Break down the door.

With all of your might, you slam your shoulder into the metal, and it thankfully shatters off its frame straight into the room with a bang and a thud. Jelly follows behind you, confused and afraid. As you enter, you can see that it isn't quite the same place as Niki. This room has a few old wooden tables and chairs, and not far away, you can make out your party member in peril, but there's a grid of iron bars between you and her. There's also an eerie glow being provided by strange crystal shards of various colours laying throughout both halves of the room. Then you see the other figure on the other side of this mesh, and it's lighting candles all around the room, slowly illuminating the room even further.

"Hold this," you say and extend the torch to Jelly. She takes it. Though Niki's hands were passing easily though the girl before, you've come to notice that she can be solid as well.

You run up to the bars and slide your fingers through the open squares, and they feel incredibly sturdy. There's no way you're breaking this down with your shoulder. You peer through, and there you see him--the strange, skinny man. He has a flame on the tip of his finger, which he uses to light the wick of the final candle. He turns his head, and you gaze into the vacant holes that are his eyes.

It's a skeleton!

His jaw clatters. "You've come to watch? How fun!"

The creature has a tiny vest wrapped around his rib cage and his pelvic bone is covered by pants that only reach his knees. He's nothing more than bones! Though on his forehead, you can see a mark drawn straight onto the skull, and it has a cracked hole right in the center. There's also another, larger crack splintering down the side. He turns to Niki, who is strapped down onto an iron slab by manacles around her wrists and ankles.

"You better not hurt her!" you call out.

"Hurt her? No. She hurt me." He points to the wound down the side of his skull. "Slammed by damn head against the door. I had to weaken her with magic or she would have broken me to bits."

"A lich..." you mutter. Then, you draw your blade. You try to slash it against the metal. Though it may be magic, it's still a sword, and unfortunately not a legendary weapon able to carve through solid iron bars like butter.

He looms over Niki's body. "I'm not a lich. But I have been experimenting with magic. I don't even know what many of these crystals do, but finally, I have a live subject to try them out on." Slowly, he presses his bony palm down against her face, and he speaks the words, "Mind Read".

Niki pulls on her bindings, but even her superior strength isn't enough to bend the metal, especially from this angle. You also heard him mention weakening her with magic, though you're not sure if that's still affecting her or not.

"I see! Well let me show you one of the few crystals I know some properties about." He withdraws a white, translucent shard tied to a string necklace and wraps it around her head. The shard rests between her large tits--naked body laying trapped. You can see her Rite of the Sun markings at the tips of both of her breasts, and the beautiful curves of a slender but athletic woman of the desert.

But you can't get distracted by that now. There's something greater to be distracted by instead.

He also pulls out two feathered pens. Curious, he begins to wiggle them around at the sides of her midriff. As he does, Niki begins to frantically wiggle in her bindings. She starts to cackle wildly, and her breathing becomes erratic. At the same time, the crystal around her neck starts to spark with light. He doesn't stop either. The skeleton tickles the feathers around her belly button, causing her stomach muscles to twitch wildly. Now she's starting to look like a belly dancer.

"Ahaha! No, no~! Aah!" Niki gasps for air. "Mercy, mercy!"

How did he know? Oh, the spell he cast! He read her mind to find out what to do to get pleasure out of her maybe. I guess there's not much a skeleton can do with his body alone. But is he just a creep? Surely without any... parts... he isn't going to be all that interested in being a pervert. It must really have something to do with his experiments with these crystals.

You grab the mesh wall and shake it as hard as you can. This might have been built ages ago, so perhaps you can cause it to loosen from the stone walls, or the ceiling.

Niki's laughter reverberates off the walls. As the feather continues around her torso, she can't stop laughing, and her face flushes with colour. Desire burns in her body, but humiliation as well. Being aroused by someone giving you a tickle-**** is surely embarrassing. The skeleton tickles her inner thighs, and you can see that she's definitely feeling it. Not only is the crystal around her neck flashing brighter, but the light of the candles reflects off the desire between her legs as well. The more she laughs, the more she moans as well--a confused harmony of erotic, **** arousal.

"My, my. You're really ticklish," the skeleton says. "And just as I thought. The crystal is reacting! I wonder why? Oh this is so exciting."

He tickles down her legs, and then removes the feathers from her body to eye over her feet. His empty sockets gaze up to her, and she looks down in trembling fear. Her body is sweating--droplets trickling down the sexy curves of her figure. As the feathers near the bottoms of her feet, she pleads.

"Please, no. Not there." Her panting is hot and heavy. "No, no--Aah~! Hahaha!"

Niki throws her head back as he begins tickling both of her feet. She squirms wildly--metal clanking loudly as she pulls up against the manacles. She wiggles her toes and gasps for breath. Her nipples are stiff, and her body is wet from head to toe. There's nothing she can do it escape, and is completely at the mercy of the skeleton's brutal attack.

Your own sword has been reacting as well. To Niki's burning lust, the blade is glowing bright. That doesn't help you now, however. You need to find a way to get to Niki, or she might be trapped here for ages. You don't imagine a skeleton has much need for rest.

"You have two marks. How greedy. Unless you truly at great enough to have such power." He moves the feathers up near her neck. "But with great power comes great weakness. I should know!"

So that is a mark on his forehead. It's the skeleton of a sunheart.

He then begins to mercilessly tickle her tits. Niki's eyes open wide and she struggles to breath. Immediately, her already stimulated body reacts wildly. Her moaning is loud and fast, and lost within frantic giggling. She can't even bring herself to speak anymore--to ask him to stop. She's completely lost in lust. With him tickling her most sensitive spots thanks to her Rite of the Sun marks, there's nothing she can do. The crystal around her neck burns bright and she lets out a loud, whimpering moan of ecstasy as her body tenses up and is consumed by a powerful orgasm.

"Aaahh~!" She throws back her head and arches her back as best she can in her current predicament. As the feathers are pulled away, she continues to shiver and pant, despite the tickling coming to an end, at least for now.

You look around for something to help you, but all you see is your torch... on the ground. Jelly is nowhere to be seen. "Jelly?" you ask, but there's no answer.