Trick or Treat

The three of them walked into Ellen’s store and were greeted by ASTRID. “~OH, Mistress~ I’m so happy to have you come by. Hmm… I seem to be lacking data about what you prefer like this. One moment.” ASTRID’s eyes started to glow brightly, giving off a fairly ominous red color. “~AH~ It always feels so good to learn about you, Mistress. I have downloaded your preliminary preference profile but will endeavor to learn what you would like to wear as quickly as possible. Now, am I helping you, pick out something for yourself, or are you here to optimize your women today?”

“A bit of both Astrid.”

Laura frowned, “Mary, I don’t like you talking that way about us.”

“~Laura~” ASTRID sang in a sweet voice moving over to her and grabbing her arm, and then in a discordant voice, “~DON’T TALK BACK TO YOUR MISTRESS~” Then returned to her cheery tone, “If Mary wants you optimized, you should want that too.”

“Astrid let go of Laura’s arm this instant!” Mary shouted and ASTRID immediately let go of Laura. “Astrid, that order about pushing MY WOMEN into a role being MY JOB, that now extends to correcting and disciplining them too. Do you understand?”

“Yes, of course Mistress.” ASTRID said, and then she moaned in sexual delight, “~Oh please Mistress~ order me around more.”

“Astrid, please give the three of us a moment alone.” After ASTRID complied, Mary talked to Laura and Ellen quietly. “Okay Laura, and Ellen, I’m sorry if I offended either of you, when I said to Astrid that we were here to optimize the two of you. That part that Petra mentioned about Astrid being bound by her programming, well remember what happened on Aubrey’s date. That started because I made a request for Astrid to try not to push all of you into a stereotype. That’s the thing it was a request not an order. She didn’t freak out like now because Aubrey didn’t push against her programming, only I did. I’ve found that when you work within Astrid’s programming it is much easier. Hence me giving her orders and making it clear that they are such. Since I am her ‘owner’,” Mary used air quotes for that, “If I give her a direct order and explain that she would actually be violating her programming, not only for disobeying the order, but because she is infringing on an activity that I say is mine, she is far more accommodating. Look, think of it like this, right now if Ellen wasn’t in character as Belle she would sound rather dumb.” Mary turned to Ellen, “I’m sure that if we all constantly corrected you, that you wouldn’t be pleased about that right?”

“No, that would become frustrating really fast especially since you all know I can’t help it.”

“It’s the same thing with Astrid. She can’t help it. So instead of deliberately trying to get her to go against her TF, I’m trying to get her to act more normally by working with her TF. If that means not correcting her language sometimes or explaining something to her in a way that I wouldn't talk about it with all of you directly then I will.”

“Okay, Mary. I’m sorry for calling you out like that.” Laura said.

“Don’t be, that is the sort of thing that requires explanation. Please call me out, just maybe wait until we aren’t around Astrid.”

“Speaking of that, are we safe around her? Her grip got surprisingly tight, and it sort of seems like a glitch. Like she might go full Skynet on us.”

“Well… This isn’t the first time this has happened.”

“What?!” Laura shouted, then noticed that while Ellen was frightened she wasn’t surprised. “Wait, Ellen, you knew about this too?”

“It happened on my date last round, with Mary. Cassandra said it shouldn’t be an issue and has occurred in previous seasons. That it typically happens when someone really tries to correct her programming.”

“You two really should have told the rest of us.” Laura said sternly. “This is a serious issue.”

Mary replied, “Laura, I thought about it and between Cassandra asking us not to, and everyone already having mixed feelings about Astrid, I decided not to. I’m sure that Cassandra would intervene if something bad were to actually happen. It would be Cassandra’s ass on the line if Astrid was allowed to do something to one of you.”

“Well, I’m not keeping this a secret. Sorry if that is a problem for you.”

“I won’t try to stop you Laura, but realize that hearing about Astrid acting like this is very uncomfortable for her sisters. Please keep that in mind.” Laura frowned at Mary’s words and nodded. “Now, please tell me that you two aren’t so freaked out that you want to stop the shopping trip. I still need to get you both something this week.”

