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Three men were sitting atop stools at a high table off to one side of the barroom. The room's background chatter -- a cacophony of around twenty anthros with convention hype on their minds -- formed the perfect white noise to mask the unusual conversation the three of them were in the middle of having over their drinks.

Seated centrally between the other two males was a blue dragon with a gorgeous golden mane, the one and only Teryx Commodore. He wore a doubting expression and was rubbing the index finger of his left hand along his chin, as he considered the offer that the others had just made to him.

"Hmm, I just don't see any likelihood of your hypnosis working on me," said Teryx. He glanced in polite apology at his companions. "No offense, it's great you're doing well at it and all--"

"Hsss, whaaaat?" interjected Zsisron, a hooded cobra naga with bluish-gray skin, who was currently more coiled around his stool than sitting upon it. "Don't you have any faith in our ssskillss?"

Blue, the tall and bearishly built anthro skunk who was also Zsisron's boyfriend, rolled his eyes. His proper name was, in fact, Azure, but he usually went by Blue among friends... which Teryx, for all his pomp and pride, at least tentatively qualified as.

"Hey, easy," said Blue, "it's not like we have anything to prove to the likes of Tery here."

Teryx squinted. "Excuse me?"

Blue shrugged, holding both palms wide at his sides. "Just sayin'. I know how it is. All you dragons think you can't be hypnotized. 'Completely and biologically immune.'" Blue formed derisive finger quotes around the idea. "I've heard it a dozen times. Not one of you has ever let me try."

"Oh, no! It's not that," said Teryx, still keeping up a polite air. "Really, I cannot be hypnotized. I've tried a few times, you know?"

Blue's eyes lit up, and his face spread with a grin. The last thing anyone should tell him, with regard to hypnosis, was that it was totally impossible for this or that reason. That was a non-starter.

A moment of intense silence passed among the three men, and the skunk's namesake strip of bright blue fur bent this way and that as his tail swaggered with confidence. It wasn't a part of his body that was normally used in his hypnosis, but it was nevertheless a vivid detail and had the potential to be visually distracting. Teryx's eyes certainly took notice, since the tail hadn't been moving much at all until now.

Most of Blue's fur was dark gray, while his messy head hair, his face's goatee and mutton chops, and the two thin strips that ran down either side of his back -- before eventually merging near the tip of his skunk-tail -- were a stark white. That was all normal enough for a skunk, but the contrast came from the blue part: the white strips along the back and tail surrounded, and were adjacent to, the similarly shaped azure-blue strip, which in turn bounded the wider, central area along on his backside that had his normal gray fur pattern.

"Maybe you've never been able to be hypnotized by amateurs," said Blue.

"Mmm, yess, and perhapss not by people who won't ressort to more... unconventional methodss."

Teryx cocked an eye at the snake. "Er, I didn't think your licenses would really permit anything too unconventional?"

The two hypnotists exchanged devious glances, with collusion and a slight competitive spirit both evident between them. "Well, what'ss a little zonk between friendss?" mused Zsisron. The tip of his tail flicked ponderously along the floor.

Blue nodded. "I don't really plan for this to be on the books. If you go through with it, it's all experimental."

To the two hypnotists' surprise, Teryx dropped the act and grinned ear to ear. He laughed a single, hearty "Heh."

"You know, you two might be exactly what I'm looking for after all," said the rain dragon.

Blue halted for a moment at the change in Teryx's demeanor. "You tryin' to tell me that you were just acting like you don't think you can be hypnotized to see whether we're interested in using more hardcore methods?"

"Ah, now that I never said," Teryx clarified. "I still doubt you can do it. Sincerely, it's not going to be easy." He folded his hands across the table and leaned down to run his long tongue into the piña colada he had ordered. He shifted his gaze back and forth between them to continue sizing them up while he did this.

Zsisron looked at Blue for confirmation. Seeing that familiar look in his partner's face, he closed his eyes. "Fine, if we're going to attempt thiss, let'ss make it interessting."

"Hmm," grunted Blue, vaguely.

"Mmh, tasty," said Teryx with a chuckle as he pulled up from the drink. He waited for Blue or Zsisron to say something further, but both seemed momentarily lost in thought. When they still didn't speak, he filled the silence: "What, did I cause some kind of hypnotist congress to convene?"

Blue chuckled. "No, it's not so difficult." He rapped once on the table with the knuckles of his right hand. "Three nights. We'll each have a session with him, implant triggers for posthypnotic suggestion. The one whose triggers he responds to the most will be the winner."

