Word Games

Kate - 26 VP (Oral Sex, Sex On Camera)

Nat - 22 VP (Gave Master A Blowjob, First to Give the Master a Proper Blowjob, Deepthroated Master, Deepthroated Master, Deepthroated Master [Repeat Performance Penalty], Deepthroated Master [Repeat Performance Penalty], Deepthroated Master [Repeat Performance Penalty])

Annie - 15 VP (No Change)

Danni - 14 VP (Master Sex Act)

River - 8 VP (Got Themselves Cucked)

Sigrid - 5 VP (No Change)

Mia - 4 VP (Received Oral, Sex On Camera)

Sigrid's pancake fell off her fork and she stared at the resident blue hair enby descending the stairs, looking like **** heated up. "Jesus, you look like shit."

River stumbled into the kitchen, their t-shirt wrinkled all down the front from where it dried weird overnight thanks to all the spit they'd coughed up on it, and got a cup of coffee. "Nat and Danni kept me up last night."

"Then why's she so chipper?" Sigrid chucked a thumb over her shoulder towards Nat, eagerly collecting fruit in a pink crop top. The bimbo had looked at her phone first thing this morning and had been quite pleased to see her scores and was making herself a celebratory smoothie.

"TOTAL DATE SCORE: 21.2

Highest Scoring Category: Date Sexiness.

BP Reward 4233"

River looked over at Nat, bewildered to see her small breasted, and relatively functional. "Did you see her tits? Danni must have forgotten to turn off bimbo mode."

Sigrid and River went wide-eyed, locked eyes, realised bimbo Nat was about to try to use a knife and moved towards her, only to see her quite functionally chop an apple in half.

"Oh my gosh, you guys should, like, see the looks on your faces." Nat said, prepping the apple. "I'm, like, still a c-cup. Danni didn't leave me useless."

"Oh, uh, sorry." River, a lot more awake after the panic, looked down to see half their coffee had spilled on the counter as they'd rushed to help Nat. "For fuck's sake." River began to grumpily top their coffee up and find a cloth.

"So, ready for your date tomorrow?" Sigrid asked.

"Ugh," River was back to feeling exhausted, even with coffee in their system again. "Don't remind me."

"You'll come up with something."

"Will I?"

"Yeah!" Nat offered from the kitchen. "You're, like, really smart."

"Thanks Nat."

"You're totes welcome!" Nat said, before turning on the blender and making River regret waking up even more.

Danni was way better than Mia had expected. She'd taken her Master to a trendy board game café. After initially refusing to play Scrabble with her out of fear, Danni had accepted the recently converted e-girl's challenge after eking out a win in Bananagrams. Mia had assumed that win was mostly just Danni being faster than her. After all, in Scrabble, Mia was more used to taking her time and Bananagrams was a lawless free for all. But, no, Danni had proved to be quite capable at keeping up with Mia in the classic board game.

"Your grandpa must have been good." Mia said after Danni had played a particularly hi scoring turn.

"I guess so!" Danni had been doing most of the small talk. "Must have been practicing against all the other people in the old folks home." She'd gone in expecting it, after all Mia was easily the quietest member of her Harem. Danni chewed her lip, frustrated at herself. It hadn't even been a week, but logistics alone had made her start to refer to, at least the harem, if not the individual members, as hers. She had to stop that train of thought before she lost ownership in just a couple of days now.

"Hmm." Mia went back into the tank. She didn't really understand what was meant by that metaphor, but one of the few people her age that had even turned up used the term once, and she liked the visual metaphor of hunkering down and strategizing inside of a tank.

"Were you close with your grandparents?"

"I dunno. Define close." Mia wasn't really paying attention, mumbling out answers as she desperately tried to keep her scoring average above Danni's to keep the lead.

"How often did you see them?"

"Not very. They lived rural."

"Ah, yeah, that'll get you. My Dad's parents were international, so, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I met them."

"Hmm." Mia kept staring at the board. She wasn't good at dates. She was good at Scrabble; and focused on doing what she knows.

