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In the days following Mai’s streak across the field, I didn’t hear from her. I sent a message the next morning asking how she was, and sat at my desk staring at the phone awaiting her reply, but it didn’t come. I figured she was embarrassed.
Meanwhile, Eva showed up unannounced two days in a row, both times asking me to assign her some challenge so she could earn powers. The first time, I obliged. So as to keep my promise to Mai about not letting Eva surpass her in the skill tree, I only challenged Eva to do small, simple things. I asked her to show me her underwear, then take off her shirt and pose for me on the bed, and she was eager to do these things. Not for me in particular, I could tell. She saw me as a camera, or as the abstract concept of the male gaze, and wanted to expose herself to this concept. I as an individual person was barely in the room, as far as she was concerned.
Because she was eager, she earned only crumbs of xp. The challenges from the first night did not even earn her half of the 2xp needed to graduate the first level. Her reluctance scores were asymptotic to zero.
The second time Eva invited herself over, it was late, past eleven, and she was buzzed from a houseparty she’d just left. When I let her in and poured her a cup of water, she sat on the edge of my bed and slouched. “I bet you invite Mai over,” she said. “Like you actively call her and text her, but I have to show up.”
“You have to show up?” I sat on the small couch across from her.
“If I want to see you I have to. When I text you, you don’t answer.”
Only once she mentioned it did I remember she had texted earlier that day, but when I saw that the notification wasn’t Mai’s reply, I dismissed it and set my phone aside.
“Give me a big challenge,” she said. “Please. Tell me what you want. Tell me what you want.”
She repeated this last phrase so incessantly that I couldn’t interrupt to answer, and became frustrated with her. She was too drunk to have a conversation with. I told her she could spend the night, gave her my bed, and lay down on the couch.
For a moment it seemed that the moderator’s game had hit stasis. Mai was hiding from me. Eva’s thirst annoyed me. We hadn’t heard from or about Henry in a week.
Then came the card. When I woke up on my couch, it was resting on my forehead, as if someone had come in and set it there in the night. It read:
> Crew vs Crew Challenge
>
> Scope: Side dungeon
> Rewards: 1000xp to distribute
> Penalty for loss or no-show: One crew member expelled from crew
> Time: 12pm
> Location: Student Center 3rd Basement
We had only an hour before the start time. I asked Eva to get ready as fast as she could, then we hurried to the track where Mai had morning practice. We picked up a sports drink for Eva’s hangover from a convenience store on the way.
When we approached Mai on the sideline, she blushed and looked away from me. I’d been right. She was embarrassed. Instead of bringing up the texts she didn’t answer, I showed her the card.
Still not looking at us, she said, “But the student center doesn’t have a 3rd basement.”
Out on the track, Melissa was running, and several older adults with clipboards paid her close attention. Her speed exceeded even that of Mai’s during her naked dash. The rest of the team was on the sideline too, watching Melissa speed through lap after lap. I said, “I wonder if her branch of the skill tree was the one that started with _10% faster_, and that’s why she can get the boosts while still wearing clothes.”
“Shut up,” Mai said. “I don’t want to think about that.”
Just then, the sky flickered out. Flickered like a weak bulb to black, not even stars shining overhead. The stadium brights automatically switched on. A panic erupted among the track team and the marching band, who had been practicing on the bleachers: there were disappearances. From a quick scan around, I concluded that only students of the university remained. The clipboard-holders who had been watching Melissa, the band conductor, the coaches, all of them had vanished.
There was another card in my hand.
> Crew vs Crew Challenge
>
> Scope: Campaign Phase 1
> Objective: Establish governance over this pocket universe
> Reward: 100,000xp to distribute
> Time limit: 30 days
> Penalty for loss: Dissolution of crew
On the back, there were a list of campaign phases:
> 1 Campus
> 2 Atlanta
> 3 Georgia
> 4 US
> 5 World
I handed the card to Mai. While she and Eva read it, I watched the panic unfold. The sky flickered back to daytime, but no one who had vanished reappeared. The three of us, in a daze, flowed with the mob back to the student center, where the standing student government president, whose greatest reponsibility to date had been event planning for the football team’s homecoming game, affected a demeanor of having everything under control about the student body branching out into a packet universe—en event they and many others had interpreted as the rapture.
We kadıköy escort bayan could not linger in the atrium to watch the new social order develop. It was 11:48, so we hurried to the elevator.
