Perhaps one of the most amusing, but also most insightful stories about a Succubus that I can recall is the story of the brave Ser Fabrizio.
Ser Fabrizio was a Knight of Sune. Champion of Lady Firehair. He was a male Heartwarden.
Ser Fabrizio was famous in his order, however, for being known as Fabrizio the CHASTE.
Ser Fabrizio had taken a sacred vow of Chastity in his youth at the church and joined the faith as a Paladin. Making a promise that he would truly forsake all pleasures of the flesh until the time he found his one true love. At which point he would cast aside the mantle of Paladin, and marry. Retiring from his duties an old man to finally start a family.
All of the young maidens PINED{/i] for the incredibly square-jawed handsome Heartwarden. He was a Paladin after all. The literal poster-child of the Faith. Sune would never allow a Paladin of her faith to be anyone of less than absolute physical perfection.
But, of course, Ser Fabrizio remained chaste and pure as ever. Politely refusing the advanced of maiden after maiden, farmgirl after farmgirl, who threw themselves at his feet begging to be ravished by the statuesque man.
This, of course, drew the attention of someone who would change his life.
Enter the Succubus: Aolyxia. (( Ay-Yoo-Licks-Ee-Uh ))
Aolyxia had taken up in the local Bastian brothel in the disguise of a young Calimshite woman. I was able to see through her disguise, naturally, being the Archmage that I am, so I was aware of her presence.
But I also knew something about Aolyxia that nobody else knew: her True Name.
Because she had given it to me freely: When I converted her to the Faith of Bast.
Aolyxia did not engage in actual physical sex with men because she did not wish to steal their life-force. Instead she used her natural Psionic powers to Charm and her Telepathy in order to read the minds of men and project illusionary thoughts into their subconscious.
To put it plain: She made them THINK they were making love to her...when they really weren't. It was ALL in their minds.
It was not long before the Priesthood of Sune heard rumor of a potential "Infestation" in the Festhall. So, naturally, they sent Ser Fabrizio. The CHASTE. Assuming, of course, that due to his chastity he would be completely immune to the Succubi's charms.
They couldn't have been more wrong.
Succubi are capable of using a wide multitude of supernatural abilities. The least of which is their power to enchant and beguile.
A Succubus, using their telepathy, can overload the pleasure centers of the brain. The parts of the brain that control things like friendship. Affection. This causes the subject of their wiles to immediately feel calm, at least and befriended by the Succubus the moment they make eye contact. Truly charmed in every capacity.
Succubi use this ability to put their marks at ease. Make them feel comfortable around them. The Charming, of course, makes them already easy to seduce: As if it wasn't easy for an incredibly beautiful woman to seduce a man as it was.
Acts of passion open the window to the soul. Engaging in an act of passion with a Succubus opens that doorway into your soul for just a moment..and they use that moment to, quite literally, suck it out of you. With a kiss. Usually. Though OTHER means are..in fact...effectual. Though I need not go into detail.
The act of draining this energy from the mark is immensely pleasurable. And incredibly addicting. The reason for this is that, quite literally, the subject's pleasure centers of the brain become so overloaded that it's like taking a POWERFUL overdose of a psychoactive drug.
Every pleasure center. Every sensation. Elevated to the highest possible level. A climax not only in the physical sense but in the psychological means as well. An absolute feeling of true, profane BLISS.
Bliss. The single most addicting thing in the world. Even more addicting than Love. Sweet. Sweet Bliss.
It's why people become drug addicts. For that moment of pure, unbridled bliss that it brings. That moment of your mind being so far outside of your own body that you have no cares about the outside world. That's the feeling that a Succubus gives.
But that's also why they are so dangerous. It's not just that they suck the soul out of your body, little by little...
...they make you ENJOY IT.
Ser Fabrizio went into the Festhall expecting to destroy a foul temptress and rid the Festhall of it's corrupting evil.
What happened next, quite simply, one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen in my life.
Ser Fabrizio walks into the Festhall, a LITERAL knight in shining armor. The most handsome man in the entire village. Perfect square jaw. Perfect teeth. A smile so perfect that if he grinned at a woman in Luskan her underwear would hit the ground so fast and so quickly that they would pop out of the ground in Shou.
