DM and the Dirty 20s Part 03

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All Characters are 18 years or older.

This story is a bit of a slow burn dual-story that very much requires the reader to start from the beginning. It does not require intimate knowledge of D&D or other TTRPGs, but is very much about playing those sorts of games and the fantasy of roleplaying. The two stories are those of the Players, and their Characters. As such this story comes with a warning of having strange Point of View/Narrative hotswaps in the middle of chapters as the players around the table move in and out of character.

In this chapter you can expect MF, exhibitionism, voyeurism and oral.

The third session brings on dangerous intrigue and politics with the bandits, and some hot tubbing fun with the game group.

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Chapter 23

The armoured treads of the elf's sabatons were a steady, dull metallic crunch as she wound her way through the underground grotto. Meliana of the Autumn Veil, bounty hunter, monster killer and exiled bastard heir of Tel Minnor, was very well acquainted with the crowded, gloomy space - once a smuggler's hold, then a hidden tavern during the prohibition years, and now a meeting place for those looking to trade gold for skills better kept out of the merchant sun.

She took a right, avoiding the eastern caverns where Darjvok the Humourless ran his illicit spice den, and headed directly for the back caverns. One man ruled over the Grotto, and she wasn't one to try and rub elbows with other killers. One never knew when a grin was simply hiding a blade for when your back was turned in a place like this.

Meliana reached the iron-clad door and pounded on it with her fist until a small viewport slid aside.

"'Oos it then?" came the craggly voice of the watchkeeper.

"Open the door, Djerek," Meliana growled quietly. "Before I open it myself."

"Ah, yes, Mistress," Djerek grovelled from the other side of the door. "Right away, Mistress."

The viewport clanged shut, and several loud locks were turned with heavychunks before the door opened. The elven beauty swept by the decrepit homunculus, its twisted form no longer even an odd curiosity to her. It was the same obsequious, snivelling thing every time.

She strode confidently down the single, dark corridor, unneeding of torchlight with her elven eyes illuminating the darkness. The walls were riddled with doors, some spaced out enough that an entire ballroom could be held behind them, others so close that they couldn't be more than the width of the doors themselves. She'd only ever seen behind a few of them and wasn't curious enough to stop and check if any were locked.

"Ah, Lady Meliana," Stellan Icepick said as she entered his audience chamber at the end of the corridor. "I assume this means that you've... completed the previously requested task?"

Stellan was a man feared by many, both for his appetites and the dangerous information that he gathered and sifted through like a successful prospector seeking gold in a muddy river. He was tall, and pale, his sharply aristocratic features almost elven in their unearthly beauty. His perfectly arranged black hair was long and hung down over his shoulders. He wore a ring on every finger, and his jacket was of red velvet accented with thread of gold while his boots and belt were made of basilisk skin.

The wine glass he held aloft, as usual, was half-filled with blood. Because Stellan was a Vampire.

"I finished the job as requested," Meliana said, removing the orange veil she wore over the lower half of her face when dealing with anyone she didn't trust. It had taken time for that trust to build between the killer and the information broker, but after decades of successful transactions, build it had. "The princeling is dead, and none suspect that it was anything other than a tragic accident."

"Ah, good," Stellan said, his smile growing wide. "The clients will be very pleased indeed. Payment handled as usual, I presume?"

"I need some of it in a diamond, at least 500 gold in value, but otherwise yes," Meliana said. Stellan would arrange for the transfer of the funds into a series of accounts she held in banks across the Eastwedge Coast, far out of reach of the royal family that had disposed of her years before. Accounts that would one day fund the downfall of an empire.

"It shouldn't take too much time to acquire the diamond," the vampire said with an easy smirk. "A day at most. Where are you staying? I'll have it delivered."

It was Meliana's turn to smirk - she trusted Stellan, but not that much. It was an old game he liked to play - if he found out where she was staying, he would charge an exorbitant fee for releasing the information to one of the upstart bounty hunters who had heard of the price on her head. He knew it would never come to anything, and helped clean out the lower echelons of the profession before the city got rife with unprofessional idiots forcing prices down.

"Have it delivered to the Temple of Confidence," Meliana said. "I can pick it up there."

"As you say," he replied with a dismissive wave, as if finding a gem like that was so easy anyone could do it. "Now, I do have another job in your price range if you're interested?"

Meliana hesitated but then shook her head. "I'm leaving the city on another matter," she said. "I'll be gone a month or more, most likely."

"Heading west?" Stellan asked. "I hear the summer heat isn't so bad out west this year."

"South," Meliana said.

Stellan frowned. "You can't mean to head to the front, Meliana. Not evenyou are that careless."

"Things need doing, Icepick," Meliana replied with a shrug. "I leave with my band in two days."

"Ah, well then, if you see the Dark Lord give him my regards - his little war has kept mevery busy," Stellan smirked.

He had no idea that Meliana fully intended to offer that message in person. The Dark Lord's war on the lands of civilisation had gone on too long.

Meliana narrowed her eyes as she looked Stellan up and down, and then she raised one elegant eyebrow. "This may be the last time we see each other, Stellan," she said. "Would you like to fuck?"

I blinked, taken a little off guard, as I looked across the table at Melissa. Her character Meliana had been getting the occasional 'solo scene' on Game Nights just like the others in the party - the group liked to have their secrets to reveal or discover. Meliana moonlighting as a bounty hunter, monster killer and occasional assassin was one of three subplots going on in the current campaign. The solo scenes also gave time for the rest of the party to have some fun as well - the sounds of the party 'carousing' at their favourite local tavern out in the living room while we played in the Game Room sounded like the three-guy two-girl pre-journey celebration was going strong. I'd been expecting that Meliana, after getting her payment from Stellan, would have gone to join the festivities while I called out Jack, whose character Oscar the Bald needed to have his own solo scene as he chased the title of Master in his order of monks so that he could wield the Spear of the Tempest.

"Why, Lady Meliana," Stellan said, raising his own eyebrows. "All these years working together, andnow you get sentimental on me?"

"What can I say," Meliana smirked. "You've always been pretty. Maybe I want something to remember you by while I'm trudging through the Godforsaken wilds."

Melissa began unbuttoning her blouse, grinning at me. "Meliana starts unbuckling her breastplate, keeping eye contact with Stellan, and once she sets the mithril plate down she pulls off her undertunic, baring herself to him." Mel shrugged out of her shirt, not having worn a bra underneath, showing off her tits. I'd seen them hundreds of times and played with them almost as many. This was the first time I'd ever consciously compared them to someone else, let alone her daughter. They were bigger than Rhia's, though not by that much, and had a bulky heft to them that she'd carried ever since she'd gotten pregnant.

Mel had become a MILF early, and her body had adapted like she'd been born to play the role.

"Well, for a lady as lovely as yourself, and with our history?" I said, affecting Stellans aristocratic tone. "How could I say no?"

We stripped, Melissa taking the lead in the roleplay since Meliana was the aggressor in the situation, and soon she was straddling me in my DM's seat, slowly rocking her hips as she rode my cock and fed me her nipples. Her grin was lascivious but her eyes were joyous.

"Everything OK?" I asked her, breaking character to do a check-in. The sex was good, but the circumstances said something was up.

"Yeah," she said, letting Meliana slip away for a moment as she settled on my cock and hugged her arms around my shoulders. "I just-" She didn't finish her sentence. Then she pulled back from the hug so she could look into my eyes for a moment, and then kissed me sweetly before her Meliana persona came back up with an arrogant smirk. "I could be persuaded, I think, to let you have a bite," she said. "But it will cost you, Stellan."

"Mmm," Stellan groaned, running his cold hands up her sides and cupping her tits. "And what would a delightful addition like that cost me?"

"The location of the Witchmount Aerie," Meliana whispered in his ear. "And any rumours about how to get up there."

I raised my eyebrows, surprised that she'd reveal that information to him and quickly calculated in my head if Stellan even had any concrete information. Mel knew what she was doing though, squeezing her Kegels as she rode me slowly and dragging one of my hands from her breast and back to her ass.

"A true bite," Stellan negotiated as he grabbed the elf's plump-but-muscled ass. "A proper draw. I want to taste you, Meliana, and you know what that means."

"We'll be connected for a time," Mel said. "I know. I'm OK with it."

"I have a map in my possession that should bring you to the head of a trail," Stellan murmured, kissing and smelling his way down her neck to her clavicle and then back up as if finding the most tender point for him to pierce her pristine flesh with his teeth. "That trail should lead you about two-thirds of the way up the Witchmount to a cave, and through that cave you should find the aerie. What you will find there I can't tell you."

"Good enough," she said. "Now drink your fill, Stellan, but remember that if you turn me you'll be as bound to me as I would be to you - you'd have to finally trust someone completely."

"You naughty bitch," Stellan chuckled.

I bit the side of Melissa's neck lightly as she continued to ride me, signalling that Stellan was sucking her blood. She moaned, playing into the fantasy.

When it was over, and she was grinning as she dismounted from my wilting cock with my cum inside her, I still wasn't sure if she'd done that more for her, or for Meliana.

