Augmented reality technology is not yet at the level implied by the purple-pink screen floating in the middle of her living room.
Please input your character name: ▮
Although the cursor is blinking, there isn't a similarly impossible virtual keyboard anywhere.
That's...
...alarming?
That's alarming. She's alarmed.
She tentatively pokes the translucent window, to see if it has any solidity to it, or can be disrupted by intersecting a solid object.
It's neither solid nor disrupted. The cursor merely continues to blink.
Okay but that's... not... a thing that happens?
She takes a picture of it with her phone, to see if her phone is also able to perceive it.
Yup, it's right there.
Okaaaaay.
She pokes it again. If the cursor is blinking she should be able to type. Unless it takes voice input...?
It doesn't take any inputs, it's not real, she's hallucinating.
No, that's dumb, this is not how hallucinations work, she's pretty sure. Maybe somebody is playing a... weirdly high-budget prank.
She waves her hand through the prompt again, examines it from all sides, tries to intercept all possible projection angles to confirm that it's not coming from anywhere, it's just there.
It does in fact seem to just be there, blinking cursor and all.
She crosses her arms and glares at it. Almost starts to tell it off for being so inexplicable, but if it is voice-activated and not particularly smart she doesn't want to be followed around for the rest of her life by little game windows addressing her as For Fuck's Sake—
She bites her lip, reminds herself that there's no one else here to see her foolishly taking the inexplicable game window seriously (or is there? no, that way lies madness—) and suppresses the urge to start googling interesting words the way she would if this were a computer game she'd decided to start playing. It isn't a computer game, it's some kind of bizarre and possibly hallucinatory computer-game-like phenomenon and if she dithers for three hours about what to tell it to call her it might go away and then she'd never know what it was.
So she gives herself thirty seconds to brainstorm and—after a quick check on her phone to confirm that it's a flower like she thought and not a trashy fantasy novel protagonist or a disease or a mushroom—faces the prompt and takes a deep breath and says as firmly as she can manage, "Amaryllis."
The screen updates appropriately with her name and a confirmation prompt:
Please input your character name: AmaryllisConfirm choice? Y/N
Y
The confirmation screen disappears and is immediately replaced by something akin to a character sheet.
Amaryllis"The Erogamer"
LVL: 1 (0 / 200)
Stats
DOM: 0 / 320
SUB: 0 / 470
BOD: 15 (+)
LST: 18 (+)
SED: 14 (+)
FUK: 18 (+)
PRV: 29 (+)
ERO: 10 (+)
Stat Points: 5
Status Effects: None
Description: Our heroine is a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Toronto who is smarter, prettier, kinder, and more charming than she thinks she is, not that that's a high bar. Her practicality, resourcefulness, impressively alarming romantic history, and ability to retain a sense of humour under pressure are among the reasons why she has been chosen by the Erogame.
Skills
Erogamer's Body (Lvl MAX): The biological ability to live your life as an erogame. Venereal disease doesn't exist for you, or periods or pregnancies or yeast infections. Arbitrarily large appendages can fit inside any of your orifices. You heal from all marks with a good night's sleep, ready for the next day's adventures. Other aspects of this skill depend on the BOD stat.
Erogamer's Soul (Lvl MAX): A different player might have received an Erogamer's Mind skill to unlock their potential and allow them to play the game as it is meant to be played. You really didn't want that, and didn't really need that. This core skill only prevents your mind from being fundamentally and permanently damaged by extreme sexual experiences, and allows you to make voluntary use of the FUK, SED, LST, and PRV stats.
Erogamer's World (Lvl MAX): The consent of reality to live your life as an erogame. People are never too preoccupied to consider sex or romance, not while you're around. Bystanders won't ignore what you do, but they're unlikely to actually stop you. Those who do decide to involve themselves are drawn into the logic of the Erogame. If you go far enough that an authority sees no choice but to intervene… they won't treat you as a simple criminal. Other aspects of this skill depend on the ERO stat.
Perks
Video Game Mechanics: It is impossible for you to ever die. Whenever you die, you will respawn at a nearby location after a small amount of time has passed in full health and recovered of any physical injuries. The location and time passed since you died become increasingly inconvenient in proportion to the number of deaths you've experienced recently, but the inconvenience decreases in proportion to the time since the last death.
Info // Character Stats
LVL / Level: The quantified totality of your potency as an erogame character. The effect of this characteristic goes beyond just the 5 extra stat points you get per level, and the additional perk point you receive every 5th level.
BOD / Body: Your physical attractiveness, and other biological capabilities. At higher levels, your body becomes able to enact more exotic erogame events.
LST / Lust: The intensity of your sexual urges, and how easy it is to get you going.
SED / Seduction: Your ability to seduce others, to pique their interest and arouse their desire.
FUK / Fucking: Your ability to perform in bed and give others pleasure… or other sensations.
PRV / Perversion: Your descent into the world of naughtiness, fetish, deviance, and corruption.
ERO / Erogame Logic: The extent to which the world will bend---or can be bent by you---to create romantic and sexual situations in defiance of probability. Or at higher levels, physics.
DOM / Dominant Energy: Based off SED and FUK, fueling skills that invoke your dominance, sadism, or mastery.
SUB / Submissive Energy: Based off LST and PRV, fueling skills that invoke your submission, masochism, or service.
Info // Character Stats // Level
At LVL 1, and 0% progress toward the next level, you're at the very start of your new life, a world of untapped possibilities lying ahead of you.
You can increase your level by completing the quests the Erogame offers you, or by causing romantic and sexual events to happen to you or around you. The more difficult the challenge, the greater the rewards.
Info // Character Stats // Body
At a BOD of 15, you'll draw plenty of looks. You're pretty, and you seem to be the only one who hasn't noticed!
You can increase this stat through exhibitionism, and other acts that invoke the pure beauty and power of your physical form.
Info // Character Stats // Lust
A LST of 18 is pretty noteworthy, and a great number of partners would really appreciate that. Yet for some unfathomable reason, you seem not to. But the world is your oyster, and whatever anyone says there's nothing shameful about tickling your pearl.
You gain in this stat while experiencing sexual urges that are unusually intense or that go on unusually long.
Info // Character Stats // Seduction
Your SED of 14 represents seduction skills that are definitely above average. You're a cute, funny, interesting girl, so long as you don't trip over your tongue and overthink it. But the game can definitely help with that, and with time and maybe a few pointers you will find yourself much more comfortable in your skin and your self.
You can increase this stat by arousing the romantic interest or sexual desire of others, and successfully pursuing them or being caught.
Info // Character Stats // Fucking
Your previous relationships were perhaps not ideal in a number of ways, but you've definitely at least gotten experience from them. Your FUK of 18 attests that in most places, you're one of the best in bed around, provided no professionals are present. As the Erogamer, you will have many chances to get even better at it and you will be given your pick of opportunities to choose from, so that you can completely do away with that qualifier.
How do you increase this stat? Take a fucking guess.
Info // Character Stats // Perversion
A PRV of 29 is definitely unusual. You're turned on by things most people can scarcely contemplate, and your future looks bright with potential for perversion. This potential has been so far unexplored, blocked by a mixture of society and yourself. There is nothing to be embarrassed by; you can take things at your own pace, and you will learn to explore the full depth of all the many, many diverse ways humankind has devised to create pleasure. And who knows, maybe someday you will start pushing the barrier of the impossible and invent new things altogether, yourself.
You can increase this stat by looking for opportunities to get even kinkier.
Info // Character Stats // Erogame Logic
At an ERO of 10, your life has become an erogame taking place in a mostly realistic setting. What happens to you might seem unlikely to others, but it won't break their belief in a sane universe… yet. Witnesses will reach for explanations other than the Erogame, but they'll still notice the unusual events.
If you keep pushing probability to its limits, then probability will learn to be a bit more flexible down there, relax and take it in and not protest so much.
Info // Character Stats // Dominant and Submissive Energy
If this were a different game, you'd have mana and hit points.
And they'd refill just from you sitting around on your ass doing nothing.
Lol
She reads...
...and reads...
—and gets to the description of Video Game Mechanics and takes a startled step back.
Then she reads that part over again.
She is not at all sure this is a good thing.
It could definitely be worse - imagine if it didn't decrease over time, and her life became a literally neverending parade of increasingly inconvenient post-death shenanigans - but... the 'literally neverending' part is pretty bad all by itself.
Except that she probably shouldn't be taking the mysterious holographic game windows at their word. There's no guarantee they're telling her anything remotely resembling the truth.
...she reads the rest.
Okay. That's... that's something. That's... really something, huh.
She takes a Before picture and assembles a makeshift camera stand for her phone out of an end table and a stack of miscellaneous books so she can record video of the process. Then she spends her five free stat points on BOD. It's the most verifiable stat available and she is very keen on verification at the moment.
Oh it's verified. It's verified alright. Her eyes get slightly more symmetrical, her hair gets a little bit more shine, her breasts get rounder and perkier, her ass gets fuller and curvier, her body fat gets more proportionally distributed, her hips get more balanced. She's prettier, and she's sexier.
The character sheet goes away and is replaced by a new screen:
Quest available: Exhibitionism 101
Share risqué pictures of your New And Improved™ body with the internet in a space that gets you at least 25 compliments.
Success: +250xp
Failure: "Ashamed" status, 2 days
Bonus Objective #1: Include your face in the pictures. +100xp.
Bonus Objective #2: Be naked or in a similarly sexually provocative state of undress. +400xp, +1 BOD.
Bonus Objective #3: ???. +1,000xp, +1 BOD, +1 LST.
Time limit: Four hours from quest acceptance.
Accept: Y/N
"—what!" she says, blushing furiously. "What—you—you could at least tell me what the third bonus objective is—! I don't even know where I'd—"
And yet here she is, picking up her phone and googling for suitable websites. There's Tumblr but Tumblr will not give her sufficient exposure in four hours she's pretty sure—and she is not posting this shit to her actual existing Tumblr—and anyway Tumblr's going to be banning porn in like a week—
The internet works through mysterious means, and through mysterious means Amaryllis finds a website called "Garden of Flowers" that focuses on girls sharing pictures and/or videos of themselves. The levels of modesty (or lack thereof) shown on the front page are many and varied, with some pictures being merely face pictures with elaborate makeup and some being much more explicit than that. The body types vary from extremely thin to curvy to supermodel to rather full to fat, and there are girls of many different ethnicities there. It seems pretty active, with new activity recorded as little as four minutes ago, and the registration process seems extremely simple and friendly to boot.
