"Well, if everything is about people's gross sexual fantasies it doesn't matter if I'm also fulfilling mine."

"I still think what you're into is nobody else's business, but if everyone else becoming more okay with sexy stuff makes you more comfortable then that's good." It is also potentially a lot of mind control but on the other hand maybe the game aliens did the sexual revolution and it's going to be more multifactorial social trends than one-to-one mind control and if he brings it up he'll just make Aarons feel guilty again.

"Anyway. Do you want to go check the coffeeshop for your crush? --And I guess I'll go read a book or something."

"Yeah. Or you could go check a different coffee shop for your celebrity crush. Give the experiment a control group, so to speak. Except here we'd be hoping the control and test groups get the same results. Or you can go read a book, up to you."

"I think you'd have to give me way more LST before I'd want to have sex with anyone except you."

Oh no, that's so cute and flattering and Bruce needs to grin stupidly about it. And maybe kiss.

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.