Tatyana nodded in satisfaction as the last screw was replaced in the back of the monitor. The white-black tigress stood up, gathering her orb-drones to her sides as she looked over her shoulder at the client.

“The upgrade is complete.”

“That was fast.”

“I have good tools.”

“And, uh, this isn’t going to –”

“The upgrade is free. The term is…in the house?”

“Close enough.”

Ulti smiled, and Tatyana made the effort to smile back – it did not come naturally to her and she had to remind herself to show such things when around other organics. Most of her life was spent around robots and droids that were able to read life signs and otherwise pick up on her emotional state through physiological signs. Actually showing it required that reminder.

“I still can’t believe you did this for me. I mean…we haven’t known each other that long and from what you told me, you just…basically gave me a new computer.”

“Better than new. A few experimental pieces. The…cutting – cutting edge, yes.”

“I still don’t get why.”

“You are pleasant. And engaging. And do not become bothered by my own strangeness. It is…comfortable.”

The friendship that had come about between herself and the blue lizard a few feet away, seated on the edge of the bed, was a strange one. They had met while Tatyana was browsing various streaming services for background noise while the tigress worked on experiments, and she had found the artist and part-time gamer to be…engaging. Tatyana had taken a month to get in touch rather than just lurking and listening, and they’d managed to bond over a strange shared like of platformers. A far more casual like in the tigress’s case, but it was a link, and she was encouraged to pursue it.

Of course, there were a few safeguards before their first meets: a few video calls where she’d hacked the lizard’s computer to hypnotize Ulti for completely honest answers, a deep sweep of the lizard’s devices to make sure that there were no snooping programs around, the works. Everything had come up trustworthy, so she pursued the friendship in her own inquisitive, poking, always-somewhat-awkward and blunt way.

She stepped away from the computer desk, giving the shorter lizard room to take her place. They were the same height, though that was the only physical similarity between them. Ulti was lizard-built, with visible breasts through the baggy hoodie she wore, but not so large as the tigress’s own hidden beneath a customized lab coat. The lizard’s body was slender, more tightly pulled together, while the tigress…well, Tatyana considered it a ‘genetic blessing’ that she had as much as she did, and knew that many clients wished that they could see more than what occasionally popped out beneath the lab coat.

Taking Ulti’s place at the foot of the bed, just outside webcam range, she crossed one leg over her knee and smoothed the lab coat down her thighs to maintain her own modesty. The blue lizard had already scooted her gaming chair up to the computer desk, adjusted the camera and the monitors, and her glasses reflected the new logo on her computer.

“T-Lab Software, huh?” Ulti chuckled. “That could go a lot of different ways – holy crap, that’s loading faster.”

“You will find it much quicker,” Tatyana said, nodding. “I have upgraded the processors, the RAM and VRAM, and everything else I could.”

“This is insane. How – whoa.”

As expected, the lizard had loaded the most resource-intensive game that she had. She imagined that it had previously been loaded in low or medium quality; now, it was glittering at ultra-quality, and the monitor reflected that with all the extra bits. Tatyana did not bother to hide her little smirk of approval; she had meant to make it impressive, and she had clearly succeeded.

“This is…so much.”

“I know.”

“There’s no way – this is going to be more than I’ll ever need for platforming games.”

“Then you will never need another upgrade. Your computer will likely outlive you, barring a particularly egregious growth of tech, or finding a way to make yourself immortal.”

“Heh. You know, uh, you don’t have to be so formal.”

“English is my third language; formality is required.”

“If you say so. Man, this is…this is so much faster than it used to be – I bet I could keep all kinds of stream goodies going with this.”

“Try it out, then.”

“You don’t mind if I –”

“I lurk. You play.”

Besides, it would be a good experiment for the other bits and pieces that she’d installed in the lizard’s computer. After all, their talks before this visit had covered more topics than just Tatyana’s personal safety. The hypnosis had led to a number of realizations about Ulti, as well, though the tigress had kept those to herself.

She kept one leg crossed over the other, leaning back on one hand as her…friend? As close and accurate a word as any, she supposed. Her friend opened several programs, grinning wider and wider and showing more and more teeth as she saw how fast her computer had become. Tatyana couldn’t blame her; the tigress had a similar reaction to any upgrades that she managed for her own equipment. Anything that boosted a computer’s speed, that flexed a mechanical arm a few degrees more precisely, or gave any improvement at all was worth a little celebration.