...okay. She's doing this. She guesses.
Completionist tendencies war with shyness; shyness wins. She goes through the whole registration process and gets to the point where the next step is uploading an image—then accepts the quest—and does not go for any bonus objectives. It's the game's fault for not telling her what the third one even was (she tells herself, petulantly).
The internet does not get to see her face, or any sexually provocative parts. But it does get to see her in a lacy black corset she bought once in a short-lived fit of vanity. She has some understanding of how to take a good picture, and if she focuses on lighting and composition and image quality maybe she won't think about what she's doing until it's too late to stop herself.
The first comment appears a couple of minutes later:
Nice!
And she gets a new screen:
Quest updated: Exhibitionism 101Progress: 1 / 25 compliments.
It goes away on its own after a while.
That's........ good? She guesses???
More comments start appearing. The next one is from another girl with pictures on the website:
Welcome, sapling! Hope you blossom to a beautiful flower here. This is a great start xoxo
The lighting is so pretty! I love it. Welcome!
Nice tits.
that looks really great with your body, I gave my girlfriend one like that and we love it
welcome, hon! love the style, can't wait to see more of you
Quest updated: Exhibitionism 101Progress: 6 / 25 compliments.
This feels so weird.
But... maybe... not a bad kind of weird...???
Gosh. Is she going to succeed at a quest? It's probably unreasonable to be excited about succeeding at a quest in the magical reality-bending video game which may or may not be an elaborate hallucination, but dammit, at heart she is the sort of person who just really likes having a quest list full of satisfying checkmarks. Also, it's kind of nice having strangers compliment her body on the internet.
Before the next comment appears, though, she gets another Erogame window:
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! See Info // Online Presence.
She squeaks. "What—?!"
...is that a link, can she poke it?
Poking it works!
Info // Online Presence:You earn 10XP each time somebody orgasms:
—While looking at a non-retouched picture or video of you.
—While listening and paying attention to your recorded voice.
—While reading an erotic story you wrote that is entirely based on true events.
—While reading fiction at least mostly written by you.
—While reading fiction largely based on you.
—While reading nonfiction about you.
—While looking at an erotic drawing that you personally drew.
—While watching a hentai for which you provided at least one of script, storyboards, or voice acting.
—While playing a VR game whose models and motions were captured from you.
—While interacting with an AI that was programmed by you or trained on data you generated.
—While playing an eroge whose character routes feature you and your companions.Only one orgasm per session will be counted. Repeated edging or ruined orgasms may qualify at the Erogame's discretion. Forcing or incentivizing orgasms (e.g. as mandatory supervised daily sessions within a territory you rule) reduces per-orgasm XP gains, but does not eliminate them. Promoting or advertising your online presence carries no penalty.
For details of how you are currently doing online, check Info // Online Presence // My Metrics.
She gives the window an extremely dubious look.
...but pokes the Metrics link.
Info // Online Presence // My Metrics:Total Metrics:
—Views: 73
—Likes: 0
—Downloads: 3
—Comments: 6
—Orgasms: 1Your Media
Pictures
[The picture she took of herself and posted to that website can be seen here.]
Link
Metrics:
—Views: 73
—Likes: N/A
—Downloads: 3
—Comments: 6
—Orgasms: 1
And while she's looking at that screen, the temporary quest update screen appears below it for a couple of seconds:
Quest updated: Exhibitionism 101Progress: 8 / 25 compliments.
She is so full of conflicted feelings right now.
...instead of thinking about her conflicted feelings, she appears to be fidgeting with those little expandable arrows that show and hide Her Media and the Pictures subheading. Clicky clicky.
Okay, Chantal Amaryllis, pull yourself together. Have some thoughts and then think about the thoughts. This game gives quests on timers; if she dithers eternally about everything, she will not receive those delicious checkmarks on her quest list.
...the first thought that springs to mind, unfortunately, is just how motivated by delicious checkmarks she seems to be. She thinks... she does not want to be quite so motivated by delicious checkmarks, actually. She should not be contemplating fulfilling extra quest objectives, especially not when they're those extra quest objectives. (Maybe a little face? Or some artistically arranged cleavage? No, do not.)
But—why shouldn't she be contemplating fulfilling extra quest objectives?
Because that would make her a bad person. Try again. Because the magic hallucinatory sex video game is probably evil and stringing her along to get her to embarrass herself on the internet. Okay, that's a reason to hold off for now, but later, when it's had some more time to establish a track record of not doing that...? People LOVE establishing track records of not doing that and then, eventually, once you've lowered your guard, doing that. This is a pessimistic train of thought and she would like to disembark. Too bad.
...clicky clicky how are her metrics doing?
Info // Online Presence // My Metrics:Total Metrics:
—Views: 81
—Likes: 0
—Downloads: 4
—Comments: 9
—Orgasms: 1Your Media
Pictures
[The picture she took of herself and posted to that website can be seen here.]
Link
Metrics:
—Views: 81
—Likes: N/A
—Downloads: 4
—Comments: 9
—Orgasms: 1
...those are links. Those are links. The comments count and the, um, the other one, on the specific picture, those are links.
Dare she click them?
...maybe just the Comments one first. To be safe. It leads to a list of comments people have left on her picture, right? Which she could also access on her phone in a completely mundane fashion?
Yep! Same comments she's already seen, plus the three new ones.
Okay. She has to know.
She clicks the Orgasms link.
A popup screen overlays that one when she clicks the link:
ErrorThis action is not currently available.
And below that popup, four new quest screens appear:
Quest available: Pondering the Orbs
Become a wizard! Wizards can, among other things, scry various other points in space and time.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests 1969, Ego Connection, and Sexy Hacker. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/N Your ERO stat is too low to accept this quest at the moment.
Quest available: 1969
Create a (sexily) totalitarian regime with total surveillance of the world. Or, at least, of the bedrooms of people pleasuring themselves to pictures of you.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests Pondering the Orbs, Ego Connection, and Sexy Hacker. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/N Your ERO stat is too low to accept this quest at the moment.
Quest available: Ego Connection
By developing your supernatural senses and abilities, you can create psychic connections with people who are experiencing erotic feelings and sensations and who might want to share them with you. A powerful psychic can notice when someone would want to be watched as they reach their climax.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests Pondering the Orbs, 1969, and Sexy Hacker. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/N Your ERO stat is too low to accept this quest at the moment.
Quest available: Sexy Hacker
Hackers as shown in fiction don't really exist. Hacking doesn't work that way, you don't really just type very quickly into a computer while watching 0s and 1s fall down from the top of the screen like The Matrix until you eventually whisper "I'm in" in a sultry voice and get access to people's webcams.
Unless said hacker is also the erogamer.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests Pondering the Orbs, 1969, and Ego Connection. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/N
...she reaches impulsively for the N on 1969 (side note: what a quest title), pauses, reconsiders, takes a picture of the quest text with her phone just in case it turns out to be useful information later, then much more carefully pokes the N on it.
The other three... She doesn't necessarily want to commit to definitely not becoming a sexy hacker. She doesn't want to use sexy hacker powers to spy on people, because that would be terrible, but there are other things one could conceivably use sexy hacker powers for. It's an option she is willing to keep open.
Ego Connection is the most straightforwardly and obviously ethical option here, but quite frankly she would love to be a wizard even though it would be very unethical to use her wizard powers for sexy spying. Maybe if she did both, she could be a wizard and successfully avoid unethical sexy spying...? It says currently these quests are mutually exclusive. That means she could maybe achieve wizardhood later even if she went for the psychic questline first...
Okay, one thing at a time. She can't go for the psychic questline right now, it's Sexy Hacker or wait. Between those, she picks wait.
"Um—" She can't believe she's saying this. "—how much Ero, exactly, do I need if I want to..." She can't even finish the sentence, because the end of the sentence is 'become a sexy psychic spying on people's orgasms with my sexy ESP', and that's, just, not a sentence that is willing to come out of her mouth. "Um. The... psychic quest. That one." She points at it, and then immediately snatches her hand back in a burst of anxious indecision. The game probably isn't even going to answer. Why is she even contemplating doing this??? Is this a thing she wants??? Is she really that curious?????
(Side note, what precisely is a fundamental truth?)
She gets a nicely informative extra popup at that.
Info // Character Stats
LVL / Level: The quantified totality of your potency as an erogame character. The effect of this characteristic goes beyond just the 5 extra stat points you get per level, and the additional perk point you receive every 5th level.
BOD / Body: Your physical attractiveness, and other biological capabilities. At higher levels, your body becomes able to enact more exotic erogame events.
LST / Lust: The intensity of your sexual urges, and how easy it is to get you going.
SED / Seduction: Your ability to seduce others, to pique their interest and arouse their desire.
FUK / Fucking: Your ability to perform in bed and give others pleasure… or other sensations.
PRV / Perversion: Your descent into the world of naughtiness, fetish, deviance, and corruption.
ERO / Erogame Logic: The extent to which the world will bend---or can be bent by you---to create romantic and sexual situations in defiance of probability. Or at higher levels, physics.
DOM / Dominant Energy: Based off SED and FUK, fueling skills that invoke your dominance, sadism, or mastery.
SUB / Submissive Energy: Based off LST and PRV, fueling skills that invoke your submission, masochism, or service.
Info // Character Stats // Further Information
For most stats, your numbers compare to the population at large. A stat 10 is average, 20 is the highest in the room, 30 is the highest in the neighborhood, 39 is top 1000 people on Earth. Starting at 40, impossible feats start becoming possible.
ERO is a supernatural stat that the population at large always has 0 of. An ERO of 10 is a realistic eroge, 20 is an improbable eroge set in sexier surroundings, 30 drops the pretense of normality and makes your life fully into a completely unrealistic eroge. Starting at 40, impossible feats start becoming possible.
It is not possible to advance normally from 29 to 30, and an advancement quest must be undertaken for that step, after which each further stat point costs 2 points instead of 1; it is not possible to advance normally from 39 to 40, and an advancement quest must be undertaken for that step, after which each further stat point costs 3 points instead of 2; and so on.
DOM and SUB decay over time and are recharged by engaging in sexy adventures. DOM and SUB maximums are calculated as follows:
—Max. DOM = (FUK + SED) * 10
—Max. SUB = (PRV + LST) * 10
...that's so many stat points to spend if she wants to become a sexy psychic.
Does she even want to become a sexy psychic, though? Like, ignoring the fact that it's clearly the best option being presented to her, does she want to take that option, or would she rather say 'no thanks' to the whole business?
