He flies to America in coach, as not even his grandfather's newfound fears about his safety have changed his grandfather's opinion that the finances of the state of Norzue can be put to much better uses than first-class plane tickets.

He gets in, goes to his apartment, and reads a book while he waits for his babysitter to show up.

He isn't really sure what he's expecting from Bandile's apartment, but he does bring a borrowed copy of Interview with the Vampire with Sasha's favorite parts underlined, just in case. 

What he gets is an unlocked door, a semi-furnished apartment, a couple of fully packed suitcases, and a person on a couch who unpacked the Vorkosigan Saga first and forgot what he was going to do with the rest of it. 

oh no he's cute

Marlo knocks before he opens the door, smiles at Bandile. "Hello." 

"Hi!" he says. "Are you Marlo?"

"I am. You're Prince Bandile?" 

He has done maybe an excessive amount of research on how the name is supposed to be pronounced. 

"That's pretty good for an American." (He has a British accent.) 

oh no he's cute

"I have a friend who would murder me in my sleep if I didn't at least try. — thank you." 

"Sounds like a great friend. --I'm sorry, this is going to be an incredibly boring job for you."

"He is. And it can't be more boring than sitting at a desk doing paperwork." 

"I have no idea why my granddad decided I suddenly needed a bodyguard or why I couldn't have brought one from home, but I promise you no one is trying to kill me."

Failure: Survivor's Guilt says otherwise. 

"Less boring than paperwork is a low bar, I'm sure this will meet it even without any murder attempts." 

"I suppose if you like watching me do my homework and watch bad science fiction movies and draft properly tactful press releases about LGBT rights, that's your business."

He probably will like that, actually. 

"It's the kind of job you can read on, at least." 

"Yeah, you can catch up on all your favorite series."

Or yours, he doesn't say. 

"I feel like I should be asking questions but I have no idea what to ask about." 

"We don't have Ebola, you don't usually see lions outside of national parks, I have used a cell phone before as has almost everyone else in my country, and we don't particularly need help from American musicians."

"Yes, I have read a single wikipedia article. — actually I was trying to figure out whether it would be awkward to ask about your thesis or not." 

"You did research!"

"I did! I don't have enough context to understand most of it, unfortunately. It being the thesis, not the research." 

"I'm happy to explain it if you're interested, but don't feel like you have to ask."

Why do people keep assuming he's asking questions about things he doesn't want to hear about! Why would he do that! 

"I'm interested!" 

"Maybe I want to hear about you and your strange and exotic American lifestyle. For example, I understand you have over a hundred flavors of ice cream."

"I don't think there's anywhere that has more than a hundred in one place, but America is large and has a lot of ice cream places and some of them are in weird hippie towns where they think olive oil should go in ice cream. For the record it should not." 

"Yeah, I'm not seeing it."

"Good choice. Some of the weird ones are actually pretty good but that was not." 

"Americans are strange people. Your bread tastes like cake and you are all monolingual."

"Tell that to the people who try to quote anime to me like I'll understand it. — more seriously, schools here are really bad at teaching languages, my friend has several different rants about this." 

"Your languages friend sounds fun."

"He is." His voice goes a little softer than he'd meant it to. "He speaks English and Russian and Arabic, I don't know how many languages you speak —" 

"I'm fluent in English, Spanish, and the three languages most commonly spoken in my country, plus I can muddle through in a bunch of others-- Granddad wanted me to learn Chinese because there's Chinese investment in Norzue but it turns out Chinese is hard."

"That it is," he agrees. 

"You know anything other than English?"

"Like the majority of Americans, I took three years of Spanish in high school, learned almost nothing, and retained even less." 

"You're cute," he says in Norzue. 

That's just mean. He can't actually find it in him to be annoyed, though. 

A skill has been created by a special action! Listening to Bandile flirt in Norzue has created the skill Language of Love.

Info/Skills/Language of Love

Language of Love. Lvl 1. Passive.

