Character Creation: Demand (Patreon)

I'd been wanting to write this one for a while, and thank goodness somebody came along and incentivized it. For those who've forgotten/not seen, the Character Creation series is a D&D-inspired series of shorts, each one exploring a different item or spell and how somebody might use it for kicks. (Other posts available here.) If you don't play, Demand is a high-end spell that lets you implant a suggestion in someone at any distance - sort of like your basic post-hypnotic suggestion, but with a lot more oomf and reach.

ALERT: SPOILERS
What I liked about the direction this took was that, as those of you who enjoy fantasy/RPGs well know, it's easy to phrase stuff badly. What a world of difference between a compulsion to gain permission, and a compulsion to act on that permission? The ending takes a bit of a twist, but really, for all the trouble the ladies wind up having in some of my stories, I liked that for once I was allowed to let her get some comeuppance. Moreover, while there's a bit of a humiliation factor in this story, I also dug that she got to enjoy being out of control a bit. (A bit.)

Anyways, my vacation is over and I'm back at it - next week I'll have another commission out, and for my $50+ patrons, look to see the first chapter(s?) of Volume 2 of The Secret of Harmony Reed.