"Winner? Am I some sort of prize?" asked Teryx, who did not sound too annoyed by the idea.

"Pff, you will be eaasssy," said Zsisron with a dismissive hand wave. Then he locked eyes with his partner: "I'll take you up on that!"

The naga and the skunk reached across the table and shook hands once on the matter.

"So that's that?" asked Teryx as he sipped at his drink a bit more. "When do we start? I assume tonight."

"Gotta. Only three nights left in the con," affirmed Blue. "The last day will be the tiebreaker if we need one. If I don't stomp Zsis here into the ground."

The snake glared at him and thrashed his tail tip from side to side. "We ssshall see, loverboy."

Teryx was too busy enjoying having two hypnotists fighting over him to consider that maybe it could actually work. The very idea still seemed impossible. He couldn't properly ignore the flaws in anything -- not himself, not others, not ever. It was just a dragon thing; how in the world were they going to get him into such a suggestible state that he would both absorb, and later follow, their programming?

He downed the rest of his drink faster than usual, subconsciously hoping the rush of alcohol might help their efforts out somehow. Meanwhile, Blue and Zsisron were still sipping casually at theirs, though at one point Zsisron cast a stern glare toward his boyfriend and vocally pre-empted any urge Blue might currently have to drink a bit too much.

"Relax, Zsis, I'm not gonna overdo it," said the skunk with a chuckle. "I have a competition to win, after all."

"Zssss, yesss, that iss what you sshould be thinking..."

Teryx got fidgety before they did, so he told them he'd be waiting for them in his hotel room. It was on the same floor as their own, and he hoped they didn't keep him waiting for long.

* * *

Hypnosis Competition, Round 1

Given that it was already almost 7:00 p.m., Teryx really hoped this didn't take long -- or, more to the point, that Zsisron and Blue would be reasonable in their efforts and give up at an appropriate time without dragging them out for hours and hours. He had been with a handful of amateur hypnotists in the past who just couldn't accept failure as a possibility... either that, or they were looking for any excuse to keep his handsome physique in their presence. Thinking back, it could've gone either way.

"Get comfortable~" Zsisron cooed, gesturing toward the loose weave of coils he had arranged for Teryx to sit within.

The dragon folded his arms at the sight. "Well, well! A bed of coils. Is this a frisky first date, or are you planning to hypnotize me?"

"Get in and sit down, you ssilly dragon," said Zsisron.

Teryx did not yet sit. "Pff. All business, huh?"

"You're the one ssaying we can't put you under. I will sshow you how my kind do it, outsside all of the ssilly regulationss which we must normally follow..."

Teryx nodded -- but exuded "meh" with his body language. "Fair enough. Can't say I'm expecting much."

"Expectationss are made to be ssshattered. Much like mindsss..."

The loose coils began to undulate as Teryx sat down at their center. One of Zsisron's hands was almost immediately at the waist of the dragon's shorts. Zsisron's hood opened wide, and his face drew close to the dragon's.

"Mmm, kinky and forward, I like that," teased Teryx. "Not impressed by the eyes though. Eyes don't do much for me I'm afraid."

"Zsssss... we sshall learn the truth of that..."

"Mmh? Hey! Hands to yourself." He pushed one the snake's hand away after one thin, clawed finger found its way inside the waist of the dragon's briefs.

"Oh no. Trussst me. Sssoon you will want not only that hand, but however many handsss I could possssibly provide..."

Teryx yawned as if he was bored. He looked into the serpent's eyes and saw colors. Scintillating, rainbow colors.

"Hear me, Teryx~"

"Yup, I hear ya," teased the dragon. Then he folded his legs at the knees and leaned back more casually than ever into the naga's coils. Taunting grandiose, giant snakes was fun.

"Feel your mind emptying... you only need to ssseee what my eyesss ssshow you..."

"Eheh. Why don'tcha wrap those coils tighter and try that again, handsome?"

"Yesss, handssome... both of uss. I bet you can ssseee yoursself reflected in my beautiful eyesss..."

"Heh... rainbow's not really my color." Despite his confidence, Teryx's eyes were lidding strangely. "Spirals are kind of a funny shape, too..."

"Sssshh... don't lie to yoursself... I can feel your body relaxing. Already you cannot look away."

"Uh huh. Right." Teryx vividly imagined turning his head to one side. "See? Totally free to turn..."