Ellen replied, “I’ll be okay, plus I really have a few outfits I want to buy.”

Laura took a moment, “I’m not freaked out, just concerned. Also… could you hold off on buying me anything?”

“Sure but why?”

“Well, how serious were you about me selecting a main path?”

“Oh. I’m not going to push, but you have my support for [Sex Goddess] if you want to pick that. Again though I would prefer if we could tweak it a bit first, but I’m not opposed to it as is. I’m guessing you are thinking about having me buy you the enchanted outfit?”

“Well, I mean no reason to buy a bunch of outfits when I could buy one that could be nearly any outfit. I also don’t mind the idea of being a goddess. So I am considering it.”

“Okay I can hold off, can you try to have made a decision by the morning of Flora’s date?”

“Sure, not a problem.”

“Okay shall we browse then?”

“I think we should still get something for Laura to wear, or at least try on. Also if you see any normal looking outfits that might pass as normal clothing pull it aside for me.” Ellen requested.

Getting nods the three started to go around the store picking out various outfits. Ellen pulled Laura aside for a moment. “Hey, Laura, I have a question for you. Would it be too much to slip Merida a candy?”

“What!?” Laura nearly shouted but then lowered her voice and asked again in a whisper, “What?!”

“Look Merida, essentially threatened to ruin my plans unless I made a binding promise to Chloe. I think that was uncalled for. I’d like some payback. This wouldn’t be breaking the rules either since it is only temporary.”

“Ellen, you would be taking advantage of her when she is essentially helpless, I don’t like it.”

“She did the same to me. I essentially had to comply or have what I want ruined. She had me at her mercy, sure she didn’t go completely overboard, but she still made me promise things I didn’t want to.”

“Ellen, you have to know Mary will be pissed if she finds out right?”

“How is this worse than what Chloe did to me though? Mary didn’t seem that upset, and Chloe stuck me with a lot more candies.”

“I don’t think you should Ellen, I won’t stop you though. If you really want to do this my advice is talk to Mary first, but I think you know what she will tell you which is why you asked me instead.”

“We still have fourteen candies Laura, even with five of us that is nearly three a piece. I’m just trying to lighten our burden a little while also getting a little payback.”

“Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself more than me. Up to you Ellen but I think you are going to have a hard time doing it without talking to Mary, since Merida is pretty much the closest mannequin to Mary at all times.” Merida at that moment appeared right beside the two of them wearing a sexy French maid outfit.

Laura took a look around and saw Mary on the other side of the store. “Well, I guess you have Cassandra’s go ahead. So what will it be Ellen?”

Ellen contemplated it for a moment and then reached into the candy bowl and took out a candy and moved towards Merida.

“Wrong answer, Ellen.” Which caused Ellen to look up in confusion as Laura grabbed her wrist and took the candy away from Ellen.

“I thought you said you weren’t going to stop me.”

“I lied. I am going to stop you. I am also going to be in charge of the candies tonight.” Laura took the bowl away from Ellen too. “I’m disappointed, Ellen. While I’m not going to ruin your plan tonight, I will be telling Mary about this, later. It would have been one thing to trick Merida into eating a piece of candy, or asking her too. But it is another thing entirely to take advantage of her like this. Plus you are forgetting one very important thing Merida is aware. She can hear us right now and know what you just tried to do. Merida I’m sure you are pissed at Ellen right now, but please don’t ruin the plan tonight. Consider it a favor to me, for stopping Ellen. I’m going to make sure Ellen is properly punished for her behavior, but only if you don’t ruin the plan.” Merida teleported away across the store appearing in front of Mary.

“So it was all a test? You were never going to let me do it were you.”

“Not completely Ellen. If you had gone to talk to Mary, I would have let you two figure it out. If you had gone and tried to sneak her one with Mary nearby, I might have sabotaged your plan, I might not have. But once Merida was by the two of us like that, no I wasn’t going to let you give it to her. Also don’t bother asking Mary now, if you do I will tell her what you just tried to do.”

