Status ailments in a video game are either not a big deal or absolutely devastating. When the balance is done right, they should be considered a strategic irritation to work around. You should have to balance consideration as well - should I use time and resource to cure this now? Or should I tough it out for a bit longer and focus on taking down the enemy? There should ideally not be an easy answer to this question. It should be a reasonable balance, one should not automatically outweigh the other in nine out of ten situations.
The classic ailments are, of course, Poison, Confusion, Paralysis, Sleep, Stone, or perhaps transformed into something like a frog or a series mascot, or what have you. These restrict the actions of the player in some way. Poison makes your health drip down, Sleep and Paralysis rob you of your turns, Confusion makes your actions random though generally has you swing for the party. Mute makes it impossible to cast spells. And so on.
There are often others, unique to the game and dependant on their mechanics. If it's turn based, perhaps it changes the order of turns? If it's real time, perhaps the status ailment inhibits your movement or reach in some way? It depends on the specifics.
So what about a world like this? Within the Kingdom of Belzerg, what sort of status effects exist? There's all sorts to be concerned with, naturally, as it is very much like an old school MMORPG, but one status that no designer worth their salt would have ever actually included in the game is a status ailment like this.
Nymphomania.
It's a pretty rare status ailment. To the point that if you asked any healer in the world 'how do you cure that?' they'd probably shrug, wonder what it meant, and pray for you. But no amount of prayer is healing this one. It's only hit a grand total of six people in recorded history. Calling it a rare case is quite the stretch - nobody had ever quite worked out what it meant.
Though funny thing. Those who suffered it were all women, and they all retired from adventuring and public life very, very soon afterwards. Usually wound up having large families, and seemed generally kinda happy with themselves.
Of course, if anyone asked Kazuma, or anyone from our world, what it happened to mean, they'd have a pretty good idea. A fairly rock solid one, as a matter of fact - but right now, at this moment in time, he was kind of stuck within a horny slimegirl that had just produced a bunch of tiny little Kazumas.
"Um, could you please let me out?" he asked the apparent mother of his children. She obliged, mercifully, and he slooped out to the ground, which was exactly the sort of experience one might well imagine. His skin was still tingling from the acidic exposure, but -
"Father," the nearest little him said, pointing right at him.
"Father!" said another one, and it too pointed squarely at him.
"Yes, yes, I'm your father!" Kazuma gulped, mortified beyond belief. "Oh, how awful! I've not even had nine months to prepare! Gahhhhh! And I barely got to have any actual fun first either! What's more, they're not even human, they're a form of slime that will be attacked the second we take them into -"
Glom! One of the little Kazuma's jumped into Aqua's thighs and hugged tightly onto it while she squealed. Next, another jumped into Darkness's bust and began to motorboat her, which was impressive as she was still wearin her armour. Another still embraced Megumin's face, causing her to rush around waving her hands around because she could not breath. And another still grabbed Solana's keister and started to play with it.
Oh dear. They really were his offspring, weren't they? With even less common sense than him!
A slimy hand fell upon his shoulder, and he turned around to see... a normal woman standing there? Lurking, with green hair but fairly normal looking skin.
"Don't mind them," she said. "They're learning what real skin feels like so they can copy it better."
"Um... Who are you again?" Kazuma asked.
"Hrm? Oh, us slimes don't have names," the woman in front of him said. "Ahaha, of course, of course. It's only because you fed me so much magic, Kazuma, dear~ I suppose you should name me, now that I'm going to be your mate!"
It was here that we have some rather unfortunate timing. Perhaps, if not for that, Kazuma and the others might have figured out what was happening a bit sooner. Perhaps, if the Kazumas had not started trying to copy their flesh, they might have determined something weird was going on and maybe, just maybe, done something about it.
But no. No, not at all. For you see, this is when the effects of the nympomaniac status kicked in. Right as the little Kazumas were being little pervs to the girls. And no, this isn't going in that direction, I do have some standards here.
Anyway, the first major effect of Nymphomania is quite a simple one. It draws magical energy into the victim's body, to heighten their sexual characteristics and to further increase their sensitivity. For Megumin, that meant her lips were getting bigger and more kissable. For Darkness, her already large boobs were growing bigger, bigger, bigger still! Make no mistake those titties were getting huge!
Oh, but it did not end there. How could it only end there? Aqua's thighs, already pleasantly plump, became much more so in moments. Not just thicker, but longer as well. Granting the Goddess a height that made her stand equal to Darkness. And as for the newest party member, she was watching everything with great intrigue, as her posterior began to swell and grow and swell, and -
And the Kazumas were all distinctly flesh shaped all of a sudden.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Kazuma said, "time out, time out, you're one of the slime girls?"
"No, no, I'm all of them!" the woman in front of her said, twirling around for good measure. "Little ones, come to mommy!"
They rushed towards her and embraced, filling Kazuma with very strange feelings. Must... protect! But also, must... shirk responsibilities! What should he do? What should he do?!
"Knock... me... up!!!!!" Darkness squealed, crawling on all fours towards him, tongue hanging out, which was definitely awakening something in him.
"Guhhhh, not a chance, not a chance, not from a NEET~" Aqua moaned, while humping the air.
Megumin, meanwhile, had turned beet red and was squirming in place like she was trying to screw a hole into the ground with her feet.
So far as Kazuma was concerned, this was all a consequence of the slimes. It had reduced his party members to the state of horny bitches! They were even more useless now than they usually were!
But then, he noticed something strange about the four little Kazumas. They each had different hair colours. Huh? What was that all about? One was black, another blonde, and the last had blue ha-
"Expwosion!"
And just like that, part of the scenery was gone. Just. Gone. The Kazuma that had cast it collapsed to the floor face down, unable to move.
"Aha, it seems this one has imprinted on the archmage~" the slime woman that was apparently all of the slime girls - to invent a verb that fit - ara ara'd. "So you see, we all pooled together to form a single wife for you! Of course, it should go without saying that you'll be impregnating me and these horny young women once we get back to your nest!"
"Our nest?!" Kazuma said. "No, no, I live in a mansion in the city!"
"Oooh, a mansion~" the slime woman ara ara'd. "That will be a most suitable place to rear our young. Come along, little ones! We'll name you all once we get home~"
Dread. Pure, undiluted, mortal dread washed over Kazuma at what was going on right now in his life. He turned towards the others, intending to shrug it off and maybe come up with a line that sounds cool in his head but is actually pretty dorky when said out loud -
Only to find himself set upon by four pairs of eyes that were, to put it mildly, rather ravenous.
"Fine, I'll let you knock me up!" Aqua said. "But only because I need it so badly~"
"Hrnnnnngh~" Megumin's teeth chattered together as she made an inhuman noise that was still, in its own way, incredibly chunni.
"Baby. Me. Up!" Darkness demanded.
This was a situation much like out of a dream that Kazuma had a few weeks back. All three of his utterly useless party members were staring at him with lust in their eyes. Taking off their clothes and ready to pounce at a moment's notice.
"Now, now!" Kazuma said. "My sons are right over - Wait, where are they?"
He looked over, and saw the slime mother twirling the keys to his place around her finger, strutting off towards the city. Oh no! This situation was going from bad to worse! He reached out for her, trying to steal the keys back -
But that was when their newest party member tackled him to the ground and promptly made her clothes vanish. For a NEET he sure was about to get a whole lot of ass today!
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