Alarmed by the prospect of contemplating her desires, she retreats to more immediate concerns. How is her current quest going? (Could she secure those bonus objectives if she wanted to? It's not wholly clear from the quest wording whether submitting more pictures to the same site would just mean competing with herself, or whether multiple pictures could help increase the total number of compliments... she at least thinks it implied that going to a totally different site would start a separate counter. Also though she is too nervous to secure the bonus objectives. Unless maybe she can munchkin them with cleavage and feature-obscuring lighting, but that seems like a dangerous road to travel. Maybe one more picture with a little extra cleavage to see if a little extra cleavage is enough to count, just to see, not trying to game the system... but then, what if the second picture starts its own separate counter and draws enough attention away from her first picture that neither one makes it in time to fulfill the quest? Troubling.)
There's a tenth comment! And all of them seem to be positive, too, which is pretty surprising. The website does seem to be mostly trying to foster that love of community but it's still unclear how they're managing to keep trolls away, especially given how easy it was to find. Maybe some very strict comment filtering policy?
...is the magic hallucinatory video game... being nice to her? Is this website improbably nice because she is being set up to succeed? She definitely has some sort of a feeling about that possibility. Results pending on whether the feeling is good or bad.
All right. She will dare to dream. Second picture, now with 60% more Artfully Arranged Cleavage. And she really hopes her fears do not come true regarding separate counters competing with each other and leading to ultimate quest failure.
...she has to spend a solid twenty seconds by the clock nervously dithering before she finally manages to hit the button to upload the second picture alongside the first.
The twenty seconds do not bring an eleventh compliment, more's the pity, but the second picture gets three comments almost instantly, from accounts that also commented on her first picture.
Quest updated: Exhibitionism 101Progress: 13 / 25 compliments.
And she gets another notification:
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
The orgasm notifications are so much weirder with the knowledge that if only she ramps up her ERO stat she can become a sexy psychic and find out exactly how at least some of them went down. What if she doesn't want to do that? What if she does?? What if she's massively overthinking this???
Anyway now that she has confirmed that further pictures don't compete with the first, she has a problem, which is that if she wanted to she could complete more bonus objectives. There will be no unobscured faces; no matter how nice the site, she still has exes who could theoretically find such a picture, after which the only appropriate response would be to fling herself directly into the sun. But she has the option, the tempting, terrifying option, to try a few more things and see if any of them count as sufficiently sexually provocative... maybe something involving a bathroom, an artfully fogged mirror, a poorly secured towel...?
Seized by artistic impulses, she tries a few things in this vein. She still isn't sure if she can bring herself to post them, and, after the first ten minutes spent trying to get the lighting and staging to line up just right, she also isn't sure if she will have produced any successful shots by the time her quest timer runs out. (She could, hypothetically, just post something racy without any attention to its artistic merit. But no, in fact, she cannot at all do that, and is slightly disappointed in herself for even letting the thought cross her mind.)
Eventually, she has something that she is, artistically speaking, willing to put her name to. Her made-up character name which has no connection to her legal identity. Now she has to contend with the question of whether or not she's also willing to put it on the internet where somebody will probably have an orgasm to it.
...clicky clicky?
Info // Online Presence // My Metrics:Total Metrics:
—Views: 102
—Likes: 0
—Downloads: 5
—Comments: 13
—Orgasms: 2Your Media
Pictures
[Picture 1]
Link
Metrics:
—Views: 86
—Likes: N/A
—Downloads: 5
—Comments: 10
—Orgasms: 2[Picture 2]
Link
Metrics:
—Views: 16
—Likes: N/A
—Downloads: 0
—Comments: 3
—Orgasms: 0
A worrying trend, if in all the time she's taken producing this next photo her previous photos saw hardly any new traffic and no new comments. But... she doesn't want to upload the next one solely out of fear that she won't make it through the quest in time if she doesn't. She wants better reasons than that.
Does there exist such a thing as a good reason to upload this photo?
...well, she is apparently playing a magic sexy video game, and it did offer her an entire stat point in BOD for being sufficiently sexually provocative. If this is her life now, it's probably prudent to get used to it sooner rather than later, lest her game progress be reduced to a crawl as she tentatively tiptoes toward comfort with the concept of herself as a sexual being. And the faster she accumulates game rewards, the sooner she gets to be a wizard. That's probably not a wise basis on which to make this kind of decision. Spoken like someone who does not care nearly enough about getting to be a wizard. She doesn't even know for sure she gets to be a wizard, since being a sexy psychic is clearly the more ethical option and they're currently mutually exclusive!
Okay, quit arguing with yourself and try again. She... does legitimately feel motivated by game rewards and the prospect of completing quest objectives. Completing quest objectives is just sort of intrinsically soothing. But... maybe she doesn't want to do this just for the sake of quest objective completion? Maybe that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to her?
...but she took the picture already. And it's really very pretty. She's—not quite impressed with herself for it, she still feels like she probably could've done better—but there's legitimate artistic merit in the way she set it up, the pose and the framing and the fogged mirror and everything. She is at least a little bit proud of the way she arranged that towel into a configuration that could certainly be termed sexually provocative even though it technically does not reveal any outright sexual parts, while maintaining enough artistic integrity to make the whole thing pretty as well as sexy. And... maybe she wants to see what happens if she posts it? Maybe she wants more compliments?
Is wanting more compliments, for themselves and not for quest completion purposes, a good enough reason?
She thinks maybe it is.
Blushing and half-covering her face with her free hand, she presses the fateful upload button.
Quest updated: Exhibitionism 101
Bonus Objective #2: Be naked or in a similarly sexually provocative state of undress. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
And here are even more comments:
Wow! We got a new artist here!
man I wish I knew how to take pics like that, that's so good
what's your skincare routine? you look so pretty!
Did you photoshop the mirror fog thing or did it actually come out that way? Either way that's really good, I love the natural style!
ur sooooo hot keep posting pics
do we get a vid sometime?
Quest updated: Exhibitionism 101Progress: 18 / 25 compliments.
And a minute after she's uploaded this third pic her account gets a little notification badge up top. When she clicks it, it informs her that her profile verification process is complete and she may upload other types of media such as audio or video.
(...oh no, she wanted compliments and she got them and now she feels slightly good about herself, what do???)
Her first instinct on hearing that she can upload audio and video is "absolutely not" because she's shy enough about pictures already and both of those things would be worse. After a few seconds' thought she realizes that on top of that issue, there's the issue that if she takes this long to arrange a mere picture just right, even a really short video is probably going to take days... hmm. Unless, perhaps...
She digs through her wardrobe to find a short swishy skirt, and paces through her apartment to find a good filming location, and spends several minutes finessing camera angles, and several more minutes trying to get the movement just right, and after only about half an hour of needless perfectionism she has an acceptable five-second video of herself in the corset from the first two pictures, doing a cute little bounce and twirling back and forth to make the skirt go swish. (There is still no face. The spectre of being detected by an ex-boyfriend looms far too large.) She still kind of hates it a little but at this point she is pretty sure the hating it is about her irrationally low opinion of herself and not about the actual quality of the work.
She uploads the tiny video. Probably everyone will hate it as much as she does. That's the self-hatred talking. Who doesn't like swishy skirts?
She gets another three compliments (one on her second picture, two on her third) and another orgasm notification by the time she uploads the video, and it takes less than five minutes after that to complete the quest.
Quest completed: Exhibitionism 101Objective: You have put yourself out there and taken your first steps towards becoming the eroge character you're meant to be! +250xp.
Bonus Objective #2: You also took and published one picture in which you were naked. +400xp, +1 BOD.
ERO Achievement: Also upload a video to the website even though it was not at all part of the quest nor did it have any announced in-game rewards. +150xp, +1 SED.
Your level has increased by 1!
Your level has increased by 1!
Oh goodness. She leveled.
...that's ten stat points, isn't it? Ten is a lot of stat points. Ten is enough stat points to get her significantly closer to becoming a wizard.
She is... not sure she wants to get significantly closer to becoming a wizard, actually. The entire vista of ERO between "leading a reasonably normal life" and "become a wizard" seems vast and terrifying. She can't quite decide whether she wants to save up enough stat points to get all the way to wizard in one fell swoop, or inch forward slowly point by point and give herself time to get used to each individual ERO increase, but she thinks she definitely doesn't want to increase her ERO in ten-point blocks. Actually, she can't get all the way to wizard in one fell swoop, can she? Because of those stat advancement quests. The prospect of stat advancement quests makes her slightly nervous.
Perhaps what she wants... is another quest. Another nice small safe quest that she can accomplish from the safety of her own home without having to directly interact with anyone. That would be nice, she thinks.
But she's not sure how to ask the game for it, so instead she says contemplatively, "Can I see my stats screen again, please?"
Amaryllis"The Erogamer"
LVL: 3 (830 / 1,000)
Stats
DOM: 0 / 320
SUB: 150 / 470
BOD: 21 (+)
LST: 18 (+)
SED: 15 (+)
FUK: 18 (+)
PRV: 29 (+)
ERO: 10 (+)
Stat Points: 10
Status Effects: None
What's her weakest stat right now? SED. Does she... want higher SED?? She's not sure she wants higher SED. Or higher LST either. Let's not even discuss PRV. Actually, wait, the further info screen on stats was ambiguous - is there such a thing as a PRV stat advancement quest which might be lurking around waiting to usher her to greater heights of perversion?? Or are advancement quests only for ERO? It seems like advancement quests might be for all the stats?
...BOD is a nice safe stat, and she has the means to check whether it triggers an advancement quest at 29 right here and now. She'll even have stat points left over in case she wants to increase anything else.
She stares at the stat screen, overcome by indecision. Is she really thinking of doing this?? What if it's terrible? What if BOD isn't a nice safe stat after all? People said nice things about her on the internet! Nice things said about her on the internet are PROBABLY ALL CRUEL LIES. What if she becomes Too Pretty and people find her intimidating or upsetting or think she's smug and egotistical? What if she becomes Too Hot and then people want to have sex with her?? People wanting to have sex with her is probably an inevitable result of this whole magic sexy video game thing but there's no call to go inviting it. Except for all of the inviting it that she did by posting pictures of herself on the internet for people to jerk off to. Hey, those pictures had artistic merit. And provided her with game rewards.
...okay. Okay. For empiricism.
She starts hitting the + next to BOD. If it lets her get to 30, she'll stop there. Maybe she can convince herself to put the last point into ERO, if she tries really hard.
