Ummmm, maybe?

Thinking as quickly as you can, you point your potential partner to the door. "Natalie, shut and lock the door."

She stands, one hand finding its' way to her wonderfully curved hip.

Not the time to notice that. You tell yourself, diverting your eyes to her face.

She raises an eyebrow at your words, at least you think it's your words. "Test of our partnership?"

You nod, causing the lovely rogue to head for the door.

You turn your attention to the squirrel as Natalie skirts the pit. "Let's see what we can do with what we have buddy. Drop what you were able to find on the floor next to the desk."

The little thing rushes over and pauses next to your worktable, a pile of random objects suddenly making him raise up from the floor.

"Holy shit!" You see candlesticks, rocks, boards, and other odd bits appear under the squirrel. "How much room do you have in your inventory?"

You animal friend just chitters waving at the table... Right, in a hurry.

You step up to the desk and open up the upgrade menu. You probably don't have time for a full disassembly of everything you have, so you just have to hope the squirrel was able to scavenge enough raw materials.

Pulling the chamber upgrades menu up, you start looking for quick ideas.

Might be able to upgrade the doors again, though people might give up if it's too hard to get in.

Hmmm, there's a few new options you hadn't noticed before.

You nearly jump out of your skin as something slides up against your back. "What are you planning?" Natalie's whispering into your ear causes you to relax.... Most of you, anyway.

Really not the time for that, dammit.

Even with your admonishment, you can't help but notice her breasts being pressed against you.

"I'm upgrading the room, possibly a new trap or something to give us an edge."

She pinches your chest lightly, just missing your left nipple. "I figured that, I meant what traps are you going to use, and how are we going to hide?" Her voice was calm, though distracting.

You focus your attention on the menu. "Hold on a second."

One of the options you were just looking at a second ago was an upgrade for the pit fall, now that would be useful. With what squirrel (you need to name him at some point) brought back, you should have the 1 rock dust pile, 2 rocks, 3 iron, and 2 wood.

You hit the option hoping it goes through as you turn your attention to other selections....

The throne just isn't important now.

You'll need to take time to choose an alter, so that's out.

Bed upgrades are - Natalie shifts against your back, causing you to waver for a second as a particular part of your anatomy jumps a little.

Your eyes latch on to the bed options, causing your mind to run through what you two could do with some of those upgrades....

No, that later. Living now. Deep breaths, focus on not, NOT dying.

You tear your eyes (and imagination) from the bed options and try to find something usable now.

"They've found a way to pick the lock. Do something!"

Out of time, out of plans, and out of patience with your hormones, you close the menu and spin, hauling Natalie tight against your body as you do.

"Jump on buddy." The squirrel obligingly leaps onto your shoulder, hunkering down in an attempt to hide better. "Stay quiet, follow my lead."

Hoping this mad idea would work, you watch as the doors start opening again.

Once more you cast soul crush and illusion, squeezing the rogue tighter as you hope your only method of hiding pays off again.

Hoping it worked you lean in and whisper into your partners ear, the scent of her hair almost as big of a distraction as her body's proximity to your own. "Can you still see me?"

She shifts against you, causing you to realize just how hard you're pressing your.... Other staff into her stomach. "Yep," She breathes into your ear. "And I can definitely feel you."

You think you can actually hear the flirtatious smile in her voice. "Hmmm,"she grinds against you a little more. "Naughty boy, just what dirty things are you planning here, hmm?"

You fight a shiver at her words, and **** your attention back to the intruders.

"Dammit, not good." A feminine voice says, "my Mat and Mdf just plummeted. "A good bet the boss is some kind of magic user."

"No worries then," a deeper yet still feminine voice answers. "You block the spells, we take care of the rest. It'll be easy, all of you magic users are so soft and squishy."

Natalie chuckles quietly into your ear, "Is that warrior woman right? Are all you magic types 'soft and squishy'?"

She grinds her hips against you, pressing your traitorous dick into her harder. "Cause you feel pretty firm to me." She gives your ear a small tug with her teeth before squeezing against you again. "Hmmm, looks like someone finally figured out how to show a girl he's interested."

Needing some way to express your... agitation, you lean down a little farther and let your teeth scrape the side of her throat. You're rewarded with a shiver and a sharp inhale from the rogue.

"After," you barely breathe into your apparently aroused business partner's ear. "We'll deal with my.... Interest after we survive theirs."

Natalie nods into your neck, "I'm going to hold you to that. Now, any plans for them?"

You close your eyes for a second and try to clear your thoughts enough to come up with something.

.....If this partnership was going to work, you had to have a way to let her rob them. Sure invisibility is awesome, but she couldn't steal anything while having to stick close to you.

What you needed was a way of swallowing the room in shadows, or Darkness... It was something to look into later.

"What did you do?" Natalie whispers to you.

Curious you open your eyes to see three women standing almost perfectly still right inside the doors.

"What happened to the lights?" The second, deeper voiced woman asks.

"Spell of some kind, has to be." The first voice says.

"Dammit, can't really fight what we can't see." A third voice notes.

You try to absorb everything happening as quickly as possible to answer Natalie... But honestly you have no clue.

Wait, would she like you better if you knew? ....Or admitted you don't know.

Crap, what do you do here?