At least, that was her plan at the moment.
“Queen” Benadryl had always had an ego, and loved having people bow down before her. Due to the fact that so few people had ever done so willingly, she had become quite proficient in magical transformations that left her victims helplessly in her power.
Since becoming a lich, she had created the expected array of undead minions; zombies, skeletons and the like, but these emotionless servants did little to feed her need to lord it over others.
Yes, the idea of transforming these girls into helpless servitors was very appealing.
However, the madness that accompanied her bungled transformation to lichdom had left Benadryl with somewhat erratic mental processes. In the last hour alone, she had also schemed to transform the girls into:
cuddly little plush dolls to play with
fearsome and bloodthirsty dragons to ravage the countryside
magical clothing, sure to be the talk of the next Mage Fair.
fantastic designer chimera like creations. She is an artiste, after all.
Frighteningly, in her madness she never once realized that her current plan wasn’t the same one she had only minutes before. Worse was when she muddled them together, leading to her occasionally plan for cuddly little plush dragons to ravage the countryside and fearsome and bloodthirsty designer clothing, sure to be the talk of the next Mage Fair.
“Yesssss, my precoiussss. We must get them here…mmmmm… Yesssss.”
Power and Madness. A dangerous combination.
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It had taken a while (and the physical destruction of part of the wall) but finally:
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!” [Trip] *SPLAT*
a somewhat disheveled paladin came to rest on the floor of the room. Almost immediately, she bounced back to her feet.
“Wheeeee I’m free! Thanks guys! I knew you’d come back for me!” Enthusiastically, she hugged each of her friends. When she got to Ranma, he received the same.
“Thanks for helping free me!” she gushed as she hugged him. “I don’t think I could have survived another hour in there. It’s so noble of you to come to my rescue like that. Oh, but we haven’t been introduced. My name’s Sereni, what’s yours? Are you joining our party? Rii is an archer, she's really good and Myna is good with checking for traps and stuff. Mercuria is so smart and Lyta so brave and... Uhm… are you alright?”
Realizing that her rescuer had gone somewhat stiff and now had a blank, glassy-eyed look on his face, she waved her hand in front of his eyes. “Hello?”
“Sereni!” Embarrassed by this display, Rii grabbed the length of chain still locked on the paladin’s wrists and hauled her off to the side. “What happened to your clothes?”
“Hmm? Oh, I lost them while I was escaping from the dungeon. You see the bars were really close together and…”
“Okay, okay, never mind!” Rii interrupted. “But think for once, not everyone is as shameless as you are. You’ve embarrassed the poor man.”
Rii gestured over to Ranma, who still looked a bit dazed. “You need to put some clothes on before greeting people like that.”
“Riiiii…” whined Sereni. “You’re such a prude. You really need to take to heart the teachings of Sune. You should take pride in your body, clothing is only needed for protection, or to help accentuate your beauty.”
"I doubt that’s exactly what the church of Sune teaches, you little exhibitionist." muttered Rii. True, the followers of Sune weren't known for their concealing clothes, but Rii hadn't met any others who shared Sereni's complete lack of physical modesty. Rii remenbered each and every time she had seen the pretty elfgirl naked been embarassed by Sereni's antics.
Myna and Lyta shared an amused look, while Mercuria blushed. This was a familiar scene. The paladin possessed an innate innocence and, apparently, a complete lack of physical modesty. While she observed the proprieties in public (mostly), when she was among friends it rarely occurred to her consider what she might, or might not, be wearing. While this still embarressed Mercuria, Myna and Lyta had gotten used to it. The only on who was still quite bothered by it was Rii (for reasons she refused to conciously consider).
"Anyway," Sereni continued "I don't know where my pack is and I really need to get these chains off first. Besides, what are you getting so worked up about? Myna's not wearing anything either."
"Grrrr... Myna is under a spell, she can't get dressed right now." growled Rii. "And I'm sure you can put at least one of these things on while Myna looks at those locks."
Rii pulled the pack off her back and started pulling clothes out of it.
"Hey! Those are my clothes!" Sereni cried.
Rii rolled her eyes. "Of course they are. I'm sure even you remember that wizard making us hand over our packs. Unlike some people who overpacked for this trip, I didn't have extra clothes and things back at the inn.
"Rii! You're so mean to meeee..."
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