"hot tub truth or dare"

“Wonderful. See? It’s ok pal, you don’t need to be upset. She’ll never know what you’ve done and in the end, if I’m successful at bedding her, well you will win the ultimate, top of the line, best prize ever! Ok?” Bob’s tone was playful, failing to brighten Vernon’s spirits.

“Try it once,” said the Krampus. “That’s my motto in life. If you find you don’t like it, then away to some wife. You’ve nothing to lose, neither money nor skin. No one even need know what you’ve done, or where been. It’s a holiday now, and no one‘s about. Enough of your ninnying. Be courageous. Be stout.”

“I know he doesn’t hold a demon.” It was the one thing I had going for me, my friendship with Depravity, the one thing I was relying on more heavily than any other.