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", "writing": "While an orange-furred and –feathered griffin was relaxing under a tree in the City Park, a green snake wearing a leather jacket and jeans approached him and said “Are you alright, mate?” in a Scottish accent while he scratched his chest in a circular pattern.\n\nThe griffin told him “I’m fine, thanks.” He then scratched his own chest in the same circular pattern.\n\nThe snake said “Well, if you ken the signal, you must be John Camber.”\n\n“Yeah, I am,” said John. “You must be KG, right?”\n\n”Aye,” KG replied. “Let's meet the Boss, he’s waiting for you.”\n\nSo John got his luggage and followed KG to the park’s pond. KG told him “The HQ’s invisible but I know the path. Stay close.”\n\nKG led John across an invisible bridge. When they got across and inside, John saw that he was inside what appeared to be a castle with modern electric lights. KG shouted \"Boss! The new bloke's finally here!\"\n\nJohn saw a raccoon come out of another door. 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I see you wear gloves, is there a reason for that?”\n\n“I have sharp talons. The gloves allow me to touch someone without wounding them by accident. They have conductive wiring on the ‘thumb’, ‘index’ and ‘middle’ talons so I can also use touch-screens. Bloody essential in this day and age if you ask me.”\n\n“I hear you. So tell me, what led you to ask if you could join me?”\n\n“About six months ago, I started out as a mage’s apprentice. Everything was alright for the first three months or so. My teacher was actually quite good at it. A bit strict, but he knew what he was on about.”\n\n“Nothing out of the ordinary around here, so far.”\n\n“Then came the moment that changed everything for me. About three months into my training, I overheard my teacher talking to this horned cat woman I hadn’t seen before. The horns were smoking-gun-grade proof that he was planning to sell my soul to her! 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I knew that it was going to be three months before the next Solstice, when the deal was scheduled to take place. I spent that time contacting KG and also arranging my trip to the States.”\n\n“Most people finding themselves your situation would confront him or get help...”\n\n“...and be laughed off or killed for it. They couldn’t keep a grip so they plotted in vain. I couldn’t afford to give [b][i]any[/i][/b] indication that I knew. Don’t get me wrong, my teacher was good at showing me how to use magic. Besides, he had no previous reputation for dealing with the Inferno before. No magician in Britain had any reason to think he was doing anything he shouldn’t have been. [b][i]I was the only one who knew at all.[/i][/b] No one at home would believe the truth, which is why I can’t go back. Not to London at any rate.”\n\n“So you planned it all out. What really happened on the day?”\n\n“On the day my teacher planned to make the deal, I waited for him to call the demon to Earth. 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Got it?”\n\nZedd grinned, saying “It’ll be a pleasure to see what you’ve got lined up this time, Boss.” Then he disappeared in a puff of smoke.\n\n[b]A few hours later...[/b]\n\nJohn woke up on a bed in a pink room and Von Zeppelin was having a massive erection in front of him, which the bodysuit wasn’t covering very well. That was when John looked in a mirror and realised what he was wearing.\n\nHe was in a frilly pink frock, and he could feel that he was wearing a posture collar attached to his wrists, which were stuck in black ‘limp-wrist’ gloves by a pair of wires. He could also feel the corset around his lower chest and the stockings. And his wings were encased in black wingbinders with pink straps.\n\nAnd then there were the pink high heels and matching ankle cuffs. And what did the Doctor shove up his arse?!\n\nJohn simply went “What the-?!”\n\nVon Zeppelin told him “You might be a tough guy, but I’m the Boss. So your initiation is to wear this humbling ensemble for a week. It’ll teach you to be subordinate to me and show your loyalty! Plus you’re a pretty cute kittybird, and I need you ready to catch this dick!”\n\n“What did you shove up my arse, Boss?!”\n\n“I don’t want you trying to magic your new dress away, so I used an Arcane Nullifier. It’ll also help give you a nice, feminine walk, and it’ll make your ass fit my dick. Before we go, I want to make the rules of your initiation clear, my pretty kittybird.”\n\n“What are they, Boss?”\n\n“If I see you without any restraints, you fail the initiation. You must tell me if you need to do anything which requires removing them or the Nullifier to do properly. If I see the Nullifier outside your ass without me removing it in the first place, you fail the initiation. You will answer only to the name of Joan for the week. If you break any of these rules without just cause, you fail your initiation. If I give you an order, you must obey it. If you object without proving why you can’t obey, you fail your initiation. Is that understood, Joan?”\n\nJohn could only meekly say “Yes, Boss.”\n\nVon Zeppelin opened a small clear bottle containing pink liquid and poured some into a shot glass. He said “Drink this, Joan.”\n\nJohn carefully downed the liquid and then started choking for a few seconds.\n\nWhen he finished, John asked “What was that?!” Then he went “What happened to my voice, Boss?! I sound like a girl!”\n\n“A little something I cooked up that I call Sissy Serum. It makes you sound nice and feminine. A shot glass of the stuff lasts for a day. Needless to say, failure to take a dose each day, in front of me, fails the initiation.”\n\nThe Doctor attached a leash to John’s collar, saying “Now, let’s show you around the Castle and introduce you to everyone.”\n\n“Whatever you say, Boss.”\n\n“You’ve already seen my office. Let’s go downstairs so I can introduce you, my dear kittybird.”\n\n “Alright, Boss.”\n\nVon Zeppelin was thinking to himself “This guy is getting [b][i]so[/i][/b] humiliated...”\n\n[b]End of Part One.[/b]", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "While an orange-furred and –feathered griffin was relaxing under a tree in the City Park, a green snake wearing a leather jacket and jeans approached him and said “Are you alright, mate?” in a Scottish accent while he scratched his chest in a circular pattern.

