Ch.3K: Kelleia's Private Session / Nyse Lagoon

[Legendary Sidekick]

"Sorry about that," says the grace that was enjoying herself moments ago. "I'm Euphrosyne."

The one who escorted you in says, "I'm Aglaia."

The one who escorted Leto enters and says, "I'm Thalia."

Aglaia says, "Seeing that you are one of us, I don't think you'll mind us dressing in front of you."

The Three Graces rise into the air. White, gold, teal and fuchsia ribbons wrap their naked bodies. Soon they are dressed in uniforms: minidresses, visored half helms, thigh high boots and princess gloves—all in white and a different bold color.

Aglaia calls out, "I - am … the GOLD - Nymph Ninja!" She punches, kicks and poses. When she kicks, you can't help but notice she's wearing the strange underwear as seen on Vivi's mannequin.


Thalia shouts, "I - am … the TEAL - Nymph Ninja!" She does a flying spin kick and lands in a pose to Aglaia's right (your left).


Euphrosyne bellows, "I - am … the FUSCIA - Nymph Ninja!" She does a flip jump and punches the ground when she lands beside Aglaia.

The trio speaks in unison: "We - are … the NYMPH NINJAS! Are you ready to be tested?"

 

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Kelleia

Kell takes a deep breath and says, "I suppose so. Let's get started,"


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[Legendary Sidekick]

Aglaia says, "When you have complete control over your urges, you will have control over your mind and body. As a magic user, you already have a mind that is, in many ways, stronger than a human's."

Thalia says, "It's not an insult. Simply a fact. Though I believe you will see what you mean when your huntress friend completes our training. She has a very strong mind—but we're going to help her discover a part of herself she didn't know she had in her."

Euphrosyne says, "You will have a similar experience as well. As a nymph, you understand how your body can be a weapon. We are going to help you control your body in every way." She stretches her leg up over her head. "The flexibility in you has its uses: balancing in an earthquake, fun in the bedroom, diving deep under the sea… and since you intend to do dangerous work, why not use your pretty, flexible leg to kick a dangerous man in the face."

"Or a woman," says Aglaia. "We will be your opponents for now. We will begin by seeing what you can do. Kindly put away any weapons, hang up your purse, and change into the pajamas that have been provided for you. We will wait until you stand on that mat before we begin."

 

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Kelleia

Kell removes her Helix boots and, when the Aqua Scrunchy transforms, puts it in her backpack, which she leans against the wall. Then she removes her baldric and puts that in her backpack, and purse and sets that against the wall near the backpack. Then she dons the pajamas laid out for her. Something about the bottoms reminds her of the pants Wu Chen wore.

Task complete, she stands on the mat and then bows to each of the Graces.


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[Legendary Sidekick]

The Graces return the bow.

Aglaia shows you a proper fighting stance. She instructs you to stand in the same pose. Once you get that right, she has you do some warm up exercises until she's happy with the bounce in your stance and your basic punch and kick.

She says, "I think you're getting the hang of it, but punching the air won't help you catch bad guys for money. Attack me."

((Roll #2d6-1 to punch or kick.))

 

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Kelleia

Regarding Aglaia intently, Kell approaches her, feints a punch, then immediately follows it with a kick.

Kelleia:2D6-1 → 7(4 +4 - 1)#practice 1

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Aglaia takes a kick in the chin, then retaliates with a counterpunch, followed by a three hit combo! The other two graces also hit you a few times each, and you're knocked out cold!

You wake up in the dojo alone. In the next room you hear thumps and bumps and a woman yelling, "Oh!" When you turn toward the door, you see the wall scrolls quake with each bumping sound.

A scroll falls off the wall.

 

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Kelleia

Kell picks up the wall scroll and looks it over.
Kelleia:2D6 → 10(6 +4)#Perception

She wonders if she's supposed to keep it or put it back on the wall. She decides to take a cue from whatever she sees when she studies it.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

The image on the wall scroll is an erotic depiction of three women and a man.

There are other scrolls to your left, and also one on your right.