Ellen felt thoroughly chastised and replied, “Okay, I’m sorry. Thanks for not ruining my plans.”

“I’m not the one you need to apologize to Ellen. I’m not angry, just disappointed. It also makes me realize that Mary needs to alter that rule about boundaries. Because if Merida could have responded I’m pretty sure she would have told you no, and you would have broken the rules.”

Ellen just looked downcast. “Okay.” Laura shook her head and walked away. Ellen went back to looking at the costumes but not really feeling particularly enthusiastic about it.

The three of them met back up after another twenty minutes to share what they had found.

Mary noticed that Ellen had grabbed the Kim Possible, Velma, and housewife costumes she had tried out on her last date. “I see you liked those options. Are you wearing any of them tonight?”

“Maybe… It would be the Velma one if I were.”

“Right, I guess you are sticking to intelligent characters for now.”

“That is sort of the plan.”

“Well… I guess you won’t like my suggestions then.” Mary went over and separated her selections into three piles.

Laura looked at the piles, “You seem to have selected quite a lot.”

“Well you’ll notice Ellen’s pile is the largest by far both because she asked for normal clothes and she actually needs variety . My pile is anything I think I might like wearing even if not right now, since it doesn’t cost me anything. I’m just going to ask that these be put in their own section of my closet. Your pile Laura is either costumes I think qualify as Jasmine’s style or I just think would be really appropriate for you even if only for a little bit. After all, if you are supposed to wear the outfit during sex it doesn’t really matter how horny you get right?”

Laura raised a finger to object, opening and closing her mouth a few times. “I guess it doesn’t. That… that raises a bunch of new options. Wait… am I going to develop a fetish for having sex with clothes on? I guess that’s not too bad.” Which caused Mary to giggle. “Okay, that was adorable.” Laura said, smiling at Mary.

Ellen added her clothes to the piles. “Well, I didn’t find much for Laura, but I found a few more I want and… well I found one I would really like to see you in Mary.” Ellen blushed profusely. “I think you would look really cute in it. I also found a couple's outfit. Rather it could actually be a group outfit if Laura wanted to as well, but… well it would make you horny Laura.”

“What’s the group outfit?” asked Laura.

“Oh it’s a 1920s mob boss, and a flapper dress. But there are additional gangster outfits like the henchmen or I guess henchwomen in this case. But if you or Mary aren’t interested there is actually one other outfit I found for you Laura, but let’s just go through all of them, and see if you end up liking the one I picked out or not. Did you find anything?”

“Well… I found a couple that I thought would fit me but I’m not interested in getting them, a few normalish outfits for you, and one fetish outfit for Mary.” Laura looked a little evasive about the last outfit.

“Laura, I’ll at least try the outfit on, whether you get to see me in it will depend on how scandalous it is and how charitable I feel at the moment.”

~Ping~

Mary got out her phone to check the message.

Samantha: Hey Mary, so I was thinking it over. I realized I don’t think it is a good idea for me to stay in the suite tonight with what is likely going to happen. I’ll still come and take a few candies though to lessen the burden on the rest of you. Flora says she is still coming.

Mary: No worries I totally understand. Also you don’t have to come take any candy if you don’t want to. Chloe and Talia already took two pieces each so we are down to fourteen now.

Samantha: I’ll still meet you up at the palace and take two of them. Flora, Allie, Isabella and I are all in the Library. Merida was too but she disappeared. Flora thought she got summoned to work in the shops.

Mary: She is currently on display in the shops right now. Also thanks for being willing to take some of the candies. See you later tonight then.

Samantha: See you later.

“Looks like Sam is out for the night but will still take two candies for us. Okay let’s go through these outfits. Astrid, could you come over here and help us with this.”

“~Always Mistress~ I’ll help you however you want. Which of these piles would you like to start with?”

