56. Sunday Evening Discoveries
Sunday Evening
Jenny and her daughters were seated around the dining room table, once again going through papers that had belonged to her estranged father, just like the evening the whole adventure had apparently begun. There were many differences between then and now, of course. For one, Leila was helping them look for anything that might be remotely likely to refer to the remote that Maddie had recently confided in them about. All four women were nude this time, which was another significant change, and all three Berman women were still dressed in their pet gear, except for the tail plugs, which weren't especially comfortable to sit on.
After Maddie's more detailed explanation, and her shame-faced return of the explanatory letter written by the deceased, Jenny had remembered finding the remote and even had a vague recollection of it displaying something about mind control when she'd inadvertently triggered it. Furthermore, she was also confident that she'd seen a small, stapled sheaf of papers with a diagram that looked similar to the device, which might have been a xeroxed or printed instruction manual, or at least some kind of prepared notes compiled by a previous owner. She couldn't remember for sure if she'd saved it or tossed it in the rubbish, so they were spending their evening double-checking and hoping for the best.
"I'm still kind of surprised that you loaned it to your roommate," Allie said while shuffling through a stack of papers. "Even with the punitive trigger or whatever you gave her."
Maddie sighed and answered, "It seemed like a good idea at the time. I didn't want to be tempted to use it on myself or one of you, since we're all past, or at least near, the cooldown time. But since it seems like it might be automatically hitting us with a fourth attribute, it may have been a vain hope."
Allie nodded her head, then gave her sister a sly grin and teased, "Plus, the idea of her mind-controlling the softball team gets you wet, doesn't it?"
Maddie closed her eyes and rubbed her temples for a moment before loudly saying, "Not helping!"
"Leave your sister alone, Allie," said Jenny, almost automatically, which caused a round of chuckles.
"What do you think your fourth level trait is, Maddie?" asked Leila, who had been very quiet all evening.
Madelyn hesitated and admitted, "I'm not sure, and I'm a little embarrassed to speculate right now. I'd rather wait until tomorrow and get the thing back to confirm, instead." Leila looked dissatisfied, Jenny thought, but the bunny girl didn't pursue the matter any further just then.
"Well, I for one will be excited to get another sexy superpower," said Allie with a smile. "I love being a naked kitty call girl with leaky teats!"
Maddie rolled her eyes and deadpanned, "I have to admit, it's a minor improvement for you." Allie and Leila laughed; Jenny kind of wanted to chuckle as well, but felt it would be bad mothering, so she sighed heavily instead.
"Hey, mom?" asked Allie, "Have you given any thought to turning this place into a whorehouse?" Everyone looked at the youngest Berman in surprise, so she clarified, "That or a porn studio? I've been thinking about ways to capitalize on our sexiness and near-limitless horniness. I like the milk-selling idea that Tina woman came up with, but it'd be nice to use this space to see clients in, or to film scenes, instead of just selling it." Allison shrugged and concluded, "Just wanted to run the idea by you guys and see if I'm the only one who gets wet at the thought."
Jenny had indeed felt a pulse of arousal at the description of Allie's master plan, and judging from the looks on Maddie's and Leila's faces, she wasn't the only one. "I'll think about it," she hedged, wondering just how much red tape there would be to using the property commercially. She obviously couldn't make it a real brothel in an official sense, at least unless the remote or the powers it had given them could be leveraged in some way, but Jenny found herself staring off into space and purring at the idea of being Madame of a cat-house.
"I think I found it!" Leila suddenly burst out, extracting a packet of papers from her sheaf. Excitedly, she turned the front page around and showed what was clearly a drawing of the remote, somewhat crudely xeroxed from a smaller booklet or pamphlet. The only other thing on the cover page was a showbill font that proclaimed the device to be 'A Different Kind of Sex Toy.'
The packet looked to be about twenty pages long, but each sheet contained two pages of the original manual. Quickly rifling through it, Maddie skimmed past several pages, muttering, "I figured that part out for myself." Jenny got up to read over her daughter's shoulder, as did the other women, and was a little frustrated that Madelyn was flipping through too rapidly to let her get a sense of what it said. She finally paused, and Jenny had started to read about the level progression system when Maddie said, "Well, shit. Fourth-level traits are indeed automatic, triggered as soon as the device detects the timer ending, or as soon as the power level permits afterwards."
"So what does that mean?" asked Leila, looking kind of worried.
"Lots of things," Maddie said, with a rather grim and apologetic expression. "Unless Cassie keeps the batteries low, which is admittedly pretty plausible at least for right now, all three of you will be getting a new trait sometime soon. And according to this," she said, pointing at a passage, "if you've got intensified traits, it will automatically intensify again, unless the user selects otherwise when prompted."
"So I'm going to get even more whorish, somehow?" asked Allie, looking pretty excited at the thought. Jenny reluctantly realized she found the idea of her daughter recruiting girls from school to work at their whorehouse made her weak in the knees, and she reflexively purred before she stopped herself, clearing her throat in an attempt to cover up her arousal.
"Presumably," said Madelyn, reading down further. "It doesn't give detailed notes on individual traits, but this diagram suggests that for those whose third-level traits include transmissivity to intimates, fourth-level traits often make it easier to spread a less intense version casually, even accidentally. So maybe in your case, you stay about as whorish as now, but make everyone around you act more like a hooker, or maybe a john."
Allie purred in delight and began fingering her pussy, saying, "I can't wait!"
"And I guess I'll be making people act more like animals?" Jenny mused, finding a desire to join the masturbation session but restraining herself for the moment.
"Probably," said Maddie, distracted by further reading. "It says here that many 'Intensity 4' traits become hereditary latent fetishes." She looked up at her mother with a shrewd expression, thinking hard, and finally said, "Maybe that explains the incest stuff."
Jenny and Allie both stared at her blankly, but Leila gasped with apparent understanding. "The letter!" exclaimed the bunny girl. "Your grandfather said he got an incest fetish! Maybe that's why you all fell into it so easily when your libidos went nuclear!"