Your Original Quest

You must have hit your head on your way down because you blacked out.

The same voice from the Temple entrance gently pulled you awake.

"You can't sleep forever darling." It was smooth, almost silky, far more gentle than it had sounded when you arrived, though somehow, no less threatening.

"I don't have all day sweetheart." The voice, slightly firmer. You open your eyes, the room you're in is dark, the floor smooth and shiny, yet the room was somehow cosy and soft. Your limbs were bound by some kind of rope. A strange material that was strong, but soft, and somehow felt wed and dry at the same time. But what caught your attention, was the woman who stood before you.

She had exquisite eyes, deep green and piercing, full lips that teased at a smile at the corners, and a head of thick, long red hair that ran down past her hips. She was absolutely stunning, features so pretty you barely even noticed her full, bulging breasts beneath a scale-mail dress, or what was going on below it.

The ropes around your body squeezed and tightened, and in a moment of terrifying realization your saw they snaked all the way under her dress and writhed beneath it in a hypnotic, moving mass.

"The Sea Beast of the Delphi Shores" you breathed. Everything flooding back in at once, this is the reason you were here, this is the creature that had been causing disappearances along the coast for years, the one you had been chosen to slay...

"Crass. Disappointing." The she-beast mused, a fire of irritation in her eyes. "Do you think a creature like me deserves a title like that?" Her eyes flicked to you, burning green light igniting inside them, her body glistening in the moody light of the cave. You could barely drag your eyes away from her dripping chest to study the seething tentacles below.

"All... All those people... Those soldiers." You muttered, a glimmer if defiance in your heart at the memory of the souls stolen by this creature.

"All very happy, the lot of them. Most even survived, those who died... Died happy."

"Survived? What have you done with them beast?" You spat, strength returning with your righteous anger.

"Ah ah ah, slow your horses pal." She rose up above you as the tentacles around your body firmed their grip. "You don't know a thing about me... and besides, you... are a far more interesting topic... What did you do to piss off the Goddess of Love so bad she placed a full Dedecus Renati curse on you? I haven't seen one of those in a thousand years..."

"Dedecus Renati curse? You know what she's done to me?" You asked

"Oh baby, you really have no idea what you're in for do you?" She looked pitiful, in fact, so pitiful it chilled you to the bone. "It's an old Latin word, one not used very much anymore, because of how powerful the curse itself is. It means... The curse of Disgraced Rebirth. It's forbidden among the gods for how... intense it can be."

"Forbidden by the gods...?" You went dizzy, this was big. This was the kind of problem even **** couldn't fix... You were screwed...

"I can help you." Smiled the creature.

"You can? Can you reverse the curse? Or convince the Goddess? I can't stay lik-"

"Woah woah slow down there tiger, I don't have that kind of swing, and me and Aphrodite don't exactly get along... But I do know what's coming to you. I know the mind altering heaven and hell that approaches you, and the vast reaches to which it will stretch your soul... and body. And I know it's only gonna hurt while you're still... adjusting."

"So... you can prepare me?"

"Well... I'm gonna have a lot of fun trying."