...

...........

Okay. She is in a brain-messing-with facility, she is of... yeah, "unknown age" sounds about right, that's disorienting and she doesn't have a lot of being oriented to compare with...

Okay. Or, not very, but, hey, it's as okay as she has ever been! In her entire life! Which has lasted, like, a minute and change.

Okay! Why does she keep thinking that.

Cameras. There are cameras, and they would have noticed Imogene walking out, but Bella will - walk - differently? And this will let her walk out of here? What, stark naked? - maybe in fact stark naked, maybe at "ERO 35" an apologetic smile and a story about how she, uh, spilled... something... would go over all right till she managed to - buy clothes? With what money, if Imogene had any she doesn't have it on her.

Other Isabellas? - Hello hello, paging other Isabellas? Halp? ...no immediate dice.

Okay. (WHY.) She isn't going to try to steal the labcoat, that might wake up Mr. Messes With Brains Probably. She is going to get up and - trip on some discarded underpants, okay - catch herself and walk carefully, out of this room, yes, stark naked, trying to look like she belongs here.

This is her "belongs here" face!

The door into the room she's in isn't locked, and it's only one of many identical-looking doors dotting a long, wide, professional-looking corridor. The long carpet is rouge and the occasional paintings on the wall tend to depict naked people, but tasteful naked people, the kinds of naked people that go on museums and the more mainstream art galleries. One end of the corridor is dominated by a tall window, the view outside which reveals that the time is "the sun isn't out", and the other end opens to a cosy sitting room with an opening to a set of stairs down. Across the sitting room from the corridor is a set of double doors which open to what seems to be a large... yoga class? Or something. There are other nude people—not all of them female—doing self-directed exercises in perfect silence, in there.

Okay. She is going to copy the slightly spacey expression off a naked yogi over there and walk - why is she so bad at walking - toward the nearest EXIT sign. Assuming the place is up to code.

Lol no.

The room with the yogi does not seem to have an exit (and if she pokes her head inside there will be literally zero acknowledgement of her), so unless one of the many identical doors is an exit it's prrroooooobably the stairs?

Yep! This vacant-looking naked girl is going to the stairs! And down them, since the view out the window suggests she is not underground!

It's a reasonably long way down—"climbing down a set of stairs from the second floor of a mansion" long, not "going into the catacombs" long—and the stairs spit her down into another cosy purposeless room with another corridor attached—but this one is shorter, and the opposite side from the corridor seems to lead to some kind of reception area. The door between the room she is in and said reception area is open, but as soon as she steps through it she will see a person clad head-to-toe in combat gear, including a futuristic-looking helmet, holding a futuristic-but-still-deadly-looking two-handed gun, standing next to said door.

They do not move an inch, or acknowledge her existence in any way, if she steps through.

The dimness of the "reception" reveals no receptionist, or anyone else, really, other than her, the "security" next to that door, and two more "securities" standing outside the building. She can see them through the tall wide glass walls that seem to make up a lot of the front of this building (at least one would assume it's the front, she can see a street a distance away from that), one to either side of the entrance, also made of glass. That room itself is two stories tall, sumptuously appointed, and has other doors presumably leading to other places that may or may not have more vacant-looking people, but trying to explore all of that is very unlikely to be a good idea.

Also, for the record, there are, in fact, cameras all over the damn place, if she looks for them. There is not a single corner of anywhere that doesn't have at least two cameras within line of sight of it.

Well, being spacey is kind of at odds with looking at things, but yeah, she's glancing around vaguely and she is noting the cameras. These would certainly have caught Imogene, but apparently they - maybe for brain-messing-with reasons? - aren't using "what she literally looks like", so they're - not catching Bella? Unless there's a silent alarm and she's about to be swarmed by goons but just walking out has gotten her within sight of the door.

She pushes open the door and walks right between the entrance securities without acknowledging them.

They also fail to acknowledge her in any way.

On the other side of the door is a beautiful garden, the type of garden you see in those TV shows about unreasonably rich people which has a winding path between the gates and the actual entrance of the mansion to force every guest to appreciate just how beautiful and rich-looking the garden is before they step into the even more beautiful and rich-looking mansion. The style is Greco-Roman, because of course it is, but it is rather visibly... well, not to put too fine a point on it, ero. Fountains (which are up and running even at this time of night, whatever it may be) shaped like nude people in ecstatic poses, bodies intertwined in ways that aren't even trying to pretend these people aren't fucking.

Tastefully.

And the walk down the winding path does let her catch glimpses of other such statues hidden between hedge mazes and trees that are substantially more explicit—or at least they probably are, all of the angles seem to be professionally set up so that the impression of explicitness could still be plausibly innocent, maybe, if the sculptor was doing something very clever. Given all the everything else about this situation, they're most likely just sex, though.

The gates between the garden and the street are guarded by two more goons, but beyond them is—a street. Regular-looking, probably, maybe, it's the middle of the night and nothing's really open and while this isn't a suburb or an extremely remote part of whatever city or town this is it is still not the center of commerce and so the sounds of human life are all muffled by either distance or walls.

Stroll stroll stroll through the tasteful sex garden. Walking walking (CAREFULLLY AUGH) between the next pair of guards, straight out onto the street, stark naked, trying super fucking hard not to look like she kind of expects to be arrested.

Once she has turned around a corner and is no longer in view of the sexy mansion she gets another game notification.

Quest completed: I'm A Real Girl

Objective: You have successfully escaped the creepy mansion with the creepy personality-editing tech used to turn people into sex dolls for immense amounts of money that may or may not actually materialise whenever they are released back into being real people (which may or may not actually happen). +150xp.
Bonus Objective: Don't break character. +50xp.

Your level has increased by 1!

ERO Notification: Your ERO stat is much higher than your other stats and has been locked. You cannot increase it until you have at least one other stat within five points of it and one within ten points of it, and its influence in the world will be diminished to a level of effect compatible with 18 ERO; reality will not be retconned, but its least plausible elements will be less salient to you

You may spend stat points to increase the level of effect, but your actual ERO stat will remain the same until the above conditions are met. Be careful when picking this option; stat points are not refundable and you will be forgoing getting actual real increases in stats. In-game events and other situations where you push the boundaries of plausibility within the story may also increase that level of effect, but never in a way that breaks the above conditions.

You may of your own volition go looking for the higher-ERO situations and effects and unlock the stat in that way, but be prepared to increase your other stats if you do so; you'll need them.

Okay. (There's that word again. Maybe it's just the kind of thing you think a lot when you've existed for five minutes all of which you have spent playing a bewildering sex-themed game in someone else's body.)

If the ERO situation is going to be "less salient" she might need clothes. She also needs food and shelter. Money would solve all these problems. The obvious thing there is probably that in this situation she can take up hooking but that seems like more of a fallback option. Also she hears having fun is how you win and it doesn't sound fun. Is the universe going to present her with an obvious alternate strategy here? She could see, hm, what's on-theme enough that the universe might help her out, modeling? They give her something to wear, they let her keep it and let her at the snacks in the break room, she walks away with enough for a hotel room?

The universe does not, for the first few seconds, give her an answer. But then she hears a male voice, difficult to understand because of the distance but quickly approaching, probably on his phone given the lack of any other voices.

When he gets close enough for her to notice that he's just around the corner up ahead she can starts making out his words: "...look, man, your situation is highly unusual. And I'm not gonna say you're not hot, you are, I have eyes, but this industry isn't just about looks."

- is he talking to her - or, uh, is the universe probability-manipulating his conversation into her earshot in order to talk to her -

- or is he actually in an industry that is about looks but not just those, such that it's conceivable he might scout her when he spots her as long as she has whatever other qualities are called for?

She will distinguish these situations by... standing here... as though waiting for a bus, which she can't afford, but he doesn't know that, except in the sense that obviously she can't afford anything whatsoever because she is completely nude.

He turns around the corner and starts walking towards her but doesn't immediately notice her. He's a fit thirtysomething in exercise clothes and looks like he was probably just having himself a late night run, based on how sweaty he is, but he's not very winded.

After a pause he replies to whoever he's talking to on his wireless earphones, speaking quickly: "Like I said, unusual situation. You could try your luck with that pretty face, it's not guaranteed to go bad, but the smartest route, in my opinion, is to make sure you have other stuff to fall back to when your pretty face isn't enough, grind those soft skills. You'll need to talk just as much as you'll need to fuck your way into and out of situations."

Well that would be more helpful if she HAD ANY STUFF but her pretty face. Like. Literal things. She doesn't have a phone or a home or a bus pass or a dollar to her name. Would she take some other job that landed on her completely pantsless lap, sure, but being naked is not a job skill for practically anything! Except that this universe is weird so maybe she is about to be introduced to the exciting world of competitive naked parliamentary debate!

"Okay, so—" But now he does look up and notice her. He does a once over and offers her a very appreciative grin and wink—not lecherous at all, or at least not obviously so—then turns his attention back to the conversation. "Sorry. What I was gonna say was, you do have some untapped resources for self-improvement. Hell, I even showed you some related stuff when we were talking earlier today, just before you had to go. Look into that, start slow and then look for opportunities to apply what you learned, rinse and repeat. I'm telling you, you'll need that, the gay porn industry is a nest of vipers and you'll want every advantage you can get to come out on top..."

And now he's too far to be properly heard again.

It... wants her to spend stat points? On fucking what? She literally can't make ERO go up, her pretty face is already pretty damn pretty, upping FUK or SED seem like they go down the road of "taking up hooking" which, like, it's not that she'd rather starve but it doesn't qualify as having fun, what would even be the possible remunerative benefit of being kinkier or hornier...?

Okay, no, step back, she doesn't literally need money in cold hard negotiable cash right now. She could make do for the moment with crash space and permission to raid a fridge. And, yeah, okay, following the theme, sure, one way people find crash space is by sleeping their way into it.

...

With fucking whomst, Erogame dear.

Well. She'll start walking again, increase the search radius for the goons if they notice Imogene did not leave by authorized channels, take particular care to check out people and signs and whatnot for messages from the universe, she feels so psychotic right now and she never even got to try not being psychotic, ugh.

Does the floating game message make her feel more or less reassured about her grip on reality?

Quest initiated: One Step After Another

Look for opportunities to start down the road of becoming the ero protagonist you are destined to be!

Success: You are a protagonist! Plus whatever side rewards you might get in the process of doing this.
Failure: Quest continues until completed.

She's looking, she's looking!

