You push open the door with little hesitation, perhaps hoping to put an end to this sooner rather than later and step inside. It's a long room, a solid wood desk stands with many important papers off to one side, a fireplace on the opposite side, a large impressive commanding chairs sits across to the opposite end, and a long fur carpet goes from the door to the base of. Siting in the midst of that large chair is a smaller confident figure
She is wearing the robes you've seen on each cultist, but this is worn with the front open and the hood down, she's clothed otherwise in some bare ornate fabrics and the light of the fireplace casts across her intricate tattoo work. She regards you warmly. "I heard you had decided to come to me. Quite a ruckus you cause the others back home. I assume you have questions?"
She glances aside you and curiously adds "Where's your friend?"
Lena 7/7 FP, 5/7 AP 6/?? CP -Denied-
Jaime 8/8 FP, 5/7 AP -SLIMED- -MISSING-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
Lena stepped into the bedroom and shut the door behind her, before spotting the robed figure and when she saw how skimpy she was dressed underneath the robes. "Yeah, I have questions. How couldn't I. Why are you doing this? And what do you stand to gain by taking everybody's free will from them?" Lena replied, before she shrugged. "I told her to leave. I care too much about her to risk her going into that room when I could barely make it through the room downstairs," she added after a few moments, a sincere look in her eyes, as she started to walk towards the elven beauty before her.
She smiled as you replied regarding Jaime, watching you contently for a moment as if confirming something to herself and nodded. As you neared she held up a hand to stop you, as you were about ten feet away. "No further please. It's a good distance for us to talk, to avoid any ugliness, alright?"
She considers your question then, thinking deeply on it. "Why am I doing this, hm. You really are new, I suppose I'm no longer surprised by it all then. If you don't mind, I'm going to answer your question a little more broadly, since you seem to be lacking some basic information."
She giggles to herself mischievously and rises to her feet, grabbing the staff from aside the quasi stone throne and tapping the base on the floor a few times. "The ritual we preformed, it's intent was to summon someone, or something like you, a Succubus to the ritual room. It would compel them, through some means or another, to bring one there. It brought you, and yet, it's true, you are no Succubus. Not wholly, not yet. Do you know what they are?"
Lena has heard stories, demons, born in some twisted plane separate of theirs. Certainly not...whatever was happening to you.
"No matter. The reason was a deal, the offer of that young lady for the sake of the power that coupling would bring. We didn't expect much, but you were far more vigorous than anticipated, far more freely giving of your power even as weak as it was."
"That's what this is about, power. You've felt it I'm sure, twisting inside you, I know you've drawn on it, fed it. Consider what you've been able to do with it with only your actions? Using your power I set this whole town up to harness that kind of potential, a massive ritual of sex and lust, harnessing that raw mana of their desire to me."
She turns to you, beaming wide with delight. "It's the kind of power to restore life to this dying Kingdom. The kind of power to change the world."
She gestures towards you. "I know you have that potential in you, a developing power. I want you to join me. I can teach you to harness it without losing yourself. Teach you how to wield the kind of power that I have. I saw you in that chamber, I saw the delight on your face. You don't have to care about holding back anymore, you can embrace what you are, and I know you'd be incredible!"
"I want to see the real you."
Lena 7/7 FP, 5/7 AP 6/?? CP -Denied-
Jaime 8/8 FP, 5/7 AP -SLIMED- -MISSING-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
Lena stopped when the elven woman motioned for her to, though she didn't Truly want to, she figured it best to keep the woman talking to get more information. "Fair enough, so talk," Lena replied with a nod.
"So wait, you were trying to summon a true succubus, but instead it was... m-me?" Lena asked with a look of disbelief on her face, unsure if it could be true or not. "I... I have felt a strange... aura within me, and I have met a succubus before now. I t-thought that was just a dream though. It couldn't have been real... surely. She was... far too nice for it to have been," Lena went on to say, gulping as her body tensed a bit.
"W-What if I just want to be me? What if I don't Want all of this power? What if the kingdom can survive without it? This... power, it's taken the free will of the people of Farnshold. They deserve to make their Own choices, whether for good or ill. Don't they? And if I do have the potential power of a succubus, how could you help me harness it and stuff? You aren't a succubus yourself," Lena asked, obviously getting a bit flustered here.
