Chelsea gets off work when the dentist's office closes and she's done making everybody's reminder calls and making sure nothing's double-booked (or, well, something is, but she calls somebody and then it's not). Then she goes and waits for the bus and opens up her phone to see if she has any texts.
Sarah is making 2.89๐/minute and .2๐/day, if Chelsea checks her profile. Chelsea herself isn't making anything.
Well yeah, it wouldn't make sense for her to make herself any hearts, that would would just be dumb. Can she tell what things are affecting Sarah's heart generation - Sarah herself is still having fun looking at the app with her, right -
Despite the fact she's no longer actively masturbating about it, she still seems pretty rapt.
2.9๐/minute. There aren't any direct tips, but if she taps on the tracker she gets a graph which she can toggle between the rate and the direct number of hearts produced, which includes the bonuses she got for affecting Sarah directly (though not the ones she redeemed as gifts).
It starts at a very low but not-quite-zero rate at the moment of her collection, then rises pretty sharply after being told about the app. The first Mood Boost didn't affect anything but the second one did, putting her up over one per minute; contrary to the earlier popup, it looks like yanking her affection did totally impact her heart generation, and pretty positively. The sex helped, the bonbon helped, changing her body definitely helped. It's generally been creeping up steadily over time even when things aren't happening.
2.94๐/minute.
"It's going to be a round three a minute any second now. Do you have a guess what exactly is driving it - I'm not doing much right now -"
Kisses! And then she's going to fling on a bathrobe - up to Sarah if she wants to get dressed or not but Chelsea does not actually have another bathrobe - and they can go to the breakfast nook and instead of microwaved chili they can have a magical Candlelit Dinner.
Sarah throws on her shirt and underpants but leaves the rest of her outfit in a pile vaguely on top of her bag.
The area around the breakfast nook has been inconspicuously tidied, and the table itself has a champagne tablecloth and a swoopful centerpiece on it which Chelsea definitely didn't own before. The candelabras are elegantly simple; the napkins are folded into rosettes which might not be quite topologically possible given that they shake out into flat squares. Dinner is salmon over alfredo pasta, apparently, with caesar salads on the side and some sort of sparkly fruit drink in the crystal glasses.
"Oh, yummy. I wonder if the napkins and the candles and plates and stuff stop existing after we eat..."
"They're nice and my current dishes don't go together anyway. I think I expect them to stay. But I don't know if that means that they will!"
"Adding two more sets of new dishes doesn't help that! - But I guess it also doesn't hurt it and maybe you like these better than your other stuff."
"I like them more than most of my other stuff but not the bowl one of my friends in high school made for me in ceramics class."
"Aw. But yeah, even if you're at capacity, you only need to like them more than your least-favorites for them sticking around to be a win." Nomf. "- This is really good. I wasn't really expecting it not to be, but it sure still is."
The meal is delicious, and keeps being so in each bite. Something about it doesn't let her acclimate enough for it to become boring, or even particularly beneath notice. It's good, and a little bit surprisingly good, with every forkful.
"I beeet this means that if you got the room makeover it would just turn out fine, even without a soothe landlord button," Sarah singsongs.
"I bet it would turn out absolutely stunning but I don't know if I should expect it to soothe my landlord! Would this dinner be somehow soothing to a landlord in some way I'm not seeing?"
"Not specifically..." Mmm salmon. "It being better than we expect in one way makes me think it might be convenient in other ways, too. I would have already done it, but - I'm me, I guess. And you're you, and you're in charge."
"I guess I'm just thinking about the case where it's giving you a lot of treats at the beginning, and then later you have more power in general, but have to work harder for specific things. You know? Such that you can deal with the landlord by the time it would become a problem, but would also have to hire contractors and do your own design in ways that wouldn't be as good as what would happen if you bought the thing. ...Does your landlord like, come around, ever? Or live in the other half of the house or something?"