that baddie that fled. BOO!”

Skye:+20 XP (Killed 1 Level 12 monsters, x0.706 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.824 penalty [overleveled])

Glitter:+20 XP (Killed 1 Level 12 monsters, x0.706 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.824 penalty [overleveled])

Tina: +20 XP (Killed 1 Level 12 monsters, x0.706 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.824 penalty [overleveled])

Mattie:+ 21 XP (Killed 1 Level 12 monsters, x0.75 penalty [overleveled], Killed 1 Level 14 monster, x0.875 penalty [overleveled])

Josie

Generic Fish Girl is standing in a little viewing area for the cage Josie is locked in. Josie is watching that tiger-chick just go hog wild against her opponent. She is kind of hot like that.

“Alright, Josie, you’re on tap for the next fight. Ready?”

“Hell yeah, Generic Fish Girl! I hope the next guy is going to put up more of a fight.”

“She should. The orc girl won her match. Not nearly as readily as you did, but she won handily.”

“You mean the orc guy with boobs?”

Generic Fish Girl sighs, “It’s a little complicated, but orcs are female identifying hermaphrodites in this world with a weird body morphing condition.”

“Don’t care. Dick equals guy, with you last week being the exception that proves the rule.”

“Remind me not to have you lead negotiations with orcs then. They asked me to pick out some fighting music for you, since you were the more impressive of your next pairing in Round 1. I hope you enjoy it.”

The lutes and lyres begin. Josie smirks as she recognizes the tune, “You skank, I love you.”

Josie: +2 VP (Love Confession)

“Love you, too, whipper-snapper. Keep your powder dry, Josie. Save as much of your extra damage as you can for the big bad lion.”

Shit. I can’t believe I just said that.

The ultraviolion vocalist starts to sing: “Dark in the city, night is a wire / Steam in the subway, earth is afire / Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo”

“That’s my cue, Generic Fish Girl!”

Josie struts out of the cage and into the sand of the arena. She sees the orc guy, his cock stupid big, sitting between his pendulous breasts, coming out on the other side. She smiles, letting the bloodlust rise up inside her, claws ready.

The emcee announces over the sounds of Duran Duran being covered by the weirdest heavy metal band Josie ever heard, “Our first semi-final: Our 4th seed Thomph versus our surprisingly effective 8th seed Josephine. Get ready... Fight!”

The vocalist continues: “Woman, you want me, give me a sign / And catch my breathing even closer behind / Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo”

Josie runs up, claws ready, smirk on her face growing as the orc guy looks every so slightly less confident. Three strikes, three hits. Guy is tougher than he looks, taking all of that. Ow! Ow!!! Fuck, he’s hitting me with his cock? Gross!

“In touch with the ground / I'm on the hunt, I'm after you / Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd / And I'm hungry like the wolf!”

Josie starts slashing again. A rend to the guy’s left bicep. A cock into Josie’s face. A slash to rip open his cheek. A severe disemboweling, yet he still stands. Two more whacks with his pecker. Is every real fight in this world going to be either a monster or this gross?

“Straddle the line in discord and rhyme / I'm on the hunt down, I'm after you / Mouth is alive with juices like wine / And I'm hungry like the wolf!”

Another slash and slug fest. This time, when she slashes into the guy’s left bicep, the whole muscle comes out. The smash of his dick into her hip hurt a little, but a lot less than her rending his trachea out in several chunky slices. Josie howls. The orc guy’s corpse falls. Somewhere, over the din of Duran Duran and the crowd, she hears, “My stupid cock warmer!”

Josie: XP reward pending on Harper date quest completion

Josie spins around, heading back to her cage, not even bothering to see if the orc guy gets revived. She made it to the finals. Just has to wait on her opponent to be settled.

Mattie

Team Glitter enters the recovery room with their loot chest, feeling a little down. It’s a good thing that the poor winners in the harem are all on the losing team. Mattie starts to teach Blondie how to use Identify as Teeth starts to check people’s XP gains for her XP distribution. As they Identify things, they shout out who they think will want the thing they found. Teeth starts to help once she distributed the XP to make sure everyone gets another level. Aww, Teeth was sweet.

Aelene: +10 XP

Daphne: +9 XP

Glitterdust: +5 XP

Honey: +3 XP

Mattie: +9 XP

Scarlet: +2 XP

Skye: +7 XP

Tina: +5 XP

They decided to let the winners get their stuff too, and handle the forfeit for the losing team; each member of the winning team gets to spend some “alone time” of their choice with someone on the losing team for some harem-sister bonding. For Blue, she got a quiver that can generate free javelins so she could apply her poison at the distance. Blue then declares, “Ms. Campbell, I would appreciate your assistance on a task of mine.”

On the one hand, Blondie looks excited to be picked FIRST. On the other, she is a bit confused, “I like that you like me, Honey, but why me? I thought you’d want a smartie like Mattie.”

“I need to learn how to ‘edge.’ You are an expert at the matter.”

Blondie picks up, then eats, her magic Illusory Script burrito, adding the spell to her Witch Book. She then saunters over and grabs one of Blue’s hands. The two walk out of the recovery room. Mattie smirks. They’ll have some fun.

Nerves gets a Necklace of Adaptation. She considers it as she puts it on. “I suppose this will help me breathe underwater? That seems useful, given that I am still learning how to swim. Glitterdust, I would like to handle my final upgrade to my Vorpal blade. Would you care to assist?”

“Yes, I assume that it would be a nice thing for ME to do. I would like to be nicer.”

Sparkles bounds up to Nerves, then gets her coupon to the Harem Hotel merchandise website. It was soooo obvious that Sparkles would get the perfectly mundane 20% off a second item of equal or lesser value offer. They will also have some fun.

Red gets a flask that makes lava. That is kind of scary. “Hey, Mattie, want a massage? Might as well pass out some more stats.”

“Sure, Scarlet. Teeth, here’s your prize. A grand potion of XP. 20 free XP. While Honey could use the XP more, she actually had an item that suited her better.”

Teeth looks super excited as she downs her prize. “Hey, Skye! We get to hang out. We haven’t done a lot of that.”

Daphne: +20 XP

“You’re right, Ms. Daphne. We’ll figure out something.”

Mrs. Skye picks up her manual on Brewing Evermead. “I suppose I will get to learn Lady Aelene’s family craft. That will be nice.”

“So, Mattie, what did you get?”

“Oh, ho, ho. It’s something kind of fun. Skye awoke a bit of a kink in me during reverie this morning and I got a great item to indulge in it.

Cutie Mark Tattoo: Tattoo Attunement. The tattoo must be applied on a butt cheek. When a person the wearer is attracted to spanks the wearer on the tattoo, they become affected by the Guidance cantrip as if the wearer cast it on the spanker.

“I need to get to Level 14 in artificer to equip it, but when I do, I’ll have fun with it. You think Sarge is into spanking?”

Red starts to blush. “I don’t know. Maybe?”

Mattie smiles. “Hey, it’s okay. I know her first experience spanking wasn’t all that pleasant. Maybe when it’s a funishment, Sarge will like it.”