She snapped her fingers as Lena explained how she had met a real succubus. "Aha! There it is, I knew it was something like that." She grinned. "You got a raw potential in you, the way you adapt to lust, the way you ooze that sexuality. You're brimming with magical talent. I bet that Succubus just...guided it, not that you weren't before! You're a natural then, and we can shape that potential into something wonderful."
Her expression, her body language, the very atmosphere of the room changes sharply as Lena tentatively rejects, in fact the moment she doesn't seem gungho about it. She pulls back after a moment, the smile returning. "This is you, you know that, why would someone have to struggle against something to be themselves? You are you when you stop fighting, that's your real nature. The people of Farnshold will live, it's hardly a sacrifice, a few days of sacrifice is a small price to pay."
Lena knows that...well. The Kingdom has seen better days, that's why her mercenary company was so lucrative, they need all the help they can to keep the enemies at bay, foreign powers, roaming tribes, powerful monsters and mages roaming the land. While she probably doesn't believe it's so bad it isn't a stretch to say it could probably use their help.
"Besides I've done nothing to their will! This is the thing in all people, that desire is there, the ritual merely grows it, focuses it to an actual purpose. What's wrong with that?"
"And I know far more than any common Succubus, I assure you. While I can bring out that natural inclination I can show you much more amazing ways to harness it than simple lust parlor tricks, I assure you."
She straightens up. "Mmm, you seem frazzled. I'm impressed you made it through the ritual with your current power, it's to be commended. I can help you with...that. I know you've felt its effects when you made your way through the circle. Your cock must be aching for release." She begins to stride towards you, closing the distance.
Lena 7/7 FP, 5/7 AP 6/?? CP -Denied-
Jaime 8/8 FP, 5/7 AP -SLIMED- -MISSING-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
"I... I d-don't just ooze sexuality. I'm n-not That sexy... s-surely," Lena stammered, blushing profusely.
Lena was left... dazzled a bit, and couldn't help but think deeply on the matter for several long moments. On the one hand, she knew the kingdom could Definitely use the help and had most certainly seen better days. But was this Really a better way of helping the kingdom? Lena didn't have the answer to that, truly she didn't, but she also couldn't help but feel that with this power, that she Could make a difference, more than just here in Farnshold. "You put those things on them all though. That's most Certainly against their will. You can't deny that. I'd be a little more inclined to listen to you if you didn't just arbitrarily decide that they had to have those things on them like that. That should have been Their choice to receive those things. Not something forced on them," Lena said to the woman.
"And... y-you're not wrong, my cock Is aching for release. I want to cum so bad. But... I can't just let you do this without resisting Some. Can I?" Lena stammered after the woman started walking towards her, knowing that she couldn't resist those urges as she stood there, watching the woman walking towards her.
She laughed, Lena made no attempt to stop her it seemed and so she stood close, a foot or so away such that you can make out the details of the red flame shaped tatoo on her left cheek. "It's not right? It's not okay for fair? That's the line that crossed?" She giggled seemingly endlessly amused as her hand trailed along Lena's waist moving along the edges of her skirt to gently put the underside of her cock, fingertips tracing along the most sensitive areas.
Lena's member throbbed with every touch, desperately rising close to the desire. "It is a vast kingdom, an even larger world and...a much much larger existence beyond that. What they, us, everyone wants matter very little in the grand scheme. They do not suffer, not for long. It is a grain of sand in the beach of their lives, and with it they are accomplishing something so much more meaningful than the totality of their existence."
Her hand wrapped around the length and began stroking it suddenly, not forcefully but with a firm enough grip that Lena found herself rooted to the spot, intense pleasure building up. "Surely you understand, sometimes you just have to -take- something for yourself, for the benefit of people even if they don't agree."
