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Invitation to the World of Nymphs

"Is it too childish?" That had been a common concern amongst the fans of modern virtual reality gaming ever since the brand-new MMORPG Nymphsaga was announced to the world. The new adventure game made and designed by a global gaming giant "Mormia Studios" had become famous even before its release, and the debate that is happening online is hotter than ever on the eve of its release. It's not all just criticism, as the game has gained massive support from some communities as well, thanks to its bold stance on playable characters, who all seem to be little children. Because of this, it was quite clear to everyone, believers and skeptics alike, that this game would not be for everyone.


The game was heavily inspired by its much more popular "Big Brother" in "Mormia Online", which had been dominating the virtual reality gaming and roleplaying scene for over ten years. Nymphsaga's plot was expected to be much simpler, and its setting smaller in scale than the absurdly massive sandbox that is Mormia, where you've got all kinds of content from massive raids to player versus player. The story - the details of which were meant to be left as a surprise - was about a struggle for survival, told from the standpoint of Nymphs, a race of childlike creatures resembling fairies, against whatever dangers they would discover in the world of Phantasm. The game was also promised to juggle around - and be a testing ground for - new kinds of game mechanics that tie every individual's actions to the entire greater player base around them. For example, when a player completes a significant task - or fails in the same task - the whole player base would feel its results. Killing a raid boss will result in the raid boss staying dead for a very, very long time, if not even indefinitely, but that's just one example.


Its most significant differences to its predecessor, however, were in how the abilities worked. The highly intelligent "Ability-assistant Software" - popularized by "Mormia Online" - that helps players perform abilities without training had been completely removed in favor of a system where players literally will have to learn to move their bodies to perform abilities. They could no longer rely on a system that would automatically enhance and automate their bodily movements to help combat, a system that could, in theory, turn even an amateur into a master swordsman. The abilities the players would have would be a little more powerful but much fewer in numbers, putting a great emphasis on raw talent and training. Other quality of life features like an optional, temporary third-person camera would completely be removed as well. The skill-cap was meant to be much higher, all this considered.


After years' worth of closed development, the game was finally reaching its next logical stage with the beginning of its closed alpha test. To get to test it early was a privilege meant for a lucky few, with only about one percent of the applicants being allowed in, either by chance of lottery, with chances increased for those who had loyally been playing "Mormia Online" and reaped success and rewards within it. Amongst them was a middle-aged lad from rural southern Ireland, about to take his first step into this new and exciting world as one of the lucky ones.


He didn't have to face a new and exciting world alone either and had the pleasure of exploring the new game with two of his old mates from the Guild, and his excitement to meet them online was palpable. His friends - One living in Stockholm, Sweden, and another in Kyoto, Japan - were meant to meet him as soon as the game launched. They even knew where they would meet, as the map of the starting zone with all its services and facilities had been available for the public for a long time. Having already created his avatar, he was pretty much ready to go as soon as the servers went online, and so were the pals he was going to play with. Thus, these three friends in all of their respective locations put on their new, upgraded VR headsets, turned on the power, and then, as the servers finally went online, dove into the world of Nymphsaga.



A strange sensation fills the body of our young hero, a feeling one would perhaps compare to a sudden awakening from a long, long slumber. He finds himself wide awake as if snapping out of a nightmare, in a standing position, with sounds and a pleasant scent of nature invading his senses. A calm wind strokes his hair, and he takes a deep breath. He takes it all in. It feels nothing like the game he was used to playing in the past. Of course, Mormia looks realistic, and it even manages to mimic some senses a real person would feel in the real world, but what he feels in Nymphsaga brings the realism to a completely different level, so much so that it doesn't just feel like ten years of development. No, this feels more like a leap of ten decades forward to him. There's just no way a videogame can feel this realistic, or so he thinks. It's like I'm still in the real world.


It's not just the physical sensations he feels, but there's also the psychological aspect. Despite liking the feeling of freshness, the absolute joy of experiencing something brand new and exciting firsthand, he's not the type to create many characters in the games he plays. "Alts" are not his thing as he likes to stick to just one for each game. That's why everything feels even more so exciting to him. He's a level one character in a completely new and unknown world, with almost all its secrets still left to be discovered. Only one thing remains the same, and that is his played role. He really, REALLY likes massive swords and watching heads roll. That is something that is never ever going to change. That's why he picked his class to be a Soldier.


He's an adult man in real life, and he has always played an adult male character, so his avatar in Nymphsaga is a "first time ever" for him in two respects. Most obviously, he is going to be a child, just like everyone else, but to top it off, he decided to make his character a female for his alpha test. He didn't think that it would matter a whole lot, given that his avatar in the alpha test would only be a temporary vessel for him to inhabit before the eventual full launch of the game.


His avatar is a pale girl with a short and petite body. Standing at the height of 130 centimeters (About 4'2" feet for my American friends), which is meant to be average for a Nymph, the avatar's body comes with a flat chest and surprisingly plump, juicy hips and buttocks … or, plump for a child anyway. She's packing a lot of meat in her hips - at least for a child - which is by no means a negative thing, as the man inside this avatar is a devout ass man. She also has short yet pointy elf-ears, which were an option for everyone, but weren't meant to be a norm. An unnaturally fiery redhead with long lair reaching all the way to the bottom of her ribcage has been braided masterfully into two trails, and to spice things up a little bit, he mixed some of his real-life features to his character as well. She wears glasses, as he wears in real life, and he added some freckles on her cheeks as well. In fact, his character kind of looks like what he would've expected himself to look like during his childhood, should he have been born a female. As for her large and tired-looking shy eyes, they are rather unique. They're very dark, almost black, and her irises are shaped like cogwheels. Her clothing is rather modest and nerdy, yet very girly. She has a plain white hoodie with a pull-up zipper covering her entire upper body well, a cute black mini skirt, and black and white striped knee-socks. Her plain white casual shoes finish up her outfit.


He, or as his avatar a she, pulls the cross-shaped zipper down, to his surprise finding nothing but an uncensored bare chest of a little girl underneath. There are no undergarments, no sports bra, nothing at all; just a bare, flat chest. He stares down and stands still in surprise, with wild thoughts running through his mind. I knew this game is not suitable for minors, but seriously, what the fuck!? A child's bare chest!? I was expecting unremovable underwear or something! Isn't this shit illegal in some countries this game is marketed in?


Truthfully though, it's not like he minds. He likes his anime girls young. He's not quite an anime girl per se, as everything about him feels way more refined, realistic, and detailed, but it's not like his tastes don't overlap a little with reality. A thought crosses his mind, a question arises from his curious mind; If her chest is like that, then how about the rest of her body? Is everything uncensored? Even genitals!? Could she even be able to get completely naked!?


A curious thought indeed, as he has never seen an actual, naked prepubescent girl with his own bare eyes.


He looks around, finally observing the world around his avatar carefully, noticing his quiet solitude. As interested as he is in watching what the world around him looks like, with nobody else around, his immediate thoughts are in his body and testing how far he can strip his avatar down. He finds the first hidden place he can find amongst the bushes, and there, slowly, he reaches the tiny hand between his avatar's legs. Underneath the avatar's silky underwear, there is a soft vulva of a female, warm to touch even with a thin fabric of luxurious panties in between the skins. No way, is his first immediate thought.


Mormia Online is a censored game with no genitals or no removable underwear, suitable even for young teenagers to play. Nymphsaga seems to be nothing like that, as it's one hundred percent uncensored on top of being incredibly realistic. This wasn't something that was advertised. While he expects his games to be somewhat realistic, what he is experiencing right now is not what he expected. Feeling even the hastened heartbeat of his avatar, he pulls down the zipper of his hoodie completely, but that's where he stops. How far is he truly willing to take this? Is the game this realistic? he wonders. I'm basically a real girl.


Fearing being discovered and realizing he has two people he's supposed to meet, he quickly pulls the zipper back up and readjusts his pose. With his heart still running a marathon and his face feeling like a million degrees, he nervously decides that such intimate discoveries are better saved for another time and place.


So, he needs to find his friends, but there comes his first real problem. Where is he? This, of course, is an easy question to answer. All he has to do is open up the user interface, which is not a difficult feat to accomplish. As he's used to, the interface can be opened with a long, horizontal swipe of the hand. The player needs to remember that the fingers must be pressed together, or else the player may risk looking like a fool swinging their arm aimlessly.


A holographic screen - about the size of a fifty-inch television - appears in front of him. The main page of this interface is always a map with various other options to pick underneath under small icons. The map can be zoomed in and out and works pretty much like a smartphone's touch screen. He quickly figures out his location and heads towards the place where he's scheduled to meet with his close friends.


Along the walk, he finally observes what the world around him looks like close by. It's green. In fact, it's way greener than he ever expected it to be. He's surrounded by bushes, grass, and trees, a lot of trees, some of which are really far apart from each other. Despite the distances between them, some of the trees are huge and absolutely gorgeous. Their long branches, along with the millions upon millions of leaves, offer a breathtaking blanket above the forest floor. He can't see the sun from where he stands, but its rays touch the entire forest from the gaps of the forest's roof. He's a man who travels a lot because of his work, and he's been to Northern California once, but these trees are nothing like the redwood he's seen live. These resemble the woodlands of central Europe more, but everything is much grander in scale. This is Grove, the starting zone of Nymphsaga, the last remaining safe bastion of Nymphs in this game … supposedly anyway. It really is just a huge forest. Based on pictures he remembers seeing online, most of the houses outside the central district resemble treehouses and are either entirely or partially built inside these trees. He can actually see some of the houses from where he currently stands, but the area he's in seems to be very sparsely populated.


He comes across even more wonderous surprises in the forest. There is food. Freaking. Everywhere. Berries, fruits, and vegetables, you name it. There are no animals for some reason, though, aside from very much inedible massive insects flying around. Food is growing everywhere, and it's all ripe for the picking. Then, there is the issue of players. He walks by some of them, who are probably looking around themselves or moving towards a place they're supposed to meet their friends themselves. He can't help but notice once he has walked past the seventh player that there is one very important feature that they all share. They are all girls. Are female avatars really that popular as opposed to male ones? There's no way that can be the case, right? After all, in Mormia, there's pretty much a 50/50 split.


He crosses a bridge and heads towards a park, which sounds rather silly when you think about it. A park in a middle of a forest? What's the point of that? Anyway, he finds the park to be very well kept and organized. He heads towards the center of the park, towards a large fountain, and from there precisely two hundred meters to the north. Since he and his friends suspected the park might be a popular destination to meet, they decided to meet on the left side of the road by the closest tree you can find to avoid getting mixed up with other players. He sees the place completely empty, double-checks the map, and is sure he made no mistake during his walk. Therefore, he must've been the first to arrive. He leans his back against the tree and waits patiently.



It is important to point out the name of his avatar. She is called Rain and is the shortened version of his character in Mormia, Rainmaker. It is also at this point that for the sake of avoiding confusion, I will start referring to him as a "she", as he is a "she" in-game. This rule, or one like it, will also loosely apply to other characters going forward as well.


Eyes closed, Rain continues to enjoy the sounds of nature and the occasional cute, soft-spoken voices of the players passing by. It has been ten minutes already. Mixed into the sounds of the forest is a set of little feet, which slowly approach our Irish heroine. Rain opens her eyes and sees a confused-looking girl of mixed Asian heritage staring back.


"You're late", Rain says, sounding bored.


"Come on, I had a long walk", the girl says and sighs, exhausted. "In any case, I see it happened to you too."

"What happened?" Rain asks, leaning forward as she decides to stand firm without the support of the tree against her back.


"I'm a girl!" the girl replies in a loud voice.


"Wait…" Rain mumbles and continues to look at the girl with a bored look in her eyes. "Is this some kinda roleplay? I can obviously see you're a girl."


"Are you kidding me? I made a male character! Didn't you?"


Rain's expression remains unchanged, but she falls silent as her mouth opens ever so slightly in surprise. She can't even muster up the courage to let out one single syllable. In a moment of slight embarrassment, she does her best to keep her lips at bay to not show the smiling arc on her face. "No…" she finally says. "This is the character I made…"


"You were a girl from a beginning?" the girl says and begins to laugh. "Fucking weirdo."


"Oh, fuck you too", Rain says, still borderline emotionless. This is a theme for her going forward. She is a foul-mouthed, poker-faced joker with an unquenchable lust for banter and jest. While she can make fun of absolutely anything, even the things that some would find inappropriate, she doesn't convey a lot of emotion through her facial expressions. She's not a mean girl, though, although she's often mistaken for a jerk. Her soft-spoken voice, spoken with a noticeable Irish accent, also mirrors this general lack of emotion.


Speaking of how she acts, the girl of mixed Asian heritage is like the polar opposite of Rain. She's rather loud and expressive, but only when it comes to her speaking. The movements of her body and hands are surprisingly collected, even elegant. The only thing that seems to be slowing her naturally enthusiastic self down is her new, cute, and high-pitch voice, which appears to be disturbing her somewhat. This girl is called Wendy, but Rain doesn't know this yet. The avatar's name can be found on the top of the map, and Wendy saw it by accident while scrolling around the map after he calmed down from the initial surprise of having his avatar turned into a girl.


"So, you got turned into a girl then?" Rain asks.


"Yeah…" Wendy responds meekly, pouting. She sees a forced, boisterous smile on the face of Rain, who is faking laughter. "Yeah, you know what? Fuck you. This isn't funny."


"Actually, it is."


"You fucking leprechaun bastard."


"Shut up, Godzilla."


Rain manages to catch a good glimpse of the girl standing in front of her. Wendy is Rain's friend from Japan in real life, and although they like to talk trash and insult each other, they're irreplaceable friends. Her body is almost identical to that of Rain, only a couple of centimeters shorter. As stated before, she seems to be Asian in her complexion, and therefore her skin tone is a little bit darker than that of the pale-skinned Rain. Even she's still pale for an Asian, which is proof of her mixed heritage. Unlike Rain, who has her abnormal eyes and ears, Wendy looks like a normal human female. The only thing unusual about her ocean blue eyes, which are not typical for Asians. Her hair is jet-black, straight and smooth, and long enough to reach her hips. She has her hair tied to twin tails with a pair of seemingly invisible elastic hair ties. She has a skintight sleeveless black shirt on, which barely covers her belly button, and she's wearing blue and short ripped jean shorts. Her shoes are almost identical to those that Rain has, but her socks are much shorter.


"What are you looking at anyway?" Wendy asks.


"Oh, I was just thinking that you're like, super cute."


"Are you trying to annoy me on purpose?"


"No, I'm trying to encourage you to look positively."


"Easy for you to say, mister I'm going to play as a loli."


"Oh, you. Anyway, what should I call you?"


"What's wrong with calling me Kensuke, as you always do?"


"No way. That's a boy's name."


"I'm not telling you the name this stupid game gave me."


Rain raises her fist and says: "On a count of three." Wendy knows what's up. They're playing rock paper scissors, and Wendy is up for a challenge. Rain ends up winning with a paper, though. "Yay, I won."


"It's Wendy…"


"Nice to meet you, Wendy", Rain says and offers her hand to her friend. "I'm Rain."


"Oh, it's similar to your actual player name." On the corner of her eyes, Wendy sees someone approach them. It's a third girl. "Oh, you got turned into a girl too?"


"Yeah…" she says. "What a nightmare…"


"So, what's your name?" Rain asks.


"Come on now…" the girl says. "You know it's Sven."


"This motherfucker forced me to tell him my avatar's name", Wendy complains aloud.


"I didn't force you to do shite, Wendy."


"Yes, you did!"


"No, I just wanted to play a game of rock paper scissors."


The girl named "Sven" is the last person in this trio of close friends, and her avatar's name is Angel. Her body is a little bit different from that of Rain and Wendy. She is the tallest of the three, but not by a large margin. She actually has breasts, tiny as they may be, but barely there, they are budding and therefore exist. She's a blond with long, straight hair, which she prefers to keep open. Like Rain, she has pointy ears, but these are even longer and pointier. Her green eyes are very much normal, though. Now, to her clothes, which she only has one major piece of. She is wearing a creamy white dress closely resembling a cheongsam, a traditional body-hugging Chinese dress. Where it differs from a typical one is that it doesn't have the trademark high collar. She's also wearing long, white boots and knee socks of the same color. "Don't laugh, but it's Angel…" she finally responds. She's is overall a very quiet and timid girl. Her demeanor is closeted, shy, and overall lacks confidence. She tends to drop her guard and act very cheerful around her close friends, and she even has a fierce side to her. "I don't like this… I can't accept this as me… I just want to log out…"


"Don't be boring", Rain says. "We have only started."


"Yeah, I mean, this is just an alpha test", Wendy says, trying to reason with Angel, who looks very sad and upset. "I don't like this either, but it's not THAT big of a deal, right?"


"Besides, you're cute too", Rain says. Her words make Angel blush in embarrassment and render her unable to speak anything in return.


"Way to read the mood, Rain", Wendy scolds. "I swear to god, you're the most insensitive person I know."


"I'm actually very sensitive, in more ways than one", Rain jokingly says. "Anyway. Where to, boss?"


As "Boss", Rain refers to Wendy, who happens to be one of the high-ranking officers in the guild they're from. On the other hand, Rain and Angel are just simple "raiders", and both of them hate organizing things in general or lack the qualities suitable for leadership.


"Oh, let's head to the outskirts to try out our powers as we wait for the first quest", Wendy suggests. "Speaking of which, what kind of classes do you guys plan on playing? I'm a Ranger, and I wanna try dual-wielding guns."


Rain introduces herself as a Soldier, while Angel keeps pouting as the three girls start walking ahead. "Cheer up already, will you?" Rain says, sincerely trying to cheer Angel up.


"I'm a Caster…" Angel finally says. "I want to be a hybrid between a spellcaster and a healer."


Wendy smiles happily. "Great. This should be a good party then, provided that Rain actually tanks for us."


Rain thinks about Wendy's suggestion for a minute. "Well, it's not what I had in mind, but I guess I am de facto tank of the party." Rain stops suddenly and realizes something crucial. "Where are our weapons though? We don't seem to have any."


Rain opens up her game menu and picks the inventory. Instead of finding weapons there, a new option appears. She can actually pick her starting weapon from multiple existing choices. They are all similar in stats and range from swords to maces, from axes to staves, available in both shorter and longer versions. The options seem to be all suited for a melee combat role. There are only three classes in the game, which then can be customized later in-game, presumably. For example, leather-clad sneaky assassin and plate-wearing sword and board warrior would both fall under the same class banner of a Soldier. On that note, Rain realizes that shields do not seem to exist in this game, not that it matters to her a lot. She picks up a massive sword, a weapon she's the most familiar with, just as she had planned.


By the time Rain gets a hold of her new weapon, Wendy and Angel both seem to have figured out how they can get a hold of their respective weapons as well. Like Wendy said, she decides to pick up a pair of pistols, which feel futuristic and highly out of place in this forest full of treehouses and flowers. Despite being a high-fantasy game, there is a science fiction element to Nymphsaga, and this is the first solid proof of that. And lastly, Angel decides to pick a simple staff, only to find out she has one more choice to make. The game won't just give her a set of spells, and it wants her to choose her starting spell-set. To do this, she must choose a "Spell Crystal", which will unlock one element for her to use. She chooses a Holy Crystal, as it can be used for healing.


Next, all three move onto their spell books, all of which appear almost empty. There really are just a handful of abilities. For Rain and Wendy, those abilities don't even deal damage but rather just add a multiplier and extra properties to standard weapon swings, or in Wendy's case, shots. For Angel, things are almost the same since the spells have to deal a set amount of damage to function properly. Fitting to her name, Angel only has holy spells in her arsenal, which is about as large as Rain's and Wendy's arsenals combined.


Next up, talent trees. Wendy is the first to get there, but he can't open it since the option is greyed out. "Looks like we can't open up talents yet."


"You're right. Same thing for professions", Rain realizes.


"And quests", Angel adds.


"Maybe those things open up once we get there", Wendy speculates. "Either way, let's move out."



As our three heroines move outward towards the edge of the starting area, the forest turns thicker and harder to navigate. There is no distinct border between Grove and the wilderness, but there are not many enemies in the nearby woods either. As they get closer to the great magical barrier, which separates the safe Grove from the dangerous wilderness ahead, they finally start finding enemies. These foes are limited to deceptively cute yet deadly critters, and giant insects, the largest of which are the size of an average housecat. Upon death, enemies disintegrate into the air almost immediately, scattering as particles into nothingness.


Now, a little backstory and information about these three friends.


They have known each other for over a decade. They were part of a different guild in a different, more old-school popular roleplaying game of the past, which shall remain unnamed. The lad from Ireland is the oldest of the three, and when he met his friends, they were both still only in their early teens. The longstanding, multiplatform guild they are a part of consists of over fifty like-minded gamers. While there have been many changes as far as the guild roster is considered, the "core" of the guild has remained the same. While all of these three players are part of this core and no strangers to playing together as a group, none of them actually consider each other to be their very best friend or a preferred partner. Kensuke has his girlfriend, with whom he likes to play player-versus-player content, Sven has his close group of friends he also knows from real life, and Gregory, the man behind Rain, finds solace in playing solo content, with his own company as his greatest ally. When they get together, they usually find themselves in a large group setting, with many other guild members around as well.


Since they have known each other for years, they also know each other's play-styles very well. Rain likes rushing in haphazardly like a blood-crazed berserker and prefers fast-paced gameplay. This doesn't change in Nymphsaga. Even without the high-end equipment her character in Mormia has, she's still like a bullet train that has gone off the tracks. She's incredibly agile and nimble, even with a heavy weapon, and has no trouble getting used to the different combat style, which doesn't rely on any assisted software.


Wendy, on the other hand, is more organized, and most of the in-group communication comes from her. She's very much used to this role as an occasional raid-leader, and while she's not the greatest at dealing pure damage, she is exceptional when it comes to surveying and reading the constantly changing battlefield. You could say that her abilities when it comes to leadership actually contribute to the overall performance of the people she groups with more than her actual damage. Rain and Angel both know this, and always adjust their tactics accordingly to Wendy's commands. That's how much they trust her judgment. Speaking of Angel, she used to be a rifleman in Mormia, so her role is very different from what she used to. Like Wendy, she's very calculated and observant, but she focuses her observations on a much smaller scale. She's very good at exploiting the weaknesses of her enemies in one-on-one situations. As a supporting spellcaster, one would think that this style would make healing difficult for her, but that's not true at all. She's very good at what she does and gets the hang of her new role quickly.


Speaking of healing, the game has no health points. Instead, it has two primary resources, which are stamina and mana. The Player's stamina bar works as the de facto health bar but can't be compared to health as it is known in your typical RPGs because it's also a spent resource. It's used for virtually everything, from abilities to something as simple as running. It automatically regenerates slowly, even while being consumed, and its generation increases while recovering. If it runs out, its generation will be locked for few seconds, and the player will be left feeling the effects, so it's important to never run out of it completely. Healing effects that come in the form of both spells and potions also recover stamina, either instantly or over time. Overtime spells are more efficient to use, while instantaneous effects meant for quick recovery are costly.


Soldiers are the only class in the game who use this as their primary resource, which is why they also naturally recover stamina twice as fast during normal conditions, and three times as quickly while "resting". Mana is also used to power up many abilities, and for Soldiers, its regeneration is halved. For casters, every ability consumes Mana. This is why Casters recover mana three times as fast as normal in all conditions. Lastly, Rangers use both, but neither one to a great extent. They use stamina only to move, which depending on their weapon of choice, they might have to do a lot, and they use their mana for creating ammunition and special abilities. Shooting costs no resources, ever. Since their consumption is naturally low, they have no boosts to their recovery either.


To penetrate the barrier holding the wilderness back and venture deep into the darker parts of the forest, players must first reach level two. This is by no means a challenging task to achieve, especially for skilled players, but it does take some time. The trio finds the game to be a little bit "grindy" at the start. This serves as a tutorial of sorts for beginners, as the developers don't want to rush players straight into the deep end.