When a person flirts with you in a language other than English, you hear it as English.

...in retrospect he should not be surprised that that was flirting. Thank you erogame for the existence of this skill. 

He does his best, which is not very good, to repeat the phrase back. 

"You have no idea what I just said! I could have just insulted your mother!"

"Maybe you should tell me, then." 

"I said 'good job learning Spanish,'" he lies.

"Liar. But I'm fine with having said that back." 

Let's steer away from the conversational topic of whether he was sexually harassing his employee!

He attempts to think of a topic change and lands on, "so what is it like to be a police officer?" Which is probably very stupid but that's why he's not a politician yet.

"Less interesting than you'd think, more paperwork than anyone expects." And I think my boss is getting annoyed with me because I keep turning down undercover operations, he doesn't say, because there is kind of a lot of context there. 

"What a coincidence, both of those things are also true of being a prince."

"I'd expect they're true of most jobs." What's another conversation topic where he won't have to elide around the fact that his life is now a sex video game quite so much. "What's your favorite thing about the United States so far?" 

"Nobody knows who I am and I can just do things without it reflecting on my family," he doesn't say. 

"Roller coasters," he says. "There's actually only one roller coaster in all of Norzue."

Asking questions about Bandile's experiences with roller coasters requires no elision whatsoever! 

And once a polite amount of small talk has been made, Bandile makes some excuses and picks up his book again.

Yeah, fair enough. He'll read too, doesn't watch Bandile directly but keeps him in his field of vision. 

Half an hour later, Bandile says, "--I just want you to know that this is going to be the most profoundly embarrassing conversation I have ever had in my life."

"...alright?" 

Probably it will not be worse than 'Hello, cute boy I met the day before yesterday, I promise I haven't had a psychotic break, my life really has become a video game.' 

"So I uh-- I'm trying to think of a way to say this euphemistically and it is not working-- I see a prodomme when I'm in America? And my next appointment is in forty-five minutes? And you're probably going to have to go-- guard me there. --I am so sorry about this profoundly awkward situation."

"That isn't even the most awkward thing that's happened to me in the last week," he says honestly. "It's not a problem." 

"That's good because this is definitely the most profoundly awkward thing that happened to me in the past three months. --To get all the awkward conversations out of the way at once, I'm bi and I'm going to hook up with men at some point while you're guarding me."

Yeah, Marlo would have been more surprised if he wasn't. "Good to know. — for the record I am gay and the person I have been calling my friend is in fact my boyfriend." 

"Cool. He sounds like a great guy."

"He is," Marlo says, and doesn't say the rest of what he's thinking. 

"Also I have a fiance."

Blink. 

Erogame, why. 

"Is she aware of the prodomme — not that it's any of my business, sorry, you don't have to answer that and I won't assume the answer is no —" 

"No, she's not, nor am I aware of the sex I assume she's having in England."

Great! That's great. 

Erogame why. 

"Kay," he says, instead of literally any of the several dozen thoughts he's having. 

Quest available: Dirty Little Secret

Being the king's secret mistress is a long and honorable tradition, and there's always something hot about sleeping around. Add Prince Bandile as a harem member.

Success: +5,000 xp, +$4,000/month, Dirty Cheater status effect
Failure: PoundMeToo status effect

He.... doesn't know how he feels about that quest; he leaves it open rather than choosing one way or the other, smiles at Bandile. 

Bandile grabs his wallet and calls an Uber, presumably to the prodomme's dungeon.

Marlo follows him — brings Interview — and hits 'no' while they're getting into the Uber. 

He glances out the window. 

"...Were there always this many shirtless men in Boston?"

"— no, it's a pretty recent development," he says truthfully. 

"I don't disapprove."

"Neither do I." It's definitely weird, though. 

Bandile alternately reads his book and stares out the window until they get to the dungeon!

Marlo alternates between looking out the window and watching Bandile. 

He has never actually been in a dungeon but he's pretty sure it won't actually be made out of stone and look like a castle like the name suggests. 