Okay, where does the kind of person who Bella wants to - date? hook up with? look vaguely appealing to? - in exchange for a place to stay and dinner hang out. Bookstore, maybe, or library. During the day, though. Or they're at work - who's at work at night, doctors? She could try to check into the ER and attempt to set up some kind of sexy nurse plot but there's nothing wrong with her, even her feet are actually holding up really well to all this barefoot wandering around she's doing. Or she could find a cute house that looks like it would belong to someone nice, knock on the door, look as bedraggled as possible given that it's not raining, and be like "it's a long story". "Out on a walk in the dark" is not implausible but also it's what she's already been trying and the universe seems to want her to work a bit harder than that.

Let's see how implausible the universe wants to be for her here. She wants to find somebody who lives in a cute little bungalow that has roses out front and a novelty mailbox that displays some personality and a light still on so she's not waking them up.

The universe does not offer her that immediately.

It does offer her that after a couple of blocks around a left corner. The novelty mailbox is shaped like an adorable little robot with the standard red flag thingy as an "ear" to make it clearer that it is in fact a mailbox.

Okay, that's cute. She pats the robot on the head and -

- right, what's her game plan here. The Erogame wants her to spend points, and maybe this calls for it. SED? It's... mind-altering, but in a skill-up way, right? Probably? If she can trust the nigh-omnipotent entity that dropped her into Imogene's body and wants her to be a sex game character, which, if you can't trust that entity, who can you trust, that's right, nobody, because you have met zero people in your whole brief life and came into existence inside a sinister brainjacking facility! Glad that's settled!

She smells the roses.

She takes a point of SED, just the one, to see how that sits.

It... doesn't feel like anything, at least in the sense of directly-noticeable changes. Perhaps all skill improvements were purely supernatural and wouldn't modify her own mind at all? Except her special perk seemed to imply otherwise.

It sure did imply that. Okay, what would she open with if she opened the door right now. Something like, "Hi, I know this is bizarre, but..." Or maybe just, "I need help"?

She pokes SED again to reevaluate from there, though it's possible it's entirely about, like, cold-reading people so she can maneuver through their reactions more effectively and she won't notice a thing till she talks to another human being, which she has never done ever in her entire life.

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.

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.

....ENG?

The Erogame offers no explanation.

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.

...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!

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.

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.

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

"- I need help," she says softly.

"—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.

"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.

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?"

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."

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!

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."

"—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.

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

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."

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."

"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."

"...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."

He grimaces. "Yeah, that's... hard to believe. But I believe you anyway, it sounds like it sucks a lot, I'm sorry."

Quest initiated: Don't Jump The Laser Gun

Oliver Houston is... not ready to be told this. He'd believe you, for reasons not unrelated to his terrible secret. You should figure it out before spilling the beans; he'll thank you for that later.

Success: Oliver Houston has a substantially easier time helping you and vice-versa, unspecified bad things will not happen to him, +1 Perk Point.
Failure: Oliver Houston freaks the fuck out, immediately offers to keep you in his house, unspecified bad things happen to him as a consequence of this, some of them will splash on you, your relationship route with him will suffer a serious delay. 

...

...okay, yeah, the terrible secret was no way no how going to stay irrelevant, but like this? That sucks.

Can she believe this thing that he will thank her for it later.

...probably? Like, if she can't put some weight on its assertions she's flying incredibly ludicrously blind. Even the assertion that she could fix it if she, aware of its shenanigans, tried again and applied "My Mind to Control" to Oliver, ultimately stems from the Erogame, and there is no particular reason to believe that it's actually six smaller erogames in a trenchcoat or anything like that.

It looks like he heard something that left him satisfied with the explanation, calm, and sympathetic. Is it going to matter specifically what? ...Maybe not? It's most likely either a) not a real explanation, just pure straight up "you heard a good explanation" injected straight into his brain, or b) at least very much consonant with her real needs and ability to answer followup questions.

So.

"Thanks, I'm just, you know, glad to be indoors and stuff now."

"Yeah. I don't have any girl clothes but probably I'm, uh, sufficiently taller than you that my stuff would work fine? And you can stay here overnight. I have to warn you, my awake times are weird, I'm going strong for another five hours still."

"Soooo not complaining. I'm not picky about what I wear. Or even about to crash right here on your sofa, my sleep schedule's sort of up in the air."

"—oh I have a guest bedroom you wouldn't need to sleep here. Or, I guess it's more like an office but stuff can be moved. Um. I, uh, should tell my boss something's come up and take the rest of today off."

"You don't have to, I'll be good for the next while with snacks and like, maybe a spare notebook if you have one, I like journaling?"

"...I might have paper? I have a couple of tablets and laptop gathering dust in a closet if that could work, though, and I know some websites you could set up accounts at to save your journaling."

"If you actually have tablets going spare that will suit me fine!"

"Cool okay gimme a minute." Off he goes into a different door than the one he grabbed the coat from.

Does... she know what websites exist? She knows of some websites, but also, she didn't know about brainjacking brothels so she may not have up to date information. Well. She can find out, probably search functions existing is not imaginary.

Nah she totally seems to be equipped with explicit knowledge about websites. Google is definitely a thing, she knows about Netflix and Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. Unclear if there are websites a person like her having actually lived would know that she doesn't but at least she seems to have something.

He's quickly back holding a Samsung tablet that's booting up, which he immediately hands over to her.

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome! Let me know if you need any help with it."

"I will!"

Poke poke can she in fact use this are the websites she knows about all real and "still" there.

Yes to all of the above.

Cool. Does this tablet know....... what city she is in right now. Does it have... interesting results for the name "Imogene". Does it have... a word processor.

She is in a city called Norville in California. There are many people called that in the world but she can find someone called Imogene Chime with her face. Or, well, a slightly less pretty version of her face.

And yes the tablet has a handful of word processors, including a couple that permit the use of handwriting.

What can she find out about Imogene Chime?

She went to university at Norville U. She is 20. That's about it.

Well. Maybe she can swing by the university at some point - in a disguise, perhaps - and see if she can find Imogene's friends or parents or anything, if that ever seems like a good idea. It doesn't right now.

For the time being she has so much journaling to do.

Oliver... doesn't really know what to do. He feels like it would be Bad™ if he just left her to her own devices and went back to work, so he's messaged his boss to say he'd take the rest of the day off, but now she's writing on the tablet and... he doesn't have anything to do. Or anything to do that is Acceptable™ to do in company. So maybe he'll... use his phone? That seems okay? Aah.

Well, she has not had all that many total experiences, so she'll be done in under an hour and set the tablet aside with a sigh.

"Under an hour" still implies enough time that Oliver gets over his brainworms when absolutely nothing bad happens and by the time she's returned to the world of the living she'll find Oliver sitting in the corner of the sofa, legs brought up to his chest and chin resting on his knees, engrossed by something on his phone looking totally at ease

Huh. She was really expecting to have to sleep with him at some point in the proceedings but it looks like that is not happening anytime soon.

"Um, you mentioned clothes?" she asks, next time he appears to be between phone items.

He looks up at her, blinking in surprise as if he'd forgotten she was there, then nods. "Right. Preferences?"

"Anything you aren't going to want to wear soon is fine."

He can fetch her a nice neutral blue T-shirt and a nice neutral pair of black sweatpants and a black pair of... "I only have boxer briefs but they're probably better than nothing? Or maybe not?"

"I've never tried them but I can do so now!" She will duck into the bathroom to change out of coat and into clothes.

They are, as advertised, a bit too big for her, but:

A skill has been created by a special action! Putting on clothes that are slightly too large for you owned by a boy has created the skill Boyfriend Shirt.

That's a skill? What does it do?

Info // Skills // Boyfriend Shirt

Boyfriend Shirt: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). Passive.

Items of clothing you borrow from potential or existing lovers that are up to 2 + ⌈Skill Lvl / 2⌉ = 3 sizes larger than you will fit you, but not perfectly. They will hang off your body sexily, increasing the effective LST of onlookers by 2 x Skill Lvl = 2 and that of the person you borrowed your clothes from by 3 x Skill Lvl = 3. The LST effect is additive on the number of pieces you're visibly wearing.

Add this skill's level times the number of visible pieces of clothing to that of the Wardrobe Malfunction skill whenever calculating the latter's effect while wearing a lover's clothing.

Your Boyfriend Shirt skill level is added to the levels of all of its subskills.

* Note: Due to the perk My Mind to Control, you can toggle the LST effects on or off.

This game is stupid.

Fine. She is dressed now. She emerges from the bathroom to hand over the coat.

He accepts the coat and looks up to smile at her and then tries very hard not to stare. This is actually worse than when she was naked, ahh.

"They fit you well enough?" he asks, eyes going back up to her face and staying there.

"Close enough, thank you."

"Cool. Anything else you need?" Preferably something that doesn't require him to stand up because he is not wearing underwear and this has never been an issue before.

"I think I'm all set for the immediately foreseeable future, unless you don't keep your guest room made up and I need to be pointed to the linen closet."

"I don't in fact keep it made up, it's an office now, but I have a sofabed there so it's not hard."

"Gotcha. Linen closet?"

"—oh don't worry about it I can deal with it. You've been through enough, if I can make things easier for you I will."

...maybe in five minutes.

"- if you say so." She will hop back on the tablet then and see if she can locate the sinister brainjacking facility on Google Maps, see what it ostensibly is.

It seems to ostensibly be... nothing? There's an address and pictures but in the same way and other residential building have those, it is as far as Google is concerned someone's house.

Huh. Does it have a public record of ownership?

Doesn't seem to. It's actually got less public about it than most other residential buildings, if she digs some she can probably piece together a rough history of construction and expansion but nothing more.

Well, she notes down in a file who constructed it, so she can go see if they have records of who it was for or whatever in the future.

Probably all the next steps on Being The Protagonist She's Destined To Be involve having sex but while Oliver is very sweet she's not super feeling it? It'd be - perfunctory, to go for it now. She's never even gotten herself off, she kind of skipped all the having an adolescence most people got. Maybe tomorrow she will check his fridge for actual ingredients and make them breakfast, that would be cute in a vaguely romantic way.

Quest initiated: Don't Worry, No Hurry

Yeah, so the universe gives you hints on how to live your life and wants it to be an erotic/romantic game, but it's not gonna be weird about it. The most important thing is that the sex and romance—whenever and however much of it occurs—be compelling to you. It's not rent you owe for being the Erogamer. (Imogene had different tastes, so some lingering world alterations may not look up your alley, but that's a her thing, and your story will be shaped by you.)