Chapter 24

The girls came in together this week, and it was like a flurry of energy had gotten injected into my house. All three of them were beaming smiles as they flounced through the door, and 'flounce' was the only way I could really describe it. They weren't sauntering, or skipping, or strutting. It was somewhere between all three. Each of them had a sort of bouncing, energetic saunter going on that worked their hips and matched their grins.

And they came with gifts of food and kisses. My favourite.

Rhia came through the door first, her bright smile lighting up the hallway as it felt like all three of them were talking and calling their greetings at the same time. She took one of those flouncing steps, her incredible bust bouncing, and then crashed into me in a hug that practically punched me in the chest with her tits as she planted a quick kiss on my lips. She was carrying a big Tupperware container in one hand and she said something about heading for the kitchen.

Tori was next, the gorgeous Indian girl bouncing a little less but smiling just as wide. Just like when they had left after the last game she hugged me firmly, if not quite as ferociously as Rhia had, and gave me a kiss on the cheek. Her hands were full of a container as well, but this one I could see held freshly baked cookies and she slipped into the Game Room to set them down and unload her stuff before going to change into her costume.

Last, and certainly not least, was Elyse - the lithe girl's quirky smile was a little more serene than the other two, and maybe she 'flounced' a bit less but then she didn't exactly have the same assets that flouncing tended to affect. Her hug was no less ferocious than Rhia's though, and her kiss was more than a peck. No tongue, but I could feel her lips vibrate with a soft, happy hum as she went up on her toes to kiss me. She then followed Rhia towards the kitchen with her own container.

"I appreciate the snacks," I said to Tori as she came back out of the Game Room with just her bag. "And the cookies smell delicious, but what are the other two troublemakers doing?"

Tori chuckled and shook her head. "We figured after pizza last week we should just bring dinner," she said. "And that maybe if we bring dinner, you'd be down for extra game time?"

I'd had a feeling that, by opening the door, I'd set myself up for this. When we'd originally set up the timing of the game we'd only planned for about four hours - that was the limit most groups held to in my experience since four hours of roleplaying, creativity and mental gymnastics could be pretty draining. Thankfully I was well-practised in longer sessions since the Game usually ran at least six hours, and could trail all the way up to ten if there was a particularly climactic fight happening in the same session as one of ourother encounters.

"We'll see what makes sense," I told her. "And how good those cookies are. But I'm not against it."

"Awesome," the beautiful girl said, flashing me that energetic smile again. She really was a looker, and as she headed towards the back washroom where she and the others would get changed I shook my head again at how things were playing out. If Rhia got her way, I'd have sex with that gorgeous, witty coed by the end of the summer.

The girls all changed and came back out to the Game Room, Rhia fetching them each a beer from their stash in my garage fridge. Elyse had done some more work on embroidering her robe, but otherwise, there weren't any dramatic changes to costumes for the third week of gaming. They settled in and we did a quick recap of the events so far.

The three adventurers and their companion-

"Hot and rugged silver fox lumberjack companion," Rhia interrupted me with a chuckle.

I rolled my eyes.

The three adventurers and their beleaguered companion Fergus weren't disturbed through their first night in the bandit camp. Whether it was because of their decision to set up near the now-friendly Red Bronson family, Jade's showing in the fight pit the previous day, or the fact that they'd been buying drinks for folks in the alehouse for much of the evening they couldn't know. One thing they did find as they woke up though was that the camp wasn't entirely peaceful - as soon as they stepped out of their tent they saw a man wheeling a handcart piled with four corpses. The topmost one was the bandit from the Risen Wolf Gang they'd killed the previous day so he couldn't report that he recognized them... and that they'd dumped near the Red Bronson area of camp before they made friends with them.

"Well, fuck," Olivia said, watching the cart trundle past. "Hopefully we didn't cause any problems for potential allies."

"I don't know if I'd go so far as to say 'potential allies,'" Renee de l'Ombre said. "Theyare still a family of bandits."

"I guess it's all relative," Jade sighed. She'd spent most of her time getting into their good graces after fighting Big Red Bronson, so-

"Hah!" Rhia laughed. "I see what you did there."

It took me a long moment to connect that the Red Bronsons were an extended family, and Tori had said 'it's all relative.' Elyse must have gotten it at the same time as me because we groaned in unison.

"Thank you, thank you," Tori chuckled.

I had sent the ladies a document over the weekend with the details of what they'd learned during their evening carousing in the alehouse, and Renee's magically-induced interrogation of the male camp prostitute. It was an outline of every major and minor bandit group and personality that had shown up at the meeting, along with a smattering of rumours regarding different individuals and wild guesses at what the meeting was supposed to be about.

The adventurers decided to take the morning to split up and do some more digging, following up on the different rumours and trying to make more contacts, while Fergus could go scout the surrounding area in case they needed to try and make a quick escape. I thought it was an interesting plan, and felt a little bad about how I would inevitably be creating some more characters that would seem like friends but who were at the end of the day their enemies. Bandits were people too, sure, but they were still murderers and thieves.

Olivia, as a Paladin of Revelry, decided to head back to the alehouse and use the atmosphere of alcohol, gambling and the occasional pit fight to her advantage. Jade decided on a similar path, linking up with some of the Red Bronson's who were going out hunting that morning. That would let her keep building on her previous successes and hopefully cement an 'alliance' between the groups. Renee, meanwhile, hadn't had much luck the previous night with playing the 'mysterious witch' so she wanted to take a dramatically different path; the shadow sorcerer went out looking to cause trouble.

It was a risky play, but she had a decent stealth score and wanted to use some of her cantrips to her creative advantage.

We roleplayed a couple of scenes with each of them, but they all rolled moderate to poor on their first skill checks so they didn't learn anything else, and Olivia managed to piss off one of the Risen Wolf Gang members and was challenged to a duel in the pit - the female lieutenant of the gang, the tall woman, ordered that it was only to first blood. The combat lasted a few rounds, as I ruled they had to make dexterity checks on a successful hit to actually strike somewhere that would 'draw blood.' Olivia came out the victor, which mitigated some of her dramatic failure on the initial check, but left her with a member of the Risen Wolves who held a grudge against her.

The next round was more interesting, at least for me. Jade decided to start flirting with Big Red Bronson, the man she'd fought the previous day, on their way back to the camp. It was fun playing the big, somewhat oafish bruiser as he slowly clued in that the hare-person was making comments riddled with innuendo at him. Just as they reached the camp Jade even hopped up and gave the man a peck on the lips, mirrored outside of the game by Tori leaning in, giving me the same peck and then winking as she pulled away.

Renee had gotten up to her tricks successfully, having taken her time watching the other scenes to create a plan that included the variety of odd effects the Prestidigitation spell could conjure. What she wasn't counting on was other people who could use magic being in the vicinity, and I made a secret roll to see if any of the few hedge witches and wizards in the area spotted her. Renee ended up getting approached by a dwarf who was a member of a small group called the Coalblacks - they were less bandits than they were wandering barbarians, seeking out ancient mines as they sought a mysterious goal they refused to talk about. There were five of them, four female dwarves who daubbed themselves in runic war paint every morning and the Runeworker male dwarf who seemed to possibly be the husband of all four.

Elyse was immediately interested in finding out what, exactly, they were looking for but settled for learning some more about what the Runeworker knew about the other magic-users in the camp.

Olivia, having just come off of the adrenaline of a pit fight, decided that she was feeling extra alive for the moment and she (through a natural twenty on her performance check) managed to somehow organise a game of Spin the Whiskey Bottle.

Each of us around the table got kisses from Rhia as she described how Olivia was using each of her turns to try and insinuate some promises 'for later' to hook and reel in some unsuspecting dupes. When she came to kiss me she sat right in my lap, leaning in to press her 'chainmail' covered chest against mine, but also hiding the fact that her hand that was caught between us groped down over the front of my shorts. It didn't last long, and she didn't have much room to manoeuvre so the 'groping' didn't do a whole lot, but she'd made it clear that she was intending to push things further. And that wasn't even counting the look in her eyes as she pulled away from the kiss, her nose scrunched cutely as she looked at me with a simmering horniness.

The adventurers regrouped for the midday meal, traded thoughts and spent about half an hour discussing and arguing about what they should do - and I was totally fine with the girls spending that time arguing. It was, in fact, one of my favourite parts of running TTRPGs. I'd set the scene, created tension points and plot hook reasons for the players to care about things, and now they had to make adecision. It was a rule I'd brought into the way I ran my games from the scriptwriting class I'd taken all the way back in college. At some point the hero, or heroes, needed to makechoices. The more important the choices felt, even if they weren't actually that dire, the better you had done as a writer - or in my case, as a Dungeon Master.

In the end, the girls decided it was time to start being a little more active, and that after the risk of Olivia getting pulled into a duel, they probably shouldn't split up quite so dramatically.

Chapter 24

"So what you're saying is that Ishouldn't have defended myself?" Olivia asked in a deadpan voice as she stared across the table.

Torra, who hadn't offered a family name, glared back across the table at the Paladin of Revelry.