Lena 7/7 FP, 7/7!! AP 6/?? CP -Denied-
Jaime 8/8 FP, 5/7 AP -SLIMED- -MISSING-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
Lena gasped and winced slightly at the pleasure as the elven beauty's hand brushed along the underside of her cock, and she couldn't help but feel excited at the feel of it. "Y-Yet still. I believe that Everyone deserves the freedom of making their own choices. Even with this power, even If I harnessed it and learned how to use it like you say, I'd Never use it to make people do what I wanted them to. I... I w-wouldn't give in to that temptation," Lena stammered as she panted softly, her cock throbbing in the woman's grasp.
"Whether they a-agree or not, doesn't matter. They should Still have the chance to voice their opinions. W-What if I had the power to just m-make you and your cult do Every little thing I said? You wouldn't like b-being ordered around by me, n-now would you?" Lena replied softly after a few moments, her cock trembling in the woman's hand as she fully grasped it, her body refusing to move in any direction save forward, and then it was only her hips doing so, trying to thrust instinctively.
"No," she considered. "No I would not like to be ordered around by you." She was standing aside Lena, hand grasping her cock, stroking it firmly as her other hand held her staff. "But that's just it. You cannot order me, because I am strong. I am strong because I know things you do not, because I am more clever, and more careful. I am more fit and because of that, I have the strength to do this."
You feel an orgasm because to crest, then explode through your body only to abruptly stop before you get satisfaction. Your entire body shudders, you feel your legs tremble threatening to give up but still she continues to stroke and the pleasure seems to build even higher.
"I can hear opinions but what does it matter? None of them can do what I can, how could they possibly know better what to do with it?" A dark light glows from the elf woman, and Lena can feel tendrils of a sort begin to encircle her thigh, and then up to her balls, gently working them as another slid along her entrance. A third orgasm crests and begins to explode through her body causing her to spasm until it abruptly stopped, it's getting hard to stand, the room is spinning.
"It would be so much better if they just fell in line. You may be weak now but you won't always be, and I can help you be so much stronger."
"Agree to serve me, and I can make it happen. I will show you power, heights of ectasy you've never dreamed before." Lena feels that dark presence coil around her heart, if she agrees, if she words her consent, she fears that it is binding, there is something in the air about a promise like that.
Lena 4/7 FP, 4/6 AP 7!/?? CP -Deniedx3-
Jaime 8/8 FP, 5/7 AP -SLIMED- -MISSING-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
"S-See? Then how can you s-stand there and tell me all of That stuff with a serious... f-face?" Lena began asking the woman before she felt the tendril like things circling up her thigh even as her body reached climax, and she felt it going limp everywhere save her cock, her legs feeling like wet noodles.
As her balls were cupped by the tendrils, Lena gasped as another tendril brushed along her slit, and she couldn't hold her voice back any longer, a scream of pleasure exploding out of her along with her orgasm. "W-What if I... d-don't wanna fall in line? W-What if I don't Want to be... y-your servant?" Lena asked, her voice slurring slightly from the pleasure as she stood there, or rather as she Barely stood there, as her legs were wobbling like crazy.
"O-Oh Seraphina, please... if you're listening... I... I need your help. If... y-you aren't as evil as I believe you are, then please hear me. S-She's too s-strong," Lena screamed in her head so that this elven beauty wouldn't hear her.
She sighed, a little weary, a little disappointed. "Then you're just...one of them." She took a step back, releasing your cock and letting it throb in the air as the tendrils of shadow that pooled from a puddle of darkness on the floor held your legs fast and rolled up your body taking over where her hand had stopped.
The waves of pleasure continued to build, helpless to stop it you feel another orgasm begin to build before the tendrils stopped and lashed out, grabbing your hands and holding each of your limbs still, but leaving your groin alone.
"You have the potential to have power, but it has a cost because..." Her teeth grit and her face grew into a fearsome rage filled visage. "BECAUSE EVERYTHING HAS A FUCKING COST," she roared. "Because our kindness! our sympathy! OUR COMPANIONSHIP! It's all -WEAKNESS!- You more you care the less power you'll have! And someone like you with so much potential willing to throw it away over what! OVER WHAT! Some insignificant faceless nobodies -will-!?"
Your body shudders as your erect cock hangs unmolested. You hear her words but even with the fury that it's delivered part of you just wants release, just wants to cum. You think back to the woman you encountered in the city, how desperate and mindless she was. How many had she been denied? How long would it take you to turn into the same?