It looks like a doctor's waiting room, except that instead of back issues of Time there are books with titles like Screw The Roses Send Me The Thorns, The New Topping Book, and The Ethical Slut. 

Bandile talks to the receptionist and is taken inside. 

There's a notice board up on the wall. 

Due to the high number of potentially available quests, you must tap an ad on the notice board to receive related quests, if any.

He goes up to the notice board and reads the ads. 

There are ads for the following:

--A gay escort agency (looking for clients)
--Several gay prodommes (looking for clients)
--The Anime Appreciation Club
--A strip club (looking for strippers)
--A gay escort agency (looking for escorts)
--A dungeon (looking for prosubs)
--The Special Anime Appreciation Club
--Shibari lessons
--Massage lessons
--Microsoft Office lessons
--The Extra Special Anime Appreciation Club
--The Sex Workers' Outreach Project
--Someone who wants to hire a personal assistant
--A very cryptic personal ad
--Someone who is willing to pay to find out who someone called Lady Sally is
--The Amazing Hair Appreciation Club

He taps the dungeon ad, the very cryptic personal ad, and he's sort of curious about what an extra special anime appreciation club might be. 

These produce, respectively:

Quest available: Dungeon Master

It has occurred to the keepers of Boston's finest dungeon that half of all people are dominant, and yet for some reason they've never hired anyone to cater to this audience. Good for a few bucks, and maybe something more.

Quest available: Man of Wealth and Taste

Stanley Silverman likes them young and eager. That last part can be a problem for him, considering his particular... interests.

Min PRV: 30.

Quest available: Mysteries of the Anime Club

The regular anime club watches anime. The special anime club watches hentai. The extra special anime club... is special. 

Success: ?????, Eternal Bliss status effect
Failure: ?????

He'll keep an eye on dungeon master, he'd like to stop getting quests to go undercover, but turns down the anime club and the personal assistant quest and waits for Bandile to be done. 

The TV blares "-- scientists baffled-- several of the world's most deadly infectious diseases, disproportionately affecting the developing world, have mysteriously disappeared--"

The receptionist says to Marlo, "would you be interested in a free session?"

......on the one hand: he has work. On the other hand: taking the more ero option will not hurt you. On the first hand: does he actually want to try a prodomme. On the second hand: he's curious, the point of the erogame is to try things you're curious about —

"Sure," he says. 

Well, then, instead of waiting in a bored fashion in the room, he can be taken to a room where a very attractive man ties him up and beats the shit out of him. 

Good. 

Meanwhile —  

"I'm pretty sure there weren't this many shirtless men around a week ago." 

"There were not," he says. 

He is kind of openly staring.

"I'm definitely not complaining —" he's staring too — "but it's definitely weird." 

"Thanks, Erogame," Lev says, looking at a black man with a dancer's body who appears to have forgotten the location of his shirt, his pants, and (for that matter) all non-Speedo clothing.

"Thanks, Erogame," Sasha agrees; he isn't particularly subtle about how he looks at the man. 

Possibly there will be fewer shirtless men in stores than outside of them. He's not sure whether he thinks it's likely versus how much he hopes it isn't true, but possibly. 

There are fewer shirtless men in the bookstore but there are far more than usual.

There are also two sections of the bookstore labeled "SEXUALITY-- NEW" and "PORNOGRAPHY-- NEW."

Huh. 

How much of it is gay, when he looks. 

About half of the porn features gay men, although some of them are actually in menage a trois relationships with women. But he can look at titles such as Daddy Me or Shameless Submission: A Dark BDSM Romance or The Virgin And The Beast: An Erotic Gay Beauty And The Beast Retelling. 

"Are you going to tell me getting off on calling people 'daddy' is totally normal and hot and I am so innocent for being confused by it."

"It's pretty common and I do think it's cute that you've never encountered it before but I don't personally find it hot." 

He checks the back cover of The Virgin And The Beast, then puts it on the pile. 