Olivia and the other adventurers had seen her twice, once accompanying Alexander Houndsfang. She was one of his lieutenants and seemed to be a respected and feared member of the gathered bandits, and this was the second time in one day that she was making a ruling over Olivia causing shit in the alehouse.

"I'm saying that you might be more trouble than you're worth," Torra grunted. "I'm saying that a pretty face like yours, surrounded by men like this, makes people do and say stupid things. I'm saying-"

"So you think I'm pretty," Olivia interrupted with a teasing smirk.

Torra grunted.

"Stop getting people injured or killed. Especially out in the fuckin' open," Torra said. "Or you'll get done for being too much of a hassle, no matter whether you're good with that sword or not."

"Please," Olivia said. "You can't tell me you weren't at least a little impressed by me and my friends."

The chaos in the alehouse had been rough. Jade had been forced to contend with four bandits as she held them off from flanking Renee or Olivia, while Olivia wrestled with the snarky woman from the Tentacles who had started making remarks about how 'someone' stank of holy piss water. Renee, who had found out from the Coalblacks that the leader of the Tentacles had an apprentice, had been ready to head off the magical attack that had been coming.

No one had died, though Jade was a little bruised up and both Renee and the Tentacles apprentice were a little scorched by the flying magic. For her part, Olivia had been hauled off of the bandit from the Tentacles before she could do any real damage; Torra had pulled the two of them apart, shaken them, and then forced the bar fight to end with a wordless bark of her voice.

"Doesn't matter how impressiveor pretty you are," Torra told Olivia. "You cause too many problems, you're either out on your ass or dead."

Olivia gave Torra a considering look.

"Do I get the sense that she's maybe attracted to me?" Rhia asked me.

"Let's see," I said and rolled behind my DM screen. The roll itself didn't matter - when playing a game that was open to sexual activity, the answer to 'is this person attracted to me' was almost always going to be yes. I wanted to at least keep up the appearance of these things being random though. "You get a sense that, even if she wasn't meaning the 'pretty' comments the way you made them sound, her eyes do tend to travel across your face and body a lot. And she's been looking down at your lips occasionally.

"You know," Olivia said. "There isone way that I could stay out of trouble."

"Acting like a reasonable person?" Torra suggested.

"Spend some time with me tonight," Olivia said. "Keep an eye on me. Get to know my friends. Share a drink or three with me. I promise that I'm a lot of fun."

Torra hesitated for a long moment before grunting noncommittally. "Maybe," she said. "For the good of the camp."

"I'm looking forward to it," Olivia grinned lopsidedly. "Oh, but, ah, even ifI'm trying not to cause any problems, what happens if I get attacked in camp? Am I seriously going to be at risk of getting murdered for stopping myself from getting murdered by a bigoted cult?"

"As long as you're not the one to attack someone first, then you can defend yourself all that you need," Torra sighed, then waved her off. "Now go, before I regret this whole conversation."

"See you later," Olivia said, that smirk coming back again.

"Dude, you are totally going to bang her," Elyse laughed as the scene ended.

"I thought you were gonna put your foot in your mouth and get us imprisoned or something," Tori chuckled.

"Wow, thanks for the vote of confidence," Rhia rolled her eyes as she grinned.

Of course, a good bar fight deserves a back alley ambush, and even though it was the middle of the afternoon for the adventurers when they left the alehouse theywere in a camp full of treacherous bandits.

"Oi!" called a man who was following them down around one of the rises in the lightly forested area around the two stone ruins. He was dressed much like most of the other men and women who had gathered - worn linens and dirty leathers under a cloak that could disappear in the green and browns of the forest. He was bearded and relatively large, though not so much that he loomed over any of the ladies. The only thing that really stood out about him, other than his ugly mug, was that dried and withered rose pinned to the front of the studded leather vest he wore. "I hear you sluts are open for business," he said, leering at them with a nasty smirk. "How much is it then for a toss?"

"He's part of the... Eastwood Shackles," Tori said as she quickly scanned through her notes about the different groups in the camp. "Ah, shit. They have close ties to the Tentacles."

"I-" Elyse started, but Rhia interrupted with a hand out towards her friend.

"Before anyone responds to the asshole, I want to check around to see if anyone else is sneaking around," Rhia said.

"Roll Perception," I said. "And Elyse, please go ahead."

Renee turned back and sneered at the man. "You must have us confused with your mother," she said. "And from what I hear, she doesn't cost more than a couple of coppers."

"Oooh," Tori cackled.

Rhia was snorting as she tried to do the math for her role. "Seventeen perception," she finally blurted out.

"Alright," I said. "As the man calling to you starts to turn red in anger, because howdare you besmirch the memory of his dear sweet mother, Olivia glances around quickly and notices there are a couple more nondescript bandits up the path that you were taking and heading towards you, and there are another three that are emerging from the underbrush at the top of the rise."

"Two-to-one odds," Olivia murmured to her companions. I'll take the two coming up if you can handle the ones up top for a moment or two, Renee."

"I'll gut yer, slatterns!" The insulted man said, pulling a hatchet from under his cloak.

"Guess we don't have time for another plan," Jade sighed.

"Roll for initiative," I said with a smile.

Chapter 25

The combat was really only meant to be difficult due to the fact that Jade, Renee and Olivia had already been drained of some of their hit points and abilities in the bar fight. Of course, the dice didn't always want to agree with the best-laid plans, and over the course of the first two turns of combat, things got sticky for the three heroines.

"Fuuu-uuuck," Tori groaned. "That's... a flat ten." She winced as she said it, already knowing that her kick hadn't landed.

"No luck," I said, shaking my head. "He manages to reel backwards in time, waving his hatchet in front of him to keep you away."

"Shit," Tori swore, grimacing at her die. She grabbed the d20 and shoved it back in the bag she kept her dice in, fishing around and pulling out a different one. "That die is getting retired for the night."

Renee was up next, and she was already crackling with dark energy - the problem was that two of the three bandits that she was supposed to ward off were armed with crossbows and she'd already barely managed to avoid a bolt getting planted in her skull.

"Fuck it," Renee muttered, summoning up a spell. She said some arcane words and then released the shadowy magic missiles that spun out from her out-thrust hand and radiated in to strike the bandit that had stumbled down the rise and was getting ready to bash her over the head with a heavy club. The bolts pierced into his chest, bursting out the back in shadowy gouts, and he went down to one knee and then collapsed face first in the dirt.

"Yes!" Elyse crowed, clenching a fist at her success as she grinned down at the damage die she'd rolled.

"Finally," Rhia sighed. "One down, just another five to go."

The fight continued and the enemy bandits managed to only land one more strike on Olivia, Renee using her Shield spell to bounce another crossbow bolt into the ground instead of her guts. That meant she was running low on spells, though.

And then Jade kicked a man's head clean off.

To be fair, it wasn't a natural 20 but she did max her damage die, and Tori had definitely had a bit of a rough time with the dice for the whole session. So when I asked how she put the guy down, and she said she wanted to 'kick his face off,' I extrapolated to separating a man's head from his body.

"Steel-tooooe!" Rhia cheered, making Tori laugh.

With Jade now able to rush up the hill and start pressuring the crossbowmen, and Olivia finally starting to roll better than a six in the combat, things wrapped up relatively quickly. The thing the three adventurers had to worry about was the fact that, while they hadn't jumped in to help, there were probably a dozen bandits from other groups that had been watching the fight and even laying down bets on who would win.

And now Renee was out of spells, Jade was looking bloodied and Olivia was only slightly better.

"I think we need to get out of here," Olivia said, eyeing the loose ring of ne'er-do-wells that were hanging around. "Before we get jumped for our shit."

There was a brief argument over whether they had time to loot the bodies - not that they were expecting to find all that much, but it was still a possibility one of them might have been carrying some coin. Olivia's primary worry was the big convincing factor though, and they abandoned the unlooted corpses as a distractive measure - within moments of them leaving the scene, the dead bandits were set upon by the others and would be stripped near-naked in minutes.

"I think we need to rally back at the tent, maybe see if Fergus is back from his scouting mission," Elyse said. "Renee is seriously tapped out, and I'm worried about us getting into another fight right now."

"Facts," Tori nodded. "And that's your third of the day, Rhia."

"Yeah, but I got a short rest after the first one so I was doing OK," she said.

"Well, that actually sounds like a good place for us to break for dinner, as you three heroes slip off among the trees to make a beeline to your tent," I said.

"Mm, good idea!" Rhia said, pushing herself back from the table. "That also meanswe need to get dinner going. No coming into the kitchen until we call, Shane."

"Alright," I chuckled, holding up my hands innocently as the other two ladies got up from the table as well, making a little parade of costumed coeds walking through my house.

Giving me time mid-session to plot was rarely a good thing for the characters - well, sometimes it wasn't a good thing. Sometimes it led to a new and surprising sexual encounter. Often it gave me a chance to adapt whatever I had next to find those little tension points and poke them a bit harder. The girls didn't know that yet though.

