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From Grigbertz

Statuesque

Jilrien was well known to the people of her town as "a scamp." A young orphan who had grown up in and out of the orphanage, the people of her city had always pegged Jilrien as destined for the rogue's guild; indeed Jilrien had trained with and shown some talent for those arts, but fortunately for her she never did lead down a serious life of crime.

It was a meeting at a local noble's gallery that would seal Jilrien's far more unusual fate. Known for being eccentric, young Lord Ranis, himself hardly older than Jilrien, often would rent out space near the marketplace for various "high brow" displays. These displays would be open to the public, sometimes for a nominal fee, and allowed the lower and middle class of Jilrien's town to appreciate the art and culture that the upper classes typically held close to themselves.

Jilrien had little interest in these; she would often visit them, half to see the oddities, half to see the milling throngs of people. While she never preyed on them, occasionally a purse string would accidentally snap off just in time for her to pick them up, but never one from one of the intended audience -- often the nobles would come and visit the exhibition merely to sneer at the lower and middle class rubes that were visiting Lord Ranis's little adventures, only to find that one of the rubes had proven themselves craftier than they.

It was one of these events when Jilrien made a rare visit inside the event; the event had attracted far fewer people than normal, which piqued Jilrien's interest. Inside, she found row upon row of statues -- some of precious stone, like Jade or Cobalt, others of metals such as Bronze or Gold, still others of exotic materials such as Glass or Oak. Each was of a young woman, utterly nude, frozen in a provocative pose.

Jilrien's stunned blushing attracted the attention of the old woman in robes walking around the event; introducing herself as the head priestess of the goddess of art and beauty, she calmly explained that the statues, while provocative and almost lewd, were also beautiful, and the goddess of beauty taught to appreciate even the provocative parts of life - and love.

Further explanations were interrupted as a young noblewoman, slightly younger than Jilrien and with the strangest firey red hair, began screaming and shouting at the onlookers. "Disgusting! Objectification! Horrific!" She shouted even as the town guard dragged her away. "This is not art! It is obscene!"

Jilrien, vaguely embarrassed already, backed quietly out of the gallery when she turned back from the noblewoman's display only to be greeted with the sight of a arching woman in polished brass, the glistening folds and moisture on her fingers preserved forever in the metal for anyone and everyone to see.

"You." The young noblewoman said as Jilrien tried to slap the blush off of her face. "You seem like a self respecting girl."

And with that, shortly afterwards Jilrien found herself in a local pub, even as the young noblewoman put drink after drink in front of her. The woman barely paused to sip her own drink, the ravings of "obscenity" and "fake art" and "the gaze of men" filling the air. Long after the pub had emptied out, long after the strange noblewoman had left, and long after Jilrien should have stopped drinking the free ale, Jilrien sat, her mind swooning with strange terms and a vague anger towards the statues and their sculptors. Did they not know that women deserved respect? That such displays were simply wrong?

It was with those thoughts in mind -- and no small amount of alcohol -- that Jilrien kept with her as she crept silently back to the gallery, a torch in hand. Setting fire to a building, even in the merchant district, was not hard -- Jilrien often felt that they had used kindling in places instead of stone -- and with a bit of sneaking and a tap or two of her flame, the building -- and it's statues -- with up like a roaring flame.

Satisfied with a job well done, holding the word Objectification to her chest much like she held the now extinguished torch, Jilrien turned and promptly passed out, scant meters away from the now blazing building.

Awaking in a cell the next day barely able to string two coherent thoughts together from the hangover, Jilrien's day went from bad to worse. The magistrate calmly listed the value of each statue, in turn, all of which were complete losses. Each far, far eclipsed the cost of the building itself, as well as the damage to the buildings around it.

Lord Ranis was the first to visit. A quietly furious young man, he simply stared at her wordlessly through the bars before walking away silently.

It was the Old Priestess that followed that was the first to speak to her other than the Magistrate. Jilrien did not meet her gaze, simply sipping quietly at the mug of water the Priestess insisted upon giving her.

"I have the authority to forgive your sin." The priestess said, quietly.

Jilrien stared up at her.

"Will you swear to make it right?"

"I could never afford to." Jilrien muttered into her mug.

"Not with funds, of course not." The priestess kneeled down, meeting Jilrien's gaze. "But it wasn't the money that was the valuable thing lost yesterday. If I were to give you an opportunity to make it right, would you?"

