SC - What about Mass Effect?

You are so not prepared. You discreetly get out your phone and hold it under the table so they don't see.

"We all see you," Hana says. "Did you not prepare something?"

"No, I did," you reply, embarrassed. You are not good at lying. You look at your reading app... these Expanse books that you are reading are good, but they are long. You won't get all these girls to read all these in just a week. What about a game? You open Steam.

"Monika," Cheryl presses.

The front page of Steam has a remastered version of Mass Effect. You have heard of that game. It's supposed to be good.

"Mass Effect," you say nervously.

"What? Oh, man." Hana frowns. "That's a throwback."

"Does it have a horny version?" Max asks. She blushes and smiles. “I like the horny stuff.”

"Even the normal version was a little bit horny," Grace tells her.

"It does have it," you report, checking the store page. "I choose this game. Mass Effect." You try to make it sound like this was your plan.

"OK, replaying old games because Monika's slacking," Hana complains.

"Stay and help clean up this time," Cheryl tells her sternly.

"But Sakura is so good at it," Hana retorts.

Everyone's finishing their drinks and getting up. It looks like you're adjourning for the night. You help clean up the room and return to your cabin, where most of the girls are getting ready for bed. Several girls are gathered around Van’s bed, where the odd, but lovely girl is telling another riveting story that they are all enjoying. Or they’re enjoying the sight of her in her white underwear. It could be either.

Rin is brushing her hair, and Cam is doing pushups.

You go to your bed and open your laptop, going into Steam and buying this Mass Effect game. You set it to install, then head for the shower.

As you bathe, soaping up your body with a sponge and strange, American soap, Kaine comes in as well. She takes the shower stall across from yours and doesn’t close the curtain. You aren’t peeking, but you can’t help but notice that she has a full erection as she showers. Maybe it’s because she saw you here, naked and washing yourself.

You have noticed… a lot of that, here at this camp. Not from yourself, of course. Your cock is soft, hanging between your legs. Not that Kaine isn’t attractive, but you just aren’t like these other girls that see some skin and just… go into a mating frenzy. Sure, you enjoy the sight of…

You watch the water streaming down Kaine’s lithe body.

You catch yourself and go back to washing. You aren’t like the rest, not that there is anything wrong with them for having a healthy sex drive. But you are different. Some of the things you have seen here at this camp, even from your own colleagues… shocking.

Once you’re clean, you dry off, put on clean panties, and climb into bed. The lights are off, but a lot of girls still have their lamps on. You aren't ready to go to sleep yet, so you fire up Steam and pull up the blanket like a tent so the light from the screen won't bother the others. You put on your headphones and start the game.

You get to create your own character, so you make her blonde like you. She doesn't really look like you, but that's OK. Her name is Shepard.

The game is pretty simple to pick up and learn, and you quickly get into it, steering Shepard to fly around the galaxy looking for clues to stop some kind of invasion from scary aliens. The fighting is mainly shooting, so you are good at that. You think it's cool that before long you get to be the captain of a ship and have a crew. Neat. You can even explore the ship.

You're getting tired.

You're back aboard the ship now after a sloppy mission. Looks like you need to talk to a crewmember about it, someone named Ashley. She's a brunette, and you are not impressed with her so far. She hasn’t been very interesting or helpful.

She reports to your cabin, and you have some dialogue options. You frown at your laptop screen in your little blanket tent. Hmm. Looks like you have to choose: be firm with her, or give her a pass on her mistakes?