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.
"— uh, it says you got the Real Scientist perk, let me see what that does —"
Info/Perks/Real Scientist
Real Scientist: Your unusual experiences have given you insight into open questions in human sexuality, leading you to form new testable hypotheses. You instinctively understand experimental methodology and statistics. So long as you report your outcomes honestly, other scientists will discuss your results seriously; and overlook your lack of credentials along with any questions about the morality or possibility of your experiments. You can write proficiently in LaTeX if you are wearing latex. If you simultaneously hold the perks Mad Inventor, Mad Scientist, and Real Scientist, you become able to develop reproducible technology, including the experimental apparatus required for others to further investigate and extend your discoveries. An actual PhD in a scientific field, acquired the hard way, can substitute for the Real Scientist perk in this trinity. 1 point, available at 30 ERO.
He reads that out loud. "Apparently it's a reward for me telling you about the game, I also got experience points."
"This is super weird, I had a bunch of knowledge of how sex works downloaded into my brain-- and experiments I could do-- and I can feel the ability to do LaTeX-- I'm not wearing latex."
"Maybe you can feel the ability now but can only use it if you're wearing latex? I have a slightly ridiculous number of rubber gloves in my bathroom if you want to try it out sometime without buying fetish gear first —"
"Uh, no, latex gloves don't count, it has to be fetish gear-- I can tell-- this is so weird--"
"That is weird — I wonder why it only gives you a perk for finding out about the game and not me —"
"When I told you about it I got the hypnosis skill."
And suddenly the existence of Hyperhypnoslut's Master makes so much more sense.
"--you know, this is nice, but they could have made me a really hot guy, and then there wouldn't be some random short chubby ugly Jew hanging around their sex game. I really question their judgment."
"I object to including Jew in that list just because that generally seems kind of suspect, and also we both like the way you look. — Sasha I assume you like the way he looks."
"I do in fact like the way you look," says Sasha, a short Jew who wishes he were chubby.
"I'm glad the sex aliens are right, if they weren't we might run into some problems."
"Look, I'm not arguing with having a bunch of knowledge of human sexuality suddenly downloaded into my skull-- although I already know statistics, they should have given me another thing--"
Quest available: Beautiful All Along.
Convince Lev he's actually attractive to anyone. Note: successful completion of this quest unlocks the 'Give Lev Any Self-Esteem Whatsoever' quest tree.
Success: +10000 xp, +1 ERO.
Failure: More awkwardness whenever Lev criticizes himself for a physical trait Sasha also has.
+1 ERO for shapeshifting in front of current or potential harem members.
Yes.
"I don't write the perks or Hyperhypnoslut's Master wouldn't exist and Herbal Remedy would tell me what it was and not just say 'your personality is changed to Z.'" He's smiling.
"You can earn points towards things that just normally gaining skills wouldn't give you and those are called perks. Hyperhypnoslut's Master is —" and he finds it and reads the text of the perk description out loud.
Lev was going to ask whether Marlo's shapeshifting was a perk but then he observes the face Sasha is making and bites his tongue.
"That doesn't actually sound like something you would like having, but —" and you'd be lying if you said he didn't sound a little bit longing.
"--I have literally no idea what would be hot about letting someone else control your brain."
"The thing I like about being tied up is vulnerability and trust and this is that times a trillion — and it's like the subbiest thing you could possibly do — and also I imprinted on vampire novels as a preteen although the cause and effect might be a little mixed up on that one —"