With one-third of the progress still ahead, the three girls receive a message about a quest, which can be completed by heading towards the central plaza of Grove.


"Oh, we finally got something", Wendy realizes. "Should we go back to see what's up?"


"Can we level up first?" Angel asks. "It's a long way back, and I don't want to waste time."


"Yeah, let's be efficient about our business", Rain says, agreeing with Angel.


Wendy, who is the odd one out, complies. "Fine. Let's reach the next level first."


"By the way, don't you find it strange that these monsters don't drop any loot?" Rain asks.


"Well, yeah, but it was also announced", Wendy reminds.


"Really?" Rain asks as she tilts her head. "I can't remember that."


"It was about Grove only. We will get loot once we get behind that barrier."


"Whaaat? That's bullshit", Rain complains. "I want a new weapon already. This one blows."


"By the way", Angel begins. "How about professions? I heard they play a huge role in this game, as almost everything, aside from weapons and jewelry, has to be crafted."


Wendy thinks for a moment. "I haven't decided on anything yet, but Scouting seems useful, as it can be used for mapping unexplored areas effectively. The only problem is that it can't be used to make money…"


"Oh, I heard that scouts can discover additional treasure to balance this out."


"Really? One of us really must pick it up then", Wendy decides. "I'll do it."


"I thought cooking would also be useful", Angel says. "Magically enhanced meals can boost our performance."


"I was thinking about enchanting, which can be used to strengthen equipment", Rain says.


As they discuss their possible choices, they continue to fight their way forward to the next level, and as they get used to their new weapons, abilities, and small childish figures, they get increasingly faster and more efficient at gaining experience. The instant they reach level two, they get another quest, which also instructs them to head to the outskirts of central plaza towards an armory to get a reward box for leveling up, presumably containing new equipment.


The way back is a long one, but none of the three girls seem to mind. After all, time flies fast when you're having fun, and fun do they have. Even Angel and Wendy, who were devastated to find themselves in avatars they didn't consent to, don't seem to care anymore.


All three of them get a simultaneous notice on a quest update, which none of them seem to be pleased about. The quest they got while leveling up, instructing players to gather at a central plaza, appears to be over already. In fact, it was over even before the notice popped up. The notification was about the quest disappearing from their logs.


"Oh, was it part of some event?" Angel asks, surprised.


"Well fuck me sideways", Rain says and sighs. "I guess this is what they meant by the world changing constantly. We have to learn about what was going on second hand now."


"Yeah, let's hope some player tells us", Angel says, as she checks out the details on the other quest and where should they be going specifically.


As Angel does this work, Wendy notices a quartet of girls walking past them, heading towards the direction they were coming from. "Yo, guys! What was that quest about?" These four girls pay no attention to our heroines and instead blast past them, as they seem to be discussing something very passionately, and not necessarily in a good way. None of the girls in our trio understood what they were talking about, but they seemed to be very, very upset.


"What was that about…?" Wendy wonders. "Were they fighting…?"


"It did sound like an argument of some sort", Rain says. "Are we there yet, Angel?"


Angel double-checks her map just to make sure they're on the right track. "Well, we WERE almost there, but there's no reason for us to go to central anymore. Let's take the road to the left from here and go return the other quest."


Just five minutes of walking later, three girls find themselves at a building built inside a stump of a massive tree. The stump alone is well over twenty meters in diameter and tall like a two-story building. There are tents set outside resembling shopping booths, but most of them are empty. There is only one Nymph waiting behind one of the booths. There are not many Nymphs around in general either. Three girls walk up to this Nymph, who s sitting down, with a smiling, yet surprisingly emotionless look on her face, with a blank stare in her eyes. At first glance lifeless, she's not moving at all, but appears to be mumbling something to herself in a state of shock.


"Is that an NPC?" Rain wonders.


"I guess so…?" Wendy frames this sentence as a question since she's not for sure. "This Nymph sure isn't acting like a proper NPC should act."


"Maybe she's bugged." Rain invades the personal space of the girl behind the booth and walks up to her. "Wake up, sunshine, or I'll report your arse."


The eyes of this girl appear to be moving. "Oh… What do you want…?" she asks.


"We've got a quest to turn in", Rain says and leans forward. "Give me loot."


"Leave me be… I need a moment to collect myself…"


"Maybe she's not an NPC after all?" Angel figures out. "But that's strange. There's nobody else here."


"Hey, help us out a little bit", Wendy says and pushes Rain aside to get closer to this girl. Their eyes meet. Wendy looks worried, while this unknown, nameless Nymph dressed out like a typical NPC seems totally broken. "What happened?"


"Were you not there…?"


"We were leveling up", Wendy explains, having guessed she probably meant the event. "We didn't make it back in time for the event."


A trace of life appears in this Nymph's eyes, as they finally mirror some genuine emotion. She looks heartbroken. "I don't even want to think about it, but… We can't log out…"


"Stop joking around", Wendy says and opens up the game menu. He sees the log-out button and pushes it with her finger. As she does, though, nothing happens. The button lights up each time her finger hits it, but that's about it. After hitting it about a dozen times, it suddenly greys out on her. Wendy stands still, unmoving. Visibly scared and flustered, she closes the interface, only to open it again, but the button isn't even there anymore. Swearing over and over again in her mind, she finds herself panicking. And she's not the only one. Rain and Angel were trying to do the same thing.


"What kind of cruel joke is this!?" Angel screams.


Rain looks around the interface in disbelief. She wants out. All the pep and excitement she had before has turned into panic. She wants to get out, but she doesn't know how to. No, deep down, she knows, like both of her friends know. It's not that they don't know how to log out. They can't log out. They're locked inside a video game.







Recess I

Excerpt from the Traveler's Logbook; "the Alien World that is Phantasm", entry number two, "My first impressions."


I find myself overwhelmed by this strange world. There are similarities to my world, especially when it comes to greenery and some of the wildlife. In fact, there are a lot of parts to this world that remind me of planet Earth. Some trees are pretty much the same, and I think I even saw a wolf! How the hell are there wolves here!?


But make no mistake about it. Phantasm is an alien world. There is no doubt about it. As I gaze towards the sky, what I see is an alien sky. I can't recognize any of the constellations. Some of the stars can even be seen during daylight hours, which is confusing because the Type-G star this stellar object revolves around is no dimmer than our own sun. Is it about something in the atmosphere? And then there are the other celestial bodies. I think anyone will notice the unnamed green giant first, the planet that this world rotates around. It dominates the sky when visible and can be seen even during the day. "ION-4-945344b" is a gas giant, maybe about the size of Saturn, although now, on closer inspection, we might have to rename it to "c" as there actually is one more previously undiscovered planet closer to the star than this one!


There are other moons around the giant's orbit besides Phantasm. Some are big, some are small, and as I stated in my entry number one, none harbor life besides this. Clouds in this world take strange shapes as well. They're thin and long in shape, almost like lines in the sand. They are so thin, in fact, that you can see the stars through most of them. They come in all the colors of the rainbow as well, but the colors rarely mix. Instead, they change according to how much light there is. It makes me wonder, does it ever rain here? It sure feels humid, though.


I touched upon the brightness, and it seems to fluctuate greatly as well. There are periods when the entire world will darken out as the sun hides behind the gas giant for days. Also, speaking of clouds I mentioned earlier, they seem to store light. While there are places that definitely get very, very dark indeed, most nights in most places are lit up in an eerie, mystical glow.


There is a lot of water scattered across this world, but there are no oceans. There are rivers, lakes, ponds, and swamps, most of which are connected, but I'm yet to come across a single body of water that I can't see the other side of while standing on the shoreline. Mountains are plenteous, and this place seems like it can be hard to navigate on foot. Lucky for me, I've got my hybrid spaceship.


The same, eerie feel that the sky has to it is scattered all across Phantasm and its vegetation. There is vegetation everywhere, from the poles to the equator. Based on short-term observations made by my satellite launched a year before my arrival, the coldest it ever gets is positive fifteen degrees Celsius (about 60 Fahrenheit), which is about the average temperature of the Earth. Then again, while the climate is much hotter than what I'm used to, it never gets abnormally hot. Overall, temperature-wise, this place feels very survivable to human life. Grass and leaves take some fascinating colors indeed, just like the clouds do, and I don't mean that like leaves during autumn when they change color and fall off. No, there are entire forests of trees with purple leaves and other colors too. Red, pink, light blue, I've seen it all. I've even seen white trees with transparent crystal leaves and a black forest covered in a thick mist. Flowers here are quite remarkable too. They share many similar characteristics, but I've never seen most of them on Earth, anywhere. Some of them are large, too. Like seriously, do you think Rafflesia is a large flower? Wait until you see what this world has to offer.


My next subject, intelligent life. There is a lot of it. This world seems to be dominated by insects of all sorts. And yes, you guessed it. They are abnormally large as well. This place is rich in oxygen, so the size of the insects is to be expected. It is hard for me to tell whenever these bugs are more or less intelligent than the ones we have on Earth, but at very least most of them seem perfectly harmless. And yeah, like I said earlier, there were wolves too. Why? I just can't understand why. I haven't seen other familiar animals, though.


I wrote about plants earlier, and it seems almost as if some of them are intelligent creatures too. It's like they have minds of their own. I've never seen anything like it on Earth! In fact, when I set my boots for the first time in this forest, it didn't take even five minutes for me to get assaulted by a carnivorous bush of all things. It was after my body and grabbed me by my body and my limbs. Did it see me as food? Well, I shot it dead with my laser. So much of that bastard. It would've probably choked on my plug suit anyway, so I don't feel bad for it, even though I avoid killing living beings in alien worlds.


Different kinds of humanoids seem to be scattered across this world too. While they are definitely at the top of the list when counting down species from intelligent to unintelligent, this entire world seems to lag tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years behind us. They can build huts, tools, and communicate in their own primitive language, but not much else. One race of humanoids on this planet resembles pigs and rats more than they resemble a prehistoric man. Yeah, just imagine a mix of an ape, a pig, and a rat. They seemed peaceful enough, but maybe that's only because I was observing them from a distance.


There are two kinds of animals, or alien creatures to be more specific, the likes of which I haven't encountered on Earth or anywhere else in space either. There are these strange blobs of slime, which seem intelligent. What are they? How do they work? I have no idea. Then, there are strange creatures that I can describe as nothing else but downright demonic. I've only seen a few of them from the distance, and I can feel their bloodlust from afar. What the hell are they? They seem very intelligent to me, that's for sure.


In any case, I've got a lot of exploring and researching to do in this world. I hope to beam down to the surface soon, but for now, I will be observing this moon from the orbit.


Signed, Rachel Parshikov, a space marine.



A dark cloud has fallen over Grove and left it in absolute chaos. Everyone knows about what has happened and the fact that they are all locked inside the game. What this means for all of them still remains unknown, but there is something about the situation they find themselves in that doesn't feel just horrifying but downright disturbing.


Rain, Wendy, and Angel heard about what had happened at the town square about an hour after they got back from the border of Grove. Out from a massive Aztec-style pyramid in the middle of Grove came High Priestess Geraldina, the leader of Nymphs, introducing herself as the head developer of the game. After that, as she stood on her balcony, she delivered her message. From word to word, her message went down like this:


"Welcome to Phantasm, everyone. Some of you must have realized by now that your avatar has changed. This was intended, as Nymphs are an all-female race. In any case, this planet will be your new home going forward. I hope you will enjoy your new lives as Nymphs."


Then, she would go back to her temple. While some of the players had already learned about not being able to log out at this point, the knowledge and panic didn't go widespread until this speech. After that, it was mass hysteria.


It wasn't just players' ability to log out that was unavailable to them from the start, but some other essential options to the game as well. In addition to the map that the Nymphs have available, the only options are the ability to open up inventory, character page, quest log, talent tree, a grayed-out recipe book for professions, and finally, the spellbook. The lack of a third-person camera, which had been made apparent from the start, wasn't a surprise, but the lack of all the other quality-of-life features made it all feel even more lacking. There is also a noticeable lack of an in-game communication system. There is no instant messaging, no voicemail or phones, no chats, nothing. All communication must be done face to face or by hand-written letters that, in turn, have to be delivered by someone. The world felt less like a virtual-reality game and more like being transformed into the avatar the player had created for real.


The Player's inventory is also small and limited, meaning that Nymphs can't carry much stuff around with them. It does offer more space than you would expect a normal little girl to be able to carry, though, which is a good thing, but the amount of space is nothing compared to what one would expect from a video game. Instead of being limited to slots, it is limited to weight. Based on what some players learned early on, though, carry-weight could be increased by investing in abilities that rely on strength, as well as physical exercise. That begged the question, were the players seriously expected to exercise too?


The size of the items carried doesn't matter at all, though. It is theoretically possible to store a bed-sized item in the inventory, provided that it doesn't weigh much. When an item gets taken out from the inventory, it will materialize and be immediately useable. There is also an expiration mechanic to the inventory. Many fresh items you would expect to spoil in real life, like food ingredients, will spoil in-game, after a set time limit, depending on what the item in question actually is. It is also worth noting that many items in-game can't be put in inventory at all, such as cooked food. It has to be cooked on the spot and consumed immediately. There are some exceptions to this rule, which come in the form of rations, which can be created by Nymphs who pick up cooking as their profession.


Lastly, almost none of the items in-game are bound to any one character. Once conjured, they can be traded - and even stolen - freely, with once again. Players can also pick and choose some items to be "protected" too, just in case they have something they really want to keep. These protected items cannot be stolen or lost either and will always magically teleport to the player's inventory if left behind. Some items, such as weapons and valuable jewelry, can be listed as protected by players free of charge.


The character page available for players to observe is really just a page that can't be interacted with in any meaningful way. It summarizes some information and stats about the Nymph in question, including all of the items that Nymph is wearing at any given point, as well as positive and negative status-altering effects. To equip items, Nymphs have to physically dress themselves up, just like in real life. They can store their unused gear and clothes in the inventory to be taken out when needed, but that's about it. On that note, as speculated by Rain before, Nymphs can - and in many cases must - get naked. Their bodies are fully functional and highly realistic, down to the littlest of details.


The quest log is a feature that is available to Nymphs but seems mostly dormant, as there are not many actual quests around. The concept of quests is mostly unknown to Nymphsaga, as the game relies much more on group activities, training, grinding experience and new items, and situational events. As far as NPC's to hand out these possible quests go, there are none. The few intended NPC's that the game was supposed to have are real people too, some of them even being developers and company hires who worked on the very same game they're now stuck inside, and none of them can hand out quests. The only exception to this rule seems to be High Priestess Geraldina, who claimed to be controlled by the head developer. Is this true, or is there more to it? For now, it is impossible to know for sure, as there is no way of getting inside the pyramid or getting Geraldina out from there.


Now, with no quests to go around, aside from the one Nymphs get when they hit level two, the quest log remains greyed out and unusable. Nobody has reached level three or beyond yet, so it's uncertain to everyone what kind of role quest log will hold in the future.


While all Nymphs can pick their class out of three, they all share the same first talent, "The Wings of Phantasm". It gives Nymphs wings, literally. After all, Nymphs are fairy-like, like advertised. These wings can be toggled on and off, free of charge, whenever and wherever, but only if you can do it. Most Nymphs have no idea how to toggle them. Actually using the wings relies on a third kind of resource, which is called "source". Apparently, this "source" is some form of energy completely independent from mana which also grows inside Nymphs. Also, unlike mana, the source is difficult to draw out from within oneself, as most of it lies dormant and inaccessible to Nymphs. Still, it's very easy to draw from the environment, where traces of it can be found scattered around. What does this "source" do aside from powering up these Phantasmic wings? Nobody seems to know yet, but considering that it is all over the place and even within the Nymphs, it must be something very, very significant.


For the class-specific talents, and there's one for each class. These class-specific talents are all passive abilities, which bring very little to none to the table. For each set, there are eight options available, each of them for a different mastery. They are scattered around "The Wings" in a shape of an eight-pointed polygon, and Nymphs can only pick two of them; one at level three and one at level four. There are no other talents besides this, and the choices can't be undone, at least by any means Nymphs know of right now. It might be possible in the future. This also means that once players get to level four, they have reached the max level, as they can't get any more talent points.


After this, they must rely entirely on professions, training to learn new skills, and getting better equipment. New abilities must be acquired through consumable spell scrolls, which can be found from many different sources. They can be crafted with professions, bought directly from a library using gold coins, or looted on adventures.


In many ways, the game that is Nymphsaga feels more like the real world than it feels like a game. In a sense, it feels more like a fantasy world simulator than a typical virtual reality RPG to the people trapped inside. They have physical needs too and have to sleep and eat in order to keep going. They sweat and get dirty, so they kind of have to take care of their hygiene too. Then again, these things are something that is probably to be expected from an inescapable game.



If there is one silver lining to the fact that the Nymphs are trapped, it's the fact that this tragedy has brought the community together. Everyone is trying to do their best to learn about the world around them, so they can survive and, more importantly, work together. Friendships are formed between strangers, and a lot of information is shared and passed around. All the information stated above, for example, is something that all three of our heroines came to learn during the remainder of the day.


But now, the night is falling. Since there are not too many lights around, darkness will overtake Grove, which brings me to the last game-related feature I want to talk about: Player housing.


Every Nymph deserves a home, a roof to sleep under. Since Grove is a large place, there are many options available for them. In fact, there are twice as many empty houses as there are Nymphs in the city. Most houses are single-room apartments similar in size, around 30 square meters or 320 square feet in area. They are primarily used for sleeping, taking care of oneself, training professions, and storage, which works as an extended inventory. Every house also comes up with an outdoor facility of some sort, which can be either for personal use only or open for all members of the neighborhood to share collectively. Professions play a big part in housing as well, since they can be used to upgrade houses, add additional rooms to them, and even add more outdoor facilities for oneself or neighbors to use.


Every Nymph has to claim herself a home within one week, or exactly 168 hours from the start of the game, or risk becoming homeless. After this period all the new houses will cost them. Luckily for homeless Nymphs, moving into a new home is always cheap, as is moving from one place to another. Rain, Wendy, and Angel want to live close to each other but don't want to live under the same roof. Searching for a place to settle down, they find a fancy-looking tree at the outskirts of Grove with three houses on top of each other, all of which are partially built inside the tree. It comes with a charming communal terrace, a customizable yard, and a garden to grow custom plants in, all of which they decide to share with each other for now. Finding them all to be empty, they look no further.


Wendy settles the top floor, while Rain gets the bottom floor. Wendy doesn't care much about having quick access to outdoor facilities or ground level, so it's the best choice for her. On the other hand, Rain found the ground level preferable after finding out enchanters can connect tunnels and caves to their homes upon expansion. This leaves Angel with the middle floor, which she silently accepts.


As far as these three girls are concerned, they have gone through most of the so-called five stages of grief. They can't deny what's happening, and getting angry isn't helping either. There isn't really anything to bargain for, but they're not ready to accept what has happened quite yet. All that is left is depression, grief, and a whole lot of unanswered questions. Are they ever going to get out? Are they ever going to see their families and friends again? The questions torment their minds.


Wendy leans against the railing of the stairs that lead to the higher floors of this apartment tree and lets out a heavy sigh. "What a day… I'm so done…"


"Wanna chat before we go asleep?" Rain, who is unsurprisingly all out of jokes, suggests.


"Yeah, let's have a quick chat", Wendy says. "I can go check out my house later."


Angel doesn't seem interested and instead starts walking upstairs towards her new house. "I want to be alone…"


"R-right…" Wendy says as she gazes at her friend, worried. "Good night."


No reply. Angel doesn't want to talk. Rain and Wendy are left together.


Wendy is finding it very hard to hold back her tears. "I miss Hanako so much…" Rain instantly recognizes the name of Kensuke's girlfriend in real life but is unable to find the confronting words for her friend. She can sympathize with her on some level, but having been a bachelor living alone for half of her life, she feels that she isn't even in any kind of position to say anything. "I just want to see her again…" Wendy says, wiping her face with her hands.


"Come here…" Rain finally says and walks closer, extending her arms wide to offer Wendy a hug. "It's okay to cry. I'm not going to make fun of you it, ever." Wendy nods and leans into her friend for a hug, and what a warm and nice hug it is. The world they find themselves in feels as realistic as the real world on the physical level. "There, there. Cry it all out."


"What the hell have we gotten ourselves into…?" Wendy asks, weeping. "We don't even know anything… What should we do? How to get out? It's all a mystery…"


"Let's meanwhile stay strong and try our best to find answers. Let's not give up, okay?"


"Yeah… I agree… Thanks, by the way…"


Rain isn't sure what Wendy is thanking her for, but regardless, she says: "You're very welcome."


"You know… I often say I hate you, and I get annoyed by you, but it's the moments like these that I remember how precious you are to me…"


Rain almost feels like burping out a joke about how Wendy sounds like she's proposing but immediately realizes that it would be too much for her right now, especially since she grieves over her lost girlfriend right now. "And you know what… Wen… Um, I mean… Kensuke…"


"You were totally going to call me Wendy just now, weren't you…?"


"Yeah, I admit… But I just wanted to say, you're precious to me too… You're such a good friend…"


"Thank you, Rain…" Wendy says and smiles as the hug ends. "I'm sorry… I must look terrible."


"Like I said, just cry if you feel like it."


"How about you…? Are you feeling fine?"


"…" Rain, who as stated before, barely expresses emotion through her face, also isn't prone to laugh or cry. It is hard for Wendy to tell what Rain is thinking and how she is feeling. "How could I be fine…"


"Yeah, I suppose. I'm sorry for even asking…"


"It's fine. I'm not offended. I'm just trying to keep up a somewhat positive attitude."


"I should try some of that too, but… It's just so fucking hard right now…"


"Yeah, I know… It's hard for me too…"


Wendy gazes up towards the second floor. "I'm also worried for Sven."


"I'm also worried for him. He's taking all of this even worse than us. You could totally see that he was holding up the tears all the way through us talking with others, as all he wanted to do was to just go home and find peace."


"He was so upset at just having his avatar turned into a girl too. I honestly don't even care anymore. I can deal with being a girl, but him? He must be going through some heavy shit right now."


"Yeah, being a lass isn't the problem for me either. Being stuck here is."


"Yeah, and for him, to be stuck as something he absolutely doesn't want to be… It must be terrible."


"In any case, I'm getting tired", Rain says. "Weird that, ain't it? Getting tired inside a videogame."


"Haha, you could say that again…"


"Let's go to bed, okay? Being alone with our own thoughts wouldn't probably hurt us either."


"Yeah… See you tomorrow, Rain."


"Oh, and starting tomorrow, I'm going to start calling you Wendy again", Rain says, giving her a thumbs up.


Wendy doesn't have the strength to lash out or retort in any other way, so she just sighs and walks away silently.



Angel found herself lying on her bed, hugging a dakimakura found on top of it tightly. She was still in disbelief, but she had no strength to cry. She couldn't fall asleep either, which is why she simply was left lying on her bed, waiting for the sandman to put her to sleep.


Meanwhile, Rain returned to her quest of bodily discovery from where she first left off. Now, of course, she was extremely curious about what kind of cute little creature she had become, but even while standing naked in front of a mirror, even though it did make her feel fluffy and maybe even a little aroused, she found it difficult to accept it as herself. The man behind the avatar still identifies as a man despite his current appearance, one that he finds beautiful and even somewhat hot. He simply found it difficult for her to go beyond just looking and watching herself, as the thought of doing something sexual felt overwhelming to her.


This leaves us only with Wendy.


Wendy finds the silence and peace in the solitude of her own apartment she oh so much needed. She sits on the side of the bed, observing the interior. Décor comes across as very cute and even childish to her, but there are no toys, so it can't be really compared to a child's room. Almost everything is made out of wood, like in a log house. Windows and doors are both completely circular, almost as if straight out of Hobbiton. There really is everything one would expect from a small apartment, but of course, no technology whatsoever. Light is provided either by the sun outside or by lamps with strange, floating energy balls trapped inside of them. Having seen enough, she decides to find out what is behind the one door she can find in her apartment. To no surprise, there is a small bathroom with a sink, a big mirror, and a bathtub, complete with a shower. While there is no technology, plumbing looks somewhat modern if you ignore the fact that everything is made out of leaves, wood, and stone.


