"...you really are an idiot, sunbae," says Woo-young, fondly, and his arms work now somehow so he can use them to pull Tae-gun back in.

At some point it occurs to Tae-gun that more skin contact is better for guiding, and that is completely 100% of the reason why he gets rid of his and Woo-young's clothes. And in the middle of making out like that it occurs to him that making out naked while rubbing their cocks together isn't exactly not sex, even if he's resolutely refusing to actually use his hands for anything other than holding Woo-young, but when that happens he fails to bring himself to care very much. Without direct, active stimulation, neither of them comes, which does have the predictable consequence that he gets hornier, but he actually takes some satisfaction in being able to control himself that far.

Even with the enhanced guiding from the game, teleporting two people from Korea to Canada is still a bit much, and Woo-young isn't all the way to fully mobile by the time the sound of their growling stomachs suggests they ought to put some food in them and probably go to sleep; this whole thing started late enough, after Tae-gun's last dungeon for the day, they're kind of burning the midnight oil. Woo-young lets Tae-hwan know they're alive and have not been taken over by sexy brain aliens (...too much) and then they go to bed.

And on the bright side, sleeping together does get rid of the last bits of his backlash! Which is to say, "Sunbae, we should maybe consider the possibility that this is real."

"But I don't want to."

With this sign that they're properly woken up, the game pops up a window.

Quiet mode deactivated.

Having sex [however technical] with someone you love, and not deciding retroactively that it was some sign that you're broken and should catapult yourself into the nearest volcano, has increased your ERO by 1!

"...isn't ERO the... improbability stat..."

...is the game saying that by having sex with Woo-young he literally bent the laws of probability. "Fuck you, too."

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. 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 easier. You cannot actively increase this stat; it tracks your character progression.

"You could just show me character progression screen rather than making me have to click it." Click.

Same character page as before. The ERO boost put his his BKL cap at 9438, an increase of almost a thousand points. Despite the LST increase, his backlash is down by 20 points, so his effective LST is down to 16.

"Fine, okay, I get it. Is there a tutorial somewhere or am I meant to just do things and then quests will pop up, what's my end of the deal here?"

It'd be the latter, if you hadn't gone into isolation for twelve hours. As it is: sure, we can give you a tutorial.

"...okay, so, uh. How." He never really wished he'd played more (or, uh, any) video games and he's not exactly starting to, right now, but it sure would be useful background context to have to know what the fuck to even ask. "What, uh. Are my. Controls. Or."

Quest available: ⇈⇊⇆⇆BA☆

Accepting this quest will initiate a sequence wherein the basic functions of the Erogame are demonstrated. We'll try to make it entertaining, like how tutorials aren't.

Success: Leather Armor x1, Iron Dagger x1, Apple Gel x3

Failure: A round of applause for managing to fuck up the tutorial.

Accept: Y/N

"For an omnipotent engine of erotic fantasy you sure do seem to love trying to get a rise out of me," he says, slamming the Y button.

"Maybe you shouldn't make it so easy, sunbae."

It is honestly like crack.

Welcome to the tutorial! Your first task is to open the Character screen. You can do this either by opening the Erogame commscreen app, saying or loudly thinking "Character", or tapping a link.

...Erogame commscreen app? He didn't realise he had one of those what with how his commscreen got HIJACKED. If he thinks loudly that he wants to get rid of these particular popups will they go away or will he have to gesture or something to see his desktop.

Pop pop pop!

Your popups, lewd and otherwise, have been saved to the Popups gallery.

(Then that popup disappears.)

...he'll see about opening the "Popups gallery" later. For now he wants to click the "app", which should be... obvious... hopefully...?

Well it's sure pink.

(The rest of his commscreen isn't, anymore. Which may be interesting.)

Yes, thank you for making yourself less obvious.

Clicky.