As the brave beauties charged forward, so did the mobs! Corrupted dwarves twisted in form until they were practically goblins, with long angular forms covered in wrinkled brown-green hide, thin sallow faces sporting unnaturally long tongues flicking out between jaws filled with sharp fangs, they were no longer steadfast allies but wicked beasts to be put out of their misery. When Syndella swung her sword, she could<em>feel</em>the resistance in her arm and hear the monster's death screech as her blade shattered his breastplate and flung him back several feet through the air. To her left an arrow whizzed by putting down another goblin neatly, while a fireball whooshed by her right and purified a further three corrupted dwarves into piles of smoldering ash at once.<br/><br/>The wave of monsters broke against the wall of heroines, and then the players were pushing back and advancing towards the boss, cutting down goblins left and right with every step forward! But the boss seemed unfazed, "Fools! You march to your own doom!" The completely armor-covered figure raised his warhammer and smashed it against the ground! The earth itself shuddered and rumbled in earthquake, while the very ground beneath their feet turned to the consistency of hungry quicksand, sucking them down... and the more they struggled, the faster they sank! Up to their ankles, up to mid-calf... then the boss lifted his warhammer from the ground, and the liquid earth around their legs solidified as if on command, trapping and immobilizing the entire raid.<br/><br/>And then the mobs renewed their assault! Unable to move, the more fragile classes couldn't kite the goblins, nor could the tanks intercept them. Even worse, the game's skill assist system that let Syndella fight like the expert fighter she was, turning the moves she envisioned in her mind into (virtually) real movements of her body, suddenly shut off, leaving behind Callie flailing about with a sword that she didn't know the first thing about using. Goblins came at her from all sides while she was rooted in place, wielding ropes and whips instead swords and axes now, clearing intent on capture. They stayed just out of reach of her blade and threw the bindings over her body, entangling her bit by bit until they finally managed to wrest her weapon from her hand!<br/><br/>Syndella's allies were faring even worse, being a robust class she had lasted the longest - the goblins hadn't even bothered disarming most of the other heroines, simply beating them down until their HP dropped to zero instead. She recognized the sorceress who had thrown the fireball; her outfit was scanty to start with, now it was completely torn to tatters with the pieces of fabric scattered on the ground below her. With her calves partially submerged in the ground, the sorceress was at just the right height for the goblins to bend her over and reveal the true purpose of their unnaturally long tongues, relishing the taste of her naked flesh, first outside then... inside. And instead of struggling, she looked like she was every bit the eager participant in it...<br/><br/>Syndella's attention was suddenly jerked back to herself by the sensation of long goblin fingers groping her tits and ass through her tight green jerkin. Then the goblins decided that it was in their away, one of them tearing open the front until her breasts spilled out for all to see. Another one behind her ripped off the bottom, revealing the soft skin of her long legs where her creamy white stockings ended, showing off how the garters clung to the now very exposed curves of her butt. The only thing left protecting her virtue was a piece of flimsy fabric, closer to a g-string than a proper pair of panties, which the goblin grabbed and tried to tear right off then and there. The material stretched and ripped, but one stubborn thread nestled deep between her lower lips and refused to snap, giving her the ultimate wedgie and involuntarily pleasuring her as it rubbed her sensitive womanhood through repeated tugs and pulls. Finally with a snap she was completely exposed, and the goblin tongue snaked out to lap up her juices, while the mob in front opened his mouth to suck on her breasts-<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The instant before the goblins' tongues made contact, Callie was forcibly jerked out of Syndella's body, her point of view drifting above her avatar in an out-of-body experience comparable to being a ghost. She got a nice view of her body - and it was her body, even if a few of the colors were different - getting ravished and enjoying it under NPC control as the goblins switched over from tongues to the erections that had been building up beneath their loincloths all this time. A narrator was also droning on something about the heroines being captured and then taken away to a prison in the background, but there were more important things to pay attention to now, such as the translucent application screens of a decidedly unsexy nature popping up.<br/><br/>The functional, no-frills display of banking software had Callie's attention because it<em>her</em>bank account being shown, and the contents were definitely her savings and loans. A new message popped up.<br/><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">Blacksite Tournament "HHHH"<br/>Buy-in $100 confirmed.<br/>Calculating deposit... $10,000.<br/>Deducting buy-in from deposit... $9,900<br/>Automatically withdrawing deposit... failed.<br/>Automatically applying for loan... successful.<br/>$9,900 loan approved...<br/>$9,900 withdrawn...<br/>Buy-in paid in full.<br/><br/>ATTN: Deposit of $10,000 less $100 buy-in will be refunded upon remaining logged in throughout the entire Tournament.<br/>ATTN: Deposit of $10,000 will be forfeit if you log out before the end of the Tournament.<br/><br/>Press "OK" to accept.<br/>&lt;OK&gt;<br/></code></pre><br/>There was no other option available... at least none other than force logging out of the VR and forfeiting her deposit... which she would then owe the bank... but was it real? Was it worth the risk?