It happens to be a very rare thing to witness when Alison gets excited about somthing. Fineas had tried many times before to convince her to play D&D with him with no success. She'd roll those deep brown eyes at him and instantly begin the name calling. Now those same brown eyes are affixed on the battle map covered in dice and tiny sculptures of devils and heroes. The other players were just as excited but their experience tempered it somewhat. Even they weren't prepared for the words they were going to hear.
"Rogar, rolling a 19 with rice to disarm traps, stands up with a smile stretched across his draconic visage, confident that this trap is 100% disarmed. He takes a step and immediately trips another. A trap door in the ceiling opens and you can all hear a wet, sickening schloorp as a Gelatinous Cube falls behind you and beings advancing. That's where we'll pick up next week!"
These cliffhangers were nothing new to the others. Alison, however, had grown weary of them.
"Oh no ya don't," she began. "We're so close to the end! I can feel it!"
"Your paladin doesn't know that and neither do you. Now, I suggest that if-"
"I suggest that we keep playing so we can find out!"
Finneas sighed. Every session since they started has ended with begging and pleading to continue rolling dice. Its frequency was beginning to wear on him despite his seemingly endless patience. Something had to be done.
"Alison?" Her name drowned under the weight of her arguments so he tried again. "Alison, I need you to pay attention to me." It was no use... Time for the bigger guns.
Finn caressed Alison's cheek and slowly dragged his fingers to the nape of her neck where they stayed. Immediately her eyes were as wide as her mouth no longer was. Now he had her attention.
"Now that I've managed to help you focus, Lass, I believe it's time for a little chat."
Alison looked around for aid from the other players. They had already returned to their corners of the building and said their goodnights. Finneas continued,
"If you're so eager to continue playing, maybe you should go wait for me in our private gameroom."
The stuttering was a clear sign that Alison knew exactly what she was in for. Finn sealed her fate with an all too familiar smirk. "Yes, Sir..." was her only response before heading downstairs.
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For the first night in a month, Finn was able to clean off the game table in peace. Tankards half full of ale and plates filled with the remnants of a meal found their way to the sink and Finneas found his way to the basement door. As he entered the space, he found his Lass right where he expected her: in the center of the room, kneeling on a pillow with her upturned palms on her knee, a white collar around her neck and her eyes pointed to the floor. The only sound to leave her mouth was "Hello, Sir."
"Hello, Lass. You've made it *quite* clear that your capacity for playing D&D is the furthest thing from exhausted. I'm curious to see exactly how long this tenacity will hold for. Are you ready to begin?"
Alison nodded and responded, "Yes, Sir..."
"Fantastic," Finn exclaimed, "I've brought you a gift!" He placed a pencil, a small black sack and a character sheet on the small table before his rambunctious paladin. "Go ahead. 4d6. Drop the lowest."
Finneas sat in his leather armchair and let his eyes wander as Alison retrieved the dice from the small velvet bag. He was lucky to convince his roommates to let him completely take over the fairly spacious basement. The cross sat far enough away from the rack and the suspension rig to give room enough for swinging. The two stockades in the corner sat on wheels for convenience sake. The sound of dice falling and pencils scribbling faded and Finneas called his Lass over.
She handed him the paper and Finn chuckled. Alison rolled shit stats but managed to sink a 17 into Constitution. In total silence, he stood up, placed the character sheet on a coffee table and blindfolded the nearly naked woman that stood before him. "Humans don't get Darkvision."
Finn then led her by the hand to another corner of the playroom. In complete darkness, she could feel braided rope drag across her wrist and tighten. Her arm bowed to a will of another and crossed her chest. Her other arm bent and pressed against her back. The rope enveloped her completely and Finn spoke in a tone unfamiliar to these walls.
"It's completely dark when you come to. The only things you can recall are snippets... A fight...in a cave maybe... As you assess your current situation, you are nude and being bound in some kind of webbing. You feel poking and prodding all over your body..."
Finn look a bamboo rod and dug the tip into her side. And then her shoulder... Moving around and poking as he goes.
"Oh good, you're awake. No use in struggling, you'll only make the spiders frustrated and testy. The High Priestess instructed me to break the survivors before we put you to your task. I've gotten through the first six of ya faster than I've expected. If I can keep this up I can go home early today. Let's get started!"
Finneas grabbed his Lass and stood her up, spun her a bit, and left her to stand alone in the Drow infested caverns of her mind. A few moments of solitude pass before a quick swat on the ass. "Walk."
Alison pushed a toe forward into the darkness and inched ahead to the solid ground she discovered. The voice in the darkness bellowed, "get a move on!" Another swat on the ass coaxed some more speed from Alison. She found her way to somthing cold and flat and felt a tug from above. "Get ready luv. This shouldn't take long."
Alison felt her feet slowly leave the ground. The ropes dug into her skin under her pressure. Rough hands pried her knees apart and placed them on either side of that cold and flat sensation she felt just a moment before. Alison was lowered just enough to stand on her toes or rest her whole weight on the mystery object she was currently straddling. "Sir? What am I sitting on?"
Finneas smiled and placed 2d20 in her hand, "Roll Perception. With disadvantage." She let them fall to the ground and prayed that her +1 WIS bonus would be enough. Finn's voice sliced through her mind's racing thoughts,
"Lucky! That's a 19. You know that there is a very common Drow torture device called Sybian's Steed. Even rolling a 19 you're not 100% certain but it's your best guess."
A gasp escaped Alison's lips faster than her knees could respond to the sudden quaking between her legs. The silicone shivering against her sent lightning up her spine prompting her to stand up best she could. Finneas regained his Drow persona with a smile.
"Ok, Lass, I'm gonna ask you a couple questions and I'm gonna give you a damn good reason to answer them to the best of your ability. The trick is to get you to talk before you become a whimpering human cumslut. I haven't quite got it right just yet, but you happen to be lucky number seven. So, where are you people hiding the Fangs of Lolth?"
Finn pulled a lever and the the sybian rose to almost meet Alison's crotch. She strained to keep herself as far away from the vibrating beneath her. "You'll have more luck asking my corpse," she replied. "Is that so?"
A sharp sting flew across her rear. Even under the blindfold, Alison's eyes widened as the pain buckled her knees. She fell onto the humming device underneath her and the vibrations filled her with an overwhelming bliss before the paladin pulled herself up again. Alison felt dice in her hands once again. "Roll a CON save for me, Lass."
Finneas watched the die be cast and rest on 10... Good news for him, not so much for Alison. "Hmmm, a 13 isn't gonna do it for ya," Fin joked as he pulled that lever one more time, closing the gap between his prisoner and the pulsating machine. It was everything Alison could do to keep from resting on the sybian. "Let's give you a few minutes of that and see if it loosens your jaw"