"Heheheh... yesss, so free, free to do whatever you want... whatever isss good to do..."

"Heh, yup, that's me! Teryx does as he pleases."

"Mmm, sssomething tellss me that pleasure will be something of interesst indeed~"

Teryx's briefs were bulging. He wasn't objecting, either, to the way that both of Zsisron's hands were now moving to undo his shorts to expose just how turgid he was.

"Like I said... can't be hypnotized. So there's no point asking," insisted Teryx. "Now let's have some fun, or let's go home... wait, not home. We can't go home, it's a convention. Well, maybe let's go back to my room then."

"Heheh, ssilly dragon, you can't return to your room. You are trapped with me, until your mind ssubmitss to my demandss~"

Teryx continued steadfastly not to believe this was the case, even as he sort of lost himself in the way those deep, endless snake eyes were swirling, glowing... drawing him as if he were sinking into a quiet but disorienting whirlpool at sea.

"Come with me... follow my voissse..." lilted Zsisron.

"Heh, where ya at, ya silly snake?" Teryx said, his torso immobile, and with his tone now quite relaxed.

"Deeper. We must go deeper. To the place where there are no thoughts."

"Video site comment sections... got it..." Teryx mumbled.

"You're nearly theeeere..."

"Being trolled as we speak." Teryx nod-nodded gently.

"Yessss, you've got thisss..." The naga's hand petted more firmly against Teryx's now-larger bulge, to no objection or response from the dragon. "Zss-aaaah... perfect. Now for a little programming."

The next thing Teryx knew, he was staring into those serpentine eyes still, but they had stopped swirling. The dragon felt totally fine and in control of himself, because of course he was.

"So... how do you feel about going to a cozy little room party with us tonight?" asked Zsisron. "I believe some of our mutual friends will be there."

"Heh, 'course I want to go. My buddies Harimau and Guy will be there, plus a few others."

"And what will you do when you get there?"

"Uh. Greet them? Just like I would anyone else?"

Zsisron's tongue flicked in keen anticipation. "Pressssisely! Now go!" He gestured dramatically toward the door. "You must find Blue and receive his attempted hypnosis as well!"

"This is Blue's room. You two are roommates for this con, just as I would expect."

The naga, in his grandiosity, looked momentarily dejected. His hood sagged a bit. "That was a test of your memory," he insisted. "You remembered well."

"Uh-huh... but it sounds like a certain snake didn't," said Teryx with folded arms.

Muttering to himself Zsisron uncoiled and slithered away. "Stay put, feeble-minded dragon. I will go find my Azure and send him your way."

It was the first time Teryx had heard the Blue dude's formal name since the start of the convention. "Uh, sure, I'll be here waiting patiently for someone else who thinks he can put me under. May I avail myself of your washroom while I wait? File my claws? Touch up my mane?"

"Knock yourself out," said Zsisron grumpily, before slinking away much faster.

Teryx chuckled quietly to himself once the snake was out of earshot. "Hey, I'd do a better job of it than you supposed zonkmasters think you can."

Three seconds later, Zsisron was leaning in through the room's door again. "I heard that."

"Damn snakes and their ridiculous senses of taste and hearing," said Teryx calmly and matter-of-factly.

Zsisron rolled his eyes, flicked his tongue toward whatever heavenlies would have mercy upon his plight, and then darted off down the corridor again.

* * *

Muffled banter from the hallway, from two familiar voices: "I'm telling you, he issss susssceptible, but he issss still so ssssassy the moment he returnss to normal..."

"Pff, you let that get to you too much," said the skunk. "If your programming worked, it worked, right? We'll know when the time comes."

"Heheh... yesss, we ssshall...!!"

Teryx automatically, and without consciously thinking about it, discarded most of the interesting details from that conversation. He hadn't been hypnotized in the first place, so how could there be programming? Maybe he needed some of whatever the snake must be having in order to feel that way!

Once the skunk was in the room and had greeted Teryx, Zsisron went away to go mingle in the lobby for a while.

Compared to Zsisron's predatory flamboyance, Blue's approach looked nothing but straightforward. He stood vaguely at attention with his hands a little further back than usual, before relaxing and removing the gold-framed blue stone pendant that he had been wearing. Teryx had assumed it was probably for show, but the idea now occurred to him that it might be usable as some kind of hypnotic pendulum. The specific way that Blue first dangled it before him -- its gilded chain straight downward, grasped in the fingertips, swaying ever so slightly -- further hinted at the idea.