She can feel her body changing as she tap tap taps the + sign. Whatever it's doing to her, it's... yeah, it continues to be nice? She is not becoming supermodel-thin and she is not becoming a teenage boy's fantasy of breasts-to-waist-to-hips ratio. She's... still herself. Still recognizably herself. Just, you know, prettier. In a way she will find appropriate. Her lips are a bit fuller, but only a bit, and her skin is getting rid of any imperfections she does not want to keep. Her hair is definitely better than it's been on her best hair day ever. She doesn't have bags under her eyes, her breasts get firmer, the curve of her ass into her thighs gets nicely accentuated but in a fluid, smooth, natural way. Her muscles are doing better, too; not in a "bodybuilder" way, more in a "this person exercises for health and perhaps some strength" way.
When the stat reaches 29 and she presses the button one more time to get it to 30, the button disappears and she gets a quest prompt.
Quest begun: Dipping Your Toes
The Erogame approves of science! But science alone is not sufficient to prepare you, body and soul, to life as an erogamer. In order to advance the BOD stat to 30, you will need to prove—to yourself and to the Erogame—that you are ready to explore the power and allure of your beauty and sexuality.
Take ten pictures of yourself—which must be meaningfully different from each other, not merely different angles on the same pose—and upload all of them to an online space where they can get at least 5 comments each.
This is the first quest in your stat advancement quest chain. You will not be able to advance your BOD stat any more than its current level until the last quest in the chain. At BOD 29, most forms of exhibitionism you would currently think of doing would not increase this stat, but if you go far enough above and beyond your current level of comfort you might get extra BOD points in addition to your 30th at the end.
Success: +500xp, next quest step unlocked.
Bonus Objective #1: Respond to at least five comments in your pictures. +100xp.
Bonus Objective #2: Take at least two such pictures in public. +200xp.
Bonus Objective #3: Go out in public wearing a very revealing and/or skimpy outfit (not necessarily lewd—short skirts and cleavage could all work). +400xp.
Bonus Objective #3.1: ???. +1,000xp, +1 LST.
Bonus Objective #4: Get a compliment from a stranger in public. +250xp, +1 SED.
Failure: This quest will continue until it's completed and you are ready to move on to the next quest.
(A couple of BOD points into the process, she notices that she forgot to set up her phone to record this time, does that, and then continues.)
...okay. Well. Question answered. And now this is a thing that's happening.
Take pictures in public?? Go out in public wearing sexy clothes?? Another godforsaken undisclosed bonus objective????????? And, not to mention, get a compliment from a stranger in public?!?!?!?!?!!
Okay. Okay. Calm down. Think this through.
Ten pictures, five comments each. Ten meaningfully different pictures. Some of that can probably be accomplished by choosing different outfits, but her range of clothes suitable to this sort of thing is not that broad. She has already done the towel trick and probably should not just do The Towel Trick, Again, although maybe she could experiment with more shower-based photo ideas? And she does have this swishy skirt... perhaps, in fact, she could access some picture variety by taking pictures in front of different backdrops, like, say, in assorted corners of a nice pretty park where hopefully people will mostly not have the chance to look at her...
"...can I at least get a hint about the hidden bonus objective or would that ruin your fun," she ventures.
The game does not give her any helpful popups.
"I can't complete the objectives if I don't know what they are!" Harrumph.
But fine, then, she can focus on the things she knows how to accomplish. Concept: Assemble cute outfit with Short Swishy Skirt and optional cleavage - she probably owns several shirts that provide more cleavage than they did this morning, come to think. Find a nice park. Take pictures of herself in the nice park. Profit???
...before she does that, she spends a while digging around in her wardrobe and taking pretty pictures in assorted outfits in assorted rooms of her house. This amounts to a total of four pictures: corset and swishy skirt in the kitchen, pretty long-sleeved blue top and long drapey blue skirt perched on the arm of the couch, artfully arranged bathrobe situation in the bathroom, and tight jeans and black lacy bra perched on the edge of her bed. (She blushes a lot at that last one.)
Then, after some further wardrobe-related deliberation, she picks a top to go with the short swishy skirt and gets her stuff together to go to the park. She was absolutely right that her shirts, having been selected to contain a slightly more subdued amount of boob, are now Cleavage-Enhanced, and the top she picked has a cute little largely-decorative lace-up neckline which she thinks she could discreetly fiddle with in an assortment of interesting ways in the semi-privacy of a nice secluded park corner surrounded by pretty trees. If she thinks of all this as primarily an artistic endeavour, she's much less blushy.
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The outside: exists! It does not seem particularly keen to make her impression that going out is absolutely awful in any way true except for maybe the interaction of the breeze with her skin.
The interaction of the breeze with her skin is mildly discomfiting. Too much leg, put some back. But she's out here and she's doing this and she's trying not to think too hard about it lest she immediately run home and spend the rest of the day hiding under a blanket.
So. There's a park pretty close by. She's walked through it a handful of times. She thinks she remembers a nice shady spot where the sunlight filtering through the leaves could have some interesting effects if she managed it correctly.
The shady spot is just how she remembers it, and after a bit of fiddling she can get her phone propped up on her purse on top of a boulder while she arranges herself on a bench. It's really hard to get the light to hit right, and she keeps having to go back and look at the pictures and adjust and try again. If someone runs off with her stuff while she's taking sexy pictures of herself on a park bench she is going to swear VENGEANCE on the magic sex video game. Details of vengeance to be determined if this ever comes up.
She may start to notice that the magic sex game is not out to get her. No one runs off with any of her stuff! She does not get any further notifications from the game, quest-related or otherwise, during this.
She ends up with three pictures that she considers sufficiently distinct and sufficiently meritorious to be worth uploading: one where she's sitting on the bench with her legs crossed leaning back on her hands and looking up at the sky (and away from the camera), one where she's sitting with one leg stretched out along the bench and the other folded up with her hands resting intertwined on her knee (and the camera is looking over her shoulder/down her shirt, which was an enormous pain to set up), and one where she's lying on her stomach on the bench with her head resting on her folded arms and the camera looking along her body from the vicinity of her feet (which took upwards of thirty takes to arrive at one where the pose and lighting were all good and also her underwear wasn't showing).
She uploads all three, takes a deep breath, fixes her neckline lacing because lying down like that really did a number on it, and heads out in search of another spot where she will have to get even more creative. Her memory of the park is serving her less well here and she may have to wander for a bit before she finds a good place to take more photos.
Quest updated: Dipping Your Toes
Bonus Objective #2: Take at least two such pictures in public. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
Right. Okay then.
She spends some time wandering the park looking for good spots, eventually ending up at some rocks near a water feature but hopefully not near enough for her phone to fall in. Blushing furiously, she readjusts her cleavage lacing again, trying to get it to a point where she feels she has made a reasonable effort at the relevant bonus objective while also leaving her in a state she is willing to take pictures of and post on the Internet.
Quest updated: Dipping Your Toes
Bonus Objective #3: Go out in public wearing a very revealing and/or skimpy outfit (not necessarily lewd—short skirts and cleavage could all work). Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
A few deep breaths to calm down, and she's off into the artistic fugue, carefully arranging shots in which the cleavage is visible and her face isn't.
Someone's watching her.
A small squeak of alarm escapes her before she can stop herself. She freezes, then looks slowly in the direction from which she—heard a noise? Saw a glimpse of movement? She isn't even totally sure, she just knows she feels Alerted.
The girl who seemed to have been slightly frozen transfixed there also lets out a small squeak of alarm when she notices Amaryllis noticing her and covers her mouth immediately with a hand before raising both hands in front of her elbows. "S-sorry, sorry, I just—sorry, that just looks really pretty and it's such a good picture setup—no, sorry, I should go—"
Quest available: Wallflowers
Daisy Jones did not mean to be caught staring, but the art and photography major just couldn't help herself. The setup was so good! She was absolutely nerding inside her own head about your techniques and artistic skill.
Get to know her better and maybe make a friend!
Success: +100xp, relationship increased with Daisy Jones.
Failure: You will not become Daisy Jones's friend.
Accept: Y/N
...eeeep??
"No, it's okay," she says quickly, surreptitiously hitting the Y button. "Um." She is blushing so hard she is concerned her face might overheat like a faulty engine. "Is it really? I wasn't sure—I haven't really done this sort of thing much before—"
The girl aborts her evasive maneuver and lowers her arms. "It really was! I mean, I haven't, um, looked at the actual pictures you took, of course, but—" She glances at the camera and then at Amaryllis again and takes a calming breath. "I can imagine what—that was such—um. Sorry. Uh. I'm Daisy." She extends a hand to shake then stops and lowers it because that will clearly ruin Amaryllis's beautiful pose—well, it's kinda already not what it was, now that she was noticed, but still, she doesn't want to make it worse.
...she smiles shyly and un-poses to tentatively shake Daisy's hand. "I'm... Amaryllis." Might as well use it. "...do you want to see the pictures?"
Handshake! An actual form of human interaction that she cannot fail at! She is happy with this.
"Amaryllis, like the flower? That's a pretty name! And, uh, um, yeah, I don't want to impose, but, if you're okay with that?"
"Sure!" Maybe there will be more compliments. She's getting ahead of herself.
She retrieves her phone from its perch and scrolls through what she's done so far. "I keep having trouble getting this one to come out right," she confesses, as she swipes through shot after shot in which the edge of her skirt hangs in a wavy line that doesn't quite echo the ripples in the water behind her.
"—oh! The, you're trying to get it to, to make it look like the water? Sort of? Oh I love that! What don't you like about it? And did you take these by yourself?"
"Yeah," she gestures at the spot where she'd had her phone propped up to take the pictures, "I didn't have anyone to help, so... and yes, it's supposed to look like the water, but it keeps not lining up quite right, because I can't see it until I go look at the pictures I just took and then try again. I want it to be, sort of..." she makes a wavy gesture with her fingers over the latest shot, "and instead it's," she traces the line of her skirt in the actual picture, which in her opinion is angled wrong relative to the water.
"I could help?" she says, in a slightly lower voice tone as if she's offering something extremely forbidden and secret. "A-as in, maybe take the pictures for you?"
"Oh!"
Well now she is blushing EVEN MORE.
"Um."
That sounds... terrifying but also fantastic?? Help.
...magic sex video game, you had better not let this turn into the thing that always happens when Amaryllis makes a friend. "Sure," she says, with determined courage. "That sounds like—that sounds like a great idea. Sure. Yes." Why can't she shut up.