Immediately after discovering the mirror, Wendy stands straight in front of it. She has only seen herself from between her own shoulders, looking down at her own body, so her face is a complete mystery to her. Instantly surprised by her reflection, she can't think of any other word than "Cute". Kensuke is not into children sexually, as he likes her women mature and busty, but he also does like cute things and generally finds kids to be charming and likable personalities. Thus the man inside her can't help but be enchanted by the cuteness of his avatar. She secretly finds other Nymphs she has seen to also be cute, but it's completely different when it comes to herself. There's just something completely different about it.


"Alright…" she whispers to herself, deep in thought. "Time to get naked."


Her heart begins to race as she starts off with her top and finds her raw and bare, perfectly flat chest underneath. She's very skinny overall. The only exception to this rule is her hips, which are proportionally wide, but not abnormally so. While she's used to flat chest in real life - after all, he's really a man - the bare chest of a prepubescent girl is very, very different to that of a man or a boy. She takes her hands and touches both of her breasts, pushing her palms against them. It doesn't feel that weird, she thinks, but I can't deny that they feel sensitive.


She finds herself suddenly asking herself, what the hell is she doing? Is she really doing this? What's more, she can't deny her arousal. Where is it coming from? She wasn't feeling aroused before, but seeing her own half-naked body, made her very curious. Slowly, she opens up the buttons of her shorts and pulls them down, only to find plain white underwear beneath. Then, she takes off her panties as well. She gets a good view of her skin underneath her pants and finds herself entranced. She really is a girl, a real prepubescent female. There's such a small yet proportionally wide gap between her things and no sign of the organ she used to be so familiar with. What she sees isn't a mature vulva either, but rather just a puffy cameltoe. She sees it through the mirror so clearly, and she can feel it as well … or the lack of "it", however she puts it. It feels a little familiar but so strange and alien at the same time. It's like she can't accept the reflection as herself even though all the evidence is right there being slapped on her face. When she moves, so does the reflection.


She then settles for a bird's eye view, turning and twisting her body to get a good look of her butt. Bubbly, yet firm, she thinks and taps her own ass softly. My ass is actually pretty hot, for a kid's ass anyway. If only I was about ten years older. Maybe this would then be even more interesting to experience. And then the skin. It's so smooth she can't believe it, perfectly hairless too. Kensuke was never exceptionally masculine and had trouble growing facial hair, but he did have body hair and, more importantly, pubes. This little girl she looks down upon, and from the reflection, has none of it.


She notices her clear blush on reflection and finds herself getting increasingly aroused. But she resists. There's no way she's going to go all the way. But she got naked, so why not? I want to keep touching and exploring myself, she thinks and grins at her own reflection. It feels wrong because I'm so tiny, but… No, no, no! I can't do this! I… I'll just take a quick shower.


Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all, as far as trying to resist the urge to do something dirty goes. In the process of showering, she ends up rubbing her own body, getting a good feel of her soft, silky, smooth, and warm skin. She ends up closing the shower and proceeds to dry her body with a massive, pink towel.


Yeah, what's the harm anyway, she asks herself and sits down on the bed, spreading up her legs. I don't care if I'm a kid. I'm going to masturbate. Besides, this is me! It's not like I'm molesting anyone, right?


She can't see well from the angle she's in, but the fact that there's a very noticeable gap between her legs is apparent from even bird's-eye view. Visible, easy-to-see genitals have been completely taken away from her and replaced by a cute little mound, complete with puffy lips and everything that's hidden in between. She gives up on trying to see it because does she need to see to pleasure herself? The answer is a resounding no. Her hands can reach into her groins very well, which is more than enough.


She starts with just one finger, pushing against her slit. Almost as if opening it, she slides it up and down, slowly and carefully. She can feel the slight wetness of her immature vagina and introduces another finger into play, spreading the puffy little vulva open with her index and middle finger. I'm starting to get really wet, but it doesn't feel that special, except when I touch my clit. She concentrates on that, trying to see exactly what she looks like between the lips. She can see a little but nowhere near as much as she'd like. She can, however, get a better poke at her little clitoris, the tip of which is still mostly hidden and tucked away somewhere in there.


Even if she thinks so, she can't stop with curiosity taking hold of her mind, reasoning with herself that "surely it's going to get better?". She spreads and bends her legs even more, even curling her toes up a little bit as a shockwave of pleasure runs up her spine. A very much expected touch to her clitoris makes her involuntarily squeal softly in surprise. She finds herself surprised by her own reaction, asking, Did I really just make that sound? She wants to go all the way and experience an orgasm, perhaps even try sticking something to that sweet little hole of hers.


Lying flat on her back, with her eyes now faced towards the roof, her panting starts to feel heavier. She suddenly gets worried about Angel hearing her moan. She doesn't know how well sound carries to other apartments, but she thinks it's a good idea to resist her moaning, as difficult as it may be. She knows she should really stop, as she's afraid she can't resist, but she can't. She just simply can't. Her fingers are glued to her pussy.


One hand is not enough for her, so she introduces another one. She's pretty much playing constantly with her clit, but she hasn't even reached down her honey pot yet. Curiocity eventually takes over her and without hesitation, one finger enters inside her hole. Oh fuck, it's so small…! Holy shit, so tight…! It's soft, hot, and covered in juice all the way inside. Her finger can't reach as deep as she wants, but at least she can move her finger around her fleshy insides, although carefully. Another finger comes to the play, and she sticks both of them in at the same time. A loud moan escapes her mouth as it just keeps getting better. She stops playing with her clit and covers her mouth as the other hand continues to move in and out of her vagina. Oh no, Sven will hear me at this rate! But I can't stop! I wanna cum so hard right now!


She stops just enough to grab hold of a blanket. She presents it on top of her chest and bites into it in a desperate attempt to muffle her voice down. Then, the play resumes. She can't be too far away from coming all over her fingers. Her head feels blank and hot. Oh my gosh, oh yes! This is unreal! I'm gonna come at any moment! Well, she got that one right, as she really is about to orgasm. Even without experiencing a female orgasm ever before, she can tell from how her body trembles. A sudden, powerful sensation takes control of her as her entire body stiffens up and convulses on its own. Every time she thinks she has hit the peak and it starts to fade, it just resets. She finds herself in a non-stop chain of orgasms. Or is it just a one? She can't tell, but it's the most powerful thing she's ever felt by far and away.


Gone all the way, she starts to slowly cool down and lets her entire body relax. Exhausted, she lays unmoving, still panting and breathing heavily. That was so crazy… I'm so spent…


Not five minutes later, she's already sound asleep, comfortably under her blanket, with drool rolling down her cheek.







The First Expedition

Excerpt from the Traveler's Logbook; "the Alien World that is Phantasm", entry number five, "My final thoughts."


It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to remain objective about my research. I feel like I'm losing my sanity here. But at the same time, I feel like I have a duty to report to you about my findings, as I am the first human to set foot on this world, and this star system in general.


There is something mysterious and unexplainable in the atmosphere. It's some kind of substance, but I can't seem to be able to analyze it properly and tell what it's about. I don't think it's just one kind of substance either. There are two different kinds of unexplainable substances that are scattered across this world in different quantities. The other one feels intoxicating, while the other one appears on my radar but doesn't really seem to have any kind of effect on me. In some places, one of them is sparse, while the other one is plentiful. The intoxicating feeling I get from the substance is almost like a sickness. It's like I've been drugged, and it's making my body feel feverishly hot. I can't escape it, and I don't know how to deal with it. It is probably in my best interest to wear a gasmask from now on to avoid it having unforeseeable effects on my mind and my body.


I also have this constant feeling that I'm being watched. Is this part of the effect these substances have on me? It's hard for me to tell anymore, as I'm not even sure what's real and what's fake anymore. I feel a constant, unescapable, creeping paranoia.


As if I wasn't going crazy before, I saw something absolutely crazy. I saw a human here. A human! A little girl, nonetheless! The strangest part about her was the fact that she was naked for some reason. She looked like she was looking for something or someone. When our eyes finally met, she seemed both scared and curious of me. I ended up running away like a coward. I must really be going crazy since there's no way there could be a human here.


What do I even do about this? Was what I saw real? Should I return for this little girl to have a talk? Would she even understand English?


I will conclude my exploration of this alien world in coming days, as soon as I finish my readings, and wait for a good moment to leave this cursed place. I plan on using the gravitational pull of the gas giant to catapult myself towards the mothership in exactly 35 hours, as it will be the most fuel-efficient way to escape this place, per calculations of my computer simulations. My desire to stay here has dwindled, and I do not see much benefit in continuing my research here. I will, however, recommend a presence of a satellite to study and monitor this world from afar, preferably from the orbit around it.


Signed, Rachel Parshikov, a space marine.



It's the morning of the first full day for Nymphs of Phantasm. To say that their motivation to start their adventure in Nymphsaga is low is a huge understatement. Nine out of ten Nymphs don't care about going outside to the higher-level zones, as many think it's better to study the game from within the safety of Grove. Others simply grieve over their misfortune of being stuck in a videogame world, which eats away their motivation to even try. There are, however, those as well who believe it's in their best interest to explore the world to perhaps get information about the true nature of the game, or at very least get stronger in the progress of trying.


One of the people who is not motivated to go out and explore in any way, shape or form, is Angel. What's behind her is a long, sleepless night, consisting of mostly laying down, rolling uncomfortably around in a bed, and occasionally crying. She had been thinking a lot about deep philosophical subjects, like what it means to be a human, what it means to be alive, what is real and what is not, and what is it even like living a life in a simulation. She has even asked herself, is a life lived stuck inside a videogame even worth living? Now, she finds the idea of ending it all more unacceptable than being stuck inside a game ever would be, but she can't shake the question off her mind. Besides, there might be a way out.


Angel wakes up to a soft knock on a circular wooden door, echoing in her small apartment. She can feel the bright sunlight on her body shining through the thin, see-through curtains on her windows. Immediately reminded of the mess she is in, she sits up but doesn't have the strength to get to her feet or even answer verbally. She knows that she probably should get up because she knows that it's her friends outside.


"Are you there? are you alright?" It's the voice of Wendy, which she has come to recognize. Since the soundproofing in Grove's apartments is absolutely pathetic, she can hear voices clearly.


"Maybe she's still sleeping", Rain says. "Let's give her time."


"Yeah… But what should we do meanwhile? I don't want to go exploring without her."


"Let's hit the library. There's still probably something we can learn there."


Those end up being the last words Angel hears as she lays down on her back, arms and feet stretched out. She was starting to get worried that she would have to force herself up and running on short notice. She still doesn't feel like doing anything, as she feels depressed, but at the same time, she feels like she must do something productive instead of just holing up in her apartment.



As mentioned before, there has been a lot of information given out and shared between Nymphs. While some of it is due to Nymphs learning about their abilities and the game independently, a lot of information is also being discovered from the library of Grove, located near the city center. It is considered to be a public utility that every single Nymph living in Grove can contribute towards. Information learned throughout the game will be included for everyone to read through "lore pages", should the discoverer of this information decide to hand it out to the library. While Nymphs are not required to do this, everyone agrees that they should do this, should they come across new information, as it benefits the entire community.


Library of Grove is built inside a massive, hollow tree stump. Built inside the wood itself, several corridors can be found in this ring-shaped building. Within the building's perimeters is a large park with a pretty little pond emanating source, allowing Nymphs to draw it from the air around them to use their wings without having to rely on their own source. This comes in very handy, especially since there are higher floors and platforms, none of which are accessible without flying.


While most books on the shelves are full of empty pages, many books can be read and even used. For example, there is a little section in the library for every single profession in Nymphsaga. By simply opening the magical Codex, which can be found laying on a pedestal near the bookshelf devoted to each profession, Nymph will be given a choice to learn the profession. They must choose wisely, however, since they can only have one at a time.


Like they discussed earlier, Rain picked up "Enchanting" while Wendy picked up "Scouting". Rain gained two recipes, one to make enchanted spell-stone and another one to make an empty soul-stone, both of which are used for enchanting gear. While spell-stones are complete products, soul-stones are not and must be filled with a soul of a living creature. She also gains a spell to actually do the soul extraction part. (This idea is shamelessly stolen from The Elder Scrolls franchise, where the same exact thing can be done with a Soul Trap spell.)


On the other hand, Wendy was greeted by an empty recipe book in her professions tab but gained two new passive abilities and one useable ability to her spellbook. The first passive ability is receiving extra loot, while the other is the ability to see hidden troves, enemies, entrances, and traps better. Useable ability is called "Inspect", which can be cast free of charge every minute to learn various stats about a selected enemy. Stats Scouts learn are always randomized and not always useful.


As far as learning new recipes go, players have to learn them either by coming up with them or by reading a recipe from a book and recreating it. There are some exceptions to this, as every single profession works differently, and there's just too much information to go through.


After finally learning about professions, Wendy is already about to head back to her new home, as Rain grabs her arm and stops her. "Where do you think you're going?"


"What do you mean?" Wendy asks, confused. There is nothing more to learn from the library for them or any other well-read Nymph for that matter. The only way to gain more information at this point is to discover it from the wild.


"Let's fly", Rain suggests, with a visible excitement in her eyes.


"Fly? Here? Why?"


"Those texts said there's source everywhere!" Rain says and extends her arms out wide in excitement. "It can be used for flying, remember? Besides, it could be a useful ability to learn."


"Oh, right. How do we toggle wings again?"


"I have no idea", Rain admits and opens up her spell book. While the wings are there, there seems to be no instruction on how to use them.


Usually, with abilities, there's always an instruction. For example, with a powered-up slash, Rain must imagine herself saying the word "slash" as she is swinging her sword to automatically channel mana to her arms and activate the ability. As it is a melee ability, none of her mana will be used, and instead, it will drain her stamina. As far as channeling mana goes, she just kind of knew how to do it. It is hard-coded, like walking. Wings of Phantasm require source, and Rain doesn't how to channel it. It seems to be more like swimming or riding a bicycle as opposed to walking and has to be learned.


Rain looks around and sees a Nymph with wings, as she happens to land from the sky next to Rain. It's the first time she's seen wings live, and they're the most amazing-looking things she's seen in-game so far. Like thin, white crystal shards in the shape of butterfly wings, they shine in amazing, bright colors and emanate pure, visible energy of golden color. They do not seem to be connected to her back physically, but the energy seems to touch her back and hug onto it. Rain immediately grabs this stranger's hand as she's walking away. "Hold up."


This Nymph, who is about the same size as Rain, turns to face her. Her pale hair, colored like a mix of pink and blonde, is long and curly, tied loosely with a ponytail, and her green eyes are so beautiful that they look almost as if they're sparkling. She's also wearing a cute little tiara on her head. A wide smile appears on her face as she brightly asks: "What's up?"


"How do you fly?"


"I don't know!" the girl answers loudly. Rain tilts her head in surprise and presses her hand against her jaw in thought, which just causes the stranger to laugh. "No, seriously, I have no idea how to explain it! I just, like, kind of knew how to do it or something."


The stranger's hyped-up and fast-paced voice leave Rain even more confused. "Well… I have no idea how wings work."


"Aww, that's not good! I hope you learn to fly soon! It's so awesome and amazing!"


"Can you give me a hint at least?"


"Ummm, it works kind of like mana. It just happens like magic!"


"Could you have maybe done something I haven't?"


The girl blinks rapidly a few times with a mysterious smile on her face, after which she responds: "Who knows?"


"Oh, I think I did it", Wendy says and looks at her own wings. While the general shape is the same as with this stranger, they have a slightly different shape. All wings look the same shape from afar but are, in fact, unique, kind of like fingerprints. The bigger difference comes with their dark blue and black color, combined with purple-colored energy rays. She tries moving them, but they do not seem to do much.


"Yeah, yeah, exactly like that!" the girl says and nods multiple times as she does. "Flying is really easy as well! You don't have to move your wings at all! Just imagine yourself flying!"


Wendy closes her eyes and imagines herself in the air. Before long, she finds herself levitating. She can't control her newfound ability well, and just like a baby gazelle learning to stand up for the first time, she finds herself flat on her butt on the ground. "That's not actually that easy…!" she complains but ends up laughing at her situation immediately afterward.


Rain is left looking from the sidelines, reeking of envy, as she really has no idea what she's doing wrong. She's trying her best to muster up some willpower to power up her wings, but nothing works. Arms crossed, she says: "I didn't wanna fly anyway."


"Come on, don't be salty", Wendy says and laughs.


Nameless girl taps Rain on her back and tries to encourage her: "You'll get there! Don't mind!"


"I'm a little jealous now…" Rain admits, with a long face. "What's your name, by the way? I'm Rain."


"It's Tiara! Nice to meet you!"


"Well, enough of that", Wendy says and makes her wings disappear. "Let's go, Rain, and go wake Angel up."


Rain nods at her friend, and they head toward their home. Both of them wave the cheerful stranger goodbye as she joins her own group of friends, immediately starting to discuss going out to have an adventure.



Meanwhile, in her home, Angel continues to lay down and wait. She hears voices coming from outside before her friends even get close to her door, making her finally get up. She meets her friends outside the door, just as they're about to knock on it.


"Oh, you're awake", Wendy says.


"I actually woke up when you knocked", Angel admits. "Have you found out anything?"


"No, and neither has anyone else", Wendy says with a gloomy tone. "I suppose we should go train."


"Should we continue to train within Grove?" Rain asks. "Since we don't know what happens if we die and all that scary stuff."


"Yeah, now that I think of it, nobody has died yet…" Wendy realizes.


"Yeah, that's a good idea", Angel says. "Let's go."


"I'm glad you're cheered up a little bit", Rain says and lays her hand on Angel's shoulder. "Keep your chin up, will you?"


"I'll try…" Angel says and nods. "I just hope we find out more about this world soon."



The first thing the three girls do before they go is pick up fruits from the trees on the way. It won't boost their stats or anything, but it keeps the hunger away. And best of all, it's all free!


They arrive near the border of the zone and start killing enemies left and right. As soon as they find one, they charge at it. They're slow to start, but once they get rolling and find their grove, they feel like they're back at where they left last time around. With about a dozen of enemies dead in their trail - figuratively, since corpses disintegrate - they realize something.


"They don't seem to be giving out experience any more", Rain realized.


"Really?" Wendy doesn't believe it at first, but when she double checks her experience bar, which by the way, is displayed next to the level on the top right corner of the character page, she sees it unmoved. She has only one out of one hundred percent, which is where she left yesterday. "Looks like you're right. Let's move outside the barrier then."


They know they are very close to the protective barrier of Grove, but they can't see it immediately, as it appears invisible from a distance. When they get close to it, however, they finally see part of this dome-shaped barrier. Since the Grove is a big place, it appears as a wall in front of them, with a barely noticeable curve. Rain, reckless as always, is the first to approach it and press her hands against it. Ripples appear on the surface of the magic field, but she cannot touch it or even feel it. "My hand hasn't been bitten off yet, so it's probably safe."


"How much more difficult do you think the forest ahead is?" Wendy asks.


"Probably not much", Angel says. "I hope…" she immediately adds, almost whispering.


Wasting no more time, they walk through the barrier. To no surprise whatsoever, all they see is more forest ahead, with the same large trees all over the place. There is only one noticeable change, which is a cloud of mist scattered across the forest, which for some reason can't penetrate the protective barrier. Thinking about what comes next, their eyes begin scanning the wilderness. In the end, they decide to stay close to the barrier in case of an emergency, as they still have no idea how dangerous the area outside the barrier really is.


After a bit of walking, they notice something written on the barrier. It's a timer, ticking down second by second, from one hour to zero. This time around, Angel is the brave one to touch the barrier, only to find out it has turned impregnable. A message pops up for her to see, informing her that the barrier can only be accessed once in an hour to prevent players from exploiting it.


Hands on her hips, Wendy looks at the message floating like a hologram in front of her. "Would you look at that! We can't cheat and take breathers when we want."


"It's still probably a good idea to hug the wall", Angel says. "I don't want to get lost."


"Well, let's hope we don't get our arses kicked", Rain says and lays her sword on her shoulder.


"We've been invincible so far, so I wouldn't worry too much", Wendy says.



Wendy did some testing with her newly learned inspection ability to dig through information about critters in Grove to get a good idea about their stats so that they would find out how much more powerful enemies outside the barrier are. Turns out, they're two to three times stronger. No, that's an understatement and doesn't tell the whole story. They're two to three times bigger, better, faster, and stronger in every category. They do not, however, find themselves overwhelmed. As long as they keep things in control and only challenge one or two enemies at a time, they can power through them without worries. They fear that they could face some serious trouble if outnumbered, but they haven't come across a huge pack of enemies yet.


Insects remain mostly the same, but the critters are replaced by larger animals. Their first real challenge comes in a group of three goblin hunters, a party consisting of a tanky warrior, a bowman, and a healer. These goblins are about a meter in length but weigh more than Nymphs with all their fat and muscle. Fortunately, the Nymphs can land a surprise attack on their enemies for some extra oomph and another victory in their effortless undefeated streak.


They learn that sometimes enemies will leave a floating orb flying around upon death, which works like the player's own inventory. There is a catalog of items dropped by the enemy in this "storage unit", and players can move them to their inventories with a simple tap of a finger. These drops are rare and had been limited to trade-skill and profession-specific ingredients for the three Nymphs so far. It's free for all, even for people who did not participate in the kill, and therefore loot can be stolen by other players in theory.


They get their first gold coins from the goblins, along with an empty wooden cup and their first-ever piece of lore. It turns out to be information about various kinds of low-tier mushrooms in the region, which Angel finds useful given her desire to pick up cooking.


Finally, with an hour behind them, they show no signs of slowing down. They're not sure about how much time has passed, though, and honestly, they keep getting further and further away from the barrier. With every direction looking exactly the same, they would be screwed without a map.


They find something interesting. There is a clear stream of water running through the forest. Suddenly reminded of the seemingly useless cup they came across earlier, they summon it to use as a container for water and drink up.


Rain, who stole the cup right under her friends' noses, jokingly claiming it to be extremely valuable loot, is the first one to take a sip. It's a long and messy sip, as she was starting to get very thirsty. She wipes her jaw, but the water has already made it down her neck.


"Water has never tasted so good…" she says as she hands over the cup for her friends to enjoy, both of who are much more elegant and careful about their business as if careful they wouldn't get their clothes wet. "Should we head back soon? Our progress is pretty slow, although this is really exhausting."

"I was thinking about going on a while longer", Wendy says, "as long as that doesn't bother you."


"I'm cool with that", Angel says.


"In any case, I'm glad this is easy", Rain states.


Wendy sighs jokingly and says: "There we go. Now you jinxed it."


"Hey, even if I did, challenges are always acceptable."


"Not, when we don't know about repercussions", Wendy notes. "Anyway, we can still head towards the barrier. There are probably enemies on the way anyway." Just as she finishes up her sentence, she notices something flying very close to her. And not just something. It's a whole dozen of them. They're like fireflies but much smaller and slower. Glowing with a soft, green hue, they swarm around her, and she finds herself surprised. "What are these? They weird me out."


"They're pretty cute, to be honest", Rain says and extends her finger for one of them to land on. It almost instantly gives her a weak electric shock, which doesn't even hurt. It just feels nice and tingly. "Uhuhu, what a curious little bug indeed… They feel tingly…"


"They kind of remind me of those spirits trapped inside the lamps in our houses", Wendy realizes, with a hand on her jaw. "And here I thought Nymphs are vegan. They're happy to abuse animals when it suits their needs."


"I don't think Nymphs give a rat's arse about being vegans lore-wise, considering some Nymphs also wear leather", Rain says, shrugging. "Nymphs just have a plant-exclusive diet. That's all."