It did not take long before Ulti had her streaming chat open. The lizard’s face lit up with the white glow of her monitor, and she grinned as she introduced herself with her usual spiel. The tigress smiled, shaking her head as the lizard got out her table and started her usual work on some kinky bits of art. That was one of the other things that had attracted her attention; she liked someone that was able to indulge and just…go with it. It was something that she could never manage for herself.

I wonder how you will enjoy our little expansion…

Tatyana studied the lizard as the stream went on. It took perhaps five minutes for the first redeem to activate, and –

Ping.

The sound was soft, barely audible under the game-music that Ulti kept as background, but it was still there. Tatyana looked away from the screen, but she couldn’t miss the tiny little spiral that Ulti’s glasses reflected. The lizard looked up, her jaw going ever so slightly slack for a few seconds –

There it is.

Only to smile and nod.

“Hey, thanks for the donation! Don’t need it for the computer anymore, but maybe we’ll put it toward another fun thing!”

Tatyana knew exactly where that money would go. It was one of several things that she had cleared with Ulti before making the trip, and why she had brought the drones to make sure it was done right.

The tigress glanced down at the lizard’s chest. Her breasts were just barely visible through her hoodie, but there was something new now. Not much, but a faint hint of nipple showing. They were harder now, much harder.

The hypnosis was working.

Ping.

Another redeem, another minor spiral. Ulti blinked, her eyes locking on the screen. Tatyana once more looked away, watching the reflection of the spiral in the lizard’s eyes. Again, the slightly slack face, again the smile as the spiral continued, and –

“You guys are feeling generous today, heh. Thanks again, but gimme a minute. It’s a little too warm for the hoodie today.”

Tatyana smiled to herself, shifting position and putting her foot back on the ground as Ulti pulled her hoodie up and over her head. She expected to see a blouse, or perhaps a t-shirt, but –

Boing.

…Well, that accelerates things…

The various stripping commands built into the redeems (accessible only at a certain donation level) were meant to take place over time. Considering Ulti’s art streams usually lasted for upwards of four hours, Tatyana had intended for the pings to gradually take the lizard from dressed to undressed over the course of the first hour, hour and a half, and then slowly descend into something more interesting from there.

The fact that they were already down to bra and pants was faster than her calculations had predicted. She couldn’t help but look at the lizard’s black bra and her breasts, too; she was showing a little more excitement, considering how obvious the little nipple bumps were, but she would be showing quite a bit –

Ping.

Ping.

Audience excitement was clearly building; Tatyana had modeled donations increasing at a steady pace, but she hadn’t expected to hit simultaneous ones until at least forty-five minutes in stream. They were barely ten minutes in. The spirals hit, and Ulti was already reaching for the straps of her bra. They came loose with a soft click, and –

Tatyana enjoyed the view probably as much as the audience did. Soft blue breasts popped out into the open, already a little perky and excited, and the lizard grinned through her forcibly-relaxed expression and she flaunted them for the camera. The hypnosis was settling in deeper, and deeper, slowly making her more comfortable with not only being naked, but showing off.

She could only imagine what the chat box read like. She couldn’t look at it herself, not without putting herself at risk for the hypno-spirals, but she would look at the record that the computer would store. She’d made sure that there would be one, if only for the fact that she was sure that Ulti would like to stumble upon it one day.

I wonder how much you will enjoy that. The way that you spoke in trance about wanting to be more of a cam-slut…

To the tigress, it had been obvious that Ulti wanted this but needed someone else to make it happen. Considering it was an easy experiment to set up, she had been more than willing to make the trip. The upgrades were a simple cover for the real ‘gift’ that she had in mind, and…well, it was something that ‘friends’ did, she was told. Indulge each other. Let them enjoy things that they could not give themselves.

And it was…enjoyable enough. Different to being put through things herself, but enjoyable to see someone else exposed.

“Heh, well, you guys get to see some reference material today,” Ulti said, clearly already seeing this as ‘normal’ as she kept drawing. “Maybe it’ll make some of you better at drawing boobs if you can see some real ones.”

