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Rewards and Punishments

"We shall begin with our most precious Wizard." Skye giggled to herself, floating about the tiny mage with that same tranquil smile as always. She rattled off my options.

Precious Level 4 Class Rewards

Versatile Casting - The Wizard’s mastery over the arcane allows them to alter aspects of their spell. When casting a spell spend a spell slot of equal value to change the damage type of the spell.

Enchanter: The wizard studies how to enhance mundane items with the power of the arcane. Once per day the wizard can enchant a mundane weapon or piece of armor, granting it an item bonus equal to the wizard’s current item level. This enchantment lasts for an entire day.

Mage Armor - The wizard studies defensive spells. The Wizard gains the spell Mage Armor, which grants them a weightless suit of armor.

Precious Level 5 Personal Rewards

Too Smart for her own good - Precious is very smart, and it gets her in trouble more often than not. Gabe can move two stat points away from any combination of stats and move them to intelligence, or can move two points of intelligence into any other stat.

Star - Precious was the public darling of The Harpies. If selected Precious will no long gain Heritage or Personal perks. They will instead become perks from the Bard Class.

Glory Hog - Precious loves the spotlight, and winning sometimes at the cost of others and herself. Starting immediately If Precious’ performance in a challenge rewarded her two levels, she will instead gain three. This third level will always be a punishment. However if Precious gains only one level from a challenge, that level will always be a punishment.

"Shit." Precious laughed, and looked to me. "That all looks pretty good."

"Really good." I agreed, wondering if the personal rewards were special.

"Kind of insulting." She added, not entirely wrong.

"We know you're working on some of that." Anna said, offering a rare piece of moral support to her teammates.

"Well deserved, either way." Hilda said, calm despite her impending doom.

"Nothing Horny either." She said a little more quietly.

Skye through was off to the races, and new prowled towards my bard, like the wind had taken her there. Lana was doing great, and was zooming ahead in levels, plus she had some great gear. I was curious and eager to see what I could use to make her even better.

Lana Level 5 Personal Rewards

Big Sister - Lana got to level five first! Sometimes twins absorb their sibling in utero. Lana can take two stat points from Ana and add them to her own. This perk will be removed from Ana’s list of potential rewards.

Teacher - Lana is a teacher in her day job, and class is in session. Once per player Lana can choose to teach them one of her class feats. This takes a day, and can not be undone for a different or new feat.

Actress - Lana’s true dream and passion is to become an actress. Since she’s already a bard and well on her way this feat will give her a little boost. Her next bard Perk will have its effects upgraded.

Lana Level 6class Reward

Dance of Devastation -This is a dance that increases the crit range for her teams’ attacks by 1.

Dance of Diversity - When allies roll on a skill check while the bard is performing this dance they gain +2 on their rolls.

Dance of Delusion - As an action Lana can start performing this unusual and entrancing dance. All enemies who see her must make a will check against her charisma dc or gain 2 Ranks of the distracted Condition. (Distracted: Rolls receive a -1 per rank.)

"Woah what the hell?" Anna yelped.

"Yeah, what's that Big sister feat supposed to be?" Vera Grimaced as she read the move over.

"It's a competition." I said, shaking my head.

"I thought we were supposed to be a team?" Anna shot a nasty look to Skye, who just giggled.

"Frustrating isn't it?"

"I mean it's pretty good." Precious said, never afraid to play Devil's Advocate.

"For Lana!"

"Well yeah." Precious giggled. "But i mean like, just cold calculations it's not like you're using your charisma. I'm just saying if we were pixels it'd be an interesting move."

"Well Gabe's not going to pick it anyway, so I don't know why we're talking about it so much." Lana said clearly uncomfortable with the conversation. And why not? Skye was asking her to vampire power away from her sister who was already struggling.

"Oh who knows what Gabe will do?” Everyone was surprised to hear Vera say that. She blushed. "Sorry, Night's not here, so someone had to say it."

"I like the upgrade one." I said, trying to defuse everything. "And that Dance of Diversity could help us get past this current challenge."

"Is that what you're choosing?" Sky asked.

I chuckled Grimley. "It's not always up to me Skye." I said, already feeling the audience roiling with interest over my decisions.

"Then let us move on to the little sister."

Ana Level 4 Class Rewards

Holy Vision - Anna has a chance to receive a beatific vision of helpful advice or prophecy any time she orgasms. Guaranteed if the orgasm is given by Gabe directly.

Holy Water - What Cleric does not enjoy a little holy water? Gabes Cum becomes a sacred material to Ana which can relieve any condition or negative status she may be under when ingested. Ana may lead another in prayer and bless Gabe’s cum to allow it to have the same effect. Works on piss too!

