Eating and talking

We go together to the reception room, which has changed somewhat in the time of the auction. The champagne reception at the door has disappeared and the hot plates on the tables at the edge are filled with food.

"Let's get something to eat" Reginald says and the 3 of us go to the buffet. We fill our plates and go to one of the free bar tables.

There we eat a little bit. After a few minutes, in which we have filled our stomachs well, we are so far ready that we can talk again.

"Reginald, you said you bought Sylvana here quite early. When was that?" I ask him.

"That was around the end of 2010. RealDreams hadn't been on the market a year, so I got a good price for Sylvanas here." He laughs and I see his hand grab her ass. Sylvanas doesn't make a face and acts like nothing is wrong.

"And then you trained her without mods? Was she your first character?" i ask Reginald again.

"Yes she was my first and I also just took care of her at first. It wasn't until she was somewhat tamed that I got other characters" Reginald replies.

"Interesting," I reply again. Reginald stands up. "It should go on in a moment. I have to go somewhere for a bit in the meantime. You two are welcome to keep talking." He stands up and walks to one of the doors, above which is a restroom symbol.

I look to Sylvanas. "I must say, you are really different from the game" I say to her. She smiles at me.

"I hear that all the time when my master meets new people. He trained me well back then and now I just want to help him with everything, when he needs me" Sylvanas returns.

"I can understand that. Let me ask you a question. When Reginald's characters don't follow his rules, you punish them don't you?"

"That's right," she replies, "Then I have another question. One of my characters is trying to rebel against me. She thinks you characters should have free will and she is trying to contact others. I've put a collar on all my characters so they can't move off my property or I'll be notified."

"What about your other characters, would they help her?" "I don't assume so. Both of them are handling it better and are already somewhat subordinate to me. One of them even told me that the other wants to rebel" I return.

"That's good. Do you have a punishment room or something?" Sylvanas asks me. "No I don't. What's a punishment room?"

"When characters misbehave I take them to a punishment room where there are various devices to punish them. Mostly BDSM sex toys."

"Hmm I could set up a room like that, but I have not much experience with BDSM."

"If you want and my master allows it, I could show you something if you like."

"Gladly" I say to her and smile at her. "Did you two get along well?" I hear a voice from the side and see Reginald who rejoins us at the table.

"Yes it was very good. I asked Sylvanas how she punishes her characters and she offered to show me sometime if you agree."

"Yes with pleasure" he looks at Sylvanas and gives her a quick grin. "If you want you can come by my place the next few days. Then you can also meet my girls" he laughs briefly.

An announcement sounds that it will continue in 5 minutes. "Do you still have the catalog?" Reginald asks me.

I take the catalog and open it to the first page of Game of Thrones characters. The characters are arranged here according to the starting bid. There are a total of 20 characters up for bid.

"Do you have anyone you'd like to get?" asks Reginald, looking anxiously through the list with me.

"There's already one or two of them I'd like. I just don't want to spend too much money for now, and I still have to make sure I train them."

As I shy through, something catches my eye. "Do you know how it is that many of the characters are the same age when they should be different ages?" I ask Reginald.

"That's pretty simple" he replies. "The teams go into the instance at different points in time. Eg. in Game of Thrones Cersei can be taken after the end of season 2. Then time is allowed to continue and the next character is taken out at the end of season 3. Therefore, many characters from the same instance can be sold without waiting for the last character to turn 18 as well."

An announcement sounds and the doors to the auction room open again. "Dear guests, please proceed to the auction room for our main auction. Please make sure they are seated in the same seats so that the auction numbers remain the same."

We slowly walk towards the auction room.