Take things at your own pace, use the tools at your disposal to achieve your goals, and make this story yours.

Success: A deeper understanding of the Erogame and your new reality. Other rewards will be determined based on your personal journey.

Huh. That's remarkably decent of it. Okay. She does like the breakfast idea, honestly - does this man live exclusively on peanuts and gummy bears, how is he alive - and once they have gone to their respective beds for the night she will have a think about what kind of sex and romance she wants in her life, because realistically even if the game were being super weird about it the correct answer would probably not be "zero, because fuck you".

After a few minutes Oliver does get up and go to the office so he can get the bed set up for her. When he walks out of it he's carrying a laptop under his arm.

"Thanks! Sorry about kicking you out of your office."

"It's fine, honestly today was being a really unproductive day so no big loss, my co-workers can cover everything I can do. This company's pretty good at redundancy."

"What do you do?"

"I'm an engineer and I do R&D for a robotics company but I'm under a sufficiently heavy NDA to not even be allowed to tell you the name of the company," he says apologetically.

"Wow. Can you tell me what kind of robots? Like, toy cat ones or like package pickers at warehouses or...?"

"Hmm, let's see, what can I say... It's mostly for human assistance? Some stuff the company's worked on in the past—though not me personally—has included, like, prosthetics, I think if I specify any further I'll be in breach.

"The more specific stuff I personally work on which is sufficiently low level it doesn't reveal anything is something called error correction in signal processing, are you familiar?"

"No, though I can get the gist from the name - if the robot's parts are sending messages to one another sometimes they get garbled and you want the computer to be able to guess in what way so it can figure out what's going on?"

"Yeah! It's not even that they can sometimes get garbled, so much as that there is a guarantee that a relevant fraction of them are going to be and the overall job description is creating robust structures that will provably and verifiably reduce that fraction to measurable maxima.

"And some of this stuff needs to communicate with human nerves, right, like a prosthetic hand, which I will neither confirm nor deny that I or my company in particular work with, it needs to have motion but it also needs touch and temperature and pain and pressure—those are all separate types of nerve, did you know?—and you need to guarantee that people won't randomly be in excruciating finger pain because of a freak error in transmission."

He is clearly very excited about this topic and holding himself back from going on long in depth rants about his special interest. His eyes light up as her talks about it and he starts fidgeting excitedly with his hands at the same time.

"Huh! Do you need excruciating finger pain to be an option at all, as long as you're designing a hand from scratch couldn't you cap it at some useful informative amount?"

"It's less that it's an option and more that human bodies are complicated and something that's slightly off nominal values can have a bunch of unexpected effects when communicated up the nervous system all the way to the brain. You know how some people who have lost limbs have phantom limb syndrome, and some of those have phantom limb pain? So yeah, even zero nervous input can cause issues, figuring out what the right thing to do there is really difficult."

"Oh, huh, that's so fiddly. I guess you could have somebody's hand constantly reporting that they were in just a very very tiny amount of pain so the brain wouldn't decide actually it was lots? But probably there's a better way..."

"Yeah, and I mean, we've been making huge strides, there are a handful of prototypes of things already in widespread testing around the country, pun unintended but endorsed, and the basics are already known. The devil's in the details."

You're making Oliver Houston get kind of infatuated with you by doing exactly the right thing. +1 SED.

ERO Notification: The perk "My Mind to Control" prevents the immediate application of the stat increase. You may at any point accept it yourself, if you so wish, by visiting your character screen.

* Note: You cannot munchkin this in order to operate at higher levels of eroticism than your stats permit. If you start pushing the boundaries of your skills too hard you will be assumed to be consenting to the increases in stats that come with them. You will be notified if you are nearing that point unless you actually have the intent to rules lawyer things.

- she will go add that probably once she is not in the middle of a conversation.

"I guess if your hand malfunctions and you've only got the one prosthetic you can yank it off, or, no, they'd be kind of wired in, can you even take these off at all?"

"For most modern ones there's a socket that gets attached to the limb stump and then the prosthesis itself hooks onto it and you can take it off, but if it's the socket itself that's malfunctioning, or if it gets stuck in whatever configuration the prosthesis left it in, then yeah you're S.O.L."

"So probably you want all the complicated stuff to be in the hand and the socket to be very simple? Or maybe - possible to turn off, you could give it a hardware switch under where the hand is?"

"Those are possibilities being studied! Especially the off switch, something that can be done easily but not accidentally would be ideal."

"- fingerprint sensor for the off hand?"

"People do rub their hands against each other even in inconvenient ways at times but I've seen a design proposal for like two or three fingers in unusual but not difficult positions simultaneously, yeah.

"Most of this is still at the design stage, mind you, the prototypes being tested are a lot less advanced and complex than what R&D departments have, or so I'd assume based on rough analogies to what my company actually works with which I cannot explain, Christ it is a pain in the ass to have to disclaim this kind of stuff all the time."

"It sounds it, I hope they pay you the big bucks. I was imagining the fingerprint sensor in the socket, so you'd have to take the hand off first."

"Oh! Yeah that's the most promising design I've seen so far with that idea but I think I've never run into someone actually live testing it. —as in, in a lab or something, not with actual people, that one takes forever to get government approval for and there are tons of stages of prior testing needed for it.

"Maybe we should hire you and get you to generate ideas for us, that's five minutes of nonstop good ones."

"I don't know if the NDA would agree with me."

"It doesn't agree with most people, I had to sign an NDA about the NDA."

"Wow, harsh. Well, if you want to pitch your boss on tossing me a freelance fee for whatever I come up with based on hearing concepts that aren't covered by the NDA, it's not like I have another job competing with that one."

"I'll let her know."

"Failing that I should probably try to find some other kind of income so I can pay rent - to you, if you like having me around, but I don't know how good a roommate I am. I am quite without legible credentials, unfortunately..."

"Any illegible ones? Tech nowadays is pretty meh on, like, degrees and stuff if you can show what you can do but if you're, like, into architecture or something then I have no idea."

"I'm kind of just a generic smart person, unfortunately. I could most likely learn to code if I tried, do you want to recommend me a tutorial?"

"Do I!"

He's forgotten all his selfconsciousness by now and can cheerfully scoot over to her and show her places online on his laptop, aimed at "doesn't know Python from a hole in the wall" but if she's got any more familiarity than that he can adjust.

She doesn't know Python from a hole in the wall but she is *such* a generic smart person. Hello, world.

Cool he can also adjust for that level of ease of acquiring new knowledge, this is actually pretty exciting.

This is cool! She's not sure how any of this backend stuff turns into shiny apps later but she can make Python do math problems and fizzbuzz and stuff.

If she expresses a desire to understand this she might accidentally trigger an animated explanation about the high levels of turning this stuff into shiny apps but he is perfectly amenable to being steered back into helping with this stuff again. He's happy to spend the next handful of hours he has of his """"day"""" on this. He has an alarm for four AM telling him to have "dinner", if nothing stops them before that.

Nothing has to! They can just do programming tutoring till "dinner"time! What is for "dinner"?

...cup noodles? Is that an acceptable answer?

...this once, yes. But she is going to peek in the fridge while she's up getting water.

His fridge contains: ...not much to be honest. Some eggs, two bottles of milk, some cheese, some butter, and a few cans of energy drinks.

His freezer is better equipped, there are some ready-made frozen meals, the kind you pop into a microwave for two minutes and eat.

Pantry?

Some dried pasta and canned tomato sauce, some sliced bread, instant mix coffee, hot coca powder, a box of protein shake powder, a bunch of snackish things like peanuts, other nuts, chips, highly-processed sweets like Haribos, and of course lots of cup noodles.

Erogame, if this boy has managed to forget a box of Bisquick in there, she is going to make him pancakes. Fixing this intention firmly in her mind she moves aside a box of ramen.

Well what a coincidence!

She puts the ramen back. It will be a surprise come morning.

Cup noodles are pretty good if it is the first actual meal you have eaten ever in your life though. No complaints.

Good good he is missing the relevant context but he will die on the cup noodles hill.

"I'd suggest more coding before bed but I'm not sure we'd get to a good stopping place till sunup. I should get some sleep. Thank you again for taking me in."

"Yeah, of course. Uh, if you want to take a shower or something before bed you can feel free, too, I got some extra towels."

"Oh, good thought." She will go ahead and hop in the shower, she kinda doesn't know where she's been.

His whole house is the kinda house a single insanely well-paid nerd who doesn't care or know anything about decorating or any other elements of a living place other than "containing the objects one needs for their day-to-day life" has in Norville. So his bathroom has a nice comfortable bath and the shower has good temperature control and no issues and his soap and shampoo have completely neutral smells and his towels are fluffy and nice and his bathroom is completely devoid of any personality whatsoever otherwise.

That's fine! He has a personality and chose to display it principally through his mailbox. Shower is a quick in and out affair and then she'll go to the guest sofabed in a towel rather than redress in the "boyfriend" outfit.

To be fairer to him now that she's walked into it his not-an-office also has personality! As probably the single room he spends the most time in, it has a handful of posters, a shelf with various figurines (mostly Marvel heroes but it also includes a miniature remote-controlled R2-D2), a couple of shelves with a bunch of manga (mostly shounen but also the original Sailor Moon series as well as a CLAMP section), and his desk which has an impressive-looking computer with two impressive-looking screens and a myriad different fidget toys.

He is, himself, there, actually, doing some last-minute cleaning (apparently he had two cup noodles boxes and a few scattered snack wrappers on the desk, though he's scrupulous about keeping the floor of the room debris-free), and he turns around with a little apologetic expression that gets a lot more apologetic when he spots her with the towel. "Uh, sorry, I realised I forgot to clean my work area, um."

A skill has been created by a special action! Being spotted wearing only a towel by a boy that's attracted to you has created the skill Naked Towel.

"Understandable. I don't have another change of clothes is all." What does that skill do. Why are these called "skills".

Info // Skills // Naked Towel

Naked Towel: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). Passive.

A simple wrap of a towel ensures that it doesn't fall off, or reveal anything it shouldn't... unless something goes wrong, of course. +(2 x Skill Lvl)% = +2% to your effective SED and +(2 x Skill Lvl)% = +2% to a viewer's effective LST. These effects are additional to the mundane fact that people wearing towels are hot.

Add your Naked Towel skill level to your effective skill level in Wardrobe Malfunction (passive and active) while thus garbed.

* Note: Due to the perk My Mind to Control, the SED and LST effects can be independently toggled on and off by you at will.

