Pub Tale

Laura looked at herself in the mirror after putting one of her old t-shirts on, the one Candy had given as a birthday present in fact and the only one in her closet here. She pressed the shirt against her stomach and pursed her lips at just how far her new larger breasts pushed out the fabric.

Served her right for thinking of Susan as a cow she thought, now having G cups of her own. At least her clothing had been resized already so she didn't have to go braless longer.

She'd picked the shirt she hadn't worn since college trying to look more casual for the get together in the pub. For good or ill these women depended on her now and she wanted them to feel comfortable around her. Not that was an issue for some of course, but not everyone was Anna or Candy.

The shirt looked fairly odd over her black skirt but she didn't have anything casual to wear instead, maybe she should have picked up some jeans or something.

Better late than never she supposed and after going down stairs went to the table by the reading nook and swiftly jotted down Two Pair Black Jeans on a post it note. The box she'd asked for earlier was already sitting on the table next to the notes.

She thought back to the odd request Carla had pulled her aside to ask before they all left the shopping area. Laura supposed she wanted it to be a surprise to Kim so didn't buy it in front of her and knew it would be charged to her when Laura bought it.

Carla Wright/ Kim Baker -300 BP 3000 left.

Three hundred bonus points seemed expensive to Laura for a mundane item but it was customized so perhaps that accounted for it. She shrugged and hefting the small box headed down stairs to take the Moongate to the pub, still getting something of a thrill at being able to leave the room again.

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Misty had been very glad to see her clothes had been altered to fit her when she got to her room. the musicians had predictably gone straight to the pub leaving her to change in peace.

Out of curiosity she'd checked the label on one of her newly expanded bras, she'd half expected it to still say it was a D even if modified by the servants. She certainly had not expected it to now say an I. At least her bras now fit nicer than they had before when she'd definitely been wearing a size too small.

Now wearing one of her long black dresses again she was trying to talk herself into going without her cloak again. On the one hand there was going to be a lot more people there but on the other there would be beer. At least the dress covered her stomach even while showing off an **** amount of cleavage now. Everyone besides Susan was so skinny it made her feel fat, having her stomach exposed by her shirt drawing up had not felt good. Maybe she should start working out with Anna in the mornings she mused.

Having finally psyched herself up she left her cloak behind draped over the chair and walked out to be left stunned seeing Gabriella waiting for her.

"What? Why? You?" Misty sputtered near speechless as she took in the beautiful Spanish woman wearing a skimpy French maid dress. She'd put one of her corsets on with it which fit the outfit remarkably well, the tall boots less so but Misty wasn't going to suggest Gabriella get some heels to match.

The professor didn't look very comfortable showing so much skin but still stood tall and proud. "A shock I know but this gathering will be sure to attract the eyes of the audience and I need to show them what they wanted and hope to appease them."

"Oh Gabriella!" Misty rushed forward and took her friend in a fierce hug, crying into the taller woman's black hair.

Gabriella hugged the busty woman back, stroking her hair. "Hush dear, it will be okay. Everything will be okay." She stood back holding the shorter woman by the shoulders. "And look at you not wearing your cloak. I'm so proud of you trying to be brave."

"Well, there will be beer..." Misty looked abashed but Gabriella laughed.

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Anna sat at a table waiting for Laura with a large mug of beer in her hand. She could swear there hadn't been any glassware in here this size before she'd grown, it was like the castle servants were just looking for things to do. It wasn't like she needed a larger mug or that it was doing her any good.

She'd have to ask Shar to confirm but was starting to think her transformation was preventing her from getting any more than lightly buzzed. Not that she'd ever been a heavy drinker, hadn't even turned to the bottle to try and get over Laura. Not that her dad would have put up with that for a second.

She looked over at the other table where Susan and Stacy sat with the musicians. Carla and Kim were doing some heavy drinking. Shots of something clear, vodka or gin probably, along with Susan though she wasn't coming close to matching them. Stacy looked more like she was keeping an eye on the duo rather than socializing with them though she'd had the occasional shot as well.

Anna looked back at her own table companion and shook her head as the foot tall girl continued to dance around the tabletop. She'd decided that absinthe was the drink of faeries and took the occasional drink from a shot glass she could practically bathe in. If the little woman got much more drunk Anna resolved to down the rest of the shot herself, even though she hated the taste of absinthe, just to keep Candy out of it.