Purpose in Pain - Ana as a life long disciple of Gabe can withstand much of the pain his faith demands of her. Ana can ignore the first level of any physical condition that involves pain. (Burned, Bleeding, Pained as examples. Not Restrained, or Prone.)

"Are you kidding me? Drinking Gabe's piss is my reward?"

"There's two other perfectly good options for him to choose from." Skye said calmly.

Anna ignored her and looked to me. "Gabe if you choose that second one I will never forgive you."

"Understood." None of those would radically change her use in the party, but some of them could be fun. Fucking a girl to epiphany sounded fun, and so did having her pray over my cum. So fun in fact I had to shift to hide a growing erection.

“Is that how you talk to your god?” The beautiful Empress of The North snarled at her daughter from her place in my throne room.

Anna immediately blushed and lowered her head. “I was only…”

“Forgive her majesty! She is not herself.” The Empress said. “We, your church will of course embrace whatever choices you make here.”

“It’s okay.” I said ackwardly. “Gabe gives his toughest battles to his fiercest clerics.” I’d just had a great night with Anna and felt that maybe we were getting somewhere, I couldn’t ruin that now by ego tripping with an npc.

“Your servants get tougher still.” Sky said, floating to Vera.

Vera Level 4 Class Reward

Holy Spell Casting - Paladins are holy warriors for Gabe, as such they have some magical abilities. Using Charisma as their casting stat, they gain a level of Divine Spellcasting every 4 levels.

Smite - A paladin can channel Gabe’s holy wrath into their blows. After landing an Attack they can use a reaction to expend a use of Lay on Hands to add their Charisma stat to their damage.

Armor Up - Paladins be tanky what can I say? Utilizing their armor to its max a paladin can use a reaction to nullify their first instance of physical damage in a fight.

“Okay.” Vera nodded her head slowly reading over her options. “Nothing to complain about there.”

Anna huffed. “Nope.”

“Yep.” Precious nodded. “We could keep focusing on you as an off healer. Round you out with damage, or continue making you the toughest bitch around. You’re getting dangerous Vera!”

The stocky warrior beamed.

Hilda Level 5 Personal Punishment

Home Wrecker - We all know the drama Hilda brought to the team. We're going to crank that up to 11. Hilda will become very lusty and desirous of Gabe when she learns he had sex with another member of the harem. The effect is more intense the more recent the occurrence was. She will try to seduce Gabe, earn his attention, or other such **** acts to make herself the object of his affection rather than the other player.

Red Headed Leash - A classic from a previous season, and an absolute must for any redheaded contestants. Hilda's hair will grow long and thick, further more she will become submissive of anyone who has a good hold of her hair, doing many things she would normally be able to resist.

Substitute - Hilda was the substitute member of The Harpies, a replacement. When Hilda wins a challenge and spends a night with Gabe, Gabe can choose to swap her out with any other member of the harem he desires.

Hilda smirked and shook her head. “Personal perk? Hardly, none of those even apply to me anymore.”

“Expect Redhead.” Lana said.

Hilda smiled shyly at our shared crush. “Yes, I suppose so.” I wonder if she was thinking about Lana leading her around by a fistful of her hair. I know I was.

“Just go with the substitute one.” Precious told me, growing pretty comfortable as my advisor. “It’s pretty much no downside and you get to choose if you use it.”

‘Boring’ I thought, still lost in my little fantasy between Hilda and Lana.

Daisy Level 6 Class Punishment

Book of Debts: Not all eldritch deals are made equal. The Witch has been failing in her part of the agreement, and thus greater rewards are needed for Gabe to keep patronizing. He may now make an additional demand from her each day, in addition to the demand awarded by Book of Names.

Gabe’s Reprise II: Gabe gives his witch another chance to prove herself. If the next feat she earns is a boon, this feat goes away. If the next feat she earns is a bane, its severity is increased.

Fairest of Them All: Witches are ugly. Sorry. A fraction of The Witch's beauty will be smote from her and awarded to another. Daisy loses two points of Charisma and Gabe will award those points to another contestant.

“Phew!” Daisy laughed and did a little celebratory dance. “I’ve already gotten all of those! No problem.”

“Not the one that makes you ugly.” Lana was appalled, or maybe it was the bard.

Daisy just shrugged. “Baby, I’m a green shortstack, I’m plenty ugly already.” She then turned to me with a salute. “Pick whatever you want boss.”

“We do have another reprise.” Precious offered. “What are the chances she gets a punishment four times in a row?”

I looked to the dancing goblin.

As if on Queue, she tripped over her own feet, fell on her face, and then with her ass in the air let out a long airy fart.

The two of us just slumped. “Why couldn’t the bus driver have taken her?”

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