Laundry Divers Pt 02 Ch 01 04

Chapter 1

A group of twenty conspicuously attractive women crowded into the small laundry room, half of them craning their necks to see from outside. Their leader, whose ass made the bottom of her bodysuit invisible, stood theatrically in front of a broken-down washing machine. "Are you ready?" she asked, before yanking open the door.

There were collective sighs, before Sabrina gave a flustered look and shut the door. "Fuck, my bad. Who has eyes on the sunset?"

A girl in the back looked west, squinting her eyes. "It's pretty much behind the mountains already," the girl reported. This was Mellissa, a preppy blonde dental hygienist. After a few minutes, she turned back and said, "it's down!"

"Take two," Sabrina said, before pulling the door again. This time the familiar magic tunnel was plain to see.

Tonight's dive was about teaching and leveling-up the first score of recruits in the newly-founded Diving League. Each member of the original party would be leading a party of newbs to babysit them and tank encounters before handing over the resulting jellies. Once the first twenty had gone through this tutorial, they could all group up with the remaining virgins to do the same for them.

Getting everyone through the tunnel was a rowdy affair. There was a lot of shouting and giggling, and of course some bickering. Sabrina looked forward to having this over so she could get back to her own party. In the laundry-themed first room of the dungeon, the service elevator that Sabrina had taken previously remained.

>Defeat floor boss to gain access.

This message appeared for all of the new divers. Going down to the second level was never considered for tonight, so this was okay. Really, it gave Sabrina peace-of-mind knowing that unsupervised newbies wouldn't go tumbling into their own deaths so easily. It was also good to know that it would be easy for her and her party to get down to business tomorrow night.

The groups gathered in the mall-like hub of the dungeon, and then scattered in different directions. Sabrina already had a little teacher's pet, who was following so closely that she bumped into Sabrina's sensitive ass. This sent a twitch through her cock, which was not currently attached to her.

Jade felt the arousal, as she was wearing the Living Dildo. Sabrina winced, knowing that her girlfriend would telepathically tease her about this. Right on cue, she heard Jade mockingly ask, "That was the cute one, wasn't it?"

Sabrina deflected, asking, "How do I know you're not the one getting horny for some other bitch?"

Sabrina couldn't see Jade's face, but she knew she was smirking. Sabrina looked back at her clinger. "Fuck. She is cute."

The girl was Aisha. During the Diving League's recruitment party, Sabrina gave a speech pitching her idea and demonstrated some magic. After that, she asked for a volunteer to come up and pop some jellies for all to see.

The one who stepped up right away was Aisha, a cute and nerdy black girl with an infectious smile. She popped a Lust jelly as her first taste of magical power.

Lust] has reached lvl 1!

>No class. (1/6) Aspects unlocked. Unlock (6/6) to gain a class.

>In the absence of a class, your points have been allocated automatically.

>New Perk: Mind-Freak. Gain the ability to send out psionic probes that strongly stimulate the target. This can create a wide variety of sensations and has extreme orgasmic potential.

>New cultivation path: soft dom. Complete challenges to gain rewards.

>New affinity: post-orgasm torture.

Sabrina had never seen anything like this perk, and she couldn't help but to be curious. As with all of the new members who were part of this first excursion, she gave Aisha three of each jelly, bringing most of her aspects to level two and getting her a class. The psionic theme only got stronger as she did this.

So now in the dungeon, Aisha was messing with Sabrina's head without even trying. At least, hopefully she wasn't trying. Jade was only making it worse, seeming to get off on Sabrina's embarrassment with the situation.

Much in the same way that the dungeon's magic recognized and formalized the formation of Sabrina's party, it did the same with the Diving League. The quest system had now expanded, offering a larger variety of quests, visible to all members. Some of these quests could be called dibs on by individual parties, while others were 'first come, first served' bounties.

On top of the quests, the inventory system got a big boost. Now, not only did they have individual and party inventories, but also a large, centralized treasury. There seemed to be a front-end system for applying rules to the treasury, but figuring that all out would be a task for later. For now, it was just a good place to donate contributions to the league.

Sabrina let her party of trainees pick the quest they'd be setting out on. Following the marker this placed on the map, they found their way to a storefront with gothic decorations, but no name. Sabrina guessed it would either have a theme based on Hot Topic, or a Halloween store. Only one way to find out, she supposed.