The thing was... I wasn't sure I wanted to. Not because I didn't think it would make for a more intense game, but because I could hear the three of them laughing and bickering good-naturedly in the kitchen and it reminded me that my house was so quiet so often with just me living in it. Sure, I hosted game nights and had people over for dinner, and Mel was here several times a week for our morning coffees and shit like that. Listening to the three of them, threeyoung people in the house, was like a reminder of my own college days living with roommates and always having someone around. And it reminded me that all of my friends, mybest friends, had full houses of their own. Kids around, always something on the go. And for all that they included me in their lives where it made sense, I still didn't have a lifelike that even if I was happy with the one I'd built.

"Hey, you OK?" Elyse asked, surprising me out of my reverie - I'd been pretty much staring off into space, lost in my musings.

"Yeah," I said, blinking a couple of times and then shooting her a smile. "Ready for me?"

"Almost," she said, smiling back but coming back into the Game Room from where she'd been halfway leaning in the doorway. Elyse came around to my end of the table and I immediately flipped over my notes. "Sorry," she said, eyes going wide. "I just-"

'"It's OK," I said. "Force of habit. You were...?"

She gave me a look that was hard to discern, like she was considering me for a moment, then she reached down and put her hand on my knee, pulling it out to the side and having me shift so I was almost sideways in my chair. Then she sat on my knee, scooched a little closer and looked me right in the eyes from maybe six inches away. Her eyes, a cool grey, were gorgeous this close up.

"I'm sorry for whatever was going through your head," she said. "Was it something we said?"

"Really, Elyse," I said. "I'm fine."

"You didn'tlook fine. You looked sad."

"I was just thinking it's nice to have a house full of people, that's all," I admitted.

Her face softened a little, not that she'd been giving me a hard look to begin with, and she leaned forward and hugged me. I had almost expected a kiss, but it was just a hug, her arms around my shoulders as she squeezed me tightly and rested her head on my shoulder.

"Hug me back, Shane," she prompted me, making me chuckle. I wrapped my arms around her, and she wriggled a little closer until she was pressed against me. "Better."

"Thanks," I chuckled.

"Well, this isnot what I expected to find going on up here," Rhia said from the doorway. Then she put on a silly cartoony voice. "Gross. Gag me with a spoon."

Elyse broke into a laugh, pulling from the hug lightly, and I let her go. She turned and shot a very pointed middle finger at Rhia, who stuck her tongue out in return, and then Elyse turned back to me and planted a chaste, firm kiss on my lips before pulling away fully and standing up. "Dinner is definitely ready now," she said before heading for the door, passing by Rhia. They traded looks and then she was gone.

"So, what was that?" Rhia asked, turning all her attention on me.

I raised an eyebrow at the tone in her voice. "Maybe this was a bad idea," I said. "I think it's best if we pump the brakes on your plans, and let the game just be the game."

Rhia blinked, physically rocking back on her heels for a moment. "Wait, no, that's- What? No, Shane, that's not what I meant."

"Rhia, honey, this whole thing collapses in a pile of ash if jealousy-"

"Nonono," Rhia said, coming forward. We'd both been talking quietly, not wanting to be overheard from the kitchen, and she dropped her butt into the chair to my right and leaned forward, lowering her voice even further. "I just meant that- Fuck, when I followed Elyse back here I thought I'd find her making out with you or something, but instead you guys looked like you were having a moment and not, like, amoment and I was confused."

"You didn't sound confused, Rhia," I said. "You sounded accusing. And jealous."

Rhia worked her jaw a couple of times before letting out a long sigh. "Maybe I was a little... accusing," she said. "But I wasn't jealous. I don't care if you have intimate moments with Elyse or Tori; fuck, Iwant you to. They are both over the moon about you. It was more just like, 'What the fuck, why are they emotional?' when everything was going fine before we went to get dinner ready, and Elyse made it pretty clear to me and Tori that she was coming back up here to flirt with you. I'm sorry I didn't- Fuck, I should have said it a better way. Or something."

It was my turn to sigh. There was still a part of me that worried that she was trying to cover something up, some feelings that I didn't think would be good in the long run. But then, she also seemed completely and utterly honest during her word-vomiting of an explanation. I sucked in another breath and then reached out and took her hands in mine.

"OK," I said, trying to be as even as possible. "Just- This doesn't work if you or either of the others start feeling jealous, or possessive. And that's not just about me, that's about any of us, and about my feelings as well. We need to be completely honest with each other on that front, Rhia, or else this thing will probably end with you losing two very good friends and you and I being in a super awkward, uncomfortable situation. And I don't want any of that."

She swallowed, frowning a little, and nodded. "I- OK."

"Are you guys coming or what?" Tori called from back in the kitchen. "Ringa-ding-ding, I'm sounding the dinner bell!"

"Calm your tits, we're coming," Rhia called back to her friend, then turned to me and lowered her voice again. "Can I kiss you, Shane?"

I exhaled through my nose and nodded, and she leaned forward. I met her halfway and we kissed - not passionately, and not even lustily like the short ones from before during the game. Closed lips, sincere, and a little emotional.

"Thank you," she said after she pulled away. "For being you. And for all of this."

I swallowed, trying not to get a little emotional again myself, and nodded. "Come on," I said as I stood, pulling her up with me. "Let's see what three college coeds can scrape together for a meal between them."

Chapter 26

I hadn't actually been expecting the dinner the girls had prepared to be bad, but I hadn't been prepared for quite such anice one either. The cookies, which we'd slowly been snacking on during the first part of the game, had been a delicious and chewy chocolate chip. It turned out that Tori had baked them, while Elyse and Rhia had focused on the actual dinner items.

Rhia had prepared and pre-cooked a garlicky salmon dish which she'd popped into the oven, taking it from just slightly under-done to nicely cooked as it heated up. It was smothered in a dijon and garlic concoction that blasted flavour across my tongue. Elyse, meanwhile, had provided the sides - the container she'd brought in had held a fresh homemade sourdough bread along with a snap pea salad that was almost too girly for me to eat since she'd included edible flowers to make it look as 'spring-y' as possible.

I did eat it, and it was delicious.

When the dinner was winding down, Rhia headed for the kitchen and I tried to get up to help start cleaning but I was practically shoved back into my seat by all three girls. Apparently being their personal DM for the summer was going to buy me dinner and dishes once a week... not mentioning the other perks Rhia planned on me being a part of.

"So, I was thinking," Rhia eventually said as the dishwasher started running and the leftovers were packed away in my fridge. All three of the college coeds were still wearing their costumes, which had made for a bit of a funny dinner atmosphere.

"Always dangerous," Tori said with a little smirk. "Women thinking? That could lead to you gettingideas!"

"It starts with reading, I hear," Elyse joined in. "Reading leads to thinking, leads to ideas. What's the world coming to?"

"Shut up," Rhia chuckled as she rolled her eyes. "I wasthinking that, depending on what you had planned Shane, Olivia, Jade and Renee are pretty banged up and need at least a little time to recuperate, and we've done a lot of roleplaying with other people but most of the roleplaying between ourselves is always goal-oriented, or little quips in scenes and stuff. What if, instead of pushing through a rest, we actuallytake the rest. Like, in character."

"You mean hang out as our characters?" Tori asked.

"That could be fun," Elyse nodded, then looked at me. "If that's OK?"

"Sure," I said, thinking back to my earlier note of how the party discussing and arguing was the best time for a DM. "You ladies did say you wanted to lean into the roleplay and really 'get to know' your characters, so it makes sense. If you want we can even erect a blanket fort in the living room, but I'm not letting you three light any fires."

That got me some good-natured eye rolls and chuckles.

"Actually, I was thinking thatmaybe, if it's OK, while Fergus was out scouting he found a private swimming hole. Or maybe even a hot spring?" Rhia said with a hopeful look. "Then our characters could go soothe their hurts... and we could use the hot tub?"

"You have ahot tub?" Elyse asked. "Why didn't we know this?"

"It's in the backyard," I said with a bemused smirk. "I guess we didn't cover it in the grand tour you never actually got."

"A hot tub soundsamazing right now," Tori said. "But none of us brought swimsuits, and I don't know if I would be impressed or worried if you kept random bikinis around for guests, Shane."

"No, I don't have a bikini lost and found," I said.

"We could go bra and panties," Elyse suggested.

"You didn't evenwear a bra today," Tori scoffed lightly.

"OK, you guys go bra and panties, I'll just wear my panties," the thin blonde shrugged. "Shane's seen my itty bitty titties already anyways."

"He's already seen our boobs too," Rhia said. "And why get our underwear wet if we're going topless? There's a privacy fence around the hot tub area, let's just go naked like our characters would."

That brought up a pregnant beat of silence in the group. It was one of those moments in life where things could change on a dime even though there wasn't anything super dramatic going on. The first one I could remember in my life was when I'd asked my Mom if I could try out for my middle school play even though it would mean I'd miss the bus and would need to be picked up three afternoons a week for several months. That pause, and then her answer of Yes, had changed the direction of my life. Then there had been the moment in college when Melissa had suggested that our friend group mirror their characters as they took in a sauna at the public baths of the elven city of Tir Falanir.