“Can you put all the outfits I picked for myself in my wardrobe and just leave the three that Ellen and Laura picked out. Then let’s start with Ellen’s pile and move on to Laura’s finishing with my own pile.”

“Certainly Mistress.” ASTRID did much the same as Petra did modeling the outfits one at a time on Merida. They had selected a lot of outfits for Ellen. As they were displayed they talked about how they would likely affect Ellen if she was completely in character for each outfit. Which caused some of the outfits to be removed outright as Mary did not want Ellen becoming sadistic, or overly possessive. Of all the outfits three stood out. The first was a pink latex french maid outfit.

“So, you said you were submissive and I do like a good maid fantasy, and I have a thing for latex. So I thought it would be perfect for you, but I do realize that it isn’t exactly an intelligent outfit.”

“Well, I’m willing to play your maid someday. Even often if you want. I do want to try and keep my BP costs down though.”

ASTRID spoke up, “If that is a concern I would like to remind you Ellen that due to your costume TF all costumes are 50% off. Also you get a 50% discount for anything with a corset on top of that. So this outfit would only cost you 25% of the normal price.”

“Well… that changes things slightly. ASTRID when we finish going through could you pull out any of the outfits that I or Mary showed interest in that have corsets included”

“Absolutely, Miss.”

The next outfit they stopped on was that of a sexy secretary. “This one was my pick too, Ellen. I was actually thinking if you wanted to try out any sort of submissive role play that wasn’t completely sexual in nature. Well, I thought this was a good place to start.” Mary said. “Plus it looks like normal clothing.”

“Thank you Mary. ASTRID, this is going in the yes pile for sure.”

Mary eyed the last outfit weirdly before Astrid put it on as it looked like it contained a bodysuit, and mask, to go under the outfit. When ASTRID put the outfit on Merida, Mary was surprised to see a taller Talia looking back at her.

“Okay, what’s going on Astrid?”

“Is something the matter, Mistress?” ASTRID looked genuinely confused.

“Why is Talia on display?”

“That is Merida, Mistress. I know that the costume can be quite convincing but it is still Merida wearing it.”

Laura spoke up. “So, I picked this one. This is actually one of the premium outfits here that costs a lot more though. There is actually one for each of us, even you Mary. The only people that didn’t have an outfit were Mark, Cassandra, Smug, and Maja. At least that I could find.”

Astrid responded. “That is correct, those are the only four people here that don’t have costumes everyone else does. Though I will say that the Mary outfit costs 10,000 BP normally and you still have to have Mary’s permission to buy it.”

“Why is that even an option?” Mary asked.

“Well Mistress, and please pardon my language but my instructions about this were quite explicit. Cassandra wanted it to be an option because, and I quote ‘So Mark or Mary can go fuck him or her, self,’ end quote. I apologize once again, Mistress, for referring to you so crudely.”

That caused Laura to laugh, “Oh come on Mary, don’t tell me that isn’t at least a little funny.” Laura tilted her head to one side and her eyes went wide in realization. “ASTRID, could you bring a mirror over here for a moment?” ASTRID complied with the request. “Mary, would you look in the mirror for a moment?”

Mary rolled her eyes but humored Laura, and looked in the mirror. “What am I supposed to be seeing here?”

“Well… Are you attracted to yourself? I mean you said you feel like a woman while you are Mary and you said all women are attracted to you as Mary…”

“No I don’t, the actual wording is that other women will always find me attractive. I will admit though I am pretty, now that I really look at myself. Anyway, why suggest this for Ellen.”

“I’m curious about that myself.” Ellen said.

“Well it fits literally all of your requested things. Talia is a genius. It has normal looking clothes. It has a corset. I also wanted to point it out since Mary mentioned she has a thing for twins. I would have grabbed some of the others but with them being so pricey decided against it, as I figured you could just go and grab whichever ones you want later. I thought it would also be the most interesting for you to try on. I was thinking it might even give you some of her TFs, even if only temporarily.”

