Peering over Ranma's shoulder, Nabiki had him try a few settings to see just what it would take to keep Shampoo human. There were a number of possibilities since the magic was fairly open-ended, like Shampoo changing on a different trigger, developing a pokemon type pet form to replace it, cat-girl or some other competing magic. There just wasn't a single option that directly dealt with the curse, but rather a number of options that could modify it to something more manageable since the big deal about it was in regard to the nekoken. "It seems there are a lot of curse modifying options. I think personally she'd be really cute if she turned into a Clefable instead of a kitten."
Ranma on the other hand proved to be paying quite a bit of attention to the game. "Were-jaguar seemed kinda nice, plus she'd be able to change whenever she wanted. Man, being able to change when you want instead of being splashed would be so cool."
Giggling a bit, Nabiki was glad to have a conspirator on the issue. "Sure, but don't forget you can sub something else in the shifter class. An Espeon shifter would definitely work with her purple color theme."
Shampoo along with the other girls had an inkling of what they were talking about since Nabiki had to talk Ranma into trying various options. "Shampoo is thinking is not liking idea of much changing magic being used on Shampoo."
A bit surprised that Shampoo of all people was objecting to a sexy get-closer-to-Ranma type game, Nabiki looked up at her in mild surprise. "Really? It's not all that different, just try it out."
Frowning a bit at the peer pressure she was experiencing, Shampoo struggled to come up with a proper response. While she knew Ranma wasn't the type, she knew just how she would take advantage of it if their situations were reversed. She wasn't about to say that however, so instead she took out her frustrations on the obvious target of Nabiki. "Hah, you think Shampoo is being trusting of sneaky bunny? Shampoo wait and see sneaky bunny live up to big words."
Staring at Shampoo as she realized just how much trouble this little rebellion could cause, Nabiki found herself in a quandary as the violet haired girl slid the bag containing the remainder of her costume over towards her. Akane being out of the game was expected enough to be acceptable, but to have Shampoo of all people baulk at it meant there was little chance of getting the comparatively shy Ukyou and Kasumi to join.
Shrugging, Nabiki reached over into the bag and withdrew a small metal talisman, a piece of katana grade steel stamped with a tomoe seal. Holding the little treasure up, Nabiki leveled Shampoo and return smirk of confidence. "If you want to give this up, that's fine with me."
Getting up from behind Ranma, she took a few strides over to Akane's abandoned bag. Reaching inside, she spent a moment groping around in the empty bag before pulling out a golden heart pendant on a fine gold chain. "Akane-chan gave up on the maid special, which is of course a Heart of Gold. Something about compassion and inner strength, but what would she care about that when she can accuse Ranma of being a pervert instead?"
Holding her two prizes, Nabiki looked in between Kasumi and Ukyou. Personally she didn't care about the other girls other than giving them a fair shake, but she really did want Kasumi to join her and have some fun. Unfortunately however Kasumi was the most shy about joining and her genie outfit would require a contract she would likely shy from due to the innuendo. Making her decision she sat down with the two girls so they could be on a more even level. "Well, what about you two? It's no big deal if you don't want to play right now. Feel free to wait a few days, you can join just fine later."
Not getting a response either way, Nabiki pulled out the ninjutsu scroll from Ukyou's gift bag and the gold ring from Kasumi's gift bag. Then laying all four items down, Nabiki pushed the golden heart towards Kasumi. "How about a trade sis. Maid is all the stuff you already do, just in a nicer dress. If you feel like being nice to Ranma that's just bonus points for you."
Hesitantly taking the pendant, Kasumi only went so far as to hold it in her hands, causing Nabiki to get a bit exasperated. "Oh go on, you can get a full refund if you're not satisfied. Seriously, if you don't like it you can go back to normal."
Still hesitant to get involved, Kasumi could see how much not being trusted was stressing her little sister, so she bit the bullet and put the pendant on. After waiting a bit however she couldn't note any changes. "Is it supposed to do something?"