And now Rhia was basically making the same suggestion, in such a similar circumstance, twenty years later to a different party with the exact same goal in mind. I just hadn't known it was Mel's goal then, and I wasn't sure if Rhia was doing it on purpose or not now. Had she guessed, or had Mel told her that had been the turning point for things? Or was it just a like mother, like daughter mindset?

"Fuck it, I don't care if you see my puss," Elyse said, grinning as she shrugged at me. "And you'll have a reason to see my ass, which is definitely better than these two."

"Hey, if Shane is in, I'll do it," Tori said, her dusky skin showing just a hint of flush as she shrugged. "Naked hot tubbing sounds pretty great."

Rhia turned back to me, beaming her smile. "Wanna go skinnydipping with your three adventurers, Fergus?" she asked me.

I affected the slightly grumbly voice I used for the elder lumberjack. "I guess it wouldn't be s'bad t' soak my feet."

The girls laughed, and then things moved quicker than I would have thought. There really wasn't all that much to prepare, considering. I was sent outside to prep the hot tub while the girls conferred with each other, and soon after they came outside clutching d20s in their hands just in case we needed to make any rolls. I'd built my hot tub area about five years ago, and to be frank I'd had 'naked hot tubbing' on my mind when I'd gotten it all done up. The Game had never done a full 'outdoor episode' of our sexual escapades, but the privacy screens on my deck were pretty heavy duty and blocked vision to most of it, and the raised hot tub area was blocked on one side by the house, and two and a half other sides by a wooden trellis covered in thick ivy. A roof of wooden slats had more ivy crawling across it, with mood lights strung up that could turn it into a little starlit sky. There was even a door made out of trellis if I really wanted to block the area in completely, though it wasn't necessary to hide from the neighbours.

"Daaamn," Tori said, shaking her head in wonder as she followed the others into the covered space. "This is really nice!"

"Thanks," I said. "I built most of it with the help of Rhia's Dad and our friends."

"Yeah, and you killed the first attempt at the ivy until my Mom replanted it for you," Rhia smirked teasingly.

"A green thumb, I have not," I shrugged.

"Is it ready?" Elyse asked, eyeing the hot tub.

"Should be," I said, dipping my finger into the water - it wasn't steaming, since it was summer, but it was still nicely hot.

"Sick, then what are we waiting for?" Elyse asked with a grin. Then she undid the tie on her costume robe and flung it open, letting it slip down off her body to the deck floor.

I'd seen her topless twice, even if one time had been for just a second as she flashed me through my front window, but that didn't detract from the slight hitch in my throat as my eyes quickly roamed her body. She was thin and lithe, her small breasts jiggling lightly with her movements and both her nipples already erect. Her nipple ring was still in place, and her smooth stomach looked incredibly kissable. Her hips were slender but she wasn't flat like a man, and her mound was smooth and bald with a swell of gently rosy pussy lips between her legs. She was grinning almost goofily as she quickly trotted up the wooden steps and carefully put a foot into the water. Once she had both feet in up to her shins she looked over her shoulder at me with a mirthful look in her eyes and gave her ass a little wiggle when she knew I was looking.

Her ass was exactly what I would have thought of if I was trying to draw 'college coed' from my imagination. It wasn't big and juicy, or some pornstar bubblebutt that had been modified and injected or whatever. It suited the frame of her hips, had a delightfully perky shape and that silly wiggle made it jiggle and shake.

"I didn't realise you had a tattoo," I said, avoiding the obvious thing of just commenting on her body.

"It's for my cousin," Elyse said, twisting around a little so she could look over her shoulder and put a hand on the black seahorse made out of thin, delicate linework. "She's severely autistic, but she's fascinated by nature documentaries andloves seahorses. I almost regretted getting it when I showed her because she wanted one too - I had to ask the artist for a copy of his design so I could get it custom-printed on temporary tattoo paper for her. Now she always has a copy on her arm or her leg."

"That's so fuckingcute," Tori said. "How did I not know that?"

"Never asked," Elyse said, still grinning as she stuck her tongue out at Tori. "Now, you gonna stand there all day or come get in this tub? It feelsa-ma-zing." She stepped down one more time into the middle, then sat down on a seat, the water up to her clavicle.

"Hey, you were the one making a speech," Rhia teased. She'd already taken the iron band off of her head and the leather bracers and her strappy sandals had been left inside. Now she lifted her 'chainmail' crop top up over her breasts, bundling it near her neck so she could carefully pull it over her head without getting her long hair caught in it. She hadn't been wearing a bra underneath it again, and now her glorious big tits were out and jiggling with her arms up and working.

I noticed that Tori was hesitating - not looking nervous, but definitely not diving in like the other two. She looked at me and gave me an up-and-down look before meeting my gaze and raising an eyebrow. I raised one of my own right back and shrugged before pulling off my shirt.

The thing about having group sex on a regular basis, or having sex in front of a group just as often when the scenario wasn't a 'group' one, was that it was a really great inspiration to stay fit. Sure, I didn't look like I did when I was twenty-one with the dream of being a leading man in an action movie, but I knew I'd done well keeping myself up.

The looks I got from all three of the coeds weren't quite an ego boost, but it definitely didn't hurt. Elyse was biting her lower lip as she sat in the hot tub with her arms out and resting on the side, practically eye-fucking me while her nipples bounced at the water line. Rhia, who had seen me shirtless before at the pool or on beach trips, wasn't quite so enamoured with me but I still saw her giving a smile as her eyes traced across my chest and flat stomach before she started undoing the lacing on her chainmail skirt. Lastly, Tori was watching me out of the corner of her eye as she undid the knot that kept up her tube-top-like binding.

"Take it off," Elyse called, giving a teasing little whoop.

"I'm trying," Rhia said, scrunching up her nose and sticking out her tongue at the blonde.

"You know I meant 'Fergus,'" Elyse said with a grin. "But you look pretty damn good too, 'Olivia.'"

"Well, thank you, 'Renee,'" Rhia said. Her 'chainmail' skirt slipped from her slim hips, revealing that she'd been wearing a pair of panties underneath - they weren't lingerie, but in my opinion they were close. The back was almost sheer down to the gusset, teasing at her butt crack, and the front dipped low towards her mound as it hugged her tight enough to form a little camel toe. Her hips were slim, even more so than Elyse, and her butt wasn't as nice as the blonde's though she also wasn't flat as a pancake either. She very much personified the 'top heavy' stereotype. "Come on, 'Jade,'" she continued. "Is it stuck in your fur or something?"

Tori rolled her eyes and flashed Rhiannon the finger. She was holding the front of her top to her chest and she flushed a little again before she pulled it away, revealing her breasts. I'd only gotten a glimpse of them the last time, and now I had to suck in a light breath because they were Goddamn perfect. Sure, they weren't as large and bouncy as Rhia's, but they were full and sat high enough on the Indian coed's chest that part of me wondered if she'd had some work done. There was no telltale sign of scarring though, and they hung beautifully with perfect dark chocolate-coloured areolas and nipples that were just starting to pebble and stiffen.

"Guess it's my turn again," I said, wanting to give Tori time to adjust. "Are we really all skinnydipping?" I asked as I hooked my thumbs into the waistband of my shorts.

"I'malready naked," Elyse said.

"Definitely," Rhia said, shooting me a little look like she was worried I would back out.

I purposefully looked at Tori, making sure she was comfortable if I got my dick out. She met my eye and nodded, then pushed down her own poofy, loose pants to reveal she'd been wearing a blue thong underneath. It had shifted at one point and most of one labia was poking out at the apex of her legs, and she absent-mindedly adjusted the folded fabric and flashed me a little peak at her warm, brown pussy.

There wasn't a point in waiting any longer. I thumbed my briefs along with my shorts and pushed both garments down my legs, feeling my cock release into the open air and spring up slightly. I'd gotten naked in front of other people hundreds of times, and I'd even done a nude play once in my senior year of college. I could generally controlnot getting an erection, even if I was getting visually teased, I just couldn't make an erection go away without... manual stimulation. So far I'd managed to not escalate to fully erect, which might have been more aggressively sexual than would be good for the situation. Instead, it was about half-chubbed, arcing out and thick but notprojecting.

"Ladies and gentleman, we've got dong," Elyse said, putting on a voice like she was an astronaut calling down to NASA.

"Harrharr," I said with a smirk, pulling my leg from my shorts and briefs and stepping out with the other so I was fully naked.

Rhia quickly pulled off her own panties, going so far as to pull them from her ankle and stand up, stretching them between her thumbs and then shooting them at my face as she giggled and climbed into the hot tub.

"Hey," I laughed as I swatted them out of the air. "I didn't throwmy undies at you."

"Love you, Shane," Rhia replied in a sing-song voice.

"You mean Fergus," Elyse reminded her. "Welove Fergus."

