To Become a Real Harem

Stepping through the portal didn't change their location, as they only moved a limited distance in the bunker. Cammy found this an odd fact, until the demon spoke up.

"After I escaped hell a third time, I found this bunker and took it over," Vizrokoth said. "Over my time living here, I gradually increased my control over the bunker, including the very reality it inhabited. It was only logical when I chose to apply to Harem Hotel to make it the set of my first season."

The revelation was minor in the scheme of things, and yet, it still troubled Cammy. They had been sleeping, eating, and fucking in the tomb of a civilization they knew nothing about, other than that it made people like Z. But, for the themes their host wanted to pursue on her season, it made sense. She wanted to teach Felix about vengeance on a more philosophical level, and such a lesson needed some visual aids. Cammy could hate it, but she didn't have the power to do anything about it, or the pile of other issues that made Felix's life worse. Or her own, for that matter.

Soon, Cammy, Felix, and Noah joined everyone else in the main part of the bunker. Paisley was in the meeting room with Janessa, Jamina, and Nox.

"Excellent of you to join us," Paisley said. "I hope you got plenty to eat at the wedding, as lunch just wrapped up, and Felix is needed for this bonus activity."

"Oh, don't worry about that," Noah said. "There was plenty of tasty cake and stuff there. Alright, what's this challenge about?"

"We have three graduated contestants, and three contestants who really need the wisdom of those who made it," Paisley said. "Once Castelilise gets here..."

Paisley trailed off as the nereid swam in. "My services are required?"

"...we can begin," Paisley finished. "Don't worry about Hailey, I'll her know Felix got back once we're done here. She needs to blow off some steam, has piles of BP as it is, and is very close to graduating. Also, this activity works better with an even number of contestants in it anyway."

Before Cammy could react to that, Paisley clapped, and once again, they were in the room with a stage that couldn't be accessed from the bunker. Or at least, not by walking to it. The same stage where Cammy had helped Hailey explain to Felix an important part of her life without any words. For all the good that had done. While those thoughts swirled in her mind, Paisley went up on stage.

"One graduated contestant and one contestant who hasn't gained 100 VP yet will be sent off in a pair," Paisley explained. "Each pair will be given BP based on two separate activities. The first is a conversation between the graduated contestant and their assigned partner about their plan to reach 100 VP. The graduated contestant's BP gain will depend on how good her advice is, whereas the contestant being advised will be graded on her honesty."

While Cammy didn't mind, she caught a flinch, and similar reactions the group had when Paisley said the word, "her." Most of the group had accepted their sex and gender being changed against their will, but something about how Paisley said it stung. Maybe it was because Paisley was an outsider, so hearing her say it forced them to accept how irreversible their new identities were. Or maybe it was because they were going to stop and reflect on their experiences in the bunker soon, which meant that things they had pushed down trying to adapt to the moment would come bubbling back to the surface. Whatever they did was going to be... stressful.

"The second part will be telling Felix a story he hasn't heard before," Paisley continued. "This story will be one that is true, and will be told by the contestant who has yet to graduate. By contrast, the graduated contestant will be there to protect the master from any unwanted behavior..."

Paisley trailed off while looking at Janessa, and Castelilise.

"... and to provide extra support to the other contestant if they stumble while telling the story," Paisley continued. "To get things moving, the first pair is Cammy and Nox! Please enter the backrooms."

Well, this was going to be interesting. Cammy hadn't interacted with Nox much, and back when she went by Hanson... well, there was a lot to resolve. She took the goblin with her into the backrooms, using a route she had learned from last time. Once again, they were surrounded by costumes, and countless props to utilize, not that they needed them.

"So Nox, before we begin, I need to ask you something very important," Cammy said. "What, at this point, do you remember doing to Felix? Or anyone else for that matter?"

"I remember I tried bullying him," Nox replied, "but it didn't take. Noah humiliated me with her strength as a slime girl, over and over again, until I got the lesson to leave Felix alone. They always had footage so my parents couldn't do anything about it, and while my family used to be rich... well, nereids changed that."

Cammy nodded and then stopped herself when she realized the implications. For one, she clearly remembered an incident everyone was hung up about during the first round. She never got clear details on it before successive reality re-writes happened, only that it was something which Felix had been furious about because he took the blame... and that Hanson had been the one at fault.

"There was an incident," Cammy said. "But you know that, don't you?"

The goblin nodded, and began to tear up. "I don't remember what I did, I just know that Felix was angry at me over it. Not as angry as he was at Smith, but..."

At that point, Cammy barely remembered who Nox had once been. Maybe that was why she brought the goblin into a hug without a second thought. "There there, I'm not going to get mad at you over something I don't even remember. How do you plan to get into Felix's good graces?"

The goblin took awhile, but she collected herself, and said, "I'm going to bring him to the mirror room, like Z did, and Jamina for that matter. We'll explore my past, including what really happened. Then, I'll let Felix do whatever he wants to me. This body means I'll probably enjoy it."

"Nox..." Cammy trailed off. "I don't think Felix will like that. He's not really a dominant type of guy you know?"

