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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.
"Furthermore, as a gay trans man, 'make the decision I want you to or you might get AIDS' is a significantly more loaded line of argument for me than it is for you."
"I know you didn't mean it that way. But I want you to know that that's how it sounds."
"— Sasha, my room, I am going to come hug you in — some number of minutes. Lev, please don't."
Sasha nods, a little bit shaky, and stands up (his pancakes are maybe a third eaten) and goes to Marlo's room.
Probably if a person says 'please don't leave' they want you to stick around.
Also, he can always hear Marlo out and then go hide in his dorm room forever and never speak to anyone ever again.
It's a nice hug.
He doesn't manage to not think about the possibility that it might be his last hug ever.
"He doesn't hate you and he's going to be okay," Marlo says, hoping he's right about what Lev is thinking right now. "He's just — freaked out and can't talk about it in a way he'd be happy with later, right now."
"I know I don't have to. I like hugging you. I want to be nice to you. And — I am planning on giving you magic, I just think that if it recommends I be married to you for a thousand years first I should wait until I've known you for more than a week."
He laughs. It's a little sad.
"That's-- probably a good idea. I just. --You could decide you don't ever want to see me again whenever you want and then I would have no way of learning more about one of the most important unsolved mysteries in the world and. I don't know how I can go back to doing psychology when I know the Erogame exists."
He puts a hand on the back of Lev's head.
"On the flip side, if you decide you never want to see me again, I wouldn't want you to be tied to me unbreakably for the rest of forever."
"I don't think there's actually a thing you could do that would make me not want to see you. Not because of you as a person, just because you're tied to the Erogame and the Erogame doesn't make any sense."
"....I'm not sure exactly how I feel about the idea of you not wanting to be friends with me and only staying around because you're curious about the magic sex game that has become my life but I don't like it."
"That's-- not what I meant at all, I'm sorry, I don't want to pretend to be your friend that sounds awful, I just mean-- from my perspective it sounds great that the Erogame will keep arranging for me to coincidentally run into you even if we aren't friends, so you shouldn't worry about me on that front. You should worry about you, that might suck for you, but for me it's great."
He nods and doesn't take his hand off the back of Lev's head. "That's good."
"Do they have a perk for not constantly putting your foot in your mouth."
"....you can raise your 'flirting ability' stat but I think mostly the thing you want is just — getting to know people."