"Oh, huh, there's an erotic photography section now."

Lev goes to look at Gorgeous Redheads: The Hottest Redheaded Women On The Planet.

There sure is. 

There are a slightly bizarre number of books with photos of beautiful men artfully tied up, even considering the weirdness of having an erotic photography section in the first place. 

Lev puts down Gorgeous Redheads and picks up a copy of Wholesome Beauties, which appears to consist solely of chubby large-breasted women smiling hugely while doing jumping jacks or swimming or feeding cows. 

Is Sasha interested in a copy of The Beautiful Boy by Germaine Greer?

It's feminist!

Feminist, huh. 

Yeah, he'll take a copy of that. Is there anything in this bookstore with Hilda, Sasha thinks Lev would like Hilda. 

Of course there's Hilda.

What kind of sex game do you take the Erogame for.

The kind designed for a gay man who might or might not enjoy Hilda! But thank you Erogame. 

"She looks so happy," Lev says. "I like it when people in porn look happy."

"I'm not even into it as porn I just love it as character design, she has so much personality." 

Lev kisses him. "I like it when you look at me like that. You have great character design." 

Maybe they should just not stop kissing. How about that. 

This is such an excellent plan. 

At some point, however, Lev will have to go to the bathroom.

This is true. (With quite a bit of effort Sasha has managed to internalize that cis men think it's weird to go to the bathroom in groups; he doesn't follow.) 

When he comes back, he says, "just checking-- there wasn't a glory hole in the bathroom of the bookstore a week ago, right?"

"...not.... that I ever knew of?" 

"Well. Do you want to come suck off this random guy with me?"

"Sounds fun." 

(Why the bookstore bathroom.) 

The random dick has not gone away in the time it took to get there and back. 

Lev sits back on his heels, looks at it, touches it gingerly. 

Sasha kneels down next to Lev, watches him for a few seconds, then leans forward and licks it. 

Lev leans forward and very cautiously licks it too, then kisses it again, more confidently.

"There you go," he says, quiet, "keep doing that." 

Mm. He kisses Sasha with the cock in between their lips.

Sasha kisses him back and then whispers "Good boy." 

He puts Sasha's hand on his head.

Sasha tangles his fingers in Lev's hair and pushes his head forward. 

He sucks. His eyes are closed and he looks almost worshipful.

"Good boy," Sasha tells him, "good boy, just like that." 

Lev pulls off and says, "Do you want a turn?"

He nods and kisses Lev and — it's sort of hard to do with a wall in the way, but he sinks down as far as he can. 

He strokes Sasha's hair. 

His boyfriend is so hot. 

"Let me swallow it?"

He nods — keeps sucking, tries to pay attention to how close the person this dick belongs to is to coming — 

There's a gasp from the other side of the wall.

He pulls off, pushes Lev forward, puts his hand in Lev's hair again. 

And he sucks until he can taste the saltiness of the come in his mouth. 

"I love you."

"I love you." Kiss. "You did great, you were so good —" 

"I'm so hard."

"Want me to —" 

"Yes," he says, even though he has no idea which particular thing Sasha is proposing. 

Then he'll push Lev until he's standing and kneel down in front of him and — take care of him. 

He thinks about using the gloryhole himself-- about not knowing whether the person who's sucking him off is a guy or a girl but suspecting that it's probably a guy but there's still the plausible deniability that it could be-- he finishes.

Sasha swallows and closes his pants and gets to his feet and kisses him, and then they can go back out to the bookstore. 

Look at this prominently placed shirtless cop calendar!

"....Lev. Look." 

"Huh, I wonder if Marlo's--" He flips through it. "Marlo is July, look."

Specifically, Marlo is shirtless, handcuffed to the wall, and very obviously hard.

"— we're getting it." 

"Yes, we are. Thanks Erogame."

Thank you Erogame indeed. 