"True," Tori said. She'd been pretty blatantly staring at my dick and her tongue played over the edge of her lower lip before her pretty brown eyes looked up at my face again. "Wedo love Fergus, and he deserves to get a little extra tip for all the shit we're putting him through." Tori turned her back to me, showing off her ass with the tight thong clinging between her bouncy cheeks - it was somewhere in between Elyse and Rhia in build and looked very spankable. But Tori didn't just wiggle her butt or something; apparently her plan of a 'reward' was visual in nature because she bent at the waist gracefully, pushing her ass a little more towards me, and thenslowly peeled her thong off over her butt. It clung to her pussy for a moment before sliding down her thighs, and she stayed bent over long enough for me to get a pretty good look at the pretty dark brown folds of her pussy in the diamond between her thighs and ass cheeks.

Then Tori stood up, stepped out of her thong, and moved past me to the steps into the tub. She trailed two fingers across my chest, biting the tip of her tongue in a playful look, and quickly stepped inside and slipped down into the water.

"You three are such trouble," I muttered, and even I wasn't entirely sure if I was saying it as myself or as Fergus. I climbed into the hot tub after them and settled down into the seat on the open side - the whole tub was big enough to fit eight more than comfortably (go figure, considering the core group I'd bought it to host numbered seven), so we each had plenty of space to lean back and enjoy the hot water. Without the jets, and with the underwater lights on, we all had slightly distorted views of, well, almost everything. I noticed that Rhia had a short, closely trimmed little landing strip and that Tori had a diamond of dark pubic hair, both of them so short that I was sure they wouldn't be seen in an actual bathing suit. Pubic hair, however, wasn't the main distraction for me because three sets of tits were bobbing in and out of the water.

The thing was, even though we all had our eyes wandering, no one mentioned anything about it. Instead, the girls slipped into character and started practising their voices, and talking about their backstories. They asked Fergus questions about his life, and I had to make up pretty much all of it on the fly, but I was more than used to doing that when needed.

About ten minutes in I sat up and leaned over the side to grab the little remote, and I turned on the jets. That interrupted the conversation as all three ladies gave pleased groans as their backs, thighs and sides were suddenly getting firmly massaged by the gushing water. The churning water removed our visuals, but that was OK, and the conversation started back up.

At least until I almost jumped out of my skin in surprise.

Chapter 27

For all that I was naked in a hot tub with three very hot college coeds, I had still managed not to get completely hard. To be fair, I wasn't really that far off now. That was about to change.

It was the second round of having the jets on, and we were all settled into the churning, hot water to our necks. The girls were still talking entirely in character and it was fun listening to them banter. Olivia's faux-British accent was getting more consistent, Renee had developed a bit of a French tinge as Elyse got more comfortable. I only needed to chip in once in a while, either answering a teasing question as Fergus or as the DM to give a setting-specific point of information.

Olivia was talking about her 'youth' (not that the character was old) growing up in the Temple of Revelry when I almost jumped out of the tub because somethingtouched my cock and balls. It wasn't that it was a painful strike or anything, I just really hadn't been expecting it. The firm touch rubbed up and down, and it didn't have the feel of a hand, so I quickly made the connection that it had to be a foot.

Based on the distance between the sides of the hot tub, how we were all sitting, and the angle of approach it was obvious who it was... I just hardly believed that Tori would be the one to initiate. Rhia was gung-ho for her plan still. Elyse had been pretty clear she was willing to be highly flirty and OK with nudity. The gorgeous woman of Indian descent had been the most reserved of the three every game so far.

And yet, even the way she was staunchlynot looking at me as the foot stroked its toes down the shaft of my cock while it got firmer and firmer told me it was her. She wasn't glancing my way, but she had a sort of distant look in her eyes as she smiled and shook her head at Rhia's antics talking about Olivia's wild youth.

The foot just... kept going. It didn't escalate, but it didn't pull away. It felt all over my cock, softly prodding and squishing, rubbing and squeezing.

I was rock hard.

And then the jets turned off, and the foot pulled away as quickly as it had appeared, the activity hidden before the water could clear up after the churning stilled.

"Fuck, I need to cool off a little," Rhia said, breaking character. She braced her arms on the side and lifted herself up to sit on the edge, raising her entire nude body out of the hot tub until just her shins and feet were still in. The water cascaded off her tits and the speckled droplets that remained were like little diamond beads under the twinkling mood lighting.

"Showing off?" Elyse chuckled.

"You'resupposed to cool off every once in a while, staying in a hot tub straight through for too long isn't healthy," Rhia said. "Right, Shane?"

"She's right," I said, already wondering what the fuck I was going to do.

"Well then, we better cool off," Elyse said, shooting Tori a grin as she glanced at me and back to her friend. It was clear she was more interested in seeing me out of the water again than she was about her needing to 'cool off.'

"Probably," Tori said and was the next one to lift herself out of the tub. It was another glorious reveal, and Tori went so far as to lean back a bit, bracing her arms behind her - this thrust her perfect brown tits forward, showing off that her little brown nipples were pebbled-hard now.

Elyse quickly climbed out of the tub as well and, I had a feeling because she felt like she didn't have as much to show off in the tits department, she sat with her legs casually spread unlike the other two who mostly had theirs closed. The blonde's pussy was on full display, her gently pink lips separated by a line of inner labia and a pretty, puffy clit hood. It looked like an absolutely delicious little package.

All three of them then looked at me expectantly.

I sighed.

"Come on, Shane," Rhia smirked at me. "We want you to be healthy."

"Look," I said. "Just... take it as a compliment." I pushed myself up and onto the side of the tub, myvery erect cock sticking up lewdly. Knowing what they wanted, I made the conscious decision to sit much like Elyse was so I wasn't teasing them (and, let's be real, a guy with a hard cock looks a little silly with it sticking up from between closed legs.)

All three of them eyed me. Rhia was already flushed from the heat of the tub but she pursed her lips a little. Tori had a knowing smile, fully aware she'd caused my current state. Elyse was chewing on the side of her lower lip again.

"Compliment accepted," Rhia ended up laughing after a long moment, and the other two chuckled as well. And they went back to their roleplaying.

Except, even as they tried to stay in character and keep the conversation going, there was a difference. Eyes wandered. There was more to see. And I noticed that their eyes weren't just stuck on me. All three of them were checking each other out as well. I didn't see any particular focus, but I knew there was interest being spread around.

Rhia was the first one to shift a little, spreading her legs like Elyse was sitting as she looked like she was just getting more comfortable. Her pussy was a tidy little set of lips with almost no sign of inner labia and just a little poke of a clit hood - I'd seen porn call the look a 'god pussy' before but thought that was silly. Itwas super smooth looking though, and I knew it would be a blast to play with and have her thighs around my ears as I ate it out.

Tori, seemingly realising that she was behind the eightball on the visual teasing, decided that instead of competing she would take a different tactic. She stood up and stretched her arms behind her, arching her back as she groaned a little more sexually than probably necessary. This pushed both her titsand her mound in my direction, and with slightly braced legs I got another look at her pussy as well - her labia were a darker brown than the warm tones of her skin, though not as dark as her nipples. She was lippier than the other two girls, but that just meant there was more of her to tease and please. When she'd sufficiently stretched, Tori slipped back into the water and sat.

From then on it was a revolving door of who was out of the water and who was in. If someone had been watching it might have seemed like we were just reacting to when we were too hot, but I noticed a bit of a dance going on. Someone was always out of the water, and rarely two for very long.

The girls were showing off.

At one point Rhia got out of the hot tub, taking the chance to almost whack me in the face with her tits as she crossed to the steps, and fetched some more beers from their stash. They were finished quickly, and Elyse wanted to get more but I reminded them that they had to drive home at the end of the night. They'd had one that afternoon, and another at dinner, already.

At one point all three of them were in the water and, even while they kept up their in-character banter (which had moved from backstories to trying to decide what they were going to do when they 'got back to camp'), they all looked at me expectantly. I followed their silent request/demand and sat up on the side of the hot tub again, letting them ogle me.

We'd been in and out of the hot tub for a little over two hours when signs of it being time to call it quits started showing. Rhia seemed to pick up on that too, and she pivoted a little in the conversation as she was the one out of the water at the time.

"I want to bless us all," Olivia said to her comrades. They were all floating in the hot spring that Fergus had found, their aches and pains soothed by the water and their mental frustrations eased by the conversation. She felt closer to her friends than she ever had before. "I'm worried about, well, all of us. The camp is filled with murderers and thieves, but also people who just... hate the Gods or something. It doesn't make sense, and we need their protection. I want to bind us with a little ritual, something I think will help us."

"What sort of ritual?" Jade asked, looking a little dubious. She'd made it clear that she had nothing against the Gods or people who worshipped them, she just believed more in the strength of people.

"Just like the blessing before," Oliva said, "But we all bless each other."

"You mean we all kiss each other," Renee said with a smirk.

"Yes, that's part of the ritual," Olivia said, rolling her eyes. "Do you want the blessing of Revelry or not? Every ounce of luck and protection could matter in the next day or two."

"Fine, yes," Renee said, holding up her hands defensively. "Blessings all around."

Olivia looked at Jade, who shrugged. "It can't hurt."

"You have to do it with meaning, or it won't work," Olivia said. "Trust me, believe it will work and it will."

"I believe in you, so I believe in the blessing," Jade said a little more sincerely.