"—right! I should fetch you some. I'll, uh, back in a minute." Off he goes, looking slightly flushed.

Well, they can be toggled by her at will NOW that she has been INFORMED. Poor Oliver. She will explain after she tracks down his dark secret. Begone, excess mind control.

She's flipping through Naruto issue one when Oliver comes back.

...man, he really thought he was ace, before.

"Here you go," he says, placing another full set of clothes on the office chair for her.

"Thanks!"

"G'night! See you tomorrow."

He closes the door as he leaves.

She gets into the pajama outfit, hangs the towel off the doorknob, reads three more pages of Naruto and reshelves it, Googles a pancake recipe for the next morning on the tablet, and gets into bed.

Anything the game wants to tell her before she gets on thinking about what she wants out of her sex-and-romance-life? Instruction manual? Whatever weird catalog Imogene got "From Chime to Bell" out of?

The game doesn't seem to have any specific notifications, nor a specific instructions manual, but that last thing does get her something:

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

Huh. Okay. She knows what she started with, the one that makes her not Imogene and the one that gives her immunity to mind control. What's under the other headings, in order?

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
<< BOD (7)
[] Absolute Territory (1 point + 2 fragments)

"Zettai ryouiki," thigh-highs rising well above the knee, combined with miniskirts, to leave a short strip of visible thigh between. After taking this perk you never have any trouble with thigh-highs staying up---no glue or garters are ever required. Zettai ryouiki works for you in any situation: you could wear a zettai ryouiki version of a military uniform while disguised and entering a military base, wear zettai ryouiki armor into battle without combat penalties, or wear a zettai ryouiki spacesuit in space. Your Erogame Logic applies to anything you truly believe on a core level to be part of your sex life. You can easily transform existing wearables into zettai ryouiki versions with a little craftwork.

Minimum ERO: 60

[] Lolita / Shota (1 point)

Select a new apparent age between 8 and 14. Your biological form and apparent legal birthdate change to match. Your mind, stats, and skills are unaffected. You may at will moderate the amount that this diminishes your breast / penis size.

If you use SED-based skills on persons who would otherwise not be attracted to you, this perk does not of itself modify the psychological consequences to them.

Your perk point is refunded at 70 BOD.

[] Not Right Now You Don't (2 fragments)

Your anus no longer functions as an excretory vent in addition to its other uses. You simply never need to go to the bathroom for number two. Your sensitivity to other stimuli including enemas is unchanged.

Your fragments are refunded at 50 BOD.

[] Style On (1 point + 2 fragments)

Your Element is Hair. Your Origin is Hair. The slightest glimpse of someone's hairstyle tells you its structure, history, and meaning to its wearer. Every hairstyle you have thus glimpsed is inscribed within your soul. And yet, from the beginning, you never took any pride in your braids. You are broken somewhere deep inside and that is why you are a hairstyle.

Taking this perk unlocks the Conceptual Hair skill tree, replacing Implausible Hairstyle and all other hair-related skills with minimum BOD requirements. Taking this perk automatically begins the Hill of Hairstyles quest.

Minimum ERO: 60

[] Tastes Like Chocolate (2 fragments)

Freely control the taste and scent of any of your bodily fluids, so long as the result is more pleasant than the human norm (you cannot use this skill to discourage rapists).

Your fragments are refunded at 50 BOD.

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>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

........

................

god but these are stupid

next page

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
<< BOD (7)
[] Transsexual (1 point + 1 fragment)

At will, but at most once per level, change to have been born male, female, futanari, or hermaphrodite. This is a conceptual shift of world/self and gives you access to distant-feeling memories of having previously lived as your new sex. Some romantic relationships may shift to become friendships in the new world, as not all other people's sexual orientations may be easily reselectable in the target history.

[] Werewhatever (1 point + 1 fragment)

Choose any one other form you desire. It cannot have magical abilities other than your usual powers, nor phlebotinium biology such as skyscraper size or human-affecting pheromones. The new body may have abilities which could plausibly be the result of ordinary biochemistry differently configured, such as ejaculating tentacles or a vibrator-lined stomach sac.

While you are under direct moonlight, you may at will assume or relinquish this form. You can continue wearing the wereform, but not relinquish it, when not under moonlight.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 90 BOD.

Minimum ERO: 50

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>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

Okay, being a werecreature isn't stupid! That could be neat! She could fly and shit! Maybe only most of these are stupid.

Next?

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
<< LST (7)
[] Everywhere Erogenous (2 points)

There is no area of your body that cannot be used to stimulate you to orgasm, though this may still take time and work to do through your elbow.

Your points are refunded at 40 LST.

[] Fairy-tale Painslut (1 point)

Your masochism is strong enough to embrace any intensity of sexually charged torture, with zero warmup.

Your point is refunded at 50 LST.

[] Look Who's Turned On (2 fragments)

Your sexual response to compatible stimuli is unhindered by other aspects of a situation that exceed your PRV. This does not alter other psychological impacts of situations exceeding your PRV.

Your fragments are refunded at 40 LST.

[] Omnisexual (1 point + 1 fragment)

You can at will decide to be sexually and/or romantically attracted to any person, or body type, or personality characteristic. This perk cannot remove attractions you would otherwise already have, nor does it expand your fetishes.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 80 LST.

[] Pretty Smart (1 point)

Romance has been hard for you... since, unlike the fools around you who are attracted to mere appearances, staring at cleavage can't tell you who's worth pursuing. The Erogame has seen your annoyance and devised a solution! The conventional attractiveness of people you meet now strongly correlates with their intelligence, conscientiousness, corruptibility, or other mental attributes you might find attractive on a... deeper... examination.

(Making people smarter using technology or spells available at higher ERO will automatically increase their physical attractiveness as well.)

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

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>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

...Omnisexual and Pretty Smart might conceivably depending on the situation ever make sense??? Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
<< LST (7)
[] Super Horny (1 point + 2 fragments)

Gain +1 to all stats for each cumulative 3 days you go without orgasm, to a maximum bonus of 25% of base values. You must have sex or be teased on each such day for it to count towards the total.

[] Wereslut (1 point)

Under the light of a full moon, you may shift in or out of your Wereslut form. Your Wereslut form may gain up to 40 additional attribute points, distributed by you among BOD, SED, FUK, and ERO at the time of choosing this perk. You may not put more than 10 of these points into ERO, or more than 20 of these points into any other stat. Your Wereslut form also gains both LST and PRV each equivalent to half the total points you have so distributed, rounded up.

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>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

Who would even want these????? Next!

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
<< SED (12)
[] Curse of Dresden (1 point + 1 fragment)

The first time you make full eye contact with someone, you learn which fetish or other aspect of their sexuality most embarrasses them.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 80 SED.

[] Curse of Tattletale (1 point + 1 fragment)

Whenever anyone within visual range has specific sexual thoughts about you, you know what they are thinking about.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 80 SED.

[] I'm Not Explaining This Again (2 fragments)

After you have carefully, painstakingly, thoroughly explained an ero-related concept at least once (polyamory is not cheating, that is not where a clitoris is, how to tie a shibari knot), anyone else you meet will understand it after only a couple of sentences.

Your fragments are refunded at 70 SED.

[] PhD in Harem Management (1 point)

Those among your partners who would otherwise be hostile to each other tolerate one another's presence. This perk does not bypass quest-related challenges or produce actual friendship.

[] Poly Graph Test (1 point)

You are instinctively aware of how a relationship forming between two persons would affect other relationships connected to them.

Your point is refunded at 50 SED.

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>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

....poly graph test might.... theoretically.... eventually.... be worth having? But like, all of these are getting measured against turning into a dragon or something, seriously. Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
<< SED (12)
[] Skip the Boring Parts (1 point)

Invoking this perk gives you a SED X 1% chance to transition directly to whatever sexual encounter (if any) you would otherwise have with a person. You can only invoke this perk on a particular person once. This perk cannot be used to bypass quest-related challenges.

Your point is refunded at 40 SED.

[] The Eye of Yandere (1 point)

If you are romantically attracted to someone, you are always alerted when they are romantically or sexually attracted to someone else or when someone else is romantically or sexually attracted to them. You do not know the strength of this attraction, just that it exists.

[] Trust (1 point)

Whenever somebody honestly tells you that they love you, or like you, or admire something about you, or shows trust in you by confessing a truth to you that they would not tell others, you know that they mean it.

Taking this perk renders you ineligible for a significant number of Erogame quests and reduces the rewards of many others, but it's here if you need it.

[] Tsundere (1 point)

Nobody ever questions the insane troll logic of what you choose to be offended by.

[] You Couldn't Help Yourself (2 fragments)

Anyone who views a picture of you will sincerely not blame another person for having had sex with you, including the monogamous partners of those you have seduced.

Your fragments are refunded at 60 SED or 70 ERO, whichever happens first.

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>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

Imagining the kind of people who would take these ones is honestly just kind of depressing. Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
<< SED (12)
[] You Didn't Hear That (2 fragments)

Once per level you may retroactively decide not to have said something. This perk only applies to utterances made while you were your current level.

[] Yousexual (1 point + 1 fragment)

Everyone is gay for you / hetero for you. This does not affect their LST, so does not modify asexuality or aromanticism.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 50 SED.

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>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

Meh. Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
<< FUK (8)
[] Cinnamon Roll (1 point)

Triple all positive effects on others of having sex with you.

[] Edgelord (1 point)

You always know how close to orgasm others are and never make someone come by accident.

Your point is refunded at 70 FUK.

[] Gray Boy/Girl (1 point + 1 fragment)

Unlocks the Looping Reset subskill of Time Control. Depending on skill level, you can shift time backward by seconds, within a diameter on the order of meters, and set this shift to repeat an integer number of times. Souls are unaffected by these resets.

(For example, you could stimulate someone until, even with no further stimulation, they will inevitably begin to experience a ruined orgasm in 5 seconds. You may then impose a 5-second Looping Reset, causing their bodies to repeatedly jump back 5 seconds every time, just as their ruined orgasm is beginning once again.)

Be advised that continuing a Looping Reset for more than a few minutes may cause psychological damage, especially if the person is repeating intense sensations. For technical reasons, colors inside a Looping Reset field appear desaturated from outside.

Your point and fragment are refunded when the Time Control skill reaches MAX level.

Minimum Time Control skill level: 1
Your glowficness is too high to take this perk.

[] James Bond of Bondage (2 fragments)

Your ties never cause unintentional pain, never come loose accidentally, and can be applied in less than 5 minutes, including to an unwilling subject who is otherwise being held down or restrained.

