WinterWhereof

7.39 - ❤ Second Stake III

Vanetta's hand slid down between their stomachs with tantalizing slowness. Her fingers made contact with Natalie's hot, sensitive cock, and Natalie sucked in a breath. Her grip continued to travel before wrapping tentatively around the base. Vanetta breathed heavily, eyes flicking between her face and down their pressed-together bodies. A thrill...

7.12 - ❤ Trial Run VI

There were surely limits to what they could get away with.

Maddy had projected an illusion onto Astrid and Rosalie that suggested the rest of the team was sitting there and listening to their discussion, yes. But the most fundamental issue was that of speech—that Maddy couldn't fabricate the movement of their lips. Thus, they needed to k...

7.38 - Second Stake II

Their second arena series took much longer than the first. Ten rounds passed, then twenty. Though they weren't earning experience from the fights, they were gaining experience of a more literal sort. Fighting the wide variety of monsters spewed out by the magical arena was valuable practice in its own right, regardless that the combat didn't cou...

7.37 - Second Stake I

After collecting themselves, ensuring they hadn't left anything behind, and making sure they were clean and presentable, they exited the Arena. The gate in the back led them onto the city streets, and they needed to walk around the building and re-enter the Arena from the front.

Before throwing themselves into the fray a second time, Natal...

7.11 - ❤ Trial Run V

"I should've known that the armor with the blue fire would have an affinity toward ice magic," Rosalie mused to Astrid. "If I paid closer attention, I could've noticed that its aura was radiating cold. Hm. And the monsters here are cleverer than I thought. They've been seeing straight through most of my feints. Predictive skills? Maybe just erro...

7.36 - Empowered Tokens

When the two of them came down from their high, they were left with, like usual, the sticky aftermath. Vanetta looked blankly at her two hands, then at her leather armor, and blanched.

"You—you drenched me in it!"

Natalie elbowed up and cleared her throat. "You were the one aiming. But, uh, sorry?" she offere...

7.10 - ❤ Trial Run IV

The plan was simple.

After all, they had not just artifacts that broke spatial continuity, though only in the context of genitalia—and whew, wasn't that a sentence?—but also an extremely skilled illusionist on standby.

So recharging without Astrid noticing? More than doable.

If still tricky.

All teams needed ...

7.35 - ❤ First Stake III

Who ever said Natalie wasn't a clever strategist? This woman was obviously a hard nut to crack, and all it took was—

A supernaturally enforced sex encounter, plus a few careful words while the girl was heavily flustered. But still. Natalie deserved some credit. She'd found a way to get Vanetta to talk about herself.

Vanetta's strok...

7.34 - ❤ First Stake II

Natalie watched the dark-haired rogue lower herself slowly to the ground, sitting on her knees between Natalie's spread legs. Those light gray eyes—dust-speckled with blue—flickered between the exposed ten thick inches, and Natalie's face. With a few lingering glances on the rest of her naked body.

But mostly—her eyes were for what s...

7.09 - Trial Run III

Since there was little reason to not bring Astrid up to a comfortable level of rage—or Bloodlust as the Harkvalen girl called it—Zoey cast the spell before they ascended the staircase to the next room.

In small increments, she inflamed the emotions of the shield-bearer. Astrid grunted "more" several times before an eventual "enough" cu...

7.33 - ❤ First Stake I

Tired, injured, and fighting the second-strongest monster of her life—the first being that juggernaut of Greed—it wasn't surprising they lost the next round. Vanetta had surely known it would happen going in.

Natalie had never died before. Obviously. And she didn't die now—not really. But she was cleaved in half by ...

7.08 - Trial Run II

As expected, they found danger on the floor above. Like the previous room, the environment was well-kept stone brick, mostly plain but with a few features: a number of empty bookshelves, lit torches affixed to the walls, and glass windows that peeked out into a starry night sky. Zoey's interest was kindled by that last part, since it suggested t...

7.32 - First Assignment III

She couldn't actually die here, Natalie reminded herself, but it was a hard thing to keep in mind while fighting a bloodthirsty monster.

The beast was bear-like, roughly, with dark orange fur that was filthy and matted. It stood as tall as Natalie and was many times bulkier. Vicious curved black claws swiped with surprising speed, and even...

7.31 - First Assignment II

Natalie felt nothing as she transitioned from the proper City of Eros into their instanced assignment. There had been a conversation behind her from two delvers idling in the Arena reception area, and their voices abruptly cut off. The heavy iron gate blocking the path shuddered, then lifted, disappearing into the stone ceiling.

They strod...

7.07 - Trial Run I

The morning of the trial shard arrived. The group of five wayfarers ventured forward, trudging through wild terrain as Rosalie's skill guided them to a nearby shard of the fourth tier.