“That seems dangerous.” Mary said, “Also I’m not sure how comfortable I would be with you wearing this without Talia’s permission.”

“I’ll just ask.” Ellen said got out her phone and messaged Talia. She got a response back almost instantly. “She says she doesn’t mind, and after we each have sex with you on our own, we should definitely have sex as twins with you.”

“Okay, well if she’s fine with it I would just watch out about her TFs.”

“That is actually the reason I really wanted to point this one out, Mary. If Ellen could get others’ TFs… well. Ellen I would be okay with you wearing my costume. I was particularly thinking it might be helpful in some challenges. Especially physical ones.”

“Would you be okay with giving up that advantage?” Ellen inquired.

“Ellen, we all have different advantages and disadvantages. I’m competitive, and I want to win, but I also want you to be able to do your best too. I doubt that you would get all my TFs completely unless you wore the outfit for a really long time. Maybe you would just get weaker versions, or only some of them. I just don’t want you to do poorly because I didn’t tell you about a potential advantage you had.”

“It just seems like you are helping your competition to beat you.”

“Well, how about this? Don’t screw me over in a challenge while wearing my costume. On another note about twins. I know I’m incredibly hot and would love to have sex with a copy of myself. So if you do want to be my sub well… you will be putting on my costume from time to time for sure. Actually Ellen, I would like to change my previous statement of ‘I would be willing to be your dom’ to ‘I’d like to be your dom’, as long as you are fine with us not doing any **** roleplay.”

“I… really? I mean you just seem… so out of my league.”

“Ellen, first of all, everyone here is attractive. Not everyone is a Hollywood movie starlet level of attractive but definitely significantly above average. Second, Ellen, unlike me you can be essentially any woman. Actually I’m just starting to realize how much fun we could have with that. You mentioned you wanted to play Black Widow. Well, I’ve always wanted to have sex with Black Widow. You want to be made to do things, well I have a lot of things that I want to try that I’ve never found a partner to do them with. Things that Mary here is unlikely to want to have done to her, so what do you say?”

“Uh… I don’t… I don’t know. This is sort of all so sudden.”

“Well, think about it after tonight.”

“Sure…”

Mary, seeing that the two of them had finished their conversation, spoke up. “Well… if you actually change size and everything from putting on one of these outfits. I definitely want you to get the Laura outfit at some point. I don’t know if you do though since Merida is still the same height as herself, but I could see that being a trait you get.”

“Okay, Astrid, how much are these outfits?”

“For you, the Talia outfit would be 625 BP and the Laura outfit would be 1250 BP. Their base cost is 2500 BP though.”

“Also, are there different versions of these outfits? Like for each stage of the TFs? Like is there a non-amazonian Laura?”

“There is not. The costume will also be updated every time a TF is applied, even a temporary one. So you don’t have to worry about your outfit becoming outdated.”

“Hmmm…” Ellen was running some numbers, “So if I got both of these, the secretary and the other three outfits… That right there is more than half my BP.”

“Just ask Mark to get one for you.” Laura suggested helpfully.

ASTRID spoke up, “Oh Mistress, I was going to mention this during checkout but I made a mistake the last time you purchased clothing for one of you women. I overcharged you by not applying the 50% discount to the clothing that you bought for Samantha. It was an oversight, as such you actually have 750 BP in store credit to spend as well, unfortunately I can’t refund you the BP but you can use it at any place I am a clerk at.”

“Tell you what Ellen, I'll buy you the Laura outfit, if you buy the Talia outfit as well.”

“Mistress…” ASTRID said hesitantly. “I would like to remind you there are rules about how much you can spend on an outfit for one of your girls, at least at my shops.”

“Right… so Ellen you will have to try on the Laura outfit and model it for me. Actually, I want you in the Laura outfit for the rest of the day, if you want me to buy that one for you. Otherwise I’ll pay for the Talia outfit instead.”

“But, and I don’t mean this as a criticism Laura. I’m pretty sure that I’ll sound like a bimbo in her outfit.”