After forty-five minutes or so of being beaten while tied up and ten minutes or so of waiting for Bandile to be done, Marlo's bruises are hidden and he's prepared for this to be as awkward as it's going to be. 

Bandile comes out. He looks very relaxed. 

"Let's go home."

He looks good, relaxed. Not that he didn't look good before. 

(Self knowledge is — not a curse, never a curse, but kind of uncomfortable sometimes.) 

"Let's," he agrees. 

Bandile is quiet on the way home and spends the rest of the afternoon on his laptop. 

After an hour or so Marlo gets a text. 

so the bookstore has a sexy cop calendar 

you're July 

did you seriously 

I seriously 

you're so pretty 

am I gonna have to handcuff you to a wall sometime 

sasha. 

^_^ 

💙 

Lev is staring at the calendar in awe. 

"Tell him I jerked off."

Lev says to tell you he jerked off 

(so pretty) 

sasha. 

don't worry it's in my apartment we aren't going to put it in yours 

"Technically it's also in my apartment but in my desk drawer," Lev adds. "Because I think my parents would be suspicious if I suddenly had a hot cop calendar."

it was shot a week ago how did it even 

you know what I don't care don't tell me 

Lev gets his phone to participate in the conversation.

the Erogame is doing reality warping, I think

lots of shirtless guys, a porn section in the bookstore with a kind of improbable amount of gay porn, the clothing store had a bunch of incredibly sexy clothes and they were all in Sasha's size

the girl clothes and the guy clothes

a glory hole in the bathroom where there definitely wasn't one last week 

gosh 

that's.... a lot 

it honestly seems pretty nice so far

still a lot, though

yeah

I'm not sure why it picked you instead of me or sasha

neither am I 

it said something about being desperate but Sasha wouldn't have been any less that 

no 

when you come home I want to cuddle you 

I want to cuddle both of you but I also think Marlo should explain all the stats and skills and other things he has 

so we know what's going on

good idea 

fortunately I can do that while cuddling 

When Marlo gets off work he is tackled by an armload of extremely curious Lev.

Cute. 

"Hey! I missed you too." 

"Work is terrible," kiss, "the Erogame should give you a winning lottery ticket," kiss, "and then you can stay home all day," kiss, "and kiss us," kiss, "which is probably the MOST ero."

"Pretty sure," kiss, "that would ruin the economy," kiss, "or something —" 

Did you know: there is a bed. They could be in it. 

"People win the lottery all the time," Lev objects. 

He can be in bed with his Sasha and his Marlo.

"Now, explain your stats and skills and things."

He draps an arm over Lev'swaist and pets Sasha's hair. "My stats are physical appearance, physical desire, flirting ability, sexual skill, kinkiness, and how weird my life is. Ten is the average for all of them except the last; currently I'm at 28, 15, 14, 20, 24, and 21 respectively." 

"How much is a point worth?"

A skill has been created by a special action! Telling Lev your stats has created the skill Character Sheet.

Info/Skills/Character Sheet

Character Sheet. Active. Lvl MAX. 1 Dom/use.

Using Character Sheet tells you what a person's stats would be if they were the Erogamer. We knew that was going to be Lev's next question. 

"The difference between having a one and having a two is the difference between being fifth and tenth percentile, ish. Except for the 'how weird my life is' stat, I'm not sure what's up with that one but the literally physically impossible doesn't start until fourty." 

Lev looks him up and down. "... I think the points must be worth less above ten because you are really really hot but you are, like, normal-person hot, not 'whatever's eight points above 99th percentile' hot."

"Probably, yeah. Most of them it's hard to actually tell how much of the thing I have compared to most people." 

He leans forward and kisses Lev. 

"I wish I could know what my stats are."

"Apparently it knew you were about to ask that, I got a skill for it ten seconds ago. Character sheet." 

BOD: With the average being 10, and perfect 10s being 40, your BOD of 6 puts you well below average. Your best hope of finding someone willing to touch you is to have them fall in love with your charming personality.

