Dalia's Gamble - Part 1

Dalia

I sit in my meditation chamber, it is part of my home I can step to whenever I want, wherever I am, I am sitting on top a soft deep green silk pillow and I am surrounded by mirrors, the room slowly shifts from intense cold to intense heat and back, at times the room become electrified and sparks hit my skin, sometimes winds swirl around me, sometimes hands of force grab me and either hurt me or make me feel pleasure, sometimes the room chamber fills with water. I made it this way to challenge myself to remain focused and learn to better concentrate, so that should I be in a bad situation and have to concentrate to do my magic properly I will not be distracted. I currently feel the combination of intense heat, humidity and electrical sparks sending both painful and pleasurable jolts into me, I am coated in sweat and I can feel droplets of it flow along my skin, the pillow is dripping wet below me and I can feel the mirror it lays on being intensely hot, hot enough to turn the drops of sweat into steam. I push my mind beyond what I feel with my sense and focus inwards on my own magic, the raw power that burns inside me and I try to figure out this new pattern of magic that will give me an even more powerful spell to control the actions of others.

I get paid fairly well by my current employer, the free lands without a ruler, they pay me to use my magic to rehabilitate and punish those who commit crimes, in this place the crimes are only if you initiate the use of force upon another, by either threatening them, hurting them, killing them, or taking some physical property they own, and the punishment is to make the one who did that work to provide restitution for what they did and become a productive member of society. Or in particularly heinous cases to banish them in a permanent fashion. I tend to prefer placing a geas upon those who deserve it, my problem with that is that sometimes its duration is too short, I am working on a permanent geas. I prefer the geas to the mind rape spell though, since with mind rape I would rewrite the person completely to suit my needs, while with the geas they are still themselves, and I prefer they know what they did and why they must follow the geas, though I sometimes use mind rape on those that would otherwise be banished to make them completely new people that will never perform more crimes ever, though that feels almost like I killed them, even if I give them a nice happy memories and make them love their new life, that person who was there is for all intents and purposes destroyed, or corrupted.

I see the new pattern clearly before me, and I also see what I need to do, to make myself able to cast it, but I also know I do not have enough power to achieve that. I feel a wave of disappointment at myself well up from inside me and then I feel how thirsty and hungry I am, how many hours have I been here? Then I feel three sparks hit me at the same time, both my nipples and my clit and I cry out as I lose concentration and I open my eyes and look at myself.

My sweaty vibrantly alive and lightly tanned flawless skin is really shiny, my nipples are perky despite the heat and my breasts that are slightly larger than a large man can hold in his hands heave as I pant to try to recover from the triple spark. My violet eyes are agape and the silvery streaks in my irises sparkle as I gaze at my ruby red hair that is soaked and sticking to my upper arms, back, butt and a loop around my right breast, with some of the loop's tips looking like an octopus grabbing my nipple. My pointy ears poke out from my hair and I caress my hungry belly and down past my shaved pussy to gently rub my clit that is a bit in pain not just pleasure, my middle two fingers slide between my long inner pussy lips and into me and I feel my pussy contractions around my fingers. As I wiggle my toes a drop of sweat drops from them and hisses as it hits the scorching hot mirror floor.

I slowly masturbate and at the same time I try to remember if I know of a way to get more power, and the only fast way that comes to my mind is the creature Xomach, whom I had researched some two hundred years ago, but back then the descriptions of it scared and revolted me.

Xomach according to the various books about it, is a being from another world that crashed onto our own, and now lives in a cave, it has certain rules it goes by that it has set for itself, and also demands it has told to the people of the world, and the people who live nearest the cave have been tasked to fulfil its demands in the exchange of tribute from all other people near and far. Since if the demands are not met Xomach exits its cave and claims all people who have reached sexual maturity before returning to the cave. It is a truly terrifyingly powerful being, that bends reality to its whims, it supposedly looks like a completely confusing mess of tentacles and tendrils and eyes and mouths. The demands are fairly simple, a man and woman must be brought to it every ten years and be its lovers, and food for it and the lovers must be provided, the man and woman have to be beautiful by its standards, and I fit the female description fairly well for what it likes, but it is not picky about colouring, just body shape, curvy but not fat. Its lovers are released after ten years and always have powerful magic ability, Xomach's blessing. It accepts visitors, and likes playing games of various kinds as long as there is gambling involved and what is being being bet by the visitor is something it wants, and it will bet anything it can give in return. Though most people lose to it.

