Then a wide grin spreads across your face.
It's going to be so much easier to corrupt Madison with her father's unknowing approval of your plan!
Spoiler: Bonuses Achieved
For rolling 50 or higher points above the target threshold, you have received additional benefits. These benefits are:
— An additional 1 point of Submission for Madison.
— An additional 1 point of Affection for Madison, for a total of 3 points.
— Introduced the idea of a harem to Madison early, gaining her reluctant approval. (Raise Affection and Lust to make this willing and eventually eager approval.)
— An additional 2 points of approval for Rick Clements.
— A parental invitation to visit Madison whenever you desire.
The next day, you wake up fidgeting. It's a public holiday in Brockton Bay today; Salvation Day, or the anniversary of the day in which the Triumvirate and the PRT worked together to drive Leviathan away from the city with less than ten thousand casualties. This means you have a three-day weekend ahead of you.
You'll take it a day at a time, though. You never know what opportunities might spring up over the course of a day.
You're going to spend today...
[] With Madison, at least for the morning— you'll need most of the afternoon to recover. You'll call her— her name is in the phone book, you checked— and invite her over to your house. It's not time to finish what you've started, not yet, but it's time to take a step you never envisioned when you formulated this plan; you're going to bring Madison over to your house, and you're going to subtly introduce the idea of ownership to her.
— Success chance: 50% 60%% (10% bonus from Submission). Note that this option will always be available unless another future path is chosen for Madison at a later date, but will disappear permanently if such is chosen.
— On a success, will raise Madison's Submission cap to 15. Will also plant a seed of a thought in Madison's head, making her consider the idea of asking Taylor to mark her as hers. Note that this does not mean Taylor will literally own Madison; it will open up future paths for Madison in which she will act subserviently to Taylor, (e.g. cooking her meals for her, performing domestic duties without complaint), and most importantly, will get off on doing so.
— On a failure, will raise Madison's Submission cap to 12. Will also plant a seed of a thought in Madison's head, making her consider the idea of asking Taylor to mark her as hers. Note that this does not mean Taylor will literally own Madison; it will open up future paths for Madison in which she will act subserviently to Taylor, (e.g. cooking her meals for her, performing domestic duties without complaint), and most importantly, will get off on doing so.
[] In the library, researching the local cape scene. It's important that you do so soon-ish; you need to have an awareness of the local scene before you try and set up your own hero team, so that you can use the trio's skills to begin spreading your influence around before you enter the scene.
— Success chance: Cannot be failed.
— On a success, will provide exposition about the local cape scene— which capes are prominent in the area, the large teams and gangs, notable individuals, and current alliances and power plays. Will also provide early access to begin recruiting Rune and Glory Girl.
[] With Madison, "researching" in the library. At least, you'll be researching as much as you can... with one hand down Madison's panties. You'll find a secluded corner, drag as many research materials as you can over, and begin playing with Madison while you do your research. Probably won't get as much done as you otherwise could, but if you're going to take Madison's virginity, you want to spend a lot of time building her up first.
— Success chance: 90%
— On a success, somewhat increases Madison's lust. Provides limited exposition about Brockton Bay's cape scene, informing you about which capes are prominent in the area, the largest teams and gangs, and current alliances in the area.
— On a failure, somewhat increases Madison's lust. Provides limited exposition about Brockton Bay's cape scene, informing you about which capes are prominent in the area, the largest teams and gangs, and current alliances in the area. Gets you banned from the library for one month for indecent exposure.
[] Going to work with Dad. As the head of the local Dockworker's Union, he doesn't get Salvation Day off, and has to go to work. He's been absent a lot recently, so it would be good to have a chance to spend some time with him. He's effectively the department manager, so you could learn a lot of vital business skills from him, too— nothing you couldn't learn online, but a nice bonus.
— Success chance: Cannot be failed.
— On a success, will introduce characterization to Danny and provide exposition about Taylor's relationship with him. Will also provide the first stage of three of the business management skills necessary to run the hero team, although there are at minimum ten chances to learn those skills.