Jilrien thought back to the discussion the guards had recently had, talking about how after a certain value of damage, it was not uncommon to simply hang the vandal. "Yes, of course."

The Priestess smiled. "Then I ask only that you trust in the Goddess. She will help you." Jilrien watched her pause and speak with Lord Ranis, who was watching from the hallway.

The next day, Jilrien awoke to the guards shouting at her through the bars. Confused, but blessedly without a hangover, she quietly allowed them to cuff her and lead her out of the jail, back from the poor section of the city, straight to the merchant quarter. They did so in stoic silence, one in front, one behind, their spears making it quite clear that any attempt at escape would be a bad idea.

In front of the still smoldering ruins of the gallery, the old Priestess and several other younger women, all dressed the same, awaited her. Lord Ranis stood quietly aside, watching on. Behind him, several men dug through the burnt ruins, dragging large pieces of molten metal and shattered materials out.

Sensing a spectacle, onlookers began to arrive. Already a busy day at the Marketplace, still more seemed to crawl out of the woodwork -- those that knew her, those that knew the gallery, those that loved a good show.

The old woman spoke. "Jilrien. Two days ago, this building was destroyed by a fire. Do you know who did this deed?"

Jilrien paused, glancing around. The old woman's voice seemed to bellow across the marketplace, which became whisper silent. What felt like a halo of light surrounded her, illuminating her even in the early morning sun.

"Trust in the goddess." The old woman said, her voice a whisper.

"I... I do." Jilrien said. "It was me."

A hushed muttering went about the crowd.

"Why did you do such an act," the old woman said, her booming voice silencing the onlookers.

Jilrien sighed. She had just confessed, why not play along? "Ale. Ma'am. A noblewoman kept filling my cup after she was thrown out, all while raving about the disgusting statues therein." Jilrien smiled slightly at the nodding of a goodly number of the onlookers. "I suppose after listening for so long, I believed her."

"I see." The voice echoed strangely. "But it was not your place to judge the art as wanting. Do you accept that you cost the world irreplaceable beauty in your drunken actions!?"

Jilrien blinked even as the strange light seemed to shine brighter. "I do."

"Do you swear that you will find a way, no matter how long it takes, to bring beauty to the world?"

"I... I do?" Jilrien shrugged. It was a silly request.

"Will you make an oath that you will accept the Goddess's aid in creating beauty, until which time you have undone the damage you did?"

"I do."

"Good." A strange voice said from behind her. Jilrien looked around, discovering that the guards, the townspeople, even the town itself had vanished. In it's stead, the firey haired noblewoman stood among a sea of white.

"You?!" Jilrien said, gasping. Behind her, she heard the priestesses drop to their knees.

"Oh, this will be so much fun." The noblewoman -- goddess -- said, smiling.

"You tricked me!" Jilrien sputtered. "You made me destroy that building!"

"You chose to do that." The goddess grinned. "Just like you swore that you would bring beauty to the world, no matter how long it would take. And that you would accept my blessing in doing so until the damage was undone."

Jilrien's veins went cold.

"And you did so on holy ground." The goddess smirked, pointing downward. "It takes a senior priestess and 4 disciples to consecrate ground like so, but we had it done this morning."

The runes, in a large circle that Jilrien found herself directly in the center of, were glowing faintly.

"Did you know that if you swore to a goddess on holy ground, those oaths become irreversible?" The goddess smiled kindly, but there was no kindness in her eyes.

Even Jilrien could feel the swell of magic surrounding her. "What... What are you doing?"

"You will not replace those statues. They are irreplaceable." The goddess reached out, and pushed through Jilrien's tunic, leaving a hand shaped hole as she caressed Jilrien's breast. "Instead of creating art, you will BE art."

Jilrien gasped as her tunic began to burn away, even as the goddess's fingers traced lines down from her breast to her hip. "W... W...."

"This your gift to the world to replace the statues. Your body." The goddess slid her hand down, cutting Jilrien's trousers clean in half. "You will never conceal it again."

"Stop..." Jilrien muttered even as the goddess slapped her now bare ass.

"You will spend your days a monument to the beauty of the nude human body. A walking piece of art."

A tingling filled her body from the handprint on her ass, Jilrien gasped as a strange colour seemed to overtake her flesh.

"From sunrise to sunset, you will seek out an audience, so that people may gaze upon you."

Brass. Her skin had changed to brass, to match the lewd statue that she had last seen.

