Yay. I made it.
As can be seen from the list of entrants to Lierotica's Nude Day Erotic Story Competition, I did just manage to get my story in before the deadline (by about 45 minutes according to my reckoning - leaving it fine just adds to the drama).
Here is the direct link:
Night of the Nude Succubus Orgy
A bit about it. I wanted to start with a traditional horror/ghost story opening going over the history of a spooky old mansion... and then it turned into a big old porn fest, probably one of the porniest stories I've ever written. Oh well, I'll have to write that traditional spooky horror/occult tale some other time.
The opening is a bit long, cynically so. There is a weird quirk to Literotica contests where it's better to have a reader give up half way through than have them read to the end and give the story an "ok" 4 out of 5. Because of how the scoring works, it's better for a writer if they're given no score at all rather than a 4 (or lower). Shorter stories have traditionally suffered for this in their competitions. So stick with it, even if you don't care for the wobbly occult stuff, it gets a lot hotter and sexy later.
Another note on Literotica contests. Please don't vote more than once or bomb other writers entrants. One, it's not very sporting and two, Literotica has algorithms to spot that type of behaviour and the votes just end up getting scrubbed.
While I wouldn't recommend starting an erotic tale this slow, it was fun to play around with all the Crowley stuff. Aleister Crowley is a real-life historical occult figure and tends to get name-checked a lot in this type of story to give them a pseudo-grounding in reality. The indie adult game "Lust for Darkness" I talked about a couple of weeks ago clearly took some inspiration from Crowley's exploits. A bust of his likeness can be found in the mansion and one of the books you can find mentions Crowley's Thelema religion.
Rather humorously, I botched my research and had to make some last minute edit changes as the original date I had for when the ritual took place was during a time when Crowley had already moved back to England. The body double stuff is pure fiction on my part.
The succubi also developed stronger characters than I was expecting. I'm tempted to use them again. Maybe there's a full novel here once I include the other succubus scenes. Obviously it will depend on how the story is received. I enjoyed writing it, but that might not necessarily translate to people enjoying reading it!
If you did really like one (or more) of the succubi in the story, let me know in the comments below and I'll see if I can give them some more action in a future story.
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Some good news, finally - a new Literotica story on the way
Some good news, finally, as the title says.
I've kept quiet about this one, mainly because I wasn't sure I'd get it finished in time and I didn't want to repeat what happened with "The Heart Squad" earlier this year.
Literotica is currently running their annual Nude Day Erotic Story Contest. I thought I had a good idea for last year, then failed to finish it on time, because I've had a rough patch of struggling to finish stories. I dusted it off for this year... and just about got it done, considering I posted it just now, about an hour before the contest deadline.
The main reason is I... uh... might have got a little carried away. Normally I aim for around 6K words for a short story. When I finished typing this up (in 3 days) it came to a whopping 13K words. The succubi had a lot of fun in this one.
I don't know when the story is going live. I think I entered it in time, but I have had a few problems with Lit randomly bouncing some of my recent stories. It is is a little tamer than my usual death-by-sex stories, so I think it should be okay, but you never know. There was a weird period where I did wonder if Lit had a rogue mod problem, so we'll see.
Anyway, if I do get bounced, I'll just serialize the story here.
Hopefully that won't happen and I'll put up a new post with the story link as soon as it goes live in the next day or so.
As my getting carried away put me under a little time pressure, I had to pause work on the slime girl CYOA for a couple of weeks to get this done in time. To give an idea of how much time pressure - the first draft wasn't complete until Sunday, so I had to type up about 12,000 words in 3 days. This does mean the editing window was much much shorter than I'd normally like, so there will probably be a few more typos and sloppy sentence constructions than I'd normally be happy with in the finished story.
Now that this is done I will get back to that slime girl CYOA. I have a decent chunk of the 1st draft already written, but again, I might have got a teensy bit carried away with all the sexy action...
Friday, April 20, 2018
Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 63: Final Side Quests and Recruiting Alma Elma
Beginning
<- Previous: The Final Boss
Wotcha doing Hydra? Isn’t the game done? Haven’t the final credits rolled?
Well yes. But there are a couple of side quests that open up after the final credits. Yes, I know side quests aren’t normally that interesting or important, but these add some juicy background info, so I thought I should cover them.
La Croix
La Croix’s circus of zombie monster girl queens has various pictures in the graphics folder, so I knew they’d show up at some point. As we got further and further into the game I was wondering if they’d be the final boss to mirror alt!La Croix being the last NPC encountered in part 1. Then with the snow continent and all the angels it became clear that the plot had moved past that point.
La Croix can be found in the mysterious ruins southeast of the Bird God Shrine.
The first time we came here, Alice warned us that the monsters were too powerful for our current level and advised leaving well alone. Return here after the credits and she’s happy for us to explore as we’ve already encountered and defeated plenty of the same chimera monster girls in the Ilias Temple Ruins.
We also now have a way of opening the door to the old research lab. It uses the same keycard that we picked up while being sent back in time to the catastrophe at Remina.
(I suspect it also opens the locked door in the Remina castle tartarus region as well, but I didn’t get around to trying as I still haven’t levelled up enough to open the tier III chests.)
There are a few chests and plenty of gravestones in the ruins. La Croix can be found on the top floor. You walk in on her while she’s in the middle of an argument with the doll master girl from the mysterious tower in part 1.
La Croix is trying to persuade the doll master, unsuccessfully, to not follow Black Alice as she intends to destroy everything. The argument being “you create, why follow someone hellbent on destroying everything?”
The doll master remains unpersuaded and teleports away, leaving us with La Croix.
Who immediately sics her zombie circus on us, despite Chrome’s best efforts to get through to her sister.
The circus attacks in two groups of three.
There is the same group Bad End as the original series. Each member also has their own separate scene that can be requested after they’re recruited. I can’t remember if these are new or not. Also, while checking the graphics folder of one of the more recent patches, I noticed TTR has added artwork of the circus members in their original non-zombified forms.
I’m not sure what they’re doing there, but it’s cool to see the old monster girl queens in their original forms. Maybe we’ll encounter them in part 3.
After we beat her zombies, La Croix acknowledges Chrome has found some strong companions. She still possesses the same doomed fatalism her original series version had, but Chrome is able to knock her out of this by telling her about her alternate reality counterpart - the one that held on to document the end of a doomed world in the hope that one day her research could be used by someone wanting to prevent the same thing happening to their world. The only one that could understand these notes is another La Croix, so this La Croix takes them on and leaves to research their contents. She bequeaths her circus to us in order to continue the fight. Six more new recruits to Luka’sharem army.
Another top-level job unlock item can be found on the table to the right. At this point I think I have them all apart from the one (or more) that need to be won off Lazarus in the pocket castle casino.
Funnily enough, if you talk to Titania (the zombie fairy queen) back in the castle with Alicetroemeria, she’s the only one that recognises and dares to acknowledge Black Alice for who she really is. She even asks her why she’s disguised herself as a wizard.
“Mischief,” Alicetroemeria replies.
I do like this incarnation of Black Alice. I’m really curious to see how she features in the plot of part 3.
Overall, I thought the La Croix side quest felt a little tacked on. As if TTR knew he needed to include it, but couldn’t quite fit it in cleanly.
Morrigan’s Side Quest
Morrigan’s side quest is worth doing as it gives a lot of interesting background info, an extremely powerful new party member, and leaves us with a nice post-credits stinger for the next part.
Her side quest pops up on the main notice board after she joins the party. She wants to go to the underground research lab in Luddite Village. Promestein also wants to come along.
The quest objective is again the machinery at the back of the lab where we first picked up Hild.
Once you get there Morrigan will go into more detail about the shikibi’s plan, and why they didn’t run when the world looked utterly destroyed.
The simple reason is they couldn’t. They cannot travel between realities. Only Luka, Marcellus and gods can do that. They got here through the same method they’re using to transfer all the souls back to their world. When the soul is transferred, it merges with its counterpart on the monster girl world and they sort of amalgamate back into a shared personality. This is what Morrigan and sisters did. They merged with their counterparts here and broke them out of whatever was sealing them away.
And yes, that does mean what you think it means. Morrigan confirms it right after. In order to do this, they had to kill themselves in the other world. This becomes especially poignant when you realise that even if their plan succeeds, they themselves would be unable to go back. That is some unexpected insight into their character and motives.
This does leave a slight plot hole around alt!Tamamo’s appearance in Grangold Castle, but the game even thinks of that, although with machine translation I found the explanation a little hard to parse. I think it’s a projection, or related to how Tamamo can break her seal to manifest in her weaker loli-fox form.
Oh, and that new recruit? She comes along right after.
This answers something I was wondering about. I’d heard Alma Elma could be recruited post-credits, but didn’t know how.
Unsurprisingly, she’s not going to let us do this without a fight. She feels Morrigan is owed a good kicking and will not be persuaded otherwise. Yes, she is technically on our side, but she’s also the Queen Succubus and feels strongly that she should not allow other succubi to behave with such brutality. Morrigan tries to explain they had “reasons” (and fuck those assholes in the Luddite Village anyway), but Alma Elma is not going to be swayed. So, fight.