"I know, but I can't dominate him in this body, and he doesn't trust me enough for that type of thing anyway," Nox continued. "Besides, I think he's going to be pretty pissed when he learns the truth. Might motivate him a bit for that type of thing."

"Even if you're right, it should be more than that," Cammy said. "Here, lets figure out a story you should tell him beforehand, and then ways you can get in his good graces that won't be as bad for you or him..."

"Castelilise and Jamina!" Paisley announced next. "Head to the canal, there's a route from there to a place for you two to talk it over."

The nereid smirked as she realized that by steadily becoming the harem's fuckdoll, she had broken Paisley's initial plan. It was obvious that the temporary host wanted to pair up contestants who hadn't interacted with each other as much, but the only option like that for Castelilise would've been Nox, and the goblin had interacted even less with Cammy than her. Not that she needed the help, as Castelilise's knowledge of Felix's fetishes made her the perfect partner for the activity at hand.

The high elf lead her to the backrooms as Castelilise swam nearby in a canal. They ended up in a water themed dressing room full of bathing suits, safety equipment for working underwater, and a dizzying number of things like boats. There was also lots of weirder stuff, like potions that promised a transformation into a mermaid, or various odds and ends that came off as something one would use for a movie production, not something needed on Harem Hotel.

Once they were situated, Jamina said, "While I'd love to go back to eating each other out, we could probably both benefit from BP, and more importantly, I would love for you to grade my plans to get to 100 VP as the girl who knows Felix's fetishes like the back of her hand."

"Alright, I'm game for that," Castelilise replied. "What's your plan to seduce Felix? You should know the general outline of what he's into, but there are a number of surprising gaps."

"I plan to tie him up, and sit on his face to get things started," Jamina said. "After that, I'd do a series of escalating activities to get 100 VP, and also teach Felix to resist the eldritch in the process. Does that work?"

"The outline is correct," Castelilise's tone of voice became like a professor grading an assignment, not a sex crazed nereid. "However, while Felix is into facesitting, I suspect that won't get you enough VP. Bondage by itself might help, however, could easily just be a detail that enhances VP gain without granting much, if anything, in of itself. Meanwhile, Felix has a large list of things he isn't into, so I suggest you listen carefully as we figure out how to craft an optimal future date for you..."

"And last, but certainly not least, Noah and Janessa!" Paisley announced. "I'm going to leave the stage to you Noah. See if you can't figure out a way to save our resident angel from the horrors of elimination."

Paisley then blinked out of existence. If Noah could still sigh like she did as a human, she would have. Dealing with Smith wasn't something she was looking forwards to, but she had to do it. Still, she had to try. Not for the activity, but because she didn't want to see another elimination if she could do anything to stop it.

"So, lets get this over with," Noah said. "What is your brilliant plan to seduce Felix? Screaming at him over how its unfair your authority isn't respected?"

It was Janessa Smith's turn to sigh before she responded. "I don't think I have much hope. Felix hates me almost as much as he hates a man that raped his mother. What can I possibly do to win him back at this point? Do note, unlike you, whatever I did wrong didn't get sufficiently eliminated by multiple rounds of retroactive reality alterations."

"You could apologize," Noah said. "It worked for me, as I got forgiveness. And before you doubt me, you should know something important."

"Oh?" Janessa asked. "What, could Austin have gotten out of this by apologizing?"

"Yes, actually," Noah's response was direct, and cold. "While we were at the wedding, so in fact earlier today for me, Felix told me about it. He said that he had asked Austin White shortly before the first challenge whether he, in any manner, regretted what he did to Felix's mother. He didn't, because Austin was a narcissistic blackhole, and given his punishment, I'm guessing still is. It was the morning of his first date with you, which he remembers quite well. That whole day was so exhausting that, even though it was before the first challenge, he can remember it clearly."

The angel almost spoke up, but Noah just continued. "I think Cammy slapped you over what you did. I was asleep at the time, so I only heard second hand, but it must have been pretty bad given the consequences for non-sexy violence."

"What I did was allowed by the rules," Janessa said. "With that said, I do regret it, because it was wrong. I can blame a transformation for it, but I've since learned that it isn't so simple."

"So you can feel regret," Noah said. "Good. Now, lets try to figure out how to show that to Felix, at least enough that you won't be eliminated..."

While the contestants were preparing for the rest of the bonus point activity, Felix spent a bit of time watching TV, catching up with seasons like Harem Hotel: Genesis Response, and already knew who he wanted to send fanmail. Paisley had sent him there, because as she put it, she wanted him in a more neutral state of mind. But eventually, he was teleported out of the library, and onto a throne on the stage. Said throne had a chair right across from it, and a chair next to it. Felix assumed it was to facilitate the activity, but it just made the throne feel ridiculous in its self important design next to the normal metal folding chairs that sat either next to him or across from him.

"Alright, lets see what Nox and Cammy have come up with," Paisley announced. "Lets see if the goblin has a suitable tale to tell."

After acting like an announcer for the audience they couldn't see, Paisley then disappeared. Before Felix could say anything, Nox just launched into her story.

