from chime to bell | Glowfic Constellation

Bella is confronted with many things that make no sense and are absolutely bizarre.

The first one is a purple-pink character creation menu for a fucked up video game floating right before her eyes:

Isabella Swan
"The Erogamer"

LVL: 1 (0 / 200)

Stats

DOM: 0 / 150

SUB: 0 / 120

BOD: 20 (+)

LST: 5 (+)

SED: 7 (+)

FUK: 8 (+)

PRV: 7 (+)

ERO: 35

Stat Points: 5

Status Effects: None

Description: Our heroine is a person of unknown age whose personality has been transplanted into the body of someone who was way in over her head, plucked from the oceans of possibility from nearby universes to be the kind of person who could... you know... get to a state where she's not completely fucked, literally and metaphorically, in the same way this body's previous inhabitant was and is. Her resourcefulness, self-awareness, and overall competence are... reasons that the Erogame could have used to choose her as its gamer, but in point of fact she was kind of shoved into it by the person the Erogame did choose instead of her.

Good luck, by the way.

Skills

Erogamer's Body (Lvl MAX): The biological ability to live your life as an erogame. Venereal disease doesn't exist for you, or periods or pregnancies or yeast infections. Arbitrarily large appendages can fit inside any of your orifices. You heal from all marks with a good night's sleep, ready for the next day's adventures. Other aspects of this skill depend on the BOD stat.

Erogamer's Soul (Lvl MAX): A different player might have received an Erogamer's Mind skill to unlock their potential and allow them to play the game as it is meant to be played. You really didn't want that, and didn't really need that. This core skill only prevents your mind from being fundamentally and permanently damaged by extreme sexual experiences, and allows you to make voluntary use of the FUK, SED, LST, and PRV stats.

Erogamer's World (Lvl MAX): The consent of reality to live your life as an erogame. People are never too preoccupied to consider sex or romance, not while you're around. Bystanders won't ignore what you do, but they're unlikely to actually stop you. Those who do decide to involve themselves are drawn into the logic of the Erogame. If you go far enough that an authority sees no choice but to intervene... they won't treat you as a simple criminal. Other aspects of this skill depend on the ERO stat.

Perks

From Chime to Bell:

Your name is changed to Isabella. Your personality is changed to Isabella. Other Isabellas consider you to be one of them.

My Mind to Control:

No nonconsensual mind control or mind reading effects will affect you any more than you permit them to. Devices will output incomplete or incorrect results or just break down, situations will come up to prevent any such plots from coming to fruition, etc; in full generality, the world will not permit anyone to have more access to your mind than you allow them to, and you will always have the option to decide to withdraw permission for such at any point.

You can extend this protection to other people under mind control or reading effects you are aware of at any moment but keep in mind that generalised breakdowns of mind control devices or equivalent will be suspicious and attention-grabbing, and more physical means of subduing you are still perfectly functional. You cannot extend this ability to others while you are unconscious.

* Note: Many Erogame effects, such as the Erogamer's World skill, operate at a lower level than that, using probability manipulation and other subtle reality-altering effects in order to cause you to encounter the appropriate people and situations; those are unaffected by this perk. Only in-story mind control and/or reading effects (including those you apply by acquiring supernatural and/or technological mind control/reading skills, perks, powers, or devices) can be negated in this way. You are inherently assumed to be consenting to any mind-altering effects you apply on yourself, including those caused by increasing stats such as PRV or FUK.

Info // Character Stats

LVL / Level: The quantified totality of your potency as an erogame character. The effect of this characteristic goes beyond just the 5 extra stat points you get per level, and the additional perk point you receive every 5th level.

BOD / Body: Your physical attractiveness, and other biological capabilities. At higher levels, your body becomes able to enact more exotic erogame events.

LST / Lust: The intensity of your sexual urges, and how easy it is to get you going.

SED / Seduction: Your ability to seduce others, to pique their interest and arouse their desire.

FUK / Fucking: Your ability to perform in bed and give others pleasure... or other sensations.

PRV / Perversion: Your descent into the world of naughtiness, fetish, deviance, and corruption.

ERO / Erogame Logic: The extent to which the world will bend---or can be bent by you---to create romantic and sexual situations in defiance of probability. Or at higher levels, physics.

DOM / Dominant Energy: Based off SED and FUK, fueling skills that invoke your dominance, sadism, or mastery.

SUB / Submissive Energy: Based off LST and PRV, fueling skills that invoke your submission, masochism, or service.

Info // Character Stats // Level

At LVL 1, and 0% progress toward the next level, you're at the very start of your new life, a world of untapped possibilities lying ahead of you.

You can increase your level by completing the quests the Erogame offers you, or by causing romantic and sexual events to happen to you or around you. The more difficult the challenge, the greater the rewards.

Info // Character Stats // Body

A 20 in BOD makes you the prettiest person in a typical smallish room even when you aren't wearing makeup, which is always, or dressed up, which is almost always, but you might want to strategically cultivate an interest in those things because guess how this stat increases?