"If that's who you are then I might as well send you back into that damn pit of nobodies! If you won't join me, then I will drain ever last ounce of your essence, and put it to some use! And a weakling like you can do -NOTHING- to stop me!"
Her rage settles, but it looks like it's just hidden behind the neutral mask of her expression. "Last offer."
As Lena looks at her captor, object of lust, enemy she spies, behind her, across the room through the window a shadow pass, followed by the faintest glint of steel. Seraphina may not have answered but...could it be? Jaime?
Lena 4/7 FP, 6/6 AP 7!/?? CP -Deniedx3- -Restrained-
Jaime 8/8 FP, 5/7 AP -SLIMED- -MISSING?-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
Lena gasped as the elven woman released her and shadowy dark tendrils took over, and continued stroking her shaft after the woman let her go. Lena felt another orgasm fast approaching thanks to the ministrations of the black tendrils, and it was becoming increasingly hard to listen and formulate a response in between her moans. Then the tendrils grabbed her wrists and ankles and held her still so she couldn't move, and left her cock alone. "D-Dammit... n-need to cum so bad," Lena whimpered softly more to herself than anything.
As the woman raged at her, Lena grit her teeth, her thoughts turning to the woman she and Jaime had encountered in the town on their way to the church, and she thought that she did Not want to turn into that. That was almost a fate worse than death, being eternally denied until the whims of this cruel woman chose to let her cum. After the woman's rage had settled back down a bit, Lena was panting softly, her head hanging a bit as she listened, gritting her teeth some more before she looked up with a determined look in her eyes as the woman gave her "Last offer" to Lena.
"I could take your offer. Really, I could. But what right do You have to order me around? I won't take your offer. But neither will I just let you order Me around," Lena growled back at the woman, calling upon her inner power again even as she noticed the shadow near the window, and she called upon all of that power that Seraphina had given her, or at least she Thought Seraphina had given her said power anyway, and she tried to tear at her bindings to grab the woman now that she was close again. "YOU SAY I HAVE THE POWER OF A SUCCUBUS, THEN I WILL SHOW YOU MY POWER YOU CRAZY WITCH! I MAKE MY DESTINY, NOT YOU!" Lena shouted as she started using her empowered body to break free of the bindings to go after the woman.
Lena's rage causes her to call up that unknown dark power, there might be a price to pay but in this moment it feels like anything might be worth it. Dark power fills her veins, pumping strength into her muscles, temporarily restoring her to great effect. The woman stares at her as she struggles ripping away at vines, fighting against the lust that burns away inside her.
Darkness roars, she feels hatred, anger, a fury she's never known. Dark twisted thoughts, perverse and evil things consume her mind for a moment, things she could do to this woman, will do, because she is strong enough. The wings burst from her back as the power wells up inside.
She succeeds, rips herself free and Lena launches at the dark elf in a flash of movement, but something is off, the air grows thick around her and soon it feels like she's trying to push her way through molasses. It grows so thick it becomes hard to dry a breath.
"I'll admit," she began. "Your potency is impressive, but you lack a certain...grace. Did you think you could half ass it? Rely on a dark power like that and try to play hero? That you could temper it? Use it against...me?" She chuckled. "The ritual that powers me now is part of your powers, that you -gave- me, and you still thought you could turn it against me?"
She twists her hand and an agony rips through you, a pain you've never felt before. As if every nerve in your body had been dipped in ice cold water, then burst into flames. But it isn't physical, it isn't your arm, or your leg, or even your hear its your very soul! The corruption that has built up inside you burns up, and surges into her hand. The pain blinds you momentarily, but passes as you see...a familliar light begin to fill the room.
A beautiful warmth touches your skin as an arrow made of light itself surges forward. The pain fades away and you feel, for a moment, at ease. The spell around you loosens but does not vanish. The elf looks you in the eyes, smiling, and mouths thank you.
The next moments crawl, slow motion. The arrow of light streaks ever closer to the cultist. She moves deftly, controlled, a dark light beginning to fill her staff, pulled from the ground, pulled from the hundreds of people nearby, pulled from even you. As the arrow closes the darkness coalesces and forms infront of the elf, meeting the arrow.
