The Eros Trap Dungeon: The Sapphire Door

Merida and Hilde stepped through the sapphire door. The room they entered lit up as soon as the door behind them sealed shut. There were two other doors besides the one they just stepped through, with a sign between them. It read, ‘The path to the left is fast. Step through the door, and you will need to overcome a single obstacle to reach the prize. But true glory requires patience and for you to take the slow, arduous path on the right.’

Hilde nor Merida bothered to ask which door they were taking; They opened the right door and stepped through. The next room was less a room and more an extremely long, narrow hallway. Behind them, the door closed, and a wall covered with slime-coated dildo spikes dropped down from the ceiling behind them. It didn’t move beyond that, though.

In front of them was another pedestal with a plaque on it. Merida said, “Hae, Hilde, watch that wa' for me while I read this wee bit.”

“Sure.” Hilde nodded.

Merida read the plaque, though she thought it was a little unfair that the pedestal was almost as tall as Hilde, making her unable to see the plaque. It read, ‘A steady pace, you must keep. Run fast, and your companions will weep. But move too slow and feel the dildo’s blow.’

“Looks like we need tae move at the same pace, but we dinnae want tae move too quickly. Looks like the stairtin' line is this movin' walkway.”

Hilde nodded, “Yeah, you say we can’t run?” Hilde looked rather miffed. “It’s going to be annoying having to walk against the walkway.”

“Weel, I dinnae ken.” Merida went ahead and repeated the plaque word for word to Hilde.

“So I could run, but you would suffer for it.”

“I also figure that as soon as we step on the walkway, the wa' will stairt tae follow us.” Hilde nodded her agreement. “Which is why I suggest—” The wall started to grind against the floor slowly as the pedestal sank into the floor. “I guess it’s on a timer o' some sort.” Merida immediately started to move at a power walk on the walkway, and Hilde kept pace.

After about five minutes of walking, Hilde was getting annoyed. “Are you sure we can’t go a little bit faster?”

Merida reluctantly nodded and picked up the pace slightly. As she did so, she realized she heard the spiked wall move faster, too. “Hilde, slow up a wee bit.” Hilde did, and as they both resumed their previous pace, the wall definitely slowed down. “The wa' moves faster wi' us.”

Hilde looked at the wall in annoyance. “How is this a trap?”

Merida shrugged. “Movin' spiked wa's are a classic trap. I actually had an idea, but wanted tae ken if ye hae ony idea if those spikes will cause a sensitivity increase jist frae touchin' them, or d'ye hae tae be impaled?”

“Touch. Even through clothing. Why?”

“Weel, I had an idea that could speed this up.”

Merigold appeared beside the two of them in golden flames. “I want tae let ye ken, Merida, I object tae bein' used in sic a manner.”

“Ye were the ane tae suggest the plan.” Merida countered. “Also, ye are still gaun tae try, richt?”

“Aye, simply because I ken we are a' bored.” Merigold slowed down, letting the wall approach her. When she was close to it, she began slowly walking until she was able to reach out and touch the dildos. Merigold reached out and lightly tapped a dildo with the back of one hand. Confirming that they did increase the sensitivity of the area touched. Merigold then vanished in golden flames and reappeared next to Merida and Hilde again. “**Damn it**, I wis richt. I really didnae want tae be richt.”

Hilde asked, “Care to fill me in on the plan?”

Merigold sighed, “The idea is that Merida an' I move back tae the spiked wa'. I alloo the dildos tae press up against me an' mak' sure Merida is oot in front o' me. That way, Merida never gets hit by the dildos. Then ye run at top speed. It should push Merida an' me alang wi' the wa' very quickly, coverin' the hall super fast.”

Hilde looked at Merigold, “And you are okay with that plan?”

Merigold sighed, “Aye, jist mak' sure ye dinnae accelerate too quickly.” Merida and Merigold got into position. Hilde noticed that Merida started to fly and crossed her legs in the air while Merigold held her. Hilde slowly increased her speed, and the plan worked flawlessly. Hilde ended up covering the five-mile-long hallway in around five minutes.