Your fragments are refunded at 50 FUK.

[] Legoland (1 point + 1 fragment)

You can detach pussies, clits, nipples, assholes, and cocks from their original holders, and then attach them to other people or just take them with you. People with parts attached receive sensations from that part. All sensations experienced by a part continue to flow to that part's original owner, unless an alternative part has been attached to the empty slot on the original owner's body. Excretory functions of a part become unnecessary to the person while their part is detached. Detached parts temporarily acquire the protection of your Erogamer's Body skill. Victims of this skill may take back and reattach their own parts if they can find them, but only to that part's original location on their body.

Examples:

—Removing Alice's pussy and attaching Bob's cock to her groin will cause both Alice and Bob to receive sensations from that cock.

—Further attaching Carol's pussy to Bob's groin means that only Alice is still receiving sensation from Bob's cock.

—Instead attaching Carol's pussy to Bob's thigh would mean that Bob is receiving sensation from both his detached cock and from Carol's attached pussy.

—You can go on attaching additional parts to Bob so long as he has remaining exposed flesh. You cannot stack parts.

—Removing any non-native parts from Bob means that Bob immediately stops receiving input to them.

—Tiling Bob in clits and tossing him into a vibrator pit is not advised if you want to keep him sane.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 90 ERO or 100 FUK, whichever comes first.

Minimum ERO: 50

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>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

There's a Time Control skill??

People have souls, that's interesting!

Her what now is too high to take this perk.

Cinnamon Roll sounds... fine probably? Unless it's secretly mind control, on second thought it might be that.

The game does not answer her about what it is exactly that she has too much of to take that perk.

She doesn't even want the perk but she quite possibly does want the time control skill.

Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
<< FUK (8)
[] Library of Sodom (1 point)

You automatically know any detail of abstract knowledge that you want or need about any sexual activity that has been described in public writing. For example, directions for how to tie a shibari knot, or that one ought to avoid striking the kidneys with a flogger. This knowledge does not convey skill.

Your point is refunded at 40 FUK.

[] Naked Before Me (1 point)

You may touch people as if their clothing and your clothing did not exist. Onlookers not clued in see your hand, shoe, or head resting quietly in the corresponding place---lewd, perhaps, but not obscene---and do not hear any sounds directly produced by the sex act, though they still hear other sounds made by your victim. Similar acts may be performed on you, including by accident.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO or 70 FUK, whichever happens first.

[] Perfect Sadist (1 point)

Inflicting pain on others, no matter how severe, never causes any permanent damage you did not intend.

Your point is refunded at 40 FUK.

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>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
>> Srs Bsns (9)

Gosh, Erogame, how could anyone possibly get the idea that you're a little sex-obsessed. Where are the romance perks where you can conjure up someone's favorite flowers at will or get really good at selecting birthday presents. Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
<< PRV (6)
[] 24/7 (1 point)

Pick one:

—You cannot gain Submissive Energy. You can use Dominant Energy to fuel skills requiring Submissive Energy.
—You cannot gain Dominant Energy. You can use Submissive Energy to fuel skills requiring Dominant Energy.

Each time you reach a level divisible by 5, you may choose to suppress or switch this perk.

[] Cal's Curse Compounded (2 fragments)

You may not have an orgasm without permission.

Once you plead with someone for permission you may not ask any other person besides them for one month. Each plea resets this timer. The permission-giver must know the rules of this curse; must know that you deliberately invoked this curse upon yourself; cannot otherwise be subject to your commands; and cannot be offered any non-sexual incentives for their response. They may choose to permit a ruined orgasm rather than a full orgasm. The permission-giver may give conditional permissions, including requiring you to obtain the further permission of others. Permission may be revoked at any time. You cannot lie to the permission-giver about any matter relating to your denial. You can try to remain silent, if you think you can get away with that.

All game skills relating to orgasm denial, whether of yourself or others, have zero energy cost.

Your fragments are refunded at 60 PRV.

[] Consent is Not One of My Fetishes (2 fragments)

You never suffer any psychological trauma related to the now-irrelevant fact of whether or not you consented to a sexual event. Before taking this perk, consider carefully whether ceasing to care about your own consent is a change you truly wish to make to yourself.

Your fragments are refunded at 50 PRV.

[] Everyone Knows (2 fragments)

People who spend time in your presence begin to form correct intuitions about what turns you on, at least the parts their minds would willingly comprehend. They won't expect others to know too, but they will be sure of their own beliefs. This process is especially quick for any fetishes that currently embarrass you. It is extremely quick for fetishes that currently embarrass you and that interest the other person.

[] Hyperhypnoslut (1 point + 2 fragments)

You can drop faster than your panties when being voluntarily hypnotized. You can be hypnotized without your wanting to be hypnotized, if you are forced or tricked into listening to the hypnotist's voice. A hypnotist can force you to do things you don't want to do, up to your current PRV + 8. You can be given temporary false memories or amnesia.

Your ultimate trigger phrase is 'genuine palm asphalt ludicrously' and anyone using it gets root access on your soul. This includes permanent memory editing, personality editing, sexuality editing, belief editing, emotional editing, and absolute obedience. You cannot be hypnotized or drugged into giving up this trigger phrase or revealing its existence. You cannot hypnotize yourself using this trigger phrase, even by leaving yourself a recording. Think very carefully before giving this trigger phrase to anyone, or writing it down, or speaking it aloud when you think you are alone in your bedroom.

[] Obedience (1 point)

At will, give yourself the Obedient status effect for a pre-specified duration. While this status effect holds, you must make a will save (potentially with modifiers) to disobey any order given you. This obedience only applies to orders that can be obeyed over the course of minutes, not to longer-term orders. Once you refuse an order, you do not need to save again versus that order or similar orders until one day has passed.

You cannot impose an Obedient status effect on yourself lasting longer than 10 years.

Your point is refunded at 70 PRV.

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NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

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>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
<< ERO (28)
[] (Ir)rational (2 fragments)

Up to once per level you may toggle whether or not Erogame Logic suppresses scientific curiosity. While this suppression is off, appropriately minded individuals can recognize you as a total falsification of how they thought the world worked and may prioritize the larger implications. While this suppression is on, people will still experience shock and wonder about specifics, but evince no great curiosity about fundamental issues, nor ambitions of global change.

By default, this suppression is off.

[] Blessings of Slaanesh Be Upon This House (1 point)

Whatever building you choose to make your permanent residence has residents with BOD, LST, and PRV at least equal to your corresponding stats minus 8. Events within all parts of the building behave as if under the influence of your full, in-person ERO. People under the age of 14 do not experience any ero events, no matter how unlikely that is.

[] Ero-Inventory (2 fragments)

Any portable sex equipment or clothing that you legally own can be summoned by you at will, and dismissed at will to return to its former location. If your ERO is under 50 and you are being observed, you must summon items to inside an unobserved container, or otherwise maintain deniability. If you are displaying cleavage and your apparent cup size is at least C, you may access up to 2000 cubic centimeters of general storage by reaching between your breasts; providing the object could reasonably have been stored there, if your ERO is under 50.

Your fragments are refunded at 60 ERO.

[] Ero-Travel (1 point)

Your perversions are so twisted as to warp space itself. At the moment of orgasm, you can teleport to any other point where you have previously had an orgasm, provided that both your origin and destination are well-trafficked public travelways (e.g. busy sidewalks, bus stops, subway platforms). While your ERO is less than 50 you must not be observed at the moment of vanishing, and any others present at the destination will happen to be looking away as you materialize, though they will be looking back very soon. At ERO 50+ you may take along any number of partners if you are all stimulating each other and orgasm simultaneously. Traveling longer distances may require more intense orgasms at the origin point, a greater number of previous orgasms at the destination point, or both.

Persistent 'points' in space are calculated relative to whatever massive body's gravitational field dominates that point in space, including matching the rotation or orbit of that massive body. On arrival you will be matched to the velocity of your destination point. 'Simultaneous' times at the origin and destination will if possible be aligned to match the predictions of Special Relativity given your origin velocity, but cannot loop time. You can take with you whatever you are currently carrying with your own strength, including clothing.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO.

[] Fading Dream (2 fragments)

Your exes do not remember you after you break up with them.

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The inventory one and the travel one are at least not catastrophically stupid, just - narrow.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
<< ERO (28)
[] Fake ID (1 point)

You have an alternative identity whose existence is recognized by governments and computers. You have all paperwork required to support this identity and can choose its background at will; if the alternate you is a different age, nationality, or sex then it is your responsibility to disguise yourself accordingly. No one can make the connection between your identities without you explicitly informing them or them catching you unmistakably in the act of switching.

This perk does not modify people's senses of object permanence: someone who locks one of your identities inside a cell will be expecting the same person to be in that cell later. If you change your appearance, they may simply decide you have 'disguised yourself' as your alternative identity.

You may take this perk more than once.

[] Friends With Benefits (1 point + 1 fragment)

Your friends, companions, and allies have an easier time keeping up with your rapidly growing power as they follow you down many strange paths---if that's what you want, anyway.

This perk unlocks the Share the Fun subskill of the Bestow Ability skill tree.

[] Home Base (1 point)

You possess an upgradeable fortress home, initially small and bare, but expandable through the infusion of money, certain offerings, or the completion of various quests. Electricity, water, and Internet access are always provided. Your home initially has an unobtrusive outlet in whichever part of your local territory is most useful to you. Further outlets may be added with underground expansion, or at higher ERO, portals.

You may designate small personal areas within your base as not being invadable. You may place vulnerable family and friends in this area, and personal mementos. You may not use it to store prisoners, treasures, or objects of power.

[] In Nomine Status Quo (1 point)

Once per level you may roll against your ERO x 2 to have something undo the long-term consequences of an event perturbing your personal existence. You discover blackmail material you can use to get the prosecutor to drop the charges; or, your one-night-stand turns out to be a millionaire who pays off the incurred debt. Your chance of success when using this perk cannot exceed 90%, but you can still try to salvage the situation by ordinary means if it fails.

This perk may be used any number of times, without counting against the once-per-level limitation, to try to undo any addition or removal of a suitor in your love dodecahedron.

[] It's Like Saying Hello In Japan (1 point)

No negative consequence of any kind will occur to you, including to reputation or personal friendships, from forcing yourself on a person of primarily Japanese descent. Any person who has voluntarily watched more than 200 hours of anime is considered Japanese for purposes of applying this perk.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

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>> Srs Bsns (9)

Why is the Erogame racist. What the fuck.