Olivia stood on the edge of the pool, her naked body bare in the late evening forest as the moon cascaded down through the trees. "Revelry, Mistress of Festivals, I call upon you now here in this wild place," she said. "We seek guidance, protection and luck. Your wise guidance to know what paths will lead to our victory celebration where we shall honour you. Your fierce protection from the dangers of those who would abuse your gifts and children. And your luck, that you give to drunken dancers, sloshed singers and all those who enjoy your heart. See that we are united in communion with you, bare before each other with no shame or secrets, and that we respect the old ways and the new."

She sloshed through the pool to Jade and then kissed the furry woman on the forehead, and then on the lips - before, her kiss of blessing had been firm and lingered a little, but relatively chaste. This time it lasted longer and included a passionate use of tongue. Jade was surprised for a moment but engaged with the ritual, kissing her back for a long moment before they pulled away, their eyes lingering. Both had enjoyed the kiss. Olivia then went to Renee, who stood up to meet her as the water ran in rivulets down her sleek and slender body. Renee reached for her, and they ended up embracing as Olivia kissed her forehead, and then their lips met in a passionate kiss that lasted longer than the one with Jade purely because it looked like the shadow sorceress didn't want it to end yet. They were both smiling when they pulled apart.

Then Olivia came to Fergus. "You too, old man," she said a little teasingly. "You're one of us for this little adventure."

Fergus sighed, looking up at the naked Amazonian before him.

"Yeah, I thought so," Olivia chuckled, then leaned down and kissed his forehead and then his lips.

Rhia's tongue slipped between my lips, and I accepted and kissed her back. She had a hand cupping my jaw as if she thought she had to keep me still, and I automatically raised my own hand to caress her neck as our tongues battled. I caught her lower lip between my teeth and gave her a little nibble, which made her moan softly in her throat and push firmer against me.

When we pulled apart we were a little breathless, and I was overcome with how fucking ridiculous it was that I was in this situation with her. Utterly thankful, and entirely turned on, but it still felt too ridiculous to be real.

"Now you, Jade," Olivia said, returning to her spot as she gestured Jade towards Renee.

"If it's what Revelry wants," Jade said, grinning a little, and the hare person stood and went to the shadow sorceress. This time Renee wiggled a finger, summoning the other woman down to meet her instead of standing, and Fergus got an eyeful of ass as the two women briefly made out. They were both giggling when it ended, and Jade stood and approached Fergus.

Tori's kiss, if I were actively trying to compare, was a slower and more passionate simmer compared to Rhia's. She didn't drive in with her tongue, she teased and played. She had both her hands on my shoulders as she leaned down to me and I had to resist grabbing and massaging her tits, instead letting my hands slide up the outside of her thighs to her hips. Eventually, I was the one to introduce a more aggressive tongue action, and she met me with gusto for a long moment before slowly pulling away. "Nice," she whispered, smirking playfully as she stared deep into my eyes.

"Round out the ceremony, Renee," Oliva prompted, gesturing between her and Fergus. "We all need to be connected, it's the only way to show Revelry of our commitment."

"No complaints from me," Renee said, standing up and sloshing through the pool to Fergus. She held out a hand, asking him to stand. "Come on, you silver fox. Let me bless you."

I stood, and Elyse laughed a little as she had to grab me by my cheeks and pull medown to kiss my forehead for Rhia's little made-up ritual. Then she ducked lower, kissing me from below as she pressed her nude, wet body to mine. My cock was caught between us, hard and rubbing against her firm belly, and her little breasts rubbed up and down lightly against my chest as we quickly fell into an easy French kiss. She had her hands on my chest and mine slipped to her waist, almost able to touch each other on either side as my thumbs and forefingers wrapped around her at her thinnest point. She groaned into our liplock and sucked on my tongue. I could feel her nipple ring grazing my chest, and her septum piercing with its little dangling chain to her ear pressed against my upper lip and cheek.

What I wanted to do was pick her up, spin her around and plant her butt on the edge of the tub and fuck her.

What I did instead was growl lightly in my chest, give her the same nibble-trick I'd used on Rhia, and then slowly pulled our lips away to end the kiss even while I subtly thrust my hips a little, grinding my cock against her stomach. Her grey eyes were wide and she was panting cutely as we separated. "Fuck, that was a good kiss," she said, then she broke into a grin and looked over at Rhia without shifting her body from mine yet. "Think Revelry was happy with that one, or do we need to do it again?"

That got laughs out of the two other girls, and Elyse flashed me a cheeky grin before stepping away. We all sat on the edge of the tub, just our shins and feet in the hot water, as we caught our breath after the ritual.

"So," Tori eventually asked. "Any mechanical benefits forthat ritual?"

Chapter 28

There wasn't so much a verbal, 'OK, we're done' as things just shifted in that direction over the next ten minutes. I ended up needing to go grab towels from inside since we'd forgotten, and I got some laughs from the girls as I shook myself like a dog before heading into the house. When I came out the girls got out of the tub, Tori leading the way. She let me wrap a towel around her with a grin over her shoulder at me.

Rhia, of course, didn't take a 'demure' route and lifted her arms up while facing me, giving me one last close-up look at her big tits as she hummed a chuckle and eyed my cock again. It hadn't gone down during my run for the towels and was sticking up between us.

Elyse came out of the tub last, sauntering a little as she came down the steps, and she held out a hand for me to help steady her but didn't let it go when she reached the ground.

"Oh, my," Elyse said, using her new accent for Renee as she openly ogled down at my cock. Then, to my surprise, she reached out her other hand and gently stroked her fingers along the length of it starting from the base as she looked at the other two coeds. "We have been entirely unfair to Fergus," she said. "He's been such a gentleman this whole time, and we're definitely not paying him enough." She turned back to me, smiling nervously. "I think you deserve a tip for your faithful service, silver fox."

Elyse dropped to her knees in front of me, looking up at me with those eyes, grinning. And then she leaned forward and her cute little tongue came out of her mouth and licked the underside of my cock shaft, right around the middle, and slowly dragged it towards the head. She didn't break eye contact with me, and seemed to enjoy my continuing delighted surprise. I had to glance at the others though.

The looks on their faces told me that thisdefinitely hadn't been something talked about before, or while I was getting the towels. Tori looked shocked, a little scandalised, but not horrified. She had her towel wrapped around her and was clutching it closed with one hand as she stood with her mouth a little agape while she watched her roommate lick my cock. Rhia looked just as surprised, but there was no sense of being scandalised - if anything, she looked thrilled.

To be fair, this was exactly where she'd hoped things would go. It was just a little earlier than maybe she'd expected.

"Fuck," I grunted. Me, not Fergus, as Elyse's tongue reached the under ridge of my cock head and teased off of it with a flick. She grinned at my response and took hold of my cock with one hand, giving it a squeeze.

"Taste's pretty good," she said quietly. "And it's nice and big."

She started sinuously licking it like a melting ice cream cone, starting from the underside and wrapping up the sides. And she didn't just use her neck, she shifted most of her body to get around my cock, pivoting at the hips so she could get the angle she wanted. Elyse was lavishing my cock with attention, her eyes darting from it to mine and back as she checked in if I was liking what she was doing.

I very much was.

When she wrapped her lips around my cock head, suckling on it like a sucker, I could have come right then and it was only my experience that helped me to resist that urge. Twenty years ago I would have lost my mind - and I had on occasion, as had all the guys during the Game. It was only natural after too much stimulation. Now, though, I had the strength of will and stability of an older, experienced libido to control myself.

She bobbed on me a few times, her head movements still sinuous as she closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling of my cock in her mouth, keeping it still with a couple of fingers near the base. I ran my fingers through the front of her sandy blonde hair, still tied back in a high bun with her undercut sides painted with the costume runes. None of us had dipped our heads under water so it had stayed dry. When my fingernails scraped gently across her scalp she came off my cock with a big, open-mouthed grin and opened her eyes. Something in them told me to do it, so I grabbed her by the hair on the top of her head and she closed her eyes again and let out a pleased 'Huh' as she stuck out her tongue. I grabbed my cock by the base and dragged it across her tongue and lips.

"Fuck, that's hot," Rhia breathed out.

I glanced over at them and almost wished I hadn't because I knew I wasn't going to last too long now.

Both of the coeds were masturbating as they watched me get a blowjob.

Rhia had dropped her towel completely and was standing, one hand lifting a tit and squeezing it tightly while her other hand was clearly working her ring and middle finger into pussy in a waving motion. Her eyes were trained on my cock and Elyse's face, and she was flushed so much that her freckles almost disappeared. Meanwhile, Tori still nominally had her towel on her, but only because she'd leaned back against the doorframe of the hot tub space and it was pinned between her and it. Her hips were thrust forward, her legs spread a little, and she had one hand driving her middle finger quickly in and out of herself as she clutched to the ivy trellis with the other. She actually looked up, meeting my gaze. She blushed, biting her lip cutely, but then pulled her finger from herself and lifted it to her lips, tasting it quickly before bringing it back down.