LST: At a LST of 28, you are just barely not an unusually horny teenage boy anymore, which is probably a relief, because you can now do anything other than masturbate. Now that you have a boyfriend, at least you can fuck yourself into a sex haze.
 
SED: Your SED of 1 means your flirting strategy is to pine endlessly or, at best, to turn bright red, stammer out a proposition, and then flee the room. 

FUK: Your FUK of 3 means you'd better be extra careful with your teeth while giving blowjobs. As for other bedroom skills, have you considered trying to… well… move? The Erogame considers your FUK of 3 to not be particularly ero, and has provided you with instincts such that your FUK is equivalent to 10 until you get some practice and can level it up the normal way.

PRV: It is an achievement to have a PRV of 9 as a horny bi man in the age of the Internet, and your pre-Sasha PRV of 6 is even more impressive. You read long stories about men falling in love with each other and then having sweet, gentle, affectionate sex. Sometimes you fantasize about having sweet, gentle, affectionate sex with men you have a crush on. You've occasionally read a story where they sweetly and gently and affectionately handcuff each other, but the violence is kind of a turnoff. Luckily for you, "I want women to peg me while sweetly and gently and affectionately talking about what a great cocksucker I am" counts as a kink, or this would be really embarrassing.  

ERO: N/A. Non-Erogamers do not have an ERO stat.

Special Notes: None. 

"Physical appearance of 6, physical desire of 28, flirting ability of 1, sexual skill of 3 but it has been made equivalent to 10 because having a 3 isn't very ero, kinkiness of 9 and before you met Sasha it was 6, and you don't have a 'how weird my life is stat' because only I have that." 

He glances at Sasha. 

"You can look if you want but I don't actually want to hear the magic sex game's opinion of my physical appearance." 

"A thousand," Lev announces, and kisses him. 

"I love you." 

"I love you so much," Marlo says, and kisses them both. "— perks, I have Cinnamon Roll, which means everyone I have sex with gets triple the positive effects from doing so, No, which lets me pick one event to prevent or undo but I can only take it once, Friends with Benefits which lets me give anyone who doesn't know about the game powers if I convince them it could have happened somehow or make someone a true companion, and Everyone Knows which means people who spend significant time around me can guess what my kinks are." 

"...Cinnamon Roll would be the mind-control perk that True Companion mentioned."

"— wait, what — fuck, it would be." 

"Well, I feel really happy and in love and-- and okay with you looking at me naked and not afraid that the Erogame is going to direct you to someone better and then I'll never see you again-- I haven't worried about that once, that's incredibly out of character--"

"Positive effects," he says, very quietly. "Like how having someone love you is a self confidence boost, and having somone want you can make you believe you're wanted, and not like preventing you from reasoning about whether people are telling you the truth, or —" 

"But I didn't notice I was being mind controlled--"

"Of course you didn't, because the effect of the mind control was 'making sure you know you're loved,' who would notice that? And if it made you feel ways you definitely wouldn't usually, or made you less able to notice if people are lying, then one that wouldn't be a positive effect and two I don't see how sex with Marlo could cause that anyway —" 

"But there are ways I would normally act that I didn't and I didn't notice--"

(He's kind of freaking out.)

"And I bet for me it was — trust and liking the way I look and feeling safe, and if I felt safe when I wasn't actually safe that wouldn't be positive —" 

"I don't want omniscient beings fucking with my head when I don't even know what they're doing and I might not even notice-- I don't care if it's doing positive things, I don't want something to change my brain without me even getting to know what it changed-- I half want to stop fucking Marlo but that wouldn't work, the Erogame wants me to fuck Marlo and if I did it would probably arrange to force me to rape Marlo or something because Marlo thinks getting raped is hot and I don't know if I know that for real or because Everyone Knows is fucking with my head--"

"Do not have sex with me if you don't want to be doing that — True Companions makes you immune to mind control, right —" 

"Don't do something you don't want to do because I'm freaking out."

