Re: Exploration CYOA
[A slight change to the rules for failing a dungeon and stamina. If you fail, you no longer use gold, but there is a "cost" to travel to each dungeon, depending on how good the reward at the end is. I'll be putting up the quest options before the shopping options so you can plan to lose whatever money it costs to travel before spending it on potions and stuff. The exhaustion statistic I'm just going to steal straight from Kathy's suggestion from PMs, which will be posted in a bit since my girlfriend is nagging my ass off about dinner being ready.
also sorry about the rushed sense of this post, I've been working on it all day and people keep interrupting me, and I'm tired of writing it, and I've got to work tomorrow, so I'm trying to get something out before I have another period of REAL LIFEdom.]
She asked if she could speak to some of the employees beforehand, a request which Aki was quick to reassure her was completely in his power to grant. He began to guide the horses down the road away from the little town. She asked a little more about the actual process of "harvesting," as he called it, and he was very open and honest about what it would entail - the quality of product was heightened the more sexually stimulated the subject was. They had all sorts of machines that she would be hooked up to to take care of that. Since she was going to be in a drug- and pleasure-induced haze for the entire twenty-four-hour period, they were going to take care of her nutrition by feeding a tube into one of her veins and injecting the necessary nutrients directly into her system. He seemed supremely confident that it would be a more-than-enjoyable experience for her. Unfortunately, none of the other adventurers were at the facility at the time, but she was more than welcome to speak to any of the employees when she arrived.
The facility itself was a huge, long, brick building, clearly well-built. When they went inside, it was stark white all around, made of a strange kind of tile that she'd never seen before. It was almost creepy, how impossibly clean it all was, and she felt a nervous prickling on the back of her neck as her feet made loud padding sounds against the cold floor. They entered a sort of waiting room, with a desk and a multitude of drawers behind it. She was handed a robe by a smiling woman, dressed in the same stark shade of white the rest of the building was graced with, and she hurriedly put it on, hiding her nakedness - despite the fact that she was sure she'd be taking it off again soon enough. She asked the lady many of the same questions that she'd asked Aki - now absent, she just realized - and got very similar answers. Some of it went over her head, for the woman's discourse was spattered with abbreviations and shorthand jargon for her trade, but as far as the adventurer could tell, there was no hint of dissembling in her manner. "All right," she said nervously. "What do I do now?"
The woman, who had introduced herself as Joy, took her to a door, which lead to a long corridor, filled with doors, each facing each other, each equidistant from the last. Joy lead her to the fourth door on the left, opened it, and bowed, following the robed woman inside. There was a shortweave rectangular carpet, in the middle of which was set a short, cushioned bench. There were white leather straps chained around the corners of the carpet, and the whole set-up was obviously designed to accommodate a woman on her knees and elbows, securing her ankles and wrists and providing her belly some support while leaving her breasts free to dangle.
She was a little nervous about the restraints, but Joy assured her that it was simply a precaution, and it that it could be dangerous for her to be outside of the facility during the twenty-four hour milking period. "And that's it," the woman murmured, fishing out a tiny white bottle from one of her coat's pockets. It rattled slightly, clearly filled with small, hard pills. "Once you take these, I'll strap you down and situate you," she said, gesturing to the bench, "and the process will begin. After a day has passed, you'll be free to leave. We'll provide you with proper clothes and your wages, as well as a ride back to the town Aki found you near."
The adventurer listened to the soft words, disrobing and taking the two pills that she was offered - light blue, oddly enough in this place that was so absent of any color. She knelt down, putting her ass right up in the air and closing her eyes at the embarrassing position as Joy situated the restraints around her wrists and ankles. "It will, of course, be your responsibility to make your way back here in the allotted time period. You don't want to go through withdrawal of these," she said with a slight chuckle, tucking the bottle back into her coat. Taking hold of a metal cart that had been standing quietly in the corner, gleaming dully silver, she rolled it over alongside of the kneeling patient. It had tubes running to the ceiling, lots of them - some of them were empty, but a couple were filled with a dull grey fluid. Taking one of these, which lead to a wicked-looking needle, she pressed her foot against a pedal recessed in the bottom of the cart. The bound woman started as the entire room seemed to move around her, but it was just a pedestal that was set into the center of the floor rising upward until it - and the naked woman - was at Joy's waist level. "Of course, you won't have to be strictly two weeks to the day," she continued speaking calmly, setting the needle into one of the veins in her forearm and pushing another lever, explaining that this was the nutrients feed, combined with an aphrodisiac to make the experience more pleasant, as well as to help the quality of the milk produced. "But the closer you are, the better off you'll be." She reached toward the cart again, and the bound woman noticed there were pairs of... cups, for lack of a better word, domed cups made out of some sort of transparent material, with tubes running from the domes to the cart, the other ends open to the air. They were all different sizes, and Joy selected one of them, then moved back over to the woman. She noticed a slight hissing sound coming from the cups, the source of which became immediately apparent as Joy fastened the cups to her breasts and they began to greedily suck all the air out around them. Luckily the edges were padded somehow so they didn't cut into the tender flesh they were biting into, but it was an intensely odd feeling, having her nipples being pulled by nothing.