This is a proper fight as well. Alma Elma isn’t going to hold anything back, so you’re probably going to need the same party you fought Sonya Chaos with, otherwise Alma Elma will seduce everyone and trigger a mass orgy pile-on forlucky poor Luka.
After you beat her, Alma Elma will join the party for good.
There is also a nice stinger to prep us for part 2. Promestein copies the files and as she does so she mentions they're called the “the Laplace Protocols.” Interesting...
And that seems an appropriate place to leave it.
I hope you've enjoyed this series. It took quite a bit longer and was a lot more work than I anticipated, but was still fun to do. I don’t use a Patreon or anything like that to fund this, but I do have various books available on Amazon (and other online bookstores - I write under the name M.E. Hydra). If you’ve enjoyed this series and would like to show your appreciation, please feel free to pick up one (or more!) of my books. They are also packed full of sexy Bad Ends given out by delectable succubi and other monster girls. If you like the MGQ series, you’ll also enjoy my books.
Next week I’ll tag on a few lightweight posts with my overall thoughts on the series while I work out what to move onto next (I'm fully aware I've been neglecting my own fiction of late and want to take steps to correct this).
Before I go, the Alma Elma fight did finally answer one question I'd had since looking up her Bad End scene artwork in the graphics folder. There was one picture that wasn't used in her request scenes and I did wonder whether it had been scratched out for being a little bit too far.
Nope, it's used here.
Yep, Luka buddy. I’d highly recommend not losing this particular fight.
And that seems a perfect footnote to end things on. Thanks for reading!
<- Previous: The Final Boss
Wotcha doing Hydra? Isn’t the game done? Haven’t the final credits rolled?
Well yes. But there are a couple of side quests that open up after the final credits. Yes, I know side quests aren’t normally that interesting or important, but these add some juicy background info, so I thought I should cover them.
La Croix
La Croix’s circus of zombie monster girl queens has various pictures in the graphics folder, so I knew they’d show up at some point. As we got further and further into the game I was wondering if they’d be the final boss to mirror alt!La Croix being the last NPC encountered in part 1. Then with the snow continent and all the angels it became clear that the plot had moved past that point.
La Croix can be found in the mysterious ruins southeast of the Bird God Shrine.
Here, again |
The first time we came here, Alice warned us that the monsters were too powerful for our current level and advised leaving well alone. Return here after the credits and she’s happy for us to explore as we’ve already encountered and defeated plenty of the same chimera monster girls in the Ilias Temple Ruins.
We also now have a way of opening the door to the old research lab. It uses the same keycard that we picked up while being sent back in time to the catastrophe at Remina.
(I suspect it also opens the locked door in the Remina castle tartarus region as well, but I didn’t get around to trying as I still haven’t levelled up enough to open the tier III chests.)
There are a few chests and plenty of gravestones in the ruins. La Croix can be found on the top floor. You walk in on her while she’s in the middle of an argument with the doll master girl from the mysterious tower in part 1.
Professional disagreements |
La Croix is trying to persuade the doll master, unsuccessfully, to not follow Black Alice as she intends to destroy everything. The argument being “you create, why follow someone hellbent on destroying everything?”
The doll master remains unpersuaded and teleports away, leaving us with La Croix.
Who immediately sics her zombie circus on us, despite Chrome’s best efforts to get through to her sister.
First wave of zombie monster girl queens |
The circus attacks in two groups of three.
Second wave. We also have too many Queen Harpy entries in the database. |
There is the same group Bad End as the original series. Each member also has their own separate scene that can be requested after they’re recruited. I can’t remember if these are new or not. Also, while checking the graphics folder of one of the more recent patches, I noticed TTR has added artwork of the circus members in their original non-zombified forms.
Former Queen Harpy when she was looking a little... fresher |
I’m not sure what they’re doing there, but it’s cool to see the old monster girl queens in their original forms. Maybe we’ll encounter them in part 3.
After we beat her zombies, La Croix acknowledges Chrome has found some strong companions. She still possesses the same doomed fatalism her original series version had, but Chrome is able to knock her out of this by telling her about her alternate reality counterpart - the one that held on to document the end of a doomed world in the hope that one day her research could be used by someone wanting to prevent the same thing happening to their world. The only one that could understand these notes is another La Croix, so this La Croix takes them on and leaves to research their contents. She bequeaths her circus to us in order to continue the fight. Six more new recruits to Luka’s
Another top-level job unlock item can be found on the table to the right. At this point I think I have them all apart from the one (or more) that need to be won off Lazarus in the pocket castle casino.
Funnily enough, if you talk to Titania (the zombie fairy queen) back in the castle with Alicetroemeria, she’s the only one that recognises and dares to acknowledge Black Alice for who she really is. She even asks her why she’s disguised herself as a wizard.
“Mischief,” Alicetroemeria replies.
I do like this incarnation of Black Alice. I’m really curious to see how she features in the plot of part 3.
Overall, I thought the La Croix side quest felt a little tacked on. As if TTR knew he needed to include it, but couldn’t quite fit it in cleanly.
Morrigan’s Side Quest
Morrigan’s side quest is worth doing as it gives a lot of interesting background info, an extremely powerful new party member, and leaves us with a nice post-credits stinger for the next part.
Her side quest pops up on the main notice board after she joins the party. She wants to go to the underground research lab in Luddite Village. Promestein also wants to come along.
The quest objective is again the machinery at the back of the lab where we first picked up Hild.
Back again. The 3rd time now? |
Once you get there Morrigan will go into more detail about the shikibi’s plan, and why they didn’t run when the world looked utterly destroyed.
The simple reason is they couldn’t. They cannot travel between realities. Only Luka, Marcellus and gods can do that. They got here through the same method they’re using to transfer all the souls back to their world. When the soul is transferred, it merges with its counterpart on the monster girl world and they sort of amalgamate back into a shared personality. This is what Morrigan and sisters did. They merged with their counterparts here and broke them out of whatever was sealing them away.
And yes, that does mean what you think it means. Morrigan confirms it right after. In order to do this, they had to kill themselves in the other world. This becomes especially poignant when you realise that even if their plan succeeds, they themselves would be unable to go back. That is some unexpected insight into their character and motives.
This does leave a slight plot hole around alt!Tamamo’s appearance in Grangold Castle, but the game even thinks of that, although with machine translation I found the explanation a little hard to parse. I think it’s a projection, or related to how Tamamo can break her seal to manifest in her weaker loli-fox form.
Oh, and that new recruit? She comes along right after.
There's our gal |
This answers something I was wondering about. I’d heard Alma Elma could be recruited post-credits, but didn’t know how.
Unsurprisingly, she’s not going to let us do this without a fight. She feels Morrigan is owed a good kicking and will not be persuaded otherwise. Yes, she is technically on our side, but she’s also the Queen Succubus and feels strongly that she should not allow other succubi to behave with such brutality. Morrigan tries to explain they had “reasons” (and fuck those assholes in the Luddite Village anyway), but Alma Elma is not going to be swayed. So, fight.
This is a proper fight as well. Alma Elma isn’t going to hold anything back, so you’re probably going to need the same party you fought Sonya Chaos with, otherwise Alma Elma will seduce everyone and trigger a mass orgy pile-on for
After you beat her, Alma Elma will join the party for good.
There is also a nice stinger to prep us for part 2. Promestein copies the files and as she does so she mentions they're called the “the Laplace Protocols.” Interesting...
And that seems an appropriate place to leave it.
I hope you've enjoyed this series. It took quite a bit longer and was a lot more work than I anticipated, but was still fun to do. I don’t use a Patreon or anything like that to fund this, but I do have various books available on Amazon (and other online bookstores - I write under the name M.E. Hydra). If you’ve enjoyed this series and would like to show your appreciation, please feel free to pick up one (or more!) of my books. They are also packed full of sexy Bad Ends given out by delectable succubi and other monster girls. If you like the MGQ series, you’ll also enjoy my books.
Next week I’ll tag on a few lightweight posts with my overall thoughts on the series while I work out what to move onto next (I'm fully aware I've been neglecting my own fiction of late and want to take steps to correct this).
Before I go, the Alma Elma fight did finally answer one question I'd had since looking up her Bad End scene artwork in the graphics folder. There was one picture that wasn't used in her request scenes and I did wonder whether it had been scratched out for being a little bit too far.
Nope, it's used here.
The nicest of gals... the worst of fates... |
Yep, Luka buddy. I’d highly recommend not losing this particular fight.
And that seems a perfect footnote to end things on. Thanks for reading!
Monday, April 02, 2018
Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 55: Black Alice's Monster Lord Castle
Beginning
<- Previous: Remina
After a brief stopover at Remina which didn’t give us much other than some juicy background info, it’s time to continue on to the monster lord castle up in the north.
In the castle Alice reminds Luka to stay focused. We’re not here to fight the demon lord Black Alice. We’re here to pick up the blue orb. We should stay focused on the task at hand and avoid running into Black Alice.
Black Alice... sorry... Alicetroemeria agrees. We should avoid running into Black Alice... who is standing right next to us.
There are also some rather attractive succubi to tempt us with their seductive wiles as we make our way through the castle.
