Chronos, Chapter 27 (Patreon)

So, I managed to get time to do a bit of extra writing.

Chapter 27 – Crafting a Collar

Saturday morning, I awoke to Yu-Ni’s mouth gently sucking me, while Amy and Jennifer slept by my side. I smiled, and nodded to the young maid, who climbed into bed, and began riding me. The shy, innocent maiden was long gone, now. She would do whatever I told her to, now, and give thanks for the opportunity to please me.

During the ride, I considered the meetings I was going to have later today. Zara Burns and Jade Walker were going to be showing up, for their ‘interviews’ as my secretary and apprentice. And, later on, Raquel’s sister Maria would be coming from Panama to see about the ‘scholarship opportunity’ as being my new maid.

The meeting with Maria wasn’t going to be a problem. Raquel would handle her, easily enough. No, the problem was going to be Zara and Jade. If they were as willful as Max suggested, then I’d need to dominate them thoroughly in order to keep them in line long enough for my collar to do its work. No, actually, the collars would have to be reworked, since I had not made a new one since before the Pulse. Yu-Ni’s collar was the last of the pre-Pulse stock.

My other two bedmates woke just as I finished inside young Yu-Ni. As the Korean girl collapsed against my chest, Amy was the first to speak. “Oh, Master! That was so hot!”

I smiled at her, and said, “Yes, but now it is time to get up. It may be the weekend, but I have work to do. And you and Jennifer have a task to accomplish today, yes?”

Jennifer blushed at that. The domme was not used to being in the submissive role, but the changes I wrought in her didn’t give her much choice, when it came to me. “Yes, Master. We need to go to the sex shop and get butt plugs like you ordered us. And we have to ask permission from you before removing them, for any reason.”

“That’s a good girl,” I nodded, before looking at Yu-Ni. A swat on the maid’s ass got the maid moving, as she pulled off my softening shaft, but I stopped her before she could move to clean me with her mouth. “No, we’ll take care of that in the shower.”

“Yes, Master.”

A pleasurable shower later, and I was enjoying breakfast as I considered what to do about the werewolf and her mage friend. Obviously, I was going to prepare something to keep them from causing problems, but there was the question of how to go about it. Preferably, it would be something that would clamp down on their powers while still allowing whatever item I used to corrupt their minds.

It would, perhaps, be easier if I went with just a sudden rewriting, like the enslavement ritual I’d made, but that was less than ideal, in the greater scheme of things. My maids were all conditioned to view me favorably, and be submissive to my will, but they were not drones, and they weren’t forcibly changed, like the Liberty Belles were. Their loyalty was real, because they gave it to me willingly. They still had free will, after all, even if the magic changed their attitude.

That wasn’t required for my guardians, the Liberty Belles. I needed absolute loyalty on the instant from them, and, after I had reinforced the brainwashing done at the club with the full enslavement rite, I was assured of that. But they were already at the height of their powers, and were already well trained in combat, unlike these girls. Heavy brainwashing and enslavement might affect the development of Zara and Jade.

Zara wasn’t too much of a concern for me, actually. She was set to be my secretary, once she finished business school. However, she was a werewolf, and that came with a certain expectation of doing some fighting. At the very least, she needed to be able to defend herself, if something came up. Still, she apparently had some training, at least, thanks to her desire to be a superheroine, so it was only the polishing I needed to worry with for her, unless I decided to make her into a bigger asset down the line.

The problem was Jade. While the werewolf’s combat growth getting stunted wasn’t too big a deal, I could not allow such a thing to happen to my apprentice-to-be. Even if she turned out to be more of the researcher type, I refused to allow any apprentice of mine be unable to hold their own in combat. After all, wasn’t I a time mage, one of the weakest type of mage when it came to combat? And yet I still managed to hold my own, even against superheroes and supernaturals, when I needed to.

However, that was due to my being able to think on my feet, and using my abilities to their fullest extent. I was not all-powerful, but I was able to use what power I did have precisely where it would do the most good. That refinement and skill was something that a brainwashed slave could never learn. True mastery required self-reflection and introspection, qualities that eluded zealots and fanatics. After all, if they were capable of such things, then they would not have become a zealot in the first place.

