Not a dud, but yes.

[CandleNight] Sorry, Sir! My work got really busy suddenly! I’ll get back to you when I can!

The gall of that girl! To write such a thing while not doing anything!

[Amalgamma] You shall ask permission when you leave. Do so now and I may be merciful to you later.

[CandleNight] I’m sorry, Sir! May May May I please be excused?~

{Lucy Berren: +0 (+2) SP. Total: -100 (-14)}

[Amalgamma] You are. Good luck on your job.

Lucy runs out of the restaurant 30 minutes earlier as per usual. Which for the first time in forever inspires me to ask: where is she going? I always assumed she went straight home to watch something. But really thinking about it, this isn’t early 2000 and TV isn’t really a thing anymore.

Maybe an MMO raid? Is she actually a nerd at heart?! I almost bark out laughing. Nah. She’d let it slip at least once. Like when she forgets to put on headphones and begins watching a video.

Come to think about it, what did she let slip that way? I cast a mental net back and reel in the answer: some random organ and chorus music, a few beginnings of metal songs. And a single case of “Hello my beautiful w-!”. Not much to go on.

Still, it’s not like I have to wonder for long. Right as Becka clocked in, Lucy’s GPS position stopped moving. Sadly it is just some random building close by. It isn’t unheard of to live in a downtown building… Ah. I’ll go check it out after my shift.

I leave work at 10 PM and use the public transport to get to my destination faster. Surprise surprise Lucy still hasn't left the building. Well, at least I can learn where she lives, I guess?

It’s one of the thinnest streets downtown. Old restored buildings proudly wearing their antiquated architecture try and fail to loom over you with their measly 3 stories high, while their first floors are riddled with modern examples of “eye catching” storefront that consequently makes them absolutely forgettable.

I find the right building instantly. All I needed to have was eyes, because there is only one place here that a goth would find palatable: A weird antique/book store which definitely didn’t get the memo that it’s not Halloween yet. Decorative cobwebs, skeletons stuck in the window, electric candles for lighting. It’s a goth hole alright. And if she lives there…

I barely manage to hide behind an advertisement as Lucy walks out of the shop with a group of other lovers of color black. The group loudly laughs and generally has fun, like your usual girl groups do. Guess Danny Phantom lied to me and not all goths hate being happy. Or maybe I’m just watching a splinter group of a greater whole?

Anyway, by the time I finish thinking about it they are gone. Guess nothing stops me from checking out the store.

“I’m sorry dude, we are closing down.” Says a lanky dude with shortly cut red hair. ‘Ron’ is written on his badge, and I clearly made some kind of face. “Yes, like the movies. Are you looking for something specific?”

I look around and take in the almost “Friendly Local Game Store” vibe of the place, intermingled with a haunter library. Most of the space is taken up by tables and seats all fitting the gothic aesthetic, while the back of the room is rows after rows of bookcases. You might even hide in them if you’d like. Behind you is the shop counter as well as display of many different spooky, creepy. and vaguely eldritch stuff. Neat.

“Yeah, I was actually wondering about the girls that just left. Do they come-?”

“Forget about it, dude. Trust me, you won’t be the first to try. But I really don’t want you to be the last.”

“Emmmmmmm. What?”

“So these girls? They’ve got a coven thing set up. Like they think they are witches and do witchy things, which mainly consist of sitting around here and buying my shit. They are good for business, but the last dude that tired was found naked 2 blocks from here. Police are baffled.”

{New trait discovered! Lucy Berren: Witch.}

I get a glassy stare at the new notification. Ron takes it as me being devastated so he pats me on the shoulder and starts pushing me out of his shop. Yeah. Sure. Thank you dude.

I get on the bus and take out my phone. My notification about the new identity is still there too. I try to dismiss it, but it stubbornly refuses. Guess I have to read it:

_- NEW IDENTITY ESTABLISHED! -_

It seems like you’ve created a new identity! As you might have noticed separate identities work slightly differently than your main identity:

1. Each separate identity can have it’s own submission scores separate from your other identities.
2. Each separate identity can earn submission points separate from your other identities.
3. Each separate identity can be affected by its own passives and statuses.
4. Each separate identity can be merged with another identity by making a person believe they are both you. This can be done separately for each person (in other words your persona 1 and person 2 can be merged for person 1, but separate for person 2).
5. If for the given person both merging personas have different scores, the current score for the resulting persona will be the average of the 2.
6. If one or more of the merging persona’s are affected by “Hard Mode”, the resulting persona score will slowly lower back to the lowest score over the course of 2 hours. Any points gained during that time are added as if the person was at the lowest score to both the current and the lowest score. (In other words if the user had persona -100 and persona 100 with corresponding scores for a person, merging the two will temporarily put the resulting score to 0, slowly lowering down to a -100. Giving an order to do something, the person will obey as if at 0, but feel shame as if at -100, giving a lot of points for even the most basic things)

I take in this information and thank the app for making me read it. Holy crap that changes everything! Amalgamma isn’t useless, but instead a direct way to my salvation! I just need to get her to a reasonable average score, merge the identities, then dom the heck out of her!

I’m sorry I ever doubted you, Amalgamma! Never again!

_- NEW TRAIT DISCOVERED! -_

Note: Every trait that you unlock will have two different choices, two different paths. Once you choose one, you can't reverse the decision ever. Unless you have access to the Submission Accelerator Code Base. Which you don’t. Yet. So choose carefully. The traits are based on the subject's personality.

-WITCH-

ROUTE A - SALEM

-RITUALS NEED REAGENTS-

Subject finds a book of rituals she can perform. All rituals involve the subject being in a compromising sexual position. All rituals require user's sexual fluids to work. All rituals have no actual power, but the subject and any witnesses (except for user) will believe otherwise.

ROUTE B - ELDRITCH

-POWER HAS A PRICE-

Subject finds a book of rituals she can perform. All rituals involve the subject being in a compromising sexual position somewhere near the user. All rituals summon tentacles and require the subject to endure their affection. All rituals fail if the user witnesses them. Otherwise the boon is granted to the subject.

That is another game changer! With plan A I can have actual leverage over Lucy. She’ll have to come to me to get her magical powers she doesn’t have! On the other hand she is currently at -100. She might just kidnap me and milk me for semen. Although can she? Probably not. It’s more likely she’ll just forget about the whole thing. Maybe.

But route B is tentacles! And she has to make them near me, so I’ll probably see her get violated by some monster cock! Maybe I might even use it to my advantage. On the other hand she will have some actual magical power (if that is even possible). Once she figures out I am the reason her spells fail she will start targeting me. Does she even need to figure it out or will the book tell her exactly whom to avoid? The text is vague enough to go either way.

Choices choices.