Sabrina stepped in first, to be safe. The candlelit store she found herself in was on the strange side, to put it mildly. It was sort of like Hot Topic, and sort of like a Halloween store, too. Mostly, though, it was a BDSM sex-dungeon.

Sabrina stood speechless for a moment and was irritated as the recruits followed her in right away without waiting for the 'all clear.' As she spun around, winding up to scold the girls, they scattered, and all began curiously touching things.

These idiots were going to get themselves killed. Sabrina should know. After all, she'd done just that.

Sabrina wished she could vent to someone about her foolhardy group of recruits. Then, she remembered that she could. "My group are idiots," she complained to Jade.

"Good," Jade said back remotely. "That's sort of a prerequisite for this job."

"So that's why you act like that," Sabrina joked. "Really though. We just wandered into to some kind of fucked up goth kink shop, and they all just wandered away touching shit."

"Bean, you just described what we do every day."

Sabrina groaned. "It's different, now. We know better."

"Are we still talking about us? We've been in here like three more times than these girls. We're not exactly seasoned veterans."

"Do I need to remind you I di-- hold up a sec."

Sabrina bolted into action as this room's monsters made their appearance, having been alerted by someone's careless prodding. Emerging from behind curtains and racks of kinky lingerie, were humanoid monsters in full-body latex gimp suits. Each wore strap-ons with an assortment of intimidating dildos, and wielded floggers, cats-o-nine-tails, or even double-ended dildos as their weapons.

Unfortunately for the kinky creatures, Sabrina was fast. She was over-leveled for this whole floor and had an agile simulated class for her human form. She'd learned the hard way that she lost her teleportation spell in the bargain, but she hardly needed it.

In the blink of an eye she dashed from one end of the store to the other and situated herself between an angry gimp and Aisha. With one swing of her sword, its whip-wielding arm was severed. With the next, its head was.

The parts that fell with a thump weren't those of an organic person simply wearing a gimp suit. They were made-up of an inky- black substance that looked like latex. A second later gave the same treatment to a gimp that was attacking another one of the girls, this one was a blue-haired thick girl named Sadie.

As Sabrina jumped into action to swiftly kill the next gimp, she stopped in her tracks as Kenzie --a lithe ginger woman with a ninja-type class-- beat her to the chase. Again, she saw a gimp die to the recruits' attacks without her own intervention.

Sabrina flushed with shame. "Never mind," she told Jade. "What were we talking about?"

Jade chuckled, and told her, "I think we were talking about you being too protective. They're not children, and most of the rooms we've seen are easy as shit."

"Yeah, I think I'm starting to get that. I just sort of robbed a couple of my girls of their first kill without waiting to see if they even needed my help."

"It's alright. It's your first time back down here after everything that happened. It's natural to worry. You've just gotta remember that we didn't have anyone but each other looking after us down here. You're there if they need you, but whatever they can't handle on their own, they can probably handle together."

Sabrina stood ready to jump back in as she saw a girl getting whipped by one of the gimps. "Hold up," Sabrina said tentatively. "One of my girls is getting lashed with a cat-o-nine-tails." She watched as Sadie taunted the gimp, leaning to catch the lashes on her tits. "False alarm. She's just getting off on it."

"Speaking of which," Jade said, suggestively. "Would you mind picking one of those up while you're in there? That room sounds like a great shopping opportunity."

Sabrina's recruits all got their classes to level two in the kink shop. She was seeing a big advantage to unlocking a class while one's attributes were all low-level. It made leveling up with a class significantly easier. By the time she got her class, a few of her attributes were high enough that it took a whole lot of jellies to increase them.

On that note, she decided to check on the jellies she looted and give them over to the recruits, who needed them more. She was puzzled to find that she hadn't looted any at all. Rather, each gimp dropped:

> (1) tainted blood stone.

> (1 tbsp) pathetic soul-ash.

Sabrina asked her party what they'd looted from the gimps. The girls reported looting simple Lust jellies and ingredients relating to their respective subclasses. That was to be expected, normally, but made Sabrina worry about her own loot.

Could she not loot jellies anymore? She regretted not bringing Red, so she could ask about this. Instead, she'd left Red at the gym, as a sort of representative of the founding party.