 

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Kelleia

Feeling tired of the assault on her senses, Kell hangs the scroll back on the wall, turning it over so that its image faces away from her, toward the wall.

'I can't be my best self if I can't keep my mind on my business. In this case, I'd be distracted by distaste or disgust more than lust, but if I can shut out erotic images from my mind when I need to, then I can do so when I'm tempted by something in person, too. Hopefully the Graces will understand that.'

She searches the wall scrolls for others that have erotic images. If she finds any, she turns those to face the wall, too.

Feeling more centered, she settles down to wait for whatever's next.


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[Legendary Sidekick]

The scroll you were looking at was the sixth in a series. You look at as many scrolls as you can stand to.

Spoiler: 1st scroll

A man and a woman walk hand in hand.

Spoiler: 2nd scroll

Three nude woman fondle each other.

Spoiler: 3rd scroll

A man waves; a woman meets three women.

Spoiler: 4th scroll

Four women dance together.

Spoiler: 5th scroll

Three women watch a woman sleep.

Spoiler: 6th scroll

Three women and a man have sex.

Spoiler: 7th scroll

A woman sees three women and a man having sex.

It's been quiet for a little while, but now you hear voices coming from the other room.

Euphrosyne giggles, "You lasted more than ten seconds this time!"

Thalia says, "Yeah, you're improving. Ready for round three."

You hear some heavy breathing drowned out by girlish giggling.

Aglaia moans a sympathetic, "Awwwww… you really are worried about Kell, aren't you? She'll be okay."

 

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Kelleia

Kell smiles softly when she sees the first scroll. That makes me think of me and Vin.

When the sounds come from the other room, she frowns. Why are they letting me even hear that? Don't they have any awareness that others may not really want to hear their personal business?

Then she stops to think a bit. We're supposed to be here to learn to control our desires. When they left me the first time, there were the scrolls to be distracted by. That's visual. Now, I'm getting sounds. That's auditory. Can I shut that out?

And she begins practicing the moves the Graces just showed her, calling out "Aaiyaah!" or "Hu-ahh!" as she kicks and punches. The calls serve as a focus, and soon all she's thinking is Kick. Punch. Punch - kick - kick. Punch - punch - punch. Kick - punch - kick.

I wonder if my next distractions will be smell, touch, or taste? She has hard time imagining a taste distraction related to the pleasures of the flesh. I don't think I want to know. But I'll cross that bridge if and when I get there.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

"Oh… shhhhhit!" says Vin. "She's awake!"

The Three Graces make hushing sounds, then all is silent.

 

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Kelleia

Kell's stomach clenches painfully as she hears first Vin's voice, then those of the Graces shushing him. No! she thinks desperately, He can't have! But then the words of Vivian and the Graces come back to her. He will be entertained. The nymphs will leave him alone. Is that because everyone knew the Graces would be entertaining him?

She continues her punching and kicking, moving more and more frantically. Kick. Punch. Kick - punch - kick. Punch - punch - kick. Kick - punch - punch - kick - punch - kick - punch. Punch - kick - kick - kick -punch - kick - kick - punch - punch - kick.

When the sweat is streaming down her face, she pauses to catch her breath, and walks around the room to cool herself down. Wait. Remember the dream with Zeus? It played on your fears. That's why you're here - to learn how to fight against that. Vin's voice is just a similar sort of attack as the dream with Zeus was. Vin told me it was his intent to wait to engage to this kind of thing until he got married. He said if he ever did, it either wasn't really him or else he wasn't in his right mind. I need to have faith in that. Who knows what tricks these Graces have up their sleeves? Maybe they can mimic Vin's voice. What do you bet he's still asleep in whatever room they left him in?

Feeling cooler from her walk, and calmer for her decision to have faith in Vin, she begins stretching to wrap up her workout. Ahh, that feels good.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

It's just a dream, you tell yourself. Just a dream. You have faith in Vin. You don't go in there.

You keep practicing your attacks as voices come through the door.

"I have to confess," says Vin. Dream Vin. Not your Vin.

"Are you nuts?" Euphrosyne asks him.