Of course, flawlessness is a matter of perspective. Merigold’s backside was so sensitive she could barely move without having her knees buckle from pleasure. Luckily, as they had tested before, the sensitivity increase did not transfer to Merida when Merigold rejoined her, but it did persist on Merigold. So as soon as they were clear of the trap, Merigold vanished, becoming part of Merida again. Merigold said in Merida’s mind, I hope that ye appreciate me sacrifice there.

Aye, I dae. Merida responded. Ye dinnae need tae worry, Merigold. I’m no' gaun tae get rid o' ye.

Ye say that noo, but I’m willin' tae bet ye could get a Merida wi' a lot mair tae offer than me. Merigold thought gloomily.

It isnae aboot benefits tae me, no' really. Ye should ken that, considerin' I didnae seal my memories aboot makin' the TF. Merida didn’t get a response, but could feel a begrudging acceptance. Merida added one last thing to try to cheer Merigold up. Ye micht notice I havenae even summoned anither Merida beyond ye, yet. Jist sayin'.

Hilde and Merida found themselves at a crossroads. There was a sapphire arch to the left, a silver arch to the right, and a door in front of them. Hilde said, “Which arch first?”

“Does it really maitter?” Merida asked.

“Guess not.” Hilde shrugged and went through the left arch with Merida following her.

After a short walk down a hallway, they entered a room where there were fourteen suits of equipment on mannequins. They stood on either side of the room, split evenly between the sides. Two mannequins from the left side of the room moved to bar their path. One spoke up and in a metallic voice said, “Come, no father. Retreat and be spared, or fight us if you dare.”

Merida said, “Is there nae way we can come tae an amicable agreement?” She didn’t get a response from the armor.

Hilde said, “They probably aren’t actually intelligent. Notice how the armor looks similar to our own gear?” Merida nodded. The two stepped back into the hall to talk.

Merida asked, “Dae ye think we can take them? Because it is gaun tae be mostly on ye. I dinnae hae a lot o' offensive magic.”

Hilde replied, “Well, I’m certainly going to try. What can you do?”

“I can create a mirror image o' ye, grant ye a speed boost, an' I dae hae a firebolt spell. I hae ither abilities, but they wullna help here.”

“Okay, that should be fine. Give me the buffs. Merigold, do you think you can tolerate standing in the hallway and firing firebolts, or are you too sensitive?”

Merida responded. “She says nae way. I’ll hing back an' try tae fire as many bolts as I can.” Merida gave Hilde the speed boost and the mirror image, and Hilde ran back down the hallway they had come from, even going down the hall past the other arch a bit. She then ran back towards the mannequins with as much speed as she could build up, ending with a flying kick directly into the mannequin wearing her gear, which was sent flying into the wall from the momentum. It fell apart almost instantly, mannequin and gear crumbling to dust.

Merida was surprised by the devastating results and didn’t fire anything off. Her mannequin, however, was already immediately casting spells, launching firebolts at Hilde. Hilde dodged them easily. Hilde was just about to charge the second enemy when she was struck from behind by a blade, causing her to feel a burst of pleasure, and she stumbled forward. Merida saw the mannequin with a sword and shield had started to move. Merida quickly launched a few firebolts at it to distract it from being able to finish off Hilde.

Hilde got up, and her hands started to vibrate so fast that they created a humming sound. Hilde didn’t want to deal with one of these things coming alive after the other, so instead of targeting the two mannequins that were currently moving, Hilde started to shred the immobile mannequins instead. She had gotten through the remaining five of her own team when Merida yelled, “A wee bit o' help ower here, please.”

Hilde turned to see that both mannequins had decided to go after Merida instead of her. Hilde started to aggressively attack the mannequin that had Sam’s gear, but that left Merida to defend against her own mannequin alone. To Merida’s surprise, her mannequin had lunged at her, and at the last moment, the mannequin disintegrated, and the equipment flew at her. She was able to destroy or knock away most of the equipment, but a few pieces managed to hit her, and she found that they were instantly equipped when they did. Hilde wasted no time trying to help Merida but went to deal with the remaining mannequins before they animated. Unfortunately for Hilde, she wasn’t quite quick enough. Allie’s and Laura’s mannequins were able to muster a defense. Laura's mannequin didn’t launch magic bolts but used the staff like a golf club and swatted Hilde into the far wall. Hilde was having trouble focusing because of the pleasure running through her body. Merida came to her rescue, though, hitting both mannequins with a couple of firebolts, giving Hilde a moment to recover. Merida refreshed the mirror image that had been destroyed by a swipe from Allie’s mannequin. Hilde and her image charged both mannequins as Merida landed another pair of firebolts, one on each. The mannequins, not being able to tell which Hilde was real, both disintegrated just like Merida’s had and launched their equipment at the Hilde coming towards them.