She forgot her worry about that as the door opened and Misty came in with Gabriella and she whistled. Where had the professor gotten that outfit and why would she wear it? Candy fell over in shock herself and the other table went silent.

"I know it's shocking, but I'm trying to **** myself to get used to this in case I have to." Gabriella rushed over behind the bar after making her statement followed by Misty who Anna only now realized wasn't wearing her cloak. Wow she really filled that dress out now.

Candy rolled off the table and Anna tried far to late to catch her. Right after there was a flash and Candy was now sitting full size in the chair that was under her fall.

"Are you okay?" Anna asked her.

"Yep fine, no problem." Anna raised an eyebrow, Candy suddenly seemed far less drunk. She laughed seeing Anna's look. "Bigger size, less blood ****."

"Oh you've got to be kidding me, you can get drunk when little then sober up by growing?"

"Well I wasn't completely sure it would work." She grinned up at Anna and hiccupped.

"What would work?" Misty sat with her own glass mug at their table.

"She can get blitzed as a pixie then grow to get over it." Anna grumbled and downed Candy's absinthe before the blonde could grab it.

"Hey!"

Just then Laura entered the bar and looked around. She was hardly shocked to be the last one down, though she still didn't see Tracy anywhere. What could she be up to she wondered.

"What would you like to drink Laura?" Gabriella asked from behind the bar while brewing tea.

Laura looked over and sputtered out. "Is that what you bought?! Why?"

Gabriella sighed. "I'm serving you a drink, what would you like?" She'd play the master's maid she thought, but she was not going to try a stupid accent that wasn't even really French.

Laura decided to play along for now with whatever the math professor was doing dressed like that. "Any wine back there? I'd take a Merlot or a Shiraz." Gabriella looked through the bottles under the bar then nodded and brought one along with a glass to the table setting them before Laura. "Thanks. Now can you please have a seat and tell me what's going on?"

Gabriella instead went back for her tea. Misty leaned over and whispered to Laura. "She's trying to appease the audience so they don't **** them on her."

Laura nodded and turned to the bottle realizing they had no way to remove the cork. before she could say anything though Anna said. "Oh hey I got that." And pulled her pocket tool out of her jacket and flipped it open to a corkscrew then opened the bottle then poured her a glass full.

"Thanks." Laura took a sip of the excellent red as Gabriella joined them with her mug of tea. Looking around she realized Evelyn was sitting by herself in the corner by the bar. "What's going on with her?"

Anna shrugged. "She followed us in and has been quietly sipping hot chocolate over there since."

Laura shook her head and then got serious. "So how is everyone holding up? Really?"

"M'okay." Said Misty who had already drained her beer. Anna shook her head and picked up the empty mug, then went to refill it and get herself something stronger.

"I will be okay Laura, really." Gabriella assured her. "Today was rough for many of us, but I was given a reprieve and mean to use it well."

Candy stood up and gave Laura a hug. "I'm great!" As she sat back down Carla had wandered over.

"Is that it?" She asked Laura and pointed at the box she'd set on the table.

"Oh yes, it is." Laura picked up the box and handed it to the short haired woman.

"Thanks Laura. I'll see you're more than paid back on our date this week." She then blew Laura a kiss and staggered back to her table. Susan saw Laura looking over at their group and waved. She seemed in good spirits Laura thought, she still had her own box from the shopping trip on the table in front of her as well. Stacy saw her looking as well and got up with a sigh.

Walking up to Laura Stacy told her. "I'm not happy no, but I am okay."

"Look Tracy..."

"No it's fine. You realize she was actually trying to help me right?"

"What?! She taunted the audience into giving you a dog transformation!" Laura said shocked, pointing at Stacy's new ears. She thought Tracy had only seen it as a harmless joke but helping her?

"If I'd gotten Cheer Squad I'd have been **** to be submissive to almost everyone. I didn't see it, I was only looking at what it could be not were I was currently at. I'm still pissed at how she went about it and that she picked dog instead of the one I could have avoided but she was helping." Stacy admitted begrudgingly.

Anna sat back down handing Misty another beer and popped the top off of a bottle of rum. "You really think she saw all that?"

Stacy let out a sigh. "Yes. She's far too smart for her own good, but she sees things others often miss. She's been hacking things here though I swear. I've no idea what all she's been up to with it but that computer is trouble."

"Seriously?" Laura put her hand over her face.

"The FBI all over again eh?" Anna looked more amused than worried.

Stacy walked back to the other table and Laura noted that Kim flinched away from the pinkette when she sat down. Something was going on over there, how many secrets was she going to have to dig up she wondered.