"Heeeey," said Teryx with some interest, though with no intention of actively going along with the obvious thrust of Blue's gesture. "Pretty blue trinkets are always nice. They go perfectly with my scales."

"Sit on the foot of the bed," Blue instructed, motioning toward it with his spare hand.

"All right, heh," said Teryx as he moved to sit down. "Guess you don't have the whole body-chair thing going on like Zsis does."

"A regrettable consequence of not being a snake-tailed weirdo," said Blue with a wink.

"I know you love him."

"I know you know," said Blue with a soothing, patient voice and no sense of ill will. "Now listen carefully. You're going to let your thoughts get nicely diverted by this swaying 'trinket,' and then you're going to look into my eyes and listen carefully."

"Ahhh, the eyes again. That didn't work with Zsis. The gropes were nice though."

"My boyfriend's methods can be rather direct when he wants to be. Mm, so can mine of course. You'd be careful if you really knew how good I am at this."

"You know what they say: the proof is in how hypnotized the dragon actually gets. Lovingly paraphrased."

"Mmhm, so let's see how hypnotized the dragon can get." Blue began to swing the pendant from side to side, standing tall and imposingly over Teryx as he did so, yet he kept speaking in that calm-yet-confident voice. Not aggressive, just... important to listen to. A bit commanding. Charismatic. "Tell me, Teryx, what do you think about musk?"

"Mm, I like musk, of course. What self-respecting dragon wouldn't enjoy cataloguing the exact flavor of his numerous friends and partners? Triply so for a rain dragon... we all know the world smells a bit different after it's gotten moist."

"Heheh, that's true, isn't it?" Without losing eye contact, Blue reached to his nearby luggage case, unzipped a pocket on it, and withdrew a purplish-blue speedo from it. One of his own. "Here is where my method gets more unconventional."

"Oh, I should mention, Blue... I'm not like a musk slut or anything. Sure, I enjoy it, but I don't need it. I don't have to have it at every possible--"

"--Then perhaps I can change your mind about that, for the night~"

Teryx looked up from the pendant-pendulum and into Blue's eyes, which seemed so... deep and endless, like a vast sky into which he could just soar away. Drift. Glide. It was a freeing sensation, building up from the back of his brain and spreading everywhere. It was like being given a dose of laughing gas he had no idea he was being given, nor that he had wanted it so badly.

The next thing Teryx knew, he was still sitting there on the bed, with the used speedo lying atop the luggage bag, and Blue was in the process of putting the pendant back around his neck. There was a lingering scent of musk in Teryx's nostrils. The skunk's musk, to be exact.

"Woah, you were quick with that speedo," said Teryx. "Sneaky fast skunks. Not really my thing though. So, uh... you gonna try to hypnotize me or what?"

Blue grinned. "I'm a bit tired after that effort of mine. We can try again tomorrow."

"But I only just got here!"

The skunk laughed. "Why don't you go get ready to head up to that party with us?"

"Uh, sure." Teryx stood up and walked away feeling a little perplexed. He couldn't see what was so entertaining to Blue about failing to hypnotize him!

* * *

That night, Teryx wandered down their group's designated "party corridor," not expecting anything but the usual: lots of chatting and snacking, meeting up with old friends, and the eventual consumption of enough alcohol, coffee, tea, or sodas to loosen everyone up the right amount to create opportunities for real fun.

White walls and fancy lamps, along alternating sides of the hallway. He had to give the place credit: this hotel had some flavor.

Of course, nothing could beat the flavor of the people at the convention itself. He had come here to mingle, and followed by Blue and Zsisron, that act of doing so felt almost exhibitionistic. It was like being in his own private reality TV show, with the two hypnotists' eyes as the camera.

He pushed past a tortoise he didn't recognize to step into the propped-open door of Harimau -- a tiger and occasional friend-with-benefits to Teryx -- who apparently was sharing the room with a new boyfriend who was an orca. The latter wasn't present, but the luggage was unmistakable with its waterproof design and encircling arrangement of decorative red floaties. The attached personal badge made identification easier too.

"Tery!" said Harimau immediately upon seeing him. "Hey, have a drink on me!"

Thirty seconds into the party and he was already having a mixed drink pushed at him. Teryx liked where this was going. He watched how the tiger beamed at him, took the offered drink with a nod, and then leaned right in and gave the man a slurping kiss across the nose and whiskers, before walking past him as if nothing unusual had happened.