Daisy beams widely, like her dearest and wildest dream has come true.
She is not a person who hides her emotions at all well, Daisy isn't.
"Okay! I can do that!"
Tiny tentative smile.
"Hmm, maybe with an actual human being holding the camera I can try some more angles and that would help... maybe try standing there?" She points out a location, tucks her phone into her purse on its perch, and goes back to her posing. "Oh and, um, you probably caught this already but I'm trying to keep my face out of the pictures. Um. So I can post them on the internet without spontaneously combusting." Relatedly, her face is threatening to have an engine meltdown again.
Daisy nods seriously and even if she's blushing a bit too she will be a Professionaltm about this and treat this as a perfectly fine and understandable customer requirement and part of the artistic process. She does as instructed.
Amaryllis is a rank amateur at everything to do with this, but she is pretty good at putting her body where she wants it and at picturing herself in her visual imagination; with Daisy's help, she soon has a shot that does the skirt water thing properly. She blushes profusely as she provides contact information so Daisy can send it to her.
Taptaptap it is sent!
"You look gorgeous," Daisy breathes—then freezes and starts stammering, "I-I-I mean, the, the picture looks gorgeous, it's, very, um," and she's blushing just as much as Amaryllis herself. "Artistic," is what she finishes with, lamely.
Quest updated: Dipping Your Toes
Bonus Objective #4: Get a compliment from a stranger in public. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
"Gosh. Um. Thank you." So much blushing. "Um, do you want to do another one? I was thinking—"
She has a vision involving her standing on tiptoe in bare feet on a rock in the middle of the water feature. It is probably not an intended way to interact with this park, but then, neither is taking racy pictures here in the first place. And with Daisy's help she thinks she can make it work.
Daisy will take the offered save and help with more pictures! They don't need to speak about how hot she finds Amaryllis. It is irrelevant to anything.
She ends up taking several more pictures past the amount technically required by the quest, because Daisy is very good and she doesn't want to stop doing this.
But, eventually, the sun sinks far enough in the sky that the light starts to change, and while this results in many more opportunities for pretty pictures, it also results in Amaryllis realizing she never got around to eating lunch.
"Um," she says. "I should probably go... eat... food... which I have not done in a while. It was really nice meeting you, you've been a huge help! Do you want to, um," blush blush blush, "maybe do this again sometime?" Blush blush blush. "Perhaps even at my house, with snacks?"
"—oh! Um. Yes, yes, I'd, um. Love that. If you want."
Quest completed: WallflowersObjective: Daisy likes spending time with you. Here's to a fruitful friendship in the future! +100xp, Daisy Jones unlocked as a potential harem member.
Your level has increased by 1!
"I do want!" Tiny bounce. (Her skirt does a swish.)
"Okay! Um. I'll text you?"
Blush blush Amaryllis is probably straight and anyway this is a friendship and she should not be thinking so much about the swishy skirt.
"Yes! Good! Please do do that!" Tiny blushy wave. "See you later!"
She puts her shoes back on and collects her stuff and hurries home.
She is not accosted by any more pretty freckled girls with glasses who love art and photography on the way home.
Her home contains many items and features she may want to use, including but not limited to: Wi-Fi, food (although she's not feeling particularly hungry), clothes, a bed, toiletries and other vanities, various electronics.
She changes into more comfortable clothes, uploads all the best shots she took with Daisy, puts her phone on to charge because it has had a day, starts making spaghetti, and says with mild trepidation, "Um, show me all the notifications you hid while I was out?"
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
Someone had an orgasm because of your picture! +10xp
And after all of those, she also gets:
Quest progress: Dipping Your Toes
Your main quest goal has been achieved! You can end the quest and accept your rewards or continue trying to fulfil your extra objectives.
Main Objective: Take ten pictures of yourself and upload all of them to an online space where they can get at least 5 comments each. +500xp, next quest step unlocked.
Bonus Objective #1: Respond to at least five comments in your pictures. +100xp.
Bonus Objective #2: Take at least two such pictures in public. +200xp.
Bonus Objective #3: Go out in public wearing a very revealing and/or skimpy outfit (not necessarily lewd—short skirts and cleavage could all work). +400xp.
Bonus Objective #3.1: ???. +1,000xp, +1 LST.
Bonus Objective #4: Get a compliment from a stranger in public. +250xp, +1 SED.Accept Rewards: Y/N
"I still don't know what that bonus objective is!" she complains, but then she sighs and—right, she left her phone charging in the other room—sets the oven timer to alert her around when she should check the pot on the stove for incipient boiling, then goes to sit down at her computer and scroll through comments to find some that she might like to reply to. Maybe there will be enough of them about her artistry that she won't have to think about the ones that are about her body.
Her three original pictures and her video only got a handful more comments, but the ones she uploaded before going out and the new batch very quickly start getting a lot more attention.
There probably are disproportionately many comments on the artistic merits of her pictures—if the home page is to go by, the majority (although not supermajority) of entries are not really Aiming For Arttm—but in terms of volume, most are still complimenting her body and her clothes and their combination.
She responds to five comments about her artistry, clarifying which things she did on purpose and how, and which things came out that way by accident, and thanking people for complimenting her artistic skill. It's only mildly mortifying.
Then she heads back to the kitchen just in time to turn off that timer, resumes making spaghetti, and contemplates Bonus Objective #3.1.
The thing is, she really really really doesn't want to guess wrong. Guessing wrong is inherently embarrassing at the best of times; guessing wrong about which course of action would be worth 1,000xp and +1 LST sounds utterly terrible.
But, on the other hand... that's quite a bit of XP, and a whole free stat point. And it seems conceivable that she could guess it if she thinks it through and tries a few things? It's just that, if she tries something and fails and ends up having done something risky and embarrassing for no reason, she might end up hiding under a blanket forever. Probably not forever. Quite possibly for an absurdly long time.
It's a dilemma. A dilemma that can at least wait until she has made and eaten spaghetti.
Quest updated: Dipping Your Toes
Bonus Objective #1: Respond to at least five comments in your pictures. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
Her replies to the comments... also get replies! Enthusiastic ones even! If she reads between the lines, it seems like there is a lowkey expectation on the website that most Flowers (the official name used by the website to refer to people who publish media on it) don't reply to comments very often or at all, opting to just post their things and not interact with them. But the replies are happy that she's around and there's a lot of repetition of the "welcome, love to have you here, off to a great start, your pictures are great, we hope you stick around with us etc etc etc" theme.
Oh no, she's liked and appreciated, what does she do. She is NOT going to sit on the floor and cover her face with her hands, she is going to MAKE SPAGHETTI.
Spaghetti is made. Spaghetti is eaten.
...she is forced to admit, looking back on how her day has gone, that so far she has been consistently rewarded for doing things in keeping with the spirit of the game even if she was not explicitly offered a reward for them. And so far nothing has turned out terribly, though she is also maintaining an awareness in the back of her mind that the game did specifically tell her she was recruited partly for her 'impressively alarming romantic history and ability to retain a sense of humour under pressure', which sounds like the sort of thing you say if you are planning to give somebody a hard time at some point and not otherwise.
Still. Maybe it'll be okay? Or maybe it'll be the cue for everything to start being terrible. But... probably it'll be okay. She thinks.
The incipient understanding that the Erogame will reward you for taking risks along your path towards being the ero heroine you're meant to be has increased your ERO by 1!
...she giggles softly. "Well, fine, if you're going to be like that."
Slightly heartened by this message even though the stat increase also makes her a little nervous, she finishes the last of her spaghetti and tries to tackle this problem logically.
#3.1 is a subpoint off of #3, which is Go out in public wearing a very revealing and/or skimpy outfit (not necessarily lewd - short skirts and cleavage could all work). So it probably has something to do with revealing outfits and/or going out in public in them. It's worth 1,000xp, so it's probably a pretty big step. And it's worth +1 LST, which means it's... sexy? Isn't the whole video game about things being sexy? But it's not PRV so it's not kinky (or not primarily kinky) (though this isn't much information come to think because PRV presumably needs its own stat advancement quest before it can take another point), it's not BOD so it's not about her body and the showing-off thereof, it's not FUK or SED which involve interacting with other humans; it's LST, which is about... her lust, her being turned on by things.
Okay, think about this methodically. What alterations could she make to the outfit she wore to the park that would turn her on, her specifically, not some imagined observer, not a hypothetical other person with Hypothetical Normal Human Sexuality?
Going out completely topless would be utterly mortifying and she doesn't even actually think she finds it that sexy, insofar as she can even tell how sexy it would theoretically be if thinking about it didn't make her want to spend the rest of her days under a blanket; and it's a little too BOD, she thinks, a little too much about what other people see. Going out with a shirt but no bra... maybe sexy? She's not sure. It's definitely outfit-related and more about her own experience than other people's. But it's also something she's done before, though admittedly not in that particular shirt. It doesn't seem like nearly a big enough step to be worth all those experience points.
An idea is beginning to form and she does not think she likes it.
"I don't want to," she says aloud, although in fact nobody is trying to make her, it's a bonus quest objective and a hidden one at that. That's about as far from making someone do something as you can get while still presenting it as a thing you want done, in this context.
And... does she want to?
Maybe a little bit???
Mostly when she thinks about it she feels terrified and embarrassed and overcome by Hide Under Blanket Emotion. But she can't deny that it is also, maybe, a tiny bit hot. And that's a fair bit of XP. And a stat point. And she'd get to have this quest totally complete with all bonus objectives. And... maybe it would not be terrible?? Maybe??? Okay, let's be real, it's going to be pretty terrible, but if she successfully avoids being observed by any other human beings then she might be able to get through it without feeling the need to retreat under a blanket until the end of time.
"...fine," she sighs. "This is a bad idea and I'm going to regret it."
She changes back into the short swishy skirt and the shirt with the cleavage lacing. She doesn't put on a bra, and she doesn't put on panties. She spends an inordinately long time fiddling with her cleavage lacing in the mirror, trying to get the shirt to a point where it's not incredibly obvious that she doesn't have a bra on. She spends another inordinately long time pacing back and forth just inside her firmly closed front door. She detours to the kitchen to thoroughly clean up after her spaghetti, which she's aware is a laughably transparent method of stalling. She checks her whole outfit over twice to make sure she didn't accidentally get tomato sauce on it while transparently stalling.