The griffin told him “I’m fine, thanks.” He then scratched his own chest in the same circular pattern.

The snake said “Well, if you ken the signal, you must be John Camber.”

“Yeah, I am,” said John. “You must be KG, right?”

”Aye,” KG replied. “Let's meet the Boss, he’s waiting for you.”

So John got his luggage and followed KG to the park’s pond. KG told him “The HQ’s invisible but I know the path. Stay close.”

KG led John across an invisible bridge. When they got across and inside, John saw that he was inside what appeared to be a castle with modern electric lights. KG shouted "Boss! The new bloke's finally here!"

John saw a raccoon come out of another door. The raccoon's colours were practically inverted and he was wearing an orange and white bodysuit.

The raccoon said “Afternoon, John. I’m Doctor von Zeppelin. I believe you want to join me.”

“That’s right, Doctor.”

“Follow me upstairs and we’ll get the interview started.”

Five minutes later in the Doctor’s office...

Doctor von Zeppelin took to his desk and said “Take a seat, John. I just have to ask a few questions for my records.”

“Go ahead.”

“The first things I need are your name, gender and species.”

“John Camber, male griffin. As you can see, my head, arms and upper chest are avian and my lower chest and legs are feline. This means that I wear tops meant for feather-winged individuals and I wear trousers, underwear and shoes meant for cats. If shoe size is an issue, I’m U.K. male feline size 11. I’m afraid I don’t know the U.S. equivalent.”

“I’ll find that out soon enough. I see you wear gloves, is there a reason for that?”

“I have sharp talons. The gloves allow me to touch someone without wounding them by accident. They have conductive wiring on the ‘thumb’, ‘index’ and ‘middle’ talons so I can also use touch-screens. Bloody essential in this day and age if you ask me.”

“I hear you. So tell me, what led you to ask if you could join me?”

“About six months ago, I started out as a mage’s apprentice. Everything was alright for the first three months or so. My teacher was actually quite good at it. A bit strict, but he knew what he was on about.”

“Nothing out of the ordinary around here, so far.”

“Then came the moment that changed everything for me. About three months into my training, I overheard my teacher talking to this horned cat woman I hadn’t seen before. The horns were smoking-gun-grade proof that he was planning to sell my soul to her! I was working for a fucking warlock!”

“What do you mean by a warlock?” asked the Doctor.

John went “A warlock is a magician without any standards! Any magician in Britain with even the slightest respect for morality and/or ethics will tell you that you should use magic to help others or at least to keep things from getting worse. Shite, the first two spells I ever learned to cast by myself were a healing touch to help others and a magical blast to protect myself and others!”

“I doubt you took that well. I mean, if you’re selling your own soul, you’re generally assumed to know the risk and it’s your damned fault if anything goes wrong. But selling someone else’s...”

“That’s why I did my own digging and I hit the jackpot! My ‘teacher’ had no idea what I was really looking for.”

“What did you find?”

