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“Welcome Prince Gabe, ruler of the palace, master of the universe.” Sky Purred as I entered the throne room.

“We know where Jasmine is!” I said ignoring her rant.

She just smiled patiently. “Indeed, fair Precious achieved a commendable victory, but she alone can not accomplish the task.”

I looked to my little wizard. “Maybe it’s a group check. Enough of us have to pass the check for us to advance.”

“That’s a bingo.” Skye smiled. “Your forces are scattered, but we can begin if you please.”

I looked towards my sparsely populated throne room. “Just me and Precious?”

Sky smiled. “Would that please you?”

I looked down to my wizard. "We don't really have time to waste." She said honestly. Then she looked away from me. "Besides do you really want them all here when you're giving out transformations?"

"Good point." But didn't I owe it to them, to at least look them in the eye before I fucked with them. Maybe, but with those sweet sweet pills flowing through me I couldn't really bring myself to care. I'd get in trouble whether they were here for it or not. "Yeah, let's just do it." Precious smiled at that, only slightly. She clearly through she'd won something in that exchange.

"Splendid." Skye smiled, and gestured. Ribbons of light followed her hands, as she floated weightlessly through my chambers. "The task was simple, your princesses were to gather information on Balthazar's lair, the den of villain which now clutches at Princess Jasmine and holds her prisoner. Your princesses could use any means at their disposal to find the target. A die was rolled or their efforts, and a attribute was applied to the number rolled to reflect their method. To succeed, a princess needed to hit a target number of 15. You needed eight successes to win this challenge. Would you like to see the fruits of their labor?"

I shrugged. "Go ahead."

"Wait." Precious raised her hand. "How could we win that? There's only seven of us!"

"A critical success," Skye said patiently. "meaning a success 10 points over the target number awards 2 points towards the victory."

"Oh." She smiled and nodded towards me.

"Go ahead." I said again.

"Skye nodded." She then gestured towards Precious. "We'll begin with the halfling, she used her intelligence to divine the truth. She rolled a natural 20, earning a critical success and putting her at an enviable lead of 26."

"Yes!" Precious jumped fully off the ground and started pumping her fists. "Finally, a little luck!"

"Good work!" I grinned and highfived her.

"I had to have won this one!" She said proudly, and then looked up at me. The color drained from her face. "Oh."

The I blushed, getting her meaning. "I guess that's going to come a little sooner than expected huh?" She'd just talked about how she wasn't ready to sleep with me, and she'd walked herself right into it.

"Catastrophic victory." She said, leaning her head back and groaning.

'Whine all you want...' I thought feeling a sense of power over the snotty wizard, but I didn't finish the idea. It was too terrible to allow.

"The good winds of fate can still change." Sky reminded us. "Other worthy competitors are still on the field. "We'll turn our eyes to the humans. Ana sought shelter and comfort in religion for this challenge." Skye waved her hands and an image of Ana masturbating and praying to me filled the screen. Precious blushed and looked away, I did not.

"Did I grant her any visions?" I asked, admiring the way Ana spanked herself for me, and genuinely curious. I didn't feel like I was granting people divine powers.

"Let us see." Skye waved her hands. "Ana rolled a 17, very nice. with her six points in wisdom that gives her a 23. Two points shy of a crit but it does take the group to 3 points."

"That's my girl." I grinned. I knew she wouldn't let me down. I didn't think this how she'd save our bacon, but I didn't hate seeing it.

"Her sister used her own charms to interrogate a Balthazarian minion." Skye showed me images of Lana riding a guy cowgirl style, and I was jealous. "She did quite well, rolling a 19." My eyebrows went up, not bad Lana. "With her 7 in Charisma that puts her at a 26, tying Precious and earing the team two more points putting us at 5."

"No way." I gaped.

"We're tied?" Precious gasped.

"Indeed."

"What's that mean?" Precious asked.

Skye only grinned. "It could mean anything, but let us move on."

"Let's not!" Precious said defiantly. "I want to..."

"Peace." Skye held up her hand. "All in good time. First we pay tribute to Vera, who hoofed it across hill and dale to scout for the foe. She rolled a modest 10 but thanks to her seven in Constitution she succeeded the mission with 17, bringing us to 6 points."

I nodded. Vera round up last place as usual. Some people are just born unlucky.

"Hilda was her companion on this trip, and thus also used constitution."

"What?" Precious threw her hands up. "This is why she's an alternate!"

"Indeed." Skye giggled. "With only 3 constitution she managed to save herself from disgrace by rolling a 12, just barely succeeding, and landing her in last place."

Precious and I both sighed. "It could have been worse."

"Finally we have daisy, who used her witchcraft much like Precious did, to try and locate the orc. Her witchcraft uses Wisdom, which is four points."

Precious sighed. "Which is not her best stat either."

"Indeed not, and she was not so lucky as to roll high enough to cover for this mistake. She got a 10, bringing her score to 14, which is a failure."

"Fucking girl." I rolled my eyes. "How did Night do?" We had one last hope.

Skye smiled sadly. "Night did not participate."

"You gooning me?" I balked.

"She's a better rouge than I thought." Skye giggled. "Her actions at the moment are shrouded from me. I know not where she is, or what she does."

"So we failed?" Precious said, her chest inflated and deflated rapidly. "What... what does that mean? That's not fair we had two crits, how can we fail with one loss and two crits?"

"By being down two members." Skye said patiently. "It is a loss." She agreed. "But all is not lost. The enemy will have more time to prepare, Jasmine will suffer more, no doubt, but we shall not give up. We'll approach the challenge anew tomorrow, stronger than we are today."

"Fuck that!" I roared. "We'll do it now! Now, now NOW!" " I banged my fist and stood up. "Jasmine is out there waiting for us! Fuck your stupid game Skye, she's our friend and we're not going to..."

"Peace, sweet prince. Peace." Skye said, raising her hand to calm me, and there was magical involved because it did calm me. "All things in their time. We must take failure, with victory."

"I'm going to kill Night." I said, shaking my head.

"She needs to be punished." Precious agreed, and her face was pure anger.

Skye just smiled. "Since we will not be mobilizing on the enemy." She snapped her fingers. In a literal flash the others appeared in court. Ana, Lana, Hilda and Vera. They looked around confused. "The results are in." Skye smiled.

Precious: 26 Points. Level 3 >>>>> Level 4 (Reward)>>>>> Level 5(Reward)

Lana: 26 Points. Level 4 >>>>> Level 5(Reward)>>>>>Level 6(Reward)

Ana: 23 Points Level 3>>>>>Level 4(Reward)

Vera: 17 Points Level 3>>>>>Level 4 (Reward)

Hilda: 15 Points Level 4>>>>>> Level 5 (Punishment)

Daisy: 14 Points Level 5>>>>>> Level 6 (Punishment)

"Aww man again?" Daisy sighed, putting her hands behind her head.

"No punishments for the tie." Precious said to herself.

"We lost?" Vera looked at the board in confusion, not even caring that personally she'd won. "Is Jasmine..?"

"Yeah." Lana asked, checking the board. "What happens with Night and Jasmine?"

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Alrighty I'm out of practice. If you have any ideas for upcoming rewards or punishments throw them in the comments.