Suddenly it starts raining around me and the water is really cold, though there are some hissing from the mirrors as they are cooled by the falling rain and I cry out as the temperature chock combines with my finger work to send me into a full blown orgasm and I stay in the meditation chamber until the water fills it completely before I step out of it to another of the rooms, though I am still sitting, and I end up sitting on an onyx chair in my dressing room. I use a spell to dry myself off and stand up and I take the bottle standing on the dresser and remove its stopper and pour the amazing moon oil onto my skin and slowly massage it out all over myself and inside myself too, in my ears and nose and both sets of my lips, inside my pussy and ass and making sure I coat each toe and soak my hair in the oil as well and then I sit back down on the now slippery onyx chair and start brushing my hair, the moon oil helps remove all the knots without the hair breaking or getting even slightly damaged, soon enough the oil has soaked into my skin and hair leaving just a beautiful sheen behind and I can feel my scent being really good.

I put on a pair of pink silk and lace panties with pearls decorating them, not super comfortable to sit on, but when standing I like the feeling of the pearls against my skin. I put on a matching bra adjusting it till my nipples end up in the small holes lined with pearls. I put on a short shadow leopard fur vest that I have to pull tight around my breasts to button and it pushes my breasts up a bit, the vest barely goes below my ribs, and I put on a shadow leopard fur skirt as well, going one third down my thigh, I slip into a pair of see through silk and lace stockings with just slightly darker tone than my skin.

I slip my feet into a pair of enchanted crystal high heel shoes, the enchantment makes them feel like walking on clouds, and also the stiletto heels are enchanted with armour piercing and I have trained to be able to hit exactly where I want with kicks with them, and I could pierce the heart of a full plate wearing paladin if needed, and it has happened once already, a hundred years ago give or take a decade or two. I put on a very colourful and slightly insane looking hat of disguise, though I am not using it currently, I just love how crazy it looks. I put on a pair of pink silk gloves that reach half way up my arms and has pearls decorating it, and as a finishing touch I take my ten meter length of pearls and wraps it around my neck several times and I let the ends hang down into my cleavage. I grab a hand fan with erotic motifs on it and I look at my getup, it is a bit of a crazy mix and match but I look hot and wild and I smile at myself in the mirror and then touching it I see the outside world and I move the view slowly across the land, along roads, across bridges, up and down mountains, past hills and plains and finally I reach the crater ridge and down into it and I see the cave opening, I grab the image and toss it out of the mirror and it becomes a gateway and I walk through, and I really hope that my research about Xomach is correct, though I think I can escape back into my home if I need to.

There is a carefully carved sign in the cave entrance wall and I read through it and it confirms some of what I knew and also explains that "if you must try to be a hero and attack me, know that I will destroy you, just like I have all other heroes, but if you come to trade or gamble with me, or visit and bring a gift, I will let you leave alive and healthy, but maybe not as quickly as you would like. Once you enter my domain you surrender yourself to my whims and desires." then there is a long list of the rules that I read through and I look at the threshold and see the place where the rough exterior rock gives way to perfectly carved stone of a kind I have not seen before, it seems to shift under my gaze, in colour, in shape, and translucency, but it looks smooth and maybe wet, the walls show weird and erotic imagery.

I feel both aroused and also a bit revolted at being aroused, by some of the images, when I was younger, the idea of tentacles purely disgusted me, and the very thought of doing anything sexual with anyone I don't love, was completely alien to me, but since then I have used all the tools at my disposal to get what I want, including using my body, giving sex for power or wealth, so what if it is tentacles, they may even hurt less than big hard cocks mercilessly fucking me without any care about how it feels, and I want the power, I can sense Xomach's power from here, it is intoxicating, and terrifying. The rules also seem very fair, and clear at least to me, even if some of the rules are weird, like it will kill you if you attack it, but if you attack one of its lovers it will make you suffer forever in the halls of wailing torments.

I step through and walk along the entrance hall and although I am pretty sure I am walking straight down, my location awareness tells me I am moving in a spiral down, and I cast a glance behind me and I see exactly the same thing I see before me, the sign warned that once one enters one has to meet Xomach before one can leave. I conclude that the space of the hall must be warped somehow, I briefly consider trying to step into my home, but decide against it for now, and I continue on. The air starts having a wonderful and weird scent to it, making me feel a bit intoxicated, but I focus my mind and manage to push the clouding sensations out of my head.

I feel Xomach try to intrude into my mind, I almost did not notice, but as I sense it I can sense it could break through any barrier I could put up, so instead of resisting in an obvious way I create a shallow persona that is believable, and almost identical to myself, and my true self hides behind her, having been in so many minds using the powerful mind rape spell this is not hard for me to do, she knows most of what I do, except for those things I do not yet want to share, and I let her be more affected by the lovely weird scent, while I watch her, and through her enjoy the sensations more.