Your conversation with Rick last night sticks around in your head.
Madison has expressed anxiety with regards to her classwork and her chances of getting into university later in life. She is not a stupid girl, but she is struggling with many of the concepts introduced in class, and could really use a hand. You've told Rick you would help her, but you're unsure if you really want to, or if you're just using that as an excuse to get access to Madison's bedroom.
So which is it?
[] Yes, you are going to help her. Madison is your lover, and she's going to be your love slave, but while that's never going to change if you have anything to say about it, that's not all there is to her. Her fashion design skills aren't the greatest at the moment, but she seems really invested in them.
— If chosen, this path will decrease all gains made while seducing Emma, Sophia and Rune by 25% prior to taking their virginities, and lower the chance of successfully recruiting Rune by 15%. This path will encourage Madison to improve her classwork, and eventually go to a university close to you. This path is also one of two chances to open up early access to recruiting Parian. Finally, this path will passively generate Affection from Madison.
[] No, you're not going to help her. Madison is your lover, and she's going to be your love slave. That might not be all she is, but if she's going to be something else, she's going to have to beg you for it.
— If chosen, this option will passively raise Madison's Submission, to a maximum of 8 (the effect will cease at 8, rather than lowering Madison's maximum Submission). This path encourages Madison's more complete dependency on Taylor.
And it's time for one final vote; the vote brought about by rolling a critical roll on a useless post.
Spoiler: GM Context
As a bit of context;
When I roll dice, I physically roll them. I have a bag of dice I use for when I GM, so I take the dice from that and roll them there. I'm transferring this habit to this quest, despite most quests using Invisible Castle or something similar, because of my experience in GM'ing RL games and because I've paid over $200 for all these dice, dagnabbit, I'm going to get my use out of them. If you ever wonder why I don't link my rolls, that's why.
Given that the natural 100 was entirely wasted on this roll, I am going to give players several options to choose between. These options will vary in result, either giving access to early character recruitment, giving bonuses to current character recruitments, or granting additional sexy scenes with characters.
Players can vote for up to two of the following options. I will choose the options with the most individual votes, not necessarily the combined options with the most votes.
The options are as follows;
[] Increase the chances for successfully recruiting all recruitable characters in Winslow by 10%.
— Note: This encompasses 5 characters besides Madison. Of those, you know two are Emma and Sophia.
[] Have Rick casually bring up Taylor's presence in their house to Alan Barnes, causing him to wonder about how Danny and Taylor are doing, resulting in him inviting them over for dinner with the Clements on Saturday night.
— Success chance: 80%.
— On a success, will initiate the recruitment of Emma, and result in a moderate increase to Emma's Lust, Loyalty and Devotion, and somewhat increased levels of Madison's Lust and Submission. Will also result in a unique scene in which Taylor and Madison partially declothe and fondle/kiss each other in front of Emma. Will not result in a failure of any recruitments or decreased progress thereof.
— On a failure, will initiate the recruitment of Emma, and result in somewhat increased levels of Emma's Lust, Loyalty and Devotion, as well as Madison's Lust and Submission. Will also result in a unique scene in which Madison and Taylor make out in front of Emma. Will not result in a failure of any recruitments or decreased progress thereof.
[] Gain access to exclusive scenes in which Taylor sexually fondles Madison and/or fingers Madison to climax in front of unaware or unsuspecting recruits.
— Note: More than one scene is generated by this. There is a potential for up to two scenes per recruit. Note also that unless another natural 100 is rolled on a post in which it is useless, you will not gain access to this vote again.
[] Locate a cache of Taylor's mother's old school textbooks, including several textbooks on fashion design from a course you know she did to supplement a Liberal Arts degree she did before she got her teaching degree.
— This will immediately give Madison +2 Affection, as well as reduce the penalty to recruitment gains from choosing to tutor Madison to 10%.
1.5
> Success chance: 80% (+10% crit bonus) 90%
> Necessary roll: 10. Rolled: 39. Success.