"I suppose…" Wendy says, nodding deep in thought. "I kind of want a steak now…"


"Don't make me puke", Rain says jokingly.


"There's something else as well", Angel says and points her staff at a strange, flying demonic eye, which is staring at them intensely.


Wendy, without hesitation, shoots it down and ends up killing it with just one shot. "Oh, maybe I should've inspected it first."


"There's more for you to inspect", Rain says and points towards a direction of three additional similar flying eyes.


"Ewww, that's creepy as hell", Wendy says and inspects one of them. "It's literally called a demon eye. They serve as eyes for more powerful demons to help them hunt."


"Does that mean there's a demon here as well?" Angel asks and casts a holy spell on one of the eyes while Wendy launches three additional bullets, one of which misses the target. For the record, holy spells, which are used to heal allies, deal damage against some enemies. Angel didn't know if it worked on a demon, but it seemed to deal a normal amount of damage to them.


A deafening roar invades their ears, and they all freeze like statues in surprise and fear. There's something dangerous heading towards them. They all take their arms and look towards the direction of the sound. They see a bloodred demon charging towards them. It's a humanoid with hands, legs, and even a tail, wearing nothing but black leather shorts reaching up to its knees, and wielding a massive sword that resembles more a stone slab than a practical weapon. It has long, black horns protruding from its forehead, and despite its humanlike angry face, it also has a nose ring. It's absolutely massive, about two and a half meters in height, and it's also fast. In fact, it's way too fast for them to escape even if they tried.


"Spread out!" Wendy commands and takes aim. She's afraid to take the first shot since doing so would draw attention to her, which is the last thing their group wants. Attention has to be on Rain, who has the ability, the experience, and the means to dodge its attacks effectively while also being able to fight back.


Rain realizes this too, but she's too scared to even move. She finds herself in a situation unlike anything she's faced before. Dying in a virtual reality setting is by no means a strange experience to her, but now the element of the unknown creeps into her mind. What happens if she dies? Is death permanent? Will she perish from Nymphsaga for good or respawn? Will she even die, or could something even more sinister happen? The idea of dying in real life sounds absurd to her, but she can't rule out that either.


Before she can even realize it, the enemy is about to swing down its sword to crush her. She rolls off to the side at the last second but is way too scared to even think about striking back. Terrified, kneeling down after a successful dodge, she realizes that after a heavy swing, the demon appears defenseless while it slowly picks up its sword. It's too late to attack anymore, but she now knows exactly how to approach her giant foe and waits for the next chance. She also notices a friendly spell-effect on herself. Angel cast a rejuvenating heal on her to restore her stamina over time. Since Rain hadn't taken the full attention of the demon, it sets it gazes on Angel, the physically weakest of the bunch, by a long shot. Rain gets on her feet and starts chasing the demon as it goes after Angel.


"God damn it! Angel, focus on dodging it!"


Angel is slow to dodge the sword strike, but she manages to get out of the way unharmed. She does fall flat on her face though, which is unsurprising considering her lack of experience in such situations. The demon is quick to attack again, this time without its weapon, as it's looking to grab Angel to its giant hand. Rain sees her chance and strikes the enemy with her sword, catching the attention back to herself. Wendy also attacks, not caring anymore if the enemy will attack her or not. It will drain their stamina dry before the trio manages to defeat it if they don't go all out.


With the demon's attention back on Rain, he unleashes a barrage of strikes and slashes. They're much quicker than before and way too frequent for Rain to launch a successful counterattack, but she's good at dodging them. What's more, there is a clear pattern to its attacks. There are four quick attacks, a pause, another quick attack followed by a grabbing attempt, and then finally, a powerful swing. Such patterns are not unusual for anyone even remotely experienced in virtual reality gaming and are a staple in Mormia as well. The swings will always come from randomized directions, but if Rain can read the signs, which are very easy to spot, she can dodge. She knows she might be too reckless, but she also realizes that following the final attack, she can dodge forward and strike the enemy with her best shot. So, she does and attacks its tendons to get it off its feet, powering up her slashing attack with her "Power Slash" multiplier, an attack that proves to be effective. With the enemy momentarily stunned, the trio is given time to regroup. Rain already finds herself out of breath, but lucky for her, Angel, who has regained her composure, is back on point with her heals to keep Rain rejuvenated and ready for combat.


"We can do this!" Wendy shouts, summoning and loading a special cartridge to her weapon, which will add a poison bullet to her gun. This bullet will deal massive damage over time and likely taunt and annoy it as well, making Wendy a more likely target for future attacks.


"I wonder if we can execute it!?" Angel yells, sounding panicked.


"Worth a fucking try!" Rain rushes the enemy bravely, but the enemy senses her coming from behind, attacking with a quick surprise slash to start a new round of attacks. Rain manages to stop at the last minute, managing to dodge the potentially lethal attack. Demon is back to its feet with its attention in Rain. The moment it feels the poison bullet burning through its flesh, however, it gazes at Wendy, running towards it even faster than angrier than before.


"I thought you slowed it!" Wendy complains and finds herself in a desperate attempt to dodge enemy swings.


"Yeah, so did I!" Rain shouts and rushes in for a save. She can't get in between them while the enemy is attacking, but she can wait for a moment to strike the way she did before. "Angel, top me up! I'm going all in!"


"You better do it! I'm running dry on mana already!"


Rain sees an opportune moment when the demon goes for the final big swing and is momentarily stunned. She thinks about going for the tendons again, but a sudden thought crosses her mind. How realistic exactly IS this game? In Mormia, the game she's used to playing, if one goes for a spot where one can get a guaranteed critical multiplier, like neck, for example, the enemy will take massive damage but will not necessarily die. There are no critical hits in Nymphsaga, but could she still deal extra damage by hitting the enemy's vulnerable spots? She puts her idea to use by going after the enemy's limbs, and with a powered-up slash, draining half of her stamina at once, slicing the enemy's arm clean in half. Suddenly roaring at the top of its lungs, the enemy lost its hand and is therefore unable to pick up its sword and continue fighting properly. Momentarily stunned, it doesn't even realize that the Nymph's attack is not complete. On her last legs, Rain can only do one final strike before falling to her knees in exhaustion, but it's worth the risk, especially now that the enemy is unarmed. She goes for the neck with the same slashing attack, executing the enemy and sending its head rolling.


All three Nymphs, in this sudden moment of relief, fall flat on their butts and watch their giant enemy disappear into thin air, leaving behind its loot.


"Thank fuck it's dead…" Angel says, hyperventilating. "Are you two okay!?"


"Yeah, just out of breath…" Rain complains and gets back on her knees, sweating and panting. She hasn't regained her strength to get up yet.


"I felt so useless…" Wendy admits.


"No, you were great…" Rain says and gives her friend a thumbs-up sign. "Thanks for taking the attention off me when I needed it the most. You were great too, Angel."


"Yeah, thanks for doing the heavy lifting, both of you", Angel says.


"I've always had respect for tanks for doing the hardest job", Wendy says smiling and gives Rain her hand. "But I'll be honest, I never thought you would actually be good at it."


"Come on, Wendy…" Rain says and gets on her feet. "Don't be rude. I'm a literal god of war, and you know it."


"Yeah, yeah, I know", Wendy says and laughs. "You smug fuck."


Angel comes in to click at the orb left. "What did it drop?" she thinks to herself and looks at the loot table. There is money, a ring that boosts mana regeneration, a pair of spare underwear, and a piece of lore. "Well, the ring is mine."


Rain steals the panties and immediately summons them. They are a pair of pink and white striped panties. "Wow, they're nice."


"Why are you checking out the panties first…?" Wendy asks, giving her friend a deadly stare.


"I don't know. I just found it weird that it would drop underwear of all things."


"Do they even give any stats?"


"It says they are cursed panties…" Rain says, reading its effects, with a slight blush on her face, one that she can't hide behind her usually emotionless face. "It reads that they will mask the scent of a female at the cost of increased sensitivity."


"Stop fucking around, you pervert!" Wendy yells, blushing even more than Rain. She steals the panties from Rain's hands and begins to read the holographic information window that pops up upon inspection.


"Are you sure you don't wanna give them to me?" Rain asks jokingly. "You always complain that I'm too insensitive."


"I don't think that's what the curse means…" Angel says, holding back her laughter.


Wendy finds herself perplexed by the item information given out on the panties. "Okay…? It doesn't look like you were kidding…"


Rain crosses her arms and says: "I may be an arsehat, but I'm not a liar."


"Why would something like this even exists…?" Wendy asks and tosses the panties in the stream.


"No, our precious loot!" Rain says and runs to the rescue. She picks up the panties and wrings them dry. "Don't throw my panties into a river."


"It's almost like you forgot about the lore", Angel says and picks up the little page. "It's apparently from the Bioengineer's logbook."


"Oh, that's a new one", Wendy says. Most lore booklets come in the form of pages from a logbook. There are many of them in Nymphsaga, covering pretty much every subject in-game. They remember seeing books in the library about the Bioengineer's logbook in particular, but all of those books were empty and left to be discovered. What they found was page one of this coveted series of books, an entry they're more than happy to donate to the library for all to read, but not before they read it themselves.


"Damn, it's pretty long", Angel says and sends it to her inventory. "Let's get out of here first and read it when we get home."


"Yeah, this place turned out to be pretty dangerous", Rain says. "Hey boss, lead the way."


"You're the tank…" Wendy says.


"You're the one with an accurate map and a compass."


Wendy points in the right direction and says: "That way."


Rain nods and takes the frontal position in the party.



Nothing in the forest can surprise them anymore. They can handle everything that dares to stand in their way. After almost two hours, their adventure for the day is over. They feel like they couldn't go on further even if they wanted to because of how exhausting it feels. All the wear and tear take a toll on their bodies.


Now, safely inside the barrier, they immediately head home to split the loot evenly. They mostly got reagents for professions, most of which are useless to them. Thinking some of them could turn out to be useful in the future, they store some of them home, and the rest they take with them in hopes of finding a shop where they can either trade or sell them.


But for now, they sit down at the terrace to get to the bottom of the lore page they found.



Excerpt from the Bioengineer's Logbook; "a Study on the History, Biology and Behavior of Nymphs", entry number one, "Inception of the Nymph, Part One."


Foreword from the translator:


The anonymous author of this translation would like to point out that most of the names, terminology, and measurements written on the source material have been liberally converted from Altarian language to the one Nymphs are more familiar with. The translation is not perfect, as there are many Altarian words and terms that are unknown to the Nymph's language. Still, the intended meaning and the bigger picture of the original text should not be lost in translation.


This book is about Nymphs, an artificial race created by us Altarians almost a thousand years ago. It has been written by a team of researchers and scientists who have been studying Nymphs independently for nearly a hundred years. This team is also credited with being the biggest voice in favor of reintroducing the once-forgotten subject of Nymphs to the dialogue of Altarian scientific communities. This book will go through the history of Nymphs, beginning from their inception all the way to the present day, their physical biology and bodily functions, and finally, their behavior as a species. This is by no means a comprehensive study but rather a quick overview of these curious little creatures, meant to be read as a bite-sized introductory piece. No matter what, do NOT let the contents of this book fall into the hands of Nymphs, and do not translate these texts to their language.


Every living being needs nutrients to live. This is a universal constant across the galaxy, even in alien worlds thousands of light-years away from us. Predators eat meat, herbivores eat plants, and then there's us, the Altarians, who feast on source. Like most of the ones reading this book already know, source is a form of energy that can be found all around us in the planet Altaria in one way or another. Like moisture in the air, most of it floats inaccessible to us, but it can also be found in plants and living beings. It has to be either extracted or artificially created to enjoy. Over the years, we Altarians have tried coming up with new, creative, and, most importantly, exciting ways to consume source. About nine hundred years ago, our ancestors came up with perhaps the most innovative one yet, simply known as the Nymph.


Nymphs are creatures modeled after an alien race we discovered on a blue planet a hundred stars away from home. These aliens are small, frail, and beautiful beings. Our ancestors took a great interest in them when they discovered them. The aliens were still in the early stages of their civilization, but they were intelligent to the point where it's not hard to think that they could technologically surpass us in ten to a hundred thousand years, should they survive to that point on their own. In some ways, they have a lot in common with us. Like us, they have culture and value entertainment. Also, like us, they require food to survive. They have a vicious side and have wars within their own species, yet are the sole dominant being in their own world. And finally, they, like the other aliens in their world, reproduce in an almost identical manner to us, with the only difference being that they give birth to living offspring instead of eggs. Our ancestors especially found themselves enchanted by their young ones. That's why they decided to model Nymphs after their children in specific.


Nymphs, at the time of their creation, were a scientific breakthrough of sorts. Despite being relatively small, they produce tremendous amounts of source, and they can do it through their normal bodily functions by converting some of their energy received through nutrition into source. Another thing that makes them special is that they are not themselves dependent on source for their survival, even though they are living, breathing beings. Their source generation is directly linked to their sexuality, so their source could be produced even more rapidly during heat and directly absorbed through intercourse.


I must ask you this, dear reader: can you think of a more satisfying way to enjoy your daily dose of source than through sex? I sure can't. What's best, Nymphs are very cheap to mass-produce to the boot. They were at the time of their inception truly an absolute marvel of Altarian bioengineering genius.


They were, however, considered a financial failure for the company that manufactured them. They were very frail and died easily, which caused a huge percentage of them to be recalled by millions of customers and retailers alike. Even after making modifications to them to make the next generation of Nymphs stronger, the company couldn't recover from their bad reputation anymore. With over a million Nymphs left to their hands, they were approached by an unexpected ally looking to cut a deal with the company, a deal which would turn out to be perhaps the most controversial chapter in the history of the Nymph.



The entry ends there, with the second part still left to be discovered. But even with this information, the three girls find themselves shocked by the contents of this page. What they have found is a huge revelation about the true nature of the game, which they have found to be sexual. Horrified, confused, and in utter disbelief, they do not even know how to process most of it.


"What the fuck have we gotten ourselves into…" Wendy mutters.


"Yeah, this has to be some kind of cruel joke after all…" Angel says, shaking.


Wendy knows this is probably likely to not be a joke. She doesn't want to admit out loud that she has already experienced the sexual side of the game, especially to her close friends, but she very much knows that there is a possible sexual aspect to the game. She experienced it first-hand. Even still, having read that in Nymphsaga's lore, the Nymphs are an artificially created race that exists to be fucked, and for a generation of source, some kind of mysterious substance meant for consumption, she finds herself in disbelief. She's shocked and feeling sick to her stomach. That's the kind of world she's stuck in, as a Nymph, as a literal living sex toy for some alien race? "Yeah, this has to be a joke…" she says.


Rain slams her hands against the table, uncharacteristically agitated, with fear mirrored in her facial expressions. "We have to tell everyone immediately!" she yells, looking at both of her friends, who just sit frozen still, devastated. "Everyone needs to know about the nature of this game!"


"Ahh, I'm so fucking done already…" Angel says, feeling like collapsing. "I feel like giving up…"


"H-hold on, no!" Rain yells loudly and stands up, knocking off her own chain in the process. "Give up, and what!? Stay here!?"


Angel answers by getting up herself. "What the fuck do you want us to do!? We don't even know how to get out or if it even is possible!"


"We have to try and find out!"


"If we go out there, who knows what will happen!"


"Well, what do you suggest then? Do you want us to just sit here in safety and accept our fate? Fuck that!"


"There's NO WAY in hell I'm getting out there with the possibility of being raped looming over our head!"


"Did you already forget that we were doing great out there? If we're careful, we're going to be fine!"


"Fine? That's what you call barely getting away from that demon? For fucks sake, we killed it by a hair's margin!"


Irritated, Wendy finally intercepts, with a yell of her own: "Stop fighting, you idiots!" With that one command, fighting really stops. No more shouting is exchanged between the two, or Wendy for that matter. "It's okay to be outraged, but we can't afford to get mad at each other. "


Rains sighs. "You're right… I'm sorry, Angel…" Angel just nods as a reply. "I guess the news really drove us all off the cliff…"


"My point still stands…" Angel says, repeating herself. "I feel like giving up…"


"I guess we have to just agree to disagree because I'm not giving up, ever."


Wendy finally stands up and confronts Rain. "I don't think that's what Angel means, Rain. I agree with you, we can't give up, no matter what, but I too do certainly feel like giving up on this shit completely…"


Rain doesn't feel the exact same way, but having relaxed a little bit, she at least can understand where Angel and Wendy are coming from. She walks to Angel and offers her hand to her friend. "We're all in this together, just like every other player here is. We have a duty, and that duty starts by informing everyone about what we found. I understand it's hard. I am sympathetic towards you. I really am. But don't give me that bullshit about giving up."


A tense stare-down ensues between the two friends, and Angel refuses to take Rain's hand, causing Rain to sigh deeply.


"Let's do our duty to the community", Rain suggests. "After that, we can have it your way and take a couple of days off to gather our thoughts."


Angel finally nods and gives Rain her hand, shaking it softly. The three girls head immediately towards the library to donate this terrifying yet valuable information to the library for all to see.







Recess II

While the trio of Rain, Wendy, and Angel are unique in finding written evidence about the perverted nature of Nymphsaga, they were not the first to realize some of the enemies lust after Nymphs sexually. They heard stories from and about Nymphs who have been sure they would've been raped had they lost, and of Nymphs who have managed to even escape ongoing rape. Sex seems to be an undeniable part of the game, which players will have to get used to. The perverted world was finally starting to unravel before the very eyes of those trapped within.


Because of these revelations and the fact that some Nymphs had not returned home from their respective adventures, two decisions were collectively made within the community of Grove. First, nobody should leave alone, and preferably not even as a duo. It is highly recommended that groups consist of three or more Nymphs and have a diverse range of combat roles. And second, Nymphs must stick together and make friends with strangers to form a wide network where people know each other. They are all in this together, and to survive, they must help each other in this extreme time of need.


With the rest of the day being off for our three heroines, they all decided to focus on being alone and keep to themselves for the time being. This is probably for the best, considering that all of them were irritated and very likely to fight over how they should go about their business moving forward. Rain, who just can't stay still in her own room, opts to take a walk and do some business meanwhile. She is motivated by one person who she met earlier the same day: Tiara.


For some reason, she finds herself enthralled by this girl, who she kind of wants to get to know better to start forming a wider network of friends. Is it love? "Love at first sight" is a cliché she doesn't believe in, but she can't deny her fascination with this person. Then again, Rain is not in love with her either. She just thought it would be cool to have some new friends, and Tiara seemed nice! Tiara seemed motivated to go on an adventure too, which is a quality that Rain greatly values. Now, Rain doesn't think she will find this one Nymph from the city, considering how far and wide it is and considering how many Nymphs there are. Hell, Tiara could even be out there with her own group of friends adventuring!


Unsurprisingly, on her little stroll, she doesn't come across the cheerful burst of joy that is Tiara. She has to try and make friends with other people now. Besides, she has some other business as well. She's looking for various people to trade reagents with, as she is looking to get rid of stuff she finds personally useless while getting something more useful in return. It is worth pointing out that while there is money in the form of looted gold coins, nobody is actually using them and instead just trades items for items. This is primarily because nobody can agree on prices and because there's not much money in circulation yet anyway. Of course, you can divide one gold coin into ten silver coins to ease things up, but there is still too much imbalance. Besides, money has to be used to upgrade housing and buy spells from the library, which effectively means that the little money in circulation is best used for those purposes.


Near the neighborhood Rain lives in, she finds an adorable little boutique amid giant bushes next to a much larger apartment complex in the form of a tree, with a sign depicting a potion vial hanging from a little tree branch close to it. Thinking she could probably use some potions on her adventures, given that neither of her close friends can make them, she walks in. It's a tiny but charming shop with only a few items on display on its five small shelves, but what it lacks in goods, it certainly has in the atmosphere. From a simple yet colorful layout to a calming scent of lavender, it feels like a place she would just love to relax in. On a little armchair, she sees a Nymph, with a red book in her hand, looking straight into Rain with her fascinated dark brown eyes. This one has a south-east Asian complexion with characteristic dark hair and brown skin. She's fully human-like and, at first glance - in the eyes of Rain at least - very adorable.


"Hello there", she says in a calm and collected manner, closing her book.


Rain walks up to her and offers this Nymph her hand. "Hi. Let's be friends."


The Nymph stands up, shakes Rain's hand, and with a wide arced smile says: "Okay!"


"Wow, that was easy."


"Yeah, it was the easiest friend I've ever made!" the Nymph says and giggles softly, in a very feminine manner. "I like you already. What's your name?"


"It's Rain."


"I'm Lemon! So nice to meet you!"


Rain looks around the shop. "Is this your shop?"


"Yes, it is indeed!"


"It's pretty cute."


"Thank you! You're my sixth-ever customer! I wanted to set up a shop to operate while taking breaks, so I can contribute to the community better."


"That's pretty nice of you", Rain compliments. "Are you an alchemist?"


Lemon nods. "How about you?"


"I'm an enchanter. Just a beginner, though."


"I heard enchanters are pretty rare at the moment", Lemon says, surprised.


"Really? Good for me, I guess."


"Yes, indeed! You'll be in high demand in the future! So, do you have business with me?"


Rain nods. "I got a bunch of stuff I don't need on my adventure with my friends, so I'm looking to trade."


"We can trade for sure. I can also make potions out of the ingredients you found!"


"That would be pretty cool, actually", Rain says and walks to the counter with Lemon. Rain goes through her inventory to pick items she doesn't need but only displays those Lemon could be interested in. While she does, she notices the curious gaze of Lemon, who has taken a deep interest in her for some reason. Lemon is just a little bit taller than Rain, by maybe one or two centimeters. She's wearing a very modest and girly, loose, and comfortable creamy white top, and she is wearing a bright, multicolor pearl necklace. She has opted to wear loose and easy-to-move-in shorts instead of a much more popular skirt, and they are black in color. Rain, who is not used to such a curious gaze, finds herself blushing and also hoping Lemon wouldn't notice her nervousness.


"This should be all", Rain says, finally presenting her items to Lemon fully.


"That's a big haul indeed! I can make you some stamina and mana potions with these four items, at least. Not sure about the others."


"That could be helpful. Do you take a cut?"


"No, no, there's no need for that."


Rain tilts her head. "I would feel bad."


Lemon, with thinned-out eyelids, rubs her fingertips together softly and says: "Friends do favors for each other's, so it's only fair that I do one for you."


"I guess I have to think of a way to give you a favor back", Rain says, cracking a rare smile.


"I'll be your alchemist. You can be my enchantress", Lemon suggests.


"That works", Rain says, nodding. "I can even enchant some gear you have to offer so you can get a better deal from them. I see you already have two pieces on display."

"Speaking of gear, what's up with these panties?" Lemon asks and picks them up with one finger. Rain immediately remembers the cursed panties she looted. She wasn't supposed to display them for Lemon to see, and now she finds herself a little embarrassed. "Oh, they're cursed? What's up with that?" Lemon seems to find humor in them, which is a relief for Rain.


"Yeah, they're weird… I wasn't supposed to show them, to be honest…"


"Why would there be a need to mask the scent of a female, though?" Lemon asks, perplexed, with a finger pressed against her lips. "I don't get it…"


Rain realizes something crucial. Lemon doesn't seem to know about the true nature of the game yet. " Wait, have you not been to the city today?"


Lemon shakes her head. "I have been working on setting up my shop."


"I… I really think you should hear the news…" Rain says.


"Is it important?"


Rain nods. "Super important."


"Can you tell me now?"


"Apparently…" Rain starts but stops immediately. She is not even sure how to put it into words. "Long story short, there are some enemies which lust after Nymphs sexually, against our consent. This game is a very perverted one."


Lemon's smile has disappeared. "Really…?" she asks, quietly, almost whispering. "That's a lot to wrap your head around… Thank you for telling me…" Rain realizes that Lemon is trying to smile, but she can tell it's a fake smile. She begins to separate the ingredients she needs for potions from the rest of the items. "You can take the rest of your items away. Take five potions of each type from my shelves. I'll restock later."


