The necromancer smiled and nodded his head.  The items in the glass case vanishing.  Instantly Tialyn simply 'knew' how to cast the spells, and knew that she now had a reserve of mana.  It wasn't very large at the moment, but she had the feeling that she'd be able to improve that as she 'leveled up' or whatever format this game took.  She also realized she'd have to drink a flask of water and gain a temporary point of mana before being able to summon the skeletal minion.  But then again that was something she could worry about later.  As the necromancer stepped towards her and raised his staff.  Bringing it down suddenly in front of her, her garments vanished into fragments of light and floated away.  She suddenly realized that all of her items were locked and she couldn't access any of them, even her starting gear.<strong>"You won't be needing any of your items for this challenge," he explained.  "Either you survive the challenge and you'll get a new set of clothing, or you'll die and respawn with everything unlocked."</strong><br/><br/>The NPC looked her up and down and leered at her naked form, giving Callie the sudden impression that perhaps the NPC was under the control of a person again, much like the froglok had been taken control of.  It certainly seemed much more natural and smooth, but the transition hadn't been as obvious as with the froglok before.<strong> "Now,"</strong>he said taking one last look at her naked form,<strong> "Come, your challenge awaits."  </strong>Turning he moved to the back of the shop and opened a door that led to stairs leading downwards.  Walking down them to a dimly lit basement with dirt floors, he moved to one end and stood for a moment eyes closed.  Then he began chanting soft arcane words and moving his hands before his eyes snapped open.<strong> "Let your challenge begin."</strong><br/><br/>The dirt floor began to tremble slightly and the ground cracked as decaying hands began pushing up through the dirt and half a dozen zombies broke through the floor, climbing uneasily and unsteadily through the dirt.  Other than the dirt, not a stitch of clothing clung to their rotten decayed flesh, and the fact that each of them was obviously male, and sporting an erection, coupled with Tialyn's nudity, made it very clear what type of challenge this was.  The fact that the necromancer stood against the wall, eagerly watching, only reminded Tialyn of the fact that there were probably others that she couldn't see watching her right now, eager to see what her next move was to be.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><em>(https://i.imgur.com/EiCJ46W.jpg)<br/>Tialyn Luxora</em></div></div><strong>Character:</strong> Tialyn Luxora<br/>RL Name: Callie Liddle<br/>RL Age: 20<br/><br/><strong>Score:</strong> 76<br/><strong>Heat:</strong> 30<br/><strong>Hero/Whore:</strong> 0/4<br/><br/><strong>Mental Strength:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Mental Agility:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Mental Discipline:</strong> 2<br/><strong>Mana (current / max):</strong> 2/2<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spells</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Spells</strong></td><td> - </td><td>Mana</td><td> - </td><td>Effect</td></tr><tr><td>Spike of Disease</td><td> - </td><td> 1 </td><td> - </td><td>Release a bolt of necromatic energy at range that causes minor damage to a living target</td></tr><tr><td>Invisibility to undead </td><td> - </td><td> 1 </td><td> - </td><td>Allows the caster to become invisible to any undead creatures for a very short time</td></tr><tr><td>Disease Cloud</td><td> - </td><td> 2 </td><td> - </td><td>Release a cloud of necromatic energy at range that causes minor damage to any living creatures caught in the area of effect</td></tr><tr><td>Siphon Strength</td><td> - </td><td> 2 </td><td> - </td><td>Temporarily steal a small fraction of a target's strength to bolster your own</td></tr><tr><td>Leering Corpse</td><td> - </td><td> 3 </td><td> - </td><td>Summon a mindless skeletal minion<br/>(Requires one bone chip to cast) </td></tr><tr><td>Lifetap</td><td> - </td><td> 1 </td><td> - </td><td>Drain a small portion of health from a target, healing your own wounds in the process.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>  </td><td> </td><td>  </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Items</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Item</strong></td><td> - </td><td>Amount</td><td> - </td><td>Effect</td></tr><tr><td>Speckled Red Mushrooms</td><td>  </td><td> 1 </td><td>  </td><td>Consume to immediately reroll any roll.<br/>Must take second roll result<br/>Comes with unknown side effect </td></tr><tr><td>Iron Rations</td><td>  </td><td> 5 </td><td>  </td><td>Consume to add +1 to your next combat roll.</td></tr><tr><td>Water Flask </td><td>  </td><td> 5 </td><td>  </td><td>Consume to restore 1 mana or grant a temporary point of mana. </td></tr><tr><td>Basic Lantern</td><td>  </td><td> 1 </td><td>  </td><td>Create light (obviously)</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Advantages</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Advantages:</strong><br/>i) Intuition - Our heroine might not be book-smart, but she has a knack for figuring things out. ("This is the end that shoots bullets, right?") Beginners sometimes get lucky, after all...And sometimes, on the virtual battlefield, a good guess is better than all the knowledge in the world! <br/>ii) Attractive - No two ways about it...Our heroine's *hot*. She's not just a babe virtually, she's hot IRL too...Which makes her very popular indeed, on both fronts. (The fans seem to love it, and who can blame them?)<br/>iii) Minor Celebrity - Streamer - Callie already has built a decent following on her stream.nn page.  She's going to have a fan base that's going to cheer her on and try to help her in game as supporters instead of going in as an unknown.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Flaws</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Flaws:</strong><br/>i) Vain - It's hard to be a streamer without being just a *bit* of an attention whore. And our girl has it *bad*. She just loves the adulation of her fans...And she's oh-so-willing to do what it takes to keep them interesting. (This isn't just showing off - She's more likely to take risks, even when they'd work against her.)<br/>ii) Trouble Magnet - It happens. If there's a one-in-a-million chance that something could go wrong...It *will*, and she'll probably be right at the heart of it. Things just keep getting drawn to her, one way or another. <br/>iii) Livestreaming - The world is watching her, not just in game, but also her real life as she goes through this lewd quest.  Any failures to her heat rating are going to more severe, as people are seeing that failure on two fronts. </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Fetishes</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Fetishes:</strong><br/>i) The Gross / Ugly<br/>ii) The Undead<br/>iii) Goblinoids</div></div></div></div>