Harlot Spotlight - Huntress Diana and Khruutka

Today's Harlot Spotlight is still with faction 5, kind of, as I talk about Huntress Diana and Khruutka.

Khruutka actually came first with this one. I've had several ideas for a 'sperm vampire' scenario (and stories) kicking around. A regular vampire drains life through blood sucked from a bite in the neck. A spumpire drains life through semen sucked from the penis. I didn't want them to occupy the same space as succubi, so I made them weaker, more feral, lust daemons. They don't have as much in the way of charm tricks, but if they get their mouth locked in on the man's groin, they can suck him dry fairly quickly.

Once I'd established spumpires as fairly weak, then I had the idea of a more powerful 'huntress' succubi using one as a hunting hound. The scenario would then be the player 'fighting' the hound for the amusement of the succubus huntress.

This opened up a lot of space. At the heart, the scenario is a basic stat check (STR), with various modifiers. The player wrestles Khruutka. If he's not strong enough, she overpowers him and sucks him to a pleasurable Bad End. There are various things the player can do to make this check easier or harder.

Huntress Diana watching adds an additional dimension to the scenario. The 'fight' is for her entertainment, so the second check is for how entertaining the player makes it. This results in a good variety of different endings. If the player just gives up or is too weak to put up a proper fight, Diana will have Khruutka finish him off with a fast suck. If the player puts in an effort, Diana will have Khruutka take it slow, resulting in a more sensual and pleasurable Bad End suck. (One of the gifts you can bring Diana plays into this. It makes the fight harder, but Diana is more likely to order Khruutka to finish the player off more pleasurably.)

Aside from that there are multiple other potential endings. If the player is really strong and tries to actually hurt or injure Khruutka, this triggers a Horror End where Diana kills them. There is a fake-out Good End, where the player can pick Khruutka as a reward, which just leads to a slow drain Bad End. The true Good End is having sex with Diana as a reward, but this also has a Bad End outcome if the player has run out of semen.

Overall, I was very happy with the mechanics for this one. If I'd known I'd regularly come up with scenarios like this, I'd have gone another route with HoHH and kept it to a more manageable 20 scenarios!

The one thing missing is a Good End outcome where the player can experience Khruutka's blowjob and survive. That is something I might come back to with a solo-spumpire wrestling scenario where the daemoness has enough self-control to stop sucking before the player dies.

Now the lore.

This was another area that really opened up with this scenario. The kink theme for the fifth faction is erotic femdom wrestling, which leads itself mechanically to revolve around physical stat checks. While writing Diana, and later Levka, I started to fill in the background for a Hunting Lodge of succubi that hunt humans in a similar way to foxhunting.

This seemed a really strong idea. As I fleshed out more of the background, I realised there was a lot I could do with this idea. Essentially, it's a hunting lodge in hell-space. They capture humans and then hunt them in various ways for sport.

Not only is it a good background for a group of harlots in HoHH, I think there is a lot of potential to use it in stories (with H-space bestiary stories being the most obvious), and maybe even as part of its own game. I don't really have mechanics or gameplay sorted out, but "Escape the Succubus Huntresses" is a great starting point for a game idea.

This did throw up a dilemma for the fifth faction, which up until then had been femdom wrestlers. Mechanically, they cover similar ground, but they each have a strong lore identity that doesn't really mesh together. This is one of the design flaws for HoHH. It probably needed more factions with fewer members. But as it should be fairly extensible, groups can be expanded or added at a later date.

Currently the Huntress group and Wrestling group exist as two subgroups within the 5th faction. I wouldn't mind peeling off the Huntress group into their own separate faction at some point.

Marwmellow's art is lovely. The main challenge I felt was with Khruutka. What I wanted for her was to resemble the typical post-transformation horror-movie vamp, but still looking hot and sexy.

There is a slight discrepancy from Diana's description. She should be fully clothed and dressed like a posh huntress from the waist up (it's only below the waist the Huntresses are completely brazen), but she looks so good in the art I thought it better to leave her as she is.

I hope you like the art. Let me know your thoughts below.