>>5616352“A what?” you ask.
Irinnile flicks your human guise’s reddish beard playfully, gently admonishing you: “Baby, DREAM-Delving. Remmber? I tolja’, didn’t I? I can go into, like, the collective unconscious of mortals at night. If we were to do that at night, you could visit your honey without ever leavin’ your room, an’ start steering her all subconscious-like!”
Hm. Well, it’s certainly one option…
“But I’m gonna’ need somethin’ in exchange.”
You narrow your eyes, turning your full attentonto the scheming succubus.
“We have a pact,” you point out. “You are to serve and me, and my cause, and my heirs.”
Irinnile puts up their hands placatingly, and soothingly says: “I know all THAT, babycakes! I ain’t tryin’ to PLAY ya’ or nothin’. I just need the JUICE, right? This kinda’ thing takes mana, and Aunty Iri’s usin’ all she’s got to keep Ricky all beddy-bye, jus’ like I said before.”
You tilt your head, and Irinnile places her hands together and pouts pleadingly.
“Come on, I’m beggin’ ya’, baby! You’re fuuuull of that dragon-mana, right? What’s a little bit for little old me?”
It isn’t just the donation of mana, however. You remember the feelings which swept through you during yours and Irinnile’s attack upon the Incubus cult prior to your coming to the Paladin King’s palace. You’d been utterly consumed by a sort of bloodlust battle frenzy which you had never before experienced. It wasn’t just the thrill of battle, it was a perversion of your instincts, beyond your ability to control or direct… And you liked it. You were changed by it, you sense, ever so slightly. Your sexual fantasies, when they arise and trouble you, are more aggressive and violent than once they were. Your desire for bloodshed in battle is piqued more easily. It’s as if an accelerant were dumped upon the fire of your carnal urges.
If you do this thing, it won’t only be Ekaterine who may suffer a sort of corruption.
What will you do?
>Go with Irinnile in dreams to corrupt Ekaterine, though it means empowering irinnile and risking yor own corruption>Dream-delve with Irinnile, but you will NOT engage in any sort of congress with tehd emn—though it means you must act fast, or else risk the Green Knight’s waking>Might it be less taxing for Irinnile to go alone, and to manipulate the Princess without bringing you along? It means putting rgeater trust in the succubus, though…>Wait, can’t Irinnile just implant Ekaterine with some demonic ectoplasm, as your mother had her do to manipulate the local Archmage years prior?>This is needlessly convoluted and dangerous—you would just have Irinnile help sneak you to Ekaterine’s room, and serve as a watchdog while you woo and convert her the old-fashioned way>Write-in 