You can increase this stat through exhibitionism and other acts that invoke the pure beauty and power of your physical form.

Info // Character Stats // Lust

At a LST of 5, you're totally capable of sexual attraction, but it's not running the show and it shuts up and sits down whenever you want, which is great for lots of goals, but not necessarily for the goal of having fun with the Erogame. And, to be clear here, having fun is how you win.

You gain in this stat while experiencing sexual urges that are unusually intense or that go on unusually long.

Info // Character Stats // Seduction

7 in SED means that you have a divisive personality and passive flirtation style. The game is not wholly opposed to your grandest romances being with people who think you are spectacular and will move heaven and earth to get with you, but you could stand to have a repertoire.

You can increase this stat by arousing the romantic interest or sexual desire of others, and successfully pursuing them or being caught.

Info // Character Stats // Fucking

An 8 in FUK represents your virginity and lack of extended contingency planning, aka "fantasy life", but it's okay, some people are into that!

How do you increase this stat? Take a fucking guess.

Info // Character Stats // Perversion

Your PRV of 8 is unimpressively vanilla. You might be able to get kinky jokes, but only in the sense that you might get racist ones—nothing really outré speaks to you on an emotional level. But face it, this game would get really samey if you never bump this stat up at all. Whether it's whips and chains or whipped cream and chain of command is up to you.

You can increase this stat by looking for opportunities to get even kinkier.

Info // Character Stats // Erogame Logic

At an ERO of 35, your life is a physically possible eroge that isn't pretending at all to be plausible. People are definitely the kinds you'd encounter in an eroge, and their actions, while psychologically plausible, are still the actions of eroge characters. Technological progress is going quite a bit crazier than just twenty minutes into the future would imply, and things are no longer the way you'd learnt to expect.

If you keep pushing probability to its limits, then probability will learn to be a bit more flexible down there, relax and take it in and not protest so much.

Info // Character Stats // Dominant and Submissive Energy

If this were a different game, you'd have mana and hit points.

And they'd refill just from you sitting around on your ass doing nothing.

Lol

The second one is the absurd machinery attached to the chair she's sitting on, very The Matrix style, clearly meant to mess with her brain. Or at least she could infer so, given some of what the aforementioned character menu said.

The third one is the blissed out, and passed out, dude, over there behind her, wearing a lab coat and only a lab coat.

The fourth one is the fact that she, herself, is completely nude.

And the last one is the strange note in her lap:

Hi I'm Imogene

Get me out of here when you can maybe, I got wedged and the cameras will pick up on it if I walk out of here with my original personality but this way my non-original personality isn't whatever they wanna stick in my brain?

Um, sorry about that

Good luck

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Maaaaaaybe the "I need help" option becomes slightly more appealing when she does that? Maybe she's starting to think of ways to use that? Or maybe this is some sort of mental placebo effect, who knows.

new_game_plus

Well, she'd have a better idea if she had paper, but while there may be a time and place to lament coming into existence with a notetaking habit and no writing implements, it's not right this second.

She pokes SED again.

When she gets the third point to SED her character sheet closes on its own and a new window appears.

Quest available: Just One Boy

Oliver Houston is a lonely boy with a troubled past and a terrible secret. He's also an engineering genius whose secret research could be revolutionary.

That's probably a pretty good first attempt at seduction, right?

Success: Oliver Houston becomes a potential harem member, Oliver Houston becomes a potential harem member, Oliver Houston becomes a potential harem member, +1 SED, +1 LST, +1 ENG, +100xp, ???.
Failure: Oliver Houston remains lonely and you'll need to keep looking for other opportunities for housing.
Accept: Y/N

* Note: This is the first quest of Oliver Houstons' seduction questline. Seduction questlines are available for potential long-term partners and often either indirectly help with the main plot or straightforwardly advance it. You may drop these questlines at any point but this might have consequences.

new_game_plus

....ENG?

The Erogame offers no explanation.

new_game_plus

Well, that's kind of rude of it, but what could that reasonably stand for - in context, engineering; if it's trying to misdirect her, uh, engagement? English? Eng...raving? ...probably he just talks about engineering and she'll pick stuff up.

Anyway at least he sounds interesting, and not having a terrible secret would probably be a bit much to ask of this game which really doesn't want her to settle down doing normal person things somewhere.

She pokes SED up till she's out of points, one at a time.

Each point individually feels like nothing, but there's definitely a change in the aggregate, there. For one thing, the question of what tack she should go with to seduce Oliver she'd been considering just now has a pretty clear answer: she should look helpless, based on the description given by the Erogame it is likely this boy will cherish an opportunity to help someone else, and she should definitely show an interest in his hobby. This also comes with the understanding that this "answer" is just a skeleton of a beginning, and she should tailor her responses to him, and of course she can choose to not try to be maximally seductive, which is also likely to in its own way be seductive since nerds are often kind of interested in modes of interactions that are skew to what most people consider "seductive".