Xomach goes through her memories and I watch it read her like a book, mostly skipping through pages, stopping to look more carefully at some memories than others, I can tell the purpose, it wants to know her desires, motivations, goals, and all moments where she has felt really good about herself, her triumphs, after it is done it plays these memories as strings of an instrument, while subtly altering the memories as it plays.

I feel really amazing as the memories flood me, they are so vivid and build my feeling of self worth and pleasure and desire, and I hunger for more and I am certain that Xomach can give it to me, and I start to hallucinate with all my senses, walking in a dream world, being drawn deeper faster forward, and before I know it I find myself in a large chamber, made from what looks like living mineral rich stone, and in the centre is a large warm pool, in it I see tentacles and tendrils moving, a beautiful blonde woman and handsome black haired man are making love to the creature, and being made love to, seeing it strangely causes no revulsion at all only desire, I want to feel what she feels and also I desire to make love to both of them, not just Xomach, but I pull the strings of my external self subtly to control my desires.

"Welcome Dalia" thousands of mouths say in a beautiful chorus of voices, male and female and voices that fit neither of those descriptions. Eyes of all kinds I have seen, imagined and never imagined look at me and some of them and tentacles and tendrils surge out of the water near me. "I know you desire our power" the chorus says "I can trade it for you being my lover for ten of your years, or you may gamble with me, know that I will as things are now keep you for a year, but you can win that back, if you bet another year."

I find a pair of eyes that I like and look into them and smile "I would like to gamble, as I can not be gone that long, people need me, what forms of gambling do you accept? Also should I consider you male or female?"

"You can consider me male if you like having sex with males, or female if you like having sex with females or either if you like both" Xomach gazes intently at me for several moments "for the price of one year I will let you leave my cave the same moment as you entered, but for you all the time you spend with me will happen, also know that I will only keep you here, not force you to do anything for that time, but I will also not give you anything unless you do things I desire, no food and no water, unless you exchange that for something I desire." it then points to a small flat table with seats around it, on it sits a deck of cards and two piles of tokens.

"I will consider you male, though I like both males and females..." I say and move over and see that there is a place to sit for me and I take a seat and the tentacles and eyes and mouths surge over to the table and he says "Those tokens each have the stated value for me, and are things you have to offer, these are my tokens, what I can offer you" I can see the tokens have different colours his are made from the same material as the cave, dark mineral rich living stone, looking almost like his own semi translucent black iridescent shimmering tentacles, except there is one token he is keeping that has the same colour as my tokens, that have the colour of my eyes. I think the one he has is that year he says he is going to keep me. I look over the tokens there are several years there, apparently he is willing to keep me for a century, probably since he knows I do not age the same way humans do, there is one token for each item and clothing I have, and then things I will do, strip naked when asked is one token, dance another, sing, let him caress my skin and hair, that I will massage him, kiss him, lick him, suck on him, let him enter me and fuck me orally worth 3 tokens, vaginally worth 5 tokens, anally worth 7 tokens, and finally a token for breeding me worth 20 tokens. The tokens let's him do all of these things as many times as he wants during my stay with him.

I blush and then look up "what things do you offer in return?" I ask and he shows me the tokens he has, basic nourishment, luxury nourishment that requires basic nourishment first, a private place for me to go if I want to, eight tokens of being allowed to be alone for 1 hour each per day of my stay, a token to exit the cave at the moment I entered it, several tokens of learning a detailed answer to some question I have if he knows it, several tokens of gaining some lesser power from him, then a smattering of very specific powers all of those sound like something I would like, there are tokens with higher value than one as well, like the gain greater powers for 10 token value, and finally a very highly valued learn his complete understanding of reality and magic for 1000 tokens.

"I can't possibly get that many tokens to bet for, how would I win that?" I ask and point at the last token.

"All these can become more as needed" he says and points to the several tokens of learning and lesser power and then to my years and then he considers looking at me and adds another two tokens for me worth 10 each and I look at them, the ability to have me perform my services for anyone he pleases and for him to record and broadcast what happens to me and sell the recordings.

I blush at that "also can I exchange tokens if I want? So I get the ones I want from you?"

He considers "I may trade tokens, but unless you want to allow me to trade freely for yours I won't allow that, but the only one I can promise you is that you may trade any of your violet tokens for any of my black tokens and trade them back as well, except for the last year that I will not put into play or trade unless you have all of these tokens that I start with."

