A Master Transformed and a Game Explained

"Master?" Hailey asked incredulously, even though for some reason the word was vaguely familiar in a way it hadn't been before here.

"Yes," the demon replied. "Specifically, Felix is the master, and you are all competing for his affections."

Hailey, and almost everyone around her, went pale hearing that. Memories that were previously vague suddenly became clear, and the equivalent of study notes that came to mind right when one needed them during a test. They remembered rules about gaining and losing VP, about a secondary currency called BP that could be used to buy various kinds of items, benefits, or even things to hurt other contestants with. Most of all, there was no escape from becoming a member of Felix's harem, the real question was whether one got an advantageous position in it.

"While you all remember the instructions I bathed your brains in while you were in the transformation capsules, I'm going to show you what happens if you get eliminated." The demon said before using her hands to stretch out a hologram in the shape of a screen. By continuing to stretch it, and then when the screen got too large for that, holding her hands out as far as she could, the screen eventually covered most of the room in front of them.

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Hailey and the rest watched on in horror as they watched John Booker turn into a brainless bimbo in crisp 12K resolution. The rules around elimination sprung into her mind while she watched the footage from a past season of Harem Hotel called Payback Edition. If she had negative VP when a transformation round came up, she would be eliminated. She would also be eliminated if she refused to participate in the game, or in any of its contests, eliminating any strategy built around avoiding the reality show they were on.

"For those curious, I learned how to do that a long time ago." The demon said to the assembled group, not that they needed any reminders of her abilities.

"Now, there are some differences to other seasons that you didn't get while being transformed," the demon said, "and they are very important, so listen closely."

Her few peeks at the rest of the group had assured Hailey that everyone was taking this seriously, and would be listening to every single word the demon said. Even the oni and the angel were focused, despite in theory being the kind of supernatural beings that stood a chance against the demon that was now controlling their lives. Everyone else was still in awe of the demon's power, and stewing in terror at the idea of elimination.

"There are seasons where the master is too shy, too stubborn, or otherwise finds it difficult to really embrace their role," the demon explained. "Hence, I want to encourage all of you to help get Felix out of his shell. Besides, I think more active contestants should get rewarded for being team players."

The demon snapped her fingers again, and the hologram screen disappeared. "If you touch the master without his permission, but it leads to sex that he enjoys, or encourages him to act in a more lustful fashion towards you or other contestants, you can gain VP. Do however keep in mind that you only gain VP the first time you do something with the master."

Hailey remembered that. It prevented just flashing the master a bunch of times to get to 100 VP, or heck, just fucking his brains out until one got to 100 VP. Unique, escalating debauchery was the name of the game, as was winning the master's approval. However, this change to the rules seemed like one that gave a straightforward advantage to more forwards members of the group.

"If you over rule the master in conversation, even if it humiliates him, you will not lose VP if it leads to sex, the master acting in a more lustful fashion towards other harem members, or otherwise encourages the master to embody his role," the demon said. "If this is the first time you've done it to the master, you can even gain VP."

That was different from what Hailey expected to hear. This demon wanted them to be forwards with Felix in a way that was unexpected given they were part of a harem. It sounded like any and everything that lead to sex or lust, regardless of how Felix felt about it, could potentially gain VP. Was Hailey herself ready to be that forwards towards him? Would Felix hate her if she was that forwards with him?

"Finally, for now, if you trick the master, and it leads to sex, or him being more lustful towards his harem, you can gain VP," the demon said while walking towards Felix's capsule. "But do keep in mind where the trickery has to lead if you want to avoid losing VP for doing it."

"Now, before we begin in earnest, there is one last vote," The demon said once she was in front of Felix's capsule. "This vote will, however, come from you, not the audience."

Felix was terrified, and when he heard Vizrokoth call him, "the master," it didn't do much to reassure him. He was still stuck in a glass capsule and up to his neck in fluids, all the while knowing he was next on the list to get transformed. After all, he had seen the group assembled over time, and most of them were unrecognizable as the people he arrived with, or had seen in other parts of his life. He could only guess, outside of Hailey, who was who at that point, if they even were remotely the same people as they had been before.

While he watched the group go over the rules, Felix thought over how he had come to this point. What made him interesting enough for a demon to kidnap him, and people he knew, for a contest? She talked about him being a self pitying wimp, and getting into fights he shouldn't have, but that didn't make him unique... right? These thoughts raced through his mind, but no matter how he thought about it, he wasn't even unique as far as being pathetic went, much less interesting enough to be the star of this reality show.