"You will show deference to my church, as I am charging them with your responsibility."

"Yes, My Goddess," The old woman said.

"This will be my blessing upon you, and the world." The goddess smiled. "Now, go forth, and bring forth beauty."

The strange light vanished, and with it, the town reappeared. As did the townspeople.

Jilrien fell to her knees after the gasps and exclamations started. The old woman stood up proudly.

"Thus, the goddess has given her forgiveness and blessing upon this young woman. And thus, we consider this matter closed."

Jilrien stood up shouting, her arms slapping over her breasts and pussy. "We most certainly do NOT!"

... At least, she intended to. Instead, she found herself shouting that even as one hand began toying with her nethers, the other fluffing her hair, stretching her shoulder back enticingly.

"I... I... I'm not doing this, I swear to the gods." Jilrien muttered even as the shocked and lewd looks -- and comments -- spread.

"Not the gods, the Goddess." The old woman said, smiling as she pulled Jilrien to her knees. "Now, stop trying to cover yourself, the Goddess' blessing was quite clear about it, and we don't need your maidenwater spreading throughout the cobblestone."

"What did she do to me!?" Jilrien muttered, her hands finally stopping their molestations once she stopped trying to conceal herself.

"Oh? I thought it was quite clear." The priestess said. "She turned you into one of those lewd little statues you destroyed. Walking, talking, posing."

"I can't go around looking like an obsce..."

"You can, and will." The priestess said even as she slapped Jilrien on the bare ass, her hand matching the Goddess's perfectly. "Now, do whatever you want until Sundown, but after that I expect you to visit our Temple outside of town. I suspect we'll have lots to talk about."

"But... but..."

"Yes, you have a cute one." One of the younger priestess said as they walked by. "Don't worry. The Goddess does this sometimes. She'll get bored of you in a few decades and release you, don't worry about it. A century or two, tops. Until then, might as well enjoy it."

With that, the 5 women left Jilrien there, even as the audience started to disperse.

"Well, I suppose you'll suffer quite enough." Lord Ranis said with a chuckle. "The priestess allowing me to salvage the materials from the statues should pay for the building, as well. And either way, now I get a walking, talking, lewd statue to show off the Goddess of beauty's art to the world."

He clasped Jilrien's hand and brought it to his lips in a kiss.

"I guess we will call this one even. See you around, little one."

Jilrien stared as the nobleman walked away, complicated feelings in her chest. With that, she quietly walked to the edges of the marketplace, doing her best not to attract too much attention. It was still many, many hours until sundown, and she dreaded what would happen if she tried to hide indoors so soon.

Rules

• Every Morning, Jilrien wakes up with her body looking like another material. Jade, Marble, Gold, Glass, Chrome, Oak, etc -- anything a statue can be made out of, she can appear like. It is random each day.
  • She is still human, and still made of flesh, although she cannot be harmed (the Goddess heals her instantly).
  • Her eyes, hair, nails, etc all appear the same -- she is monochrome from head to toe.
• From sunrise to sunset, Jilrien feels a compulsion to be in public and socialize with people. She can go inside, but only if she knows people will be there (tavern, inn, etc). She feels wanderlust -- she cannot stay in one area too long.
• Jilrien cannot wear clothing. If she tries, she finds herself doing something particularly embarrassing to punish herself. If someone else tries, the clothing is burned away by magic. This includes jewelry, footwear, towels, et cetera - she must be absolutely naked at all times.
• If Jilrien is not doing something, she strikes poses like a statue or a model. If she thinks about it, she can stop, but if she is not actively stopping herself, she does it again. Striking poses is like a bad habit she can never get rid of.
• If Jilrien actively tries to conceal herself, she instead strikes a particularly lewd pose as punishment.
• Jilrien cannot age, cannot get sick, and always looks beautiful. She has no pubic hair (the goddess doesn't like it) - she does not realize any of this.
• Jilrien must "take advice" from the Church of Eternal Beauty -- while not a slave, she finds it hard to disobey them. They consider her a gift of their goddess so mostly ensure she is taken care of.
• Jilrien's curse will end once she achieves one of two goals -- replacing each and every statue she destroyed, or learning an artistic trade and creating a legendary masterpiece herself. As the statues were each created with divine inspiration by masters, it is not likely she can replace them, and she has no artistic training. She does not know about this (the church does, but cannot tell her) so the chances of her being freed is very very low.