"H-hey, uh... glad to see you're already all loosened up," said the tiger nervously, turning bodily to face and track Teryx's meandering walk into the room.

Teryx chuckled and sipped his drink, glancing back at him. Harimau was always such a nerd at heart, and a little too non-confrontational for his own good, both of which made him tremendous fun to tease. "Hey, least I can do for a good friend, am I right? We've had nicer kisses than that in the past."

"Rrr, Tery, you never change with your casanova motives, do you... You always wanna get in my shorts."

"Mm, I dunno. A lot of people are here tonight that I haven't had a chance to play with yet. Besides, as of last we talked, you're sorta spoken for, aren't you? Came to the con with that new squeeze of yours?"

"Yep! I think we're gonna have a good trip."

Teryx nod-nodded. "Hm, in my experience, a few quick kisses with an old friend can make any trip better. Sure you don't want some more?"

"Mmph, it's tempting but... we're taking things slowly, you know?"

"Heeey, don't think about it like it's gonna stay slow," said Teryx, tactically re-angling himself from the role of a lecher to that of a relationship cheerleader. "Your guy is gonna jump on you this weekend, or else you're gonna jump on him. You know, and I know." His nostrils flared a few times between sips. "I can smell how you feel about him." In a lower tone he added, "Heh, thought it might be for me!"

The tiger chuckled and waved his hands across his chest, as if to say, "I'm afraid not!"

"Where is your BF, anyway?" pursued Teryx. "He off getting fresh for you right now?"

"Eheh, it's funny you mention that..." the tiger began, his bashfulness about the topic quite evident. Looking into his eyes, it would've been hard to see anything less than a reflected imagined image of his nude boyfriend rinsing off.

Teryx, however, had no interest in his former casual sex buddy's eyes right now, and was instead walking with confidence around the room and continuing to take sips from his drink. Teryx did a good job of acting as if he wasn't looking for any one thing in particular, but of course he was.

Presently, Teryx found it: the tan drawstring bag that was being used for the tiger's dirty laundry. He stared thoughtfully at it for a moment before looking back at the tiger and saying, "Hey, you get introduced to Zsis and Blue yet?"

Teryx's misdirecting question was accompanied by an index finger point that the embarrassed tiger was all too happy to follow. Turning around, he slowly waved to the snake and skunk, who were idling by the door. Blue took the moment to make a casual, open-fingered handwave of greeting before leaning up against the wall a bit.

"A-ah, didn't see you there," the tiger continued. "Zsisron... I think I've seen around..."

"Thisss iss likely. My sslithering, ssleek form!" He exuberated, uncoiling and raising himself a bit before settling back down. "...Difficult to misss."

The tiger fought down a chuckle as he turned to skunk: "And... Blue, was it?"

"Azure, but I let 'em call me Blue. Pleased to meet ya!" He offered a handshake, which was accepted.

While they were all talking, Teryx slipped his free hand silently into the laundry bag and stole a pair of green boxers. He also allowed himself a quick sniff: travel-worn and sweaty... perhaps the musk of an airplane ride alongside the person that the wearer so badly wanted to bone. Smirking, Teryx stuffed the boxers into his pants' deepest pocket, before making his way over to join the circle of conversation.

"So, sure you can't give me one more kiss for the road?" asked Teryx in an exaggeratedly grave tone as he moved past Harimau. "It's a long corridor down to the next room."

"It's like fifteen feet!" said the tiger, chuckling.

"My snout might get lonely," continued Teryx, "and you'd be the one to blame. A lonely, destitute dragon snout whose fate you could have averted, with one kiss from your deliciously endless supply of them."

"Dammit Teryx!" laughed the tiger, before pushing in and pecking him on the cheek to appease him. "There, take your kiss and go find your latest friend for the evening! Just remember it isn't going to be me!"

Teryx responded with a brow raise and a suggestive slurp along the tiger's chin. "As you command!" he said playfully.

"Sorry," interjected Blue, "Teryx here has had too much to drink already."

"Hey, I have not! I'm just getting started!" As if to prove the point, Teryx pulled his jacket closer inward and lifted the glass to chug on it. "See you, Harimau. Seriously, have a good time tonight."

A smile lit the tiger's face as he made a brief gesture of farewell, and that seemed to be enough to even things out between them.