A group of five. A full squad by most wayfaring standards. And well-balanced. A mage, a support, a tank, a warrior, and a rogue. Rosalie's world had specifi...

7.30 - First Assignment I

The section of the Palace dedicated to the assignment boards was, as expected, packed. Near three hundred delvers stood inside the hall, crowded around their respective boards. They were broken up by name, so some were more packed than others. Natalie and Vanetta arrived a few minutes late to the reset, so people were already stepping aside to m...

7.06 - ❤ Self-Care II

Delta had her own cock in her mouth.

The idea burned through her. She lapped up the pre-cum that had leaked from the shadow's tip. Her own pre-cum. It tasted salty and it filled her head with its scent and taste. She took her cock more firmly into her mouth, and before she could stop herself, she was sucking herself off, her tongue working...

7.29 - Assignment Anticipation

She and Vanetta spent the three hours before the next reset checking out the various stores of the city. There were all manner of goods, not just weapons, armor, and trinkets, but potions and even raw resources—whatever a person wanted to grind out Tokens for, they could.

Naturally, foot-traffic was heaviest in the armor and weapon shops...

7.28 - The Shops of Eros

The shops were in a different district outside of the city center, which held the four important buildings: the Palace and its Basements, the Bordello, the Coliseum, and the Arena. It was only a short five-minute walk to start seeing the first stores.

Each sold different categories of wares. The first they entered, by chance, was a shop th...

7.05 - ❤ Self-Care I

Delta summoned her Shadow.

Black light materialized, fading in from nothingness until a figure stood in front of her, their eyes locked. Despite having seen it many times, the sight still sent a shiver down her spine. Her own face staring blankly back at her. A mirror copy, down to the exact detail, but formed of various shades of transluc...

7.27 - The City of Eros IV

The rooms were everything Acacia had said they would be. Natalie was a bit awed that she would be living in all but luxury during the weekend delve. A plush bed, hot water, and even meals delivered by automatons. Plenty of space too. The bathroom was a number of times larger than her own back at Tenet. The basin-style bath tub was especially eno...

7.04 - Shadow Progress

"Date's been decided," Delta announced, striding into Zoey's room without knocking. "It's happening tomorrow."

Not knocking was a bit rude, Delta knew, but she'd been hoping to catch Zoey doing something inappropriate. Unfortunately, she was just sitting there, nose in an alchemy book like was her default state when given downtime. How bor...

7.26 - The City of Eros III

"We're coming up on the city center now," Acacia said.

With their arrival into the most relevant part of the City of Eros, they had started seeing other delvers. And indeed, while there wasn't the bustle of a true city, especially not one like Aradon, it was still shocking since they were in the dungeon. So even seeing a handful o...

7.25 - The City of Eros II

"Alright," Natalie said, struggling to keep a straight face.

And, shamefully, struggling to ignore the stir of excitement inside her stomach. She absolutely, one-hundred percent did not want anything to do with Elida.

Then again…

A publicly staked favor, in which Elida had to, for example, choke on her cock in front ...

7.03 - ❤ Ensuring

Zoey had honestly expected this trip with Aria, Adrienne, and Sabina to be a professional outing, simply taking in the sight of their new temple, making plans for its interior and discussing what needed to be done. Yet here she was, her busty blonde High Priestess laid naked on the altar, with Zoey having crawled overtop her, and her alchemy tea...

7.24 - The City of Eros I

Hundreds? Hundreds of people? Natalie had never heard of such a thing.

It was possible for delvers to bump into each other on certain floors of the dungeon, but a floor designed to congregate crowds of people together? As far as she knew, it was unprecedented. Then again, her history wasn't all that great. Maybe there were some in...

7.02 - Commemorate

They admired the temple a little longer, just walking around and inspecting everything. Eventually, Zoey ended up at the altar, as did the rest of the three, their wandering paths converging by fate.

The altar was large with a flat rectangular top, a few feet tall. It was made of white stone and had thick decorative pillars on each corner ...

7.23 - Arrival

Now that was a statement to send a chill down a girl's spine.

Elida liked 'hurting things' more than most people?

And she didn't miss the word Vanetta had chosen to summarize what she'd seen of Elida. The 'connecting thread' to Elida's challenges: the way she reacted.

Angry.

At someone, something, m...

7.22 - Travel

They entered that familiar routine. Setting a path for the City of Eros in the far distance, Natalie and Vanetta carved their way through monsters at a steady pace.

The expedition would have been decently long even without obstacles. Throw in life-or-death fights every few minutes, and progress was slow and grueling. If, admittedly, in a w...

7.01 - The Temple

Enzo d'Celestin was a man of efficiency. Zoey didn't know what magic he had worked to secure them a building in Mantle's temple district in less than a full day, but magic it must have been. Then again, the red tape of bureaucracy must be far less daunting to the effective dictator of half the Fractures. Of course it hadn't been difficult to arr...