Bruce Banner has just returned from his lab, where his latest experiment came out really well. He should go straight to bed, because it's six in the morning, but he can't seem to become the right kind of tired, probably also because it's six in the morning. So instead he's watching the sun rise out the window of his cozy (tiny) grad-dorm single room.
"Well, there isn't a time limit to the quest--I guess if you graduate with your current major? But it's a long enough timeline that we can think of something better."
"Hmm. What if you just--started running psychology experiments and publishing papers? It's one of the less equipment-intense fields and it would be really impressive."
"So... we are the most powerful world-shapers in the history of humanity, right?"
"So... we should think about what we're trying to shape it for. I think for the past few days we've... basically been doing whatever our dicks want. And that's going to get us a society our dicks think is great, which I am not sure is going to be great for everyone else."
"Yeah, definitely. Going with what our dicks want will probably get the game to do more stuff faster, but it won't be as good as if we have some kind of long-term plan. I've got some quests that point at good long-term outcomes but we can do things without a quest too."
"Okay, so what does the world we want look like. --It might be a good idea to map out perks, it seems like perks are our big way of shifting the genre."
"Yeah, we probably want a whole list of which ones to take in what order." He pulls up the perk list and starts writing it down.
"Okay, leaving out the ones that you absolutely couldn't persuade me to take but including the questionable and/or lame ones and the ones I need to Google stuff about, we've got:"
(In/Suc)cubus
Absolute Territory
Agent XXX (sketchy)
Animal Whisperer
But S/He/They Was/Were Such a Good Student (done)
Cal's Curse Compounded (lame)
Childe of the Night (needs research)
Cinnamon Roll
Cultivator
Curse of Dresden (sketchy)
Curse of Tattletale (sketchy)
Diplomatic Immunity (sketchy)
Edgelord
Ero-Inventory
Ero-Travel
Everyone Knows
Everything Is Better With Ero (important)
Everywhere Erogenous
Fading Dream (sketchy)
Fairy-tale Painslut
Fake ID
Friends With Benefits
Home Base
Hyperhypnoslut
I Regret My Life Choices
I See You
I'm Not Explaining This Again
Idol (why)
In Love's Name, And For Love's Sake
In Nomine Status Quo
Inheritance (sketchy)
Innocence Temporarily Regained
James Bond of Bondage
Legoland
Let's Not Turn This Rape Into A Murder
Library of Sodom
Like Uber For Costumes
Lolita / Shota (only if the alternative is aging to death)
Look Who's Turned On
Mad Inventor (awesome)
Mad Scientist (awesome)
Marshmallow Test
Mating? Agreement.
Meguca
Mesmer Inoculant (important!)
Milliways
More Competitive Than You
Munchkin
Naked Before Me
No
No Comparison
No Regrets
Not Right Now You Don't
Obedience
Off Switch
Oh My God There's Two Of Them
Omnisexual
Perfect Sadist
Perfect Subbing
PhD in Harem Management (sketchy)
Poly Graph Test
Pretty Smart (sketchy)
Prize
Real Scientist (awesome)
S/layer
Seduce, Contain, Protect
Sex God
Sin of (lame)
Skip the Boring Parts
Slightly Smarter
Something About Marry
Soulbond
Student Councilor (sketchy)
Style On (what)
Subspace Explorer
Super Horny
Tastes Like Chocolate
That Is Not How Hypnosis Works (sketchy)
The Eye of Yandere (sketchy)
The Maou The Merrier (what)
Time Enough For Love
To Boldly Come Where No One Has Come Before (awesome)
Transsexual (important if shareable)
True Love Conquers All (awesome)
True Love Potion
Trust
Truth (important)
Tsundere
United Federation of Perverts (awesome)
Urban Legend
Vengeance Shall Be Mine
Wait I'm Not Ready For This
Wereslut
Werewhatever
What Are You Doing Here (sketchy)
What Dreams May Come (sketchy)
You Couldn't Help Yourself
You Didn't Hear That (sketchy)
You Fools Can't Stop Me
Yousexual
"Wow, there are a lot of options here. And nine or ten I definitely want. Are there any sketchy ones you want to make the case for or can I just cross all those out now?"