The first four on this page aren't too dumb though!

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
<< ERO (28)
[] Let's Not Turn This Rape Into A Murder (2 fragments)

Although the Erogame would not in any case present you with a crippling threat and no alternative, this perk guarantees up front that no sexual assault or sexually motivated kidnapping will result in any damage your Erogamer's Body cannot heal. Think carefully before taking this perk: once you take it you can never again experience the crushing, absolute submission that comes from knowing your very life depends on pleasing your captor.

[] Like Uber For Costumes (1 point + 1 fragment)

If you can find any manufactured fetish clothing (not a one-off creation, and you must not have been involved in inspiring it) that corresponds to a profession, you can act with the full skill of that profession while wearing that clothing. For example, using firearms while dressed as a sexy soldier.

Minimum ERO: 60

[] Mindbreaker (1 point)

Sexual torture is a completely reasonable and efficient way for you to obtain competent, obedient followers.

Your point is refunded at 25 ERO.

[] More Competitive Than You (1 point)

For any activity whose primary purpose is competition (e.g. chess, drag racing, or martial arts; but not stock trading, or literary authorship) your skill level adjusts to match your love interests and/or romantic rivals. Your skill level is such as to make you just barely worse than your love interest, or just barely better than your romantic rivals, whichever is higher, if you try your best.

[] No Comparison (2 fragments)

Those who have experienced sex with you do not think to compare their past or future sexual experiences to the ones they had with you. This perk applies retroactively to previous partners and heals any prior psychological damage they have taken, but does not repair any of their relationships that have already broken.

Your fragments are refunded at 50 ERO.

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Ugh, is she going to need No Comparison on humanitarian grounds one day if she lets her stats keep going up? That's so sad.

Also not thrilled about the implications of the background level of rape plot!

The costumes one is not completely stupid, yay.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
<< ERO (28)
[] Non-Excludable Public Good (1 point)

The world treats your orifices as unsecured wifi. Nobody considers it odd for anyone to do anything to you at any time or place. They may still consider it shameful for you if you visibly respond.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 45

[] Oh My God There's Two Of Them (1 point + 1 fragment)

You can be in two places at once, so long as at least one of you is doing something ero. You experience both lives separately and in parallel. You cannot gain energy from selfcest.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 90 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 60

[] Pay In Rape Dollars (1 point)

Whenever you would otherwise need to spend money within the game system, you may optionally pay by handing over an unwilling victim of correspondingly high quality. You by definition are not unwilling if you hand over yourself, likewise those who have voluntarily submitted themselves to your commands.

Minimum ERO: 70

[] Perfect Subbing (2 fragments)

You can at will perceive subtitles in your native language for all speakers whose voice you can hear, and subtitled translation for all foreign-language texts. This does not enable you to speak or write other languages.

Your fragments are refunded at 60 ERO or 80 SED, whichever happens first.

[] Something About Marry (1 point)

You may at will choose to have been betrothed to someone as a child. The evidence for this betrothal may be discovered all at once or revealed gradually. Warning: Overuse of this perk may result in the results of overusing this perk.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

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...

.......

Does she need to set herself a long-term goal of finding all the universes wherein this game has bestowed itself upon people very different from herself, and rescue those universes.

...

Bilocation! Translation magic! That's cool! Next.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
<< ERO (28)
[] There Are No Stops On The Rape Train (1 point)

+15 BOD, +15 SED, and +15 FUK.

Nobody will understand anything you say or do—such as trying to run away, or struggling, or screaming—as indicating that you might not want to have sex; unless they would not heed your wishes regardless.

Raising LST or PRV to over 35, or ERO to over 60, is strongly advised before taking this perk.

Minimum ERO: 45

[] This Rape Train Has No Brakes (1 point)

When a person finishes raping you, if there is at least one other potential rapist within visual range who has not yet raped you, each such person is at least 50% likely to take their turn next (even if they otherwise would not be so inclined). In the event more people would try to rape you than you have available orifices, a random subset will be selected. The effects of this perk are evaluated again after each round of rape finishes.

All benefits and rewards of being raped are doubled.

This perk stacks with the skills Asking For It and Dressed Like a Slut, and with the Rapebait status effect.

[] Time Enough For Love (1 point + 2 fragments)

Unlocks the Time Control skill tree. Your future self immediately uses Time Control Lvl MAX to seal all aspects of this skill except for the relatively harmless Slack subskill. At Lvl 1, the Slack subskill enables you to take up to 10 extra minutes per day, spread out however you like, so long as nobody is watching you or nobody in your group is keeping track of time.

Your point and fragments are refunded at 90 ERO.

Your glowficness is too high to take this perk.

[] True Love Conquers All (1 point + 2 fragments)

If you love someone enough, nothing can ever permanently separate them from you. The only exception is their wishing to leave you—deliberately, voluntarily, and based on correct information. This applies to any type of love, not just romantic love. If you would undergo hardship and sacrifice to protect someone, if losing them would leave a scar on your heart that never fully heals, then in time you will always be reunited.

This perk retroactively includes everyone you have previously lost, but still love. If somebody you love is already dead (e.g. a beloved parent or grandparent), taking this perk automatically begins the Heaven's Feel quest to revive them after your ERO reaches 50.

[] True Love Potion (1 point)

Cause any one person to fall in love with any one other person, wholly, deeply, and permanently, with all their heart and all their soul. This counts as true love for all relevant tests requiring it.

You cannot take this perk after taking Eye of Yandere.

You may take this perk multiple times.

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>> Genre (33)
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What is WRONG with this game that THE ABILITY TO RESURRECT THE DEAD - even with some provisos - is LESS EXPENSIVE than choosing any two flavors of rapeyness to apply to the universe.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
<< ERO (28)
[] Urban Legend (1 point)

For any identities you maintain besides your primary legal identity or Fake ID, their existence never becomes common knowledge. This perk does not interfere with first-order knowledge: People may readily observe or tell trusted others about the girl who blows anyone for $1. However, everyone believes unshakably that 'most people' would be as contemptuously skeptical of your existence as of an alien abduction. No one would ever dare talk about you in public as if they believed in you. It is possible for large populations to all be subject to this effect simultaneously, e.g. if you are seen on national television.

[] Utility Monster (1 point)

Your experiences are a trillion times more important than the experiences of those around you.

[] What Are You Doing Here (2 fragments)

You can always find anyone you have previously kissed. All your attempts to be admitted to the school, bluff your way into the military base, pretend to be a hospital nurse, etcetera, have triple the likelihood of succeeding. Unless you otherwise blow your cover, nobody else takes your target or any other prior acquaintances seriously if they protest your being there.

Your fragments are refunded at 80 ERO.

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>> Genre (33)
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What does Utility Monster even... mean???

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] 'Little Death' Note (1 point)

The human whose name is written in this Note shall orgasm. Details of how the orgasm shall appear must be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 50

[] Succubus (1 point)

You may choose to appear anytime that someone conducts what they believe to be a succubus summoning ritual. (They cannot be trying to summon the real you, since then they do not believe they are summoning a succubus.) You know roughly what sort of person is doing the summoning. If you choose to respond, you can opt to appear naked or wearing the summoners' most preferred clothing. If your BOD is 40+ you may opt to appear in their ideal physical form, and at BOD 60+ you may opt for demonic additions. On arrival you gain some instinctive grasp of the conscious and unconscious sexual desires of your summoners.

This experience is lived in parallel, as if with the Oh My God There's Two of Them perk. You can respond to only one summoning at a time. You vanish when dismissed, or the next time the summoner falls asleep, whichever comes first.

You may visit a summoner later using your primary self, if you have learned their real-world address. You have no power to take their soul and no special ability to enforce any contracts made, but nothing stops you from lying about that.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 50

[] Agent XXX (1 point)

When you come into contact with any intelligence agency of any nationality, they will immediately see you as prime fodder for willing recruitment (either as an employee or a contractor). This effect continues operating even if you are already working for one or more such agencies.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

[] Animal Whisperer (1 point)

Choose an animal family. You are extraordinarily skilled at handling (non-sapient) members of this family, and will experience yourself as being able to communicate nearly intelligently with up to (ERO / 10) chosen familiars. At ERO 40 you may grant your chosen familiars greater intelligence and other powers through the Familiar subskill of Bestow Ability.

Your point is refunded at 60 ERO.

[] Childe of the Night (1 point + 1 fragment)

Stuff happens, you get turned into a vampire, more stuff happens. These vampires are nothing like Anne Rice vampires, and no characters resembling anyone from her novels will appear at any point.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 50

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Which is more likely: the Erogame is genuinely afraid of Anne Rice's lawyers, or it is making a joke about how that would be ridiculous. Probably the second but also Bella is never going to read Interview with the Vampire lest she accidentally produce derivative work.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] Cultivator (1 point + 2 fragments)

Receive 4 doses of Body-Tempering Elixir and 4 Qi Pills, enough to get you started. Also, dantians are now a thing.

Your point and fragments are refunded at 80 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 50

[] Forbidden Love (2 fragments)

You discover a long-lost sibling: your choice of age, sex, and full or half relation. You may choose to make this a fraternal or identical twin. Their stats begin near human norms. You were separated before the Westermarck effect could apply. Both of you will begin to find the other sexually attractive after your first month of living in the same house as ordinary siblings. You will not remember that this perk exists or that you selected it.

[] Go Out With A Bang (1 point)

A doctor diagnoses you with a fatal disease, giving you three months left to live---maybe two, maybe four. Your remaining lifetime is uncertain, but it won't be long now. Your occasional hospital stays are brief and painless, leaving you looking wan, sad, and beautiful in your hospital bed. Sometimes you get a piece of medical good news, giving you a little more time in which to say goodbye and experience all the things you never had a chance to do. No matter how long this continues, no one ever notices that the doctor always gives you around one more month of lifespan per month.

You may at will have a remission or relapse of your Terminal Moe.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

[] I See You (1 point)

You are able to perceive, remember, and have sex with anything that would ordinarily be undetectable by you, be misperceived by you, or slip out of your memory.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO.

[] Idol (1 point)

You gain the talent that will let you to learn how to compose music and lyrics. Singing and performance is already based on SED. All other aspects of becoming famous---such as actually practicing, assembling a band/harem, and seducing or blackmailing producers---are up to you; but you will encounter good opportunities.

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I See You had BETTER be fucking redundant with her mind control perk. The Idol one is kind of cute? Probably not for her in particular but she can at least contemplate the kind of person who'd go for it and not super judge them.