That all meant that I would have to come up with a more subtle way of manipulating the girls, and doing it over time. All while ensuring that they did not go blabbing my secrets, or working against me. And since both of them were still in school, I couldn’t just snap them up and lock them in a basement until the transformation was complete, more’s the pity.

It wasn’t lost on me that I was relying on essentially the power of prep time to overcome this challenge, either. Of course, I wasn’t the only one who did such things. For example, Dark Knight in New York City was a mundane who relied on his detective skills, combat training, and array of gadgets to take down foes with superhuman powers. But where he used the power of money and his own corporation with a dedicated R&D department to prep things, I had to do everything myself.

The first idea I had was to whip up some restraints, which I could slap on the girls when I froze time, and seal their powers. They’d be no more than two normal women, then, and I could rape them into submission at my leisure, until they agreed to take my collar, and let it change them. That would certainly be fun for me, but werewolves and mages were notoriously strong-willed. If they fought it off, and merely played along at being my servant, then they could be dangerous when they finally made their move. Not exactly ideal.

No, as much as I wanted to simply take the girls in hand, and break their minds the old-fashioned way, I was not willing to risk unleashing a Fury if they managed to escape my grasp. I needed to do things in such a way that, in some part of their mind, they accepted the changes. They had to believe that they chose the collar, or they would always be a threat to me.

The original collars, now that the System touched them, had three powers. First was a Mage Shield, which allowed my servants to conjure a magic shield at will, so long as they were not on holy ground, their hands were unbound, and they were free to speak. Second was a Protection Charm, which gave them immunity to environmental conditions, suffocation, disease, and poison, with the caveat that it would not work on holy ground, and the collar glowed softly when it was protecting them from something. Oh, and it played with their emotions, turning their lust towards me while the effects were in play, persuading them to come to my side as quickly as possible.

Hidden underneath those effects was the Mindbreak power, which transformed their minds over time, turning them into the submissive pets I enjoyed. The System hastened the process somewhat, from what I could see, but that was fine. It just meant that my future maids would accept their new station quicker than the old ones had.

However, that really wasn’t what I wanted for my apprentice and her friend. For one thing, the witch would already know some elemental magic, so giving her a mage shield was largely redundant. No, I needed to have some effects that would tie into one another, allowing them to seem like parts of a whole, but would cover for the true goal of forcing obedience and getting them to submit to me.

Retiring to my study, I froze time, and began my research, looking through tomes so that I might find the perfect outcome. I didn’t want to go for pure utility, but the powers couldn’t be something that were just cosmetic, or there was no guarantee that the women would take them. There needed to be some lure that was guaranteed to get them interested. And, once they were hooked, there had to be something that prevented them from backing out.

Timeless Beauty’s Charm (Submission Collar)

Power

Description

Submission Collar

Device 2 – 3 PP   / Rank

Action: None

Range: Personal

Duration: Special

Feats: Indestructible

Flaws: Cursed (Will)

Drawbacks: Conditional Ownership 1 (Chronos), Only Chronos may   remove it

Descriptors: Magic

Cost: 5 PP

The Submission   Collar is a cursed item that cannot be damaged or destroyed in any way. Once put   on a subject (willingly or not), it cannot be removed, save by the hand of   its owner (who is almost never the wearer). However, most of the item’s   powers are locked unless the wearer willingly puts the collar on. Changing   the collar’s owner can only be done if the current owner is dead. The owner   can remove access to the collar’s powers if he sees fit. Provides 10 PP for   powers.

**Curse of Absolute Obedience

Transform 1 – 2 PP   / Rank

Action: Full

Range: Touch

Duration: Continuous

Feats: Innate,   Subtle 2

Extras: Duration   (Continuous), Insidious, No Saving Throw

Flaws: Action   (Full), Charge Power 2 (Fails if distracted), Limited (Must willingly put the   item on)

Drawbacks: Full   Power, Noticeable (Curse Mark), Power Loss 1 (Holy Ground), Power Loss 1   (Touching curse mark), Temporary Disability 1 (Unable to Lie)

Cost: 2 PP

When the subject   willingly dons the collar, they are branded with the Curse of Absolute   Obedience, a Very Common/Major drawback which forces them to obey all   commands given by the collar’s owner. This 5PP drawback pays for the device’s   permanent addition to the subject. The only sign of this curse is the curse   mark which appears somewhere on the victim’s body. While the curse is in effect,   the victim cannot knowingly write or say anything false. They may lie through   omission or by saying something that is true, but in a way that it convinces   the listener of something false, and they may speak things they believe to be   true, even if they are false. This power is suppressed while someone other   than the victim, the collar’s owner, or those under similar curses touches   the curse mark.