“I don’t think it will be as bad as you do. Laura might not be a literal genius but she is intelligent.”

“If I sound like a total bimbo could I switch to something else instead? Like Talia’s outfit.”

Mary thought that over for a moment. “Well… that depends. See, even if you have Talia’s permission to wear her costume, I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing anything with you in it that I haven’t done with her. I also assume you would like for us to do whatever you have planned tonight while you have clothes on as otherwise your TF will activate as well. Unless you just weren’t planning on speaking this evening.”

“Okay fine, I’ll wear the Laura outfit out, but I want to try the Talia outfit on first. I want to see just how smart she is now. Let’s finish the other outfits, though.”

They continued with Laura’s small pile. Most of the outfits were just slight variations on what she was currently wearing. “Maja is certainly right, there isn’t a lot that actually fits my style restrictions.” ASTRID dressed Merida in the first of the outfits that Mary had selected that didn’t meet the style restrictions. “Okay hold on, what the hell Mary?” Laura could hear a low irritating sound coming from ASTRID. “Sorry, Mary, could you please explain why you picked this outfit out for me.” The sound coming from ASTRID stopped.

“I mean I did say I picked outfits out that I thought wouldn't matter because we would have sex with you in them. I mean… is it surprising that I picked a maid outfit for you as well? Actually, Ellen, if you could also buy the maid outfit, I’ll buy this one for Laura and then you two can match and be proper twins.”

“I didn’t say that I would wear this Mary.” Laura weakly protested.

“You know full well that you would love for me to screw you in this.”

“Okay sure… but that isn’t the point.”

“Astrid, add that to the pile I’m buying.” She did so and put the next outfit on Merida.

Laura responded, “Now this is much more my speed. I’m surprised they have a dominatrix outfit though. I thought you didn’t want to be dominated, Mary.”

+1 VP Modeling Show for Master (Merida)
+2 VP Cause Merida to Orgasm (Ellen) (x2 First)
+2 VP Cause Merida to Orgasm (Laura) (x2 First)

“I don’t and don’t even consider doing that. I want to make that clear, Laura. That is not happening at all. I wasn’t the one to pick this outfit either.”

“Okay, okay. Yeah, I can now tell that doing that would break the rules. Still, why is this here then?”

“Well could be for me. Could also be for one of you to dom someone else in the harem. Like Ellen here. Since she was the one to suggest it. Because watching two girls go at it is something I would find erotic. I mean I sort of expected that you were coming tonight to participate in doming Ellen here, with me, but also as a safeguard. That outfit also looks very sexy. Astrid, can you add a copy of it to my wardrobe in my size?” ASTRID actually went and picked up one of the three outfits that were in Mary’s pile. “Wait… Ellen I take it you wanted Laura and me to both wear those tonight?”

“No!” Ellen exclaimed a little more forcefully than she intended. “Maybe someday though. That isn’t the outfit I really wanted to see you in. You would look sexy in that, not cute.”

“Well, if we aren’t using it tonight it will have to wait for me.” Laura said. “Since I am considering the main path I’m going to save my BP, at least until I make that choice.”

Mary said, “In that case should we just move on to my outfits. I’d rather spare Merida some of the embarrassment from having all those put on her, if we aren’t even considering getting them. In fact I’ll just go try them on myself. Instead of seeing them on Merida first.” Mary went and grabbed the two outfits. “Okay Ellen this does look cute. Laura… tell you what I’ll let you see me in this if you go along with the maid outfits, with Ellen. Otherwise I’m trying it on to see how I like it but won’t be showing it to you today.”

“Oh come on, that's not fair.”

“Laura, even for a slutty Halloween costume, this is especially slutty. If you don’t want to wear the maid outfit we can do the group costume instead, but I think you will find you are disappointing two different women if you don’t want to wear the maid outfit.”

Laura looked at Ellen, seeing a pleading expression on her face. “Okay, fine but you are wearing that tomorrow for our date, then.”