Picking up the other three items, Nabiki stood and beckoned Kasumi to follow her over to Ranma. "Of course not, you have the wrong costume on. Just get Ranma to settle on a maid outfit you like and go with it."
Following along, Kasumi peered over Ranma's shoulder at picture of herself in a maid dress that looked far too much like her own daily house-dress for her tastes. Although she wasn't about to voice her concern, she had been expecting something far sexier and risque. "How's this Kasumi? I just put it all into your base stats so you'd be healthier and stuff."
Frowning a bit at the plain knee length skirt and complete lack of cleavage or even bust shown in the outfit, Kasumi tried to salvage some shred of naughty excitement from the situation to fuss over. "Oh, well, do I have to do anything for you?"
Merrily moving along, Ranma brought up the contract screen, showing a distinct lack of contract between them. "Nope, I figured out how to get rid of that for this. It doesn't get as much points, but just being nice to people will earn ya some points."
Squelching the urge to pout, Kasumi realized she'd effectively argued herself into a disturbingly plain situation. "Oh, how thoughtful."
Smirking a bit at the developing situation, Nabiki held her tongue as she figured making Kasumi realize what she was missing would have pretty much the same effect in the long run of getting her out of her rut.
Ranma however was quite happy that he'd accommodated Kasumi so well. "Well, ya ready to give it a try or do ya got something ya wanna change first?"
Kasumi hesitated on making a decision for a moment as she tried to figure out some way of suggesting to Ranma that she wouldn't mind being just a bit sexier or getting a beauty makeover like Nabiki. She could see the little markers for the range Ranma could work with based on her preferences, but it was glaringly apparent that he was picking the most boring options possible. Unfortunately it was difficult to come up with a way of putting it to words that wouldn't sound silly given her earlier objections over propriety. "Oh no, it's okay Ranma-kun. I didn't mean to doubt you. Whatever you want is fine."
Concerns about Kasumi eased, Ranma failed to take the bait to play with her character more, instead confirming the changes. The result was rather mild as her islander outfit glowed and turned into a long sleeved dark green dress with a large white ruffled apron. Combined with the white stockings of her new underwear, the only skin she was showing was above the neck and her hands. It was made of nice material and quite well made, but Kasumi examined the long sleeves with a slight frown despite the efforts to please her. "Would it be alright to make some changes?"
Ranma however took it in stride, readily pointing to her apron. "Just pull out your controller and do whatever ya like with it."
Reaching into her apron and being mildly surprised when she found a cellphone of her own, Kasumi flipped it open and noted the same little RPG style game on it with her character loaded up. While it was nice to be able to make the changes on her own and thus in private, there was something a little disheartening about Ranma pushing her away instead of taking at least a little advantage of the situation.
Smirking a bit as she was the only one to correctly read Kasumi's frustration, Nabiki held up the genie ring triumphantly between two fingers. "Well, now that we have at least three players, I call dibs on the genie ring."
Ukyou however was still a little unsettled at having her ninjutsu scroll taken away, even if she did have misgivings about the game. "Wait, what are you doing sugar?"
The bunny in question merely smiled and put the ring on her finger before proceeding to admire it. "Well, six gifts and three players means two a piece, a nice even split. As for me taking the ring, well I don't see anyone else eagerly stepping forward to take a genie contract." Taking a moment to walk around in front of Ranma, Nabiki ran her hand suggestively along her hip. "Of course myself on the other hand, I'm obligated to provide my dear Master service, so this just means I have a little fun magic to help with that."
As Kasumi joined the other girls in frowning at Nabiki's suggestive nature, the bunny in question shot Ranma a look. Somewhat used to her teasing, Ranma just sighed and okayed the confirmation request on his controller. The change in Nabiki that followed was rather simple as a golden shimmer passed over her body, leaving behind a number of items of gold jewelry. Pausing to admire her new look, Nabiki moved over to a corner of the dojo and uncovered another couple of bags which she perused.
