"Everyone starts with one hundred IQ points," I said, handing the bag to Fiona.
"Only a hundred?" She examined one of the polished copper pennies. "I'm one-fifty at least."
"It's symbolic," I explained. "One hundred or more and you're your normal self. Zero or less and you're a total bimbo. It's not just intelligence, either. It's also focus and inhibition and general horniness."
Fiona grinned at me. "Does it make a difference in your case?"
"Hey," I whined, "I'm intelligent." I handed the cards to Ana. "Here, you shuffle."
Ana was my new neighbour. She had recently split from her husband of two years and had taken to visiting me in the evenings for company. Her eyes widened as she examined the cards. "These are weird."
Fiona leaned over to peek at them, and laughed. "Well, the game is called 'Bimbo!' What would you expect?"
Ana frowned. "Why exactly are we playing this again?"
"Because you said you don't believe in magic," I said.
We were sitting in a circle on the floor, on a plastic sheet that had once belonged to a game of Twister. I took the third and final item from the box and placed it between us.
"Oh. My. God." Ana's hand paused in the act of reaching for the cock - an erect brown-skinned cock, ten inches long with girth to match. "It looks so real!"
It probably was. The old man in the magic shop had assured me that it was 'ethically sourced', as if Fair Trade cocks could be a thing. I picked it up, enjoying for a moment its firm, fleshy warmth, and handed it to Ana in exchange for the cards. She held it at a safe distance, her expression one of mingled disgust and fascination. "It feels so real..."
"Try squeezing it."
Ana gave the cock a tentative squeeze, and shrieked as cum spurted from the tip, splashing out onto the floor.
"I wondered why we needed this," Fiona said, patting the Twister sheet. She picked up the cock from where Ana had thrown it and examined it curiously. "Is it safe?"
"No toxins, viruses, bacteria or spermatozoa, just rich, tasty cum."
"Yuck," Ana said. "Okay, nice trick. But it's not magic."
I chuckled. "If you say so. Are we ready?" The cards were shuffled, the pennies distributed, sheet laid and cock ready. "Fiona, are you in?"
"You didn't answer my question. Is it safe?"
"It's night magic. Any effects will end with sunrise. Are you in?"
"Yes."
"Ana?"
"I am not doing what it says on the cards."
"That's entirely up to you."
The combined powers of disbelief and peer pressure worked their magic. "Okay. Yes."
"Great. Each round begins with paying a coin to the bank." I took one of my pennies and threw it into the bag, and waited for Fiona and Ana to do likewise. Already, with just one IQ point gone, I could sense the magic stirring restlessly.
I took the deck and dealt out one card to each of us. The visible backs of the cards had either a '5' or a '10' on them. "There are ten Attribute cards, and ten Compulsion cards. The goal of the game is to collect all ten Attributes, with as many IQ points left as possible. Before showing everyone your card, you have the option of selling it to another player for the price marked on the back."
Ana's card had a five. "So, Ana, can I buy yours?"
She lifted the card carefully to read it, and snorted. "Be my guest." She passed it to me, and I handed over five pennies.
A sudden wave of arousal rippled through me, leaving me quite dizzy for a few seconds. Fiona's laughter brought me back to myself, and I focussed on the game again.
"Okay, right, anyone else buying or selling?" In fact, there's no point doing it at the start, but I didn't want Ana to bail immediately. "No one. Then we end this round by revealing the cards."
I turned over the one I'd bought from Ana.
Lose those clothes
, it read, which seemed to me a perfectly sensible idea, even without a magical compulsion. My other card was a ten-pointer:
Tie me up
.
"Would you like me to help you with that?" Fiona asked, smirking.
I was sorely tempted. "Later," I said, determined to resist the compulsions as long as I could. "Show us yours."
Fiona turned over her card, and gasped as the transformative spell worked on her. "What does
Milk Maid
do?" Ana asked.
"Makes your breasts produce milk," I explained, and Ana rolled her eyes.
"It's such a strange sensation," Fiona added, feeling her breasts through her shirt.
"Gets better," I said. I'd tested all the spells on myself individually while developing the game, but this was my first time actually playing it.
I gathered up all the cards and shuffled before passing the deck to Fiona. "Your turn to deal - but first, remember to pay the bank." I tossed another penny into the bag.
This time nobody bought or sold. Fiona squirmed uncomfortably as she revealed her card -
Fill me up
- and when I revealed mine -
Spank me
- she glared at me and said, "I dare you to ask me."
I blushed under her gaze, as if I could already feel the heat in my cheeks from her threatened spanking. I turned to Ana. "Show us yours."
It was her first card.
Blonde Bombshell
, she said, and shrugged. "What?"
"That's amazing," Fiona said, and I nodded. It was the first time I'd seen it happen to someone else. Ana's dark curls had lightened into blonde, windswept waves, and she seemed suddenly ten years younger. Her skin was flawless. If I'd had to guess, I'd have said early twenties at most.
"Take a look in the mirror," I said, and ten seconds later Fiona and I grinned at Ana's scream of surprise. "How?" she demanded. "How is this possible?"
I shrugged. "Magic."
"But magic isn't real..." She tugged at her hair, trying perhaps to convince herself it was a wig.
I gathered up the cards, got Fiona to shuffle them, and passed the deck to Ana. "Your deal."
The next round I got my fourth Compulsion,
Lick a clit
, which had me biting my lip with frustration, and Fiona got
Suckle some tits
. She stared down mournfully at her own breasts. Her shirt had wet patches around her nipples. "I'd suckle these if I could."
Ana got
Platinum Pubes
and stared down inside her trousers with astonishment. "Is that a heart?"
"Maybe," I said. It was. Platinum blonde pubes, trimmed and shaped into a heart.
"I like it."
The next two rounds were Compulsions again: