You’re positive that, once you have a chance to actually read the instructions and experiment with the settings a bit instead of rushing through things, there will be a very simple answer to why sometimes the Multiplier shows you everyone’s update log at once, and sometimes only one person at a time. You take a look at Tammy’s log:

• Tammy Carter: Even though she knows it was just so you could return her key, it still feels amazing that you came to see her at work: 0/+1/0 (96/93/94)
• Tammy Carter: You volunteered to do chores and she got to dump cleaning the bathroom on you! +1/0/0 (97/93/94)
• Tammy Carter: You got an erection in her office! 0/0/+1 (97/93/95)
• Tammy Carter: Nearly got caught by Olga while rubbing herself in her office and thinking about you, and is now very clearly visualizing your hot hard cock pumping in and out of Olga’s wet pussy on the floor in her office, and also has images in her head of you fucking several of her other employees 0/0/+2 (97/93/97)
• Tammy Carter: Buying you a key lime pie, the kind she knows you liked when you were a lot younger, felt very special and loving. 0/+2/0 (97/95/97)
• Tammy Carter: Took off her bra for you, and unbuttoned her blouse, while she was still in the car 0/0/+1 (97/95/98)
• Tammy Carter: You didn't **** the issue and kiss her before she was ready! 0/+1/-1 (97/96/97)
• Tammy Carter: You rescued a bunny! +1/0/0 (98/96/97)
• Tammy Carter: You waited to fuck Molly until she could be here for it!!! +2/+4/+3 (100!!!!! / 100!!!!! / 100!!!!!)
• I Have Reached the Highest Mountaintop, Hallelujah!: Got someone to 100 Affection, 100 Love, and 100 Lust, all at once! Congratulations! 2000 points awarded
• Go Play a Banjo on the Highest Mountaintop, Hallelujah!: Got a first-degree relative to 100 Affection, 100 Love, and 100 Lust, all at once! Congratulations, you pervert! 2000 points awarded

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Wow.

You wonder if this means you’ll never get updates for Tammy again.

Molly’s log has some differences, naturally:

• Molly Carter: Is the tiniest bit exasperated with you for not kissing Tammy, but it did give her the chance to kiss you herself: -1/+1/+1 (92/83/97)
• Molly Carter: Feels really nice listening to you describe your day and telling you about her day in return: +1/+3/0 (93/86/97)
• Molly Carter: Is excited to learn that you masturbated in the same shower where she had masturbated barely twenty minutes earlier: 0/0/+1 (93/86/98)
• Molly Carter: You rescued a bunny! +1/+1/0 (94/87/98)
• Molly Carter: Has a very clear image in her head of you getting sucked off by a tall busty cop with long platinum blonde hair, who is nude except for a badge and a police hat. 0/0/+1 (94/87/99)
• Molly Carter: Has a very clear image in her head of your whole head literally going up someone’s asshole, which is funny but also gross: +1/0/-1 (94/87/98)
• Molly Carter: Is 100% certain that you are about to fuck her and Tammy together: +1/+7/+2 (95/94/100!!!!!)
• I Have Reached the Mountaintop: Got someone to 100 Lust! Congratulations! 600 points awarded.
• Mountains and Banjos: Got a second-degree relative to 100 Lust! Congratulations, you perv! 600 points awarded.

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It’s interesting that Tammy and Molly both seem to enjoy imagining you fucking other women, which you would bet is probably connected to Share and Share Alike, the ‘no jealousy’ attribute.

Which reminds you – what other Attributes are available for you to buy now? You should have about 90 seconds left to look…

You recall that there wasn’t a Personal Attributes field for Molly when you looked yesterday, but… aha, now there is! Probably because you crossed some threshold or altered some setting or whatever, you can look it up in the manual later.

Hmmm. There’s a lot of choices now, since you just got over five thousand points. Carrot Top would make her a natural redhead – although she’d obviously notice that… unless it was retroactive, and the idea that the Multiplier could retcon reality feels terrifying. Ooh, Big Stretch would make her taller – although if that works overnight, she’ll need new clothes. Does the Multiplier obey conservation of mass? Up a Cup would give her bigger tits – which has the same issues, and also couldn’t it cause problems with her being on the track team? Sphynx would make her totally hairless below the neck… again, she’d definitely notice that! Ambrosia would alter the taste of her pussy… which you haven’t actually tasted yet! And then there’s all the mental attributes, which… it’s probably a good idea to read about them in the manual first, in case they do things you didn’t expect.

You definitely don’t want to make Molly into a French Maid, though. Or a Bimbo. Or a Geisha.

You switch over to your own Attributes, and there’s Good Vibrations and Magic Hands, you remember those from yesterday, they’ll increase people’s scores faster and get you more points faster, and Through the Stomach will increase people’s scores faster and get you more points faster if you make food for them, and Fascinating Etymology will get you more points faster from people who see your dick, and Honestly It’s Not A Pheromone will get you more points faster from people who smell your sweat, and Taster’s Choice will get you more points faster from people who taste your cum, and Sowing the Seeds of Love looks like it’ll get you points for having sex with people who aren’t Top Prospects (although that one has a lot of text that you don’t have time to read just now), and Mirror Neuron will get you more points faster from people who see you having sex…

How many of these are point multipliers, actually?

You scroll quickly down down down down, past the point multipliers because you get the (ha ha) point, there’s a lot of them, and now you’re at the Attributes that are rewards to you directly – Ooh, Big Stretch is an option for you as well, but you’re already six foot two. I Never Sausage A Thing will add three and a half inches to your dick, and Flood Warning will make you cum a lot more (and it actually says “volume, not frequency”), and there’s Night Vision, you remember that one from looking at the manual earlier, and Manicure will keep your fingernails at the perfect length for fingering women and scratching itches, and Near, Far, Wherever You Are will make you better at estimating distances, and Liver of Steel will increase your tolerance for ****, and Not Afraid will make it so knots you tie only come undone when someone is actually untying them, and Greatest of All Time will let you digest cellulose, and Scrubba Scrubba will make you better at washing dishes, and Babelfish will help you understand new languages faster, and Tuning Fork will give you perfect pitch…

Some of these are actually really interesting, and you’ll probably buy them after you’ve done a little more research. They’re practically superpowers! You can already think of some things to do with them!

It might not be such a bad idea to get some point multipliers first, actually.

Then you realize Molly has just left the bathroom and is coming over to you, so you close the Multiplier, plug your phone in to recharge, and put it down. You can buy Attributes later.

She sits down on your left side, and snuggles up to you. “I still like how you smell,” she says, taking a deep sniff, and for a second you wonder if you maybe have an Attribute you don’t know about, but then she goes on. “And I know part of it is because you used mom’s shampoo and deodorant, but…”

Ah. Oh well.

You take a deep sniff of her hair. “I like how you smell too,” you tell her honestly. “And I love how smart you are.”

You hear a buzz from the Multiplier, and she smiles.

You and Molly gaze into each other’s eyes, and she reaches for you, and you’re about to start kissing her, but you restrain yourself – not because you’re afraid Tammy will see, but because you’re afraid she won’t.

Molly sighs, but nods. She’s about to say something, but just then the door to Tammy’s bedroom opens.

Tammy emerges, and slumps down on the sofa to your right. She looks a little frazzled.

“I told them, if they want to ask me about another emergency tonight, the mall better be on fire,” she says.

Then she winces. “Sorry! Sorry!” she says guiltily. “I just –”

You sigh. “It’s fine, I know what you mean. What happened?”

“Woman came in with an open coffee, and Dinah – the new girl I was training today – either she wasn’t confident enough to say ‘you can’t bring that in here’ or she wasn’t assertive enough to stop her, I’m not sure which.”

Uh oh.

Tammy continues. “She puts the coffee down somewhere, Dinah bumps into something, and somehow this leads to coffee spilling all over the woman and also two hundred dollars worth of merchandise. Woman goes ballistic, says she’ll have Dinah fired, and Dinah basically has a panic attack. And Sara Jane – instead of telling Dinah ‘it obviously wasn’t your fault, Tammy won’t fire you for that’ – says ‘well, I wouldn’t fire you for that, but Tammy’s the one who makes those decisions,’ which meant that I was the only one who could calm Dinah down.”

Molly makes sympathetic noises.

“She’s okay now?” you ask.

Tammy shrugs. “She stopped crying. And I told her I wouldn’t fire her for that, and she said she believed me. I just hope she’ll be able to finish her shift.”

She takes a deep breath, then snuggles up against you. “You should keep using my shampoo and deodorant,” she says. “You smell really good.”

Molly giggles. “That’s what I said!”

“You’re both amazing,” you say.

You’ve got one arm around Tammy and the other arm around Molly, and… why not, this is clearly what they want, you start squeezing Tammy’s left tit through her blouse.

“Mmm,” she says, and then takes your hand and repositions it so it’s inside her blouse now, directly on her breast, skin to skin, her nipple stiff against your palm. Molly takes your other hand and puts it under her shirt on her breast too, and you roll her nipple between your index finger and thumb. She makes a wonderful noise. Your dick is throbbing.

You hear the Multiplier buzz. Is ‘feeling a woman up’ an achievement? ‘Playing with her nipple’? If it is, do you get extra points for it being ****?

“I love you so much, Jacob,” Tammy says, and you move your hand from inside her blouse to her lap, and you start rubbing her pussy through her skirt. There’s another buzz. “I love you too,” Molly says, and you’re not sure if you’re smelling her pussy or Tammy’s, although realistically it’s probably both.

You withdraw your hand from under Molly’s shirt, and take Tammy in your arms and kiss her deeply, with plenty of tongue, she’s eagerly kissing you back, you hear Molly squealing with joy, and also the Multiplier is buzzing and buzzing. Since you’ve already gotten Tammy maxed out, these must just be achievements, so more points – and you’ve probably maxed out Molly by now too, actually.

You let go of Tammy, and turn to Molly, and she throws her arms around you and you start passionately making out with her, she’s sucking your tongue and grinding her hips against you, and Tammy is panting and muttering “oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes”.

You’re 100% sure you’ll get points for fucking each of them – and Steel-Driving Man will probably eliminate your refractory time, or at least chop it down to something ridiculously short – and there’ll be bonus points for it being ****, and you’re sure you’ll get points for them sucking your cock, and for you eating them out, and oh, also points for it being a threesome, and probably bonus points for it being a threesome with two people who’re related to each other, and you’re 100% sure you can get them to eat each other out, not just willing but eager, they were both super excited by the idea of a threesome, will you get points for that if you’re not directly involved in the sex act? Maybe not, but you can fuck Molly while she’s eating Tammy’s pussy – or eating your cum out of Tammy’s pussy, and vice versa, mother-daughter creampie, you’re sure that’ll be a huge bonus – maybe there’ll be bonus points for fucking them in different positions? Missionary, doggy, standing up against a wall, bent over a table, reverse cowgirl? And you’re sure there’ll be a huge bonus for Molly’s virginity! And why stop with just Molly and Tammy – bonus points for fucking Sigrid in public, bonus points for fucking Penelope in her office, and Eleanor, and Maggie, and Belinda, and Olga, and…

… and honestly you’re starting to see how with all these points and multipliers and advantages you could get someone to have sex with you even if they’re a low probability of success… Shondra, Tessa, there’ll probably be an enormous bonus for fucking Janine…

And the three of you are grabbing at each other, pulling at each other’s clothes, and you start to lift Molly’s shirt and she pulls it off over her head and throws it across the room and you start sucking her left breast and biting it and she’s gasping and whining and you have your fingers inside her panties, she’s so wet, you hear the Multiplier buzzing and buzzing and buzzing, and Tammy has pulled her own panties off and now she’s fumbling with your zipper and reaching into your fly and she’s got her fingers on your dick, her touch feels so hot, and she’s extracting you from your underwear, you wonder if you’ll get points for cumming on her face or her tits or only in her mouth or her pussy or her ass, and Molly is shaking and shuddering and you’re pretty sure she’s building up to her first orgasm of the night and goddamn you’re positive you’ll get a ton of points for that and she’s saying “oh god Jacob Jacob Jacob Jacob I love you Jacob I love you I love you I love you I love you I LOVE YOU”

And then all at once it hits you, going through your head in barely a second:

You’re doing this for the points.

They love you, and you’re doing this for the points.

You’ve manipulated them into this, and you’re doing this for the points.

You’re thinking about what you can do with the points you’ll get for fucking them. You’re thinking about them like means to an end. Like they’re just sources of points.

They’re not sources of points. They’re people. They’re people who you love.

And you’re manipulating them. You’re hiding the truth. You’re lying to them.

They think you want them and you’re doing it for the points.

They think you love them and you’re doing it for the points.

You’re manipulating them. You’re using them. You’ve pushed them into it.

And you’re DOING IT

FOR

THE

POINTS.

And then, almost an afterthought:

You don’t even know for sure that they really want it.

And so it is that you do the hardest thing you have ever done in your entire life, harder even than speaking at the funeral:

You yell “WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT NO NO NO NO NO NO NO STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP!” and push Tammy and Molly off of you and scramble to your feet and realize you’re still facing them and take eight giant steps backwards which is as far as you can confidently go without knocking something over.