She leaves her apartment with great trepidation, hurries down the back stairs and out the back door, and takes a few tentative steps onto the weird little stretch of grass behind the building, which she thinks is at least not not public while also fulfilling the very important criterion that it's really unlikely anyone will actually see her there. With every step, she is uncomfortably aware of what she isn't wearing. It does, admittedly, kind of turn her on, somewhere underneath the mountain of terror.
ERO Achievement: Go out in public wearing a lacy top and a short skirt without underwear. +500xp, +1 ERO.
Quest completed: Dipping Your ToesObjective: Take ten pictures of yourself and upload all of them to an online space where they can get at least 5 comments each. +500xp.
Bonus Objective #1: Respond to at least five comments in your pictures. +100xp.
Bonus Objective #2: Take at least two such pictures in public. +200xp.
Bonus Objective #3: Go out in public wearing a very revealing and/or skimpy outfit (not necessarily lewd—short skirts and cleavage could all work). +400xp.
Bonus Objective #3.1: Go out in public not wearing panties. +1,000xp, +1 LST.
Bonus Objective #4: Get a compliment from a stranger in public. +250xp, +1 SED.
Quest begun: Treading Water
The next step of your life as an ero heroine has begun!
This quest does not have a main objective. Instead, it has multiple objectives, and you will be allowed to complete it and accept its rewards once you have completed at least three of them. Sub-objectives count separately—you can complete the quest, for instance, after you've completed objectives #1, #1.1, and #1.2.
This is the second quest in your stat advancement quest chain. You will not be able to advance your BOD stat any more than its current level until the last quest in the chain. At BOD 29, most forms of exhibitionism you would currently think of doing would not increase this stat, but if you go far enough above and beyond your current level of comfort you might get extra BOD points in addition to your 30th at the end.
Objective #1: Don't go back home just yet. Walk around in the evening air, see the sights, let other people see you. +1,000xp.
Objective #1.1: Let someone else notice you are not wearing underwear. The Erogame guarantees, using probability manipulation, that whoever this happens to will consider themself to have had a better day than otherwise, and they will not be creepy or weird about it at you. They will not otherwise interact with you if you do not want them to. +3,000xp, +1 ERO.
Objective #1.2: ???. +5,000xp, +1 SED.
Objective #2: Post at least one nude photo online somewhere it can get at least 25 comments on. This photo must show at least one nipple or your vagina to count. +500xp.
Objective #3: Record audio of yourself having an orgasm or a video that contains such audio and publish it somewhere online. You do not need to personally appear in that video—a video of a flowerpot with the audio of your climax counts. +500xp.
Objective #3.1: Include an actual video of yourself being pleasured (by yourself or others) in that post. +2,000xp, +1 LST.
Objective #4: ???. +2,500xp, +1 LST, status effect "Full of Confidence" active for 24h.
Failure: This quest will continue until you are ready to move on to the next quest.
She's all set to FLEE IMMEDIATELY as soon as she sees a game window, but then the text Don't go back home just yet catches her eye, and she pauses, very uncomfortably, to read it.
Oh no... she has to decide whether to fulfill the first quest objective right now... it has a hidden bonus sub-objective that she presumably cannot take a minute to puzzle out alone in the comfort and safety of her own home—oh never mind, it's SED, the hidden bonus sub-objective is clearly to flirt with the person from #1.1. WELL WHAT IF SHE DOESN'T WANT TO DO THAT, GAME, WHAT THEN.
...if she doesn't want to do the hidden objectives she can just not do them. If she doesn't want to do the hidden objectives she can ignore them and do other things and she will just not get the quest rewards for them and it will be fine. 5,000 is a lot of XP but she doesn't need XP that badly. It's okay. She's okay.
She takes a few deep calming breaths. Quickly looks around to make sure she is still currently unobserved.
...she really, really, really wants to flee back to her nice safe apartment and curl up on her couch in her fuzziest bathrobe and not do ANY more exciting things ALL EVENING.
But first she has to decide whether or not to fulfill Objective #1.
...if she doesn't fulfill Objective #1... then later she is going to have to fulfill at least three out of 2, 3, 3.1, and 4. She doesn't even know what 4 is, but status effect "Full of Confidence" sounds frankly ominous. And #2 involves showing the internet her nipples (although she can already think of some suitably artistic ways to manage that) and #3 involves recording herself having an orgasm, which is terrifying, and let's not even get into #3.1—
By contrast, Objective #1 is basically just 'go for a quiet walk around the block'. A quiet, monumentally terrifying walk around the block. She has walked around this block many times before in her life. She is perfectly capable of doing it again. Nobody is going to see her nipples. Probably.
...someone might see something else but she can just not do that, right, she can just not. Even though #1.1 is not a hidden objective she can still, in fact, Just Not Do It.
She takes another deep calming breath, and thinks longingly of the fuzzy bathrobe she is not even a little bit wearing right now, and turns to cross the awkward strip of lawn and step out of the apartment complex onto the sidewalk. Once again, every step is filled with a disquieting awareness. What is she doing. She probably hallucinated this whole thing. (She did not hallucinate this whole thing, she took video evidence specifically to guard against the possibility that she might be hallucinating this whole thing.) Someone is going to notice her state of undress and be horrible to her about it. (The game did just go out of its way to specifically promise that wouldn't happen.) Aaaaaaaaaaa. (Okay, the internal screaming is still valid.)
There is, once again, a breeze.
A skill has been created by a special action! Walking outside in honestly unreasonable attire for a Canadian evening has created the skill Ero Environmental Resistance.
Well, then. She can definitely feel the effects of that—or rather, not feel the uncomfortable and/or painful effects of cold against skin. At least not that much, it's definitely much diminished.
...that's pretty valid, although honestly, she could not even metaphorically hear the cold over the metaphorical sound of her own anxiety. What's left of the breeze is... pleasantly bracing. She'll take it.
All right, game, she is Going For A Walk. Providing the humans—the non-creepy, non-scary humans—is up to you, and/or the laws of physics, but probably you.
The Erogame offers no comment on who takes precedence, here (although it trusts it has made it perfectly clear by now that in a completely hypothetical fight between it and the laws of physics the laws of physics will become its bitches).
There are not any people close enough to see her, at first. The surroundings are fairly deserted. Which is probably the game offering Amaryllis one last chance to change her mind before she turns around a corner, right?
This is simultaneously very nice of it and also very unfair. But she sticks to her course with grim determination. It's easier to keep going on a walk than to start one, anyway.
Quest updated: Treading Water
Objective #1: Don't go back home just yet. Walk around in the evening air, see the sights, let other people see you. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
Just as she turns around a corner and sees a pair of friends walking in her direction. They look up at her and smile before returning to their conversation, and the sidewalk is broad enough that they don't bump into her or get close enough to her or anything.
That's good because if someone bumped into her she might implode.
Okay. Well. That's one entire quest objective down.
She... doesn't... have to do the next one. #1.1. That one. She doesn't have to do it.
But it came with such extremely friendly assurances, and—maybe she can figure out how to let on that she isn't wearing underwear without, um, directly showing anyone her... under-parts? And this will save her from having to RECORD herself having an ORGASM later. It's... potentially valid.
She keeps walking. She can go the rest of the way around the block, and... maybe she will spot someone sufficiently nonthreatening that she can even contemplate terrifying quest objectives, and maybe she will find a way to complete the quest objective that will not give her a heart attack.
There are a scattered few people when she turns around the corner again.
The next corner, however, reveals a mostly empty street. Almost entirely empty, actually, except for sometime sitting on a bench across the street from her at a bus stop. He's slightly chubby, wearing bigger glasses than Daisy's and an honest to gods tweed jacket. He's poking at his phone and doesn't look up when she shows—she probably did not make enough noise to be noticed.
Great. Okay. So. Now she has to... take actions.
(She doesn't have to take actions. She could, instead, not do that. But... maybe it would be okay to take some actions? Maybe...)
Very very nervously, she tries to make slightly louder footsteps, to see if she can get his attention. And, if she can do that... well. First things first. Does he glance up?
He does in fact glance up!
Exerting immense effort to avoid looking as terrified as she feels, she... casually scratches her hip as she walks by, a process which hikes up her skirt to the point where it becomes reasonably obvious that there is nothing under it on the entire stretch of skin from mid-thigh to waist.
...he stares a little.
Then lowers his eyes back to his phone.
Then looks up again surreptitiously and trying to not be very obvious about it.
Quest updated: Treading Water
Objective #1.1: Let someone else notice you are not wearing underwear. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
...she should have thought of this ahead of time but now she is in a position to potentially make an attempt at #1.2 except she has to decide LITERALLY RIGHT NOW WHILE SHE IS STILL WALKING and social interaction is TERRIFYING and what if she goes home and HIDES FROM EVERYTHING FOREVER, WHAT THEN—
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Think. Quickly, because you're still walking, but think.
There is... no chance she's going to cross the street and strike up a conversation, it is flatly not happening. Calling out across the street to him also seems dicey.
He's on his phone. She obviously can't see what he's doing at this distance, but—the game has already made several unlikely things happen through alleged probability manipulation—
She slows her steps a little, gets out her own phone, and opens a certain game she likes to play, which she happens to know has a Find Friends Nearby feature even though she's never used it. It takes her a few seconds to locate and open the feature, but she manages. Is there a Friend Nearby? One who's right across the street, say?
Why, yes! Yes, there does seem to be a Friend Nearby!
Hey, I like your glasses.
The boy, who was still mostly trying to not be noticed looking at her, looks back down at his phone when it vibrates with a message. It's hard to make out from this distance but it looks like he may be blinking several times rapidly as his chin slowly drops. He looks up again—notices Amaryllis is in fact on her phone—then types something into his own phone.
Thanks! I like your skirt.
He felt the urge to say, instead, "Um. Thanks. I, um, like your skirt." Then he remembered that when you're writing text you don't need to add verbal pauses like that.
Implausibly guessing that the boy you may or may not want to have some sort of interaction with is playing a game you like to play that just happens to have a Find Friends Nearby feature has increased your ERO by 1!
A skill has been created by a special action! Finding a discreet means of communication with someone who is not nearby has created the skill Implausible Instant Messaging.
Thanks! I like it too! It goes swish! Though I cannot swish it at the moment, for reasons.
He looks to both sides to make sure no one else's looking then types some more.
I'm sure you look very pretty when you do make your skirt go swish.
That was possibly one of the five most inane messages he's ever sent in his life but whatever he's already pressed the button.