“I found a way to not only keep my soul but to also keep my teacher from killing me for botching the deal. I knew that it was going to be three months before the next Solstice, when the deal was scheduled to take place. I spent that time contacting KG and also arranging my trip to the States.”

“Most people finding themselves your situation would confront him or get help...”

“...and be laughed off or killed for it. They couldn’t keep a grip so they plotted in vain. I couldn’t afford to give any indication that I knew. Don’t get me wrong, my teacher was good at showing me how to use magic. Besides, he had no previous reputation for dealing with the Inferno before. No magician in Britain had any reason to think he was doing anything he shouldn’t have been. I was the only one who knew at all. No one at home would believe the truth, which is why I can’t go back. Not to London at any rate.”

“So you planned it all out. What really happened on the day?”

“On the day my teacher planned to make the deal, I waited for him to call the demon to Earth. When she arrived, I told her that he was actually trying to sell my soul, which I never gave him at all! You see - and this was the info I needed to survive - Hell does have its own laws, mostly to keep demons from wasting time fighting each other so they can spend it dragging souls down. One such law decrees that a soul can only be given over to the Inferno with the owner’s willing consent. And more often than not, they’ll usually interpret that as only giving away your own soul. They don’t really care that much whether or not you know where it’s really going, only that it’s yours and you’re willing to give it away. If there’s any hint of coercion or fraud, they must cancel the deal and kill whoever tried to cheat them as a warning to others! Since I wasn’t a willing party...”

“The demon must have been pissed.”

“Right in one, Doctor. She roared at my teacher ‘Foolish mage! You sought to cheat me?! Your apprentice invokes our laws correctly, for we take only the souls of the damned and the willing... and the souls of those who would dare cheat us are both! PREPARE TO DIE!’ My teacher put up a fight, but in the end, he fell. That was when the demon calmed down and looked me in the eye, saying ‘We have a special place in Hell for people who try to sell souls they do not own. I’ve always wanted a mage-slave and now I have a very experienced one, thanks to you, Mr. Camber. I knew you were there the night your teacher made the deal with me. I was going to get a caster either way. Be glad it wasn’t you.’”

Von Zeppelin asked “What happened next?”

John said “She told me that if I ever wanted to sell my soul for real, the instructions were in my teacher’s book. The last I saw of her, she was dragging my master - who was begging for mercy he knew would never come - into the Inferno. The screams I heard from the demon’s portal... Even if I live to be a hundred, I’ll never forget those screams, for that was the moment when I learned what horror truly was. I swore that night that I will never sell my soul, for I know now how priceless it truly is!”

The Baron could only say “Damn! What happened next?”

“After the demon returned to Hell and I was certain she was gone, I packed my bags, cleaned out my teacher’s safe and set off for a hotel I booked near Heathrow Airport. I couldn’t pack any earlier without tipping my teacher off.  I had no bother getting to Heathrow and on the plane. I felt elated when the plane took off for I knew I made it. I was free. All I had to do when I arrived was chill at the park for a bit and wait for KG. And that leads to now.”

“That’s quite a story you have there. Now, I want to ask about your skillset and, if you have any, your powerset.”

“Well, I’m actually quite skilled with magic, to the degree that I’m capable of empowering others if I have sufficient resources. For example, I can enchant most forms of clothing and jewellery so wearing them will give you a magical replica of my wings if you want. All you need to do is get to the roof and you’d have an instant escape route!”

“Interesting. Have you ever enchanted yourself?”

“A few times. I have a protective enchantment active to make me harder to injure. Right now, it’s at a level where I’d still go down from a bullet but I have a much better chance than most of actually surviving and getting back up again. I’m looking at ways to ‘harden’ it to make me bulletproof. I also have an insulation enchantment active to make me immune to extreme temperatures. That’s very important to fliers like myself when flying at high altitudes and it saves on the heating and air conditioning bills. And I can enchant you with it if you want.”

“I’m good. Anything else you can do?”

“I know a thing or two about computers. Not professional I.T. stuff but I know a thing or two about getting something to work and I’ve used virtual private networks to get access to foreign TV channels over the internet, which you usually can’t. I can do it so you can get channels from all over the world online from here, no problem."

“And I’ve got enough live-in employees of foreign background that it looks like a wise investment. That sounds like a good idea, but how much would it cost to support access to these networks?”

“The VPNs I know of each charge about $80-100 for lifetime access, improved speed and the ability to choose which country you want it to look like you’re connecting from. You only need one to gain access to region-locked sites.”