Merida barely had time to shout, “Dinnae let ony o' it touch ye!”

The Hilde in front of the Laura mannequin was an image, and the equipment clattered to the floor, turning to dust. The real Hilde did her best to avoid Allie’s equipment, but the gauntlets and pauldrons managed to hit Hilde and equipped themselves to her. They heard a chime, and a panel in the wall revealed a sapphire keyhole. Merida went and put in the key.

After the key and panel vanished, Hilde asked, “Since I can’t seem to take these off, I’m assuming they are cursed. Any idea what the curse does?”

Merida responded, “One second.” Merida attempted to identify both the capelet and top that had been equipped to her, as well as the gauntlets and pauldrons on Hilde. It took about forty minutes to identify all four items, which was around the time Hilde found her hands groping Merida’s breasts.

Merida let out a quiet moan as Hilde squeezed them. Hilde immediately pulled away, saying, “Merida, I’m so sorry. I don’t know what came over me.”

“I dae.” Merida huffed out. “If ye arenae actively usin' yer airms or hands, they'll hae a mind o' their ain. They also mak' ye slightly mair impulsive an' prone tae anger.”

“Well, I’m still sorry.”

“Thanks, I understaun'. My pieces mak' my breasts mair sensitive, heichten my base arousal, an' mak' me mair impulsive as weel.”

“Aren’t you already rather impulsive?”

“**Nae**! I’m passionate, no' impulsive. Let’s juist finish this dungeon quickly so we can figure oot somethin' aboot removin' a' this cursed gear.”

The two went back and down the hallway under the silver arch. They found an empty room, save for a pedestal that contained a 5x5x5 Rubik's cube on it; it was currently jumbled. Hilde picked it up to examine the cube, which was when the hallway was blocked off. They heard a faint hissing sound, and then a pink gas slowly entered the room. “Shit! Sorry.” Hilde said as she immediately started trying to solve the cube.

Merida asked, “Dae ye hae ony actual idea o' hoo tae solve that?”

“Not really, I’m just trying to brute **** it.”

Merida said, “Gie it here. I forget whit the full formula for it is, but Mark wis intae this stuff when we were bairns.” Merida started to get the corners correct so that it went from a 5x5x5 cube to effectively a 3x3x3 cube. It was still taking too long. They were both feeling the effects of the gas. All of a sudden, Merida felt something snap around her neck.

Hilde said, “What the hell? Merida, why did you stop?” Hilde looked up and saw the collar around Merida’s neck that hadn’t been there a moment ago. “Merida?”

“I think I need a brek,” Merida said as she sat down and put the cube on the floor beside her. “I’m far ower horny tae think straicht. I’m jist gaun tae take care o' that real quick.” Merida started to finger herself.

Hilde grabbed Merida’s arm, trying to stop her. “MERIDA! I need you to focus.”

Merida pulled away and resumed masturbating.

Hilde grabbed her again. “MERIDA! I know you are horny, but if we don’t take care of this before the room completely fills with this gas, we won’t be leaving anytime soon.”

“Let gae o' me, Hilde.”

“No.”

“Fine, ye asked for it.” Merida activated her red threads. She tied Hilde to herself. Making her more loyal, caring, lustful, loving, protective, and giving towards Merida. Merida also decided, for what she wanted right now, that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to find Hilde attractive. So, Merida established a bi-directional connection of attraction between herself and Hilde. “If ye dinnae want me masturbatin', ye can eat me oot instead.”

Hilde felt the changes some over her, and she inhaled sharply. “Merida, what did you do to me?” Hilde was instinctively kneeling to start eating out Merida, though. Hilde was in a daze. “What about Flora? Isn’t this cheating?” Hilde was breathing heavily, both hesitating and in anticipation.