"Okay, but if it's freaking you out this much to not have it then you should — I'm not going to give it to you in the next five minutes, at minimum we need to talk about what exactly you want from it first, but that's. There." 

"It's fine! I'm fine. Everything's fine."

Sasha hugs him. 

"I wouldn't-- necessarily mind the changes, I mind-- things messing around in my brain without me knowing what they're doing."

"So cuddle me until you can have a conversation about what exactly you want from True Companion, and then you'll know." 

"I want the Erogame to tell me what it's doing to my brain."

"I'm pretty sure that's not the only thing you want." 

He's not going to reach out Lev doesn't want to be having sex with him he shouldn't — 

Sasha leans over and hugs him too. 

It's probably due to the Erogame but Lev feels really really scared and what makes him feel safe is resting his head on Marlo's chest.

"Skills?" 

"Uh, I have a lot — the ones I use are Cuddle which tells me how to move so the person I'm holding feels safe, Sleep Telepathy which tells me how you want to be interacted with while you're asleep and lets me see your dreams, and Matchmaking which tells me what a relationship between two people would be like — I can check what the rest of them are —" 

"Cuddle's nice," Lev says into Marlo's shoulder. "I like Cuddle."

"I like Cuddle too," Marlo says, and cradles Lev's head. 

"Might as well tell me what other horrifying secrets there are in the skills list."

He's maybe blushing a little bit.

"They're not that horrifying — Striptease and Strip Other and Edge Riding do exactly what they sound like, Intimate Healing lets me make people stop feeling nauseous by cuddling them or do CPR by kissing them, Hypnosis also does exactly what it sounds like but I've only ever used it on Sasha, Language of Love does a thing where if someone flirts with me in a language I don't speak I hear it as English, Strike a Pose means I start automatically posing when there are cameras around, Sexual Communication means I say the thing I want with no self censoring and thank the Lord it is a skill I have to use on purpose — I am not actually sure what Exhibitionism and But Had He Been Drinking do, I was distracted and haven't used them, let me check —" 

Info/Skills/But Had He Been Drinking

But Had He Been Drinking. Lvl 1. Passive.

When you drink, you attract a number of rapists equivalent to your level in this skill, all of whom are both attracted to you and aware of your vulnerable state. Observers will believe you are consenting due to being drunk; the drunker you are, the more evidence it will take to cause them to believe you don't consent. 

Info/Skills/Exhibitionism

Exhibitionism. Lvl 1. Active. 1 D|S/use.

When you use this skill while having sex, summon an audience. Audiences will not necessarily confine themselves to simply watching. Audiences summoned while you're not having sex may be... disappointed. 
 

"— okay, But Had He Been Drinking apparently summons rapists when I'm drunk and convinces bystanders I'm consenting, if either of you wants that one sorry but it's not happening, and Exhibitionism summons an audience but it's a skill I have to use on purpose so I can just not do that." 

"I notice you're not mentioning whether you're going to use it. --I also don't know what Edge Riding is."

"It's a passive skill, if I drink it just happens. I am not intending to get drunk but I wasn't intending to before. — edge riding is," and his face is a fascinating shade of pink as he explains. 

"...That sounds hot."

"It's extremely hot." 

"Sasha, you should do that to me."

"Oh that'll be fun." 

"And the skills it gives you before anything happens at all are Erogamer's Mind, which does things like 'I am not traumatized by rape,' and Erogamer's Body, which does things like 'pregnancy and STDs do not exist for me,' which I'd want to give you if I was going to give you anything else." 

"I assume you mean Erogamer's Body, I don't want to be not traumatized by rape."

"Some subset of them, anyway, I'm fine with you not having both but I would be really worried if you didnt have either." 

"I'm not thrilled by not being able to have kids but I guess you can't bring kids into Magic Sex Game World anyway."

"I wonder if it interferes with sperm banking." 

"Is that everything?" 