"How about the rest of your family?" Danni had shuffled her tiles around and was reasonably happy with her next play already. She was just coming up with a backup word in case Mia ruined her plans. "You close with your parents?"

"Mum and Dad are divorced." Mia, focused in on a K Danni had left hanging, gave perfunctory answers. "I see Mum more often."

"Exact same with my parents!" Danni was just shuffling letters around. Gramps had always instilled in her to 'play the board, not the letters'. She was waiting to react to Mia's moves. She didn't even know what letter she'd be playing off of, so, to Danni, there was no point doing anything other than make small talk until Mia made her move. "Trying to sort out Christmas is a nightmare." Danni groaned.

"Uhuh." Mia related. Mia absolutely hated all the driving around on Christmas day. And, even worse, trying to **** herself to eat two Christmas sized meals in a day was hell. Mia was just focused, and Danni was conversationally stonewalled as a result.

Mia was bored. She'd eked out a win, but Danni was insanely good at the game for an amateur. If she had better knowledge of two letter words, and Mia wouldn't have stood a chance. Hence, she was surprised when Danni had insisted on switching to a game that wasn't a word game. Mia would absolutely have called for best-two-out-of-three if the result had been that close in Danni's favour. Mia had forgotten the actual name of the game, but she had picked up the rules of what Danni insisted on calling Bird Game reasonably quickly. She just wasn't invested the way she was in scrabble. As such, her knee was bouncing, with increasing speed, while Danni was silently planning her next move.

"River mentioned your suite is super music focused." Mia prompted, uncomfortable with the silence now that she didn't have letters to focus on.

"Wha-" Danni's focus was yanked away from deciding whether gathering food or laying eggs first would be the more beneficial action. "Oh, uh, yeah. Yeah, I always wanted to be a big name musician. Looks like, if I win, I get what I always wanted."

"Oh, cool. What do you play?"

Danni had opted for eggs and started counting them out. "I play piano. Played keyboard in a post-punk, new wave, indie electro band for a bit, but we broke up. I kinda really dig pop music at the moment though; there have been a lot of advancements in that space, it's really interesting now."

"Oh, cool." Mia was hating how much she was saying the word 'cool'. For someone with such a large knowledge of words, her active vocabulary was non-existent when anxious.

"What type of music do you like?"

"Um... genuinely, I mostly just listen to that low-fi study music stuff."

"The anime girl with the cat?"

"Yes! How did you know?"

"Dude, everyone knows 'Lo-fi hip hop beats to chill/study to'!" Danni said with a chuckle.

"I... guess I never realised other people listened to it."

"Yeah, you never do. Like, you see ten million subscribers or whatever and you think, 'okay, that's a small country, but, like, I've never met anyone from the Czech Republic either, so, it would make sense to me that no-one else would know this'. Then you share it with people and find out your taste is a lot less unique than you think."

"Oh..."

"If it makes you feel better, I thought I was the first person to discover Daft Punk."

"Who?"

Danni looked personally hurt. "You don't know Daft Punk?!" She put on her best robot voice and sang "'One More Time'?"

Mia just stared blankly.

"Okay once I beat your butt in bird game, we're going back to my suite to listen to some Daft Punk." Danni declared. Mia, who had not planned anything else out after the date, felt relief for the first time since the date started as planning was taken out of her hands.

"Cool." And the anxiety was back, Mia cursing herself again.

"Oh I know this one! This was in Iron Man 2!"

"THAT'S your Daft Punk reference?" Danni had started playing all of Daft Punk's greatest hits, getting increasingly exasperated as Mia knew literally nothing. Where had Mia been when Get Lucky was the most overplayed song in the world? Robot Rock was give or take the tenth track Danni had tried.

"I don't get out much."

"Except to Marvel Movies?"

"It was a date."

"Oh?" Danni's interest was piqued.

"Mum set me up with a guy. He picked the movie."

"I'm guessing by the fact that you haven't mentioned the guy before now the date didn't go well?"

"He booked without asking me if I'd seen the first one."