“Eh, Flora will unnerstaun'. It isnae really that big o' a deal.”

Hilde didn’t agree, but the gas was getting to her, and Merida was really attractive, more so than a few moments ago, even. “Umm… I… Okay.” Hilde slid Merida’s panties off.

Merigold was screaming in Merida’s mind. MERIDA! STOP THIS RICHT NOO! THIS ISNAE YE! The collar maun be daein' somethin' tae ye. Please stop!

Merigold, haud yer wheesht, or I will simply cut aff yer connection.

Please, Merida, I ken ye dinnae want tae hurt Flora, richt? She trusts ye sae much. This is a—

Merida cut off Merigold and pressed Hilde’s face into her crotch. Hilde started in on Merida while Merida lay down and repositioned Hilde so she could eat her out as well. The two went to town on each other repeatedly. After a particularly powerful orgasm, Hilde realized they had been eating each other out for more than half an hour. She decided to start vibrating her tongue so Merida’s mind would clear of the arousal-induced haze. Getting three orgasms in rapid succession, Merida gained some clarity of thought.

+2 VP Cause Merida to Orgasm (Hilde)
+2 VP Cause Hilde to Orgasm (Merida) (x2 First)

Hilde said, “You need to work on the cube.” Hilde got up and started to run quickly in a circle, which created a slight whirlwind that blew some of the pink vapor to the side of the room, making it thinner around Merida. It took another ten minutes for Merida to solve the cube; she put it back on the pedestal. Hilde immediately put the key in the keyhole that appeared and then dragged Merida out of the now open room as fast as she could.

When they were back in the junction, they found a treasure chest had appeared. In it, there were two items: a short magic staff, which Hilde gave to Merida, and a set of hand wraps. Hilde couldn’t put them on at the moment due to the gauntlets, so she put them in her pack.

Hilde asked, “What does the staff do?”

Merida identified it and said, “It’s a staff o' debuff removal. Different debuffs cost different amou'ts tae remove, wi' a limit on hoo many o' a single debuff can be removed each day.”

“Get rid of that collar around your neck right now!” Hilde exclaimed.

“Why?”

“Merida, so help me if you don’t remove it right now, I’m going to bludgeon you to unconsciousness and drag you to the end of this dungeon. I might be mistaken, but you used your Red Threads of Fate boon on me, didn’t you?”

“Aye, sae?”

“SO!?” Hilde took a few calming breaths. “Okay… okay… I know it’s not your fault, it’s the collar. Merida, you made me care about you and find you more attractive, amongst other things. I know that you wouldn’t have done that normally. So I’m going to protect you from yourself if I have to. So either use the staff to remove the curse on that collar and remove it, or I will incapacitate you, consequences be damned.”

“Awricht, awricht, dinnae get yer breeks in a twist.” Merida focused on pouring mana into the staff and removed the curse from the collar, then took off the collar. She held it in her hands for a moment. Merida was frozen in shock. She dropped the collar, then a moment later dropped to her knees. “Whit… Whit did I dae?” Merida had tears running down her face.

Hilde put a hand on Merida’s shoulder, and Merigold materialized and did the same thing. Hilde said, “I’m sorry, I should have refused. But between the gas, these gauntlets making me want to touch you, and the changes you made to me, I wasn’t thinking straight.”

“I… I…” While Merida stammered, Merigold took the collar from the floor and identified it.

Merigold swore when she read the item description. “Bloody hell! Merida, this isnae yer fau't. This collar draps yer inhibitions considerably. It literally messed wi' yer mind.” Merigold winced in pleasure with every movement.

“But… I…” Merida was still in shock.

Hilde helped her to her feet. “We’ll tell Flora together, okay?” Merida looked terrified at the prospect of telling Flora what she did.

Merigold nodded, “Merida, it will be okay. Flora is a reasonable person. She’ll understaun' the situation **wisnae yer fau't**. Whit wid be yer fau't is no' tellin' her, though, so please dinnae hide this.” Merida nodded in defeat. Merigold winced slightly in pleasure, “Okay, I’m gaun back inside, but I’m here for ye, Merida.” Merigold turned into golden flames and became a foxtail again.

Hilde wrapped an arm around Merida’s waist, and they walked through the exit together.