With that settled, Teryx wandered out past the pair and back into the corridor, looking around eagerly for the next participating room. His blue body was a mild contrast to the softer, almost aqua colored carpet as he went. The drink had a nice flavor, something with pineapple and coconut. He could get used to this.

The naga and skunk moved along quickly behind him. "Two kissssesss." Zsisron whispered.

"One and a half. That's what we agreed on," corrected Blue. "Both were done to the same guy."

"Hmph, fair, fair..." said Zsisron. "You have one point for the underpants."

Blue nodded without speaking further as they continued along.

Teryx was in the next room a moment later. This one had been done up with a variety of decorations that followed a jungle-tribal theme.

The place was full of artificial bushes and hanging green streamers. A moment later, a hyena darted from the "undergrowth" wielding a rubbery looking prop spear that Teryx could've sworn must somehow also be an elaborate tube for concealing sex toys. It was an online snuggle-friend of his, by the name of Guy, whom he had met up with at conventions a time or two in the past.

"Hey, you must be my favorite Guy-yena!" said Teryx, immediately going in for the hug and a much more passionate kiss, the latter action of which surprised the 'yeen.

"Mmf, forward as hell today I see." But he didn't mind and kissed right back. "Mmm, damn, have to be on my guard full time with you."

"I''s not just the size of your spear; it's how you use it," said Teryx.

"Hey, we're talkin' tongues here!" The hyena laughed it off and tossed his spear aside, before offering Teryx some orange slices and cashew halves. "Oh, who're the blue guys? Err, the other blue guys!"

"Guy, meet Zsisron and Blue, two fun people," said Teryx, thumbing backward at them. "Come on in you two, don't just be flies on the wall. Get some of this stuff! ...So shy, I swear." He shook his head dismissively as they followed him, and he moved on past the hyena to check out the room.

"Like the decor?"

"It's great, the most effort I've seen in a room so far."

"Savanna heritage. Have to represent that by being competent at making a mockup of the biome nextdoor."

"You're such a nerd," said Teryx.

"Pff, you're a nerd. Mr. business dragon."

The rain dragon laughed heartily as he continued nosing around through the "plant life" looking for... something. He wasn't even sure what he was looking for.

"Hey, that's my stuff!" said Guy as Teryx found the nook where the baggage had been stored.

The rain dragon ignored him and didn't apologize. He reached into the dirty laundry bag and pulled out a pair of gray, narrow briefs, and sniffed deeply of them while giving his friend an almost saluting gaze. Then he tossed them flippantly on top of the bag and tipped his glass in the hyena's direction before taking a long gulp, as if to say, "Cheers to your musk, I hope to smell it more directly later on in the con."

It smelled just like he remembered it. It was nice. Furry in the same way his mane was furry, yet zesty in a way that nicely complemented his own gorgeous groin.

"Ta-ta for now," said the dragon with a grin. "Gotta go see what other jungle predators want to hunt me down."

Guy stood there not knowing what to think. His heart rate had gone up, and he was visibly too surprised to respond well. "Ah, yeah, okay! You weirdo. Just come back later if you wanna have some uh, cuddles in the bushes!"

Teryx licked his friend on the face, and then swept out past Zsisron and Blue. He moved with such a sense of purpose tonight, as if he just had to see everything, though he once again failed to notice why.

"Haha, a deeeep kisss, and a lick," said Zsisron. "I'm already at two and a half!"

"A sniff and a proposition," said Blue calmly. "Night's young, quite a while until midnight. I think I'll beat you yet."

"Not likely... you chose an overzealouss objective. Clearly such a prisssy dragon is unresssceptive to your command to adore musk!"

"We will see. We will see."

So they left, and they followed along.

* * *

During the ensuing hours, it became crystal clear that the hypnotically suggested Teryx was far more receptive to adoring musk than Zsisron expected. Case in point: the time when his nose ended up firmly pressed against the crotch of one of the attendees -- a male bottlenose dolphin who was relaxing alone on a bed, in the nude save for his gray, tight-fitting boxer-briefs that more-or-less matched the color of his skin.

Of course, Teryx's nose ended up nudging there primarily because of an interest in the dolphin's underwear, though it was true that the lounging anthro sea-mammal seemed nicely attractive just lying there as well.

"It smells nice," Teryx insisted after being gently confronted about his sudden incursion along the dolphin's nethers. "That's why I'm still here. Basking. Enjoying."

"Teryx, I appreciate it, I really do," said the dolphin, "but this room isn't for an orgy... the best orgy parties won't happen until tomorrow night and the next night anyway."

