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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.
Marlo certainly doesn't look like he thinks this is stupid! He doesn't have anything in particular to say but he nods and generally looks interested.
Lev has entirely forgotten that he is anxious and is working himself into a passion.
"It's really terrible! More than half the textbooks I've looked at so far have included inaccurate statements about Kitty Genovese, seventy percent misattribute the discovery of Broca's area to Paul Broca, every textbook that mentions Korean POWs says they were brainwashed into confessing, I keep seeing the Stanford fucking Prison Experiment--"
"— I recognize three of those names and don't know how many of them I know anything accurate about, given this conversation —"
Lev's face lights up.
"Well, uh,-- Broca's area is the part of the brain that processes language, he confirmed that the area processes language through doing autopsies on brain-damaged patients but he didn't actually discover it, that was Ernest Auburtin. Korean POWs were tortured until they were forced to confess, not brainwashed. Kitty Genovese was not a victim of the bystander effect, she was murdered in front of only a few neighbors and several of her neighbors called the police. I'm not sure I can explain the problems with the Stanford Prison Experiment quickly, there are so many--"
Lev looks at him like he is the most important person in the world while Lev talks enthusiastically for ten minutes about all the problems with the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The physical sensation of gaining a point of LST is really not his favorite thing.
He doesn't show this to Lev, of course.
Lev keeps chattering about the Stanford Prison Experiment and then says, "I'm sorry. I should, uh, ever let you say something."
He keeps looking at Marlo with the face of a kid at Christmas looking at a box shaped exactly like the video game system he asked for.
"--I should probably get started on my electrical engineering homework anyway," he says, sounding way less happy.
....probably that's just the face of someone who doesn't like their homework.
"Something I can do to make that less unappealing?"
Kiss me, he thinks.
"I dunno, electrical engineering is just sort of in general unappealing. --Sorry if you really like it, I don't even know what you're majoring in."
"I'm not in college and have no opinion on electrical engineering. If you hate it why are you doing it?"
Quest available: Lev Aarons Is A Disaster
Lev's parents moved from Russia in order to give their son a better life. Unfortunately for Lev, their idea of a better life is rather specific, and whenever he contemplates coming home from a long day's work as an engineer to kiss his loving wife he wants to throw himself off a bridge.
We also want to give Lev a better life. One that's freer. More intellectually interesting. Less lonely. More ero.
Objective #1: Get Lev a boyfriend. +200 xp, +1 SED, improved relations with Sasha.
Objective #2: Convince Lev to major in psychology and become a grad student. +1250 xp, ???.
Objective #3: Convince Lev to come out to his parents. +400 xp, ???.
Objective #4: Tell Lev about the Erogame in a way that makes him believe you. +600 xp, Lev has Real Scientist perk.
Objective #5: Get Lev a second boyfriend. +1000 xp, +2 LST, ???
Objective #6: ????
Objective #7: ????
Objective #8: ????
Objective #9: ????
Objective #10: ????
...you know what, sure, Y.
"That's fair," he says, and tries to figure out how to introduce Lev to Sasha — maybe if he brings Sasha to the library with him?
"Sorry I assumed you were at college, I just thought-- with the library and things-- sorry."
"No, it's fine. I've been getting books for my friend for the last year or so, it's not a weird thing to think."
He hears the tone Marlo puts on the word 'friend' and looks like someone punched him in the gut.
"I mean lots of people don't go-- it's fine-- what do you do?"
If he has another work day like today he's going to quit. Not that Lev needs to hear that.
"I'm a police officer."
Lev looks a little bit disappointed not to have the opportunity to infodump about eyewitness testimony.
"I-- guess I should get started on my homework."