**Guided Submission

Emotion Control (Submission)   3 – 3 Ranks / PP

Action: Full

Range: Touch

Duration: Permanent

Feats: Innate,   Subtle 2

Extras:   Insidious, No Saving Throw

Flaws: Action   (Full), Limited (Must willingly put item on), Limited (Only submissive to owner),   Limited to Emotion (Submissiveness), Permanent, Range 2 (Touch)

Drawbacks: Full   Power, Noticeable (Curse Mark), Power Loss (Holy Ground)

Cost: 1 PP

Upon willingly   putting the collar on, the victim is forced to become more submissive to the   collar’s owner. The effect is subtle and insidious, so much so that even   telepaths would think that the submissive attitude is natural, and not   imposed by magic. The only sign anything has changed is the curse mark which   appears on the victim’s body.

**Blistering Scorn

Blast 12 – 3 Ranks   / PP

Action: Full

Range: Ranged

Duration:   Instant

Flaws: Action   (Full), Distracting, Limited (Only against creatures who have attacked them)

Drawbacks: Full   Power, Lethal Only, Power Loss (Holy Ground)

Cost: 1 PP

The first of the   collar’s openly knowable powers, this ability allows the wearer to fire a   powerful bolt of magical energy at any creature who has attacked them in the   last 24 hours, provided they are in range. The target’s attack need not have   been successful, nor one of a damaging nature, for this to apply.

**Dancing Beauty

Enhanced Trait   12 – 3 Ranks / PP

Action: None   (Passive)

Range: Touch

Duration:   Permanent

Feats: Innate

Flaws: Permanent,   Range 1 (Touch)

Drawbacks: Power   Loss 1 (Holy Ground)

Cost: 4 PP

The second of   the collar’s open powers, this ability gives the wearer a +8 enhancement to   Charisma, 8 ranks in Perform (Dance), and two ranks of the Evasion feat. This   ability cannot be suppressed.

**Desire Reflection

Morph 8 – 4 Ranks   / PP

Action: Free   (Active)

Range: Personal

Duration:   Sustained

Feats: Innate

Flaws: Limited   (Only Female Forms), Limited (Must be a form desirable to individual nearby),   Side-Effect 2 (Always, Empathic Lust)

Drawbacks: Noticeable   (Curse Mark), Power Loss (Holy Ground)

Cost: 1 PP

The third of the   collar’s open abilities, this power allows the wearer to cast a glamour over   themselves, allowing them to take on any female humanoid guise. The wearer   gains a +40 to Disguise checks to assume the target likeness. However, the form   must be one that is desired by someone visible and within line of sight at   the power’s activation, and the Curse Mark created by this collar always   appears on the new form. A side-effect of this glamour is that while it is   active the wearer is temporarily forced to have an area-effect the Mind   Reading power, limited to thoughts of desire and lust of those around her,   and it cannot be turned off without dispelling the glamour.

**Timeless Beauty

Immunity 4 – 2 Ranks   / PP

Action: None   (Passive)

Range: Personal

Duration: Permanent

Feats: Innate

Flaws: Limited   (Must willingly put collar on)

Drawbacks:   Noticeable (Curse mark glows when protecting against effect), Power Loss   (Holy Ground)

Cost: 1 PP

The final, and   arguably most valuable, of the collar’s open abilities, this power grants the   wearer immunity to powers of the Time descriptor, aging, and starvation and   thirst. To gain this protection, the wearer must put on the collar willingly   (thus activating the hidden powers). However, once in place, the wearer will   never age, and will never feel the need for food or drink (though they will   still be able to consume them).

Research had turned into testing, and testing into production. I do not know how long I was in the moment of frozen time, but when I was through with my enchantment, I could call myself satisfied. All I needed to do was convince the girls to put on the collars, and I would own them, forever. And they would not even know that they’d been altered.