“Actually…” Ellen spoke up, “How about tonight? I mean it fits right? In exchange for that Laura can we have Mary wear my outfit tomorrow, since I’m still invited for that right?”

“Shouldn’t you be asking me that, Ellen? I didn’t even agree to Laura’s request.”

“Sure, I guess. It was obvious though that you were going to agree.”

Mary sighed, “Fine, but I’m not staying as Mary all of tomorrow so how much you see me in it will be up to how I feel.”

Laura thought about it, “I’m okay with Ellen’s proposal I guess. So you will wear my pick all night, or nothing at all, right? That counts for both forms if you want me in the maid outfit.”

“So long as it doesn’t make Flora uncomfortable.”

“Okay deal.”

The three of them went to try on the various outfits. Mary went first. “I’ll be right back. Laura, I expect you to be in the maid outfit when I get back out here, to show off the outfit Ellen picked out.”

“Okay fine.” Laura and Mary went into the changing stalls and changed. It didn’t take long for either to come back out. Laura was in a gold latex maid outfit.

“I want to complain, the skirt on this one is much shorter than the one displayed on Merida.”

ASTRID corrected her, “Actually Lady Laura, it is not. It is the exact same length, but you are quite a bit taller than Merida so it might seem shorter.”

“Okay, but I thought this outfit was supposed to be my size.”

ASTRID looked confused but smiled at Laura, “Does something not fit properly? I can always make adjustments if you think something is too loose.”

“No. That won’t be necessary.” Laura grumbled.

Mary spoke up. “I’m not sure that it would really matter, pretty sure I would easily see up your skirt either way. At least while I’m Mary, which since I agreed to wear the other outfit or nothing this evening, I’ll be staying as Mary until we reach the suite.” Mary said this slightly leaning to one side to see up Laura’s skirt. “Hey, you didn’t put on the panties… I approve.” Mary said, smiling at Laura.

“Hey, quit that.” Laura pushed down her skirt as she checked out Mary’s outfit. “Wow you look just like a fairy. Ellen you hit the money on this one, cute as hell.”

“Ah thanks, Laura. I thought I look cute too. Hopefully the plans tomorrow will allow me to wear this or you will be seeing a lot of Mark, tomorrow. I will be Mark for a good portion anyway but just keep that in mind. Ellen, get a good look? Can I go change into the other outfit now?”

Ellen looked Mary up and down a few times, “Can you do a slow turn?” Mary humored her. “Okay, I’m good, go change.”

Mary went back into the changing room. She looked at the ‘outfit’ and thought, This… this is so fricking skimpy. Seriously… whatever, I’ll just put it on, we'll go back to the suite and then I’ll just be naked, as Mark, no big deal. Having twin Laura maids is definitely going to be worth it. I really hope Ellen gets Laura’s height so they are physically the same. Mary put on the outfit and stepped out of the changing room. She was wearing a black bodystocking with an intricate lace pattern on the front and down the sides with a sheer black cape over her shoulders fastened together by a gemstone at her neck.

Laura wolf-whistled. “Hot damn Mary, you look like a dark goddess.”

“Well, thank you for the compliment. Two things Laura: first this outfit has absolutely no breast support, second please remember that you literally got a goddess TF that also resulted in a path change for you, because of a few comments I made about you being a goddess. Do you really want me to get something along the lines of Dark God or Goddess? Just something to consider.”

Laura thought about it for a moment. “Would that get you to dress like this more often?”

That slightly annoyed Mary, “Laura please take this seriously. I mean it. It probably would cause me to dress more sexily like this, but it would probably also come with the side effect of not giving a damn about what you want as well. You know how you mentioned, you are not being into **** and **** play? Maybe don’t tempt fate, please. I’d very much prefer that those remain strictly fantasies for me, or if they get acted out they are with an actual willing partner. So let’s not push the whole dark goddess.” By the end of Mary’s little rant she seemed genuinely distressed.

