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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.
"....neither did I, really, before Sasha. I thought I did but I didn't. But — you learn where his buttons are and you learn not to trip on them, it just takes more than a few days."
"He doesn't hate you. He's terrified of dying but he knows you didn't mean it that way, he's just — scared and hurting and until less than a week ago his worst nightmare was happening to him — and he's freaking out in ways that mean he shouldn't be here for this conversation but he doesn't hate you and he's not going to hate you."
"I don't want him to die either, I was trying to make sure it wouldn't happen--"
"I know," he says, and pets Lev's hair. "And he knows. And when he's less freaked out he'll be able to actually process that."
"I know I should think about it logically but I just keep thinking that I can stop being ugly and I won't get HIV and you won't go away and that's just the things I know about, there could be so much more--"
He doesn't know what to do except hug Lev tighter.
"I can answer questions? Some of the answers might be 'I don't know,' but —"
"I don't really want to because I'm scared I'm going to say something else stupid and then you'll be mad at me too."
Now he's just crying a bit into Marlo's shoulder.
"I don't want to hurt him, it's the most important thing not to hurt him, and I keep doing it on accident because I'm a fuckup--"
Cuddle, he thinks, and rubs circles into Lev's back.
"He's already hurting, for reasons that have nothing to do with you unless you personally invented cancer, and sometimes you say things that remind him of it just like I did, and none of that means you're a fuckup."
"I love you. I-- really want him to be okay. I want to make him happy."
"Because you care, and you're interested in things and you like talking about them, and you're adorable when you're happy, and you're curious and you ask lots of questions he wouldn't have thought of, and you like talking about the things you're interested in and you can explain the things you know in a way that makes sense to him, and you're very good for cuddling with."
"Okay," he says, and curls up on Marlo's shoulder. "I think-- you should do the thing that is best for him now. I don't know if that means leaving him alone or leaving me alone or letting us talk about it."
"Okay," he says, and kisses Lev's forehead, and disappears into his own room for two minutes — three —
Erogame, he thinks as clearly as possible, if you make me find a sex book I will scream.
He closes his eyes, runs his hand along the bookshelf, and picks a copy of Interview with the Vampire.
Close enough.
When Marlo comes out of his room again Sasha is curled up in his arms.
"Hey."
"It's okay. You didn't mean it that way."
He opens his arms, offering a hug but not hugging him directly.
And now he has an armful of Lev.
"It's not fair," he says. "To say that you know what it's like to be told 'you need to do this thing or you'll get HIV' and I don't."
"--I mean I haven't told you much about my parents so you couldn't know but. I got that message very clearly."
"I still shouldn't have said it, it was a really big assumption that I shouldn't have made in the first place, it just — got to me more than it should have."