Playing with the app

(Ares's POV)

After I start my computer, I play some music to relax before looking at my phone again. Since I am at home there should be no one who can notice me using this app. Let's take a look at the notifications first.

Your target has finished a quest and gained the perk Cuteness 1 and pretty eyes. +7xp

Congratulation you levellep up. 1+ PP

Well, that isn't a lot this time. Now to the my and Helena's status
Quest Master: Ares Meyner
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Level: 5 (2/20xp)
Class: None
Perks: Recommended Reward 2
Perks Points: 3

Name: Helena
Surname: Smiths
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Relation: Co-worker
Level 2 (2/10 xp)
Class: None
Perks: Serving 1, Cuteness 1

Add Quest
Add Class (Class Designer Perk required)

Serving 1: Drinks and food you serve will be more delicious. (Hidden: small serving compulsion)

Cuteness 1: People will find you cuter than you really are. (Hidden: You will want to be look cute.)

Fuck. Naturally, the xp needed to level up rose. It couldn't just be 10xp per level forever. Well at least it is not an exponential growth or the later levels would take forever.

The perks of Helena are very interesting. Serving 1 makes her the best waiter of our cafe in term of quality of the drinks and food without anything special. Adding to that is Cuteness 1, which makes people indirectly like her more. If the pretty eyes are permanent too, I am scared to think about the mass of people who will want to be her boyfriend, marry her or even kidnap her. Hopefully, she or I will get a perk to protect her, because fuck her eyes are really beautiful. So beautiful that I could get lost in them. FUCK! Stop thinking about her and focus on the app.

Next, let me give Helena a new simple quest.

Helene will receive the following quest: "Relax at home:"

Select a reward from the three choices:

• full recovery
• full fridge
• slutty tatao

Reward: full recovery

Without thinking much about it, I choice full recovery as the quest before didn't let her take a break at work. To the next part, I have three perk points or PP, so let's take a look at the Perk tree again.

Base Perks:
Quest Designer 1: Allows the creation of basic one step quests.

Brought Perks:
Recommended Rewards 2: Create a list of three recommended rewards for basic quests und let the Quest Master choose one.

Avaible Perks:
Quest Designer 2 (1PP): Allows the creation of simple two and three step quests.
Recommended Rewards 3 (2 PP): Create a list of five recommended rewards for basic quests und let the Quest Master choose one.
Creation of if Questions 1 (1 PP): Allows the creation of simple if quests.
Auto repeat Question 1 (1 PP): Allows a quest to be repeat for 3 three times. *Note that the quest needs to be finished before another quest can be issued.
Public Unawareness. (2 PP): When toggled, nobody will notice target doing anything inappropriate for a quest.
Class Designer (2 PP): Give a class to a target, slowly altering them as they level up.
Character Editor 1 (2 PP): Enables small changes to character info every 24h.
Additional Slot 1: Unlock an additional target slow.

Recommended Rewards 1 is still highlighted, but not anymore and therefore is now blue. Now under Recommended Rewards 2 is another perk with the name Recommended Rewards 3 which is just an enchanted version of second version. While that perk could be helpful, it isn't worth 2PP in my opinion.

Creation of if Questions 1 and Auto repeat Question 1 will only be useful, if I give them more advance quest or have an idea what question are solvable. If I give Helena the quest to kiss me and she won't do it and I can't give her another quest, what will happen then? Can I still create new quest for her or does I need to wait till she fulfilled it? So that perks can wait. Public Unawareness will be extremly helpful, when the quest are getting more hot but not now.

That leaves me with Character Editor 1, Class Designer and Quest Designer 2 as I still have open slots. Sadlife I can't buy everything as I am missing one PP and my xp is way to low to gain another level this today.

So which perks should I take. After thinking for sometime, I choice the following perks.

Class Designer (2 PP): Give a class to a target, slowly altering them as they level up.
Character Editor 1 (1 PP): Enables small changes to character info every 24h.

Congratulation on unlocking your third Perk +5xp

Nice. Now I can design a class to my targets and change some informations. Now the question is what is changeable.

PING
PING

Two messages stop me from using my new perks as I swap my concentration from my phone to my computer. I have a two new discord messages from Shuvi and I start reading them.

Shuvi: Hey, you there?

Shuvi: I know you are reading this message. Answer me, I am bored to ****.

As I see the message, I already know my next target. Shuvi is or should be a girl with whom I and another dude named Sven are playing with. Why am I saying 'should be a girl'? Well, that is because I and Sven nether saw a picture of her or got her real name. Since the app is real, I can finally get to know if she is really a girl and why she makes such a big secret about her appearance. So before I answer her, my focus is back on my phone as I select add a target and enter the name 'Shuvi' in the searchbar. Not even a second later, I find a single name left in my search with the name "Mia Walker (Shuvi)" which I select and directly look at her status.

You have selected a target. +5xp
Name: Mia (Shuvi)
Surname: Walker
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Level: 1 (0/10xp)
Class: None
Perks: None
Perks Points: 0

Add Quest
Add Class

After that I select add quest and directly give her a quest which will answer my most important question of her.

Mia (Shuvi) will receive the following advanced quest: "Sent a picture of yourself to the last person you wrote:" Note that this quest has a highly likelihood of being failed.

Select a reward from the three choices:

• Photogenic 1
• be more confidence in yourself
• be closer to whomever you sent your picture.

The first and second option are not bad but the third can be a flip but really helpful in the long run. If Shuvi is closer to me, I can advance forward faster than otherwise. If she wrote to someone else, well then I need another reward to get her trust or whatever. As to why? The closer Shuvi is to me, the better quest option I will have.

Reward: be closer to whomever you sent your picture.

Author's question: Should I make longer chapters after this one or should I leave it like that, so branches are more possible?