Rain nods. "Cheers, Lemon. But are you okay? Having heard that."


"I… I don't know…" Lemon admits and stops all movement. "But I don't want to dwell on negative things. I'll think about it and what it means to me at my own time."


Rain nods slowly. "If you say so."


"Oh, about those panties, by the way… Do you need them?" Rain is not sure but ends up shaking her head anyway. "Can I have them? If there are enemies that can sense us Nymphs, maybe masking my scent would be a good idea considering that I'm a stealth ranger…"


"If that's true, these must be much more useful to you than me or any member of my group."


"Thank you, Rain. Are you interested in taking gear from me? There's a ring that's useless for me if you want that."


Rain takes a look at the ring, which boosts stamina regeneration by a little bit. "That's perfect for a fighter. I'll take it."


"Great! It's a fair trade then!"


"I should probably be on my way then", Rain says and turns her body towards the front door. "You motivated me to train my enchanting as well."


"Wait a minute…" Lemon says and walks next to Rain. "Where do you live?"


"Eh…?"


"Mark the map for me", Lemon asks, grabbing Rain's hand, holding it tightly and lovingly. "I'll be sure to visit you if you happen to be home since we're friends and all. I want to know you better."


Rain nods, but there's a problem. "How, though?"


"Oh, didn't you know?" Lemon asks and opens up her user interface while still holding Rain's hand. "If we're in direct skin-to-skin contact with each other, we can share the user interface. See? When I open up mine, you can see it as well." It's true. The user interface of a Nymph appears invisible to everyone else except the user herself, but Rain can see Lemon's interface. Rain knows how to mark a map, so she taps her finger at the location of her house. "That's so close! We're basically neighbors!"


"I'll be sure to visit you too", Rain promises. "By the way, who do you usually adventure with?"


"I have just tagged along with random people. I started playing this game alone, so I have no close friends of my own yet."


"Well, since I'm your friend now, maybe I can be your close friend too. You can join me and my pals anytime."

"Wow, that makes me so happy! Thanks!"


"By the way, do you know a Nymph called Tiara?"


Lemon shakes her head. "Doesn't ring a bell. Why?"


"Oh, I'm on a quest to make a lot of friends. I wanted to make her my friend too."


"Oh my, you sure are greedy to want a lot of friends!" Lemon says and giggles. "I hope you can become friends with her too!"


Rain laughs. "I'll be on my way now."


"I'll see you again soon", Lemon says, letting go of Rain and waving to her. "And thank you for becoming my friend!"



It has been two days since. In the end, Rain never finds Tiara again, but that's not important anymore. Their paths won't cross for a while for reasons that will remain unexplained for the time being.


The break has concluded, with Angel finally being willing and able to return to the front lines. In the end, a break was exactly what she needed, and Wendy felt the same. Looking back, taking a break was perfect also for Rain, even though she initially resisted the idea of taking breaks and taking it easy.


Having reconciled, Rain and Angel apologize to each other properly for fighting and yelling at each other. They're ready to face the unknown together, push forward and try to uncover more secrets about Phantasm and possibly even how to escape it. They find themselves ready, but with Wendy still sleeping, they climb all the way to the top floor.


"It's unusual for Wendy to be the last one up", Angel says.


Rain is gazing at the view from the highest floor. "She sure has a nice view from here. It must be nice to just jump down and use your wings to land."


"I haven't even learned how to summon wings yet, and she can fly effortlessly."


"Yeah, I'm really jealous", Rain says and decides to knock on a door. "Get out, Wendy! We're going on an adventure!" There is no reply.


"Should I open the door?" Angel asks.


This time, there is a reply. "N-no, don't come in! I'm almost ready! Just wait a little bit!"


Rain and Angel look at each other, both shrugging. And finally, after a wait of roughly two minutes, Wendy finally bursts out from her little apartment. Both Rain and Angel gaze at her suspiciously, and Wendy lowers her eyebrows, irritated. "What are you looking at…"


"What were you doing?" Rain asks.


"I was just getting up…"


"Why did you tell us not to enter yet?"


"B-because I sleep naked!" Wendy yells, blushing in rage. "Nothing weird about that, okay!? I can't sleep with clothes on! It's uncomfortable!"


"Why are you getting embarrassed over something like that?" Angel asks and laughs. "I sleep with nothing but panties myself."


"I got pajamas", Rain says.


"Really? You!?" Wendy asks and immediately starts laughing.


Rain nods with a serious expression. "They're pink and have cute bunnies printed on them."


"Oh my gosh, this is hilarious!" Wendy yells, laughing. "What kind of adult wears pajamas!? You're such a weirdo!"


"I'm a little girl, not an adult", Rain remarks. "And stop trying to shame me for being a pure maiden."


"There's nothing pure about you", Angel says jokingly, giggling. "You're a self-admitted lolicon."


"Yeah, this pervert probably plays with her brand-new pussy every chance she gets", Wendy adds, holding laughter.


"Whaaat? Of course not", Rain says. "I already said I'm a pure maiden."


"Whatever", Wendy says and starts to calm down. "Let's go already."


"I got my friend to make potions for us", Rain says and offers her mana potions to Angel. "Here you go. I'll hold on to stamina potions."


"Ah, thanks."


"Do you have nothing for me?" Wendy asks.


"No. You insulted me with your naughty remarks and have to repent for your sins."


Wendy laughs softly. "Come on, Rain…"







The Second Expedition, the One that Went Slightly Wrong

Excerpt from the Gamer's Logbook; "Exploring the Mechanics of Nymphsaga", entry number ???, "On Ranking Enemies."


The enemies in Nymphsaga do not have any levels attached to them. Instead, each individual type of enemy has sets of stats that vary slightly based on their location. Instead, every foe has a rank which determines their overall difficulty.


Normal enemies go from A to F, with F being the weakest and A being the strongest. To get a general feel of the difficulty, rank F enemies are typically one-shot kills, which is why it is not uncommon for such enemies to come in groups for increased difficulty. Ranks C, D, and E usually take some heavy lifting and require Nymph to be careful not to mess up, but are generally speaking still easy to defeat in a one-on-one setting.


A and B rank enemies will feel strong to anyone who comes across one for the first time and can be hard for inexperienced players to defeat effortlessly, but they are not quite elite yet. Elites are ranked with an S and are typically twice as powerful as a normal A rank enemy would be, making them truly formidable foes. There are three elite ranks, with the level two and three just having two or three S letters in them, and as the letters increase, so does the overall difficulty.


Lastly, there are also bosses, the most difficult of all the enemies, ranked by an X. A boss rated with one X is designed for a group of five, a boss rated XX for a group of ten, and XXX, the ultimate challenge in Nymphsaga, is for a group of twenty and upwards. It is a generally accepted fact that no matter how fantastic one's equipment is, no single Nymph can ever manage to take a boss down by herself.


These ranks are a vital mechanic for every Nymph to learn. Knowing the strength of the enemy before the fight starts is very important, as it can help Nymphs pick up the right strategies from the start, and in some cases even avoid fights completely.



The expedition of Rain, Wendy, and Angel to the depths of the forest continues from where their last one left off. They find themselves acting very cautiously because they think it can never hurt being too careful considering what they have learned. They do not want to get raped, especially not because of their own carelessness. As their first true challenge, they come across a demon similar to the one they killed at the end of their last adventure, but this time, they have the upper hand and manage to surprise it. They kill it without even breaking a sweat this time, which is a massive boost of morale for them.


Past the stream in the yet unknown parts of the forest, woodland turns thicker and darker. There's an ominous hue in the color palette all around them, suggesting that maybe they shouldn't venture so deep into the forest after all.


"This is a bad idea…" Angel thinks out loud. With a cautious look in her eyes, she observes the forest as if expecting to be attacked at any moment.


"Where are we anyway?" Rain wonders.


Wendy opens up her map, only to see the compass broken. Alarmed, she begins to mumble without saying anything comprehensible. Rain grabs her arm to see the map herself, a move that surprises Wendy for a second before she remembers that that's how the map can be shared. "Well, the map works, but I'm not so sure about the directions anymore… I'm pretty sure that the map has also rotated, but I'm not sure how much and in which direction. Zooming out doesn't work either, since it just breaks the map."


"I vote we rely on our senses and just turn back", Angel says.


Both Rain and Wendy answer one after another and agree to go back and look for a safer place to train in. They have a pretty good idea of where they came from and go in that general direction. A while later, however, they realize can't find the safer part of the forest. Every direction looks the same, so they can't even tell if they're going the right way or not. All they know is that they have searched for an exit way, way too long now.


"I think we're lost", Wendy admits and looks at her friends with regret. "Sorry, I'm supposed to be the navigator here, being a scout and all…"


Rain tries to comfort Wendy with a kind tap to her back and nods at her. "Just keep doing your best."


"I'm pretty sure we haven't been here yet", Angel remarks and points in the direction of a large oak. "I don't remember that tree."


Neither do Rain or Wendy. It is a thick oak, pitch-black in color. It is very different from the other trees in the area. It seems that it has grown partially into a huge boulder, under which Wendy spots a hidden trove of some sort. As she walks in the direction of it, she hears weird squishy noises coming from above. When she raises her eyes to the branches above, it's already too late to act. Before she can even aim her guns upward, she feels a wet block of green slime fall on her face. And it is very heavy. It's so heavy, in fact, that Wendy finds herself falling down, with her butt hitting against the squishy moss underneath. The slime doesn't stick to her hair, but it creeps down her clothes and skin, entangling around her body, almost as if it were alive. "What the fuck is this thing!?"


Rain takes her sword but soon realizes she can't just charge in and hit the slime, as she would surely hit Wendy. Is friendly fire even a thing? she wonders. Based on how realistic everything is, I'd wager yes. I can't save her without hurting her.


Meanwhile, Angel finds herself panicking, trying to find out if there are more of these slimes.


Luckily, for everyone else except Wendy, the slime on her is the only one on sight. As she wonders if it really is alive or not, it reveals itself to be very much alive. It presses into her body, trying to restrain her, and tries to slide its cold surface under her shirt with a thin, slow-moving layer. She drops her weapons and tries to grab into it, but her fingers just sink into it, with the slime sticking onto her fingers and even repairing itself after being damaged. Despite not being strong, it's almost impossible to defend against once it has gotten its prey and way too heavy to shake off either, especially with a Nymph fallen on her back or butt. "It's getting under my clothes! Help me, for crying out loud!"


Rain turns towards Angel. "Try a holy spell! It's our only option!"


Angel realizes this. Holy spells do, after all, work on many enemies. They do not work on mammals such as wolves or native "beastkin" like goblins, but they have worked on everything else so far with varying success. As she casts her holy spell and aims it at the slime, the slime literally explodes into small green chunks, getting destroyed with a single spell. The slime instantly begins to liquidity and evaporate like boiling water turning into vapor, and this bubbly liquid seems to have some nasty, unintended consequences for Wendy. She takes one look at her shirt, which is not only ruined but literally melting. Destroyed completely, the shards of cloth that are left fall to the ground, leaving her shirtless. She automatically covers her bare, flat chest and turns her back at her friends.


"My shirt! It left me topless!"


"O-oh, shit…" is the only thing Rain can say.


"And I have no spare!" Wendy complains after a quick run through her inventory.


"Yeah, me neither…" Angel says.


Suddenly, Rain feels something running up her leg and looks down. Another slime has popped out of somewhere. There's a lot of them, and the three Nymphs are surrounded. "Guys, there are more of them!"


As soon as Wendy realizes this, she picks a target and starts shooting it rapidly, emptying her entire clip on it. Slime appears undamaged by her bullets. She inspects it and realizes something horrible. This rank F slime, the weakest of all the enemies in the area, has so little durability that it will literally shatter from any attack, but it is immune to all forms of physical damage.


Not knowing this, Rain kicks at the slime at her foot, but her foot just ends up sinking into it, which in turn causes her to slip magnificently as she makes the mistake of putting some weight on her leg. For her, the situation is instantly worse than it was for Wendy because of the simple fact that she's wearing a miniskirt. Her butt immediately slams against the physically immune slime, and she continues to slide, falling on her back.


"Rain, they're immune to our attacks!"


"Say that sooner next time!" Rain shouts as she feels the wet, slimy surface of the little green monster press against her vulva through her panties. She panics and closes her legs with force, to absolutely no success. Slime contracts a little bit, but she can't squeeze her legs together, much less get it away from her groin. And then there is another slime taking control of her upper body, restricting her movements completely and preventing her from doing anything other than flailing her legs in the air. She can't even raise her body up from the angle she is in because of the heavy weights put on her body. A strange and powerful yet unknown sensation overtakes her as the slime rubs against her private parts, looking for a way in. Or is it even doing that? It's trying to melt her panties to get a better feel, that's for sure. It's rubbing her, causing her body to convulse and bend involuntarily as her most sensitive part is being teased. Her reactions are amazing, and her shaky voice is forced to escape her mouth as she moans desperately. It presses into her now exposed slit rubbing its wet, oily skin softly up and down, sending shockwaves all around Rain's body. Involuntarily, she's starts to get aroused. It's not a completely unknown sensation to her yet, even though - like she told her friends earlier - she hasn't tried masturbating yet.


Meanwhile, shaking and panicking, Wendy starts loading poison bullets into her gun, which must be loaded one by one. Gun also has to be reloaded immediately after one shot, making her only means of dealing damage to slimes ineffective. Wendy tries her luck at one approaching slime and sees it explode as the bullet runs through its weak body. She takes too much time, though. There are already three new slimes coming at her from behind her back and from the side. Still sitting on her butt, she can't even rush to her feet before one of them latches itself into her back. "There's so many of them!" she screams as she feels one getting down her pants, into her butt crack. "It's going to rape me!"


The cry of help wakes up Angel, who is the only one effective in combating these slimes. In fact, she's highly effective against them. Both her spells are just as cheap, but she doesn't have enough mana to kill them all. She's already dry, with five slimes left to go, two of which are trying to rape Rain and three of which are trying to rape Wendy. Having managed to save her own ass, she realizes this way too late. "I think I might be out of mana…" she says with sweat running down her face.


"Are you kidding me!?" Wendy shouts. The slime presses against her butthole like a wet finger, softly pushing against her opening. "It's going into my ass!"


"Bear with it! I-it's going to regenerate! I'll save you both then!"


However, she soon realizes it's not that simple. Mana does constantly regenerate slowly over time, kind of like a cell dividing, but having exhausted it all in a hurry, the regeneration has halted completely. After all, there are no more cells to regenerate, so it has to come from somewhere else.


"I-it's gonna take some time, though…"


"Angel, I gave you those potions!" Rain yells. She feels the slime hardening as it prepares for a wet insertion, as it's constantly teasing her now swollen labia majora and her slightly loosened-up virgin hole. "Just kill them! I don't care if my clothes get ruined! I don't want to be raped like this!"


Angel, who had forgotten the mana potions Rain gave her, picks up one from her inventory and drinks it up. In an instant, it grants her a minute's worth of regenerated mana, which is almost the full capacity, and just enough for her to save both her friends from being penetrated. Both of them are left exhausted and, more importantly, stark naked. Angel remains unscratched, even from the chunks of slime that flew past her.


"Please tell me that was last of them…" Rain says and gets to her feet, hands covering her swollen vagina, which still feels really sensitive from all the stimulation she endured. Fuck, that felt nothing like what I tried in my solitude out of curiosity, she thinks. I never ever went even close to that far…


"Better be because I'm out of weapons", Angel says. And just as she says this, she feels the final wrath of the slime, which jumps at her back, wrapping around her torso from behind, forcing her to let out a scream. Wendy shoots it with her poison bullet and finishes up the last piece of slime. Angel looks down at her body and sees her dress evaporating, left almost naked. She still has her panties and shoes, which is still more than Rain and Wendy have. She falls to her knees on the verge of crying. "Oh, no… They got me too…"

"Well…" Wendy begins with an irritated smile and a twitching eyebrow on her face, and hands covering her lower half. "We're all basically naked now…"


"Shit, now I really want to get out of here", Rain says softly with a bright blush on her cheeks.


"They were slimes, for fucks sake!" Wendy yells. "Slimes! The weakest of all the monsters, and they almost raped us!"


"Y-you don't say… It was seconds away from penetrating my … m-my pussy…"


"Yeah, and I thought my ass was gonna get it…"


"Thank God for our guardian angel", Wendy says, panting. "Fucking hell… Even slimes can rape us…?"


"Y-yeah, that's so disgusting…" Angel says and sighs deeply. "You're welcome, and more importantly… They didn't actually get that far with you guys?"


"I think my hymen is still intact…" Rain says softly, almost whispering. "But otherwise, I feel violated…"


"Yeah, same for me. My ass is fine…" Wendy says and sighs as she gets finally up. Angel and Rain both take a look at her, and Wendy looks back. "Don't stare…"


"Sorry…" Angel immediately diverts her gaze. Rain's stare, however, is not so relenting.


"I said DON'T stare", Wendy repeats, covering up her nipples and twisting her body to the side so Rain can't see between her legs.


"You're staring as well", Rain says, with her chest bare unprotected by her own arms.


"Well, it's kind of hard to not look when I'm talking to you…" Wendy says, blushing.


Rain smirks and answers: "Right back at you."


"Let's get out of here…" Angel says.


"Before we go, I want to check what's underneath that tree", Wendy says and heads towards the hidden trove she spotted. "Like we better had not gone through all that shit for nothing…"


Angel and Rain also get towards the trove. Wendy begins to dig through the bushes and finds a loot chest, which is quite large actually. She suddenly feels her friends getting down on their knees beside her, which causes her to freeze in panic. "D-don't get so close to me while I'm naked! It's super uncomfortable."


"Shut up, and check out the loot", Rain says with a bright, overjoyed yet smileless expression on her face. Angel and Wendy can see it as well. There are a grand total of five pieces of gear, and they're not even typical pieces of gear. All of the items they have come across have had a white name, except for gold coins, but these items have a green name, so logically speaking, they must be better! "Holy smokes! Is that a freaking sword!?"


As soon as the Rain clicks at it, the loot disappears from right under their noses. Rain can tell that no one else touched it, so there's something else going on. Angel and Wendy don't realize this, as they thought Rain took the loot, but Rain immediately realizes that they have stepped into yet another trap. Before she can open her mouth, the ground collapses underneath her and her friends, causing them to fall into the depths below.


What awaits them is not ground, nor is it a soft landing. There is no immediate danger or injuries, as they're surrounded by water. They fall into an underground pond, which is deep enough for them to not reach the depths. They all can swim, luckily, so they do swim to the shore.


"Just when I thought things couldn't get worse…" Wendy says and sits down at the shore. Rain and Angel get up to a standing position.


"Well, I guess there are perks to being naked", Rain says and looks at her ruined, wet hair. "Nothing is worse than wet clothes."


"There's something in the water", Angel warns and grabs Wendy's arm, dragging her towards the shoreline. Wendy realizes this too and gets to her feet. All three take few steps out of the lake only to see countless tentacles rise from the dark depths of the pond. They're trying to grab into the feet of the three girls, but they can't reach them anymore.


Wendy opens up her inventory to resummons her pistols, which were automatically teleported back to her inventory when she loses them or gets disarmed, thanks to the mechanic that allows her to protect a set amount of items she has. Using her pistol, she aims at the tentacle monster only to find out that the beast in the underground lake is actually a boss fight designed for at least five Nymphs. It is also a fight that they can avoid, so Wendy proposes that they do. "Let's not challenge this guy. Like, never ever. If slimes can rape us, then tentacles sure can too."


"Yeah, no objections here", Angel says and nods. "I don't feel like getting raped by tentacles…"


"It's a good thing this fight's completely avoidable", Rain says and looks around her. The cave system they are in is a vast one, with roads leading in multiple directions. It is well-lit and overall feels silent.


Wendy opens up her map only to find out that it has completely stopped working underground. "Map's fucked. We have to pick blindly."


"Shh, be quiet…" Angel says and listens carefully, as do both of her friends. They can tell that there is water besides just the pond. In fact, there is running water. "Do you think we could maybe be able to follow that lead?"


"It's our best bet yet", Wendy says. "But the question is, upstream or downstream?"


"I'd say upstream", Rain says, "since we're underground and the area feels pretty flat."


"Yeah, I agree", Angel says. "Let's not waste any time."



Three Nymphs quickly find a stream running through the depths of this cave system, leading them upwards. It is still impossible to tell where this road leads, but at least it will lead them out of the tunnel back to the surface, which is all they're asking.


Their behavior has changed. All three act meek, embarrassed, and shy about everything they say and do. None of them dare to look at each other for too long periods to avoid offending each other, especially while keeping quiet. The only saving grace in this situation for them is that nobody is left alone feeling ashamed about being naked. They're all in the same boat. While they have made a silent agreement not to stare, they can't help but steal glances every now and then. They try to do it secretly without others noticing, but none of them are doing a good job at it.


Angel, especially, is finding herself to be a little irritated, primarily because of the fact that she's the odd one out in the company of two completely immature-looking brats. While a kid herself, she at very least is somewhat mature with her budding breasts, and she has a constant, unshakeable feeling that her friends just can't help but look at her "tits", as pathetic as they are. "Guys… I know you're both guys in real life, but please don't stare so much…"


"You stare as well", Wendy remarks, a little offended. "And it's not like I'm aroused by you or anything. I'm not into little kids."


"Then why are you constantly staring at MY breasts and not Rain's?"


"You don't even have breasts!"


"Yes, I do!"


Rain lets out a burst of laughter but tries to hide it by looking away.


"What are you laughing at!?" both Angel and Wendy shout.


"For two straight dudes who like big bouncy boobies, you sure are getting flustered by loli tits", Rain says, unable to resist her smile.


"Speaking of which, you're checking me out too!" Angel blames and points her finger at Rain, who falls silent and unresponsive.


"I don't even mind if you look at me because there's nothing to look at", Wendy says, "but stop trying to act like you're somehow holier than us."


Angel groans and rolls her eyes. "I'm sorry, okay? I'm just upset we have to walk like this!"


"Look ahead", Rain says, stopping and pointing at something in front of them. A giant spider web is blocking their way. In fact, there is a lot of webs ahead, along with some web-covered white eggs attached to them. All three end up walking closer to the web, observing it closely.


"Do you think you can cut it?" Wendy asks.


"Let's try." With that, Rain summons her sword and takes one good swing at the web, cutting it effortlessly. Her sword strike is not very calculated and ends up cutting one of the eggs in half. What's inside surprises her and both of her friends as well. It explodes into white, thick, gooey slime, which is now all over the place, also dripping down their bodies. First, Rain looks at herself, and the first word that comes to her mind is "bukkake". This white slime REALLY resembles semen in more ways than just one. It looks like it, it feels and behaves like it, and it even smells like it.


"Did you really have to hit that egg?" Wendy asks with murderous eyes.


Angel responds with even more outrage because this fake semen has the exact same effect on clothing that the slimes outside had. Like both of her friends, she is finally left completely naked, with not even a single sock left. She can't do anything other than weep and fall to her knees. "I'm so done with this torture! It's like everything in this place is fucking perverted!"


"At least there's water", Rain says. "Let's wash up and continue."


They do just that. Luckily, the fake semen seems to dissolve well in water, which is uncharacteristic for human semen they're all very much used to. They also try to splash water on the web ahead, but it doesn't seem to have an effect. Now, squeaky clean, they are ready to move on.


"Why did we wash up when we're probably going to just get covered in sperm anyway…?" Angel suddenly asks.


"Rain is just going to have to avoid eggs", Wendy says and shrugs.


"Actually, it's your turn to be useful, Wendy", Rain says. "Shoot at the eggs."


"Are you crazy!? Why!?"


"They dissolved Angel's clothes, so I thought they could also dissolve web."


Wendy realizes this and nods. "Let's get back", she suggests. And then, from a safe distance of about five meters, she shoots the bullet at the egg, which explodes with a large, yet contained radius. Rain's guess turns out to be correct, and Wendy's pistol turns out to be the most effective means of getting rid of the web, provided there are eggs in them. For webs that can't be destroyed like that, Rain uses her sword.