He clicks through pages. "The harem thing I've told you about and it doesn't really do anything mechanical — oh. Okay, so there's a thing, I hate the word they use for it but can't change it, where giving people oral gives me temporary powers." 

"What kind of powers?"

"Harry's are 'you are protected from the obvious consequences of impulsive decisions for twenty-four hours,' 'you have ridiculous masochism for half an hour,' and 'for the next forty-eight hours you know how to play three chords on guitar; if you previously knew more than three you now know only three.'" 

"They're person-specific?????"

"They're labeled by person so I assume so?" 

"You should suck me off and figure out what sex magic I give you!"

"I can do that," Marlo says, and kisses him, down his neck and down his chest. 

He rests his head on Sasha's chest. "And Sasha."

"And Sasha," he agrees. Kisses Lev's chest and stomach and keeps going, takes Lev's pants off, kisses his hips, doesn't stop there — 

On one hand, Lev has been kind of having a lot of sex lately.

On the other hand, Marlo is sucking him off and he's kissing Sasha with his hands in Sasha's hair and he's not interested in it lasting a long time.

He thinks about gloryholes and being pegged and getting Everyone Knows so everyone who sees him knows how much he likes kissing Sasha with Marlo's mouth on his dick and then he finishes.  

Marlo swallows and moves up to cuddle him and checks the nectar tab. 

Info/Skills/The Nectar/Lev Aarons

1. You have an instinct for explaining things to people in a way that they will grasp. You are particularly talented at explaining things to children. (2 hours.) 
2. Scientific studies that have failed to replicate or which have poor methodology or falsified data will appear in blue. This power will not give you knowledge you could not have in theory learned through reading the literature carefully. (24 hours.)
3. If you enter a bookstore with a question, close your eyes, and select a book, it will provide insight on your question. (45 minutes.) 

"I love you," and he reads the descriptions out loud, doesn't stop cuddling his Lev. 

"What! I want the second thing!" 

"--what happens if I become a True Companion and get both The Nectar and a high enough BOD to suck my own dick."

He opens his mouth and closes it and opens it again and says "I have no idea." 

"I have to say I don't think I was anticipating having to suck my own dick once a day but we all make sacrifices in the name of science."

"Love you," and Marlo kisses him, "love you so much —"

"I love you so much too!"

"Of course probably"-- he does math-- "well, two-thirds of it tops is mind control, but probably I am in love with you for reasons that have nothing to do with sex? But I don't know how to measure relative sources. Some amount of it is mind control."

He's.... just not going to respond to that, except by hugging Lev tighter. 

"You should do Sasha too."

"Sasha —"

"I have a mind control kink. 'Sex with someone I already loved and trusted makes me feel more comfortable and safe' is a safe-mode kid-gloves version of the things I fantasize about at night, yes I want you to have sex with me." 

"Good," Marlo says, and — 

— Sasha's already wet — 

Lev pets Sasha's hair and watches Marlo between his legs and says, "you're so beautiful."

Oh — 

he would have some response to that, possibly involving words, but Marlo's tongue — 

Info/Skills/The Nectar/Sasha Michaels

1) When subjected to or applying hypnosis, significantly heighten both superficial resistance, and persistent subliminal effects. (6h)
2) You pick up foreign languages 30% more quickly than you otherwise would (24h)
3) You see colors 10% more intensely (6h)

Marlo keeps going until he can feel Sasha's thighs tense up and his body start trembling, and then pulls away. 

"No please —"

It takes him a moment, two, to catch his breath. "You're the worst," with no heat in it. 

"I love you," and he reads the descriptions out loud to both of them. 

"More fucking mind control."

"I kink on it, that makes sense —" 

He kisses Sasha's forehead. "Probably I should figure out how to kink on it. Considering."

"Maybe I should tell you about my fantasies in uncomfortable detail sometime." 

"Good plan." Lev pets his hair. "Especially any fantasies about being made to love and trust people."

"Yes," he says, and relaxes into Lev's hands and curls around Marlo.