The Rules

Aurora clapped her hands, looking down the line of faces as she grinned in excitement. The grin for the camera, but the enthusiasm Aurora felt as she was finally able to get started with the show was genuine.

Rose sat at one end, nerves obvious on the young woman’s face as she kept shooting glances down the line, looking at the other six women who had been summoned to this ski resort from their own locations to be part of Rose’s harem and participate in a magical game show.

Delilah and Charlotte were the closest contestants to Rose, both were nervous and leaning slightly into each other for some level of comfort gained from contact with another human. Delilah had her jaw thrust out slightly, a stubbornness missing in Rose or Charlotte about her.

At the other end of the line, Rebecca and Josephine were glaring daggers at Aurora and Rose in equal measure. Both the young women had been silenced by Aurora’s power but Aurora could practically feel their minds working overtime as they turned to figure out how to blame this entire situation on Rose and turn it to their advantage.

Olivia didn’t have much of an expression, Aurora had a harder time figuring out what was going on in the older woman’s head than the others. She was calculating and controlling her breathing to keep calm. Ivy was shooting glanced at Rose, her face a mix of trepidation and a curious blank expression.

Aurora took a breath and started speaking, all the planning she’d done ever since her creation was going to finally meet the realities of the game show format.

“Greeting one and all to Harem Hotel: Served Cold. The theme for this season is as you might be able to guess, the cold of the ski resort we find ourselves in as well as the idea of **** served cold. Whether you believe it justified or not, the Season Mistress has wished for **** on all of you at one point or another. Rose is only human, so don’t blame her for feeling that emotion. The six contestants will be competing to earn victory points, 100 will earn you a good position in your Mistresses Harem and a positive transformation. If you have positive victory points but have not reached 100 by the end of the season, you shall receive a positive transformation with some drawbacks and will have a middling position in the Harem.”

Aurora gestured and the television screen behind her lights up with the names of the contestants and their current scores.

Victory points pre challenge one

Josephine Murry: -2/BP 100

Ivy Jones: 0/BP 100

Olivia Hawkins: -1/BP 100

Charlotte Harper: 0/BP 100

Rebecca Evans: 0/BP 100

Delilah Sparrow: 0/BP 100

“If you have negative victory points at either the midway point, which will be after the third challenge or the end of the season, you shall receive a very harsh negative transformation and will suffer endlessly within the Harem in the lowest position available.”

Aurora pauses, watching the reactions of the contestants and Rose herself as they hear the news. The seriousness of the situation seemed to be sinking in for some of the contestants, but others were remaining stubborn. Just as she was about to start talking about challenges, Olivia raised her hand and Aurora stopped, nodding to the vice principle.

Olivia glanced over at Rose, tugging a little on her top to try to let her cleavage pop a bit more out of her shirt.

“What is the other number on the screen? BP…we each seem to have a hundred of it. If you don’t mind…”

Olivia stopped and Aurora gave her a small smile and twisted her head a touch.

“BP is the number of bonus points you have. These are a special resource that can be spent in the store you will have access to. You can buy transformations for yourself…or other contestants…equipment, clothes and such like. They can also be traded in for victory points under certain condition you’ll have to find out during the show.”

Olivia nods thoughtfully, tapping her chin with one painted fingernail and glancing thoughtfully at Rose again. Aurora continued, glad that at least one contestant is starting to think strategically, she wasn’t surprised that calculating vice principle was the first.

“Now, challenges. There will be six challenges over the course of the season. Each will give the opportunity to win…or lose…victory points and may also give additional BP or other transformations. The first challenge will take place the day after tomorrow so you will have a chance to get to know each other a bit. Until the challenge, the season Mistress…”

Aurora gestures to Rose, the young trans woman looking petrified at the focused attention of the Host and six contestants.

“..will be given free reign to explore the Mistresses suite of rooms but will not otherwise be able to interact with the contestants yet. Rose will be watching the first challenge and the first round of dates between the Mistress and her harem will begin after this first challenge.”

Aurora watches the contestants, gauging their reactions before she continues dumping information on them. Olivia, Rebecca and Delilah were all laser focused on her whilst the others were taking it in but not fully listening.

“As far as transformation go, you will all receive your first transformation tonight in front of our live audience. Then after each challenge you will receive another transformation, the severity and whether it is beneficial or negative will be determined by your placement in the challenge. Do you all understand the rules as I have told them to you?”

Aurora carefully looked along the line to see the six nodding heads, her smile becoming genuine as she clapped her hands again.

“Excellent, now…I’m going to remove the blockers on our contestants speech and then we can begin the first round of transformations! Oh, before I forget…the reason to stay invested in the game and try to earn the most victory points…at the end of the competition the contestant with the most victory points will earn a single wish. You can’t hurt the season mistress, undo any of the final transformations or get out of the Harem…but almost anything else is up for grabs…”

AN: Hi folks, so next chapter will be our first round of transformations. If there is anything you’d particularly like me to include, leave a comment and I’ll see where I can fit it into each characters potential choice of paths. After I put up the next chapter (probably tomorrow) I’ll leave it a couple of days for everyone to vote before I write the results chapter.