“Not bad at all.”

“And there’s also the fact that I can fly, sir. Top speed is about 120 MPH. I can pick up or drop a lot of stuff off for you, sir. And since I’m - quite literally - eagle-eyed, I can do aerial patrols of the Castle exterior as well.”

“Well, it looks like you’d make a useful addition to my team. There is the matter of the Initiation.”

“What initiation, sir?”

“I put all my minions through a test, which varies from person to person. If you pass, then you’re one of us. If you fail... let’s just say you’ll regret it.”

John said, with the pride that is common to griffins, “I can handle anything you throw at me, Doctor!”

Von Zeppelin got up and took a bottle of whisky out of a cabinet to the side of his desk. He then poured out two glasses, saying “We’ll see about that. Very well, then. How about we talk about the Initiation over a drink? A toast to you, John Camber. May you be a fine servant.”

John lifted his glass, saying “In that case, I propose a toast to you, my new Boss, for giving me a home and a purpose in the New World.” John drank the whisky... and blacked out.

Dr. Von Zeppelin then used his PA system, saying “Will Siege and Zedd please report to my office immediately.”

As Siege, a tall, muscular dragon wearing a brown-coloured bodysuit, entered the office, he said “Yeah, boss?”

A red husky with black feathered wings appeared in a puff of smoke, saying “You summoned me, Boss?”

Von Zeppelin said “Siege, please take our new initiate to his new quarters. I need him completely unharmed, including his wings, so do be careful.”

Siege said “Got it, Boss.”

The husky asked “And what do you want me to do, Boss?”

Von Zeppelin told him “Zedd, take this click-and-collect form to the Pink Boutique, the address is on the form. It’s already paid in full, so you just need to bring it back here. Got it?”

Zedd grinned, saying “It’ll be a pleasure to see what you’ve got lined up this time, Boss.” Then he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

A few hours later...

John woke up on a bed in a pink room and Von Zeppelin was having a massive erection in front of him, which the bodysuit wasn’t covering very well. That was when John looked in a mirror and realised what he was wearing.

He was in a frilly pink frock, and he could feel that he was wearing a posture collar attached to his wrists, which were stuck in black ‘limp-wrist’ gloves by a pair of wires. He could also feel the corset around his lower chest and the stockings. And his wings were encased in black wingbinders with pink straps.

And then there were the pink high heels and matching ankle cuffs. And what did the Doctor shove up his arse?!

John simply went “What the-?!”

Von Zeppelin told him “You might be a tough guy, but I’m the Boss. So your initiation is to wear this humbling ensemble for a week. It’ll teach you to be subordinate to me and show your loyalty! Plus you’re a pretty cute kittybird, and I need you ready to catch this dick!”

“What did you shove up my arse, Boss?!”

“I don’t want you trying to magic your new dress away, so I used an Arcane Nullifier. It’ll also help give you a nice, feminine walk, and it’ll make your ass fit my dick. Before we go, I want to make the rules of your initiation clear, my pretty kittybird.”

“What are they, Boss?”

“If I see you without any restraints, you fail the initiation. You must tell me if you need to do anything which requires removing them or the Nullifier to do properly. If I see the Nullifier outside your ass without me removing it in the first place, you fail the initiation. You will answer only to the name of Joan for the week. If you break any of these rules without just cause, you fail your initiation. If I give you an order, you must obey it. If you object without proving why you can’t obey, you fail your initiation. Is that understood, Joan?”

John could only meekly say “Yes, Boss.”

Von Zeppelin opened a small clear bottle containing pink liquid and poured some into a shot glass. He said “Drink this, Joan.”

John carefully downed the liquid and then started choking for a few seconds.

When he finished, John asked “What was that?!” Then he went “What happened to my voice, Boss?! I sound like a girl!”

“A little something I cooked up that I call Sissy Serum. It makes you sound nice and feminine. A shot glass of the stuff lasts for a day. Needless to say, failure to take a dose each day, in front of me, fails the initiation.”

The Doctor attached a leash to John’s collar, saying “Now, let’s show you around the Castle and introduce you to everyone.”

“Whatever you say, Boss.”

“You’ve already seen my office. Let’s go downstairs so I can introduce you, my dear kittybird.”

 “Alright, Boss.”

Von Zeppelin was thinking to himself “This guy is getting so humiliated...”

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