"By the way, what could even be behind these kinds of webs?" Angel wonders.


Rain takes one long look at Angel and says: "A spider, duh."


"A huge freaking spider at that", Wendy adds.


"I hate spiders…" Angel admits. "I never liked them in Mormia either. They creep me out big time."


"Yeah, me too", Rain says.


"I kinda like spiders", Wendy interjects. "They're cute."


"How the hell are spiders cute?" Angel asks. "They're super creepy."


"I happen to like creepy things."


"I don't want to bring out uncomfortable subjects", Rain says, "But how do spiders fuck anyway?"


"Yeah, you really DID have to go there…" Angel says with a disgusted look. "I don't even want to think about it."


"I don't think they fuck, per se", Wendy says, thinking about the question. "I think they lay eggs or something…" Then, she turns green. "Wait, that shit's even worse than being cummed inside…"


Rain, too, finds herself slightly disgusted. "Sorry I brought this up…"


"You better be", Angel says and sighs. "I'm going to have nightmares from this place…"



Moving slowly through the web-filled corridor, Nymphs see light ahead of them. Having avoided enemies completely, their luck seems to be turning around for the time being. If the spring is the same one they saw outside, they have a direct route out of the forest, as they know the area near the spring and can actually navigate using a working map.


Ahead of them, however, is not outside. They're still in the cave, finding themselves at the bottom of a pit. Looking up, they can see a roof of spider webs with trees and sunlight coming through. The spring still runs through the cave, with the tunnel moving upward, presumably out from the cave. The room they find themselves in, however, is a weird one. There are more eggs on the walls, some of which are huge. There is a lot of web on the walls as well, and some small tunnels and holes in the walls. There is even a spider about the size of a cat, upon inspection, is revealed to be rank F.


"It's a shame to kill it", Wendy says and points her gun at it before the spider can even realize it's being targeted.


"Wait, don't kill it", Rain says and lays her hand on Wendy's pistol. "What if there are more? This could be a trap like the chest was."


Angel nods. "If there are more of them, killing one would just make them angrier."


Wendy points her weapon towards the egg covering the web covering the exit instead. "In that case, let's get out of here quickly." Then, she shoots, and the egg explodes. The spider on the wall immediately realizes something is up and charges Wendy. This time, she kills the spider without hesitation, with one precise shot. "Okay, this time, I had no choice."


"You should've let me cut the web…" Rain says. "It might've been the sound of your guns alerting it."


"Thanks, captain hindsight", Wendy says with a sarcastic tone.


Angel feels something fall on her back from behind and latch onto her. Feeling the hairy, creeping legs of a spider touch her naked skin, she lets out a panic-infused scream. More spiders are coming, and the situation they find themselves in is almost the same as outside. Surrounded by a dozen weak enemies, they have to defend themselves. This time, luckily, they all can fight, with no physical immunities present around. After defeating the first wave of enemies, Rain rushes to the exit and slashes through it. This web is way thicker and stickier though, and it's not that easy to get through it. She turns towards her friends. "Let's go back for the time being! I can't get through!"


Above the exit to the deeper reaches of the cave lies a spider way larger and meaner than the smaller ones. This one is not just a cat-sized monster. This one is so big that each of its eight legs alone is longer than a Nymph. It looks like an absolute tank, and it has its aim set on Angel. It shoots out a jet of spiderweb, which immediately latches into the body of Angel, who can't dodge it properly, and then it starts backpedaling up towards the roof. Rain rushes to the help of her friend and manages to cut the web, but Angel is still yet immobilized by it.


"How can we get rid of this!?" Rain asks panicking, as she looks at Angel. She realizes the eggs and the semen-like substance inside. It can dissolve the web, but how can they get it to Angel? And that's not even their biggest problem. There are more little spiders on the way, and the giant spider has not given up yet either.


The boss-spider shoots its web, but Rain manages to read the incoming shot, moving out of harm's way. Like the strikes of the demon they defeated earlier, it's somewhat to predict. While incredibly fast, it's possible to dodge, as the web will shoot at the exact place the spider aims it at from the start. The giant spider immediately changes targets and shoots at Angel once more, who this time around couldn't dodge even if she wanted to. It immediately begins to drag its prey upwards while still continuing its climb towards the roof made of spiderweb.


No longer able to cut the web, Rain remembers her wings. She has tried so hard to summon them, but she just can't muster up the ability to do so. If she could fly, she could either save Angel or at very least prolong the inevitable. Grounded, she can't do anything. Wendy can fly, but she can't cut the web, so she's unable to save Angel as well. More tiny spiders are on the way, so Rain has to concentrate on them to defend herself. It hurts her to not be able to save Angel, but if she loses herself, it's all over for them. Dodging them, she keeps rolling around and strikes one down. She's in the aim of one of these creatures and receives a shot against her left shoulder. Tiny spiders shoot semen-like substance instead of web, which is a relief for Rain. Anything is better than getting webbed, as it seems to be the one thing that will immobilize her.


"We'll get you down!" Wendy yells as the second wave of small spiders all lie dead. "Don't worry!"


"Can you fly?" Rain asks. "You could save Angel."


"I can just shoot the eggs up there."


"How about you shoot this fucking spider instead!?" Angel yells as she's left hanging by the giant spider's string of web. It acts like a chain, and she can't do anything but struggle. Her weight and her movements will never get her free, and every move she makes just makes struggling more difficult.


"I'm not sure, but this one feels like a boss fight to me", Wendy says. She is very familiar with the tactics of different kinds of bosses in Mormia, so she can tell that this one has an attack pattern and a set of rules attached to it. With these rules, they can theoretically defeat it even by themselves, should they develop effective tactics. "It's an SS elite, so not technically a boss, so it should be doable for two of us, provided we are super careful."


"Little spiders seem to come in waves", Rain points out, "and the only mechanic we really need to worry about is being webbed. If it gets us all, we're done."


Wendy nods. "Give me some stamina potions since we can't rely on Angel."


Rain throws two at Wendy, who transfers them to her inventory immediately. After this, Wendy shoots at the enemy to get its attention away from Angel. Falling into this simple taunt, the enemy fires a pair of web-shots, one at Rain and one at Wendy. They both manage to dodge, quite effortlessly so. Then, more small eight-legged horrors arrive.


"Don't worry about getting shot by them!" Rain instructs. "It's just semen and can't hurt us!"


"Roger that!"


Rain and Wendy soon realize that there are fewer spiders than before. Why? They immediately realize why. They're still after Angel too. Immobilized and webbed, laying hanging, she feels a pair of smaller spiders pull her upwards towards the net. Helpless to do anything to defend herself, she watches in horror as they drag her through a large gap in a net towards the upper nets. She sees the spider being shot and killed. It took some time, but Wendy managed to kill one. Luckily, her accuracy is fantastic, but still not good enough to hit every time. Worried about the web attacks of the boss spider, she panics at the last second, missing the shot aimed at the second spider. Wendy herself manages to dodge the attack aimed at her, but the bullet grazes Angel's skin, causing damage to her stamina through friendly fire, continuing to fly through an egg instead. This ends up actually setting Angel free from the hanging net, but she doesn't fall down. Instead, she falls back-first into a net below. Unable to get up, she struggles uncomfortably, with the spider on top of her, preying on her body.


Meanwhile, the fourth wave of spiders appears downstairs. This is the biggest yet, but Rain and Wendy get through it with flying colors. Left panting heavily in exhaustion, they have to drink one stamina potion each to continue. Now, the fight takes a sudden turn. The giant spider comes down, and phase two begins. Not knowing what to expect, two Nymphs left standing take defensive stances and do not even dare to think about attacking. The boss spider is at the center of the room, and it's rotating towards Wendy. She shoots at its head, but it's immune to the attacks from the front. Just as Rain gets ready to attack from behind, the enemy charges Wendy like a freight train. Wendy, who anticipated a web attack, dodges in the end but ends up flying into the ground in surprise. The spider appears vulnerable after the charge and begins to turn slowly.


"Hug the walls, so it charges against them!" Wendy suggests. "That way, we also have more time to move."


Rain thought of the same thing. They stand close to each other, waiting for the next charge at the other side of the room. This time, the enemy attacks with a web instead. It gets Rain, who was waiting for the sign of the charge, completely forgetting about the web attack. She knows that Wendy can't cut the web, and her heart skips a beat in horror. Before the enemy can attack again, or even worse, drag her body towards the spiderweb above, she gets splashed by white goo. It's the exploding semen-filled eggs on the walls. They set her free from the web as Wendy shot one of them. Rain finds herself horrified and hyperventilating and looks at Wendy with a relieved look on her face. She was sure, so sure that she was going to get caught. Brought back to the reality quicker than she can say "Cheers", the enemy charges. They have now learned the pattern and have to learn next how to capitalize on it.



At the same time, Angel is being abused by the same little rank F spider, which she can't do anything about. This little foe is the one that is going to take away her virginity. Or is it? That's her biggest fear, but luckily it isn't in a hurry to insert. Still, it loves to play with Angel. It keeps spitting and splashing goo at Angel to dissolve web bit by bit to get access to the sacred hole of Nymph. It's also using its front legs to move Angel's legs through web, which it manages to do. Angel can't do anything but watch her helpless body as her legs are forced apart against her will. She knows she can't be saved by her friends yet, so she just closes her eyes and bites her teeth.


Rain and Wendy can't save me now. They have to concentrate on their own fights. Otherwise, they're doomed like me.


Something warm, wet, and slimy pushes against her groin, rubbing and pressing against her slit, immediately sending shockwaves through her body. She, like Wendy, has tried masturbating, so she knows this sensation all too well. Being touched by someone - or in this case, something - feels much more vivid than her own fingers ever could. It keeps pushing her, pressing into her and grinding her outsides. The slimy semen-like substance is also affecting her, causing her body to respond with arousal. Moisture dwelling inside her is reaching to her swollen lips, her clitoris keeps stiffening up, and her entrance keeps contracting and tightening involuntarily as she trembles in fear and weeps.


The spider finally crawls on top of her, tightens its grip with all four of its front legs into Angel's flat belly, and it pushes a thick, penis-like organ against Angel's little virgin hole. She cries out loud and shakes her head in disapproval, arcing her body and struggling with fervor, but the rapist is latched onto her and cannot be shaken off. She pleads please verbally even though she knows she can't be understood, and with tears welling up in her eyes, she watches as her fears are about to come true.


With all its force, the enemy inserts its cock deep into the hole of a little girl with a soft, gooey clap, causing Angel to yelp involuntarily. Invaded, deflowered, and defiled, Angel feels it all. Warmth and discomfort fill her vagina up all the way from the entrance to her cervix. She can feel its pulsating member vividly with her internal muscles, as well as the more sensitive outer muscles. It hurts only for a moment, and now it just pinches and tingles uncomfortably. It begins to move, starting out slow, with deep thrusts, holding it in place after each time it hits her cervix. They're short thrusts, and it never takes it out of her even halfway. It picks up the pace to move non-stop, with similar yet faster and slightly more frequent thrusts. It presses harder, shaking, sinking its legs into the soft body of Angel.


She doesn't dare to look, but she feels her body moving slightly in rhythm. Every thrust makes her body move slightly and has an effect on her. Her thighs and butt visibly shake when the cock slams into her, while her exposed chest just feels it internally. Her little tits are like tiny puddings. They can't bounce, and they don't even seem like moving. All they can do is shake a little. Angel, however, feels it. Her nipples are also stiff from excitement. Her entire body is beginning to react and come alive from being raped. Horrifyingly enough, there is zero pain. It's all sexual pleasure. The only pain she feels is the one in her heart. But how far will her rapist go before it stops? How long will it last before she is saved by her friends? Will her friends even succeed? She fears for the worst, knowing well enough her fate is out of her hands.


Her wet pussy, while identical in size and appearance to a normal preteen child's reproductive organ, is not like an ordinary vagina of the little girl, or at least, so she feels. It is releasing such fantastic surges of pleasure all over her body, way stronger than she could've ever imagined. It's like her entire head is blanking because of the intense sexual pleasure. Her fingers made her feel like this when she tried it one time, but her fingers were small, slow, very forgiving, and predictable. This dick is nothing like it. It's big, fast, unforgiving, and unpredictable, and it reaches deeper into her than her fingers ever could. Its grinding drives her towards an orgasm a hundred miles an hour, and the breaks are broken.


What the hell is happening to me? she wonders, panicked and confused. It's like my body is okay with everything it does, even though my heart says it's horrible! How does that even work!? Her moans grow louder as she's unable to deafen herself no longer, and the voices she makes surprise her greatly. There's simply no way a young girl should be moaning the way she does, involuntarily nonetheless. Feeling pleasure just build up inside of her, she shakes her head vigorously in tears knowing full well what's about to come next.


She climaxes from rape, from a weak monster, from a creature she hates. First, it took her virginity, now it made her cum for the first time in her life, and it's not even done. It begins to pump semen into her womb. It's not the liquid she was expecting, but instead, it fills her with a thick, chunky cum. This substance is thick like rice porridge, almost as if there is something mixed into it. She didn't remember her conversation with Rain and Wendy earlier, but they did say something about spiders laying eggs. Or is it? Is this spider a male or a female, or something else? The idea of a male spider laying eggs doesn't sit right with her at least, so it's got to be a male. This makes her wonder, is she seriously pregnant now? Can she even get pregnant from being cummed inside by a damn arachnid of all things!?


It doesn't stop even after ejaculation. The spider continues to pump her with bestial vigor. Still hypersensitive from her first-ever orgasm, she moans and tries to move. Struggling to even shake her hips, nothing can make the spider stop. Her legs are actually trying to open even wider, something that the web won't allow her to do. Wondering how much longer this goes on, she doesn't even pay attention to what's happening below anymore. At least Rain and Wendy know what's going on.



It pains Rain and Wendy to not be able to save Angel from her ongoing rape, but they have to focus on dodging and attacking with all they got. Upon inspection, Wendy finds out that their enemy is faltering, with only one-third of its health left. Should this continue, they would surely defeat it and save Angel, but it doesn't simply continue. The third phase begins, and the duo of Nymphs has to deal with yet another wave of small spiders while the big one still continues to charge at them and try to restrain them, a challenge that is shaping up to be truly unforgiving.


They can't just simply hit the boss while the small ones are attacking, and they can't just attack the small ones while the big one is charging in. They have to avoid both until they get the chance to kill the small ones and then resume. This ends up being easy for Wendy, who can just run around and shoot while running, but in the case of Rain, her weapon swings cost stamina just as much as running does. Indeed, she will regenerate fast, but not fast enough for her to be effective. She can't just simply stop either, so she runs herself dry really quick. She downs her final potion. It's all or nothing now. They have to kill the enemy before more small spiders appear.


And then, things get from bad to worse. After finishing up the small spiders, Wendy misreads her enemy's attack pattern and doesn't manage to dodge the web. Spiders come charging in at her and push her back against the wall, locking her to the place. There is an egg near her, but it is up to Rain to destroy it.


Realizing this, Rain has to choose: will she prioritize saving Wendy and risk running out of stamina, or will she prioritize killing the boss? She has no time to think, and the giant spider launches its web at her. As she dodges by simply sidestepping, she prepares for a dodge. In this instant, as she gets ready to jump away, she feels like she can do much more than that. She can't just jump to the side. However, she CAN jump upwards, using her wings. In the heat of the battle, she feels like she has complete control of all her magical energy, along with her source. It's as if something has awakened a dormant power inside her during this adventure, but what was it? She remembers how source generation is linked to Nymph's sexuality and how it speeds up during heat. She's not in heat per se, but she did get teased by those slimes outside, which caused her to become wet for a moment. Was that the catalyst for her surge in source, the catalyst for her being able to control it enough to summon wings?


She finally tries and succeeds in summoning her magnificent crystal wings, bright red and yellow in color, engulfed in a pink smoke flickering like a starry sky. She takes flight as the enemy charges at her, but she can't control herself well or keep herself in the air for long, so she has to act fast. Seeming almost like an accident, she rotates in the air and performs a whirlwind-like spinning attack, which slices deep into the weak abdomen of the spider. Left stunned by this powered-up strike, the enemy suddenly can't move. Rain lands, almost stumbling to her feet, and finds herself left panting heavily on the ground, collecting her stamina as she can't recover it in any other way. She knows that if the spider recovers first, she will be done for. She knows she can't deal with another wave of tiny spiders either. None of that luckily happens. The spider is truly crippled and unable to fight, and no tiny spiders are coming out either. Enough time had passed for it to happen though, so she figures out it was a one-time deal, one final desperate attempt for the boss to defeat its enemies. Rain gets up and continues to walk around the spider's blind spot while it tries to get on its feet. She doesn't hesitate anymore and goes in for a kill, with a final powered-up strike that executes the enemy.


"Did you just use your wings!?" Wendy asks with an overjoyed expression. "Good job!"


"Oooooohhh!" Rain lets out a powerful yet girly victory roar. "We did it!" She looks up to see her beloved friend in distress. She tries to muster up the strength to fly, but it really was for one use only. She knows why. This place isn't rich in source like Grove is, so she had to rely on the little source she had to fly. She decides to rush to Wendy to get her out with the help of the egg beside her.


Released, Wendy is quick to regain control of her weapons and aims them up. "Wait… She's going to fall, isn't she…?"


Rain raises her arms up and makes a promise: "I'll catch her!"


"I think you'll get hurt in the process…" Wendy says with a skeptical tone.


"I'll take half of the damage!" Rain says and gets towards a central position of the pit. She raises her arms up and waits as Wendy begins to shoot down eggs one by one. With every destroyed egg, white goo falls down from the ceiling, almost like a semen rain. More importantly, the net falters and falls a little by little, until eventually, it collapses completely, with Angel falling down to Rains arms. She ends up collapsing and falling to her butt, but at least she has Angel in her arms. Wendy comes in for a kill and finishes up the spider tormenting Angel.


"Die, you bastard."


Angel continues to weep and mourn even after getting released. She tries to move desperately, but the web is still tangled all over her body.


"You're safe now…" Rain says and embraces her friend from behind.


"Oh my god… Thank you…"


"Holy shit, things really can't go right for us today", Wendy says and sighs, extending her hand to Angel. "Can you stand…?" Trying to wipe off her tears, Angel shakes her head. "Rain… Help her up…"


"Yeah, but… I can't either… We literally can't get up…" Rain says with a serious, emotionless expression. "I'm kind of tangled in this net with her…"


"Oh, for fucks sake… And you just HAD to catch her…"


"Come on, Wendy… I just wanted to soften her fall, and you know it…"


"Yeah, yeah… I'll get you out…" Wendy begins to look for a way to do so. She can't rip the eggs from the net without risking getting caught in the process herself, but there is a lot of goo around. She stores her weapons away and sighs as she realizes she may have to get her hands dirty, literally. She falls to her knees and collects semen into her hands, with a disgusted look on her face, and she lays her hands on Angel's shoulders, who immediately lets out a surprised squeak. "Bear with it for a moment."


Angel rapidly nods three times as she looks closely at her naked friend, who is literally rubbing slime on her bare skin. Angel's hands are free, but that's not enough. Wendy next looks almost as if going for Angel's body, but she halts. She looks at Angel's naked body in front of her, and she just can't let herself laying her hands on her ribs, waist, or hips.


"Just do it already…" Angel says with an uncomfortable tone. "Nothing you do to me can be worse than what that bastard did to me…"


"I feel like such a pervert for doing this…" Wendy complains but rubs Angel anyway. She starts by releasing her legs, and then she moves onto her back. It allows her to rip Angel away from the web, one that Rain now finds herself alone in. Now, on her feet, her shaky legs, Angel leans forward against Wendy and hugs her tight. This, of course, causes Wendy to freeze. She's being embraced by a naked little girl. No, it's not just that. This little girl is taller than her, after all. She's a little girl too. It's without a doubt a situation she finds extremely disturbing, but at the same time, she completely understands why Angel wanted to share a loving, intimate hug. She's still crying, and she's just so relieved to be safe, in the arms of her friend. Wendy hugs her back, trying not to think about the fact that her breasts are pressing against her own.


Rain, who can't look away, just closes her eyes with a huge blush on her face. "Okay, get me up next…"


Angel turns around to race Rain. "I… I'll do it… You don't have to, Wendy…"


"Oh, my pleasure…" Wendy says and takes a breather. She sits down and sighs deeply.


This leaves Angel with naked Rain laying like a starfish underneath her. There's not much work to be done, but the web fell on Rain like a trapper's net. "I don't think I'm able to do this after all…" Angel says


Rain sighs and says: "I hate to copy you so literally, but just do it already…"


Angel sighs herself and looks around to get a heap of white slime. She rubs them against Rain's arms to dissolve the net, and moves immediately to Rain's armpits, a move that makes her twitch. "Please, Rain… Stay still…"


"But it tickles…!"


"I'm going to get your upper body up now…" Angel warns and moves her hands down Rain's slender figure. Her thumbs end up grazing her flat chest, something that makes her blush even more. She has barely recovered from what happened to her, and now she has to do something like this. She gets her work done, falls to a sitting down position, and gives up. Rain, who manages to get up, works to get her own legs free.


"We're out… And hopefully safe…" Rain says.


"This stuff stinks literally like cum…" Wendy says with an annoyed expression. "And now this entire place reeks of it…"


"I feel like I'm going crazy just being here", Angel says and gets to her feet, surprisingly springy. "I'm going to wash myself and get the fuck back to Grove. I'm so done with this place."


"Me too…" Wendy says. She wants to ask Angel if she's feeling alright now, but she can tell that she's not. She's acting tough and like everything is okay, but she's still holding back the tears. She realizes that maybe Angel didn't just simply get raped and simply endure up to five minutes of torment. Maybe it came inside her, Wendy realizes. I'm afraid to ask. I mean, what does it even mean for us? Surely a spider couldn't get us pregnant…?



They loot the corpse to get the treasures from this elite, and they wash up quickly. Then, they sit down to relax for a bit to gather their energy. And speaking of treasure, they got absolutely nothing useful to them. There's a longbow with absolutely amazing stats, but since it wasn't useful for any of them, it ends up being just a bargaining tool for them in trade. Even the ingredients they loot are not useful for any of them.


"By the way, Rain", Wendy suddenly says. "You really learned how to fly."


"Oh, right… It must be linked to the fact that my body generated more source than normal when those slimes got us."


"Well, if that's true, I should be able to use my wings as well…" Angel says. However, she does not show any interest in trying, as thinking about a surge in source immediately reminds her of what just happened.


A sudden realization hits Rain. Wendy could fly on the second day already. Why was that? Was there a sudden, abnormal rise in source for her caused by sexual excitement? She can't help but smile and blush as she realizes that Wendy just couldn't help herself on the first night as a Nymph. Rain kind of wants to point it out, but she resists her urge to harass Wendy. For now, she keeps this information to herself.


About fifteen minutes later, they finally decide it's time to move out and leave this wretched place behind. What they find at the other end of the tunnel is something they couldn't be more excited about. It's a safe and familiar-looking misty forest. It really is the same spring running through the underground cave. Knowing which direction it is in, they head towards Grove. Pretty much gone through two of their worst battles so far, nothing can surprise them anymore. Well, not as long as enemies are concerned, at least.


Shouts echo in the forest; it's the loud voice of a Nymph in distress. Wanting to help this stranger out, they move in closer to see if they can do anything to help her. They find a lone little girl in a desperate situation, naked and being raped by a large, gray wolf. It moves with great vigor, and the loud claps of meat pounding against meat can be heard from far away, combined with the occasional moans and desperate cries of this Nymph. Her curly hair is bright pink in color and rather long, but this is the only physical feature they can distinguish from so far away. Without hesitation, they move in, spreading out. Wolves are quick, powerful and durable, and immune to holy damage. Beyond that, they don't have resistances and are weak against status-altering effects like stuns, traps, and poisons. They're straightforward fighters that are easy to predict but give very little room for preparation, making them a tough match against melee fighters. Against ranged Nymphs, they're weak, though.


