WinterWhereof

7.39 - ❤ Second Stake III

Vanetta's hand slid down between their stomachs with tantalizing slowness. Her fingers made contact with Natalie's hot, sensitive cock, and Natalie sucked in a breath. Her grip continued to travel before wrapping tentatively around the base. Vanetta breathed heavily, eyes flicking between her face and down their pressed-together bodies. A thrill went through Natalie, feeling the other girl's hand on her cock. Nothing in the way this time. Direct contact. Somehow it felt better than the toy. 2024-11-04 21:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

7.12 - ❤ Trial Run VI

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

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

Perhaps against a mundane or even weaker wayfarer, she could have used her illusory might to gloss over even t...

7.38 - Second Stake II

Their second arena series took much longer than the first. Ten rounds passed, then twenty. Though they weren't earning experience from the fights, they were gaining experience of a more literal sort. Fighting the wide variety of monsters spewed out by the magical arena was valuable practice in its own right, regardless that the combat didn't count toward leveling. And there was no risk of dying. Which made it an incredible training grounds.

Eventually, they reached a point where the fig...

7.37 - Second Stake I

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

Before throwing themselves into the fray a second time, Natalie approached a blonde girl sitting on a bench at the side of the reception area. She was leaning back and observing the other citygoers, perhaps wait...

7.11 - ❤ Trial Run V

"I should've known that the armor with the blue fire would have an affinity toward ice magic," Rosalie mused to Astrid. "If I paid closer attention, I could've noticed that its aura was radiating cold. Hm. And the monsters here are cleverer than I thought. They've been seeing straight through most of my feints. Predictive skills? Maybe just errors on my part. This is my first fourth advancement shard. Do you have any input on what I could improve?"

Astrid grunted. "You aim for the chest...

7.36 - Empowered Tokens

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

"You—you drenched me in it!"

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

A gooey drop of white stuff dripped from the underside of Vanetta's chin—which had come from one of the more dramatic stray ...

7.10 - ❤ Trial Run IV

The plan was simple.

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

So recharging without Astrid noticing? More than doable.

If still tricky.

All teams needed short breaks to regather energy and drink water, maybe have a snack, and so it was on that typical lull in the adventure that Zoey was expected to rec...

7.35 - ❤ First Stake III

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

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

Vanetta's stroking continued, up and down, the slick and bumpy sex toy caressing Natalie's cock. The paladin was content to sit back and enjoy it.

'What do you...

7.34 - ❤ First Stake II

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

But mostly—her eyes were for what she'd shortly be servicing.

"Why is it so big?" she whispered.

Natalie repressed a smirk. She tried not to have an ego about ...

7.09 - Trial Run III

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

In small increments, she inflamed the emotions of the shield-bearer. Astrid grunted "more" several times before an eventual "enough" cut her off. By then, she was well and fuming. At least, that was what the set of her jaw and the fiery look in her eyes suggested. She was shuddering w...

7.33 - ❤ First Stake I

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

Natalie had never died before. Obviously. And she didn't die now—not really. But she was cleaved in half by a giant black-metal sword, and that was, well, a bit traumatizing, even by a delver's standards.

The world flickered, went dark, and then she st...

7.08 - Trial Run II

As expected, they found danger on the floor above. Like the previous room, the environment was well-kept stone brick, mostly plain but with a few features: a number of empty bookshelves, lit torches affixed to the walls, and glass windows that peeked out into a starry night sky. Zoey's interest was kindled by that last part, since it suggested they were in some sort of building rather than underground, but she set it aside.

Because, again, there was danger.

A suit of...

7.32 - First Assignment III

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

The beast was bear-like, roughly, with dark orange fur that was filthy and matted. It stood as tall as Natalie and was many times bulkier. Vicious curved black claws swiped with surprising speed, and even Natalie was finding it difficult to keep it in check with sheer strength. It was dumb, though, and relatively easy to outmaneuver. Though its thick h...

7.31 - First Assignment II

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

They strode into the Arena. It was a circular space with firmly packed, tough dirt. Rocks and debris crunched underfoot as they walked. Above, the twilight sky ...

7.07 - Trial Run I

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

A group of five. A full squad by most wayfaring standards. And well-balanced. A mage, a support, a tank, a warrior, and a rogue. Rosalie's world had specific terminology and a slew of 'acceptable' configurations for wayfaring teams, but theirs had fallen into a traditional arrangement, one even Zoey recog...

7.30 - First Assignment I

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

Expressions from the various delvers ranged from apprehensive to pleased to disgusted. Assignments were essentially...

7.06 - ❤ Self-Care II

Delta had her own cock in her mouth.

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

Only half aware that she was the one guiding the shadow to do so, operating by that set...

7.29 - Assignment Anticipation

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

Naturally, foot-traffic was heaviest in the armor and weapon shops, but she and Vanetta still spent some time looking at the others. While much of the items had a lewd bent to them, there were plenty of regular <...