Nabiki made a quick examination of the other girls. Now that the costume modifications were over most of them looked ill at ease. Kodachi appeared to be fairing the best, with Shampoo not far behind. Akane was too busy sulking to be uncomfortable yet, but Ukyo was radiating enough discomfort for two, she was definitely out of her element...Kasumi was alternating between self-conscious shyness and looking anxiously at Ranma. Ranma himself, lacking the distraction of making modifications, had become tense under her hands again. His eyes were darting to and fro and every time they stopped on one of the girls he tensed a little more. Not good, better get everyone distracted a bit so they have time to settle down. Especially Ranma, we lose him now and the whole plan is toast.
“Alright people now that we've got the basics of the costumes sorted it's time to get on with the rest of the evening. Our primary purpose in being here this evening is to get to know each other and Ranma better, thus I've brought, or thought up, a number of games for us to play. There are no stakes to these games, they are solely to pass the time.” Seeing the looks of relief on everyones faces the bunny-girl couldn't help but smirk. Let them relax, the night isn't over yet. She thought. Turning to the newly minted servant the bunny-girl addressed her. “Kodachi, there is a substantial amount of snack food in the nights supplies. Set it up around the table we used for poker. I will get our first game out.”
Kodachi quickly responded. “Yes mistress.” The miko smoothly glided over to the pile of supplies arranged for their night and began setting the food out for everyone.
Meanwhile Nabiki went to another corner of the dojo to dig through an inconspicuous pile that had previously gone unnoticed.
As soon as the bunny-girl was far enough away Ukyo spoke up.”That smirk gives me a bad feeling about this.” Several heads nodded in agreement, a smirking Nabiki was one of the most dangerous things any of them knew of.
After they had all set down and acquired their own preferred snack food and beverage Nabiki laid out a simple, everyday board game.
Disbelieving things could be so simple Akane quired. “Just a board game? What's the catch?”
Nabiki's answer was quick and reassuring. “No catch, this game is just an icebreaker, unless everyone wants a catch of course...” trailing off the bunny-girl could barely keep from laughing at the quick warding gestures and denials that game her way, even from Kasumi.
After a few rounds of play, and various subjects of small talk, the evenings mastermind reassessed her charges. Good it looks like everyone has relaxed a little, even Ranma has lost his deer-in-headlights look and is even chatting a bit. Time to switch games to something a bit more useful, not to mention entertaining. It should be good for working on the shy ones. “Alright, I think thats about enough for this game, lets move on to something else before it gets boring!” everyone watched, a little bemused, as the all-to-quiet bunny girl suddenly regained her energy, scooped up the game, and went back to her pile of stuff.
“Alright everyone! This next game only requires some paper and pens.” Passing the named objects out to everyone Nabiki starts explaining the game. “This is a game of my own creation I based off of a common party game called Pelmanism. My variation takes advantage of our new costumes and works like this. On each turn one of us will get up and stand in front of everyone for 30 seconds, everyone else but Ranma will then turn away and Ranma will use the phone to change the standing girl and her costume in several ways, temporarily only of course. Some changes will be obvious and some will be subtle. When Ranma is done everyone will turn and face the changed girl, they then have 30 seconds to study her and write down as many changes as they can spot. Every change counts as a point, and every false identification takes a point away. The winner is, of course, the one with the highest ending point value. I will be the first girl to be changed so I can help Ranma get ideas about what kind of things to change. I'll sit out the first few changes as well for the same reason. Once Ranma has the idea I'll sit and play with everyone else. Any questions?” No one spoke up so the bunny-girl said. “Alright lets get started then, everyone ready?”
After receiving positive responses Nabiki held up a stop-watch she had retrieved from her supplies.”Your 30 seconds starts...Now”. Triggering the stopwatch the bunny-girl dropped into a sexy calender-girl pose that showed off her newly improved assets, causing a couple of mild blushes, and one major blush from the rooms sole male occupant. At 30 seconds she announced. “Times up! Everyone turn around!”. After everyone had turned Nabiki started helping Ranma make changes. “Ok, first set this like so so that my appearance reverts a couple of minutes after you change it, we don't want to have to reset everything manually. Now for the obvious changes lets get haircolor and costume color. For some intermediate we can make my gloves fingerless, change my eye color, and I'll wrap my chain in a different way. With subtle we can get sneaker, change my breast size a little bit more, since I doubt they were staring, make the panties just a bit more skimpy, and change the height of my heels. That should be enough for now, this is just an example run after all.” After the changes were made she returned to her spot up front. “Alright, your 30 seconds to turn and look start...now!”
After time was up, everyones cards were compared. Kasumi won, having spotted all the wardrobe changes, and even the increased breast size. Nabiki's costume surprised everyone by resetting while they were tallying up the score. After a quick explanation the bunny-girl called up the next person.
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