"Mmm, yeah," Elsye moaned softly, and I looked down at her. She blinked open her eyes, those bright grey orbs so wide and pretty. I pushed my cock back centred to her lips and thrust in a little as I pulled her forward with my hand in her hair. She groaned, closing her lips around my cock and sucking, and soon I was using her mouth as if she had no control at all. That wasn't true, she had plenty and used it to work her lips and tongue as she attacked my cock, but thefeeling was that she was definitely wanting me to control it. Eventually, she slid a hand up my thigh and I took that as a sign she wanted me to back off, but before I could even loosen the grip on her hair she pushed herself further onto my cock until her lips stretched and reached the base. I had a larger-than-average cock, but it wasn't some massive tool, and I could feel her angle her head slightly so it wasn't grazing the back of her throat and her uvula, avoiding her gagging or choking.

That brought a thick moan from me, and she opened her eyes just a slit as she looked up at me, grinning around my cock as she slowly pulled back off of me. It slid across the inside of her cheek, grazed her molars, and then came bursting out of her mouth and wobbled in the air as the tension became too great on the angle.

"Yeah," she grinned at me.

I slapped her cheek with my cock and then let go of her hair, and she took my cock by the base and started blowing me again, sucking it between her lips.

She started to repeat tactics, teasing me as she seemed to be trying to decide what pleasured me best. I didn't last very much longer between the varying eye contact with her as she looked up at me with a dreamy, highly pleased expression and over at the other two. Tory had stopped thrusting a finger into herself and was rubbing at her clit quickly, and it looked like Rhia had wedged a third finger into herself and was still doing that same motion but was getting close to her peak. Both of them were panting in near sync with each other.

"I'm gonna cum," I warned Elyse, somewhere between my own voice and the Fergus voice. Many, many years of practice roleplaying during sexual scenarios helped me remember to do that.

"Mmm, all the way in, then," Elyse said, getting half of her accent into it. Then she dove onto my cock anddid take it to the back of her throat as she made a soft gurgling and gagging sound. The head pressed into that squeezing tight space, and I grabbed her head with both hands as I groaned loudly. She pulled off, my hands following her, and then she went right back on without even taking a breath.

"Close," I groaned.

She bobbed, short ones, two more times and then pulled back until her lips were wrapped just around the head of my cock as she suckled at it, and she used a hand to stroke my shaft quickly.

I grunted, my toes curling against the smooth wooden deck, my fingers wrapping up into her hair from the sides of her head, and I came in her mouth. Five good spurts, each one feeling like a volcanic eruption as she milked it out of me and onto her tongue. She was laughing with her lips still closed around my cock, a sound of pure joy, and as I blinked and tried to keep my head clear with the end of my orgasm she pulled back and stuck out her tongue, showing me the creamy white mess still slathered on it as the tip teased the sensitive crown of my cock. Then she closed her mouth, swallowed my cum and opened her mouth as if to show me it was all gone. Then she gave the side of my cock a little kiss as she smirked, self-satisfied.

"Holy shit," Rhia panted.

"Fucking hell, Elyse," Tori said.

I wasn't sure if either of them had actually reached orgasm or not, but they were both panting almost as much as we were.

Reaching down, I motioned for Elyse's hands and she let me help her up off her knees. Then I put my hands under her arms and lifted her up so I could kiss her in the crook of her neck, and then on her cheek, and then firmly on her lips (without tongue - I'd long ago learned that tasting myself, even on a woman I cared about, wasn't one of my kinks). "That, Miss Renee, was some'in' else," I said in Fergus's voice as I set her down. "Thank 'ee kindly for that."

"My pleasure, my silver fox," 'Renee' replied, still grinning widely.

We stood like that, my hands still on her side, until we both chuckled and took a step away from each other.

"So," Elyse said to the others. "That's probablynot what D&D is usually like, right?"

"No," Tori laughed. "But maybe itshould be..."

Chapter 29

The girls were changed into their street clothes, their costumes already packed in their bags. They were leaving the leftovers of dinner with me but taking their Tupperware back - I'd demanded they take the last of the cookies since my metabolism wasn't as young and robust as theirs was. We were back in my game room, and they were packing their things.

I didn't know what they'd talked about while changing, but judging by the heavy feeling in the room they may not have talked about what had just happened at all.

"Can you ladies sit, for a second?" I requested.

All three of them looked at me, then glanced around, then sat in their seats.

"Sorry," Elyse blurted out.

"Don't be," Rhia quickly said.

I held up a hand to forestall anything else.

"First, I just want to say that I've very much enjoyed running this game for you three, and I intend to keep doing so," I said, trying to keep my voice even. "All three of you are very fun young women to be around, even without the extra... shenanigans. So whatever else comes from what I'm about to say, I don't intend to end our game, OK?" I waited for all three of them to nod. "That being said, therehave been shenanigans andall good relationships, platonic or romantic or professional, need good communication, so we need to talk about it. Especially now that it's... escalated. So here's the deal - is anyone uncomfortable, right now, with what's happened so far? No judgments allowed, just the truth."

"I'm not," Rhia said.

"I had fun," Elyse said and then bit her lower lip a little nervously.

Tori shook her head, then decided she needed to be more forceful than that. "I wasn't expecting what's been happening, but I'm OK with it."

"OK," I said with a nod. "I'm OK with it too. The entire scene in the hot tub was a lot of fun, and hearing you ladies get into character and explore them was a blast from the DM perspective, I don't know about you ladies but doing it naked definitely made it feel more vulnerable."

"Sometimes profs talk about how they used to be able to do 'vulnerability' exercises with senior classes," Tori said. "Apparently they even put on entirely nude plays back in the day."

"I think you mean back in my day," I said with a little smirk. "And Rhia's parents'. I was in one of those plays."

"No fucking way," Elyse said. "Really?"

"Yes, really," I chuckled. "I'd show you proof, but there weren't any photographs or recordings of it for obvious reasons."

"It wasn't exactly like outside though, at the end, right?" Tori asked.

"No," I said. "There weren't any explicit acts in the play."

"Did you have sex with the other actors?" Rhia asked, trying to hide the fact that she'd probably gotten the story from somewhere else.

I hesitated a moment and then sighed. "Not on stage," I said.

"That totally means you boned somewhere else," Elyse smirked.

"Anyways," I said. "Naked roleplayis a vulnerable space, just like naked acting. And don't think I'm some clueless middle-aged man and I didn't see you all showing off for me and each other." That got blushes from all three of them. "But vulnerability deserves protection. If we're all comfortable with what happened tonight, then we need to talk about consent and we need to take the time to really decide what we're consenting to. I'm OK with this game having sexual moments if you three are, but we need to set boundaries and respect them. That means I have to give you girls some homework; I need you to each write up a Consent List, one for me and one for the other girls. What sexual acts are you consenting to between us? Or between each other? Are you OK with stuff happening in front of each other, or would you want privacy?"

"How detailed do you want us to be?" Tori asked.

"As detailed as you'd like. Obviously the more detailed, the more specific we get, but if anyone ever says 'No,' or we set up a safe word for if someone wants to try out some consensual non-consent roleplay or something, everything stops without judgement so it can be addressed."

"Works for me," Rhia said.

"Same," Elyse nodded.

"OK, then hopefully the second part of this isn't too big a deal either," I said. "We all need to get tested for STDs, and show each other the results. I'm not trying to judge your pasts, but I think we each deserve to know where we're at and who we might be interacting with. And, to be frank with you ladies, I have a group of sexual partners already that I need to think about and protect, and that my experience hasn't led to me having anything earlier."

"What do you mean by 'group of sexual partners?'" Tori asked.

"Other people I have sex with on a semi-regular basis," I said. "And whom I trust very much not to expand their own sexual partner numbers without being just as careful as I am being with you three now."

"So are you a swinger?" Tori asked.

"I think he's saying 'Nunya Business,'" Elyse told her roommate with a little smirk. Then she looked at me. "We'll get the tests done."

"Absolutely," Rhia agreed.

"I'm not trying to hide things from you," I told Tori. "But privacyis a concern with this sort of thing. And I don't intend on spreading around with them what I saw tonight, or what might happen in the future."

Tori nodded and swallowed. "OK, yeah, sorry. I just... have questions."

"As long as you understand I might not answer some of them, questions are completely fine," I said.

"Alright," Rhia said. "So we're writing out our 'Yes's and 'No's for sex, and we're making sure we all have a clean bill of health before we do more 'stuff.' Anything else, Shane?"

"Just that I hope you get home safe," I said. "And I'm looking forward to next week."

This time, as I let them out the front door, I got a kiss from each other them. A full kiss, on the lips. With tongue. Elyse and Rhia pressed themselves to me as they did it, and I was surprised when Tori looped her fingers in my belt loops and pulled me a little closer.

"Goodnight, ladies," I called after them as they headed for their car.

"Night, Shane," they chorused back. Tori got into the driver's seat, and Elyse got into the passenger side. Rhia stopped before piling into the back and pulled her crop top up, flashing me again for a quick moment as she laughed, and then disappeared into the car.

I shook my head, grinning and waving.

What a fuckin' night.

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