"Will I get my items and clothing back as I leave?" I ask.

"No, they are mine if I win them, you may play for them whenever you like though, or trade them with the same rules." he says.

"So how do we play?" I ask looking at the deck of cards.

He uses his tentacles and turns the deck over and slides it out showing all the cards, there are 70 cards of 7 colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet: numbered 1 to 10. "For each game we start with two private cards each, each round a card is placed on the table face up and it is the round card, we may dispose all cards of the same number that we have, and may ask for another card from the deck, the goal is to reach 17 combined value with our private cards and the round card if anyone does they win the game on that round, when the cards of the deck are used up we all have to reveal our cards and then the one with a value closest but below or equal to 17 wins. Should a draw occur all cards except the round card are put back into the deck and it is reshuffled and we each draw a card, and whomever gets the same value of the round card first wins, this is repeated again if we get a draw. Also after you see your private cards it costs a token to participate in the game, and we can bet after we draw cards and we must match the other's bet or fold. We can offer or ask for something that is not among the tokens from each other in exchange for a token value if we want, and we may accept or decline. Also I do promise I will not be able to cheat as you see these cards are protected from scrying magic and I will shuffle the deck first, then let you shuffle it and then I will cut it and you cut it before one of us deals."

I listen intently and then I nod "I have a spell for shuffling cards" I draw its spell form out in the air "it channels the true power of chaos to completely transpose the cards, is it ok if I use it?" and he looks at the spell form "I will use that too, and yes that is ok, two hits of that on the deck should be all we need, no cutting required unless you want to." I giggle "no I don't think it is needed either."

He gathers the cards up and uses the spell and I use it and then he says "you take your cards then I take mine, next round we do opposite order." I nod at that as it simplifies the game and I take my two cards. He takes his and then takes a third card and places it on the table face up.

I have Yellow 8 and Violet 2, the round card is green 8, I consider maybe tossing my 8, but it is very unlikely that I will get too high a number, even if I currently have one higher than 17. I look at Xomach who I utterly fail to read his expression, though his mouths and eyes do move, I just can't tell what most of that means. He puts the cards face down next to each other on the table and I do the same as I can remember them. I look at my tokens and consider I then put my hand fan token as my ante for the round. Xomach smiles and puts the basic nourishment token up, then I consider a bit more and take a another card. Yellow 10, fuck I am well over 17 now with just the cards on my hand, however I smile "just a question for clarification, can one discard a card after drawing or just before? Oh and another one, if I were to bet an item of clothing or such do I have to give that up after I lose the token or after we are done playing?"

Xomach smiles with many mouths "first discard, then draw, and we can cash in the tokens whenever we want, so while we are playing" he says and looks at the deck of cards while I put the card down on the table face down, he then looks into my eyes, I decide to bet more to maybe make him desire to fold, though I think it might be risky. I put up my panties, bra, vest, skirt, stockings, gloves and pearls, all of those are easy to replace for me, my heels and hat though are magical and I do not want to lose them, I also add the strip token to the bet, as I am going to be naked anyway after this if I lose. "I bet eight." I say.

His gaze gets more intense and many of the pupils narrow, however to his credit he is not touching my mind, he could easily read what I saw from my mind, but he must like actually gambling. He puts up luxury nourishment, detailed answer, lesser power, regeneration power, spider climb power, water walking power, water breathing, feather falling power. "I see your eight" He then pauses and adds succubus supernatural beauty, charm and pleasuring power and succubus ability to draw life force when making love and exit the cave the moment after I entered "and raise you three on top."

I bite my lip a bit and then add sing, dance, and another year to the pot. I don't want to give up actually getting physical with him too soon. Several of the mouths smile and in the background I hear the male lover groan out as he cums and the female lover cries out as another orgasm hits her, very distracting sounds, but I manage to remain focused, even though my pussy gets more wet.

"I will not raise more, will you?" Xomach says and I shake my head, he draws another card from the deck and places it over the previous round card Green 3.

Xomach looks at me and then grabs another lesser power token and places it as his ante for the round.

I feel my nipples go hard between the pearls of my bra as I feel very nervous about this, but I have a lot riding already so I add another year.

Xomach smiles wider and adds meta magical quicken power to the pile. That is crazy powerful and he adds meta magical silent and still spell powers to the pile as well. "I bet three."

I blush a bit and a crazy thought comes over me and I place the token worth ten that let's him record and broadcast and sell recordings, and three more years on the pile and smile. "I see your three and raise you ten." I don't show it but I feel dizzy at the idea of having to stay here six years.

Continuned in Part 2...