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>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] In Love's Name, And For Love's Sake (1 point + 1 fragment)

You are recruited and empowered to fight the Lone Power that invented ennui, indifference, jadedness, boredom, and cynicism.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 95 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 45

[] Inheritance (2 fragments)

You are informed of your hidden blood relation to any one person of your choice, including public figures. They were already aware of this relation and watching you from afar, but could not contact you for some plausible reason. Your revealed relation to this person displaces your biological relation to the corresponding family members. You will not remember that this perk exists or that you selected it.

[] Innocence Temporarily Regained (2 fragments)

Your BOD, LST, SED, FUK, and PRV stats are reduced to the minimum of their current levels and 39, 25, 8, 8, and 1. Until it reaches its former level, your PRV stat cannot increase by more than 1 point per 3 days. Memories linked to higher stats cannot be recalled until your stats have again risen to a corresponding level. Skills are not recalled until your stats rise to a compatible level. Your hymen is restored. You retain your ERO. You do not receive the Innocent Virgin status effect.

[] Looper (1 point + 2 fragments)

Dying sends you back to the start of the Erogame with your original BOD/LST/ERO stats, original level, original perks plus the Looper perk, no in-game skills, and all of your memories. This displaces whatever plot armor you would otherwise have within the Erogame. You cannot Loop more than 4,294,967,295 times.

[] Mad Inventor (1 point)

You can create devices whose functions correspond to many Erogame skills and effects. These devices cannot be mass-manufactured, but can be loaned to others. You must wear steampunk goggles while wielding this perk.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

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Well this prompts the question of what plot armor she has by default and whether there exists by default a Lone Power but uh next.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] Mad Scientist (1 point)

Your powers give you the ability to test hypotheses about sexuality that conventional science cannot or will not investigate. Use all skills at double their base level whenever you are primarily seeking general knowledge. (Extracting the location of an enemy base does not count as 'general knowledge'.) You must wear a sexy lab coat while invoking this perk.

[] Mating? Agreement. (1 point)

Many people around the planet begin to gain unique, specialized superpowers, causing far-reaching social changes. All of these superpowers have one thing in common: one way or another, they relate to sex. The people who have these powers tend to seek out sexually charged situations and have sex with each other.

Taking this perk automatically starts the Gold Morning quest.

Your point is refunded at 90 ERO.

Minimu ERO: 70

[] Meguca (1 point)

You're a magical girl! Well, more magical, anyway. Let's be realistic here, you were probably going to serve time in a costume sooner or later. This perk gives you a head start and some extra freedom of choice over styles of fightable monsters and revealing clothing.

If you are currently male, you may optionally opt for your transformed self to be a boy. Don't expect any fewer sparkles.

Your point is refunded at 65 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 45

[] Prize (1 point)

Seven interesting people from around the world learn your identity, along with the true fact that whoever wins your heart will gain tremendous power.

[] Real Scientist (1 point)

Your unusual experiences have given you insight into open questions in human sexuality, leading you to form new testable hypotheses. You instinctively understand experimental methodology and statistics. So long as you report your outcomes honestly, other scientists will discuss your results seriously; and overlook your lack of credentials along with any questions about the morality or possibility of your experiments. You can write proficiently in LaTeX if you are wearing latex.

If you simultaneously hold the perks Mad Inventor, Mad Scientist, and Real Scientist, you become able to develop reproducible technology, including the experimental apparatus required for others to further investigate and extend your discoveries. An actual PhD in a scientific field, acquired the hard way, can substitute for the Real Scientist perk in this trinity.

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>> Meta (7)
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What if she wants to do sexologically irrelevant science, what then. Next.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] S/layer (1 point)

In every generation there is a chosen one. S/he alone will stand against and/or lie down with the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. S/he is the S/layer.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 55

[] Seduce, Contain, Protect (1 point)

You are a magnet for any person or sapient entity with a significant chance of producing global catastrophe. They will inevitably cross paths with you and find you highly attractive.

[] Sex God (1 point)

You can gain Dominant and Submissive Energy from sex acts performed in your name by anyone who sincerely believes you to be a god. Establishing and maintaining a cult is up to you.

[] Student Councilor (1 point)

Your school decides to form a Student Council. You are on it. Student Councilors have around as much power as Stalin.

Taking this perk automatically begins the Academic Infighting quest.

Your point is refunded at 70 ERO.

[] That Is Not How Hypnosis Works (1 point + 1 fragment)

You can mesmerize people by having them watch a swaying object or shiny object for a minute or two, or by forcing them to listen to your voice for ten minutes. You do not require consent to hypnotize someone, nor their knowledge that they are being hypnotized. Everyone is deeply hypnotizable by you. It is not especially difficult to hypnotize people into doing things they don't want to do.

To finish activating this perk, you must read any single book on hypnosis. It can be a short book. Borrowing it from the library is fine.

Minimum ERO: 40

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- okay, fine, FINE, people in other universes can slightly judge her for being kind of - KIND OF - into "Sex God". She is not going to take it this year but she can't say with complete confidence that she wouldn't touch it EVENTUALLY. Once she's hacked this thing into giving her more legitimately divine-ish powers. Next.

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>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] The Maou The Merrier (1 point)

Someone you know is the reincarnation of the Demon Lord. This will have plot consequences or something. Whatever.

Your point is refunded at 90 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 60

[] To Boldly Come Where No One Has Come Before (1 point + 1 fragment)

You somehow get your hands on a starship, enabling you to visit nearby star systems and meet the many interesting and nubile life forms to be found there.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 85 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 55

[] United Federation of Perverts (1 point + 1 fragment)

While roaming about in your starship, you discover a larger galactic community. First Contact is initiated between Earth and their ancient, sophisticated, incredibly decadent civilization.

Your point and fragment are refunded at 90 ERO.

Minimum ERO: 70

[] Vengeance Shall Be Mine (1 point)

No plotline ever terminates while you are net-in-the-red with respect to revenges, counter-revenges, and revengeable events or deeds.

[] Victory! (2 fragments)

You win the Erogame! Your title is changed to "The Winner" and the game continues on in post-victory mode.

This perk doesn't change much, but has been included for the benefit of players who insist on a victory condition.

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>> Srs Bsns (9)

Oh cool, space ones! She digs the space ones! Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
<< Genre (33)
[] What Dreams May Come (1 point + 2 fragments)

You know when someone begins to fantasize about you, and know in approximate terms what they currently intend to fantasize. You may choose to enter their fantasy and gain control of your analogue-self within it, experiencing the events as real.

You may gain skill, stats, experience, and energy within the fantasy. You retain all knowledge you learn within the fantasy. Physical changes to your body or equipment do not carry over to reality. Only as much subjective time passes for you as passes for the fantasizer. This event takes place alongside and parallel to your main existence and does not interrupt it, but you cannot participate in more than one fantasy at a time.

You only have what capabilities the fantasizer acknowledges you as having. The fantasizer does not notice anything unusual about your behavior within their fantasy, no matter what you choose to do or say. You may not exit such a fantasy until it has terminated. This perk only works on fantasizers unaware of its existence and on fantasies you have not deliberately influenced.

[] You Fools Can't Stop Me (1 point)

Your schemes can only be thwarted by those near or above your own intelligence level, and only by their having been cleverer than you.

[] Zombie Sexpocalypse (1 point)

An extremely contagious virus turns 99.99% of the human population into sex-maddened creatures bent on fucking anything within reach. You, and everyone you personally like, are among those naturally immune to the disease. While most of the infected die quickly, some retain sufficient intelligence to become hominid animals living off the wilds or on food stores. Defending against their rapes and thefts is an ongoing problem requiring the survivors to band together. Some partially-immune survivors have greatly increased LST and PRV. Use this perk if you're tired of living in a complicated technological civilization.

Think carefully before taking this perk, as I Regret My Life Choices may lead to the plague being cured or the zombies dying out, but will not undo the previous effects.

Your point is refunded at 80 ERO.

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>> Srs Bsns (9)

Not for her, might be handy under some conceivable circumstances, and wtf-why-is-this-even-here. Respectively. Next.

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
<< Meta (7)
[] I Regret My Life Choices (2 points)

Remove any number of perks previously taken. Non-refundable perk points are lost permanently, refundable perk points will return later at the appropriate thresholds.

[] Marshmallow Test (1 point)

Receive two additional perk points, for a net of one more perk than you would've had otherwise. This perk can only be taken after reaching LVL 10 and only if it is the first perk you have chosen. (Your starting perk does not count, likewise any perks automatically awarded by the system.)

Minimum level: 10

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[] Munchkin (1 point + 2 fragments)

Game design is less careful, and some exploitable loopholes remain on close inspection. Erogame functions are more likely to work according to your literal interpretation of the text.

This does not extend to liberal interpretations of the text. Your terrible, terrible ideas will still fail.

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There's a reason to level up, she can take Marshmallow Test and then get both space ones at once, they seem like they'd be more fun together.

She kind of doesn't like the literal interpretation of the Ergoame text enough to want to glue it into place.

Next!

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
<< Meta (7)
[] Off Switch  (1 point + 2 fragments)

Choose one perk, passive skill, or status effect. You may at will suspend or resume its effects whenever it would otherwise be on.

[] Wait I'm Not Ready For This (1 point + 1 fragment)

You may delay up to 10 points of gain in each stat, and up to 5 Lvls of gain in each skill, until you permit it to go through. This does not otherwise affect rates of experience gain or the leveling curve. Permittance may be done partially. Permittance is irrevocable. When first taking this perk, you may apply it retroactively to any gains within the last week.

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Good to know those are there!

What is "Srs Bsns".

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
<< Srs Bsns (9)
[] Erogame What Erogame (2 fragments)

You forget that the Erogame exists. The game automatically levels up, distributes stat points, selects perks, accepts quests, and invokes skills in whichever way it thinks will make your sex life the most interesting.

[] Goodbye (1 point)

You may enter any one fictional continuum at the place and time of your choice, arriving in your current form and with your Erogamer powers. You cannot displace an existing character unless you choose to arrive at the time of an extrauniversal summoning, such as by Louise the Zero. You arrive without your metafictional knowledge of the continuum, and able to speak and write the local language.

You cannot ever return to the real world. Even if the fictional continuum includes a 'real world' to return to, you will only return to the 'real world' of that fiction. In the true real world, nobody will ever know what happened to you, and any quests that would have depended on you will fail.

