Heads up, I am a fan of the set up and situations that lead people to move out of their comfort zones and do things they never thought they would do. To that end, this story will start (and continue) with a lot of build up and foundation laying before there is any real sex. That may not be your thing, but it is mine, and what drives me to write.
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"Yeah, well Petra's just as hot as all those girls," Pete said as he was rolling his dice. He paused for a second, doing some mental math, "24 to hit," he continued.
"That's a miss," replied Doug, "and there's no way that your wife is as hot as the chicks in my background." He toggled the screen share in his web conference software and a picture of 3 women in string bikinis took over the screens of all 5 men.
"Dude, come on, I'm trying to focus on what spell I'm going to cast next. Stop distracting me," said Xander. "But be sure to send me that image for after the session," he concluded.
The D&D game went on for several more hours, and while all 5 players were in different parts of the country, it felt like they were in the same room. They all cheered when Pete's fighter landed the killing blow on the mind flayer that was terrorizing the kingdom, bringing an end to the gaming session. Doug congratulated all the players on their tactics as everyone started sitting back and relaxing.
"Great use of wild shape Leo," Xander said with a grin, "I bet Doug thought he had us stuck without any healing when he caught you in those vines. But transforming into a bird was brilliant."
"Thanks X," Leo replied, "and those magic missiles came at exactly the right time. Of course Roger's backstab was crucial too. Did you forget where he was hiding Doug?"
"No," Doug said with fake bluster, "I knew exactly where he was, but I had to play Lord Ulyses as if he didn't know. You gotta keep player knowledge and character knowledge separate, right?"
"Sure sure," said Roger with a smirk, "you were probably switching tabs in your browser and opened up that babe picture and --POOF-- everything else left your mind."
They all laughed at that, because it was almost for sure true. Doug was not very smooth around women, and it was suspected among the group that he was a virgin. He was in his 40s, overweight, and the guys had only seen him in gaming and Star Wars t-shirts. He was the classic IT nerd in appearance and personality, which was good because that was also his job.
"Here you go guys," said Doug as each computer dinged, indicating that a file had been delivered to all of them. "The babes that Pete says are uglier than his wife."
They all laughed again. "This is great dude," said Xander after a pause to open up the file. "I haven't seen any of these ladies before. This is definitely going into my spank bank." Everyone groaned in disgust at that remark. Xander was the youngest of the group at 24. He was always talking about girls he was dating, but none of them were around for longer than a week or two.
"Dude, I don't need you putting that image in my head," said Leo. "Just appreciate the picture and...." He paused because the image had opened on his screen. "Damn Doug, where did you find this image? Those chicks are fiiiiiine. I may have to start a spank bank, now that Teressa is leaving me, and this will be a choice inaugural image." Leo was 35 and was splitting up with his wife of 10 years since they couldn't agree on having kids; he wanted some and his soon to be ex didn't.
"You don't really expect us to believe that Petra looks as good as these women do you Pete," asked Roger. "They are professional models and have likely been photoshopped to enhance their features even more." This was more words in a row than Roger had said all night. He was typically quiet, but didn't like being lied to or tricked.
"I swear, she's super hot," said Pete, "and she plays role-playing games and loves her PS5, and has a good career as a teacher."
"And does she live in Canada?" asked Leo with a snort.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Xander asked.
"Haven't you ever heard about guys making up Canadian girlfriends?" asked Doug. "Here, I'll send you a Wikipedia article about it."
"If she's real," asked Roger, "how come we've never seen her on screen with you, or on your Instagram, or anything else?"
"She hates having her picture taken," replied Pete. "All of those great pics on my Instagram were taken by her. All of the shit ones were mine. But here's one of her," he said as he started sharing his screen. The image showed a bunch of people downhill skiing and snowboarding. The image was centered on a woman in the middle of a jump, her snowboard pulled up as she was grabbing the side of her board."
"Wow, so hot," said Leo sarcastically. "You can almost see that she might have curves under all of that winter gear. And the helmet and goggles really do wonders to show off her face."
"Dude, I'm serious, that's like the only picture I have of her," said Pete.
"I call bullshit," replied Doug. "If she's hot, she loves to be in front of the camera. All hot girls love to have their picture taken and have guys drool over it."
"Not Petra," said Pete. "She always ducks or puts her hand up when I take pictures of her. Here, let me show you." He picked up his phone and opened up his photos app. He scrolled through and opened up an album. "Look," he said and held up his phone to his webcam. The image was of a woman's hand up in front of a face. What could be seen of the body below the hand was pulling away. Pete swiped and the next image was a head turned away and obviously pulling out of frame. He swiped a few more times and each image was the same: hand, hand, side of head, back of head, blurry body, off centered.
Then, "holy shit!!" exclaimed all the guys. Pete stopped and turned the phone around.
"Shit, I didn't realize I swiped back so far," said Pete. The image on his phone was another hand shot, but in this one the body was completely in focus. The woman in the photo was wearing a red polka-dotted bra and matching panties. The bra was having a hard time containing the ample breasts and the panties were pulled high and tight, providing a distinct camel toe.
"Wow," said Xander. "That's not really her is it? Show her again man."
"No way, she'll kill me," said Pete.