A flash of light fills the room, blinding, then fades immediately. Throughout the room it is darker than it was before, wisps of light from the explosion exist, and are devoured by forms of darkness that hang around.
The staff, extended from the womans hand glows ominously and discharges towards the window where Jaime had fired her arrow.
Jaime screams, a scream of fury, rage, anger, and pain rolled into one as the wall she was standing on in the keep explodes.
You see the familiar form of your companion tossed like a ragdoll, a shower of stone and masonry that is sent a dozen feet out before it and she slam into the stone roads below.
She doesn't move.
Jaime doesn't move an inch.
Then everything resumes and you can still barely move. The dark elf woman turns to you. "It's all about choices isn't it? Had you never come to answer my call, had you never surrendered to your desires. Had you never returned to this damn town. Had you never met that poor girl. None of this would have happened."
She sighs wearily, almost seeming apologetic. "If only so many little things. I'm sure you're angry, but that's the fate of the weak. Had you strength, you could do something about it. But you don't."
She extends her staff towards you, the pain begins to build again. "I was going to do it the fun way, but I think I'm just going to tear you apart."
Jaime is dead. You're almost certain of that, almost 100%. How could she survive such a fall? Such an attack? And you cannot deny that had you never indulged that dark spirit, could she really be here now? Doing this to this town while you stand helpless while that same darkness you fed empower her?
She's wrong about one thing though. You are not weak. The darkness inside you is -yours-, if you want it. And it tells you one simple thing:
If you surrender yourself to it, you can gain the power to destroy this woman, but it will cost you.
It will cost a lot of people.
But the one who hurt Jaime, who likely killed her, would most certainly be destroyed. Does anything else matter?
Lena 2/7 FP, 6/6 AP 6/?? CP -Deniedx3- -Restrained-
Jaime -???/8 FP, ???/7 AP --DEAD?-
Cult Leader ???/??? FP, ???/???AP
A quiet voice whispers in the back of your mind. Resist Lena. Do not give in to that temptation. You know it isn't what she would want. Down that road, there probably isn't any coming back! RESIST!
Lena uses empower self! -bb+! It succeeds! +1 CP
Lena attempts to break free and attack the Cultist! ++-b! Breaks free!
Cultist uses a strange spell to hold Lena! +--+! Held!
Cultist twists the corruption inside Lena!--b+! 2 CP Burned Away! -2 FP!
Jaime fires arrow of light! +b--
Cultist uses strange magicks to protect herself! +--b
Cultist uses a bolt of force! +-++! -???FP
Lena is given an offer: Submit to the darkness inside her? Anything less than an absolute yes, is a no.
Lena's anger wells up within her as she begins fighting against the woman's iron grip of these tendrils, and Lena felt... a dark power inside as well that she'd never truly felt before. She imagined some of the vile and cruel things that she could, no... that she Would do to this woman. Baring her teeth at the woman, Lena growls, snarls even, as she ripped free of the tendrils even as dark leathery wings sprout from her back in that instant and she felt powerful. However, that feeling of power was stopped short for the moment as she felt it hard to even breathe as she flew towards the elven woman, the air growing thick and dark around them.
"AGH! Y-YOU BITCH! I'M NOT... T-TRYING TO PLAY THE HERO. I... I AM A HERO. I AM THE HERO OF FARNSHOLD!" Lena cried in agony, trying to force herself to fight the pain as she started to falter to her knees.
Lena could almost feel her eyes turning a deep crimson red before a familiar bright light filled the room from Jaime's bow, and one of her arrows struck the elven woman's shield of sorts, and stopped cold. Lena's eyes were blinded momentarily by the bright light, but when she could see again, Lena saw a terrible, an incredibly horrible sight in fact. Seeing Jaime blown literally out of the keep along with a portion of the wall, where Lena could only see her companion, her friend, her lover thrown to what was most certainly her death, and Lena could only watch in horror as the elf leveled her staff at her next.
Lena was momentarily in shock, seeing Jaime like that, and tears were welling up in her eyes as she stared at Jaime's lifeless form below. "I'm not weak... AND JAIME WASN'T EITHER YOU BITCH!" Lena growled and with every last surge of strength, Lena tried to dive at the elven witch and grab her staff, refusing to give in to that deep dark temptation as she tackled the elven witch, either out the hole she'd made in the wall, or onto the bed, whichever was closer, and not needing a voice in her head to tell her to not give in, because she refused outright to give in, knowing that Jaime wouldn't want her to give in to hate and despair like that.
But without its power, what hope does she stand against someone so strong?
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With that choice made, it's a brief interlude! I've gotten glimpses of who Lena is through the game, but I wanted to jump into a little more meat with some QA before I move on to the next step.
Her arrival with the Company in Farnshold was her first adventure, a short lived set of companions as they set off to the wild-lands after their first job with her Jaime decided to stay with Lena.
What is it that brought Lena out to the edge of the known world? What drove her to a life of adventure?
I believe I mentioned it before in the previous thread, and I'm sure it's not Exact, but she left home, as her parents both served a noble in the capital city which we haven't named exactly. Her mother is a handmaid to said noble family, and her papa was a house guard for the same family, and her papa is a herm like Lena, just so you know. Her parents didn't want her to go, her papa wanted Lena to go into service of the noble family who was quite nice and let them live there and stuff too, but Lena wanted to go and adventure like her papa did before her papa met her mother.
I don't recall if I ever named Lena's parents, so her mother's name will be Maria, and her papa's name will be Elise. But Lena wanted to make a name for herself and left home, where the head of the noble family told Lena that she'd always have a place in their home, whether it was just to stay and see her parents for a time, or to serve them in a more official capacity. Her papa Elise had adventured to the edges of the kingdom though like Lena now does, though on the western edges of the kingdom instead of the eastern edges like Lena is right now. Mostly though what drove her to go adventuring was the stories her papa Elise told her growing up, and the stories she heard of the other adventurers that came through the capital and whatnot as well, it sparked the curiosity to see the unknown and stuff, to explore, and so when she was finally old enough and stuff she decided to go.
I don't recall mentioning any siblings, but I had considered it. Let's say she has... 3 siblings. One younger, two older. All but one of her sisters are herms, and her younger sister is the only non herm of the sisters, and Lena and both of her older sisters are Highly protective of their little sister. Eldest sister's name is Hazel, second sister's name is Angelique (Angie for short), and her youngest sister's name is Aria. Hazel and Angie both went adventuring too, and Aria wants to go adventuring herself like her big sisters. Not so much to make a name for herself, but just to follow in their footsteps.
Hazel is 23 years old, Angie is 21, Lena is 18 going on 19, and Aria is just about to turn 18 as of the time Lena left home, and probably Would have turned 18 by the time we are in the thread, as it's been a couple of weeks since Lena arrived on the eastern borders.
Hazel adventured to the north, Angie to the south, which is why Lena chose the east, though Hazel has at this point started to calm her "adventuring" tendency down a little and leads a mercenary company called the Battle Maidens, which is an all female/herm girl mercenary company of about thirty to forty altogether.
Angie meanwhile is near the southern borders as I mentioned before, and she currently serves a local lady in the south herself, along with her best friend Lana. Lana is Angie's best friend and the two met not long after Angie found her way to the southern borders and after a while they both came into the service of a countess whose house is named Devana, with her first name being Ilyana. Countess Ilyana is an elf herself, and quite young to say the least, being only a couple of years older than Lena's eldest sister Hazel.
As I ask I also want to open the floor to your questions about the setting/world whether it be people, concepts like magic, history, the land itself, races, whatever. I've got a good picture, but I've only really shown what Lena sees, even if she herself would know a lot more background. Please add on any questions you might have about the setting.
What are Lena's feelings for Jaime? Obviously they've only known one another for a short time even though they are quite close. Is it wholly genuine? An inexperienced first love?
Well I'm always glad to see magic and a good history of the world my characters are in, especially in the fantasy settings. As for Lena's relationship with Jaime, I'm not entirely sure to be perfectly honest. If I had to call it one of those though, then definitely an inexperienced first love most likely, though I wouldn't mind, and would honestly kind of like the idea of Lena getting a harem of sorts, of course, but that's entirely up to you I suppose.