Joy had fallen silent, and she realized it was because the drugs were already taking effect; her mind was already somewhat hazy. But the most surprising thing was she was feeling somewhat aroused, in a setting where such things really shouldn't happen. A shiver ran down her spine at the thought of how quickly the greyish fluid was taking effect on her body. She'd had more than enough time to recover from the tentacle lair, but she didn't feel quite ready for what Joy was going to do next. The nurse pulled a device from the ceiling, a box-like structure with two phallic forms protruding from it, with heavy black tubes running back up to the ceiling. Moments later, she felt an intense penetration. She moaned out as the lubricated phalluses plunged deep into her, a rush of feeling plowing through her system. It just felt incredibly... full. Then Joy flipped a switch on the device and the thick shafts penetrating her began to vibrate, causing her to cry out in pleasure. She didn't even hear the door shut behind her as the machine worked her innards, slowly penetrating her ass and withdrawing the one in her nethers, then reversing the motion so at any given moment she was having something pushing its way inside her. She was quickly lost in the haze, her brain barely able to process what was happening around her, and time seemed to stop around her as her world was saturated with nothing but the pleasure.
When she came out of her drug-induced haze, she was lying on the floor, unbound, feeling incredibly sated. There was a set of clean clothes, much like the set she'd had torn from her in the ruins she'd gotten saved from. Dressing quickly, she exited the room, smiling somewhat as she remembered the fuzzy bits that had stuck in her mind of an ocean of sexual pleasure. And she got to do this every two weeks... how nice, she thought to herself as she entered the waiting room. Aki had apparently left, and she was a bit disappointed that she hadn't even gotten to say goodbye to him after his abrupt disappearance, but she supposed it didn't matter overmuch. In his absence, it was Joy that drove her back, seemingly in the same carriage that Aki had driven her in. She wondered where the mysterious old man had gone, and asked Joy, but was only met with a silent shrug.
When she returned to the little town, she headed straight to her fence to sell off the idol. It was small, and not especially well-crafted, but it was still gold, and she was able to haggle him up to a price of 130G. With the money safely in her pouch, she went to the tavern where she met with her contact. He informed her of several places that he knew about where she could travel that might carry hidden treasures:
A: 30G: catacombs hidden in the marshlands
B: 40G: mountain temple, rumored to be the lair of a rare creature
C: 75G: oasis in the middle of the desert, possibly the private residence of an ancient king
He was unsure as to the take in the marshlands destination, but from the conversation he'd overheard, it seemed like a fairly easy take. It was very likely to be underwater, though, so she'd most likely have to purchase a breath mask. The mountain temple was in a somewhat frigid climate, so a set of warmer clothes might be in order.
[Shopping:]
[Current funds: 160G]
Merchant's wares:
Breath mask: 95G
A complex device that will filter air through water, enabling one to breathe underwater.
Restorative potion (1mL): 2G
This is a wondrous potion that will re-energize the drinker. However, for this cheap of a price, it really won't have much of an effect...
Restorative potion (100mL): 50G
Of course you'll be rewarded with a better deal when you buy in bulk. This holds ten times the amount of potion than usual, and will even give you more than one usage with just one flask!
Never-ending flask: 700G
This wondrous flask (strangely, it's somewhat cold to the touch) will store an almost infinite amount of any liquid! Popular with adventurers like her, it's a fantastic tool for traveling light yet being prepared for anything. But look at that price tag....
Adventurer's clothes: 5G
A set of nondescript clothes for women. Occasionally, when spelunking and running and jumping and doing the other things adventurer's are required to do (not to mention those dastardly monsters...), her clothes may get ripped, burned, frayed, stolen, removed, or otherwise destroyed, so it's always handy to have a spare set in your satchel.
Adventurer's parka: 30G
A warmer set of clothes than the adventurer's clothes.
Short Sword: 30G
Your basic sword, handy for defense against any who might wish you harm. Efficient, lightweight, inexpensive, and of course sharp, you can't go wrong with this purchase!
