Chapter 23
"A bit of music to make everything go smoothly." My lips curled up, as I slouched into the chair with my fingers tightening slightly around the controls. Whatever I was on when making this level definitely resulted in me making this level so tough.
I rolled my eyes back, noticing the mood changing bar on top of their head. Random click couldn’t help me any longer. "Hold on a bit..." I said to myself, loosening up the headphones from my ears. I stood up, walked to the counter for a stretch and a drink.
Gulping two shots of vodka, I could feel sleep dispelling from my eyes and more strength coming in. Tore a bit of paper, just a tiny piece from the counter and grabbed a pen, slide back to my seat once again. The screen was still glowing faintly, the three of them waiting on the bed for me
"Alright... no more freestyle," I muttered.
I slid the small torn piece of paper onto the table, flattening it with my palm. It was rough at the edges, ink stains already smudged across one corner. "Not ideal, but it would do, dude if you were to fuck 3 ladies at once what will you do?"
The pen clicked once, I laughed a bit at wondering what it will be like to fuck three girls at once but then quickly went into focus again. I drew a single dot, paused analyzing who that signified. Liamana, once that sinked it.
I drew two more spacing them enough to form a loose triangle and to add finishing touches on the drawing, I added a bed sketch below the three dots. "Now this look perfect," Gave myself a pat on the back and then tapped the first dot on the paper and then tapped Liamana on the screen actively waiting for me to devour her succubus pussy.
"Liamana."
I scribbled her name beside it in slightly slanted handwriting. Then circled it once.
Next dot. "Garcia."
This time I underlined the name twice, trying to differentiate her traits from Liamana. She wasn’t the proactive one but definitely the eat me raw succubus.
Then the last.
"Marie."
I didn’t circle hers, rather I boxed it. I remembered vividly the place I drew up the character Marie. From an ancient Succubus legend who likes to wait for her turn, loves to ride till her bar drops empty.
Leaning back slightly, I stared at the little diagram like it was a war map. "Three targets," I murmured. "Three problems."
I drew a line from Liamana to Garcia, from Garcia to Marie and finally from Marie back to Liamana, completing the loop.
A triangle closed system in the famous sex game that was released a decade ago. I was so much obsessed with it that I didn’t know I had incorporated it into my own game. I stared at it for a second longer and I almost felt ridiculous. At first, everything made sense but now, probably it doesn’t again.
I traced on the line connecting Liamana to Garcia, glancing briefly at the screen. "Push you too hard..." I muttered under my breath, "...you throw her off." My pen moved to the next line, from Garcia to Marie. "And if she drops... you trigger her."
I doodled on the line a bit to get my brain working again. I tapped the last connection, from Marie back to Liamana, my lips pressing into a thin line. "And you... you punish everything."
Leaning forward again, I added one more note beside the messy triangle.
Cycle. Don’t break the cycle.
Under it, I scribbled another line, Even pacing = survival.
My fingers drummed lightly against the table as I glanced back up at the screen. "Yeah," I said softly, picking up the headset and sliding it fully over my ears this time. "I see you now."
My right hand returned to the controls, firmer than before, as my hands went underneath Liamana’s clothings pulling them off and began playing with her pussy. Her bar rose, just as expected, but this time I didn’t linger so much to give her the satisfaction she wanted but not to short to let her get mad.
I shifted immediately to Garcia, making a quick adjustment, just enough to stabilize her before the drop could kick in. The triangle on the paper as I expected mirrored what was happening on screen.
One to two to three. Rotate. Repeat.
"There we go...That wasn’t so hard after all."
"Stay in rhythm..."
The background music looped again and for once, it actually helped. Everything synced from my inputs, to their responses, to the bars, all started flowing together in a way that felt almost so surreal.
"Yeah..." I whispered, almost impressed. "This is it."
For a moment—just a moment—I was in control before everywhere went pitch black. The lights snapped off without some flickers, plunging the room into sudden darkness. The music cut instantly, and the laptop screen glitched once... twice... before dying completely. Silence followed, thick and immediate.
"...Huh?" I blinked, staring at the now dark screen, my faint reflection staring back at me. I tapped a key. Nothing. Pressed another. Still nothing.
"Don’t do this..." I reached for the power button, pressing it once. "...You’ve got to be kidding me." I yanked one side of the headphones off and looked around the room groaning heavily.
I dragged both my palms down through my face. "Motherfucker." My gaze dropped to the laptop again, irritation settling deep in my chest. "Who doesn’t put his laptop on charge all these while?"
All that setup and planning. Gone, just like that. For a moment, I considered waiting it out. Maybe the power would come back. Maybe I could pick up right where I left off. But then my eyes dropped to the paper still lying on the table.
"I gotta go somewhere tomorrow afternoon it’s already 2am." I muttered, glancing around the dark room like time had just betrayed me.
I exhaled slowly, the irritation fading into something more practical. Clicking my tongue softly, I reached for the paper again, smoothing it out with my fingers.
"Yeah... this will do," I said under my breath.
I folded it carefully this time, sharper, more intentional, then lifted the edge of the laptop and slid it underneath again, making sure it didn’t stick out too much. Hidden, but not lost. I gave the laptop a light tap, almost absentminded.
"Dude better not mess it up before I get back," I added with a faint smirk, and headed straight to the room well after hitting my legs on some piles of drink can on the ground.
*next day*
"Dude, you still sleeping by this time? Did you forget we have to go check out the building across the city?"