"Given I'm asking all of you to serve someone for an extremely long time, I'm going to give you a choice." The demon said, before putting three separate options in a hologram that everyone in the room could see.

1. Adonis: In this case, Adonis means a more standard, attractive build with muscles, not the roided out stuff one may associate with the term Adonis complex. Felix's height will increase to an even six feet tall, his dick will be enlarged enough to look great on camera, his butt will look like an underwear model's, much of his body hair will be removed as if he was waxed, and his body will be crafted to have a swimmer's build, albeit with nice abs very much included.
2. Hunk: The All American boy option who never skipped leg day, or really any exercise, and is perfect for those who want a masculine build for their master. Besides being very muscular, his height will be increased to 6'4", he'll get a massive dick, and he'll have a very bear like amount of hair.
3. Bishie: For those who want a more effeminate, androgynous option, the bishie is based off the kind of hot guy that shows up in manga, anime, and more specifically, yaoi. Besides the standard increase in genital size demanded by being on camera, he will be very slim, mostly hairless, and otherwise gain the kind of pretty boy build that that may make him uncomfortable.

Felix had only ever heard negative or neutral things about his body, no one had ever commented on it in a sexual, or positive sense. Even with that however, he never thought he was going to be in a situation to have his body replaced based on the preferences of others. Would he miss his old body once it was taken away from him?

"Only those who are attracted to men will be able to vote in this competition," Vizrokoth said. "That means Hailey, Cammy, Kei Winters, Z, and Smith, will be the ones to vote on Felix's new form."

Winters was in panic. The demon had specifically called for Kei Winters, not Benjamin Winters, and that gave more ammunition to that side of Winters in their endless internal argument. She would be the one making the decision, and it would be a decision they would be living with for a long, long time. Such a decision couldn't be left up to an anxious wreck, much less someone who wasn't attracted to men anyway. However, her making the decision meant that, once again, Benjamin was being sidelined as an identity, and that his needs, whatever they were, had to be suppressed for the greater good of their shared self.

As for the decision itself, Kei Winters found it easy. A large part of her attraction to teenagers was the more slim build they often had from their heightened metabolism, and other qualities found in youth. She could appreciate muscles, but she was not into manly men, and so hunk was right out. While she liked aspects of the Adonis option, she chose the Bishie option. She had seen some students with yaoi manga, and had seen the occasional student who resembled it in real life. The pleasure she got from corrupting such boys was... intense. Kei Winters proudly submitted her choice, while Benjamin Winters stewed in her head about being sidelined on such an important decision. If he didn't find a way to be useful, than Kei Winters would become the primary identity of this body, with all the many implications of that, not the least of which were the ethical ones. This woman wanted to fuck her students, and other than age, would respect almost no limit on her lust.

Z was in no chaos at all, despite the Zachary part of her being furious at the decision in front of them. While the Zachary side of her screamed homophobic slurs all over the place, she was able to think through the options presented. She had no patience for a man that tried to equal her in terms of strength, and preferred the kind of man she could put in their place, both of which removed the Hunk from contention. However, she also preferred her partners to have stamina, and to have enough strength to participate in the kind of intense anal sex she preferred. Hence, she picked the Adonis option, and then calmly sat back down.

Cameron and Cammy, having chosen to adopt the term they, managed to avoid any existential questions while figuring out which option they wanted. However, the Cameron side, as a straight guy, was pretty useless in determining how to answer this question. The social manipulation skills he had weren't useful either, because whatever option was picked wouldn't, in of itself, help him influence Felix. While it could in theory help Cameron influence others, he didn't know what option they wanted to vote for, and saw the other picked voters make their decision quite fast. There was no time to engage in politics, or otherwise try to influence the other voters for personal gain.

The Cammy side of Cameron, by contrast, had a clear idea of what she wanted, which was the Adonis build. She appreciated all three options, so wanted an in between option that gave her a bit of everything, and besides, she thought that Felix would prefer it as well. It would be less of an **** change compared to the Hunk and Bishie options, both of which she thought could stress out Felix with how radically they would alter his body, and suspected the Bishie option specifically would be rather distressing for him.