Wendy taunts it with her crippling poison - an ability she hasn't had the chance of using during the fights the story has covered - which causes the wolf to abandon its victim and reassign its priorities towards its new opponents. It had not, after all, managed to knot its bitch yet. Before it can even realize it's being targeted by another Nymph, the weak juvenile wolf is hit with a sword strike and dies quickly.


This pink-haired stranger is left laying on her stomach, with her butt still up and semen dripping out from her hole. She can't move but realizes she has been saved. She collapses almost completely and simply says: "Thank you…"


Wendy gets in front of her and extends her hand to this stranger. "Can you stand?"


"My legs are an absolute mess…" the girl says and tries to smile. "In any case, thank you again… I thought I was screwed for good…"


"Why are you even alone?" Angel asks with a judgmental tone.


"I wasn't alone", the girl explains as she lays her butt down to sit up and get on her knees. "My party got attacked by goblins, and we were separated. Like, there were eight of them or something ridiculous like that, and we were forced to scatter. They were led by an elite, I think."


"That's awful…" Wendy says with a worried tone. "So, what happened to them?"


"I'm not sure", the girl says, shaking her head. "I think I was the only one to get away. I ran away, heading back towards Grove to safety looking for help when that wolf got me from behind."


"Luckily, we're almost there", Wendy says and gets up. "You're safe with us."


"Thank you so much… My savior…" she says and giggles.


"How about your party?" Wendy asks. "Were you guys close?"


"No, not really… None of us knew each other. We just tagged along because we thought we could help each other. Oh, but what're your names? I'm Pink, by the way."


A fitting name for sure, almost comically so. Just like her absurdly long hair, her eyes are also the same color. At roughly 120 centimeters, she is one tiny girl, even compared to Wendy, who is the smallest of our three heroines. Despite being very girly and feminine, she's very immature from the neck down with a perfectly flat chest, no wide hips, or a plumpy butt to boast about. One by one, all three introduce themselves to Pink, who takes great curiosity in the appearance of her saviors. "By the way, what happened to you? You're all naked too."


"Long story short, lots of slimes", Rain explains. "And spiders."


"You must've gotten pretty deep then", Pink says with a surprised expression. "I haven't seen any slimes or spiders yet."


"Yeah, we got lost", Rain says, shrugging.


"Yeah, my bad. I was doing a lousy job as a scout and underestimated the area", Wendy says and sighs.


"Don't whip yourself over it", Rain says. "Besides, the part where we dropped into a trap was technically my bad."


"Well, it was just a matter of time until I would've tried picking something up from that chest", Angel admits.


"In any case, we should probably get on a move", Wendy says. "I, at very least, am tired of this perverted forest."


"I think I can walk…" Pink says and struggles to get to her feet. Standing on shaky legs, she lets out a painful moan and sighs. "Ah, I feel so weak… It raped me so hard…"


"Speaking of which, have you recovered properly?" Wendy asks and turns towards Angel.


"Physically, yes, but my heart feels like a mess…"


"It's not a long way until we get home, so try to hold out until then", Rain says and taps Pink on a shoulder.

"I feel like I'm asking too much, but… Can you actually support me for a while…?" Rain recoils and blushes, but otherwise, her expression doesn't change. This little girl, this absolutely tiny and immature child, is essentially asking Rain to give her a shoulder to lean on. While Rain has some serious pedophilic tendencies she can't shake off, she can't bring herself to do it, especially in front of her friends. Part of her wants to, and another small part of her feels like she probably should, but she's too embarrassed to lay her hands on such a small child. Pink finally realizes this as well, and she honestly feels like asking for such intimacy from a stranger is probably too much, so she blushes too and laughs. "Yeah, that's a bust…"


"Sorry, I feel like it's too much…" Rain admits. "I want to help, but I'm tired too…"


Pink shakes her head and sympathizes with Rain. "It's okay. I completely understand. I can walk by my own feet, although slowly."


Wasting no more time, the four Nymphs head home. They are dying to get to the safety of Grove, under the protective barrier which no enemy can penetrate to assault them again.







Recess III

Excerpt from the Gamer's Logbook; "Exploring the Mechanics of Nymphsaga", entry number ???, "On Status-Altering Effects."


Players are connected to the world around them in both a physical and a psychological way, and sometimes this manifests in the form of status-altering effects. Their effects can have either a negative or a positive impact on Nymph's body and can last anywhere from a few seconds to several weeks. There are many sources for these effects, such as "buffs" cast by a friendly player and "debuffs" such as poisons, curses, and weaknesses caused by enemies players encounter. It is also important to note that the clothes and equipment that Nymphs wear also have status-altering effects attached to them, which remain as constant effects as long as the item in question is equipped. Most of such effects are positive ones, but some of the more powerful buffs can be balanced out with debuffs too.


While most of these effects can be observed through the character page, many of them can be hidden and require a specialist to observe. One good example of this is the alchemist's ability to detect any poison's or sickness's source, along with the possible remedy for them, but this but one of hundreds of such examples. And then there are the hidden effects, which can't be observed by players, and have to be read about to learn about. They are mostly inconsequential but include some important status-altering effects like the one that causes Nymphs to produce source at an increased rate during heat.


It is up to every Nymph to take good care of themselves and keep track of every effect they can, for they can severely impact their performance, and in the worst cases even prove to be critically dangerous for them. It is highly encouraged of them to get rid of any negative long-term status-altering effects they have as soon as they can.



As soon as the four Nymphs get to safety, their first priority is getting clothes. None of them have anything to wear outside their hair accessories. They head towards the apartments of Rain, Wendy, and Angel, which is actually pretty close to where Pink lives in. She lives in a tree with just a single apartment in it, a cute little hut built under a tree with no direct neighbors to pester her. It is a little closer to the center than the trio of apartments we've already got familiar with, but still in a relatively quiet and sparsely populated area.


In addition to new articles of clothing that Nymphs can discover, find and create themselves, there is a magical wardrobe function that can restore broken clothes, so the Nymphs won't lose their precious clothes. When clothes break, they get automatically transferred into inventory but become inaccessible. This makes them semi-protected by the inventory's protection feature, meaning they will only be stored when broken, but not when stolen or left behind.


When broken, items turn completely useless and lose most of their value. They can either be repaired as mentioned before, discarded and destroyed permanently, or turned into scrap by Tailors to make new clothes from. The cost of repair changes from item to item, with enchanted equipment being significantly more expensive to restore. The magical wardrobe takes money for repairs, while Tailors can use their own scraps for repairs instead.


Additionally, any piece of clothing can copy the appearance from any existing piece in the wardrobe provided they share the slot in which they are equipped. This way new, uglier, yet more powerful clothes can look like the weaker, cuter ones. Since none of our heroines' old garments had any magical effects to begin with, they just copy their old clothes appearances into new ones, discarding the old ones for the time being.


They can finally get to see Pink with her clothes, only to find them wildly inappropriate for a child. Her oversized-on-purpose baby blue T-shirt looks very normal at first glance but has the numbers six and nine drawn on it. The hole for the neck on this shirt is especially large, and it's not unreasonable to think at all that anyone would get a good glance of her nipples wearing this shirt, should they catch her from the right angle. Pink, though, doesn't seem to care. She's wearing a white miniskirt, almost identical to the one Rain wears in every way other than color, and on her feet, she has nice casual white and pink sneakers.


"What's up with that shirt?" Wendy asks with a thin-eyed look as she ponders the deep meaning behind the two ominous numbers.


"I don't know…" Pink says mysteriously. "I made it", she adds, revealing herself to be a clothier.


"Well, if you made it, you must know exactly why it has those numbers in it", Wendy continues, persisting on implying there's something wrong with these numbers.


"The clothes I make have random properties", Pink explains. "I guess the game considers print text to be a random property", she adds and laughs.


"Why not just wear your old shirt?"


"I don't like it!" Pink proudly says, smiling from ear to ear. "It's way too tight. I thought it would look cute when I designed this character, but… Yeah… I like baggy clothes more…"


Wendy, who still can't get over those dreaded numbers, asks: "Why didn't you just make another one…"


"What's wrong with sixty-nine?" Pink asks, tilting her head.


Left speechless, Wendy just continues to stare at Pink and her poker face. She's acting innocent. "Never mind…" she finally says.


"So pure and innocent", Rain comments.


"I'm sorry I happen to hate this perverted game!" Wendy says, lashing out.


"Yet you masturbated on the first night in the game."


Wendy blushes like crazy, pointing her finger at Rain. "How the fuck would you know what I was doing!?"


"Oh, just a lucky guess… I didn't know for a fact…"


"Is sixty-nine something perverted?" Pink asks, still feigning ignorance. Or is she feigning it? It's hard for every other Nymph in this group to imagine she would be serious, but who really knows. Wendy turns her gaze back to Pink, only to notice a sly smirk on her face, hidden behind her façade.


"Oh, you joker… You're just as bad as Rain…" she says, facepalming.


"I'm just an innocent little child who doesn't know anything!" Pink says with a wide smile and a childish tone in her voice.


"Where are we heading anyway?" Angel asks, switching the topic, turning towards Rain, who dragged her along. "I really wanted to stay home and lay down…"


"We're going to meet a friend", Rain says. "A good friend who will help us. In fact, we're already here."


Ahead of the four Nymphs lies a cute little hut that Rain is already familiar with. Lucky for her, the shop seems to be open, which means that Lemon must be in. They burst in, and they really find Lemon, again reading books on her armchair. She looks absolutely elated to see Rain. "Oh my, welcome! And you bought friends too!"


"Yeah, umm…" Rain begins, fidgeting. "I was wondering if there's a potion that can help with pregnancy…"


A sudden, frightened expression appears on Lemon's face. She rushes to Rain and lays her hands on her shoulders. "Are you fine? How about your friends?"


"Well, it's me and this blonde, probably", Pink says and points at Angel.


"Oh, my good lord, this is horrible, a catastrophe!" Lemon is sounding overly dramatic but genuine and honest. There's no faking her emotions and distress. "I wish I could help, but… There's no such potion…"


"As I feared…" Angel says and sighs deeply as her fear grows stronger.


"I-I didn't even imagine we could get pregnant…" Lemon admits, with a horrified, white face. "I mean… They're monsters… They're all monsters…"


"Let's hit the library", Wendy suggests. "We can hopefully find information there." She puts great emphasis on the word "hopefully", as there are never guarantees when it comes to acquiring new information. Moreover, last time they checked, no lore had been released about pregnancy, which is another great hit to their optimism.


"Can I come too?" Lemon asks. "I want to help."


"Are you sure you want to close the shop?" Rain asks, surprised. "I mean… We appreciate it, but…"


"No, I'll come. I'll help your friends", Lemon says with a confident tone. "Friends of yours are also friends of mine."


They see no reason to deny her help, so they decide to tag along and head towards the library to gather information from other Nymphs.



First things first, on the way to the library, all Nymphs in this group that are not familiar yet introduce themselves to each other. They all now know each other's names, but not much of anything else. There's a time and place for that in the future, though, as they all get along very well.


They ask Nymphs about their opinions on the way, trying to get information from Nymphs, but nobody has had to deal with pregnancies yet or had any friends who have. This can mean two things: either Angel and Pink don't have to worry about being pregnant, or they were incredibly unlucky to get raped. It isn't until they get to the library that they get their first clue to how to combat this, as they come across a Nymph who Wendy has gotten to know very well. Her name is Melody, and she's a blue-haired, glasses-wearing caster, a calm and collected personality, almost like a stereotypical bookworm. Her sense of humor is nonexistent, but she's a kind person, incapable of harm. She talks about a recently submitted lore page about Nymphs and pregnancy and recommends that the five girls read it themselves, as she doesn't remember it word by word and could be forgetting some details.


As soon as the five Nymphs find the correct book, they all read it. They all get a copy of it to read through since it's a magical library after all.



Excerpt from the Bioengineer's Logbook; "a Study on the History, Biology and Behavior of Nymphs", entry number ???, "Nymphs, Breasts, and Pregnancy."


During the study into the alien race Nymphs are based on, the original creators of Nymph discovered that these beings give birth to live offspring. While it's not a trait unique to their species, it is, as far as we're aware, a trait unique to this planet. Every alien we've come in contact with lays eggs, so the designers of Nymph were very interested in learning more.


During their research, they discovered many unique perks that come with this ability, the most obvious of which are organs, which females of this race - and creatures similar to them - use to feed their newborn with a substance called "milk". We must admit, these so-called breasts must be pretty convenient and a great evolutionary advantage to the boot, but at the same time, they kind of weird us out. While their mission was to stay loyal and true to this race and create a close copy of them - as authenticity tends to sell very well in Altarian markets - they weren't really keen on including these breasts to Nymphs. They thought it would be too much of a turnoff considering that breasts are so unique and rare across the galaxy. It's also why they modeled Nymphs after children, as they do not apparently develop breasts until they reach adulthood. They could make a faithful recreation while ignoring an aspect of theirs that wouldn't sell. It was a win-win in that sense.


As far as their ability to give birth to live offspring goes, they partially opted out of it. In some examples, they can give birth to live babies, but they mostly lay eggs. It depends on the species of males fertilizing their eggs. They still opted out of implementing the ability to breastfeed, replacing it with the ability to feed their offspring in another way. It is a very fitting way, to be exact, as it is directly linked to the source. Source has an effect on children too and will help them grow faster and, more importantly, be stronger and healthier.


The process already begins during the pregnancy, when Nymphs will go to extreme heat and forcefully generate source at an increased rate to speed up the pregnancy and feed the baby growing inside them. Typically, Nymph pregnancy is very fast because of the intense power of the source and will last anywhere from a couple of hours to maybe five days tops. Increased source generation will partially continue after giving birth, as their offspring can absorb the source from their mothers during intercourse. This is called "source-feeding". Of course, their own offspring, as well as young and weak creatures in general, can't get Nymphs pregnant, so they wouldn't be stuck in an inescapable cycle of getting impregnated by their own babies. There are some other cases where Nymphs cannot be fertilized by males, depending on their species. Some males are completely incompatible with Nymphs, after all.


As a final point, why nipples? If they can't produce "milk", why even have them? According to the developers, it's just aesthetics. The same logic applies to their bellybuttons, by the way, which all Nymphs have too.



Given everything they have learned and experienced so far, nothing on this page really shocks them, but they find themselves a little taken off by the contents regardless.


"If there's one takeaway from this that I can appreciate is that I'm probably not pregnant…" Angel says and sighs deeply, leaning against the wall. "Not that it will make me feel much better, though…"


"I hope that applies to me as well…" Pink says, blushing. "I mean, I find it hard to believe that some wolf's genes could be compatible with me, or so I hope…"


"Well, I'm not sure either, but that spider was rank F, so…"


"Let's stay put for few days just to make sure", Wendy suggests.


"I'm okay with that", Rain says and nods.


"It did mention extreme heat…" Lemon points out and looks at the two girls under suspicion of pregnancy. "You seem to be feeling alright…"


"Well, that's partially true…" Pink says with an uncomfortable smile on her face. "My body feels somewhat okay…"


"I don't feel horny at all, that's for sure", Angel says.


Rain suddenly turns towards Lemon, opening up her inventory. "I've got a present for you, by the way."


Lemon seems surprised. "A present? For me?"


"Yeah, because you came with us to help."


"I wasn't much help though…" Lemon says meekly.


"It's the thought that matters", Wendy says, smiling. "You're a ranger who uses bows? We don't want it, so just take it."


"A bow?" Lemon asks, surprised. She indeed uses bows, as she is a so-called stealth ranger. Rain takes the bow out, presenting it to Lemon, who is very excited about seeing it, as it's much better than her old one. She wants to take it, she really wants to, but she's holding herself back, as she has nothing to offer back. "It's pretty good, I've got to say."


"Please accept it", Rain insists.


"Are you really sure?"


Rain nods. "In return, please join us on our adventures every now and then."


Lemon happily nods and accepts the proposal. "If I'm welcome to join, I will do it anytime you want!"


"For full disclosure", Pink begins. "I'm also available for you to group up with", she continues with a happy wink.


"A group of five would be nice", Wendy admits and smiles happily. "The more of us there are, the less trouble we are going to get in. I just feel like I'm going to have to phase out from physical damage, as we can't rely on it too much, I think."


"Yeah, I can't do much about that yet…" Lemon admits. She really can't do anything else but physical damage at the moment, making her pretty much the same as Rain.


"I have fire and lightning", Pink says. "Something tells me none of you guys can do that."


"Yeah, and then we have Angel as a healer and Rain as a tank", Wendy says, nodding to herself. "It's a full party! And we have a wide range of professions as well to help each other!"


"Well, having a secondary healer and a tank would be helpful", Rain adds. "But I can't complain. If we're going to explore as a group of five, we're going to be really strong."


Now, having formed a new, a little bit larger group, they all feel at least a little bit more confident about their future. As they decided earlier, there will not be any more adventuring for at least a day, as they monitor the situation with Angel and Pink, both of whom could be pregnant. They make no plans beyond that, but all of them fully intend on trying to push further into Phantasm to uncover its secrets in hopes of eventually escaping it completely.


For now, they all scatter in different directions, but not before making sure they each know where their new friends live. Lemon returns to her shop to keep it open for few more hours before nightfall, Angel goes home to rest, and Wendy decides to stay in the library for a while longer after Melody comes to her, asking if she wants to hang out. This leaves Rain and Pink alone, not knowing what they want to do.


"So…" Pink starts, eyeing Rain from head to toes. "We're alone."


"I wanna see your house", Rain decides. "Take me there."


"Oh, so direct, so daring!" Pink says and giggles. "I'll take you home gladly."







Rain and Pink

It's a first-time-ever for Rain in many ways. She has never been to a girl's house, not in-game or in real life. She has had Lemon visit her, but she has only visited her shop while Lemon has been working. She hasn't been inside Wendy's or Angel's house yet, as they always meet and talk outside, and to be honest, she doesn't really see them as girls anyway, mostly because she knows what kind of people they are in real life. Now Rain doesn't know if Pink is a real girl or just another guy, but she for some reason see's her as a girl, mostly because of how Pink acts. She really acts like a little girl. It's in how she walks, how she talks, how she laughs, pretty much how she does everything. Her entire personality is just girly. Like Rain, she is a bit of a joker but goes about her business completely differently. She's loud and very expressive with her hand gestures. She's not afraid to laugh and smile either, something that Rain finds genuinely hard to do. She has to force most of her facial expressions, after all.


Rain now sees the cute little house in the middle of the forest, hidden away from most passers-byes to see, and is kindly welcomed by Pink to enter. It's in pretty much pristine condition, suggesting that Pink hasn't spent much time at home. Most of the house remains untouched, except for a messy bed and a workbench designed for a clothier.


"Sit wherever you want!" Pink says happily. Rain takes upon the offer, but when she's about to sit down on the bed, Pink stops her. "Wait, let me fix my bed first", Pink says, laughing uncomfortably, starting to tidy her bed up at least a little bit. "I'm kind of embarrassed to show you such a messy side of me… I should've cleaned up…"


"It's fine. I don't ever make my bed either."


Once satisfied by the neatness of her bed, Pink sits down, having Rain sit next to her. "We should probably get to know each other if we're going to be grouping up often."


Rain nods twice. "Is there anything you want to know about me?"


"Well, you know… Where you're from, what do you do, all that stuff…"


"I'm a man from Ireland", Rain says, introducing herself.


"Wait, you're a man?" Pink says, surprised. "Your Irish accent is noticeable, but I was one hundred percent sure you're a real girl!"


Rain tilts her head. "Do I really seem that girly to you?"


Pink doesn't know how to reply, so she just ends up giggling. "Well, honestly, you don't act that feminine. It's just that you don't really act masculine either."


"Are you disappointed?"


"N-no, in a way, it makes me a little happy…" Pink admits and laughs. "Because I'm a man too…"


Rain shows the exact same surprise. "No way. You act so feminine."


Pink blushes at Rain's comment and covers her cheeks with her hands while giggling. "Why, thank you."


"So, umm… Where are you from?"


"Toronto, Canada."


"How old are you? I'm 39."


"I'm 44, so not that far apart. I work in a nuclear fusion power plant as a manager."


"I'm a chief in a sales department for a company that specializes in nanochips."


"Oh, nice! Do you travel a lot?"


"You could tell? I do", Rain says, nodding. "I've been on every continent multiple times."


"Oh boy, I'm so jealous!" Pink says and laughs. "I have never been outside North America. But in any case, there's a lot of similarities to us!"


"Yeah, I guess so…" Rain leans a little bit closer, really interested in hearing more. "So, what about hobbies? Are you into gaming?"


"Yeah, I really am… More than I'd like to admit…"


"Me too. I pretty much play anytime I'm home."


"Yeah, me too. I've been alone for five years now after my divorce."


"I'm sorry to hear that."


Pink shakes her head. "It's fine. It was a mutual decision, and I'm not really bitter about it."


"I've never even been in a relationship", Rain admits. "They're too much trouble."


"I kind of agree… But why do you feel that way?"


Rain feels too embarrassed to admit that she's too much of a nerd to be into real girls anymore. She only finds satisfaction in fiction. "I… I just don't like the idea of settling down with someone, and the idea of starting a family kind of scares me… Kind of pathetic when I think about it, considering I'm almost forty…"


"Come on, don't be like that. We divorced for that exact reason. I didn't want to have kids, but she did."


Rain is happy that she's not alone with her feelings, the ones she has kind of been embarrassed to talk about, especially amongst he colleagues, all of who are family-oriented men. She also notices that Pink seems pretty happy to talk about these things as well. Her smile and the mild blush on her cheeks don't lie. Rain even feels like she can disclose even more information about herself. "Besides, I think 2D girls are cuter…"


Pink laughs at Rain's comment, but instead of feeling embarrassed, Rain just smiles shyly. "How about music?" Pink asks next.


"I don't listen to a lot of music, to be honest…" Rain admits.


"Oh, that's a shame. I used to play guitar in college with a band."


"You would probably love to talk with Angel then. She plays guitar too."


"Really? What kind of music?"


"I think it's some kind of extreme metal… With growls, screaming, that sort of stuff…"


"Ehhh, that doesn't fit her at all!" Pink laughs again. "I'm more into pop, rock, and anything in between…"


"I pretty much only play random playlists of electronic music", Rain says. "And some soundtracks of shows and games I like."


"Oh, right. Gaming!" Pink realizes. "Let's talk about that! Did you play any other VR-MMO before trying this game?"


"Yeah, I have been in Mormia since its launch."


"Really? I'm more of a casual and play a lot of different games. I never settle for end-game content and like trying out different classes."


"I'm all about that endgame content and sweet loot."


"What kind of character do you play?"


"Human, male, a berserk-style fighter."


"Yeah, this is a part that I'm going to be embarrassed about saying, but I always play female…" Pink says, blushing even more. "Even this one… Everyone got turned into girls, but I was one from the beginning."


Rain scratches her cheek and nods. "I wanted to test a female character too for the alpha test, so I was like this from the start as well."


"Don't you like playing a female avatar?"


"Well, I mean… I consider myself a guy, but I like cute girls, which is why it might be worth trying. Being a cute girl is kinda… How do I put it… Confusing…"


Pink tilts her head in question. "Confusing?"


"I mean, it's like… I may be into girls, but being a girl is a whole different thing… I did make this character out of curiosity, so being stuck as one is not what I expected long-term… So, that's why it's not really what I prefer either…" Stumbling on her explanation, she pauses, wondering how to explain it better. "I mean, I also like animals, but would I want to be one? No. Of course, being a girl isn't that different to being a boy, but… Y'know…"


"Yeah, I think I get what you mean. It's not nice being stuck as something you don't identify with. Still, I'm totally different from you myself…" Pink starts to fidget, almost as if thinking if she should even say the things she's going to say. "Lowkey, I always have wanted to be a real girl…"


Rain doesn't know what to say. "You mean, like… For 'real, real?"