> Roll pending for tomorrow's update. Please wait warmly until then.
It's only quarter to six, you notice as you quietly climb out of your bed. You're careful not to step on the loose floorboard in your room as you pad out to the hall, and you tread carefully on the wooden hall so they don't groan loudly enough to wake Dad up just yet.
Dad normally doesn't get up until six, but since it's a public holiday today, he might not get up until as late as six thirty. Normally he has to be at work by eight, in time to get some work done before his employees start trickling in at eight thirty, but that's pushed back to nine for members of the Union on public holidays.
You walk into the kitchen, absently rubbing your hands together against the chill permeating it, before heading over to the fridge and opening it. You haven't gone shopping in a while— you make a mental note to head to the grocery store later today and pick up some food— so there isn't much left in there, but you can see a foam container (probably the remnants of Dad's dinner last night), half a dozen eggs, and the remnants of the vegetables you've used for dinners over the week.
With a casual shrug, you begin pulling ingredients out of the fridge. It's going to take a while to cut up all the vegetables anyway.
Eventually, you've prepared all the vegetables, whisked the eggs, and have the omelette mixture sitting in a covered bowl. You're about to put the bowl back in the fridge when you hear the creak of the hallways' floorboards.
Dad trundles out, looking blearily at the mess you've made of the kitchen. Evidently, he dismisses it as unimportant, as he he just shakes his head and moves to the cupboard to pull two mugs out.
"Morning, Taylor," he yawns. "Coffee?"
You place the bowl back on the bench and give him a quick hug from behind. "Yes please," you say cheerfully. "I turned the percolator on half an hour ago, it should be all ready."
"Good girl," he tells you drowsily, dropping the mugs on the bench in front of the percolator. "What's for breakfast?"
You hurriedly sweep the onion skins off the bench into your hands before he can knock the mess onto the floor. "Just omelettes," you reply. "I wanted to use the rest of the bell peppers and tomatoes, and there was some spinach and goat cheese left in the fridge."
"Sounds delicious," he yawns.
For the next fifteen minutes, the two of you fall into a companionable silence while you quickly cook the omelettes. They're really nothing fancy— for a moment, you consider the idea of calling Rick later today and asking him to teach you to cook, but you dismiss the thought when you realize that you can probably get Madison to cook for you— but they're filling enough.
Dad looks much more alert when you drop a cooked omelette in front of him. The coffee's clearly done its job.
You settle in at the table across for him, and quickly cut a section of your omelette off and eat it. Yeah, it's really not the best. It's serviceable, but you won't be winning awards any time soon. At least the coffee isn't bad, sweetened by cream and three sugars, just the way you like it. Dad refuses to have sugar in his coffee— "I'm sweet enough," he always jokes when you bug him about it.
Dad finishes his omelette well before you do, fair shovelling it down his throat. In fact, before you've managed to get halfway through yours, he's already up and washing his plate at the sink, then turning on the percolator for a second cup of coffee.
He clears his throat. You look up at him with a questioning expression, a forkful of omelette halfway to your mouth, to see him holding up your mug as well. You send him a pleased smile and a nod, and he nods back.
"So, it's a public holiday," he says. "Have you got any plans for what you want to do today?"
You half-shrug. "I was thinking about going to the library," you tell him. "Maybe I could invite Madison to come with me, that'd be fun."
He nods, glancing down at the perculator for a second. "That sounds like fun." For a moment, neither of you speaks; you take another mouthful of your omelette. "Actually, I was going to invite you to come to work with me today."
You pause, then quickly chew and swallow the mouthful of omelette as you consider it. You have slowly been growing apart from Dad recently, first because he was working so often, and then because you needed space to experiment with your powers in, and you didn't want to risk messing up your relationship with your dad with them.
"Actually, that sounds like a better idea," you admit. "I can go to the library tomorrow or something."
Danny smiles at you over the bench. "Glad to hear it. We'll leave at eight, then. Make sure you're showered and ready to go by then, okay?"