"What do you think that was really about?" Anna asked before lifting the rum bottle and taking a long drink.

The others just sat and stared as half the bottle was gone before Anna let up then looked around at them. "What?"

"What was that for?" Laura found her voice first.

Anna sighed. "I'm trying to get drunk. It's not working." She set the half empty bottle on the table. "I think it's this transformation, booze is just calories to it."

"Oh wow." Candy said.

Misty took the bottle and poured herself a shot in the empty glass on the table then tossed it back having finished her second beer already. "Oh gah! What was in this?"

"Absinthe."

"Not good with rum." She made another face and set the bottle back on the table. "So you drink and just get stronger instead of drunk?"

"Apparently, I did shots with the others, had some beers, and now this and I'm only very slightly buzzed. Oh well."

"I'd say that's unfortunate but that would be fairly hypocritical." Gabriella smiled at the tall woman.

"It's cool prof, I've never been one to drink more than for social lubrication anyways. I'm shocked you're not wanting something stronger than tea tonight though."

"I'm bothered less by the skin this outfit shows than by the prospect of losing my freedom of choice and drink will not help that. But we're being sidetracked, what about Tracy if she is doing something nefarious with that computer?"

"I'll get to the bottom of it, but it may just be Stacy trying to get her in trouble." Candy nodded in agreement and poured her own shot of rum.

Before she could drink it though the door opened again and Tracy ran in just ahead of Shar. Tracy ran up and gave Laura a big hug obviously buzzing with caffeine but seemed really excited about something as well. Before Laura could ask what though Shar coughed to get everyone's attention.

"I want you all to enjoy yourselves before Laura needs to be off at dinner time but first a quick bit of business. As we've had a new popularity poll and your ranks have shifted so will too the bedroom arrangements. Candy, Misty, Tracy, and Anna will remain in their current rooms. Carla and Kim you are now in Dragon with Candy. Susan you'll be in Gryphon with Misty. Stacy will be in Unicorn with Tracy."

"Oh for fucks sake!"

Shar glared at the pink haired woman and nodded when she stayed quiet after her outburst. "Finally Gabriella will be in Phoenix with Anna. Your things have already been moved."

"But I was just in my room." Sputtered Gabriella.

Shar just smiled enigmatically. "Oh and Misty, before I forget, two things. First your transformation included your hair, it's now black for real. You're welcome. Secondly there seems to have been a minor reality glitch." She looked at Tracy. "For some reason" Looking back at Misty. "Everyone may have thought you were wearing jeans and a t-shirt for a while. " Misty shook her head, that couldn't be right she thought. Surely she'd been wearing a dress all day? "Now that you've changed anyways there should be no further effects though." With that Shar swept back out of the room, the door closing behind her.

"So what were you up to?" Laura finally asked Tracy and moved the bottle of rum she was reaching for away.

"Spoilsport! So apparently Shar has a friend with her own show and a bunch of her girls are gamers but they needed another person for a game session and Shar offered to send me over and we had a blast!"

"And apparently too many sodas." Candy laughed.

"You really went to this other show? To play a game?" Gabriella was dubious.

"Yeah! Charlotte was cool, and Rose and Delilah were super cute together, oh and Aurora was awesome! She's their host but totally gamed with us anyways, playing a bad ass warrior."

Anna laughed and after pouring a shot of rum handed it to Tracy. At Laura's raised eyebrow she said. "What? She needs it to cut the edge off the hyper before Stacy strangles her in their sleep."

Laura relented and didn't say anything as Tracy downed the shot. Then asked. "And this was your Dragons and Demons game that you got into at MIT?"

"Close enough. Shar says I can go next time they're putting a session together. Cool huh?"

"Certainly interesting." Said Gabriella, still obviously doubtful about Tracy's story.

Laura poured herself another glass of wine. "Why don't you tell me all about it before I have to head upstairs."

Tracy pulled up her own chair and launched into her tale of magic and mayhem while the others listened. Even Susan and Stacy who had wandered over curious about the engineers exploits.

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Evelyn listened in on the cat girl's story with worry. What was Shar playing at? Meetings with other hosts and now trading contestants, for however short a time. Was her own placement here a part of some sinister plan? None of this was standard procedure certainly. She pulled out the pocket watch she'd been given again and shook her head at the kindness so at odds with what she knew must be going on. She'd just have to remain vigilant, but who would she even report any of this to?