Upon leaving the BDSM room, imps swarmed the party. It was nothing that the divers couldn't handle, but it was certainly an 'all-hands-on-deck' situation. To Sabrina, the imps' attacks were no worse than the sting of air-soft pellets, but the new girls got a few cuts and burns.

The party put down the threat with only a few hiccups, and the healer got everyone back in shape. This was a quiet girl named Alejandra, who had a spell that healed damage through hands-on massage. Aisha had sustained burns on both of her breasts and grinned fiendishly as she received her massage.

As Sabrina watched Alejandra blush and avoid eye-contact while Aisha took pleasure in, she got a better sense of Aisha. Aisha was likely aware of Sabrina's attraction to her and was having fun with embarrassing her about it. Sabrina had no doubt that Aisha had been bumping and brushing on her ass intentionally to get a reaction out of her.

Sabrina told all of this to Jade, and Jade responded, "I'm liking this girl more and more."

"What's wrong with you?" Sabrina asked, annoyed. "I'm your girlfriend. You're not supposed to want some other girl to seduce me."

"What can I say? I like what I like," Jade answered casually. "You're just really cute when you can't cope with someone making you horny. Why do you think I masturbated with the door open? I did that a lot, by the way. I was pretty disappointed when I figured out you only watched once. It made me so hot, imagining that you were peeping on me every time."

"I... don't even know what to say to that."

"That it's hot?" Jade suggested. "We both know that our dick is hard."

"That's definitely like ninety percent your boner this time," Sabrina pointed out. "And... yes, it's a little hot to that you were imagining me watching every time you jerked off, or whatever. You've definitely got some issues, though."

"You love it," Jade taunted. "Maybe I should go find you so I can fuck Aisha with your dick in front of you."

"You're so fucking weird, dude."

Jade brushed this off, saying, "Whatever. It's not like we don't do that kind of shit all the time, now. We're special like that."

"Sure, when there's some sort of dungeon incentive, or whatever. I don't go around fucking other people just because I think it would be hot," Sabrina argued, concerned.

"Then maybe you should do it because I think it would be hot. Besides, are you really gonna tell me that you don't have any attraction to our friends?"

"I... don't know," Sabrina said. If she was speaking out loud, she doubted she'd be able to force her mouth to say what she was about to, but telepathy gave her a degree of separation. "Maybe we should sit down tonight and, like... figure out the boundaries and terms of this relationship."

Sabrina's heart was racing with worry about Jades reaction. As it turned out, she didn't need to. Jade assured her, "I would love to, Bean. Relationships are built on trust and communication, so it's crucial to have that kind of discussion early and often. I love you."

Sabrina was stunned. "I... love you, too. Why do you sound like a book? Did you read a book?"

"What? I read books," Jade defended, sounding like she'd been caught with her hand in a cookie jar.

"Oh my god, that's so sweet! You totally read one of those couple's counseling books!"

"I don't know what you're talking about... oh look, a monster. Sorry Bean, I've gotta deal with this." Jade went radio-silent after the obvious deflection, but Sabrina was left smiling sweetly. It was nice to know her girlfriend was making an effort to make sure their relationship was healthy long-term.

Overall, the dive was a success. They now had a solid base of other divers with increased levels, and a bit of experience. As a group, they even gathered enough extra jellies to power-up the next group of recruits.

The original party parted ways with the league and retired back to their apartment. They all chatted for a while about how things went with the parties that they had each babysat and then headed off to bed. Sabrina took a moment to wash up in the bathroom before joking Jade.

She wiped off the combat-debris with a washcloth soaked in magic water. Finally, she washed her face at the sink. As she looked up at her reflection, she went dizzy with panic.

Sabrina jumped at seeing her unnaturally perfect face. Her thoughts raced with doubts. "That's not me. Who is that? This isn't my body. This isn't my face. This isn't my brain! I'm not me! I'm dead! You dead fucking bitch! Monster!"

The world became fuzzy and filtered through her vision in choppy images. It was like watching her life through a screen with a low frame-rate. Darkness surrounded the periphery of her vision, closing in on her and making her perception retreat deeper and deeper away into a tunnel.

This wasn't her body. This wasn't her brain. These were her eyes. It was as though she'd become so immersed in a video game that she thought she was in it, but then remembered all at once that her movements were only presses of a button.