“There’s no B3 button,” Mai said.
The panel ended at B2. I spun around looking for another button somewhere, but alas.
“Wait.” Mai grabbed the side dungeon card from my hand, knelt at the button panel, and fed the card into a small reader I hadn’t noticed. It looked like a vending machine bill eater.
Once it accepted the card, the elevator lights turned red and we started moving down. At the bottom, the doors didn’t open, but the floor number display changed to a countdown to 12pm.
“I’m sorry I didn’t respond to your messages,” Mai said.
“No, don’t apologize. These are wild events. I can’t hold any response to them against you.”
“I hoped if I pretended everything were normal, it would go away.”
Eva watched the two of us intensely. When the conversation stopped, she said to me, “I wouldn’t ignore you.” As in, not like Mai.
Before Mai responded to Eva’s snub, the doors opened to a long white tunnel, divided into sections by walls of water. The walls fell from sluices in the ceiling and drained through gaps in the floor. In each section, including the first, a small white pedestal held a card.
Eva read the one in front of us aloud.
> Rules
>
> In each section, you will find a card asking one crew member a question. That crew member must answer openly and honestly.
>
> If the crew member’s answer is open and honest, they will pass through the water wall to the next section without penalty.
>
> Victory condition: Reach the end with crew leader plus one woman before other crew
>
> Elimination condition: Crew members may not progress further if they
“If they what?” I said.
Eva handed me the card. “Oh. If they reach orgasm.”
Mai snatched it from my hand. “What does that mean, ‘without penalty’? What would the penalty be?”
I shrugged.
A wall of water started falling behind us, and slowly sweeping forward, so we reflexively jumped into the next section to avoid it. All of us were soaked through our hair and clothes, and but on inspection no one seemed to be penalized in an obvious way. I read the card on the pedestal aloud.
> Question for Eva
>
> Why did you join Aiden’s crew?
Eva laughed. “That’s easy. I wanted to make Henry mad. And jealous.”
That was what I had guessed, myself. “So now that you’ve answered, should we go ahead through?”
Eva and Mai nodded. We held hands side by side and stepped through together. Immediately I checked myself all over, my hands, legs, face, clothes. Everthing seemed unchanged.
Then I noticed a beige puddle on the ground and looked up. It was the same beige Eva’s dress had been, and now there was no dress. The water had dissolved it completely and it was now draining into the gap in the floor between the hallway sections. Being as comfortable exposed as she was, Eva did not seem too phased by this. Her bra and underwear were in tact.
“There’s two cards,” Mai said. “The first says Eva’s answer was open, but dishonest.”
“Dishonest?” Eva said, confused. “But I thought that was the real reason.”
Mai set the card down. “I might know what happened. When I told Aiden I didn’t want to play this game, I thought I was telling the truth too, but it added me anyway when I privately realized I did want to. It read my mind.”
I picked up the other card. “Meaning,” I said. “Saying it only half the challenge. Knowing what to say is the other. Now it’s asking you the same question, Mai. Why did you join?”
Mai stroked her jaw. “What does it want me to say?”
Through the water wall right in front of us, it seemed to me we had seven more sections after this, and I could only suppose the penalties would increase. Otherwise how would the rule card’s ominous allusion to elimination by orgasm make sense?
“Okay, I have an answer. I joined because I thought letting you use and humiliate me would emasculate Henry. I wanted to do for you what I wouldn’t do for him.”
It seemed open, and honest. We stepped into the next section with a cautious optimism. But Mai’s clothes disolved. Not just her sports bra and short shorts, but her underwear too. She was naked. Before anyone could say anything, she ran to the pedestal and read the top card. “Neither open nor honest? I don’t know what it wants me to say.”
To Eva, Mai’s escalating panic was something satisfying. She couldn’t contain her grin when she read the card underneath. “It asks Mai again: why did you join?”
Mai pulled at the hair around her temples. “Let’s try this. I joined because I had a crush on you, Aiden, when you were our TA in physics.”
“Hold on,” I said. Her answer this time seemed much less difficult to say than last time. Who hadn’t had a crush? She was recoiling from embarrassment into herself rather than trying to really answer the question.
She hopped ümraniye escort bayan into the next section by herself, ignoring me.