I say tempt us with their seductive wiles, but it might be more pound us to a pulp with their muscles.
Aha, here are the succubus martial artists teased on the original cover.
Demon Monk’s temptation move is a powerful vacuum blowjob. Sadly there are no pictures of this, but we do get to see her ride us, muscular cowgirl style, afterwards.
She’s tight and very pneumatic, and after Luka comes she jabs her tail in his ass and pumps him full of aphrodisiac venom. Despite this, it’s not a drained-to-husk snuff ending. But given that she takes Luka off to train on, I don’t think it will be long before she breaks her new toy.
I like this artist’s style, mainly because Luka actually looks like a mature hero here and it doesn’t matter because the succubi still over-sex him.
Other monster girls include the Guivre Girl.
She’s half-demon, half-angel, I think. Although I wonder if TTR had a research fail here as when I looked up guivre I got a mythical French wyvern thing.
She’ll tempt Luka with a blow-job.
And then, like Demon Monk, rides us cowgirl-style afterwards. Using her half-demon, half-angel powers, she alternates her pussy between angelic (soft and fluffy) and demonic (muscular and very very tight).
The scylla maids running around are one of Xelvy’s creations, hence spines where There Should Not Be Spines.
Her bad end scene is surprisingly medium for a Xelvy.
I’m not sure the angles work here, but at least she milks out our cum without those spines going into soft parts of our anatomy.
That’s enough fun. Time to continue the exploration. Oh and one important thing:
DO NOT GO UP THIS STAIRCASE.
This is the middle staircase leading up to the 3rd floor. The NPC will tell you that it leads to Black Alice’s throne room. Alice will also warn you again that you’re not here to fight Black Alice.
The main downside of walking up the stairs is Alicetroemeria will leave the party. This is presumably to take her place on the throne so we can fight her.
Or maybe. Despite her strategic disappearance at this point, I do wonder if they’re one and the same person. Walking through the castle the NPCs talk a lot about an ongoing war between Alice and her sister. I might be reading more into it than is there, or just misreading a bad machine translation, but I do wonder which loon we currently have in our party.
You can fight Black Alice, but it’s not advised, especially if you were leaning on Alicetroemeria’s offensive capabilities, as she will have left the party before this fight. Despite this I still made a reasonable attempt at it. Whether it’s winnable or not depends on what damage Black Alice’s Monster Lord’s Cruelty attack caps out at. Against me it was a total party kill. I could survive that as I’d levelled up all my party members through the Apprentice Hero job to pick up the self-resurrecting Protection of the Goddess ability. The first Monster Lord’s Cruelty anyway. The second Monster Lord’s Cruelty... yeah, that was a party wipe.
I reloaded and avoided this part of the castle in the end, mainly because I don’t know if you actually get Alicetroemeria back once she leaves the party. You probably don’t want to lose her either, as her damage output is useful when fighting the proper boss of this region.
Where you need to go is up the east tower. That’s where the treasure room containing the blue orb can be found.
It’s not a simple case of picking it up, as standing between us and the treasure room is the infamous Black Sanyaki (Black Rose?).
This is the legendary trio of Kokka (succubus), Kokuja (lamia), and Kurobara (vampire). They are quite a tough boss fight. The Bad End you get varies depending on which one of the trio landed the final blow.
If it was Kokuja, she’ll suck Luka’s sperm out with a tail orifice she heats up for extra comfort.
Kurobara will suck you up with her pussy.
Kokka will really suck you up with her pussy.
And I mean really. She doesn’t waste any time on it. The gal is on a schedule. Cue sweet, but extremely short sex as she sucks out all our cum and energy in not much time at all.
But, as always, this is a fate for alt!Luka. In this reality, like Heinrich before us, we gave Black Sanyaki a good spanking and sent them packing.
Interestingly, their profiles in the monsterpedia have a (1) after the name, which implies we’ll be seeing them again for more sexy fun in part 3.
The blue orb is ours. Time to head over to the Bird God Shrine.
-> Next: Not the Bird God Shrine
<- Previous: Remina
After a brief stopover at Remina which didn’t give us much other than some juicy background info, it’s time to continue on to the monster lord castle up in the north.
Here be succubi and all kinds of filthy fun |
In the castle Alice reminds Luka to stay focused. We’re not here to fight the demon lord Black Alice. We’re here to pick up the blue orb. We should stay focused on the task at hand and avoid running into Black Alice.
Black Alice... sorry... Alicetroemeria agrees. We should avoid running into Black Alice... who is standing right next to us.
There are also some rather attractive succubi to tempt us with their seductive wiles as we make our way through the castle.
I say tempt us with their seductive wiles, but it might be more pound us to a pulp with their muscles.
I'm not sure you want these thighs wrapped around you. They might fracture something. |
Aha, here are the succubus martial artists teased on the original cover.
Demon Monk’s temptation move is a powerful vacuum blowjob. Sadly there are no pictures of this, but we do get to see her ride us, muscular cowgirl style, afterwards.
She's going to ride us very very hard... |
She’s tight and very pneumatic, and after Luka comes she jabs her tail in his ass and pumps him full of aphrodisiac venom. Despite this, it’s not a drained-to-husk snuff ending. But given that she takes Luka off to train on, I don’t think it will be long before she breaks her new toy.
I like this artist’s style, mainly because Luka actually looks like a mature hero here and it doesn’t matter because the succubi still over-sex him.
Other monster girls include the Guivre Girl.
Naughty and nice all in one package |
She’s half-demon, half-angel, I think. Although I wonder if TTR had a research fail here as when I looked up guivre I got a mythical French wyvern thing.
She’ll tempt Luka with a blow-job.
Tempted |
And then, like Demon Monk, rides us cowgirl-style afterwards. Using her half-demon, half-angel powers, she alternates her pussy between angelic (soft and fluffy) and demonic (muscular and very very tight).
Lost |
The scylla maids running around are one of Xelvy’s creations, hence spines where There Should Not Be Spines.
She's very efficient and diligent, and not at all... spiky |
Her bad end scene is surprisingly medium for a Xelvy.
One of Xelvy's more restrained scenes |
I’m not sure the angles work here, but at least she milks out our cum without those spines going into soft parts of our anatomy.
That’s enough fun. Time to continue the exploration. Oh and one important thing:
DO NOT GO UP THIS STAIRCASE.
I wouldn't go up here... |
This is the middle staircase leading up to the 3rd floor. The NPC will tell you that it leads to Black Alice’s throne room. Alice will also warn you again that you’re not here to fight Black Alice.
The main downside of walking up the stairs is Alicetroemeria will leave the party. This is presumably to take her place on the throne so we can fight her.
Or maybe. Despite her strategic disappearance at this point, I do wonder if they’re one and the same person. Walking through the castle the NPCs talk a lot about an ongoing war between Alice and her sister. I might be reading more into it than is there, or just misreading a bad machine translation, but I do wonder which loon we currently have in our party.
You can fight Black Alice, but it’s not advised, especially if you were leaning on Alicetroemeria’s offensive capabilities, as she will have left the party before this fight. Despite this I still made a reasonable attempt at it. Whether it’s winnable or not depends on what damage Black Alice’s Monster Lord’s Cruelty attack caps out at. Against me it was a total party kill. I could survive that as I’d levelled up all my party members through the Apprentice Hero job to pick up the self-resurrecting Protection of the Goddess ability. The first Monster Lord’s Cruelty anyway. The second Monster Lord’s Cruelty... yeah, that was a party wipe.
I reloaded and avoided this part of the castle in the end, mainly because I don’t know if you actually get Alicetroemeria back once she leaves the party. You probably don’t want to lose her either, as her damage output is useful when fighting the proper boss of this region.
Where you need to go is up the east tower. That’s where the treasure room containing the blue orb can be found.
It’s not a simple case of picking it up, as standing between us and the treasure room is the infamous Black Sanyaki (Black Rose?).
Legends of their time |
This is the legendary trio of Kokka (succubus), Kokuja (lamia), and Kurobara (vampire). They are quite a tough boss fight. The Bad End you get varies depending on which one of the trio landed the final blow.
If it was Kokuja, she’ll suck Luka’s sperm out with a tail orifice she heats up for extra comfort.
Hot (literally!) tail-sucking action |
Kurobara will suck you up with her pussy.
Vampires have other mouths to suck with... |
Kokka will really suck you up with her pussy.
...but they don't suck as hard as succubi |
And I mean really. She doesn’t waste any time on it. The gal is on a schedule. Cue sweet, but extremely short sex as she sucks out all our cum and energy in not much time at all.
But, as always, this is a fate for alt!Luka. In this reality, like Heinrich before us, we gave Black Sanyaki a good spanking and sent them packing.
Interestingly, their profiles in the monsterpedia have a (1) after the name, which implies we’ll be seeing them again for more sexy fun in part 3.
The blue orb is ours. Time to head over to the Bird God Shrine.
-> Next: Not the Bird God Shrine
Monday, March 05, 2018
The Heart Squad (part 5)
Beginning
A shape flowed out of the darkness and stepped in front of him. It was the tall and busty flame-haired woman. She was still wearing nothing more than a longcoat over frilly pink lingerie.