Tatyana squirmed as she ground her thighs together, barely realizing she was doing it. The chat was flying by faster than she could have read it at the moment. Were they going to stop there, or –

Ping –

Ping –

Ping!

Faster, faster, faster. She caught the edge of one spiral before she could look away, and it left her fuzzy-brained – not fully tranced, but enough to feel the heat in her head and running down her spine. Tatyana huffed, snorting as she cleared her thoughts. By the time she had her eyes on the lizard again, Ulti was on her feet and –

“That’s so much better. I don’t know why I was wearing those to begin with.”

The lizard was naked, peeling her panties off as she dragged them down her legs. Tatyana blinked; she had clearly missed more than she’d thought if they were already there. Ulti turned sideways, almost like she was giving the camera a profile shot, and the tigress got the perfect chance to see just how much the hypnosis was affecting her friend.

After seeing Ulti drop almost instantly during their past calls, she’d known the lizard was vulnerable, but this…seeing her naked, seeing Ulti’s pussy already slick enough to leave a stain on her panties, and seeing the way that the shy artist was flopping back in her chair with legs spread and one even raised up to spread them further? It was quite the display, and one that made her smile to see.

As the lizard turned back to the camera wiggling her toes, Tatyana sat up a little straighter and –

Smack.

She blinked. The white and black tigress looked down.

“…Oh.”

She was down a lab coat. And a bra. Her breasts were out, the heavy globes resting against her chest, the nipples stiff enough to see through her thicker fur and – oh, yes, she was definitely aroused. The silk between her legs was wet enough to be pulled exactly against her sex, framing it.

When had that happened? Was that –

Ping.

Realization and reaction blended together as she looked up. Even as something smarter in the back of her mind screamed ‘no!’, the lizard-brain reaction forced her to look at the source of the sound.

Spiral.

Zoom.

Sink.

The reflection on her glasses…still counted…which meant I was…ready…for the other…and it hit…hard…

Sink.

Fall.

Indulge.

The spiral faded. Tatyana blinked, vaguely remembering it, but even that vagueness was only because she was less affected by the quick ones than Ulti tended to be. She would have programmed them longer for any other subject, but even so –

Naked. She was naked. And –

“Hey. Actually, I forgot. I have a guest today.”

Guest. Streaming naked. Together. Fogged as it was, Tatyana remembered the latter steps that she had planned for the trance-spirals. First was nudity – they were well-past that, particularly Ulti; the lizard had been stripped in less than thirty minutes of streaming, twice as fast as the tigress had originally planned. Second was a stage of building arousal, encouraging the user to feel hornier, needier. She had found that the more that the mind was distracted with arousal, the less that it got in the way of something the subject was less naturally inclined to do.

And as for the third stage –

“Hey, heheh…hey, Tatyana?”

Ulti stood up, blushing, but nonetheless smiling. She held out her arms for a hug, waving for the tigress to come over…

And Tatyana could feel the urge to do just that. Not overpoweringly, not desperately, but enough to know that the triggers that she had put in to make Ulti want to show off and have fun in front of an audience were in her head, as well. Just enough to take away her own reluctance, but not enough to make her do it. Not yet, at least.

Ping!

She covered her eyes in time, but Ulti turned back to look. By the time that the spirals faded and Tatyana opened one eye, the lizard was slowly bending her own tail back toward her pussy.

“Mmm, Tatyana, how about we show off for them? Show them what two girls can do together?”

“…Not my plans for the day…but at least you have the courage to ask.”

“Come on. I wanna see how big those boobs look up close.”

“Very.”

“Come oooon, let me experiment with you!”

“…I suppose I cannot deny an experiment.”

Not to mention that she was getting wetter by the second, and she knew that another mistake would lead her to doing it anyway. She might as well leap in while she still had some semblance of control. Tatyana stood up from the bed, her own curves enforcing a sway as she approached.

“But you will start your experiment on the other end. I believe that we should determine who has the finer rump. Your audience can determine that.”

“Sounds fuuuuun. Chat? Rate our butts!”

And as she reached the camera, standing butt to butt with the lizard, Tatyana wondered just how deep this would go…