"My, my! You already know my name," Teryx turned his head sideways on the dolphin's lap as if posing for a photo shoot, making his mane fluff out and indulging his tongue in a seductive lick along one leg of the boxer-briefs. "That should make this much easier, should it not?"

The dolphin laughed at how brazenly he was ignoring the point. Coming from Teryx, it was somehow charming. "Of course I know you. It's me, Armanti. We've talked tons online and met in person too!"

"Oh, I recognize you quite well, 'Monty.' You know, we're all alone in the room for now... do you mind if I help make you even more comfortable for a while?"

"Geez, you're so forward..."

"I would have to be, with someone as sleek and elusive as you."

The dolphin clearly thought of Teryx's motive as primarily seductive in nature, and didn't seem to mind too much. "Mm, I do tend to keep to myself. Isn't too bad when someone wants to play quietly though~"

Teryx tentatively moved his fingers to the waist of the boxer-briefs, and the dolphin nodded to let him pull them down. They were difficult to move at first; then he noticed their special tail-strap and undid that before trying again. At first he was taking them quite far, as if he planned to pull them all the way off, but the dolphin corrected him.

"Leave 'em at the knees. I wanna be able to pull 'em back up if I need to."

"Oh? Feeling shy?" asked Teryx.

"Little bit. The door's open."

"Your slit is already so pink though. A good gentleman notices these needs in his friends."

"Hh, Teryx..." the dolphin sounded somewhere between exasperated and unbearably turned on.

Teryx lapped twice more at the smooth skin, this time coaxing his way closer to the warming region around the genital slit. "Doesn't need to end in an orgy. We can be discreet, and fast. Most of the partygoers have settled into other rooms."

The pinkness deepened to a nearly red color. One of Teryx's hands massaged along that heated circle, while his tongue crept closer and closer. One of the dolphin's hands rose to touch the top of Teryx's head, petting along the golden mane and subtly pushing the head down to encourage more of this affection.

The dolphin was looking flattered but also flustered... and readier than ever for sex, judging by how his tapered pink shaft was gradually emerging along the side of Teryx's snout.

"Do you mind if I eventually take these underwear of yours?" asked Teryx between some additional enticing licks. "I'll enjoy them. I have the nose for it, and you always seem like the kind of person who appreciates an admirer."

Hypnosis aside, Teryx's read on Armanti was correct. It helped that they were quite familiar with each other.

The dolphin shivered as his cock flexed its way fully free of his slit. His shyness was melting into horny, hungry-for-fun mode and no amount of half-hearted self-control was going to stop that from being the case.

Still, Armanti felt he had to say something to at least feign objection: "Ahhh, Tery... I can't just give you my underwear."

"Oh no? What do I need to do as payment, hm?" His tongue flicked once, suggestively, along the underside of the handsome cock.

The dolphin wriggled, turning more onto his side with his tail toward the door and his dick toward the far wall. Then, somewhat lamely, the dolphin said: "Mhhaa... you have to... keep doing that! You have to blow me."

Teryx rolled with it: "Far be it for me to fail to pay for what I take. Let's see what this moist tongue can do for you."

That moist tongue began to do things for him. Magical, slurpy, curly things -- winding this way and that along the shaft. The cock was almost like another tongue, kissing him back... but stiffer, hotter, and quickly releasing a salty preseed that let the dragon know he was on the right track.

"Mmhh..." groaned Armanti.

Teryx's hands joined in to massage the base. "Like a gentle rain, see? If a gentle rain could make you cum."

"Mnnhhh!!"

It didn't take long after that before Armanti committed to the endeavor, guiding Teryx off his cock for just a moment and going upright on both knees atop the bed. Teryx at a tall kneel on the floor was at the perfect height for this, so the 'phin grabbed the dragon by the shoulders and started aggressively facefucking him.

Teryx had heard that Armanti was like this, difficult to get to a boil but delightfully animalistic once that had been achieved. The shaft was long and flexible enough to be a match for Teryx's maw.

"Hh, you stupid, horny dragon... I was saving up!" said Armanti in a hushed voice.

Despite the condescension, the dolphin only kept thrust-slamming harder. Teryx would've made a quip if not for the mouthful of 'phin that his tongue was currently navigating... so he did the next best thing by taking both hands and giving the dolphin's thighs a playful squeeze.

