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In the middle of the night, after Camillo passes out on top of his covers but before he wakes up in the morning to drag himself to class, a new app is quietly installed on his phone.
camillo gets a magic app
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He does not, in fact, end up in his own Stable.
Instead, he ends up back at his home screen, and a tutorial segment starts.
Tap the “Settings” tile.
Tap “My Profile”.
Tap “Edit self”.
This looks roughly like a Stable profile page, albeit missing a few buttons.
You can edit your own body here! Note that you can’t produce Pearls on your own.
Laaaaame.
Well. He still gets to have a six-pack. And a twelve-inch ... okay, no, moderation in all things ... a ten-inch dick.
He'd make himself taller, too, but that one might be a little obvious.
The feeling of his body toning and trimming itself is bizarre, a tightening and tingling and twitching under the skin, with a moderate ache attached.
His dick growing so much at once, even soft, really does not play well with the pants he’s currently wearing. And the intense tingling throbbing sensation doesn’t necessarily play well with it staying soft.
"Ow," he says, and "jesus", and then it takes a few minutes before he's ready to implement any more physical changes.
Eventually he gets around to adjusting his stamina (upwards) and his refractory period (downwards) and his sensitivity (just a bit upwards, for fun, but he doesn't need an Erin-or-whatever-his-name-was situation here).
Actually, tweaking his own body is pretty engrossing, even if it does feel weird. He ends up blowing off class to sit around fixing acne scars and detaching his earlobes and giving himself really excellent gum health.
Once he leaves the editor, he has a notification indicator on his own quests menu.
Test Drive
Completion criteria:
Camillo penetrates someone new.
Unrelatedly, he gets two more notifications in quick succession.
First, from Sultana:
💭 i am so fucking hungry
And, second, from an actual text app:
hey do you want to get burritos or something
Z puts away a burrito the size of his head in about five minutes, and then goes back for flan.
He also has some only slightly graphic commentary about the guys on Camillo’s phone.
Camillo messages a whole bunch of guys. Someone has to be down to hook up.
"So Valentine sent me this restaurant gift card," he lies to Z, when there's a lull in the conversation. "Stupidly fancy place. I think he's trying to give me culture or something. Wanna get dinner tonight?"
(He has a plan.)
“—what? Yeah. Yeah, I’m down.”
He can’t make eye contact all of a sudden.
“Is there, like, a dress code or anything?”
This hadn't even occurred to him. It takes him a few clicks from the search result for steak tartare near me to get an answer.
"...doesn't look like it. I mean. Nice, I guess. They have pictures of guys in suits on their site."
Where he can also purchase a gift card.
“I’m pretty sure I own a dress shirt.”
He grins all the way through lunch, despite himself.
💭 don’t get your hopes up man
it’s a gift card from his literal dad
guy who does not have boyfriends doesn’t have a boyfriend takes platonic friend news at 11
do not charlie brown and the football this one
fancy restaurant
fancy restaurant date
not a date!!!
probably.
NO DEFINITELY
Oh fuck that does sound like a date doesn't it. Ugh. That's the --
-- wait. This sounds an awful lot like Z wants to date him.
Seriously??? Z is way too smart to think dating people is a good idea. Dating people is never a good idea. Ruining friendships with dating is the worst idea. Okay, sure, Z dates people, but it's like how Z fucks self-hating gay guys who call him slurs, it's not like Z thinks it's a good idea. Maybe this is like that? Sucks for Z to use him to self-harm. Or whatever.
He needs some more thought-editing tools.
"Did you ever hook up with that football player?"
There's like half a bite left. "I'm good, but thanks."
After lunch, he checks up on his pearl totals.
He’s accumulated almost 3,000 pearls, between all his rewards and Z and Dorothy and his two random boys.
It's almost a shame to spend them. He loves to watch his pretty pretty pearl totals go up.
But only almost a shame!!!! He wants a thousand dollars so he doesn't have to worry about the restaurant, and a draw on the subtool gacha, and a Small Mercy whatever that is. And something small for Dorothy if he can find a good candidate.