A skill has been created by a special action! Interacting with someone using a means of communication that makes it very difficult to read body language even though the person you're talking to would like you to be able to read their body language and is having many emotions about this has created the skill Tone Is Hard On The Internet.
She blushes a lot and sends the Happy animation. Her armadillo does a little wiggly dance.
The boy lifts a hand to his mouth entirely involuntarily in what is almost certainly a "Help, that's too cute!" expression. Then he remembers she can actually see him and tries to school his expression—and also does not look up very much because he does not want to come off as a creep.
...he's also not sure what to talk about next, though. This is a very strange thing to have happened.
Oh! He knows! He'll add her as a friend on the app, that's a thing he can do.
She adds him as a friend right back.
Even walking more slowly, she's nearly at the end of the block by now; but she pauses, turns back, and gives him a shy little wave before she turns the corner. And when she does turn the corner, there might be a tiny bit of a swish.
Awww.
...wait.
Would you like to play together sometime?
Uh... he meant... the game... not the lewd thing that occurred to him a second after he hit "send". But she'll get it from context, right? Surely she will.
Quest updated: Treading Water
Objective #1.2: Flirt with someone who is aware you are not wearing underwear. Completed! You will receive your rewards upon quest completion.
Quest available: Aroused Armadillo
Bryan Thomas didn't mean to suggest he wanted to have sex with you sometime when he said "play". That does not mean he wouldn't like it. This is the Erogame, after all.
Have sex with him.
Success: +6,000xp, +1 FUK, Bryan Thomas unlocked as a potential harem member.
Failure: Bryan Thomas unavailable as a potential harem member.
Time Limit: 48 hours from quest acceptance.
Accept: Y/N
48 hours from quest acceptance??? Are you crazy, game??????
Anyway. She sends Bryan another happy armadillo wiggle. And IGNORES the quest window. That time limit is TOO SHORT.
Cool! I'll hit you up sometime. My bus is here now though and I get motion sick playing games in it so I'll go now. It was nice meeting you!
The quest window vanishes but probably she can grab it back again if she didn't actually press the N button.
Nice meeting you too!
The Erogame does not bother her any further.
She goes home and puts on the Fuzziest Bathrobe over her ridiculous outfit and then huddles on her couch and spends a while curled up with her eyes closed not moving and trying not to think.
Then she sits up to check her game status.
Before she can really check anything, there is already a game screen waiting for her:
Quest begun: Aftercare 101
Take a break. Don't worry about the Erogame. Don't worry about anything ero at all, if you don't want to. Rest, watch a nice movie, eat nice food, take a nap, read a book, or do whatever else you want to do. You can take as long as you want or need.
You can interact with the Erogame's features, stat screens, skill descriptions, or anything else you wish, without that counting as you "feeling prepared". All game timers and background processes are paused. New quests will not be assigned and notifications will be minimized by default until you decide to manually check on them. The game will not resume until you actually, really, voluntarily decide to resume it.
Success: You feel well-rested and balanced in your own mind and body.
Failure: This quest cannot fail, and keeps going until you feel ready to be the Erogamer again.
...she sputters slightly. "What—how—why—?!"
On the one hand she feels touched, and on the other hand she feels alarmed, instinctively recoiling from the potential threat of Unexpected Niceness. But... it is pretty nice, actually. She was starting to view the prospect of more magic game nonsense with exhaustion and despair. She has already half-consciously observed, and is now fully considering, the fact that when she was thinking about her current BOD quest she was thinking about how to minimize her interaction with it, do as few objectives as possible because they were all terrifying. She thinks... that is probably not the right way to go about these things. She thinks maybe... she should wait to complete that BOD quest... until she has finished all its (visible) objectives, without putting herself under tons of pressure to do them. Just—try to get herself to a point where they're actually not terrifying, or at least a manageable, reasonable amount of terrifying. Yeah. That seems like a good plan.
(Don't think she hasn't noticed the game displaying the power to start quests without her explicit acceptance, though. That's definitely a thing that just happened.)
Okay.
"Okay."
...time to be nice to herself. She guesses. How does being nice to yourself work?? Reading a book sounds pretty nice... she's heard hot baths are a traditional method of relaxation... probably shouldn't combine the two, though...
After a few minutes of contemplation, she ends up in a hot bath with a cold glass of apple juice and her phone sitting on the counter playing music she's ashamed of liking. It is probably relaxing or something. It's an attempt, anyway. When the water gets cold, she gets out and dries off and armors herself in her Fuzzy Bathrobe of Ero Avoidance and... hmm...
...do quest-related people still exist with the game on pause? They must, right?
She sends Bryan an armadillo message asking if he wants to race. (And while she's waiting for a response, she checks on her stats screen and quest menu and plays clicky clicky with her increasingly long list of Media.)
Amaryllis"The Erogamer"
LVL: 4 (4,030 / 5,000)
Stats
DOM: 150 / 320
SUB: 150 / 470
BOD: 29
LST: 19 (+)
SED: 16 (+)
FUK: 18 (+)
PRV: 29 (+)
ERO: 13 (+)
Stat Points: 7
Perk Points: 0
Status Effects: None
Info // QuestsCompleted
Exhibitionism 101
Objective: You have put yourself out there and taken your first steps towards becoming the eroge character you're meant to be! +250xp.
Bonus Objective #2: You also took and published one picture in which you were naked. +400xp, +1 BOD.Dipping Your Toes [Part of the BOD Advancement quest chain]
Objective: Take ten pictures of yourself and upload all of them to an online space where they can get at least 5 comments each. +500xp.
Bonus Objective #1: Respond to at least five comments in your pictures. +100xp.
Bonus Objective #2: Take at least two such pictures in public. +200xp.
Bonus Objective #3: Go out in public wearing a very revealing and/or skimpy outfit (not necessarily lewd—short skirts and cleavage could all work). +400xp.
Bonus Objective #3.1: Go out in public not wearing panties. +1,000xp, +1 LST.
Bonus Objective #4: Get a compliment from a stranger in public. +250xp, +1 SED.Wallflowers
Objective: Daisy likes spending time with you. Here's to a fruitful friendship in the future! +100xp, Daisy Jones unlocked as a potential harem member.
Ongoing
Treading Water [Part of the BOD Advancement quest chain]
The next step of your life as an ero heroine has begun!
This quest does not have a main objective. Instead, it has multiple objectives, and you will be allowed to complete it and accept its rewards once you have completed at least three of them. Sub-objectives count separately—you can complete the quest, for instance, after you've completed objectives #1, #1.1, and #1.2.
This is the second quest in your stat advancement quest chain. You will not be able to advance your BOD stat any more than its current level until the last quest in the chain. At BOD 29, most forms of exhibitionism you would currently think of doing would not increase this stat, but if you go far enough above and beyond your current level of comfort you might get extra BOD points in addition to your 30th at the end.
Objective #1: Don't go back home just yet. Walk around in the evening air, see the sights, let other people see you. +1,000xp.
Objective #1.1: Let someone else notice you are not wearing underwear. +3,000xp, +1 ERO.
Objective #1.2: Flirt with someone who is aware you are not wearing underwear. +5,000xp, +1 SED.
Objective #2: Post at least one nude photo online somewhere it can get at least 25 comments on. This photo must show at least one nipple or your vagina to count. +500xp.
Objective #3: Record audio of yourself having an orgasm or a video that contains such audio and publish it somewhere online. You do not need to personally appear in that video—a video of a flowerpot with the audio of your climax counts. +500xp.
Objective #3.1: Include an actual video of yourself being pleasured (by yourself or others) in that post. +2,000xp, +1 LST.
Objective #4: ???. +2,500xp, +1 LST, status effect "Full of Confidence" active for 24h.Aftercare 101
Take a break. Don't worry about the Erogame. Don't worry about anything ero at all, if you don't want to. Rest, watch a nice movie, eat nice food, take a nap, read a book, or do whatever else you want to do. You can take as long as you want or need.
You can interact with the Erogame's features, stat screens, skill descriptions, or anything else you wish, without that counting as you "feeling prepared". All game timers and background processes are paused. New quests will not be assigned and notifications will be minimized by default until you decide to manually check on them. The game will not resume until you actually, really, voluntarily decide to resume it.
Available
Pondering the Orbs
Become a wizard! Wizards can, among other things, scry various other points in space and time.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests Ego Connection and Sexy Hacker. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/N Your ERO stat is too low to accept this quest at the moment.Ego Connection
By developing your supernatural senses and abilities, you can create psychic connections with people who are experiencing erotic feelings and sensations and who might want to share them with you. A powerful psychic can notice when someone would want to be watched as they reach their climax.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests Pondering the Orbs and Sexy Hacker. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/N Your ERO stat is too low to accept this quest at the moment.Sexy Hacker
Hackers as shown in fiction don't really exist. Hacking doesn't work that way, you don't really just type very quickly into a computer while watching 0s and 1s fall down from the top of the screen like The Matrix until you eventually whisper "I'm in" in a sultry voice and get access to people's webcams.
Unless said hacker is also the erogamer.
Important: This is a meta-quest with no time limit. Accepting this quest will begin your journey along a mystical path and change you and the world with you. Currently, this quest is mutually exclusive with quests Pondering the Orbs and Ego Connection. These quests are not the only possible ways for you to enable the "Orgasms" link's functionality.
Success: All of the results of the subquests, which may or may not include any of more xp, stats, perks, skills, traits, levels, fundamental truths, and others.
Failure: N/A
Accept: Y/NAroused Armadillo
Bryan Thomas didn't mean to suggest he wanted to have sex with you sometime when he said "play". That does not mean he wouldn't like it. This is the Erogame, after all.
Have sex with him.
Success: +6,000xp, +1 FUK, Bryan Thomas unlocked as a potential harem member.
Failure: Bryan Thomas unavailable as a potential harem member.
Time Limit: 48 hours from quest acceptance.
Accept: Y/N
Her long list of Media is indeed pretty long, and now has a little scroll bar she might need to use to be able to see all of it. Her media has received more comments and disproportionately more views and caused a few further orgasms.
Bryan takes a few minutes to reply, but eventually he does:
Sure! Give me fifteen minutes to shower first?
Can do! Message me when you're ready? I will be here watching children's cartoons.She's been meaning to catch up on Steven Universe anyway.
He messages her fourteen minutes later saying he's ready!
She finds the option to Race With Friends and sends a request. Their armadillos will BATTLE (peaceably) for SUPREMACY (at climbing slopes without getting startled by a scary noise and rolling back down them).