Yet more mystery bags from Nabiki caused the girls a bit of concern, something that Ukyou found herself voicing. "Sugar, this isn't more magic stuff is it?"
Giggling a bit, Nabiki pulled out some brown paper wrapped bundles from one of the bags and threw them at Ukyou and Shampoo. "Oh much worse than that, these are Auntie's party favors. I'm pretty sure those are lingerie, but let's just say you don't wanna see what's in the other bags."
Smirking a bit Nabiki tossed a third package at Akane. "I knew about this, so if you don't want to play the costume game that's fine."
Tossing a last package to Kodachi, Nabiki gave the bags a little frown. "Well, Kasumi and I get left out of Auntie's gifts, though that's to be expected."
Barely managing to open her own package with her restricted wrists, Akane stared at the very skimpy blue lace lingerie inside. "You expect me to wear this?"
Stepping over to look at the outfit herself, Nabiki smirked at the lacy little undergarments. "Oh, you're being punished remember? If you could behave I might let you model it for Ranma."
Staring incredulously between a near transparent negligee and Nabiki, Akane was careful not to hold the items up too high lest Ranma catch a glimpse of the unmentionables. "You think I would wear this?"
The smirk that triumphantly quirked up on Nabiki's face gave her some warning as her older sister gestured at her with her hands. A slight shifting in the make-shift dress she was wearing caused her to look down in time to see the cotton sheet turn into transparent blue silk forming a skimpy harem-girl outfit. Considering her outfit was now a skirt that was little more than a flap of transparent silk front and back that exposed her thighs along with a transparent vest, Akane was happy to have the package of unmentionables in her lap. Well as happy as could be considering that she was once again indecent and bound with magically forged gold jewelry. "So then Akane-chan, you wanna ask our deer sweet Master nicely to be allowed to wear some nice lingerie for him?"
Blushing to the tops of her now veiled breasts, Akane struggled to reign in her outrage as she was obviously not in a position to successfully cause a fuss.
Smiling once again, Nabiki waved her hand up the bound tomboy's body, causing the lingerie to flow over her and change shape, the camisole turning into a blue velvet bustier, while the stockings turned into patterned blue leggings that stretched from thigh to ankle. The panties finished off the outfit while restoring Akane to a minimal level modesty as she twitched her nose at the appearance of the blue silk veil covering her face below her eyes. "There, now you have a complete harem slave-girl outfit without bothering to remove your chains. This magic is just three kinds of fun, isn't it sis?"
Frowning petulantly, Akane had a very simple conclusion about her older sister. "Pervert."
Giggling a bit, Nabiki grinned at her captive little sister. "Please, your standards are so low. Speaking of which, it's time we settle your punishment."
As Akane wasn't feeling particularly talkative, the magical bunny-girl mused thoughtfully while waggling a glowing finger. "I think a nice harem slave-girl contract is in order. The only thing to really haggle over is if say we make it five days plus extra for bad behavior, or just have you pay off your karma so to speak."
Glaring at her sister, Akane tried to look as imposing as a bound harem sex-slave could. "...and what makes you think I'll play along?"
Smirking in mischievous delight, Nabiki waggled her finger, causing Akane's outfit to shift and tighten in distracting ways as her wrists were more securely bound to her side, almost being pulled behind her back. "Oh, that's easy, because I can just do it personally. Then of course it's just whatever I feel like doing, whereas with a contract it's between you and Ranma, plus you can actually get rewards for good behavior that way."
Running a finger between the tomboy's velvet clad breasts, Nabiki suggestively continued the trail down her belly. "I'm being ever so considerate to give you a choice, perverse lil' ol' me, or dear sweet virgin Ranma over there."
Considering the options while simultaneously looking for a way out, Akane didn't particularly like the choices. If it continued as it was, her sister obviously intended to have a lot of fun at her expense. If she took the five days deal, there was no telling how much her sister would extend it. The karma deal on the other hand didn't sound so bad since it wasn't like she'd ever done anything bad to Ranma.
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(Posted Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:33)
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