Had she been waiting out here all this time? She must be freezing her nips off, Kurtzburg thought.
If she was, she gave no outward sign. She greeted Kurtzburg with a breezy smile.
"Mr Kurtzburg, we never realised you had to work so late."
She glanced up at Kurtzburg's floor, where everything was in darkness.
"You must have been so lonely, working up there all on you own. You should have let us know. We would have come up and kept you company."
A stretch limo—sleek and gleaming white—pulled up alongside them. The back door opened and two excitable women leaned out.
"Hello, Mr Kurtzburg," they said in unison.
Both looked younger than the flame-haired woman and were just as attractive. He recognised them from the pictures that had been sent him. In person they exuded a strong aura of wanton sexuality. They seemed like the type of girls that did anything and everything.
"I think there's been some mistake," Kurtzburg said. "You have me mixed up with someone else."
"You are Mr Piotr Kurtzburg, of..." the flame-haired woman reeled off Kurtzburg's home address and even his date of birth for good measure. "I don't think there's been any mistake."
Nope, that was rather... specific.
"Why me?" he asked.
"Someone thought you deserved it," the flame-haired woman said.
That didn't help Kurtzburg at all.
"What did you think of the chocolates?" she asked.
"Um, I didn't... um... eat them. The QA women shared them."
The woman looked disappointed.
"Oh well, can't be helped," she said. She smiled. "Their husbands and boyfriends will be in for a good night tonight. What about you, Mr Kurtzburg? Are you ready to embark on a night of unadulterated passion and hedonism?"
She held out her right arm, simultaneously blocking Kurtzburg's path and directing him in the direction of the back of the limo. The two girls, all smiles, beckoned him to join them on the back seat. A third girl regarded him with sultry interest from an open window. Wow. They'd looked attractive enough in the pictures, but were even more gorgeous in the flesh.
Kurtzburg was tempted. Sorely tempted. But...
...this was way too good to be true. There was no way it could be legit.
"I don’t think I can get into that car with you," Kurtzburg said.
"Aww," the flame-haired woman said. "Don't be so uptight. Those inhibitions aren't healthy. Come with us. We'll help you lose them. It will be fun."
She moved forwards to caress him.
Instinctively, Kurtzburg stepped back.
"Sorry, I think this is all one big misunderstanding. You have the wrong guy. No-one would arrange all this for me."
The woman placed a hand on her hip. Her lips pouted in irritation.
"My, you are an awkward one."
Her sensual lips turned up in a smile. Her eyes twinkled. For a brief—split second—moment, Kurtzburg would have sworn he saw a pink flash. Then...
...Kurtzburg was sitting on the back seat of a luxurious stretch limo surrounded by four gorgeously uninhibited young women.
What the hell. You only live once, he thought to himself.
to be continued...
A shape flowed out of the darkness and stepped in front of him. It was the tall and busty flame-haired woman. She was still wearing nothing more than a longcoat over frilly pink lingerie.
Had she been waiting out here all this time? She must be freezing her nips off, Kurtzburg thought.
If she was, she gave no outward sign. She greeted Kurtzburg with a breezy smile.
"Mr Kurtzburg, we never realised you had to work so late."
She glanced up at Kurtzburg's floor, where everything was in darkness.
"You must have been so lonely, working up there all on you own. You should have let us know. We would have come up and kept you company."
A stretch limo—sleek and gleaming white—pulled up alongside them. The back door opened and two excitable women leaned out.
"Hello, Mr Kurtzburg," they said in unison.
Both looked younger than the flame-haired woman and were just as attractive. He recognised them from the pictures that had been sent him. In person they exuded a strong aura of wanton sexuality. They seemed like the type of girls that did anything and everything.
"I think there's been some mistake," Kurtzburg said. "You have me mixed up with someone else."
"You are Mr Piotr Kurtzburg, of..." the flame-haired woman reeled off Kurtzburg's home address and even his date of birth for good measure. "I don't think there's been any mistake."
Nope, that was rather... specific.
"Why me?" he asked.
"Someone thought you deserved it," the flame-haired woman said.
That didn't help Kurtzburg at all.
"What did you think of the chocolates?" she asked.
"Um, I didn't... um... eat them. The QA women shared them."
The woman looked disappointed.
"Oh well, can't be helped," she said. She smiled. "Their husbands and boyfriends will be in for a good night tonight. What about you, Mr Kurtzburg? Are you ready to embark on a night of unadulterated passion and hedonism?"
She held out her right arm, simultaneously blocking Kurtzburg's path and directing him in the direction of the back of the limo. The two girls, all smiles, beckoned him to join them on the back seat. A third girl regarded him with sultry interest from an open window. Wow. They'd looked attractive enough in the pictures, but were even more gorgeous in the flesh.
Kurtzburg was tempted. Sorely tempted. But...
...this was way too good to be true. There was no way it could be legit.
"I don’t think I can get into that car with you," Kurtzburg said.
"Aww," the flame-haired woman said. "Don't be so uptight. Those inhibitions aren't healthy. Come with us. We'll help you lose them. It will be fun."
She moved forwards to caress him.
Instinctively, Kurtzburg stepped back.
"Sorry, I think this is all one big misunderstanding. You have the wrong guy. No-one would arrange all this for me."
The woman placed a hand on her hip. Her lips pouted in irritation.
"My, you are an awkward one."
Her sensual lips turned up in a smile. Her eyes twinkled. For a brief—split second—moment, Kurtzburg would have sworn he saw a pink flash. Then...
...Kurtzburg was sitting on the back seat of a luxurious stretch limo surrounded by four gorgeously uninhibited young women.
What the hell. You only live once, he thought to himself.
to be continued...
Friday, March 02, 2018
The Heart Squad (part 4)
Beginning
The first text message arrived at two o'clock.
"Are you excited for tonight? We are. xoxo, the Heart Squad."
Number withheld.
Kurtzburg was less rattled about this one. It was his work phone. It wouldn't have been hard for the Heart Squad, whoever they were, to get it.
A picture followed. It was a close-up of the flame-haired model kissing the camera with the other three girls in the background behind her.
All four women were exceedingly attractive. They looked just like the women you saw on TV gliding around the swanky parties. Starlets. Celebs. 'It' girls. Ironic given that his own profession, which also shared the same two letters, was often at the opposite end of the spectrum when it came to glamour and social skills.
Then it clicked.
If they looked good enough to be TV people, they might be TV people. Which made this a... Valentine's Day prank? Yes, that sounded plausible. Probably one of the cheap'n'nasty reality TV shows. Kurtzburg had no idea which. He didn't watch much TV nowadays, preferring instead to spend his leisure time playing videogames or solving coding problems. He also had no idea why they'd singled him out.
Okay, he did. It was because he was fugly and surrounding a mumbling fugly with four bombshell beauties would make for appropriately cringe-inducing TV.
He had no idea why they'd singled him out in particular.
Oh well, that mystery would have to wait for later. He had to fix this bug before the end of the day.
Betts came back with the box of chocolates and a guilty expression. The tray was empty. For all of Betts's talk of sharing them with the whole office, Kurtzburg doubted the box had even left the QA section. He didn't mind. Given their suspect origin, he hadn't been planning on eating any of them.
* * * *
Kurtzburg got another text at three.
"We're going to have so much fun together."
You're going to be so disappointed, Kurtzburg thought, deleting the text.
Another at four.
"We'll be waiting for you outside after work."
You'll be waiting a long time then, Kurtzburg thought. Judging by how this bug fix was progressing, Kurtzburg didn't think he'd be finishing until at least eight. He wasn't too thrilled about it. He'd been looking forward to getting a few hours in on the new space Civ game, Master of the Crimson Nebula.
Later:
"It's almost time. We can hardly contain ourselves. Can you?"
The innuendo was obvious. Kurtzburg felt it in his loins anyway. Despite not being the most active in that department, he still retained some sexual desire. He really wished he lived in a world where four hot girls would whisk him of the street and take him out on a wild night of partying and debauchery.
This was not that world.
Kurtzburg was not a chump.
He was also too busy anyway.
He looked at the screen. Goddammit. Comment your goddamn code, people.
The messages stopped after five-thirty. The office had already emptied out. Kurtzburg was the only one left still tapping away at his keyboard.
He did feel a little sorry for whoever was behind these Valentine's Day fun and games. They must have realised something had gone wrong by now. That Kurtzburg wasn't coming out or had already given them the slip.
Sorry, hah. What was he thinking? They were likely only doing this to set him up for embarrassment... or maybe even worse.
Shame though. He would love a wild, sexy night with four hot, gorgeous women.
Yeah, right. Like that would have actually happened. He wasn't a chump.
He got up and trundled to the drinks machine to pick up a can of Red Bull. Caffeine makes code. He looked at the screen and focused on the problem at hand. It was trickier than he'd first thought, but he felt he understood the problem now. He reckoned he'd be able to fix it before leaving tonight.
He checked in the solution at 8:31. Half an hour later than he'd estimated, but not too bad. He got up and stretched. Most of the office was dark. Kurtzburg packed his things together, walked to the exit and switched off the lights. His stomach rumbled. Maybe he should have eaten some of those chocolates after all. He could pick up a kebab on the way home.
