"The next thing is perks and flaws, which are the last mechanical choices." 

"Tell us of these perks and flaws, then."

"The perks are Bad For Her, Good For You, Early Start, Extra Minion, Feminine Wiles, Goddess of Beauty, Good Ending, In Love, Lady of Battle, Magic-User, Magical Prodigy, Marvelous Talent, Off The Rails, Ohohoho!, Scientific Revolution, Silk Hiding Steele, Surprisingly Useful Skill, Unearthly Insight, and Yuri Heroine. You all get Magic-User for free as a result of your choice of magic level. Scientific Revolution is utterly moot since it requires a lower tech level."

"Can we have, like, two-sentence summaries of what each of them do? Or a pamphlet. Now that I think of it, a lot of this information would be better conveyed in pamphlet format."

"I've had people request pamphlets before, and I did actually have some made up, but they keep varying things so the pamphlets aren't strictly accurate to your current situation. For example, they assume only one villainess, not a committee of three, and there are some things that had to be taken out to account for that. If you want the pamphlets anyway I can provide them." 

"You could give us the pamphlet and summarize the inaccuracies?" she suggests.

"Here's the part that deals with perks and flaws," she says. "You can't have Equal Friend, Equal Enemy, or Double Route." 

"What avenues are there for earning perks? How many may we each take?"

"You get four free perks each, plus any earned from other mechanical choices--hairstyle, Ending: Death, Magic Level: High, etcetera--plus a perk for every flaw you take, except for flaws mandated by other mechanical choices, such as Species: Elf." 

"I want Early Start and Unearthly Insight for sure...if one of us takes Yuri Heroine, does that benefit all of us or is only the one who took the perk potentially able to seduce her?"

"That perk will benefit everyone, but it will only synergize with Good Ending if the same person takes both." 

"Pity me," says Ghys, staring down at her copy of the pamphlet and tapping her fingertips against her lips, "for I am forced to choose between practicality and poetics."

"I don't know about pity, but yeah, ouch. What are you thinking of in particular?"

"I would like to take Bad for Her, Good For You and set the heroine's terrible fate to Servitude, then take Servitude as my own ending for poetic purposes. But taking Servitude instead of Death would entail leaving an entire extra perk on the table, and as things currently stand, it would leave me unable to afford my intimidating laugh."

"Hm. Yeah, I see your problem. What are the four perks you're taking free? I have guesses but I'm not confident in them."

"Bad for Her/Good for You, Goddess of Beauty, Feminine Wiles... ah, I see my mistake. Being an elf does not remove a perk but rather forces a flaw. Yes?"

"Yes, that's correct." 

"In which case there are still things I want that I can't comfortably afford but the problem is a little less urgent. Thank you."

"Well, I know I want Surprisingly Useful Skill but I'm not sure what else I want because I haven't gone over the flaw list in enough detail yet. Can I pick what the skill is? I've got something in mind."

"You can!"

"Calligraphy."

"I'm tempted to take Save the World just to introduce a little more drama into the universe," Ghys muses. "And I'd be able to afford In Love if I did!"

"If you take Save The World then I'm taking There's Two of Them and the Extraordinary Commoner, if only to reduce the chances that the universe I live in gets broken."

"Come now, surely we can reach a reasonable compromise about the exact nature of the danger. I don't want the universe I live in to get broken either."

"I mean, it's also a flaw I can live with, and I would like more perks. Unrelatedly, you should take Dark Secret and have the secret be who you are as a person, particularly in relation to other people's skin."