Oh yay Bruce doesn't think he's stupid and terrible for only really enjoying sex with one person.

Kissing is very distracting. What were they supposed to be doing?

Well, Bruce was supposed to be going and making a fool of himself in the hope that he'll get a point of ERO for it. He eventually extracts himself from the kissing and goes to do this, mostly by convincing himself that if the game disapproves of his plan there just won't be any gorgeous particle physicists in the coffee shop, and if it does approve then he kind of has to follow through.

+1 ERO for your first, but not last, attempt to summon a gorgeous particle physicist. Next time there will be pentacles.

Soo Jin Park is in fact sitting in a coffeeshop reading a book. 

Oh dear, what has he signed himself and also an innocent bystander up for.

He buys some time by buying a coffee and then goes and sits at the adjacent table and tries to scope out what book she's reading without being obvious about it.

She's reading Two Knotty Boys Show You The Ropes. There are pictures.

Okay, wow, that's probably an encouraging sign re: how open to being flirted with she is. Or is that the sort of fucked-up logic people use to justify ignoring a woman's rejection? Well she hasn't rejected him yet, anyway. 

"That's an interesting-looking book." Maybe she will ignore him and he will give the whole thing up as a bad idea . . . but he hopes she doesn't.

"It is!" she says. "I wish I had someone to try it out with."

Bruce is momentarily surprised, which means he has failed to update on recent observations. What would someone who knew what they were doing say? "Surely someone as pretty as you doesn't have trouble finding people to do things with."

"Everyone's so experienced," she says. "I want someone who has as little experience as I do so I don't feel embarrassed."

"I'm very inexperienced." God DAMN it, his own foot was not supposed to be part of this balanced breakfast, especially with coincidence bending over backwards to help him out.

She smiles at him. "Great! Want to try some of this out? --The easier ones."

Apparently his own foot is nutritious after all. "Sure. Um. Your place?" 

"Sounds great!" she says. "Do you have much experience with rope?"

"Not really. Just, er, theory." By which he means it keeps turning up in porn and sometimes the porn has author notes with safety advice he hasn't vetted. "But I'm always up for learning things." How is she even prettier in person than on television, people are supposed to be prettier on television.

"Well, we can learn together!" she says, and escorts him to her room.

Does he want to hear about her research?

He absolutely wants to hear about her research! He has intelligent albeit layperson-y questions.

And then once they get up to her room she strips naked and shows him her brand-new ropes, and he can try to figure out how a chest harness works.

She's a genius and he has a book with pictures in it; they'll get the hang of it pretty quickly even if he's initially very nervous about touching her.

Does she want him to be naked too? It seems only fair. And then she could try things on him as well.

That sounds fun!

Then she can tie him to the bed and ravish him. 

He is a big fan of her work on so many levels.

+1 PRV for dipping a toe into BDSM.

A skill has been created by a special action! Tying up your partner has created the skill Rope Use.

Info/Skills/Rope Use

Rope Use. Lvl 2. Active. 3 D | use.

You can apply rope bondage-- aesthetic, elaborate, practical, or difficult to escape-- to a variety of bodies and in a variety of situations. You are also aware of basic safety precautions. Your skills are strictly natural and cannot defy the laws of physics.

Quest completed: Come Out And Level Up.

+1 SED
+1 FUK
+10,000 XP

You have leveled up!

Yeah points! The level-up means he probably has some new stat points to allocate before the orgy.

"That was both fun and educational," he says. He feels like he should warn her about the ominous pentacles comment somehow but he doesn't even know what the warning would need to be, so, punt.

"Yeah!" she says. "One of the most fun tutoring sessions I've had in a while."

"Maybe we'll run into each other again sometime," he says on his way out.

He can't wait to tell Aarons about this. Actually, he should tell Asher too, it was his idea.

Hey Asher--your summoning idea worked perfectly! My life is the best implausible nonsense.

I'm a genius <3