When Eva and I caught up with her, she was sitting on the ground with both cards in hand, dejected. This made Eva almost giddy to read them, but I gestured with my arm for her to stay back. I took the cards from Mai’s hands. Her grip on them was limp. It asked her same question again. And the penalty card read:
> Answer was neither open nor honest.
>
> Mai must accept stimulation from opponent crew by strapping into wall for two minutes.
>
> Enter straps within 90 seconds or be eliminated.
>
> Arousal modulation from either crew will disqualify.
On the left wall, there was a hole big enough to fit an arm through. Attached to the wall were straps for wrists and ankles—Mai’s wrists and ankles—such that she’d have her arms spread to wingspan and her legs spread in a wide stance. The hole opened just below where her legs would meet. A timer above the straps had a little over fifty seconds left.
“Mai, we can go ahead without you in this challenge. You can just stay here and we’ll meet up on the way back.”
Mai took a deep breath and willed herself to stand up. “No. We’re winning together.”
As soon as Mai entered the pose, the straps on the wall closed and tightened themselves. Henry’s hand appeared through the hole, felt its way up her thighs. He started massaging Mai’s lips. Over her head, the timer ticked down slowly from 120, 119, 118…
Eva and I watched Mai’s face, and her body’s movements. It wasn’t until the last half minute that she started twisting her pelvis to avoid Henry’s hand. But of course being strapped in so firmly and having such limited freedom to move, his hand easily found her lips again. After the ding, Henry withdrew his arm and a shutter fell and sealed the hole in the wall.
The restraints didn’t release. Mai tugged to free her hands, but couldn’t. “Why won’t it let me out?”
“Maybe you have to answer?”
She hung her head, exasperated. “Okay. I used to have a fantasy, when you were TA, that you’d tie me up and quiz me, and whenever I answered right you’d reward me by fingering me or licking me a little bit, until I was too frustrated to focus on the questions. I think your proposal seemed a bit like that fantasy coming true.”
The straps on the wall released, and Mai found her footing again. Her answer seemed solid enough to face the water wall with, so we moved ahead. And to our great relief, there was only one card on the next pedestal. It had accepted Mai’s answer.
> Question for Eva
>
> Why did you join Aiden’s crew?
“This again,” Eva said.
“I don’t think an honest answer is about Henry,” Mai said. “For me, the honest answer had very little to do with anyone else.” She looked at me. “You were a character in the fantasy, yes, but I barely knew you then.”
Eva crumbled the card up. “No. I answered honestly the first time and this system is going to have to wake up to that.” She stepped through the water wall.
Unsurprisingly, the system did not wake up to it. On the other side, we found Eva now fully naked, kicking the wall. On the pedestal was another card asking her the same question again, plus a penalty card.
> Answer was neither open nor honest.
>
> Eva’s arousal has been elevated to the pain threshold.
>
> It will remain there until she answers openly and honestly.
Between kicking and punching the wall, Eva would begin to reach one hand between her legs, catch it with the other, and jump up and down. She was trying with her whole self to resist touching herself.
I peered through the water wall ahead. Two more sections after this. If Eva didn’t answer the question now, and got another penalty, she would be done for. “Help me hold her down,” I said to Mai.
After we pulled Eva to the ground, I wrapped myself around her left leg and held down her left arm. Mai did the same on her right side.
“This is making it worse,” Eva said. “So much worse!”
I stroked her hair to reassure her. “Do you know what it wants you to say?”
“Of course I know! I know!” She thrashed to free herself from our grip.
“Then just let it out. Let it out and you’ll calm down.”
“Fine! I want to be included when Mai has sex. Whoever it’s with. I wanted to go down on her while Henry fucked her. Or with you, I don’t know. I wanted the two of you to use me. I want Mai to play with me.”
As soon as she finished speaking, her breathing slowed, and she sat up. She began to cry. “I didn’t want you to know that, Mai. It’s so weird. I’m sorry.”
Mai embraced Eva, traced calming circles on her back. “It’s okay. So much makes sense now, that you say that. I thought you wanted to humiliate me by taking my boyfriend.”
Eva leaned over and cried harder. “Maybe I did. Because that’s how I felt seeing you together. I’m sorry.”
The rear water wall started moving, encroaching. I said we’d better hurry on.
The maltepe escort bayan question in the next section was posed to Eva, who was still wiping new tears: What had she wanted Mai to do her, specifically? The moderator was relentless. After what she’d just managed to admit, he wanted to know more…
But there was another card. At first it startled me, but it wasn’t a penalty card. It read:
> An opposing crew member’s answer was neither open nor honest.
