"You don't have to. I think I am really truly for sure tuckered out, now, anyway. For today."

She heads kitchen-wards, ogling that nice, solid bod until the view is obscured by her fridge.

The nice solid bod is big enough to have some trouble in her shower, but he makes do.

When he comes out, there is a dew-covered beer on the pseudo-kitchen's countertop, and an open one in Laura's hand, and an ice cream tub. She's still in her towel.

(And why not? Long odds she'll get more BOD this way, but Norm might as well enjoy the view...)

"Go get dressed if you want, or not if you don't."

He opts not to, and grabs a beer. "Have you always been like this?" he wonders.

"Who knows? People don't notice that they changed, sometimes. But today is the first time I did the Carpe Diem thing this much..."

"Well, I'm happy for ya."

"I'm happy for me too. If you can just be happy today, and maybe help someone else be happy, that's at least half of succeeding at life done."

"What's the other half?" he asks, grinning lopsidedly.

"Planning for the future, maybe?" She shrugs. And takes a bite of ice cream.

He waves a hand vaguely and noms some ice cream, too. "Not too good at that."

"It's tough stuff, the future. You never know."

He laughs and finishes his ice cream. "I think I should be going about now, then," he says, stretching hugely.

"It was good having you over!" She says, honestly.

After he goes, she goes to bed naked and has... Fun dreams. More satisfied and basking, than longing or desiring or anything.

And dresses and goes to work again.

Norman is all smiles today when she gets there.

Quest available: Coworkers With Benefits

Norman enjoyed his time with you a lot. Surely he wouldn't be the only one? Try to seduce at least half of your coworkers.

Success: +5,000xp, +1 SED, +1 FUK, "Office Slut" status (14 days), increased relations with all your coworkers
Bonus Objective: ???. +1,500xp, +1 ERO, ???
Failure: "Gossip Girl" status (14 days)
Time limit: one week from quest start
Accept: Y/N

Norm's cheered up, that's great!

But, hmmmm... This feels sketchy, like the thing on the bus a couple days ago. But not so sketchy she wants to instantly reject it. 5000 is kind of a lot of XP compared to what came before. Though it feels weird to focus on the XP instead of the experience, what she's actually gonna do, so to speak. She's not thinking of this as a game in quite those terms. And, in more grounded terms, 'slut' is not a label she's entirely sure she wants. It sounds like it might be fun, but 'slut' is an insult.

Can she sort of... Leave it there, for now? Make the window go away without accepting or denying it? If she says 'quests' it might bring it back, later.

As if reading her thoughts (maybe it is), the window goes away.

Yeah she's not gonna think about the implications of all this. She's being dragged along for the ride it seems. But she can avoid letting it affect her too much.

She just works. She's even wearing a bra today.

(She winks at Norm and slaps her own butt, showing off, when she's fairly sure nobody else is paying attention.)

Norm grins at her when she does that and when no one's looking makes a lewd gesture with his mouth and hands.

Yep, they sure did that yesterday. Maybe they will again, today. She gives him a thumbs up!

...You know what. She rolls her work shirt up halfway, revealing her waist and belly where the high-visibility vest doesn't cover her. If anyone asks, it's just to help stay cool. But she bets they won't ask.

Showing more of your body in a plausibly deniable way has increased your BOD by 1!

Oh yay! It's such a nice body, much nicer than a couple of days ago. Her BOD must be at, what, more than twenty, now? The boobs and butt and prettier face she has now aren't entirely hers but the toned tautness of her body is, she jogs and does sit-ups and sports and stuff. And it's sort of vaguely tingly-pleasant that people are looking, both her coworkers and random people on the street that see her.

She starts daydreaming about plausibly deniable ways to show her body to more people. Jogging in just a sports bra? Leaving her apartment blinds open? Taking pictures of herself and putting them on the internet? (She's pretty sure the internet would love that, but not so sure she would like doing that, it's some kind of mixed feeling. Hm.)

...Finding some guys playing a shirtless football game in the park and joining in, shirtlessness and all? (That one might be a bit much, she blushes.)

Fantasizing about actually showing off your naked body in a public, non-plausibly deniable situation has increased your PRV by 1!

That's one of the ones that she doesn't actually want, because it's messing with her brain. Hmm... Well, she'll dwell on that later. Today is payday, which means she can go shopping for a new sports bra, one that actually fits. Then again, she has that Braless Jogging thing, and the other ones related to it. She's supposed to be faster jogging braless, too. Hmm. And she still has that "coworkers with benefits" thing as an option, probably, but has mixed feelings about that quest. Hmmmmm.

She's starting to feel trapped in indecision. Thinking and thinking and thinking about what would be best and whether it's worth it and spiraling down into anxiety. She hates that feeling. So she resolves to stop dithering. She's going to just ignore it all and do what sounds fun, after work.

...Braless jogging sounds fun. Especially at 30% faster. Okay. Another visit with Norm if he's not busy, maybe? Norm was fun.

When she runs into Norm he greets her cheerfully: "Hey, girl! How're you doing today?"

"Hi, Norm. I have a name it's Laura if you forgot. And, oh, same as always."