Rules/Explainer

Goal: Find out what the Mayor is doing - keep the town safe - and end the spell - do this while avoiding the free use sex going on around Sunnydale meant to distract the Scoobies.

Yes - the idea is that you have to help the girls avoid sex (don’t worry - you’re going to fail at points). This idea has been in my head for a while; sex is all around - but the goal is actually to try and avoid it to get things done.

I'm going to start with a general description, then go into the specific math below. I put this together more like a game rulebook. I start with general notes, than the math explanations, finalized with some questions I'm guessing people might have. If you don't care about this stuff, you don't have to worry about it.

The main choice in the game is to decide where to send the girls (and Xander). Each turn there will be three options for where girls can go. An example turn is below (red text is added for description.

Challenge: How hard it is going to be complete. The higher the challenge, the more likely the girls will get caught by the spell, though the greater the reward if they are not.

Girls: The three girls who are possible to send. Sending more girls to a single location yields higher rewards, but increases the danger to all girls going.

Mod: Whether the magic here is tinted light, dark, or norm. Norm is standard free use, light the girls view more positively (either they are into it or see it as a joke), dark the girls have more negative views. When the mod is light girls are more likely to get hit, but take less damage. If it is dark it is the opposite, less likely to get hit, but more damaging.

Type: What is being improved. There are three goals to pursue: intel, safety, and magic.

Flavor: Doesn’t have any game impact. I have six broad fetish categories I am using that were randomly assigned to help me determine how the sex scene will go.

-Now moving to things not represented in the image-

Sanity: Each girl has a sanity meter, starting at 100. Everytime a girl gets caught up in a sex scene she takes damage to her psyche, reflected by sanity. Each time a girl is hit, not only will sanity drop, she will lose even more sanity the next time (ie it is a cumulative effect).

Lust: Each time a girl goes to an area and a sex scene does not occur, she gains lust. The higher a lust the girl has, the more likely she is to be hit. Lust can be reduced to 0 with the help of Xander or when she ends up in a sex scene.

Staying behind: Not available on the first turn - girls can stay behind to help deal with the stresses of the free use spell. While they cannot recover sanity, they will recover the rate at which they are losing sanity.

Distract: Instead of being sent to try and help out, a girl can be sent to intentionally distract those in the area. She will automatically become subject to the free use spell and will lose additional sanity for walking into it. However, she will make it less likely that any other girl is hit. A girl can be sent as the distraction to any of the options, whether her name is listed or not.

Xander: Along with the girls, Xander also gets sent somewhere each turn.

If Xander is sent to one of the problem areas and no girl is caught by the spell, he increases the reward by 50%. If a girl(s) is caught, he reduces the sanity loss by 50%.

If Xander stays behind (not available until the spell is strong enough for at least 2) he reduces the girl’s lust to 0 in addition to the sanity recovery.

If you want to make suggestions for what happens, it should look like one of two options (using the above examples, and presuming girls could stay behind).

1: Dawn

2: Buffy - distract: Cordelia

3: Willow, Amy, Xander

Stay: Faith

Or

Buffy: 2

Willow: 3

Amy: 3

Cordelia: Distract 2

Faith: Stay

Dawn: 1

Xander: 3

If I have multiple comments I will prefer based on:

1: Agreement between the commenters

2: Give weight to those who have been involved in my stories in the past

3: What would make the most sense for the story

4: Who commented first

Okay, that’s all the general comments, now for the boring/overly complicated math (which may change if I feel like I made it too easy/hard).

The game will last 12 turns.

Score: For the three meters (intel, safety, magic) you start at 0 and increase your score with each girl sent to an area who is not caught by the spell. These scores will impact the ending result/epilogue -

0 - 19: Disaster, the scope of the Buffyverse changed for the worse

20 - 39: Pretty bad, worse than canon

40 - 59: About the result that actually happened in Buffy

60 - 79: Superior result to what happened within the show

80-99: Much better result, changes the Buffyverse for the better.

100+: I don’t think this will happen, but if so radical change

I am anticipating most of the results falling in the 40 - 59 range, but that is a guess from me.

Okay, so how many points are gained? This depends on the difficulty and how many girls are sent.

Challenge 1: 2/5/9

Challenge 2: 3/7/12

Challenge 3: 4/9/15

The numbers are in the order of how many girls are sent. If 2 girls are sent to a level 2 challenge and neither is affected by the spell, then 7 points would be gained for that type. If Xander was along it would increase by 50%.

What are the chances a girl is caught?

Challenge 1: 15%

Challenge 2: 25%

Challenge 3: 40%

That is rolled for each girl and her lust is added to the chance (or subtracted from the roll, whichever is clearer in your head). I’ve already had a bunch of percentile dies rolled and recorded and will use the results as I go through them.

What if a girl is sent to distract?

Two extra rolls are made and the two lowest rolls are discarded.

How do light and Dark come into play?

With dark, one extra roll is made and the lowest roll discarded. With light, one extra roll is made and the highest roll discarded.

Is there any danger to sending multiple girls?

Very much. If any girl is caught by the spell, the other girls have to reroll.

Example: Buffy, Willow, and Cordelia go to investigate that library at challenge 2 (25%) with no lust. Buffy rolls a 70, Willow a 50, and Cordelia a 21. Cordelia is caught, Buffy and Willow have to roll again. Buffy gets a 12 and Willow a 60. Willow has to roll again. Willow gets a 14. All the girls ended up getting caught.

How does sanity work?

Girls start with 100 sanity, if they end over 75 they are considered in great shape, over 50 mostly fine, with increasingly negative results after that down to broken. The first time a girl is hit she loses 4, on the next she loses 7, then 10, then 12, then 14, and finally 15 (which she keeps losing until staying behind). If a girl stays behind she will drop two levels, but can never get below the point where she loses 4 sanity.

How does Xander build relationships?

Unlike most of my recent stories, there is no mechanism for this. Being around girls, whether via staying behind or being out with them, will impact the relationships, whether this is via sex or helping out.

Anything else?

As a pure flavor, each time a girl is in a sex scene, that type will stick with her future scenes/story. I will also randomly determine her thoughts on that sex type, whether she loved it, didn't care, hated it, etc.