"I'm going to end up needing pen and paper to draw out this social graph. Anyway, continue."

"That was an inevitable consequence of trying to fit as many people into one bed as possible. 'Feminine Wiles' is, well, a powerful talent for psychosexual manipulation of mostly men but also some women."

"Potentially helpful in enacting my plan!"

"Very true. Goddess of Beauty ensures that you'll be the single most beautiful woman in Villarosa, real Helen of Troy stuff including the part where also your political relevance is in fact more likely to start a war than how pretty you are."

"Oh, fun. I'll probably pass, though. I don't want my appearance optimized for anyone's standards but mine."

"Won't argue with that one. Good Ending is like Bad For Her, Good For You in that it affects he possible endings a player of the counterfactual video game could reach; this is one in which you, obviously, reconcile with the heroine instead of getting crushed by her. And we've discussed this maybe being not what you're looking for."

"I'm not opposed to it but I'm not inclined to spend my limited perk budget there."

"Lady of Battle ensures that whatever combat training you receive, you'll become a highly proficient fighter, on par with the greatest warriors of your kingdom, and also really cool to watch."

"That sounds like somebody who isn't me would have lots of fun with it."

"Some but not all people who aren't you do. Magic-User is exactly what it says, and comes free with a magic level of High."

"Reasonable enough."

"Magical Prodigy requires Magic User as a prerequisite, and enhances your magic in some way depending on how your magic system gets worldbuilt, but it might involve learning spells faster or having a larger mana pool or having access to magics that most people don't, as a few examples."

"Fun and aesthetically pleasing!"

"It's pretty popular with people who like the silver hair option. Marvelous Talent both gives you a strong talent for something, and makes that something a traditional practice for members of your age and social rank in Villarosa."

"Oh, very cute, very cute... I could maybe do something with that, if I have the budget to spare."

"Off The Rails is a sort of two-edged sword of a perk; your fake meta-knowledge becomes much less applicable as the narrative structures holding the story in place collapse, leading to it being easy to butterfly effect away major events and plot beats as trivially as by wearing a different dress one day, let alone any discrepancies between your personality and your 'canon' counterpart's."

"Potentially very useful!"

"I already told you about Ohohoho!...Scientific Revolution requires a tech level of Faux Medieval or Early Modern and greases the wheels for you to reinvent and spread technology at your previous world's tech level."

"See, I feel like I can just invent a world that already has the tech level I want, and save the fuss."

"Ah, but then you don't get the credit for the tech level. In all seriousness I think this is just another perk designed to appeal to someone who is not you."

"I think if I were pursuing a very different strategy I could take some joy in personally advancing the forefront of technology by several centuries. But given my aims here it would just end up distracting me from The Pile. Next up was... Silk Hiding Steel, I think, which you've also gone into? What came after that?"

"The next one is Surprisingly Useful Skill. This perk makes it so that, some skill that you already have, that you wouldn't expect to be particularly relevant in the kind of setting you're going into, instead will be. Maybe the magic system runs on a programming language you already know, or a kind of poetry you're good at composing is the most locally favored style and poetry is very socially important, or the silly dance you made up when you were twelve happens to delight a magical creature of some kind and they give you a boon. Something like that."

"Interesting. ...do I have to take this perk if I do a lot of detailed worldbuilding that bases the world's magic system on the magic I already know?"

"No, because that useful skill wouldn't be surprising."

"You know what, that's very fair!"