As soon as she spends the last point her character menu closes on its own again, replaced by the following window floating above the still-open quest window:

ERO Achievement: Minmaxer. You've spent all of your available stat points on a single stat in order to most effectively achieve your current goal. +100xp.

new_game_plus

...thaaaaanks? Yes, she will take the quest.

This mostly does feel like inoffensive skill-upping, though she should still keep an eye on it and in particular get PAPER or, dare she hope, a laptop or something, she thinks she knows how to type along with all the other stuff she knows how to do.

Like talk! Which she has never done ever in her life!

new_game_plus

Okay. Helpless. In need of help. Not sure what she's going to tell him if he asks her why but she will think of something.

She comes out from behind the rosebush and walks up to the door and rings the bell.

in_loves_name

As soon as she accepts the quest the window disappears.

After she rings the bell, there are a few seconds of silence followed by a few seconds of the kinds of muffled noise one might associate with someone generally existing and moving inside their house followed by the much less muffled noises of the door being unlocked and opened.

Oliver Houston is probably of a similar age her own body is, around early to mid twenties, a bit on the tall side, with an open, unguarded, curious face. He's also plausibly reasonably fit, at least based on what little she can make out of his shape: he's in sweatpants and a comfortable-looking long sleeved shirt, probably his pyjamas or something.

His greeting dies in his throat as he takes her in, his eyes widened and giving him a sort of deer in headlights look. "Um."

You've shocked a boy into silence with your bountiful beauty. +1 BOD.

new_game_plus

Oh he's pretty cute, that's convenient.

"- I need help," she says softly.

in_loves_name

"—right, of course," he says, kicked out of his shock, pulling his door open and stepping out of the way. "Come in, do you want a coat, it's cold—" He does not wait for her to respond before he's making himself busy by going somewhere else, presumably to get said coat.

new_game_plus

"Thank you." She steps into the house and pulls the door shut behind her. She had not actually particularly noticed it being cold? Huh. If there is a throw blanket on a sofa she might pull that over her shoulders while she waits for him to return.

A skill has been created by a special action! Failing to consider the fact that you should probably have been feeling cold while naked outside in the middle of the night has created the skill Ero Environmental Resistance.

The place is pretty nice: a living room with a sofa, a flatscreen, and numerous video game consoles including ones from the 80s; a dining room attached to it, small, expecting to see a handful more people at most; and a kitchenette, also not expecting very extensive use.

in_loves_name

Oliver emerges from the door he walked into with a coat. He's respectfully avoiding looking places and things, and offers her the coat with his eyes locked up. "Here, it might be a bit big but um probably good enough?"

new_game_plus

It's not like she knew what season or climate it was but, okay, gift horse, sure?

"Thank you," she says, putting it on. "It's complicated but I have literally - so, so literally - nothing and nobody in the whole world, and - I was just sort of wandering around trying to figure out what to do next and - you had a cute mailbox."

in_loves_name

That leaves his chin hanging open dumbly for a couple of seconds before he quite literally shakes himself out of it. "I'm glad it helped? Um, are you hungry, do you need anything—of course you need things, um, make yourself at home?" Can he do anything other than asking questions? "I could get you something to eat or drink or you could use my bathroom if you wanted or anything like that." He can!

new_game_plus

Does she need the bathroom? Not especially; presumably if nothing else Imogene would have made a pit stop before unwisely infiltrating a brainjacking operation. "Thank you so much, I'd love some water and, like, a snack? - I'm Bella."

in_loves_name

"—I'm Oliver. It's nice to meet you." (Wait, shit, is that sexual harassment, no one explained the rules of dealing with naked pretty strangers in your house aah.) "Savory or sweet? I have Haribos and peanuts and Pringles—do you have a peanut allergy?" He locks the door outside again and goes to the kitchen to get her some water.

new_game_plus

"Not historically, though with the day I'm having..." Eh, anaphylaxis is not sexy, probably safe. "It's nice to meet you too."

in_loves_name

He grabs two small plates and serves the Pringles and peanuts to separate plates, then balances both plates plus the water glass plus the bag of Haribos to his living room center table so she can grab them, then he takes a seat on the sofa but like all the way away from her so no misunderstandings happen.

"Can I ask what happened? —it's fine if you'd rather not answer."

new_game_plus

She eats a peanut to see if it gives her anaphylaxis! It doesn't. "It's a really complicated story? I'm not sure where to start and also frankly I'm not sure you'd believe me."

in_loves_name

"Unless that was a soft refusal, try me? If it was a soft refusal ignore me and pretend I tried to be reassuring and was probably too awkward to succeed."

new_game_plus

"...sure, okay, I will try you." How to put this. "I didn't exist an hour ago. I appear to have been imprinted by magic on someone's brain because she wanted to avoid having a different personality imprinted on her brain by science-fiction instead and didn't have a better idea for how to avoid that."

in_loves_name