Pink nods. "Well, I'm used to being an adult woman in games I have played, so being this young is a new one for me… I mean, I always used to look so feminine and mature, and look at me now…"


"Do you like being a kid then?"


Pink freezes completely, not knowing how to answer. Blushing from ear to ear, she just nods.


Rain responds with silence as well. Like she said, she never wanted to be stuck being a little girl, but she consented to be one when she made the character, so obviously, she's at least somewhat okay with it. To talk about this with someone who really identifies as a female is a fascinating subject for her, especially given the setting, as it gives her an entirely different perspective to this situation they all find themselves in.


What's more, is that Rain is into little girls. In fact, she's exclusively into little girls, at least 2D ones. What sits in front of her is a real little girl and an attractive one at that nonetheless. Does her attraction extend from pictures of fictional girls into real children as well? She has to admit that yes, it does, a little. She wouldn't find the idea of masturbating to a girl as adorable as Pink out of the ordinary, even though she doesn't jack off to real children. Of course, Nymphs don't look exactly the same as real human children do, as Rain personally finds Nymphs to look way better, so she can't really make the comparison.


"You know", Pink starts, "no VR games have had loli characters available in them, which is why I really wanted to try this one. I have always wanted to try to play a character like this."


Rain keeps nodding to show that she understands exactly how Pink feels. "There is something magical about the idea of returning to childhood, and even I can admit to that."


"Yeah, I miss childhood", Pink admits, nodding. "Oh, gosh… I'm blushing like an idiot…"


Rain giggles. "I'm probably blushing as well…"


"You are", Pink says with a wide smile on her face. Both of them find themselves giggling, having shared some intimate secrets with each other. "Thank you for listening to me… But do you actually want to do anything?"


Rain thinks for a moment. "What is there to do even? There's really no technology to play with during downtime from adventure…"


"I feel like we're kind of on the same page on some things, but very different in other ways… So I'm afraid to ask…"


"Ask away. I won't laugh no matter what you suggest."


Pink finally musters up the courage and leans forward. Rain is expecting something dirty, or is she secretly just hoping for it? "I wanna do some girly stuff, like play with your hair or something…"


Rain finds herself caught off guard. "That's it?" she asks, surprised. She really wasn't expecting Pink to ask that, but then again, Rain does have long, magnificent hair, just like Pink does. If Pink wants to play with it and maybe try different kinds of hairstyles on her, using her as a little dress-up doll, she's more than happy to comply. "Oh, please have your way with me…"


Pink runs away, giddy and very happy, with a spring in her feet. She heads towards her work table, bringing up some strings and a brush with her. She immediately starts to open up the hair ties, unraveling Rain's braided ponytails. To much of her surprise, she finds Rain's hair thick and curly. "Wow, your hair is beautiful! Why don't you keep it open?" Rain turns around to see Pink's smiling face. "It really fits you! You look so beautiful!"


"I haven't thought about my hair too much. I kind of like ponytails and braids. Helps it not get in the way too."


"Oh, I'm going to have so much fun!" Pink leans in closer to work with Rain's hair, and she can feel her warmth from behind, as well as her gentle touches. Having her hair played with and ruffled feels comfortable and relaxing, more so than she could've ever imagined. Rain closes her eyes with a happy smile on her face as she just concentrates on the handy work. Pink takes the brush, only to realize Rain's hair has been tangled up quite a bit. She's really careful not to hurt Rain or damage her hair and does an excellent job at that.


"Ah… I love it…" Rain admits out loud. "This is so relaxing after all…"


"Do me afterward, okay…?"


Rain nods. "With pleasure…"



As they alternate and take turns playing with each other's hair, they continue their meaningless conversation, getting back to their hobbies. They talk about what kind of car they have, what kind of games they play besides RPGs, and about their diet and sports as well. They do not have very much in common in these departments, as Raid only plays role-playing games and doesn't own a car, while Pink doesn't really care about healthy eating and exercising in a way Rain does.


Surprisingly intimate, they both have been touching each other for a long time now and have been fiddling with each other's hair, which in turn has them both blushing and smiling gleefully. Rain even feels herself getting excited being tended by a little girl, and her heart keeps racing because of it. She wonders, is Pink feeling the same way? She's afraid to ask.


The play concludes with Pink assisting Rain in giving her back her braids. It turns out to be a lot harder than she expected, especially since she's very inexperienced. Pink herself is wearing a cute ponytail with a tight rosy red ribbon.


"I prefer open hair, but maybe ponytails are nice after all", Pink thinks out loud. "Maybe I'll wear one just for you!"


"W-well, it looks good on you, but it's not like you have to go that far just for me…"


"I feel like your hair got a little upgrade as well now that I got to fix it", Pink says, clapping happily.


Rain inspects her hair and agrees. Her hair used to be quite a mess since she was afraid of unraveling it. Now that she has a friend who can fix her hair, she feels more confident about opening it once in a while, especially while washing it. Besides, she can probably fix it herself as well. "In any case… I had a lot of fun…" Rain says.


"Oh, yes… Me too…"


"I kind of want to try different kinds of outfits next…" Rain suggests. "You're a clothier, right?"


Pink nods. "I don't have too many clothes on hand right now, but that could be fun for the future… Maybe something else for now?"


Rain thinks deep, but she can't think of anything.


"How about makeup?" Pink suggests heartedly.


Rain blinks her eyes rapidly in surprise. "Makeup?"


Pink nods. "I don't know… I kind of got excited about acting like a girl and doing all this girly stuff…"


Rain giggles and says: "I don't think little kids need makeup, Pink…"


"Well, I guess you're right. You're really cute without makeup, at least."


"So are you."


Pink continues to think. "Well, we don't really need to do anything special… But if you want, we can just talk some more…"


Rain nods and leans forward. "Let's talk more about secrets…"


"Oh, that does sound exciting indeed…" Pink admits, fiddling around with her little fingers. "You're not in a hurry home anyway… Right…?"


"Yeah, of course not…"


"So, let's share a lot of secrets."


Rain nods. "I like you quite a lot, so… I feel like telling you anything at all…"


"O-oh…" Pink finds herself backing down few inches, but not because of the fact that she's feeling uncomfortable or anything like that. She was just surprised to hear those words. "Was that a secret you wanted to tell me…?" she asks with a mysterious tone.


"Maybe…"


"I must admit, I like you too…"


"Speaking of likes", Rain begins. "What do you like about being a little girl?"


"Oh, w-what are you asking so suddenly…" Pink softly whispers. "I can't explain it… I just feel like being a girl fits me more…"


"I'm not sure about that on a personal level", Rain says and laughs. "But I can at least say that having been like this for few days now, I don't hate it."


"Well, being big and strong has its perks, but I just love being small and cute", Pink says with hands pressed against her cheeks. "Besides, I get to be around other cute girls as well. What's not to love?"


"Well, that's definitely a positive I can agree with!" Rain says, nodding. "Does that mean you enjoy the company of children?"


"Y-yeah, I'm kinda into kids as well…" Pink admits suddenly, probably without even thinking about what Rain just asked her or about what she just blurted out. They stare at each other deeply, which just causes Pink to get increasingly embarrassed about what she just said. "Forget what I just said…"


"Oh, no, no, no…" Rain mumbles to herself, leaning even more forward. She presses her hands into the sheets and gets on her knees. "Are you into me, then?"


Pink begins with a long, stretched-out "Well", and she rolls her eyes around, avoiding eye contact with Rain, who is literally breathing into her face. "Ah, fuck it. Yes, I think you're hot."


Rain, without even thinking, extends her hands to Pink's shoulders and presses her down, falling on top of this girl. Pink's sudden words, her words claiming herself to be into kids, lit a light into her heart. A flip was suddenly switched in her brains, forcing her to push herself on top of this little kid. Pink's confession of love towards kids was everything Rain needed to make a sexual advance, something she had been quietly fantasizing about ever since she stepped into Pink's apartment. No, not only that but also something she has wanted to do with many Nymphs she's met already. The only thing holding her back had been the fear they would hate her for making sexual advances. Not Pink, though. Certainly not Pink. They share a mutual lust towards each other, and knowing this, Rain can't help but push her down, but that's nowhere near enough for her. She wants to go much, much further and make out.


Still pushing Pink down with all her measly body weight, Rain presses her lips against those of Pink's to steal a long, soft kiss. She feels her pucker up in a sudden response, a positive answer to her sexual advances. Feeling like nothing can or will hold her back, Rain begins to eat out soft lips like whipped cream, feeling the warm, wet lips sink against her own. Neither of the girls can resist the urge to stick their tongues out, a move that simultaneously surprises both of them when the tips of their tongues softly touch each other. For merely one and half seconds, they find their lips separated, and it is Pink who pushes back this time for a French kiss. In addition to the wet, sloppy noises that their connected mouths are making, they both find themselves letting out muffled moans of pleasure.


The pedophilic lesbian lust shared towards each other is not limited to just a kiss, as they want to touch each other. So far, they had both stayed relatively stable, but with their flat chests pressed against each other, they could feel each other's hastened heartbeat and the warmth through the clothes. They want to feel so much more. Pink's loving hug slowly heads towards Rain's butt, which she really wants to touch and grab. At the same time, Rain's exposed thigh presses against Pink's pussy through her panties. Rain can feel Pink's legs against her own genitals as well. Their bodies have separated just enough for Rain to be able to slide her hand under Pink's shirt. Rain's hand pushes upwards, exposing Pink's belly, taking a good feel of a young girl's firm yet soft chest. Despite being flat, it really is soft and not bony at all, and it's so warm as well. As her thumb accidentally grazes the little stiff nipple, she feels Pink's back arcing in response underneath her. In that very instant, they both can feel their hips moving and the thighs pushing down on their privates, rubbing them comfortably. Both of them can't help but notice that their kissers are not the only lips that are wet from the intimate play.


Already sweaty and feeling uncomfortable, Rain wants to get rid of her hoodie badly. She stops pushing herself on top of Pink for a moment, raising herself to stand on her knees on top of Pink's body. Pulling down the zipper, she quickly and nervously takes off her hoodie, which is a very easy feat to do indeed as she doesn't have to pull it over her head. As soon as she presents her sporty, naked upper body to Pink, her gleaming eyes are locked to it. Her blush is crazy, and so is her wide, tight-lipped, lustful smile.


For both of them, this is a dream come true. Rain suspected from the way Pink talked and how she has acted so far that Pink is a very submissive girl. Rain is happy to play the top, as she loves the idea of pushing herself on a small child. There's so much she wants to do to Pink, and she starts by pushing her face down on Pink's chest. With her hands, she exposes Pink's chest in full and proceeds to kiss and lick her nipples. With only one mouth to play with, she uses her hand for the other breast, pressing and gripping it tightly. She can't get enough of how nice it feels and tastes. She can taste the sweet, odorless sweat of a child, a taste she finds more pleasant than she anticipated. As for the tiny, stiffened-up nipples of a child, she's in love. Once tasted, she can't get her lips off them. Her tongue just keeps flicking them, and she sucks on it hard. Pink's girly, high-pitch moans and heavy breathing are music to her ears, a perfect soundtrack to her shameless advance.


For Pink, the situation feels just as lovely. She actually has someone lusting over her body, a body of a child she has dreamed of and longed for. And who's lusting for her? Another child. While she does feel that being a female probably fits her and her personality more, she does find women to be more attractive than men. Pink feels like she's in the world she has dreamed of forever, and for this very night, she feels like she can forget about everything terrible that's happening in the world around her. None of that matters because right now, she's in heaven.


Lost in pleasure, concentrating on what's happening, she doesn't realize what Rain's other hand is doing. It lifts her skirt, reaches down her panties, and touches her pussy directly. A loud moan instantly escapes her mouth to sound her approval. She can feel the fingers touch her opening and roll around it, but there is no penetration. Rain hesitates to push her fingers in on purpose, and Pink wants to be fingered so badly.


"P-please, just stick them in…!" Pink begs. "Finger my pussy…"


I can't believe what I'm hearing, a little girl is actually begging for me to be naughty, is the only thing going through her mind, but she refuses to give in to Pink's demand. "I'll give it to you, don't you worry", Rain says as she pulls her hands away from Pink, only to put them on her shirt instead. "But these clothes are in the way, don't you think?" she asks, filled with lust, and with a little assistance, she gets the shirt off Pink. "Ahh, I can't wait to see you naked…! I can't resist myself at all…!" Rain starts opening up the zipper of her skirt and gets on her knees.


Pink gets up as well, only to hug Rain's body and touch her ass through the skirt, stopping Rain on her tracks. She pushes her naked body against that of Rain, and both their nipples press against each other's bare skin. After a short kiss, Pink is the one that is pushing her hands under Rain's skirt, as well as her panties. Rain does the same thing, and very soon, they both find each other bottomless. With only their hair accessories and their socks on, they're otherwise naked. Able to touch and see everything directly now, they slow down, excited and even slightly scared. Their hands play around with each other's hair and, for a moment, as they lean closer to whisper.


"I can't get over how cute you are…" Rain admits. "I really want to do you…"


"As much as you want…" Pink says and nods. "I'll be your girl for tonight…"


"Yeah, we're not sleeping tonight… I'm not going home either…"


"Yes…! Let's make love all night…!"


"I never thought I would actually do this to a real child…" Rain says and pushes Pink down once again.


"I see you're into kids as well…" Pink says, laying down on her back, acting all cute.


"Does it bother you…?" Rain asks shyly.


Pink shakes her head as she spreads her legs to show her immature vagina for Rain to see. "It arouses me… I want you to look at me more…" Her fingers pressed against the soft, wet lips, she opens herself up to show the tight, juicy opening, not wider than a pinky's fingertip in size.


Rain finds herself staring down at the hole with an amazed look printed on her face. Her heart is racing and beating like a drum as she finds herself hesitating. Holy shit, it's actually in front of me right now. A cute little cunny. It looks so fuckable. And her body is so freaking cute and small too. She's so soft, so freaking erotic!' Rain gulps once and crawls on her knees. She lets her face get closer to Pink's private place and lays comfortably on her stomach. Being a little girl herself, she has to settle to the little she has to please the child in front of her. God, I wish I had my dick right now, she thinks to herself and presses her thumbs against the lips. It looks so tight that I would probably cum instantly. I would fuck her so hard.


Pink lays her hands to the side and lets Rain play with her pussy without offering any help. The clean, natural smell is alluring Rain in, and she can't help but press her lips against her pussy, around her opening. She has never pleasured a girl, so she's clueless, but it can't be too hard? Besides, Pink, at the very least, responds nicely with some shaky movement and breathing filled with intense pleasure. Rain decides to start by simply licking it, and she performs long yet quick strokes. She begins by pressing her tongue against the tiny hole and moves it up the slit, only for the tip to flick the exposed clit. She can taste it all around her tongue, and it fills her with even more pleasure. The taste is salty and strong, yet pleasant and simple. The word that springs to Rain's mind on top of every other thought is "addicting". It's not just the taste that is addicting, but the entire experience. The softness, the warmth, and the responses that Pink makes, they're all stimulating.


Pink's responses really are strong and instantaneous. With every flick of her bean her body jolts and jerks ever so slightly. In fact, the sensation is getting stronger with every flicker, and she arcs her body backward, spreading her legs even more. It is becoming harder for her to resist just shouting in pleasure, and her moans get louder. Her eyes roll back, and her mind is like a simple white blank page, devoid of any thoughts. Lost in intense pleasure, she's going to cum soon. Barely having started, relentless mouth play drives her off the cliff as she orgasms from a tongue alone.


Rain seems to realize this, but there's no way she's stopping so soon when she only began. Her hunger for an immature cunt is insatiable. She presents a finger to the play and uses it to play with Pink's clit while her tongue focuses on licking the pussy. She tries pushing her tongue in to get a better taste as she pinches Pink's bean, which only seems to make her let out stronger moans. She doesn't have the strength or the ability to stick her tongue deep, but it's more than enough for her. Then, fingers and mouth switch places. Rain focuses her mouth on Pink's clit and uses her fingers to reach inside the hole. The little opening immediately gives in and lets the fingers slide in easily. The sweet, wet walls of her hole tighten instantly around her fingers, almost as if sucking them in deeper. Rain can only imagine what it would feel like for a dick, and she also kind of mourns over the fact that Pink has already had a massive cock inside her. Jealous that she couldn't take away her virginity and the fact that she doesn't have anything like that to pleasure her with, she continues to lick and finger the little pussy possessively. In and out, fast, with straight movements. She knows that Pink just came, and she powered through it all. Now, she wants to make her cum again.


Coincidentally, Pink also mourns the fact that this isn't her first sexual experience as a Nymph. But enough of that because there's nothing to mourn about. Pink knows that she's going to cum again, and quite possibly very soon as well, and the next one is promising to be just as explosive as the last one. Having tasted it once already, she's so addicted to it that she wants to experience it again and again. Saying it out loud, she keeps repeating a plea for Rain to make her cum again and again, all the way until she can feel it rolling in, accompanied by the fast-paced fingerbang. Spoken words morph into shouted ones as she screams "Yes" over and over again all the way until she orgasms. Her body spasms violently as she literally squirts her juices all over Rain's fingers. It tightens up like crazy, and her soft voice starts breaking up, with tears of joy appearing in the corners of her eyes. Rain stops, satisfied with herself, and Pink is left shaky and feeling unbelievable sensations beyond her wildest imagination.


Wow, did I do that to her? Rain asks herself, looking at her soaked hand. Still not getting enough of the taste, she licks her fingers, staring down at Pink, who is just out of it. Laying still, eyes staring into emptiness and tongue sticking out, she breathes in and out deeply through her open, smiling mouth. She comes to it the instant Rain presses her hands on the sheets next to her ribs, and their lustful eyes meet. Almost as if injected by a shot of energy straight into her bloodstream, Pink gets up, arms crossed behind Rain's neck. They both sit up on their knees, and Pink adjusts her body behind Rain's back, pressing her body against it.


"I think it's about time we switch up, Rain…" Pink whispers to Rain's ear from behind, pressing hands against her chest. Rain, surprised, looks down on her body. She was not expecting to be on the receiving end. "I want to make you feel amazing too…"


"H-hold on…!" Rain says, but then she feels the other hand grab her pussy from behind. "I-I haven't even done it myself yet…!"


Hearing that makes Pink just giggle. "Oh, but isn't that just perfect? I can be your first… Besides, I think you deserve to feel exactly as amazing as I just did…"


Pink begins to rub Rain's pussy, her jaw pressed against Rain's petite shoulder. The words that blurted out from Rain's mouth end up being the only words of protest, as her body is overwhelmed by the pleasure. It is not all that foreign to her, but she has been way too careful about touching her own body. It really is not a lie even though she's a literal pedophile in real life, madly in love with little girls. The man in control of this cute avatar is a man, after all, and while she likes his new form, she's afraid of experiencing what she can experience in it. She knows how intense it can feel, especially now that she saw what she could do to Pink, and she suspects that Pink can do it to her. It's not she's not okay with it, but she doesn't feel ready yet.


Her opinion changes quickly, in a matter of just a few seconds. The way Pink's fingers make her feel drains away all the doubt from her heart and forces her into submission. I can let a little girl do it to me at very least, she bargains. Pink's hands have no force applied to them, but despite this, Rain finds her body jerked and tugged backward, almost if by a magnetic force. As good as it feels, she has felt nothing yet. Pink hasn't even inserted her fingers yet.


That changes suddenly and without warning as a single finger enters her virgin pussy. Just like that, her legs tremble and she keeps spreading them more, as much as she can from the position she's in. Her hole is sensitive really far deep into the hole, and it surprises her just how deep her nerves go. How far do they even go? About three inches for an adult, so two to three, maybe? That's farther than a child's finger can reach. She was expecting the pleasure to be just around her opening, but it flows deep inside her. Gently, warmth fills her from her labia all the way up to her heart, and she finds herself moaning involuntarily. She has done her best to keep her voice at bay at all times. She's always so quiet and emotionless that she surprises even herself. Did I just make that noise? She full well knows the answer. She just can't believe it, and she keeps making more noises, all while her pussy makes squishy and sloppy noises in unison. Oh no, is this what it feels like? Did Pink feel like this too? And it's not just her pussy, but her chest too. Pink's other hand pinches her nipple, which just makes her moan even more. She bends her head backward and turns it towards Pink, who is happy to answer with a kiss.


The number of fingers inside Rain's depths suddenly double. In addition to the middle finger, the ring finger disappears into the tight grip of her pussy. Pink fingers Rain hard, with her palm slapping against the upper parts of Rain's vulva with every single smack, filling her with satisfaction. It's getting really slimy and juicy, and Pink's hand is already drenched as proof of just how wet Rain really is. And Rain can't resist at all anymore. Having been shown a whole new world, having been shown just what kind of pleasure her body is capable of producing, she can't go back anymore. At this moment, she doesn't care about getting her dick back. How could she, given how good it feels? Yet, it's about to get better. She hasn't even cummed yet. Her first ever orgasm will be at the hands of another Nymph in a lesbian play. That's something that she's going to treasure in her heart forever, and she knows it. Oh, how grateful she is to lose her virginity like this.


It begins suddenly, and her body reacts violently. She leans backward even more strongly, being tugged towards Pink by her weak grasp on her nipples. Pink realizes what's going on and pinches her just harder. Pink lets her mouth go and lets Rain scream and moan, and she doesn't hesitate to do so. As soon as her mouth is free, a loud cry of pleasure escapes her mouth. Being teased all the way until the end with rough hand movements, she loses all sense of reason and surrenders to the ecstasy.


While it felt like a pleasant eternity while it was going on, in reality, it was over quicker than she wanted it to be. Left dizzy and panting heavily in exhaustion, she lusts for more. Pink is hugging her from behind. Closing her eyes, Rain focuses on the warm embrace, unmoving.


"I knew you'd like it…"


"I-I don't know if I can ever go back from that…"


"Did you really like it that much…?"


"Yes…! I want to experience it over and over again…!"


"Well, I'm happy to comply…" Pink says. "So let's try out a lot of different things… Okay…?"


Rain turns around, smirking. "How about we do something that will give pleasure to us both…?"


Pink isn't sure what Rain means, but she's convinced it's either scissoring or sixty-nine. Both of these plays are something she wants to do before the night is over. She nods slowly and lets Rain lead the way. After all, that's probably what fits them both the best.



After a good night's sleep tugged into each other's arms, two Nymphs wake up wondering to themselves, was sex something they should've had, especially for such a long time? They didn't look at the time, but given that they woke up really late, it is safe to say that they made love way past their usual bedtime, which coincidentally is about the same for both of them, around sundown.


Having known each other for less than a day, they shared something extraordinary together. They both loved it, and while they wouldn't change a thing, they can't shake off the feeling that maybe it was something that should've been left undone. They kind of agree that they did not do it out of love or desire for a relationship, but rather, out of pure impulsive lust towards each other at the time. They also agree that they both view each other as a friend rather than a lover and will not let what they did negatively affect them going forward. Are they going to do it again in the future? Perhaps, but for the time being, they mutually decide to keep their relationship as something that doesn't involve sex.


On a somewhat different topic, much to everyone's happiness and joy, neither Angel nor Pink seem to have any adverse effects from being raped and cummed inside. For Angel, this was unsurprising given what they learned about weak monsters being unable to impregnate Nymphs, but why wasn't Pink impregnated? Are wolves simply one of those enemies that aren't compatible with Nymphs, or was the wolf too weak? Was there something else at play? For now, all these questions will remain unanswered, left to be explored, hopefully not by experience but rather by another possible piece of lore discovered in the wild.


Now working as a newly formed quintet, this group of Nymphs ventures back into the forest to train and get stronger together. Eyes locked on level four, the level when they unlock their last talent point, they work hard together, familiarize themselves with each other, and grow to know each other better.


They feel optimistic about their future, which for all intents and purposes, looks bright.


Chapter II

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