He walked down the stairs and out the front entrance. The night was a little nippy. He adjusted his coat and turned right. His bus stop was at the end of the street.
A shape flowed out of the darkness and stepped in front of him. It was the tall and busty flame-haired woman. She was still wearing nothing more than a longcoat over frilly pink lingerie.
to be continued...
The first text message arrived at two o'clock.
"Are you excited for tonight? We are. xoxo, the Heart Squad."
Number withheld.
Kurtzburg was less rattled about this one. It was his work phone. It wouldn't have been hard for the Heart Squad, whoever they were, to get it.
A picture followed. It was a close-up of the flame-haired model kissing the camera with the other three girls in the background behind her.
All four women were exceedingly attractive. They looked just like the women you saw on TV gliding around the swanky parties. Starlets. Celebs. 'It' girls. Ironic given that his own profession, which also shared the same two letters, was often at the opposite end of the spectrum when it came to glamour and social skills.
Then it clicked.
If they looked good enough to be TV people, they might be TV people. Which made this a... Valentine's Day prank? Yes, that sounded plausible. Probably one of the cheap'n'nasty reality TV shows. Kurtzburg had no idea which. He didn't watch much TV nowadays, preferring instead to spend his leisure time playing videogames or solving coding problems. He also had no idea why they'd singled him out.
Okay, he did. It was because he was fugly and surrounding a mumbling fugly with four bombshell beauties would make for appropriately cringe-inducing TV.
He had no idea why they'd singled him out in particular.
Oh well, that mystery would have to wait for later. He had to fix this bug before the end of the day.
Betts came back with the box of chocolates and a guilty expression. The tray was empty. For all of Betts's talk of sharing them with the whole office, Kurtzburg doubted the box had even left the QA section. He didn't mind. Given their suspect origin, he hadn't been planning on eating any of them.
* * * *
Kurtzburg got another text at three.
"We're going to have so much fun together."
You're going to be so disappointed, Kurtzburg thought, deleting the text.
Another at four.
"We'll be waiting for you outside after work."
You'll be waiting a long time then, Kurtzburg thought. Judging by how this bug fix was progressing, Kurtzburg didn't think he'd be finishing until at least eight. He wasn't too thrilled about it. He'd been looking forward to getting a few hours in on the new space Civ game, Master of the Crimson Nebula.
Later:
"It's almost time. We can hardly contain ourselves. Can you?"
The innuendo was obvious. Kurtzburg felt it in his loins anyway. Despite not being the most active in that department, he still retained some sexual desire. He really wished he lived in a world where four hot girls would whisk him of the street and take him out on a wild night of partying and debauchery.
This was not that world.
Kurtzburg was not a chump.
He was also too busy anyway.
He looked at the screen. Goddammit. Comment your goddamn code, people.
The messages stopped after five-thirty. The office had already emptied out. Kurtzburg was the only one left still tapping away at his keyboard.
He did feel a little sorry for whoever was behind these Valentine's Day fun and games. They must have realised something had gone wrong by now. That Kurtzburg wasn't coming out or had already given them the slip.
Sorry, hah. What was he thinking? They were likely only doing this to set him up for embarrassment... or maybe even worse.
Shame though. He would love a wild, sexy night with four hot, gorgeous women.
Yeah, right. Like that would have actually happened. He wasn't a chump.
He got up and trundled to the drinks machine to pick up a can of Red Bull. Caffeine makes code. He looked at the screen and focused on the problem at hand. It was trickier than he'd first thought, but he felt he understood the problem now. He reckoned he'd be able to fix it before leaving tonight.
He checked in the solution at 8:31. Half an hour later than he'd estimated, but not too bad. He got up and stretched. Most of the office was dark. Kurtzburg packed his things together, walked to the exit and switched off the lights. His stomach rumbled. Maybe he should have eaten some of those chocolates after all. He could pick up a kebab on the way home.
He walked down the stairs and out the front entrance. The night was a little nippy. He adjusted his coat and turned right. His bus stop was at the end of the street.
A shape flowed out of the darkness and stepped in front of him. It was the tall and busty flame-haired woman. She was still wearing nothing more than a longcoat over frilly pink lingerie.
to be continued...
Monday, February 26, 2018
The Heart Squad (part 3)
Beginning
There was email awaiting Kurtzburg when he got back to his desk. Also not a surprise. There was always email waiting for him. One of them wasn't like the others, but Kurtzburg wasn't aware of that until he opened it up.
"Hi Piotr. We're the Heart Squad!"
It was followed by a picture of four extremely attractive and provocatively attired women sitting in the back of an expensive limo. They were all smiling at the camera and holding their arms out. Kurtzburg recognised one as the gorgeous flame-haired courier who'd delivered his card and chocolates this morning.
"We're so looking forward to making your Valentine's Day an unforgettable one."
Kurtzburg frowned. He was normally super-careful about which emails he opened. He was sure this had been another work email when he'd clicked on it.
He lifted his small round spectacles and rubbed his eyes. Must be tiredness. It had been a hard slog over the past couple of weeks to get the latest patch ready.
He became aware of someone standing next to his desk and hurriedly deleted the email.
He looked up and saw it was Leah Betts from the QA department. She was looking down at the chocolate box.
"Aren't you going to open them?" she asked.
"I dunno," he mumbled.
"You do know it's customary for employees to share their Valentine's chocolates with the rest of the office."
"It is?"
He tried to remember if anyone had ever brought chocolates around to his desk. Not that he would have remembered or even registered if they had.
He glanced back at his screen. Was that email with the picture of the four hot semi-naked women in the back of a limo gone yet? Yes. Thank fuck for that.
Not that he needed to worry. Betts was still staring down at the chocolate box. "Go on. Open it up," she said.
Kurtzburg shrugged. He opened it up. It was a box of chocolates. The cover was sickeningly saccharine. Kurtzburg flipped the lid. Yes, they were chocolates.
"Ooh, those are fancy," Betts said. "Have you got a posh bird you've been hiding from us?"
Her hand hovered over the tray like a vulture about to swoop.
Kurtzburg was reluctant to take one. Where had they come from? Why him? You heard stories. Food being tampered with.
Betts selected one she liked—a little brown nut from near the centre of the tray. She plucked it out and brought it up to her mouth.
"Wait!" Kurtzburg said.
Betts stopped, eyes opened wide in sudden surprise.
"I don't know where they're from," Kurtzburg said.
Betts's frozen expression of surprise thawed out into a contemptuous grin.
"They're Valentine's Day chocolates. You're not supposed to know who they're from."
She rolled her eyes and popped the chocolate into her mouth. She chewed. Her eyes widened.
"Ooh, these are yummy," she said. "It tastes like... ooh." A hand involuntarily drifted down to her crotch. Her cheeks reddened.
"Mandy, you have to try one of these," she called back to the adjacent QA section.
She looked back at the box with naked avarice.
"You look busy," she said. "You want me to share them around the office for you?"
Kurtzburg mumble-grunted a yes and Betts went away, taking the box of chocolates with her.
Then his attention was caught by something on his monitor. A heart-shaped balloon floated to the top of the screen and popped to reveal the word, "Tonight." A lipstick kiss flashed on the bottom right of the screen and was followed by, "The Heart Squad."
Kurtzburg's stomach lurched. Had that email downloaded a virus onto his machine?
He went through a series of diagnostics and found nothing untoward. He rubbed his eyes again. He couldn't have imagined it, could he?
And what did they mean by "tonight"?
* * * *
The first text message arrived at two o'clock.
to be continued...
(Also, Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] playthrough to resumetomorrow Wednesday. One was more ready than the other so I flipped the days).
There was email awaiting Kurtzburg when he got back to his desk. Also not a surprise. There was always email waiting for him. One of them wasn't like the others, but Kurtzburg wasn't aware of that until he opened it up.
"Hi Piotr. We're the Heart Squad!"
It was followed by a picture of four extremely attractive and provocatively attired women sitting in the back of an expensive limo. They were all smiling at the camera and holding their arms out. Kurtzburg recognised one as the gorgeous flame-haired courier who'd delivered his card and chocolates this morning.
"We're so looking forward to making your Valentine's Day an unforgettable one."
Kurtzburg frowned. He was normally super-careful about which emails he opened. He was sure this had been another work email when he'd clicked on it.
He lifted his small round spectacles and rubbed his eyes. Must be tiredness. It had been a hard slog over the past couple of weeks to get the latest patch ready.
He became aware of someone standing next to his desk and hurriedly deleted the email.
He looked up and saw it was Leah Betts from the QA department. She was looking down at the chocolate box.
"Aren't you going to open them?" she asked.
"I dunno," he mumbled.
"You do know it's customary for employees to share their Valentine's chocolates with the rest of the office."
"It is?"
He tried to remember if anyone had ever brought chocolates around to his desk. Not that he would have remembered or even registered if they had.
He glanced back at his screen. Was that email with the picture of the four hot semi-naked women in the back of a limo gone yet? Yes. Thank fuck for that.
