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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.
Harry seems to view "we can figure something out" as a promise that this is completely settled.
That's good.
He does have to go into work the next day, unfortunately; he keeps an eye out for chances to offhandedly mention his boyfriends.
When he checks his email, he sees:
Subject: Sex trafficking undercover work
We have had a great deal of difficulty shutting down this gay sex trafficking organization. The detectives on the case believe the only way to shut it down is for someone to wear a wire and go undercover as one of their victims. Due to the risks involved, we are looking for volunteers.
Subject: Bodyguarding
Prince Bandile of Norzue will be visiting Boston for a few weeks and wishes to hire a local police officer as bodyguard and escort. For political reasons, this will count against your work hours.
Quest available: Modern-Day Slavery
They just can't crack this gay sex trafficking ring. What they need is a brave volunteer willing to wear a wire and go undercover as one of their victims. It will be dangerous. You'll have to act exactly like one of their victims in every way. But without you they'll never be able to shut it down.
Success: +15,000 xp, improved relations with boss
Failure: Begin 'Marketplace Training' quest.
Quest available: Bodyguard Crush
Prince Bandile needs a bodyguard. Keep him safe, show him the sights, obey his every whim... the usual.
Success: +10,000 xp, ??????
Failure: 'Survivor guilt' status effect
He'll take the bodyguard job — he clicks yes and opens a wikipedia tab on Prince Bandile and another on Norzue — but he thinks his boyfriends might have some opinions about him agreeing to enter a sex trafficking ring.
Norzue is a small African country of two million people. It is in theory a democracy where the king has a purely ceremonial role, but in practice people keep electing the king president. It has a great deal of diamond and mineral wealth, which-- in defiance of all logic about small African countries with immense diamond and mineral wealth-- was invested in health, education, and infrastructure instead of in the military, Swiss bank accounts, and giant statues of the king. It appears on the top of lists such as "Most Developed African Countries," "Least Corrupt African Countries," and "African Countries With The Freest and Fairest Elections."
Prince Bandile does not have a wikipedia page. His father's Wikipedia page is substantially devoted to his pro-business policies and strong advocacy for adequate treatment of HIV/AIDS.
....he's pretty sure he's going to like Prince Bandile. He's also pretty sure that was the point.
(Did that email response count as coming out at work? Probably not until someone sees it. Whatever.)
A few hours later he has open a slightly ridiculous number of wikipedia tabs and two tabs of Google images.
Prince Bandile has a cute and disarming smile and historically made some ill-advised beard decisions.
Norzue continues to be generally well-governed with absolutely no history of human rights violations whatsoever.
If he digs into Bandile's Google News results, he will find some stories about Bandile's inoffensive charity work and public statements advocating for free trade, opposition to climate change, and LGBT rights. He triple-majored in political science, economics, and philosophy. His undergraduate thesis was on the application of Amartya Sen's capabilities theory to public policy prioritization in Norzue. He graduated last year.
He does not even a little bit understand this thesis paper but he reads it anyway, or at least makes an attempt to read it, until his usual work day ends.
Prince Bandile is extremely snarky about colonialism.
Quest objective "come out at work" complete
+600 xp
Marlo can already tell he's going to like him, but just in case, what does Matchmaker have to say — about Bandile and him, and Lev, and Sasha, he's pretty sure that not Harry —)
Bandile and Marlo: The feeling of being a paladin; fighting back-to-back.
Bandile and Lev: A trusted adviser and his king; a sense of admiration.
At Bandile and Sasha it objects that he does not have enough DOM.
Marlo's boss says that Bandile will be in town in three days, and Marlo can just take the next three days off, since he'll probably be busy with Bandile anyway.
He can do that.
This is the first night in — it feels like forever even though objectively it isn't very long — that he's gone home with the intention of falling asleep alone.
Quest available: My Bed Is Cold Without You
In the next 24 hours, sleep with three people you did not previously know and enjoy it. Do not fall in love with, start dating, or consider yourself personally responsible for any of them.
Success: +1 ERO, 1 perk point, 10,000 xp
Failure: --
.........well.
The game has pretty clearly proven it isn't trying to hurt him, and it seems like it's pretty invested in keeping him safe. That doesn't mean he should definitely take this quest but it does mean that if it sounds appealing he should give it a shot.
And one perk point is a lot.
He clicks yes, and then googles "how to find casual sex," because of the person he is.
The Internet would like to inform him about the existence of Grindr!
A map helpfully points out several bars and bathhouses in his area, a Quora answer from last Friday explains that there are many glory holes in Boston, and last weekend the first sex-okay fetish club in Boston had its grand opening.
Yes, he is aware of the existence of grindr. He hates bars and the idea of gloryholes kind of makes him want to throw up, but he'll try the fetish club and see how that goes.
Shirtless can be appropriate if he's wearing a skirt, or leather pants, or blue jeans and nice boots, or maybe no pants at all and actually just underwear.
this was a terrible idea and he should never have stop that.
Marlo does not actually own leather pants or a skirt but nice boots are doable; he isn't sure what he's expecting the inside of a fetish club to look like.
Well, the part he walks into looks like a cocktail party-- all soft comfy couches and non-alcoholic drinks and plates of cheese-- except for the sound of whips cracking from the room next door.
He happened to run into gay men's night, of course.