CrossroadsMk2

Hi Ibex, glad you enjoyed the last chapter and thanks for voting. Puppy girl - 1 Ponygirl - 1

One vote for puppy - with Mary walking her around the party room on a leash and Sam filming.

Hi LHunt, glad you liked it. The font thing must just be at my end. I was considering removing the helmet permanently in the playroom, but I thinks it's hotter to keep Lara unaware of whose using her. I think I'll have Mary and her other friends use her in the playroom, followed by the helmet coming off, so that she can be gaslit into believing that her friends and everyone else support her. Then they can convince Lara to explore her slave fantasy (which Sarah invented for her) in a more public setting, at her birthday party, the following day. Lara will dress in all her finery, be given back her Title, and then be publicly stripped and turned into a free-use ponygirl for the evening (or perhaps a puppy on a leash, I haven't decided - either way she'll love it!).

Hi everyone, Chapter 21 has posted. Merry Christmas. Also, does the font look ok to you guys? It looks smaller but it's the exact same font I always use, so I don't know what's up - whether it's just my computer doing weird shit. Let me know if you'd like a larger font size. Thanks.

The ending is a little up in the air, depending on how events pan out with Lara. Elements that will be in it: - Lara back to Tomb Raiding but now unknowingly working for Trinity. Alistair and Zip back, but working for Sarah, directing what artefacts Lara goes after, and when she retrieves them, they are sold or loaned to museums that Sarah owns. - Lara continuing her Onlyfans career. - Lara engaged to Sarah. I still think a final self revelation for Lara will still work. It can be the final mindfuck where Lara, in a moment of clarity, recognises the whore that she's become and what people really think of her, but by then it's too late and she has a full breakdown. With the last vestiges of her old life and personality destroyed, Lara embraces her fate. But if it doesn't fit the story, I won't include it.

Hi Edyrn, I'd forgotten about that conversation with the psychiatrist. Adding reference to it would be awesome for gas lighting purposes - it would make Lara question her memories and make her doubt her judgement further. She didn't remember talking to her psychiatrist about having a sex addiction, but look how she was acting. And why would he lie about that? Gold. In terms of the conversation, it's just a summary and I'm probably not conveying the tone right. It's not so much a confrontation as a forced confession - Lara trying to make excuses to avoid accountability and having those excuses shot down one after another by Sam. The conversation is designed to gaslight Lara into believing she's in denial and everything that's happened to her is by choice. I could see an advantage to having Sarah there. Once Lara is questioning her memories over the sexual addiction psychiatrist sessions, Sarah could drop the bombshell that the contract was Lara's idea. That she had always felt guilty about about not supporting Sarah and abandoning their relationship at boarding school all those years ago and wanted to atone. It'll be a great mind fuck.

Hi Edyrn, yes Lara thinks that Sam is unaware that that Sam knows about her playroom antics, or her African gangbang. The chapter is going to end on the cliffhanger reveal and then deal with the fallout next chapter. I was thinking of having Sarah leave the playroom prior to the reveal, simply as more mind-fuckery for Lara. If Sarah's there, Lara will think that Sam's being manipulated, or that Sam sold her out. It gives Lara a mental out. But if it's just Sam, Lara won't be able to scapegoat Sarah. She'll also feel constrained about what she can say, with Sarah present. If it's only Sam, Lara can have a private conversation and try to explain away her actions, but just come away doubting herself even more. I see that conversation happening at the start of the next chapter, going something like this: Lara - It's not what it looks like. Sam - Looks to me like you've been enjoying yourself. Lara - Tries to blame her behaviour on Sarah. Sam - I've watched you from the beginning. Don't try to pretend you're not loving this. (Sam knows about African gangbang) Lara - Finally comes clean about slave contract. Tries to blame Sarah again, for taking advantage of her money problems. Sam - (knows there were millions of dollars from game sales even before she started Onlyfans, and thinks Lara's full of shit) Lie to yourself if you want, but not to me. You signed that contract because you wanted to. Because you've always secretly wanted to explore your sexualty, but we're too afraid. So you needed someone to "force you" to give yourself permission. Lara comes away wondering if Sam is right, since Sam is her best friend and knows her best.