Quiet moans and clicks followed. Within a minute, the dolphin took the back of Teryx's head in both hands and hilted fully, letting loose a throat-stinging spray of semen -- and then gradually keeling forward over the dragon while the orgasm induced trembling.

"Aaah... that's good, that's good... swallow it down..." It wasn't a command so much as an observation, which was sensible given that Teryx had had little choice but to swallow. "Hhh, hope nobody saw that..."

The dolphin's second sentence was not altogether believable, but Teryx allowed him the fantasy of pretending not to have exhibitionist feelings.

Some seconds later, Teryx pulled back from the dolphin's member and licked a few times over his own snout. Then he gave the spent cock a kiss and slurped away the last lingering drop of cum, in a move which made the dolphin shudder with feelings of overstimulation.

"Aaaaaah... whew!" remarked the 'phin.

"Delightful," said Teryx, sincerely, before standing up. Then his neck made a small, neurotic flinch in the direction of the briefs. He mustn't forget those. "I'll be taking your underwear now," he added while still looking at them.

A whistling sound followed in reply. Then, three quietly moaned words: "Knock yourself out."

Then the dolphin slumped and appeared to fall instantly asleep while his cock retracted into his slit. There was no telling whether he was actually asleep or not, but he at least looked like he had no intention of communicating further.

Teryx smiled, sauntered past the dolphin's belongings, and snatched up the briefs as his prize. Blue and Zsisron were watching silently and casually from the door, and he winked at them as he walked out. There was no indication that Teryx felt like he was anything other than a high-scoring party stud right now, and most definitely no indication that he had any awareness of being under hypnotically induced compulsions.

...Which suited the hypnotists just fine, in this case. They continued along, keeping at least some of their eyes on him as often as they could.

* * *

Things continued after that fashion for quite a while. Teryx remained alert as a vigilant snatcher of kisses and undergarments. Eventually, however, it got on toward midnight, and the first round of hypnotic competition approached its conclusion.

Zsisron, Blue, and Teryx were hanging out in the party corridor together at that time, while most others were either in one of the various still-open rooms laughing and talking, or closing up their doors to get ready for pre-arranged sex. The rain dragon was carrying a duffel bag stuffed almost to the brim with underwear, and had been drawing a few weird looks when he took one out to sniff from time to time, or buried his nose into the pile.

"So, you boys planning on enjoying yourselves here, or elsewhere?" Teryx asked at 11:59pm, with still-smug confidence.

The couple didn't immediately answer him. Zsisron was looking suddenly annoyed as he glanced toward Blue. Blue was snickering while staring at his phone, just waiting for the clock to tick over.

Not understanding why they weren't immediately answering him, Teryx distracted himself by indulging in a deep sniff of someone's sky-blue speedo. Then, he babbled: "Mmm, you know, this is really the best thing about conventions. I really gotta find who this belongs to and bone 'em. There's so much you can't tell about musk until you get there in person, you know?"

Another fur approached, whom Teryx knew -- this one a surprisingly slender white wolf. Teryx immediately went to greet him with a kiss, but...

"Uh oh~ look at the time," said Blue. "It's midnight!"

Teryx abruptly stopped, went into a relaxed posture like an idling NPC in a video game, and dropped the underwear he had been carrying. A moment later, he blinked a couple of times and said, "Oh hey, you're super late. Get in there, there's people who've been asking about you!"

Zsisron glared irately at the skunk, who laughed loud and long. Teryx looked at them in some puzzlement.

"Fair's fair," said Blue. "I won this round. Thirteen to twelve by our scoring system."

"What are you even talking about?" asked Teryx with a laugh. "I don't remember you ever telling me anything to do. You weren't even able to get me into trances, you loons!"

The two glanced at Teryx. Blue just chuckled. "Uh, sure," said the skunk.

"Hsss... fine, fair is indeed fair," said Zsisron. "Blue takesss the first round. I was going to argue for that last... event which almost happened, but if I am honessst, I sssaw him do your thing one other time when you weren't looking..."

Teryx regarded both of them as if they were speaking a dialect he simply couldn't be bothered to try to understand. "Have fun you two party-poopers," he said snidely. "I'm gonna go be the life of this one." Then he strode off past them.

"Hey, dragonbutt," said Blue.

"Heh, what?"

"Come back to our room at the same time tomorrow. We wanna try new things."

"Yesss, you mussst," agreed Zsisron.

"Sure, sure." Teryx waved them away. "Talk to you in the a.m."