This game really is very adorable. Bryan plays like someone who has spent a frankly unreasonable number of hours playing it.
That was fun! Want to go again?
Yeah! This game is fun. And you're really good!
Thanks, you too!
She does! He sends her a thumbs-up-congrats animated armadimoji.
Happy armadillo wiggles!!!!!
Best of three?
With another race request.
For sure!!
Amaryllis wins again!
Darn, I'll need to up my game. But, well, gives me an excuse to keep poking you about racing.
...is that flirting? He feels like that may kinda count as flirting? He is super not sure!
Happy to race with you anytime! Assuming I'm not busy. Or asleep. Happy to race with you anytime barring schedule conflicts, I guess!
Awesome! ...but speaking of schedule I should go have dinner now. So, talk to you later!
He is not sure if that was flirting back or just being friendly and as he is not a creep he will not assume it's the former or build a whole thing in his head about a maybe-more-than-friendship relationship he may have with this super pretty girl he met literally today and just played some games with.
She sends him another happy armadillo wiggle.
Okay. Now... hmm. She should probably get around to reading the descriptions of her new skills at some point, but it's not urgent. Instead she thinks she will finish this episode of Steven Universe, maybe watch a few more because it's a very good show, go to bed, wake up in the morning, rewatch the video she took of her BOD going up to reassure herself that she's definitely not crazy, eat breakfast, then read skill descriptions. Yes. Good plan.
She does that.
Info // Skills
Erogamer's Body: Lvl MAX. Reality skill.
The biological ability to live your life as an erogame. Venereal disease doesn't exist for you, or periods or pregnancies or yeast infections. Arbitrarily large appendages can fit inside any of your orifices. You heal from all marks with a good night's sleep, ready for the next day's adventures. Other aspects of this skill depend on the BOD stat.
Erogamer's Soul: Lvl MAX. Reality skill.
A different player might have received an Erogamer's Mind skill to unlock their potential and allow them to play the game as it is meant to be played. You really didn't want that, and didn't really need that. This core skill only prevents your mind from being fundamentally and permanently damaged by extreme sexual experiences, and allows you to make voluntary use of the FUK, SED, LST, and PRV stats.
Erogamer's World: Lvl MAX. Reality skill.
The consent of reality to live your life as an erogame. People are never too preoccupied to consider sex or romance, not while you're around. Bystanders won't ignore what you do, but they're unlikely to actually stop you. Those who do decide to involve themselves are drawn into the logic of the Erogame. If you go far enough that an authority sees no choice but to intervene… they won't treat you as a simple criminal. Other aspects of this skill depend on the ERO stat.
Ero Environmental Resistance: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). Passive.
A true magical bimbo is always dressed her best, whether in the chill of early spring, the scorching sun of the desert, or the deadly vacuum of space. You probably shouldn't try that last one for a while.
Uncomfortable environment: ERO x 0.5% = 6.5% resistance
Dangerous environment: ERO x 0.2% = 2.6% resistance
Lethal environment: ERO x 0.1% = 1.3% resistanceThis skill only operates when you are dressed (or undressed) inappropriately for your surroundings. To avoid being sunburned on the beach, you'll need an unusually skimpy swimsuit. Naturally, ice cubes and dripping hot wax don't count as "environments", so keep on squirming.
Subskill: Cute Cold Resistance: Lvl 1 (1 / 3). Passive.
Multiply your base resistance factor for cold environments by 1.1.
Implausible Instant Messaging: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). 200 SUB or DOM / use.
Sometimes you really really want to chat to the cutie across the street but actually crossing the street to do it would just not work, not at all, for reasons.
Using this skill gives you the instinctive ability to know the contact details of a target of your choosing on some app or platform that has instant messaging capabilities and which you already have access to or which is in sufficiently widespread use by your demographic. At Lvl 1, this skill can only be used once per person per week.
Chance of success is (ERO + SED) / 50 = 58%.
Tone Is Hard On The Internet: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). Passive.
Sometimes hilarious miscommunications over text messaging can make for more interesting stories. Most of the time, though, they do not, and are merely aggravating and get in the way of less cheap sources of conflict. Unless such misunderstandings are essential to the current plot being enacted—such as if you are running, for instance, a comedy subplot—you will have a much better understanding of what people you are interacting with via text actually mean, regardless of whether they phrased it well.
This skill currently works on only 1 online conversation at a time. At Lvl 1, your understanding is slightly worse than it would be if you were unenhancedly talking to your target in person and able to see their body language and hear their tone of voice.
Your target may subconsciously resist your ability to read them that way if they do not want to truthfully and clearly communicate with you or if they otherwise would prefer you to only be limited to information available through text. Their probability of success is (their WIL—your SED / 2) / 15, capped from below at 5% and from above at 95%.
Do you want to do some photography?
Ooh! I'd like that! Um, what sort of photography? I'm having lunch with my sister right now but I'm free later.
I'm not sure exactly, I just want to make pretty things. I am thinking of maybe taking some sparkly rocks back to that park.
Well sign me up for sparkly rock experimentation time, then!
It's a date!
...I meant that in the figurative sense in which it indicates that we have established a time and location to meet and do an activity.
Not that I'm against the concept of going on a date with you, or anything!
...I can sense the walls of the pit rising around me and am going to stop digging now.
It takes a few more seconds than the previous messages did for this one to show up (during which Amaryllis can feel free to feel even more mortified if she wants to) but then:
I wouldn't say no
to the other kind of date that is
do you want to go to the park and take pictures of sparkly rocks with me... in a date way
That reply is definitely quicker:
Yes
I mean sure!
...I don't know why those would be different. Yes and/or sure.
Okay!! I'll meet you there in an hour or so?
Make it an hour thirty just to make sure?
Sounds good to me!
Daisy will be getting to the meetup spot when expected! She is wearing jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt with floral patterns and her glasses seem to be gone.
"Aww, the glasses were cute," are the first words out of her mouth. "—um! I mean, your eyewear choices are your own, obviously! And you look really nice!"
She blushes a bit and smiles down at her feet. "Thank you. Um, I'll keep that in mind for next time." Oh wait she shouldn't assume there'll be a next time uhhhhh. "You look nice too!"
"Thank you!" Tiny blushy wiggle. "...I brought sparkly rocks!"
She puts her book away and takes the rocks out of her purse. There's a variety of options: a really pale white one that almost glows in the sunlight and sparkles only faintly as its rough surface catches the light, a smooth polished tiger's eye, and a trio of dark granitey-looking lumps with slightly different colour variations, one more blue, one more grey, one more red. "I think taking pretty pictures of the white one might be a challenge," she admits.
Daisy scratches the bridge of her nose in what is obviously an aborted anime-style "push the glasses up your nose" pose and says, determinedly, "Challenge accepted."
Oh no she's too cuuuuuute.
Amaryllis bounces a little. "Okay! Let's find a pretty place to take pictures."
"Let's!" Pause. "Um, did you have anywhere specific in mind?"
"Well I was thinking about the places where I took those pictures before but I'm not sure they're quite right, so maybe we could walk around the park and see if we find anywhere better? Somewhere with good light and maybe pretty plants."
"Okay! Sounds good!"
Daisy will... not be the one to suggest holding hands even though it's a date because she would be mortified if Amaryllis refused but she very, very clearly wants to.
Oh no but that means that Amaryllis has to be the one to suggest holding hands if any hands are going to be held here and that sounds terrifying.
...maybe she can just sort of... walk very close by Daisy's side and see how Daisy feels about a hand held out in such a way that holding could commence if she wanted? Advanced seduction skills, but she thinks she might just be up to the task.
...she will be BRAVE. She will. Lightly brush the back of her hand against Amaryllis's?
Goodness. Encouragement???
...perhaps a tentative twining of little finger with little finger?
Oh no. She might actually melt.
Okay. Okay. She said she was going to be brave. She is not looking, she is resolutely not looking, because normal people who are actually brave don't find this a big deal, she will stare on ahead and look at the park and not her hand while she reaches to actually hold Amaryllis's.
Amaryllis is unable to stifle her tiny "eee" as she takes firmer hold of Daisy's hand.
Oh goodness she is so cute Daisy might melt into a puddle and never regain human form.
...but that would mean she is not holding Amaryllis's hands. That would be terrible. So, she will keep human form, and she will not notice the way her face is open into a gigantic grin because she apparently forgot to pay attention to what her face was doing while concentrating on the very important matters of handholding.
Eeeeeeeeeee cute girl cute girl holding hands with cute girl!! This is not a drill!!!!!
Wow they're going to be so bad at looking for good places to take pictures of rocks like this, aren't they.
That's okay. Holding hands with cute girl is its own reward.
It really is! And actually! One of the things Daisy was paying attention to was her surroundings because that was a better distraction from how dumb it is to be embarrassed by holding hands than literally anything else, so she can in fact find good places to take pictures of rocks.
That is good, because Amaryllis is waaaay too busy experiencing the Cute Girl Emotions to check out their surroundings for good lighting and pretty plants.
Daisy can point at a place and lead them there and then.......... face the dilemma of having to cease holding hands in order to take pretty pictures.
Oh no. Terrible.
...she attempts to get a sparkly rock into a picturesque position using only her free hand, but has to desist, blushing and giggling at herself, almost immediately due to the fundamentally ridiculous nature of this enterprise.
...yeah okay this is Objectively Ridiculous and Daisy dissolves into laughter too.
"Okay," she says, giving Daisy's hand one last squeeze and then letting go. "Let's take pretty pictures."
Sparkly rocks in nice-looking locations, go!
Go! Daisy has as many opinions this time as she did last time, and very quickly enters nerd mode about it and focuses completely on pretty pictures.
Daisy in nerd mode is so good. Amaryllis is happy to join her in making the pretty pictures happen. The rocks will sparkle so fetchingly.
And Daisy is determined to make even the white rock work, and with a good combination of background, lighting, and some fiddling with exposure settings and field of view she will absolutely succeed at this!
Her success may result in Amaryllis bouncing delightedly and then hugging her.
Eeeeeee she'll bounce a bit too and wiggle delightedly in the hug.
Oh what good wiggles she has!!! Extra huggable.
After a couple of seconds of this she suddenly realises she is hugging a pretty girl who is on a date with her and her wiggles melt into blushing all the way to the roots of her hair.
Amaryllis's first instinct is to assume that something is wrong and apologize for it, but partway through pulling back to ask what's wrong, she decides that maybe she should be a little bit bolder than that, and instead applies Extra Squish to the hug. "You're very cute, did you know."