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.
it's fine
be safe use protection etc etc
He should probably ask while he's thinking about it.
do you want to go to the library when I get off work?
....he takes a moment to thank the Erogame and also God that Sasha is even alive.
then we should definitely
and I met someone there yesterday who I think you'd like
A skill has been created by a special action! Setting up Sasha and Lev has created the skill Matchmaking.
Info/Skills/Matchmaking
Matchmaking. Lvl 1. Active. 1 D|S/use.
You can tell whether two people would have a happy relationship. Higher levels provide more information about relationship quality and characteristics and the situation necessary for success.
...he's pretty sure the erogame was pushing him this way before, but he checks whether Sasha and Lev would have a good relationship anyway.
He gasps audibly, lets his eyes fall closed.
The game already promised him Sasha would be safe and happy, but — it's going to be a love story, and love stories have happy endings, that's how this works, that's the kind of thing he gets to believe in now —
+1 ERO for figuring out the Erogame is a story to which story tropes apply.
+1 ERO for figuring out its genre.
He doesn't start laughcrying at his desk.
It's a close thing, though.
After work he picks Sasha up and drives them to the library and listens to him talk about the books he's been reading.
Lev is near the front of the library next to a dozen books about psychology and a single untouched book about electrical engineering.
.....cute.
"Hi," he says once they're close enough that he can do that at a library volume, "Sasha, this is Lev, he's the guy I told you about. Lev, this is my friend Sasha. Do you want me to grab you anything?"
"Mystery book? Not one of the ones from a series of three hundred. Hi, Lev."
Oh no, he's cute.
"Sorry," he says as Marlo walks away toward the mystery section. "What are you reading?"
"What are you sorry about? --I'm supposed to be doing my electrical engineering homework but I haven't lost enough will to live yet."
"Interrupting you, mostly, it looked like the psychology book was interesting."
He looks at Lev, in a not particularly heterosexual kind of way. "I'd agree."
Oh god he is being flirted with this is the best day of his life.
He promptly ruins it by saying, "the book is really interesting too though, I'm reading about the development of facial recognition, Professor Quinn says I can sit in on a graduate seminar next semester if I cram the prerequisites."
He does!
And he also, in an act of extreme bravery, rests his foot next to Sasha's foot.
He stutters and completely loses track of what he was talking about.