Not that he needed to worry. Betts was still staring down at the chocolate box. "Go on. Open it up," she said.
Kurtzburg shrugged. He opened it up. It was a box of chocolates. The cover was sickeningly saccharine. Kurtzburg flipped the lid. Yes, they were chocolates.
"Ooh, those are fancy," Betts said. "Have you got a posh bird you've been hiding from us?"
Her hand hovered over the tray like a vulture about to swoop.
Kurtzburg was reluctant to take one. Where had they come from? Why him? You heard stories. Food being tampered with.
Betts selected one she liked—a little brown nut from near the centre of the tray. She plucked it out and brought it up to her mouth.
"Wait!" Kurtzburg said.
Betts stopped, eyes opened wide in sudden surprise.
"I don't know where they're from," Kurtzburg said.
Betts's frozen expression of surprise thawed out into a contemptuous grin.
"They're Valentine's Day chocolates. You're not supposed to know who they're from."
She rolled her eyes and popped the chocolate into her mouth. She chewed. Her eyes widened.
"Ooh, these are yummy," she said. "It tastes like... ooh." A hand involuntarily drifted down to her crotch. Her cheeks reddened.
"Mandy, you have to try one of these," she called back to the adjacent QA section.
She looked back at the box with naked avarice.
"You look busy," she said. "You want me to share them around the office for you?"
Kurtzburg mumble-grunted a yes and Betts went away, taking the box of chocolates with her.
Then his attention was caught by something on his monitor. A heart-shaped balloon floated to the top of the screen and popped to reveal the word, "Tonight." A lipstick kiss flashed on the bottom right of the screen and was followed by, "The Heart Squad."
Kurtzburg's stomach lurched. Had that email downloaded a virus onto his machine?
He went through a series of diagnostics and found nothing untoward. He rubbed his eyes again. He couldn't have imagined it, could he?
And what did they mean by "tonight"?
* * * *
The first text message arrived at two o'clock.
to be continued...
(Also, Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] playthrough to resume
Friday, February 23, 2018
The Heart Squad (part 2)
Part 1
Kurtzburg didn't get around to opening the card until after he'd cleared all of the morning's urgent tasks. Not that it shed any more light on the mystery.
It was one of those standard giant-size Valentine's Day cards you could pick up in any high-street shop. Kurtzburg's name was on the cover of the plain red envelope, written in elegant handwriting. Kurtzburg didn't know of any other Piotr Kurtzburgs in the company, so it must be for him. For whatever reason.
"Happy Valentine's Day from the Heart Squad," was written on the inside in the same elegant handwriting.
Kurtzburg had no idea who or what the Heart Squad was.
Someone had drawn cute little cartoon bats all over the inside of the card. Some of them were carrying pink hearts. The ones that weren't had long tails—that looked more like devil tails—looped around in the outline of a heart.
Maybe he had a secret admirer.
Kurtzburg nearly laughed out loud at the thought.
He was no catch. Even by the not-that-high standards of the typical IT male, Kurtzburg was distinctly below average. He knew his nickname around the office was "moleman." His co-workers didn't seem to care that he knew either.
He supposed it was different. At school they used to call him Penfold after the character in the Danger Mouse cartoons.
It didn't bother Kurtzburg all that much. Maybe at some point in the past, but he'd long grown out of letting it upset him. You couldn't help what you were born with, as far as he was concerned. There were a few people in the office he didn't like, but he just tended to avoid them. As for the rest, they were fine. They let him get on with his work and he let them get on with theirs. The only time they interacted with Kurtzburg was when they wanted something done. This was also fine with Kurtzburg. That's how work worked.
Now there was this card.
Kurtzburg would have put it down to a prank played by Dave Gregg, except Gregg had left the company two years ago. Foxtrot Tech had been a different place then and 'Greggsy' was the office prankster—a larger than life character with a big mouth. Kurtzburg hadn't got on that well with him. Gregg was a massive extrovert. Kurtzburg was a massive introvert. There were clashes.
That was then. Times moved on. The kind of 'hijinks' Gregg used to get up to, especially with the female staff, were no longer tolerated in the modern workplace.
Kurtzburg turned the card over. There were four glossy lipstick impressions of kisses on the bottom left corner. They'd been added later rather than printed on the card. Written over them in the same elegant handwriting were the words:
"Look forward to tonight."
This was just like one of the 'jokes' Greggsy liked to pull.
But not anymore.
Not since that business.
* * * *
That business had involved Roberta Ross. Kurtzburg was dragged into her office just before lunch.
"Care to explain that little incident this morning?" she asked.
Ross was all cold angles and hidden landmines. She was a short, mousy-haired woman that favoured power suits despite running the traditionally laidback IT department. Kurtzburg respected her professionalism and efficiency, but he couldn’t ever bring himself to like her. There was a furious intensity about her, as if she was always a couple of countdown ticks away from an explosion, and Kurtzburg didn't want to be anywhere near the blast radius.
"I don’t know," he mumbled. "A mix-up, I think. Someone set up a prank and got the wrong man... person."
Ross fixed him with steely grey eyes.
"I don't know or care what you and your friends get up to outside of work, but if they are your friends you should let them know the next time they pull a stunt like this it will be you that has to bear the consequences."
Ross turned back to her monitor.
"The latest patch is running late. I need that bugfix done before you leave tonight."
Meeting over.
Ross had joined the company as a junior programmer three years ago and had risen meteorically to the position of department head. It was her complaint of sexual harassment that had resulted in Dave Gregg's termination.
It hadn't come as much of a surprise. Greggsy had always been a little too free with his mouth around the female staff. Even freer with his hands. That kind of behaviour was no longer tolerated.
There had been a similar controversy involving Ross and another senior developer, Jake Packman, about a year later. Unwelcome advances. Hands touching parts of the anatomy hands should not touch.
That had been a surprise. Like Kurtzburg, Packman was a quiet person who kept to themselves. Unlike Kurtzburg, Packman was married and seemed happy with domestic life.
You never could tell with the quiet ones, the office had gossiped.
Packman had 'resigned'.
Kurtzburg turned off the voice-recording app on his smartphone as he left Ross's office.
With Gregg it hadn't been a surprise. Packman, however...
* * * *
There was email awaiting Kurtzburg when he got back to his desk.
to be continued...
Kurtzburg didn't get around to opening the card until after he'd cleared all of the morning's urgent tasks. Not that it shed any more light on the mystery.
It was one of those standard giant-size Valentine's Day cards you could pick up in any high-street shop. Kurtzburg's name was on the cover of the plain red envelope, written in elegant handwriting. Kurtzburg didn't know of any other Piotr Kurtzburgs in the company, so it must be for him. For whatever reason.
"Happy Valentine's Day from the Heart Squad," was written on the inside in the same elegant handwriting.
Kurtzburg had no idea who or what the Heart Squad was.
Someone had drawn cute little cartoon bats all over the inside of the card. Some of them were carrying pink hearts. The ones that weren't had long tails—that looked more like devil tails—looped around in the outline of a heart.
Maybe he had a secret admirer.
Kurtzburg nearly laughed out loud at the thought.
He was no catch. Even by the not-that-high standards of the typical IT male, Kurtzburg was distinctly below average. He knew his nickname around the office was "moleman." His co-workers didn't seem to care that he knew either.
He supposed it was different. At school they used to call him Penfold after the character in the Danger Mouse cartoons.
It didn't bother Kurtzburg all that much. Maybe at some point in the past, but he'd long grown out of letting it upset him. You couldn't help what you were born with, as far as he was concerned. There were a few people in the office he didn't like, but he just tended to avoid them. As for the rest, they were fine. They let him get on with his work and he let them get on with theirs. The only time they interacted with Kurtzburg was when they wanted something done. This was also fine with Kurtzburg. That's how work worked.
Now there was this card.
Kurtzburg would have put it down to a prank played by Dave Gregg, except Gregg had left the company two years ago. Foxtrot Tech had been a different place then and 'Greggsy' was the office prankster—a larger than life character with a big mouth. Kurtzburg hadn't got on that well with him. Gregg was a massive extrovert. Kurtzburg was a massive introvert. There were clashes.
That was then. Times moved on. The kind of 'hijinks' Gregg used to get up to, especially with the female staff, were no longer tolerated in the modern workplace.
Kurtzburg turned the card over. There were four glossy lipstick impressions of kisses on the bottom left corner. They'd been added later rather than printed on the card. Written over them in the same elegant handwriting were the words:
"Look forward to tonight."
This was just like one of the 'jokes' Greggsy liked to pull.
But not anymore.
Not since that business.
* * * *
That business had involved Roberta Ross. Kurtzburg was dragged into her office just before lunch.
"Care to explain that little incident this morning?" she asked.
Ross was all cold angles and hidden landmines. She was a short, mousy-haired woman that favoured power suits despite running the traditionally laidback IT department. Kurtzburg respected her professionalism and efficiency, but he couldn’t ever bring himself to like her. There was a furious intensity about her, as if she was always a couple of countdown ticks away from an explosion, and Kurtzburg didn't want to be anywhere near the blast radius.
"I don’t know," he mumbled. "A mix-up, I think. Someone set up a prank and got the wrong man... person."