So of course, naturally, ALL of the beautiful young women IMMEDIATELY throw themselves at the young Paladin. Who is not at all used to the sheer amount of nudity and debauchery taking place around him in the Festhall.
The Heartwarder's cheeks were as red as Lady Firehair's mane, and every girl in the house was wriggling her eyebrows and shaking her bosom suggestively in the young man's direction.
He was visibly heating up inside of his armor. And the Succubus could sense it.
Succubi can smell desire the way that a dog can smell fresh meat.
And, oh boy, was Ser Fabrizio a hunk of fresh meat for sure.
The young "Calishite woman" approached Ser Fabrizio biting her lower lip and staring at the man with a predatory gaze that gave him the impression she was about to dig into him like fresh warm pie.
Seductively, with a bright warm smile she approached the young Paladin and, brazenly, wrapped a silk scarf around his neck and pulled him in close to her. Whispering offers of pleasure in a "Private room."
One could almost hear the "DING" in the young man's armor as his eyes fell upon her. She was so lithe, so perfect in every capacity. Surely this was the woman of his DREAMS.
But nay. He was here on DUTY. There was an EVIL SUCCUBUS to be found, after all!
Ser Fabrizio then proceeds to cast a series of Divinations until he FINALLY casts the proper spell: Detect Chaos, and routes out Aolyxia. He draws his Silver Sword...fantastic for fighting Devils, not so much Demons...and points it at her threatening to send her back to the Abyss from whence she came!!
"Reveal Thyself, Fiend! And face me with thy own wicked and wretched face!"
Aolyxia, much to his surprise, obliged him. Assuming her true form. She stood there before him, in her true shape...completely nude. Black Wings stretched out from her back. Pelegial legs that ended in clawed feet and a long, swinging tail that undulated back and forth as she licked her lips seductively, staring down the young Sunite.
"Your Charms, They...they won't work on me, Demon!! For I am Ser Fabrizio, the CHASTE! Never have I known the touch of Flesh!! You CANNOT Tempt me, Fiend!"
But Aolyxia just started laughing. Aolyxia started laughing Very. VERY HARD.
"NEVER, you say!? Oh you poor, poor, poor boy. Don't worry. I'll be your first. And I'll be GENTLE..."
"I need not your affections, I require your BLOOD!! DIE, DEMON-FIEND!!"
So of course, naturally, Ser Fabrizio charges the Succubus like the stupid Paladin that he is. And the Succubus just...smirks.
In that moment the Succubus used her Psionic powers and unleashed a telepathic assault on poor Ser Fabrizio that he had never possibly imagined. The same illusionary powers that Aolyxia used upon her clients.
Inside of his mind he was in bed with the Succubus. Making love. He could feel her lips upon his neck and his body. Feel her claws digging into his back and she wrapped her legs around his waist and climbed atop him as if riding a horse. He could feel her breathe in his ear, and the warmth of her flesh against his.
Aolyxia used this overload of the pleasure centers of his brain to replicate the effects of an EXTENDED POWER WORD: STUN.....
..and made poor Ser Fabrizio have his first ORGASM. In front of EVERYBODY IN THE FESTHALL.
The single most embarrassing defeat that you can imagine. The brave Paladin, charging the demon, assuming that he was going to flay her alive in the name of truth and justice...
...standing there, in the middle of the floor, paralyzed, squeaking like a mouse that had just inhaled Helium...with his eyes rolling in the back of his head...
Aolyxia left the Festhall never to be seen again. But she gave the brave Ser Fabrizio a wicked smile, and a kiss on the cheek as she walked past the poor paralyzed man, who was held in place by the powerful spell for nearly three whole minutes.
When she kissed him on the cheek he squeaked like a mouse. And nearly fell over. But the Succubus merely winked at him, and walked away, laughing as hard as she possibly could. A taunt, to Ser Fabrizio, that she COULD have torn him apart...if she had so inclined.
Ser Fabrizio learned a life-changing lesson that day about hubris. About over-estimating one's own ability. And underestimating an unknown opponent. He quit the Priesthood that very same evening...
...after smoking a REALLY large Cigar, and re-evaluating his decisions in life.