“Mary… I’m sorry. Thank you for taking our safety seriously too. You’re right, I really shouldn’t joke about that stuff when you could get something like that because of an off-hand comment.”

“Thank you Laura. I’m glad you understand. I didn’t mean to get so worked up. I’m just really trying to not indulge my darker impulses too much. I’m afraid that I’ll end up going too far and doing something really stupid if I do.” Mary saw Laura make a contemplative face, “Laura what’s wrong?”

“Umm… nothing exactly. Mary could Ellen and I speak in private for a moment.”

“Uh… sure? I’ll just go talk with Astrid a little and call me back when Ellen is ready to go change.” Mary walked off a little confused and concerned.

Laura began in a whisper to Ellen, “Okay… are you sure this is a good idea? I’m starting to have my doubts.”

“I mean we are just following Allie’s walkthrough. It's supposed to help.”

“Sure, but did Allie say that this was supposed to help overcome the hesitance that Mary feels about dominating you? It is specific for the person and situation. I’m just worried what if this does help you but screws over everyone else? Makes Mary willing to try and dominate all of us until we submit?”

“Laura, isn’t this like it was with Sam? We know Allie’s walkthrough works.”

“No, it isn’t. Sam asked for help getting over her intimacy issues so she could end up being Mark’s wife. Which maybe that did make Mary more caring and thoughtful. This is likely to have the opposite effect. Could we at least check with Allie again? Please?”

“Fine, but Laura, realize we still have to finish those candies someone has to take them tonight.”

“What if I just refused to return them for your own protection?”

“I would try to take them from you by physical ****. Knowing full well that I probably can’t and that I would get punished for it.”

“Shit, okay. Could you check with Allie.”

Ellen got out her phone and texted Allie.

Ellen: Hey Allie, about the walkthrough for tonight could I get some more information and clarification, things have somewhat changed since yesterday. Laura thinks it is rather important.

Allie: Sure Ellen, you still want help getting Mark to dominate you right?

Ellen: I do, but that is where Laura’s concern lies. She is concerned that your walkthrough will only help with getting Mark to dominate me, which could lead to Mark dominating everyone else. So… I’m not exactly sure how to ask but can you tell what it will do there?

Allie: Give me a moment.

Allie: Okay so things have changed slightly, in general the plan is still the same. Honestly at this point the only thing you have to do is give Mark or Mary the caramels and not let them know what it does ahead of time. You’ve already locked the other requirements down.

Allie: A few notes for better results and also to address your concerns.

Allie: First It would be better for you to be with Mary first, then Mark. Second, instead of taking all the skittles yourself, you should spread them around as much as you can but don’t let Mary or Mark have one. Also, sorry but Sam can’t take any of the candies tonight. I know she already told me she wasn’t going to be joining you but she needs to not take the candies at all. I’m letting her know because it would be really bad. I don’t know why but it would effectively brick your run so to speak.

Allie: I looked at a few of the other issues and from what I can tell. Mark shouldn’t become some power obsessed maniac. I can tell you I sort of know what the effects of the candy are and it should be fine.

Allie: Since I assume you are going to show this to Laura. Laura if things go poorly for some reason I promise to use my walkthrough to help fix any problems, okay?

Ellen passed her phone to Laura to read the conversation. “Okay fine, we’ll proceed with the plan then.” Laura raised her voice, “Alright Mary, we’re done.”

Mary walked back over, “Okay, Ellen your turn.”

Ellen stood up, “Give me a few minutes, the body suit looks like it might take a bit of effort to get into.” Ellen walked into the closet to get changed. She found the Talia bodysuit surprisingly easy to put on. She pulled up the zipper which disappeared when fully zipped. Ellen nearly panicked but realized that it just wasn’t visible but it was still there, when she felt for it. She noticed that the corset that came with the outfit was super tight. Right well I guess I have to remove this if I want Talia’s intelligence to really take effect. So, Ellen removed the corset completely. Then something quite unexpected happened. Ellen’s intelligence plummeted to rock bottom.