Ross fixed him with steely grey eyes.
"I don't know or care what you and your friends get up to outside of work, but if they are your friends you should let them know the next time they pull a stunt like this it will be you that has to bear the consequences."
Ross turned back to her monitor.
"The latest patch is running late. I need that bugfix done before you leave tonight."
Meeting over.
Ross had joined the company as a junior programmer three years ago and had risen meteorically to the position of department head. It was her complaint of sexual harassment that had resulted in Dave Gregg's termination.
It hadn't come as much of a surprise. Greggsy had always been a little too free with his mouth around the female staff. Even freer with his hands. That kind of behaviour was no longer tolerated.
There had been a similar controversy involving Ross and another senior developer, Jake Packman, about a year later. Unwelcome advances. Hands touching parts of the anatomy hands should not touch.
That had been a surprise. Like Kurtzburg, Packman was a quiet person who kept to themselves. Unlike Kurtzburg, Packman was married and seemed happy with domestic life.
You never could tell with the quiet ones, the office had gossiped.
Packman had 'resigned'.
Kurtzburg turned off the voice-recording app on his smartphone as he left Ross's office.
With Gregg it hadn't been a surprise. Packman, however...
* * * *
There was email awaiting Kurtzburg when he got back to his desk.
to be continued...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The Heart Squad (part 1)
This the story I wanted to enter into Literotica's Valentine's Day short story competition. I didn't finish it in time and it isn't finished now. I seem to have a problem finishing stories at the moment, which is rather vexing. So, I'm going to do as what some nice soul in the comments suggested - start posting what I have as a serial here in the hope that will provide the impetus to get the rest done. The first parts will be pretty slow with uneven breaks as this was originally intended as a 5-6K word short story rather than a serial with classic cliff-hanger hooks.
As a quick aside, I'm not going to abandon my current playthrough series of Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2]. Currently my write-up has caught up to where I am in the game and I need a bit of breathing space to get ahead again. If all goes to plan I'll get back to it next week and run it alongside this.
The Heart Squad (part 1)
Piotr Kurtzburg didn't expect to receive cards and chocolates on Valentine's Day.
He certainly didn't expect to receive cards and chocolates hand-delivered by a statuesque bombshell of a model.
Her visit caused quite a stir in the office. A six-foot-tall, jaw-droppingly beautiful woman walking around in nothing more than a longcoat and sexy lingerie was not a sight the average British office worker expected to see on your typical miserable and overcast February morning.
"Happy Valentine's Day from the Heart Squad," she said to Kurtzburg before handing over an oversized card and heart-shaped box of chocolates.
Dumbfounded, Kurtzburg just accepted them. He was blown away by her appearance.
One. She was really tall. Taller than Kurtzburg's five-ten.
Two. She was still perfectly proportioned despite her height. She had a perfect feminine physique—full hips, fuller chest, and long long legs. She also had big big hair. It was red—flame not ginger—and complexly coiffured in a style Kurtzburg hadn't seen since the kitsch sci-fi films of the sixties. Her smile revealed perfect white teeth.
Three. She was clearly wearing nothing more than underwear beneath her longcoat. It was pink, frilly and sheer enough for her nipples to be visible beneath.
That alone should have been enough to have her stopped long before reaching Kurtzburg's desk. Except...
Four. She had overwhelming presence. This was the hardest to explain. Not only did she look absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, she also had this aura that flooded out of her and subsumed all around her. She seemed the sort that had the chutzpah—and looks—to blag her way into anywhere.
What Kurtzburg couldn't understand was why she was here for him.
When he'd finally gathered enough presence of mind to stop gawping at her like an open-mouthed yokel, he said, "I think there's been some mistake."
"Are you Piotr Kurtzburg?" she asked.
Kurtzburg gave her a slight nod of affirmation.
"Then there's been no mistake. Happy Valentine's Day."
For one awful moment, Kurtzburg thought she was going to perform a striptease for him right there and then and in front of the entire office. Under other circumstances, Kurtzburg might have been okay with this. He was your typical sex-starved male nerd and her body was extraordinary. But not here. Not with the whole office watching. Not with his cheeks almost burning as brightly as her hair.
Instead she dipped her head forwards and kissed him on each cheek, continental style. On the last kiss her head slid on until her sumptuous lips were level with his ear.
"See you later," she whispered.
Then she turned on the spot and walked away, leaving a very befuddled Kurtzburg standing there with his mouth open and holding a heart-shaped box of chocolates. He was still surrounded in a cloud of her perfume. Faint traces of it stayed with him for the rest of the morning.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 43: Succubus Village (alt)
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Friday, January 05, 2018
Let's Play Monmusu Quest: Paradox [part 2] - 36: Succubus Village 2
Beginning
<- Previous: Succubus Village (Dungeon)
We’re in the succubus village, which appears to be in the middle of a civil war. Or mass orgy. It is succubi after all.
The source of all this is the nope-uccubus Natasha. She’s after a man and appears to have found him in the basement of the mayor’s mansion.
So I guess we’re playing mediator again.
The mayor is downstairs trying to protect a man from Natasha’s wrath. And now we get the reasoning behind it. The man is from Luddite Village. Hmm, I thought Morrigan dried-fish all of those assholes. Natasha is also from Luddite Village. She wasn’t always a succubus. She only ended up that way after Lilith and friends killed all the men and turned all the women into succubi. Before then she was a girl... who was horribly abused by the man now being sheltered by the village. Now she wants to take revenge for all the abuse she received.
Oh.
..
..
Ah.
..
..
This is a bit... um... heavier than I was expecting.
If I was a games journalist, I might be too traumatized to carry on. Thankfully, I’m just a pervy shit who blogs about succubus smut, so I can continue to... okay, how the fuck are we going to resolve this one?
My natural inclination would be to stand by and watch while Natasha sucks his entrails out through his cock, but I think the game wants us to be better than that. Luka is sort of a pint-sized Doctor Who in this universe, which means taking higher path even if Luddite oik deserves to see his small intestines come spooling out of his bell-end.
So, the “correct” choice is to side with the mayor against Natasha.
Well...
Originally, I sided with the mayor and fought and beat Natasha. Afterwards the mayor will take Natasha under her wing and try to raise her correctly. She tells Natasha the man will also be punished... correctly (I don’t think I want to know what correctly means here). But the end result has the mayor staying behind to care for Natasha and neither of them joining the party.
It turns out this is not the optimal choice. In fact, the correct choice is a little tricky and I think depends on decisions made in MQ:P [part 1].
One quick reload later and this time let’s side with Natasha. This means the boss fight is against the succubus mayor (who is simply referred to as “Succubus” in the monster library).
This is a repeat fight as she was also a boss fight in the original series.
Taking this route has a surprise outcome. We beat the mayor, but it’s Lily of all people that talks Natasha out of tearing the Luddite shlob to shreds. It’s the standard “Don’t let hate and desire for revenge consume you until you become what you hate” speech, but it was not one I ever expected to hear from Lily given that she’s not exactly the most stable of people.
This is the better outcome as it allows you to recruit Natasha. Unfortunately, you can’t recruit the mayor as she ends up in bed recuperating from the battle. I suspect this is another either/or recruit scenario and it’s not possible to add both to the “harem” without NG+ shenanigans (correct me in the comments if I’m wrong).
Who’s Lily again? you might be asking.
Okay, walkthrough hat on, but with the caveat it involves a bit on conjecture on my part as I haven’t played through the other route.
Succubus Mayor and Natasha are mutually exclusive recruits, but whether you get either of them or none depends on who you sided with in the Magistea Village questline in MQ:P [part 1]. If you sided with Lily (ignore the fact I sided with Lucia back then – I lost that save and went with Lily on the subsequent replay), the correct decision is to side with Natasha and fight the mayor. This unlocks Natasha as a recruit.
I haven’t played through to confirm, but my guess is that if you sided with Lucia, the correct decision is to side with the mayor, fight Natasha, and then you get the mayor as the recruit.
Not 100% on this, so it would be great if someone can confirm this in the comments.
So...
If you have Lily, choose to fight the mayor and then you can recruit Natasha.
If you have Lucia, choose to fight Natasha and then you can recruit the mayor.
So I could have had sexy succubus mayor join the harem, but instead I have to take psycho nope-uccubus because I picked Ms Tentacle Arms over Ms Giant Maggot. FML.
Natasha does have a few scenes (okay, one scene, and not even her temptation move from her boss battle, surprisingly enough) you can request back at the castle, but given her past history, asking her for sex acts seems a little...
You monster.
Totally deserved.
And we could have had the sexy mayor casting her sweet sex magic on us. At least with this path we get to open up the Worm Summoner advanced race for humans as Lily gives us the unlock item on leaving the mansion. (Is this true with Lucia as well – can anyone help in the comments?)
With the central conflict resolved, the succubus village quietens down. There are still angry succubus sprites bouncing off each other (I think they’re fucking really), but we won’t run into any random battles.
But what if we haven’t recruited Mei or Harem yet?