>
> You may stimulate them through the hole in the wall when the green light is on.
>
> They’ve been waiting ten minutes for you to catch up.
I pointed at the hole under the green light. “It’s our turn now.”
After reading the card, Eva said, “Instead of telling you what I want you to do to me, Mai, I’ll show you. Listen at the wall.” She pushed me out of the way and knelt at the hole. Without the weight her secret, Eva had found a levity, a self-assuredness.
“Oh,” Eva said through the hole. “You’re so wet already. Was it the anticipation? Did you get excited waiting for us?”
We heard Melissa attempt to suppress a sound of pleasure. Henry hadn’t thought to say anything when he was fingering Mai. He thought he could bring Mai to orgasm with mechanical motions alone. But Eva knew how to keep her mind from wandering.
Eva was moving her whole body in the motions, trying different things, gauging Melissa’s reactions. “This spot right here is what does it for you isn’t it? Oh, it is, I can tell by the way you squirm.”
Before thirty seconds had elapsed, we knew what the result would be. There were thumps against the wall as Melissa tried to resist Eva’s stimulation, and the moans were not subtle at all. Judging by the sounds she was making, Melissa reached orgasm twice before the two minutes were up and was on the edge of a third.
When Mai pulled her ear away from the wall, she avoided looking at Eva. “Is that really what you wanted me to do to you?”
“It is,” Eva said.
After their respective confessions, the tension between them had not been resolved. It had only changed. Eva, with her motivations in the open now, had found a new comfort, but Mai was only beginning to reinterpret their relationship history under the light of this new information. She found Eva’s directness unsettling.
The final section was divided in half by a curtain. Instead of a pedestal, there was a marble table with three seats. To the side, there was a wardrobe. The card on the table read:
> Get dressed, take a seat.
Inside the wardrobe we found formal clothes to change into, all black. Eva and Mai chose black dresses and I chose a black suit with black shirt.
Once we’d taken our seats, the curtain opened, revealing a choice. Directly in front of us was Melissa, who had apparently been allowed to redon the short shorts and sports bra she’d been wearing at track practice, restrained to a marble chair. A sign above them read: _Applicant_.
“Melissa,” I said. “I’m surprised. You want to join us?”
Melissa ignored me and addressed Mai. “He only ever talked about you. He’s obsessed. I came here to warn you about who his next recruit will be.”
“Shit,” Mai said.
“So you can guess. He’s probably on his way to the researcher housing right now.”
Mai had an older sister in anthropology research, I knew. Though what significance she had to Henry and Mai’s relationship, I could only guess. In either case, Melissa’s knowledge of Henry could be valuable to us.
Mai stood up. “Let’s finish this now and go up. We need to contact my sister as soon as possible.”
I said, “Do you favor adding her?”
“I don’t care, just choose fast.”
Eva added, “As for me I’ve got no problem with inviting her in.” She said this with the affect of someone offering a mature compromise, but she incompletely concealed another motivation—she could not take her eyes off of Melissa’s chest.
“Melissa?” I said.
She crossed her legs and sighed. “I’m ambivalent about these games. But in a world whose fate depends on them I’d rather be a player.”
I stood. “Welcome to the fight,” I said.
While we ran the researcher housing, I found a new manual and card deck in the suit pocket, this one including Melissa’s stat card.
> Melissa, Level 3 [1.5/8]
> Powers: 220% faster
As we’d guessed, she spent every bonus from the start on speed increase. It was shocking, though, how fast the bonuses accelerated for her at only level 3. The skill tree must reward consistent specialization.
Melissa got there long before us, and we met up with her outside Mai’s sister’s dorm room. Even though Melissa had been banging on the door, no one answered. There were clearly voices inside. Mai banged the door even harder, but still no answer. We discerned the voices of two women, and…Henry.
“Give me all of the xp,” Mai said. She looked like she was preparing to ram herself through the door.
I looked at Eva and Melissa for their opinion, since they were entitled to some of the xp themselves, but they shrugged. Melissa said, “It it were my sister I’d ask for the same.”
After assigning Mai all 1000xp, she reached level 10, and two new choices revealed themselves on the skill tree in the manual. “There’s _multibody level 1 (two bodies) while naked_ again, or _multibody level 3 (four bodies) while aroused and wet, until first orgasm_,” I said.
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