Hello everyone, I hope you're all well. The next chapter is about 90%. Without giving away any of the leadup, this chapter will end with the sensory deprivation helmet being removed at the end of a playroom session to reveal that it was really Sam all along. I'm just mulling over whether Sarah should be present for the big reveal. As always, I'll post here once it's finished.

Hi LHunt, sorry but no plans for any animal stuff in the story. I do have some plans for her friends and Mary's involvement in particular, but the escalation now is more the setting rather than the sex acts themselves (aside from bestiality, Lara's done pretty much everything at this point anyway). The plan is to make Lara's activities more public by encouraging her attention seeking and exhibitionist traits. She started doing stuff in private, which progressed to performing in front of the camera. The next escalation will be live sex shows - the gloryhole scene in the current chapter is the start of that. She's technically doing it in private, but all the fans (the ones not taking part)outside are watching it on smartphones via Livestream and will pose for photos with her after, so it's sort of straddling the line.

Hi Edyrn, you're never a bother. Questions and suggestions is what the forum is for, and I'm always happy to hear different ideas and perspectives.

Hi Edyrn, you need to remember that all of this is happening in conjunction with her Onlyfans, Charity events etc. It's all part of showing her moral corruption: she starts doing stuff in private (behind a camera) but escalated to doing it in public; she starts out reluctant and embarrassed, but over time becomes enthusiastic and shameless. In terms of the idea above, if instead of a bucks party, it's a birthday or retirement party for one of Lara's old professors, with all Lara's archaeology professor rivals in attendance (people who never considered her a real archaeologist or academic, and think she's no better than a treasure hunter and adrenaline junky), that would certainly be a big step for her. These were people she was desperate to be accepted by (the same as the high society aristocrats at the Charity), and now she's willingly flaunting herself to them, no longer recognising that this is not the sort of attention she should be aspiring to. It's just an idea, anyway.

Hi Edyrn, the plan at the moment is to keep the different groups separate: just Charity members - wealthy aristocrats etc - for the playroom and Charity events, and Lara's fans for the fan events. However, I can see some merit to having a third group for Lara's rivals, be they academic rivals like old frustrated professors or otherwise. I don't have any plans to make that a major part of the story, but it's certainly feasible to have a scene or two. A future scene I was planning was for Mary and Sybil to pimp Lara out as entertainment at a bucks party for some wealthy young men - as a way to reward her friends for assisting in turning Lara into a pornstar. Maybe I could do that or something similar with Lara's old professors - both rivals and allies. I feel like I've already covered her military rivals with the Trinity arc, but academic rivals could be interesting - and another part of Lara's former life to be torn down by Lady Sarah's corrupting influence.

Hi Edyrn, regarding the first Convention, I never elaborated on it, but I always thought that it was a select group of Charity members - Sarah's way of giving them a taste of Lara to whet their appetites, and then use them to convince the others to sign on and pay the 50,000 pound entrance fee. In terms of the costume, my idea is that what Lara wears would be based on a fan poll. 120 million plus players all voted for their favourite Lara Croft outfit from the game (like the armour mods in Skyrim). Lara then wears that outfit as a tribute to the fans. I'll give some thought to how I can keep the general Tomb Raider feel of her outfit, but make it sluttier: crop top now made of see-through fishnet material, shorts now a specially made thong with belt loops, high lace combat boots with stripper heels at the bottom. I think I can make it work.

Hi Edyrn, thanks for the comment. Lara already wore a much sluttier version of her Tomb Raider outfit at the first Convention she attended (Chapter 6 - The Tomb Raider gets a new public image). Given that her Onlyfans runway outfit was nipple pasties and a thong, going back to her Tomb Raider outfit feels like a step backwards. Even Lara's regular workout gear is more revealing than that now. Love the idea for the Charity fundraiser. It'll be a good progression for Lara as a sex worker - going from anonymous blowjobs behind a gloryhole to servicing clients in person, in front of an audience.

Hi Extreme, thanks for the comment and glad you like where the story is heading. I know it's been a slow burn, but I wanted to try and make Lara's transformation as believable as possible. I think it's got enough of a setup now that I can accelerate the plot faster now.