Never fear, the game already takes this into account. There’s a section of the village – cross the bridge to the north side and follow the river to the left – where succubi like to jump defenceless men and do things to them. You can fill out the item drops and recruit Mei and Harem here if you haven’t already done so.
Still on the topic of recruitment. Mincubus, Lencubus and Maccubus can all be picked up now. Mincubus and Lencubus can be found where you fought them. Maccubus is in the north of the village, in a house just to the west of the mansion.
There are some other things in the mansion. Alleria is now available for battlefuck challenges. She’s a human that downed a succubus with her sensual technique, but you wouldn’t guess this as sadly, like most of the other battlefuckers, she doesn’t have any additional art.
Down in the basement, the righthand room is filled with various magical paraphernalia. Ah, the succubus witch. I knew this section was missing something.
And still is. The maid informs us she’s out. Hmm, so I wonder when she’s going to show up.
Hmm, what else is there to do here? (Besides the obvious)
Comically, if you visit the inn, you’ll find out that a lot of the obvious is taking place, as the rooms are filled with succubi vigorously bonking the brains out of various NPC guests.
Ah, there is another side quest that can be completed here. If you remember back in Yamatai Village, there were four young men that went out into the worldto get fucked by sexy monster girls for adventure. Three of those locations were already visited. The fourth was the Succubus Village, which we’ve now reached.
You can find the fourth young man in the pub here:
It appears Maccubus was a little too much for him to handle.
The other three can be found:
In the inn in the Harpy Village:
In the grassy area near Meia’s house in Port Natalia:
In the Forest of Spirits (Sylph’s forest) to the left of the first bridge:
Now why should you care about these pervs? Once you’ve spoken to all four, go back to the headman at Yamatai Village. As a reward he’ll give you Fairy Nectar. To be honest, I didn’t have a clue what this does and had to look it up. It enables you to recruit Queen Ant. Give it to her in the warehouse that functions as the temporary HQ for Grangold and she’ll be so in love with the sweetness of it, she’ll join the party.
And that’s that for the Succubus Village. It’s time to move on and see what ails the Lady Village... after a night in the Succubus Inn.
Or three.
Can we just stay here rather than going to Cassandra’s home and getting our dick melted off?
Goddamn it!
-> Next: Lady Village
<- Previous: Succubus Village (Dungeon)
We’re in the succubus village, which appears to be in the middle of a civil war. Or mass orgy. It is succubi after all.
The source of all this is the nope-uccubus Natasha. She’s after a man and appears to have found him in the basement of the mayor’s mansion.
So I guess we’re playing mediator again.
The mayor is downstairs trying to protect a man from Natasha’s wrath. And now we get the reasoning behind it. The man is from Luddite Village. Hmm, I thought Morrigan dried-fish all of those assholes. Natasha is also from Luddite Village. She wasn’t always a succubus. She only ended up that way after Lilith and friends killed all the men and turned all the women into succubi. Before then she was a girl... who was horribly abused by the man now being sheltered by the village. Now she wants to take revenge for all the abuse she received.
Oh.
..
..
Ah.
..
..
This is a bit... um... heavier than I was expecting.
If I was a games journalist, I might be too traumatized to carry on. Thankfully, I’m just a pervy shit who blogs about succubus smut, so I can continue to... okay, how the fuck are we going to resolve this one?
My natural inclination would be to stand by and watch while Natasha sucks his entrails out through his cock, but I think the game wants us to be better than that. Luka is sort of a pint-sized Doctor Who in this universe, which means taking higher path even if Luddite oik deserves to see his small intestines come spooling out of his bell-end.
This is basically just an excuse to show her temptation scene. No need to be alarmed, no entrails were pulled out of orifices they shouldn't be pulled out of. |
So, the “correct” choice is to side with the mayor against Natasha.
Well...
Originally, I sided with the mayor and fought and beat Natasha. Afterwards the mayor will take Natasha under her wing and try to raise her correctly. She tells Natasha the man will also be punished... correctly (I don’t think I want to know what correctly means here). But the end result has the mayor staying behind to care for Natasha and neither of them joining the party.
It turns out this is not the optimal choice. In fact, the correct choice is a little tricky and I think depends on decisions made in MQ:P [part 1].
One quick reload later and this time let’s side with Natasha. This means the boss fight is against the succubus mayor (who is simply referred to as “Succubus” in the monster library).
Wasn't this supposed to be a fight? Why is my HP decreasing... oh fuck. |
This is a repeat fight as she was also a boss fight in the original series.
Taking this route has a surprise outcome. We beat the mayor, but it’s Lily of all people that talks Natasha out of tearing the Luddite shlob to shreds. It’s the standard “Don’t let hate and desire for revenge consume you until you become what you hate” speech, but it was not one I ever expected to hear from Lily given that she’s not exactly the most stable of people.
This is the better outcome as it allows you to recruit Natasha. Unfortunately, you can’t recruit the mayor as she ends up in bed recuperating from the battle. I suspect this is another either/or recruit scenario and it’s not possible to add both to the “harem” without NG+ shenanigans (correct me in the comments if I’m wrong).
Who’s Lily again? you might be asking.
Okay, walkthrough hat on, but with the caveat it involves a bit on conjecture on my part as I haven’t played through the other route.
Succubus Mayor and Natasha are mutually exclusive recruits, but whether you get either of them or none depends on who you sided with in the Magistea Village questline in MQ:P [part 1]. If you sided with Lily (ignore the fact I sided with Lucia back then – I lost that save and went with Lily on the subsequent replay), the correct decision is to side with Natasha and fight the mayor. This unlocks Natasha as a recruit.
I haven’t played through to confirm, but my guess is that if you sided with Lucia, the correct decision is to side with the mayor, fight Natasha, and then you get the mayor as the recruit.
Not 100% on this, so it would be great if someone can confirm this in the comments.
So...
If you have Lily, choose to fight the mayor and then you can recruit Natasha.
If you have Lucia, choose to fight Natasha and then you can recruit the mayor.
So I could have had sexy succubus mayor join the harem, but instead I have to take psycho nope-uccubus because I picked Ms Tentacle Arms over Ms Giant Maggot. FML.
Natasha does have a few scenes (okay, one scene, and not even her temptation move from her boss battle, surprisingly enough) you can request back at the castle, but given her past history, asking her for sex acts seems a little...
Do you think it's a good idea to ask for sex stuff from the psycho sex demon that was sexually abused as a child? |
You monster.
I did warn you. |
Totally deserved.
And we could have had the sexy mayor casting her sweet sex magic on us. At least with this path we get to open up the Worm Summoner advanced race for humans as Lily gives us the unlock item on leaving the mansion. (Is this true with Lucia as well – can anyone help in the comments?)
With the central conflict resolved, the succubus village quietens down. There are still angry succubus sprites bouncing off each other (I think they’re fucking really), but we won’t run into any random battles.
But what if we haven’t recruited Mei or Harem yet?
Never fear, the game already takes this into account. There’s a section of the village – cross the bridge to the north side and follow the river to the left – where succubi like to jump defenceless men and do things to them. You can fill out the item drops and recruit Mei and Harem here if you haven’t already done so.
Still on the topic of recruitment. Mincubus, Lencubus and Maccubus can all be picked up now. Mincubus and Lencubus can be found where you fought them. Maccubus is in the north of the village, in a house just to the west of the mansion.
There are some other things in the mansion. Alleria is now available for battlefuck challenges. She’s a human that downed a succubus with her sensual technique, but you wouldn’t guess this as sadly, like most of the other battlefuckers, she doesn’t have any additional art.
She does at least look like she's skilled in the sensual arts |
Down in the basement, the righthand room is filled with various magical paraphernalia. Ah, the succubus witch. I knew this section was missing something.
And still is. The maid informs us she’s out. Hmm, so I wonder when she’s going to show up.
Hmm, what else is there to do here? (Besides the obvious)
Comically, if you visit the inn, you’ll find out that a lot of the obvious is taking place, as the rooms are filled with succubi vigorously bonking the brains out of various NPC guests.
I don't think anyone is getting any rest here... |
Ah, there is another side quest that can be completed here. If you remember back in Yamatai Village, there were four young men that went out into the world
You can find the fourth young man in the pub here:
Maccubus a little too much for you, huh. |
It appears Maccubus was a little too much for him to handle.
The other three can be found:
In the inn in the Harpy Village:
Lovey-dovey life with harpy |
In the grassy area near Meia’s house in Port Natalia:
Lovey-dovey life with mermaid |
In the Forest of Spirits (Sylph’s forest) to the left of the first bridge:
Lovey-dovey life with Elf |
Now why should you care about these pervs? Once you’ve spoken to all four, go back to the headman at Yamatai Village. As a reward he’ll give you Fairy Nectar. To be honest, I didn’t have a clue what this does and had to look it up. It enables you to recruit Queen Ant. Give it to her in the warehouse that functions as the temporary HQ for Grangold and she’ll be so in love with the sweetness of it, she’ll join the party.
And that’s that for the Succubus Village. It’s time to move on and see what ails the Lady Village... after a night in the Succubus Inn.
Or three.
Can we just stay here rather than going to Cassandra’s home and getting our dick melted off?
Goddamn it!
-> Next: Lady Village
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