The next day

The following morning, Karlach bathed in the river as the rest of the party packed up the camp. She was about knee deep in the water, bending over and using her hands to cup the water so she could pick it up in order to splash it over herself and rub it on her shoulders, her arms, her breasts, her stomach, and her thighs. Her bare skin glistened in the sunlight, and steam from the evaporating water emanated from her.

When she finished, she rejoined the rest of the party. As the party gathered, Tav now seemed to join the list of naked party members.

Tav was a tiefling like Karlach, with light, almost human like skin, and long black horns and she had a tattoo of black flames dancing on her neck. Her hair was a very light purple that almost looked white, and her nipples were dark blue, almost grey.

Shadowheart was taken aback. "Oh, come on! Why are YOU naked, now? You're supposed to be the leader!" Tav simply shrugged her shoulders. She had an eccentric and mischievous streak that was very useful in combat, but then sometimes, that eccentric streak would cause her to do strange things that didn't make sense to anybody else. Things like suddenly deciding to take all of her clothes off and walk around naked, apparently.

"Lookin' good, soldier!" The wet and steaming Karlach cheekily walked up behind Tav and grabbed her breasts, giving them a quick squeeze. Tav responded in kind by turning her head back to meet Karlach's eyes while simultaneously reaching down with her hand to give Karlach a quick thigh squeeze.

Gale, meanwhile, looked like he was incredibly sick, as if he were about to vomit. "Gale!? Are you ok? Are you turning?" Shadowheart responded urgently.

"No... No, I don't think so. This is something else, actually. Listen, I have a condition I need to tell you all about." Gale explained that he needed to consume magic items and that the next magic item they found, he would need.

The party finally set forth. Tav brought Karlach, Shadowheart, and Gale this time. They continued to explore the area surrounding the crash site of the mindflayer spelljammer that they all escaped together. It wasn't long before they found some enemies to fight. These ones had some armor that looked like it could fit Karlach. Before she even got a chance to put it on, Gale, like a ravenous dog, walked over to Karlach and immediately started sucking the magic out of the armor set, reducing the armor to ashes.

Karlach was taken aback. "What did you do that for? Are you trying to keep me naked?"

The wizard finally relaxed, the hue returning to his skin. "I am sorry. Truly, I am. But I did tell you all about my condition. I promise you, you don't want to see what would have happened if I hadn't just absorbed the magic from that armor."

"How did you even know it was magic?"

"I can... Sense it. It's complicated. The point is that I am sorry. I have no way of repaying you just yet, but give me some time."

"Well... To be honest I was a little bit disappointed when I thought the fun was gonna be over. And I suppose you needed that magic more than I needed the clothes. I forgive you, but you do owe me one." She gave the wizard a gentle punch in the arm.

Shadowheart, meanwhile, was overloaded with random junk that Tav had picked up. She always did this, and frequently it meant a sluggish trip back to the nearest town, but usually at least she had her own knapsack to carry it all in. But since she decided to join Karlach and Lae'zel in nudity of her own volition, and because the clothes eating wizard was a noodle-armed wimp, that only left Shadowheart to carry all of Tav's haul.

"Are you really going to go into town naked like a wild animal to sell all of these-" Shadowheart reached into her bag to pull out some of the things that Tav had picked up. "- forks!? Spoiled cheese? And is this a real skull!?" Tav just shrugged her shoulders again as if to say 'of course I am'.

"What if they don't let you into town because you're naked?" Tav responded by sashaying up to Shadowheart with puppy dog eyes and pouted lips and her hands behind her back, then she jumped onto Shadowheart and wrapped her legs around her, kissing her neck as she bucked her hips against Shadowheart's.

"Ugh! Get off me! I can't carry you too with all of this junk in my bag!" Tav allowed herself to be pushed off, chuckling to herself with her hand over her mouth as her feet landed back on the ground. She had made her point without words. If the guards tried to give her any trouble, she would simply seduce them.

"And what if that doesn't work?" Shadowheart asked, challenging the tiefling. Tav simply pulled out her knife and licked it, as if to say 'if seducing them doesn't work, I'll just stab them'.

Shadowheart just sighed. It was useless to try and talk Tav down now. When Tav wanted something, she usually got it. She had this uncanny luck for convincing people to do whatever she wanted, even without using her tadpole."Right. Well... I guess we better be off then. With all of this junk, it's going to take us at least a few hours to walk all the way back to the grove." Tav, pleased with herself, started skipping ahead.

Karlach stepped in to help Shadowheart. "Here, I can help you carry that at least." Immediately, the difference in strength was obvious. Suddenly, Tav's gigantic bag of useless baubles that weighed a ton felt like a bag of feathers.

After half an hour or so of walking, both Shadowheart and Karlach started to work up a sweat. Shadowheart looked over at Karlach's body, covered in blood and grime, beads of sweat trickling down her breasts, her abs, and her bare ass. Karlach broke the silence between them, bringing Shadowheart to her senses. "You know, I really enjoyed last night, Shadowheart. Perhaps we could... do it again? Sometime?"

Shadowheart's cheeks turned crimson. "I... Would really like that. I would like that a lot, actually."