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Marlo Lane
"The Erogamer"
LVL: 1 (0%)
Stats:DOM: 2/100
SUB: 15/200
BOD: 20 (+)
LST: 1 (+)
SED: 6 (+)
FUK: 4 (+)
PRV: 19 (+)
ERO: 10 (+)
Points: 5
Money: $1,220Status Effects: None
Description: Marlo Lane is a novice police officer hoping to make a difference. For the last year, he has been consumed with anxiety about Sasha Michaels, his best friend, who has been diagnosed with cancer and is expected to have no more than three months to live. His desperation to save his friend has opened him up to the possibilities of 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 pregnancies or refractory periods. 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 Mind (Lvl MAX): The mental flexibility to live your life as an erogame. You're more able to accept the realities of your new world. You'll also bounce back from painful, upsetting and bizarre sexual experiences with relative ease. Rape can be anything from a recoverable trauma to a Tuesday afternoon, but it won't ruin your life. Other aspects of this skill depend on 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.
To Mine Own Me Be True (Lvl MAX): Even at the center of the Erogame, you are not just an erogame character, but a human being possessed of his own free will. Your family will always be safe from you, and little children everywhere.
Perks:
True Love Conquers All: If you love someone enough, nothing can ever permanently separate them from you. The only exception is their wishing to leave you---deliberately, voluntarily, and based on correct information. People you love will live out a full natural lifespan and they will never die before you do. If they ever face serious physical or psychological harm, you will always get a chance to rescue them. This applies to any type of love, not just romantic love. If you would undergo hardship and sacrifice to protect someone, if losing them would leave a scar on your heart that never fully heals, then you will be able to take care of them, and in time you will always be reunited.
Info // Character Stats // Level:
At LVL 1, and 0% progress toward the next level, you'll never be this weak again. 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:
With the average being 10, and perfect 10s being 40, your BOD of 20 makes you solidly the most attractive person in the room, assuming the room isn't in Hollywood, California.
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:
At a LST of 1, you're very nearly asexual. For now, anyway.
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 6 makes it possible for you to get a date with a girl who doesn't have anything else to do that Friday. Could be worse, but could be much better.
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 FUK of 4 means you'd better be extra careful with your teeth. As for other bedroom skills, have you considered trying to… well… move?
How do you increase this stat? Take a guess.
Info // Character Stats // Perversion:
Your PRV of 19 despite your total romantic isolation is a sad commentary on the decadence of the third millennium. Nonetheless, casual exposure to a variety of naughty ideas has left you open to a whole host of things you prefer not to think about.
You can increase this stat by being a little less close-minded, and acting accordingly.
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.
It isn't.
Then he'll smile at them both one more time and then leave for Octopus House.
The party at Octopus House resembles a wild college party, as designed by someone who has never actually been to a party but has watched a lot of eighties teen movies. People are drinking beer in a variety of fashions unlike how one normally drinks beer. Girls in very little clothing gyrate to music about gyrating while wearing very little clothing. Some people are yelling "TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!" and occasionally, out of confusion, "FREEBIRD!"
It's loud and crowded and smells like alcohol and he is very strongly reminded of why he doesn't go to parties or bars.
Now. Where does one find a mediocre guitar player and serial rapist around here.
Well, at a guess, the guy in eyeliner getting uncomfortably close to a scared-looking girl who looks way too young to be at this party.
Yep, that's probably the one.
He watches for a moment, two, and then heads over to the two of them and smiles and says "Hey."
He pauses, looks Marlo up and down in a predatory fashion, and smiles. His smile has too many teeth. It's not that it's not happy. It's that the subject of its happiness is how easy it would be to devour you.
"Well, hello. I'm Harry. Don't tell me your name, I find it ruins things."
"I won't, then."
Keep his attention off the girl — this would be easier if there were cameras around —
— wait, everyone here is carrying a phone with a camera, probably someone in the room is taking a picture, he doesn't know that he isn't in the frame —
+1 ERO for munchkining.
Marlo feels the impulses telling him how to shift his weight, tilt his head, bare his neck.
He shifts his weight and tilts his head and bares his neck and smiles, lets himself look a little nervous.
"I'm not."
This is a lie. He is the perfect amount of drunk, which is zero.
"I find everything in life is better if you do it completely fucking wasted." He savors the words. "Whaddya say, two for you, one for me?"
Exactly zero things are better if you do them totally wasted.
He smiles and says "Sounds good!" and keeps remembering how many people are carrying cameras, keeps his neck bared and his head tilted and his body angled towards Harry.
He grabs Marlo's wrist and pulls it hard. "Well, then, come over here and we'll get this party started." He flashes the hungry smile. "Your party started. My party is eeeeternal."
(The girl flees in gratitude and confusion.)
Okay, good, she's gone. Now he just has to keep Harry's attention on him.
He follows where he's pulled, keeps the shy vulnerable nervous smile.
Harry pulls him through the crowd to a place with shots, downs one, and hands Marlo two expectantly.
He takes two shots, is acutely conscious of how his throat moves. College party alcohol tastes even worse than normal alcohol but it's fine, it's fine, this is all fine —
A skill has been created by a special action! Taking two shots from Harry has created the skill But Had He Been Drinking?
He is not a fan of the sound of that skill but it's fine, he can look at it later when there are fewer things happening —
Harry grins, pulls Marlo close to him, and whispers in his ear, "Let's dance."
"Okay," he whispers, and lets himself be pulled close to Harry, and doesn't have to fake the fear — Harry can probably feel his heartbeat —
He can, and he likes it.
Harry's form of dancing is perhaps better described as unusually rhythmic frottage.
That's not a surprise. It is kind of a lot but it isn't a surprise.
Marlo doesn't know how to do this; he does his best to just — relax and let Harry lead.
He tenses up when Harry kisses him — does his best to relax; his best isn't great — his heart is still pounding. Harry can feel it better now, pressed together like this.