No, he's not nuts, you tell yourself. He's not Vin.

 

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Kelleia

Kell pinches herself. This is a dream. It has to be. Maybe when the Graces knocked me out and I thought I woke up, I didn't really and I've been dreaming all of this. MY Vin wouldn't fall to these women this easily.

"Vin, I love you and I trust you," she yells, loudly enough that she hopes they can hear her as she can hear them. "These 'Graces' are trying to trick me, and I'm not having any of it."

Voices of doubt speak at the door of her mind. He barely knows you, why is he going to be faithful? What man will say 'no' when women give themselves away for free?

"NO!" she thunders. And she begins singing a little chorus that Niobe taught her:

"I loved you yesterday -
I love you still.
I always have
I always will."

There's not much more to it than that, but she stays focused on it.

Wake up, WAKE UP!

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Thalia enters the room (still in uniform) with a look of concern. "Hey! No pinching! You'll ruin your skin."

Euphrosyne grumbles, "Way to step out of character, Thalia."

Aglaia shrugs. "She's not falling for it, so what's the point?" She approaches you and smiles. "Oh, it is a dream, Kell. We don't control the contents of the dream."

"You don't trust your own kind," Thalia sighs. "You came here with some fears."

Euphrosyne asks, "What fears did you bring with you? Besides a nymph trying to tempt your boyfriend."

 

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Kelleia

Kell ponders. How much has Aphrodite told these three about the battle between the Immortals? Since I don't know, I'd better not mention that directly. But maybe I can tell my fear without saying why I fear it.

Finally she says, "I'd say I have three fears besides Vin being tempted by a nymph. One is being seduced by Zeus. Aphrodite tells me that he can't seduce me so long as I'm a virgin, and I think the exercise we just did was actually useful with this fear. It made me look at behavior I was being told was Vin's, whose form I'm sure Zeus would probably take, in light of what I know about him instead of the light of the evidence of the immediate circumstances. So I'm actually feeling pretty good about this one."

"The second is giving into what I feel for Vin in a moment of weakness and getting pregnant while I'm a bounty hunter. I do want to have a child one day, just not while I have this job. And if I do give into Vin, it also makes me vulnerable to Zeus' seduction. So that's another reason to fear giving in to what I feel for Vin."

"The other is being forced to live a life where I constantly feel like Aphrodite is trying to control me. But you should know I am supposed to have a talk with her at some point after I finish with you three where I'm hoping she and I can talk about this one."

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Aglaia replies, "Your greatest fear is that you are just as vulnerable as Vin. Someone can use magic or willpower to force lustful feelings that will later become regrets. The victim will blame herself, or himself."

Euphrosyne says, "Whatever you think of Aphrodite and her own weakness regarding temptation, she does approve of nymphs like us who do not force others to desire us. You clearly do not want someone to do this to you or Vin."

Thalia says, "That is one of your strengths. You would not use your power to seduce others and you know the consequences, which affect you as well as others."

Aglaia says, "Your love for Vin and trust in him are your greatest strengths."

Thalia says, "Time for a real lesson. You won't be attacked this time." Thalia cups her hands over your left hand. ((+21 health))

Euphrosa asks, "Are you interested in learning some magic? Having more control over your mind means you can do more than charm animals. You could work your charms on men. Women too. Oh, that can be fun!" She giggles.

Aglaia says, "But you don't want to force your charm on people... though you did fight a battle naked. Hmm..."

Thalia says, "What about the kinds of magic fairies use? Would you rather learn that?"

 

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Kelleia

Kell says, "I didn't enjoy fighting that battle naked, but there were many men present who would have harmed my friends and I. I didn't see fit to let them do that and I figured if my nakedness could keep most of our enemies from hurting us, why not use it? It was about protecting the innocent and those I care for. Where I could never use my nakedness to force someone to desire me is in a personal relationship. The very idea is anathema to me because it would never be about them choosing me for myself. I don't know if any of that helps or makes a difference to you or not."

"Why don't you tell me more about the kinds of magic that fairies use? The only magic they have that I'm aware of is healing, though I think they can do more than just that."


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