"Ah, yeah, that'd do it." Danni and Mia fell into silence, listening to Daft Punk. They were on opposite ends of the couch in Danni's suite opposite the sound system. Danni had been so used to the women of this competition either throwing themselves at her or at least, in Sigrid's case, making their boundaries clear. Danni, with no idea what Mia wanted right now, just started headbanging a little, enjoying the music that was playing.

"The lyrics are kinda... repetitive."

Danni put a hand to her chest in mock offence. "How dare you?" Seeing Mia's actual panic, she laughed it off. "Nah, look, you need to just stop thinking of the vocals as being there for their lyric content. Your ear is going to get pulled towards the vocal line, because, well, that's what words do best. But you've gotta let them do their thing. Let them be free to be just another instrument and you'll find this whole world of melodic and timbral variation."

"Oh, okay." Mia furrowed her brow, trying to do what Danni suggested. It... wasn't working.

"I should probably go stream."

"Oh, you didn't get that done today?"

"No. I wanted to focus on our date." Mia lied. She'd been too anxious to stream again since last time and was just going to deal with the punishment.

"Oh, okay..." Danni was definitely disappointed. Mia was cute, in that shy, bookish, nerd way. But the shyness that made it cute also explained what was happening now.

"Um... I had a good time?"

"You seem unconvinced." Danni chuckled.

"Well, um..." Mia thought for a moment. "You know the date I mentioned before?"

"The one your mum set you up on?"

"With the guy who had no idea what kind of movies I liked?"

"Yeah?"

"I feel similar about this date."

"Oh..." Danni was visibly crestfallen.

"Oh! No!" Mia was panicking, trying to get her words together. "Um... you're Iron Man 2 in this metaphor."

"...What?"

"Um, I feel like certain prerequisites needed to be met for me to enjoy you?"

"Huh-Oh!" Danni suddenly got it. "Ah, yeah, that makes sense."

"Sorry."

"Hey, that's totally okay." Danni smiled at her. "Look, I somehow doubt you're going to change your sexuality all of a sudden. But if you change your mind because you need the points, I've got no plans tonight."

"I hadn't even thought of the points."

"You should probably start thinking about them. You're at the bottom of the ladder. You're the most at risk of elimination."

"Honestly, giving up sounds pretty good."

"Hey, Mia?"

"Yeah?"

"Shut the fuck up."

Mia was taken aback by the shift in Danni's tone.

"You're better than giving up."

"Maybe I'm better than this game?"

"Okay, do you really want to gamble your ability to ever play Scrabble again on that? Because this show is both completely fucked and magical. That's exactly the type of shit they'd do."

Mia chewed her lip. She hadn't even considered that.

Danni saw the vigour with which Mia was digging her teeth into her lip and interjected before the only woman shorter than her in the house drew blood. "Look, all I'm saying is: have a plan to get points. You got some the other day."

"That was because I got caught by Kate's transformation."

"Well, then, maybe look at the other transformation options available to you? See if anything can bring down that barrier to competing."

Mia wrapped her arms around Danni, who slowly hugged her back. "What was that for?"

"You actually care."

"I think most people in here actually care."

"There's a difference between saying you care, feeling like you care, and actually trying to help. You actually try to help."

Danni wasn't sure what to say.

"I guess," Mia continued, "if I do wind up stuck in a lesbian harem at the end of this and, with the way the points are going, I will, I hope it's yours."

"Thank you?"

"Boo!" Rahne was on a couch with a popcorn bucket full of scrabble tiles, throwing them at a screen showing the date. She put the bucket aside and stood up. Rahne, today, was in a much more casual t-shirt and skinny jeans. Granted, the jeans were so low cut that you could tell she wasn't wearing underwear, but still. "We give her a perfectly good girlcock to ride and she doesn't even look at it? So. Fucking. Disappointing!"

"But hey, I could completely wrong! You fucking pervs might get off on genuine acts of kindness! Either way, it's time to Rate the Date! Give the date's intention, entertainment value and arousal levels a score here! Regardless of how the date turned out, was the plan a good one? Was it entertaining? Was it sexy? We'll take your results and, based on the final score, award the contestant an appropriate amount of BP!"

"Get your votes in and we'll see you on the next episode of Harem Hotel: Battle Royale!"