[] No (1 point)

Choose one event to disallow either prospectively, or retroactively up to 24 hours earlier. The event will not happen, either then or at any time in the future. Ongoing processes are not 'events', but their starting points may be considered so.

You cannot take this perk more than once.

[] Sin of (1 point)

You may take this perk only once. Choose:

—Envy: Take over another person's life. Everyone in the world now believes unshakably that you are they. The displaced person no longer exists.
—Gluttony: You never get tired, bored, or over-satiated during any pleasurable act, no matter how long it continues. You may accumulate unlimited DOM and SUB from such acts.
—Greed: You find a winning lottery ticket with the lump-sum cash payout option selected. After all taxes are paid, your after-tax winnings are a bit over $100,000,000.
—Lust: At will, you may temporarily increase your LST and/or PRV to any higher level you wish, for as long as you wish, up to a maximum of 100.
—Pride: All stats and skills increase faster.
—Sloth: Removes all time limits for acceptance or completion of quests. Negates or softens all other visible deadlines for accomplishing anything within the Erogame or your life.
—Wrath: Instantly kill anyone you choose. Bypassing quest challenges in this way will reduce their rewards. You may invoke this perk an unlimited number of times.

[] Slightly Smarter (1 point)

The cognitive subprocesses comprising your soul improve slightly in efficiency and computational power, corresponding to a rough gain of 3 points of IQ as it would be measured by contemporary tests. This increase in intelligence is not a game feature; it is real and applies to the true inner you.

You may take this perk more than once. This perk is incompatible with Slightly Stupider, and you cannot choose one after having taken the other.

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Some of these actually seem way less Srs as it were than some of the others! Winning a lottery ticket is a MUCH LESS BIG DEAL than TRIGGERING A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. But maybe they are secretly barbed somehow.

Next?

Info // Perks

>> Starting (2)
>> BOD (7)
>> LST (7)
>> SED (12)
>> FUK (8)
>> PRV (6)
>> ERO (28)
>> Genre (33)
>> Meta (7)
<< Srs Bsns (9)
[] Slightly Stupider (1 point)

The cognitive subprocesses comprising your soul decrease slightly in efficiency and computational power, corresponding to a rough loss of 3 points of IQ as it would be measured by contemporary tests. This decrease in intelligence is not a game feature; it is real and applies to the true inner you.

Gain two additional perk points, for a net gain of one perk.

You may take this perk any number of times, but you must have one perk point available to start each such series. This perk is incompatible with Slightly Smarter, and you cannot choose one after having taken the other.

[] Soulbond (1 point + 2 fragments)

If your love for someone is true, and they return that love, this perk creates a symmetrical emotional and telepathic bond between your soul and theirs, which will deepen over time if your love stays true. Both sides of the relationship are automatically protected as if by True Love Conquers All.

Failure of this bond does not refund the perk and may have psychological consequences. It goes without saying that Off Switch cannot apply to soulbonds. Consider staying married for a couple of centuries first.

This perk may be taken more than once.

[] Subspace Explorer (2 points)

If a BDSM session puts you deep enough into subspace, you can travel within it across vast distances of probability and possibility to visit other worlds. All alien societies connected to subspace have their own equivalents of BDSM, ensuring that you can always return home.

Minimum ERO: 100

[] Truth (1 point)

Regardless of any other Erogame perks taken and any other powers affecting you, you regain your memories of who you really are, what really happened, and what reality was like before. No further such effects can deceive you. Think hard before taking this perk.

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Honestly the idea that somebody might want to dump three or nine or eighteen IQ points in exchange for perks is only slightly weirder than the idea that somebody might want some of those perks at all! If your idea of a hot time is being constantly raped by strangers it seems like it might actively help to be a little harder to bore in the process!

...

TRUTH HAD BETTER BE FUCKING REDUNDANT.

And that's it, she has no further Perks to look at.

She does have a skill she hasn't looked at yet, plus that SED point she got hanging from her character screen.

Yeah, let's look at the new skill.

Ero Environmental Resistance: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). Passive.

A true magical bimbo is always dressed her best, whether in the chill of early spring, the scorching sun of the desert, or the deadly vacuum of space. You probably shouldn't try that last one for a while.

Uncomfortable environment: ERO x 0.5% x Skill Lvl = 17.5% resistance
Dangerous environment: ERO x 0.2% x Skill Lvl = 7% resistance
Lethal environment: ERO x 0.1% x Skill Lvl = 3.5% resistance

This skill only operates when you are dressed (or undressed) inappropriately for your surroundings. To avoid being sunburned on the beach, you'll need an unusually skimpy swimsuit. Naturally, ice cubes and dripping hot wax don't count as "environments", so keep on squirming.

Cute Cold Resistance: Lvl 1 (1 / 3). Passive.

Multiply your base resistance factor for cold environments by 1 + 0.1 x Skill Lvl = 1.1.

Okay, that's stupid but it's at least conveniently stupid, she can always just wear clothes and sunscreen like a normal person if she doesn't want to jump through its hoops.

She mulls over her SED point for a bit - how fast are these going to come in? - and then spends it and then wakes up the tablet to take stock of the results in writing. Then darkens it again to close her eyes and...

...think about some things.

Quest available: Know Thyself

Start making up for all that time in which you did not exist by learning how to pleasure yourself.

Success: You understand your body and desires better, +1 LST, +50xp.
Failure: Quest continues until you succeed.
Accept: Y/N

She's not sure she actually wants the LST point but she doesn't have to apply it till she comes down on that one, one way or the other. Y.

She'll have to be very quiet, she doesn't know if Oliver has decent soundproofing and in fact now that she thinks of it he probably specifically doesn't if the game thinks it would make things more interesting.

One day she is going to be a kickass bilocating divine weredragon who can breathe in space, introducing her beloved followers to the space neighbors and letting them go down on her after the diplomatic meetings are concluded for the day <3

Quest completed: Know Thyself

Objective: You have successfully masturbated for the first time. +1 LST (whenever you get around to it), +50xp.
Hidden Objective: Have an actual sexual fantasy. +1 PRV (same).

She could get used to this.

And now sleep.

The Erogame will, of course, not disturb her beauty sleep. When she wakes up, she will have ero heroine bed hair, which is to say it's spread over her pillow artfully to halo her sleepy face and make her look like an impossible princess. Which is not the most relevant fact, with no audience to witness this, but it might be noteworthy, and will be a pattern. She also feels perfectly rested, like she slept for exactly the correct amount of time and is now ready to face the day with newfound energy and vigor.

Nice.

Time to go make pancakes - has he got frozen blueberries - and scrambled eggs and - has he got bacon or anything in the freezer that she can defrost under running water -

No blueberries but she can find some frozen bacon hidden behind the loads of frozen meals in his freezer. And eggs he does have, as well as butter.

Syrup?

Unfortunately no. She might need to also do a supermarket run if she wants this boy to have, uh, anything at all.

After breakfast. Butter is adequate for pancakes and she doesn't have any money. - does he have candy that isn't gummy bears, chocolate chip pancakes are a thing -

He has variety in candy! She can totally find chocolate chips.

Great. Chocolate chip pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon. It takes a little work to get them to all come out hot at the same time but none of these are complicated foods. Hopefully the smell will wake him up on its own.

This is the Erogame, something would have woken him up at a narratively appropriate time regardless.

He steps out of his room, bleary and sleepy, then stops and just stands there for several seconds waiting for his brain to boot up so he can properly process what's happening.

"Good morning! I made breakfast." She dishes him a plate and holds it out.

Loading loading loading "Oh! Um. Thank you! You didn't have to!"

But the smell is really appetizing and he cannot deny his instincts as they pull him towards the plate.

"Oh, I made enough for me, too," she assures him, plating her own portion and taking a seat with it. "Though if you want lunch and dinner too you need to give me a grocery budget."

He opens his mouth then closes it while he runs a calculation in his head about what the appropriate thing to do here is.

"You really don't need to?" says the man who clearly sounds like he kinda wants her to.

"And you really don't need to hand a girl you met yesterday a few bucks in order to have nice sandwiches for lunch and spaghetti for dinner! World is full of things we don't need to do." Nomf.

He grins. "Can't argue with that." Nomf also, it's been a while since last time he's had proper breakfast and this is really nice.

Oh good. "Mind, I'm not a gourmet, but I can beat the microwave."

"I think you're selling yourself short, this tastes great."

A skill has been created by a special action! Making breakfast for a boy you have vague intentions to seduce after sleeping over at his place has created the skill Morning After Chef.

"Thank you!" What does that skill do.

Info // Skills // Morning After Chef

Morning After Chef: Lvl 1 (0 / 3). Passive.

They say the way to a boy's heart is his stomach. This is not, strictly speaking, true, but to the extent it is a good approximation to reality it applies to boys, girls, many other human genders, and a reasonable number of other species. This skill improves your cooking skills by Skill Lvl x 20% = 20% whenever you are cooking for someone you have an incipient or existing romantic and/or sexual relationship with.

Your Morning After Chef skill level is added to the levels of all of its subskills.

* Note: Due to the perk My Mind to Control, the passive effect of this skill in terms of your actual abilities needs to be actively turned on/invoked by you. When you are not doing so, any food that would be affected by this perk will just magically taste as though it had been cooked by you under half the effect of this skill.

She will let it make her a better cook, why not. Though she is totally going to try to extract insights from being a better cook and see if she can deploy them when she is fixing just herself a snack. ...does she count as having a sexual relationship with herself? Well. Anyway.

"If you want me to go grocery shopping I will also need directions to the nearest grocery store."

"I'll show you it on Maps, that'll be easier."

"Works for me! Am I correct in assuming you are not picky and do not have weird allergies?"

"You are correct! As for budget, uh... I'll give you a card and, um, don't splurge too much I guess? I honestly don't know how much is a reasonable amount to spend on groceries."

"I'll stay away from the truffles. Okay if I hit a thrift store for clothes too?"

"Sure." Card!

"Thank you, you're really sweet."

...he flushes a bit and scratches his cheek. "Thank you."

When they have finished eating breakfast she puts everything in the dishwasher, and consults Google Maps about a grocery store and thrift shop.

Both of them are in easy walking distance from where she is.

She was fine barefoot yesterday so instead of asking about flipflops she collects the card he provided, pockets it, and heads out, humming a bit. Thrift store first. This takes her away from the sinister brainjacking facility, which is in a swankier part of town; she emerges from the neighborhood where Oliver lives and passes a frame shop and a bodega and a middle school and a park before she hits the street whereon she will buy clothes. It's a nice day out.