She felt less and less connected to her own body, until any control she had over it slipped away from her. Her body fell, completely limp. She was like a marionette once the strings were cut. As all power slipped from her muscles keeping her upright, consciousness itself left her.

>Darkness.

Chapter 2

There was light, and voices. Sabrina couldn't quite make heads-or-tails out of any of it. Then, all at once, reality came back into focus. She was on the floor, with Jade, Alice, and Sloan looking down at her. Sloan had her hammer ready and was scanning the bathroom for threats. Jade and Alice were looking down concerned, and expectant, as though they were waiting on the answer to a question.

"What?" Sabrina asked. Her tone was less 'why are you looking at me,' and more 'can you repeat that?'

"Are you okay?" Jade asked.

Sabrina wasn't sure how to answer that. She settled on, "Yeah, I'm fine."

"What happened?" Alice asked the instant after Sabrina lied.

Sabrina was even less sure how to broach that topic. She couldn't exactly say existential crisis, panic attack, dissociation, body terror, identity crisis, or that she suspected she was a literal imposter. "I fell," she said, keeping it short and sweet. That only seemed to make the people she cared about more worried.

"We know you fell," Jade said. "Why?"

"It's... a long story." The faces looking down at her didn't appear satisfied with her dodging the question, so she gave a partial answer. "I had a panic attack," she admitted. "Could you guys back up a bit, you're making me sorta claustrophobic."

Sabrina was able to brush off too many further questions by emphasizing that she really wasn't in the right space to talk about it yet. She stressed that she really just needed to rest up for now. Of course, going to bed didn't mean solitude anymore, because Jade followed her to their shared bed.

"You're probably not ready for that talk, then, huh?" Jade guessed.

"No," Sabrina answered, a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry." Her embarrassment turned to guilt and fear. She fucked everything up. It was her idea to have this big discussion and then went and freaked herself out and ruined everything. God, what kind of girlfriend was she? Jade should just leave her already so she could have someone who wasn't so broken.

Jade was giving Sabrina that worried look again. Sabrina wanted to hide from Jade's eyes. Why did she have to be perceived?

"Bean. Sabrina. I think I'm... feeling some kind of echo of your emotions. I'm not hearing your thoughts, but I'm getting a sense of what you're thinking," Jade explained.

Sabrina's gaze fell to Jade's hips, where she was still wearing the Living Dildo. Fucking telepathy! Sabrina reflexively reached for the Living Dildo, not wanting her private feelings to be observed and judged. Jade backed away, keeping it just out of reach.

"Bean, babe! Please, just listen for a minute. I've felt that before, what's happening to you. As you've pointed out, I've got ADHD. That perk I have keeps it under control, but it's there. I was curious, so I did some research online about ADHD, and, ya know, the challenges of dating someone with it."

"You're saying... I've got ADHD?"

"No," Jade said. Then she qualified, "I mean, I don't think you do. You fell in love with someone with ADHD, which isn't the most neurotypical thing to do, but... no. Part of ADHD is this thing called rejection-sensitive dysphoria or RSD. Basically, whenever you experience even the smallest perceived rejection, you just freak out. It's a supercharged beam of negative emotions, which self loathing and anger and crippling sadness. I don't know if you've got ADHD, but what I just felt from you was definitely RSD. You just anticipated a rejection from me because you're understandably not in the mood to define our relationship, and went on a self-loathing spiral immediately. Am I right?"

The last thing Sabrina wanted right now was to be perceived and here she was being perceived. Worse yet, it was by the person she cares about and fears losing the most. Sabrina answered with a sheepish, "Mhmm."

Jade took Sabrina into the warmth of her arms. "Oh, sweet Bean. I've got you. I love all of you with all of me. I promise that there's no anxious little layer inside of you that would ever change how I feel about you."

Somehow it hurt Sabrina to be told this, and to be loved like this. It touched a nerve that she didn't know was so exposed. Sabrina's face scrunched up, ready to cry, but she refused to let the tears out. "I love you too, Jade, so much. Thank you. I don't know what I ever did to deserve you."

"You never needed to do anything, dummy. Just being makes you worthy of love. I love you because I want to love you, and because I like loving you. Love isn't some reward for living the right way."