"Let me tell you about my ancestor, who I first met when I got here," Nox rushed out. "The one who really trapped me here, as whenever he wanted, he could've freed me. But he refused to."

What followed was a condensed version of every meeting Nox had with the ancestor, and by extension, her time in the bunker. All the while, Felix really, truly got to meet the goblin for the first time. She had spent so long locked in the oni's head, or otherwise attached to Zetsuko, that he never really got to know her current self. All he knew of her really was that she was a shortstack, that she had been abused by the oni, and that once, she was a bully named Zachary Hanson.

The story concluded when Nox described the training she had the prior night. Of battling her ancestor, who she was yet to learn the name of, this time in a dojo. They did traditional jiu-jitsu and basic sword techniques for what felt like days but wrapped up Tuesday night. On the surface, the point was to patch holes in Nox's melee combat abilities, armed or unarmed, which did happen. However, for the first time since the goblin had met him, it felt like her ancestor was actually trying to repair their relationship.

It was there the story wrapped up, and as if responding to instructions Felix couldn't hear, Cammy left with Nox in a rush. The next up was Jamina Lightbringer, who strode in with Castelilise in a very confident manner. The high elf sat down across from Felix, and began with, "So Felix, would you like to hear about the time I seduced a king to my cause by betting that I could outlast every single one of his knights fucking me in the ass?"

The only answer Felix could summon up to that was a blush, which Jamina took as permission to continue. "I have magic that can lube my asshole. Other than that, being a long lived horny elf was enough for me to outlast the half dozen or so knights in the king's court. It helps of course that they were unprepared for someone as gorgeous as me to drop her robe, turn around, bend over, and ask loudly to get ass fucked."

What followed was graphic description of how each knight's dick felt in Jamina's ass, how it felt to get anal creampied so many times in a row, the works. This wasn't just the high elf enduring something for a bet either, she gained a lot of pleasure from the act. Jamina estimated she cummed seven times, but lost track because of how fun it was getting reamed by so many hot guys, although none were quite as good looking as Felix. By the end of the bet, there were a bunch of very tired men whose dicks had been squeezed dry and one very satisfied, energetic elf who got the king to agree to staff, along with fund, her next crusade.

The sheer crassness of Jamina Lightbringer's story was the overwhelming point. Even Felix could realize what the elf and the nereid had wanted to accomplish here, which was to break any remaining idea in Felix's head that he was dealing with a stuffy high fantasy elf. This wasn't just introducing the idea that she was a slut, but also that she could have fun with the best of them, even when she was trying to save the world. It was telling to him that even in this story, focused on carnal pleasure and a gamble, the focus on raising troops to fight evil never left.

Before Felix could fully process all that, the elf and nereid left in a hurry again. He guessed Paisley was somehow talking to them. What mattered was that soon afterwards came the final storyteller: Janessa Smith. That the angel was flanked by Noah did little to reassure him. This was the angel that had exploited the rules around the master to molest him, something that very few other contestants had done, despite having many opportunities to do so.

"Felix," Janessa said as she sat down across him, "let me tell you a story. It's about a man who pressured his wife into something she didn't want to do... and then proved incapable of delivering what she needed in return."

"Decades ago, probably before you were born, I married a woman," Janessa Smith said. "Her name was Susan. How we met isn't important, what matters is that it was initially a fairytale romance. I had become a school administrator, and then started steadily climbing my way up the hierarchy, making ever more money so that Susan wouldn't have to work as much. We never quite got to the point where she could quit her job, but we got close. Things were going smoothly, and I was even able to convince her to indulge... one of my fantasies."

Felix realized where this was going, to the point he wanted to blurt something out, but Noah stopped him. When he turned to look at the slime girl, she just shook her head, and motioned for Janessa to continue.

"Yes, it was CNC, or consensual non-consent," Janessa Smith continued. "How consensual it really was I don't know anymore, but we'll return to that."

What followed was a steadily escalating description of the many ways in which Smith escalated, getting his wife to do ever more extreme things in bed, while also becoming known as a hard disciplinarian at various schools. It was around when he had transferred to Felix's highschool that everything came to a head.

"We struggled with infertility Felix," Janessa Smith said. "You're too young to understand what that's like, and I hope you never experience it. It's humiliating, isolating, and most of all, emotionally draining... oh wait."

They both realized that, while Felix hadn't experienced infertility specifically, he had experienced every component of it. The bunker alone left him feeling drained many, many times, but it was hardly unheard of in his actual life. As for being humiliated and isolated, he had more experience with that than anyone in high school should have by that point. When Janessa Smith continued, and brought up everything leading to the divorce, that initial diagnosis didn't change. Smith had been a monster that pretended to be on the side of discipline, law, and justice. Why did she choose to reveal it all?

"I wrecked your life Felix," Janessa Smith finished. "I'll apologize for it properly later, but now that you know who I am, and what I have done to people besides you, I'm curious to see what you will do tomorrow night. We both know we need a lot longer than we have here to unwind our issues Felix..."