Hence, Cameron eventually submitted their option without stress. However, in the process, both sides of Cameron had reasons to be irritated. Cammy didn't appreciate the attempts to find an angle to manipulate others, and also thought Cameron hadn't considered, at all, how the issue would affect Felix outside of his ability to manipulate Felix. Meanwhile, Cameron thought the Cammy side of themselves was too obsessed with Felix, and too horny to make a thoughtful decision. However, that just reminded them of not only how they got this transformation in the first place, but the knowledge that Felix, as the master, was now, other than the demon, the most important person to please.

Smith had one personality, so on paper, this should've been an easy question for them to resolve. However, this question just revealed to her they were attracted to men, because they were attracted to all humans. Being **** to examine her new sexuality reminded her of how radically her status as a Fallen Angel had altered her very person, something she had managed to stuff down while sitting with the others.

Calming herself down, she began to compare. She liked all three options on a carnal level, but found she preferred humans to be ****. That narrowed things down to Bishie quite fast, something she justified in other terms. She wanted a master she could assure, and be a source of protection for, and one in such a slim body would be easy to manipulate that way. Besides, her memories as James Smith made her want to punish Felix, on some level, for everything that had happened so far. She still couldn't accept, after all, that she was here because of punishing someone who didn't deserve it.

Hailey didn't think she would have to answer such an erotic question so early, even considering the nature of the game. She blushed just thinking about it, and realized seeing the other votes come in that she would be the deciding vote between Adonis and Bishie. This was also tricky because she hadn't thought that kind of thing in a long time. While she occasionally enjoyed stuff like josei, and the fanservice meant for girls in some of the anime she watched, she hadn't considered her ideal type of guy in awhile.

Pausing to think through it, she knew she wanted a guy with some musculature, although really, it was just someone more masculine than the Bishie archetype. While she appreciated the Bishie archetype, someone that effeminate, and slim, just wasn't what she wanted out of a guy she would be in a relationship with for the foreseeable future. She didn't give any thought to the hunk archetype because it clearly wasn't going to win, and besides, she didn't want to deal with a gym rat the whole time she was here. Hence, thinking through it, she chose the Adonis option.

After she selected her choice, Hailey sat down, blushing the whole time, because she was so embarrassed by having to reveal her preferences to everyone in the room, and who knows how many people beyond it. She also wandered whether her transformation had made her less patient with gender androgyny, but dismissed the thought. Her TF only applied to women, not men, and she remembered the guys she had preferred when she had read the occasional female protagonist harem series.

Felix wasn't sure how to react when the Adonis option won out, and got no time to react.

"Alright ladies, the decision has been made!" Vizrokoth said. "Felix, your dear master, will soon be a very attractive Adonis."

Soon after the words left Vizrokoth's lips, Felix's capsule dropped to the ground, and all the various fluids inside caked the rest of his body. Despite closing his eyes, Felix felt the fluids penetrate every possible opening, ensuring his insides absorbed whatever the hell was in the capsule with him. It was then he heard an electric charge that entered the fluids, and activated them. There was no flood of memories or anything like that, just a strange mix of pleasure and pain as his body was remade to fit the needs of the strange game he found himself in.

When the transformation completed, Felix's capsule slid behind the medical curtains, and Vizrokoth, one last time, kicked open a capsule. Vizrokoth helped him out of the capsule, and got him dressed in a medical gown, before saying, "There's a closet nearby, I suggest you get dressed."

Going to the closet that he had seen everyone else enter, he found a room with plentiful mirrors to check out his new form. It was indeed what Vizrokoth had promised, as he was far more muscular than he had ever been in his life, but while he was thicker than his prior self, he didn't have the bobble head effect body builders had, or the absurd muscles others possessed. Checking around the room, he found waiting for him jeans, boxers, and a white t-shirt. It initially seemed quite ordinary, even if it wasn't what he'd prefer to wear, but upon wearing the clothes, he realized they barely fit. The shirt especially seemed designed to hug his new form in a way meant to show it off, which he was frustrated by, but there were no other options available.

Leaving the closet, Felix walked over to where the others were, unsure of what to say. Vizrokoth was waiting for him with the others.

"Alright, I'm sure you're all hungry, so let me switch back to the main facility." Vizrokoth went back to the center of the room again, and did an elaborate clap. Once again, for a split second, the lights went out. When the lights returned once again...