The first of three experiments

This is the second day in a row that I end up in my room, thinking about how little control I truly have over this app. I know it may seem like I overreacted to what happened with Julian, especially when you compare it to the things I’ve done to other girls, but if I keep changing people without carefully considering the effects beforehand, things will get out of control very quickly.

Jenny was right to say that using the app is the best way forward. I have these powers, "it'd be a waste not to use them", as she said.

Of course, I do have my doubts about her honesty in this. She may claim to know where her brainwashing ends, and her own individual reflection begins, but even if that’s true, I wouldn’t put it above her to simply lie about it. While I’ve made sure she can’t manipulate me into putting any specific belief into anyone without asking me directly, she can still try and manipulate me into using my powers in general. Once again, the exact phrasing of the belief is key, and if Jenny truly knows precisely where her brainwashing stops, then that means she’s able to exploit any loophole I leave in her programming.

If anything, this just means I should be even more careful around her.

Of course, I could simply make her unable to lie to me, but that would be exactly the kind of thing that would backfire within the day and leave me feeling like shit again.

And yet, she is right about this. I should use this power. But on my own terms, and following the rules I decided on, all the while making sure that it can’t backfire and that my control over the school and its surroundings only ever trends upwards.

And the best way to get there is to make some experiments with the app and what it can do. I've already said that I wanted to test increasing my authority over Ivy, but I've thought of two more things I want to try. Three experiments, in total.

First, I’ll need a little bit more BS, but not too much, 10 to 15 would be ideal, and the way I'll get it is going to constitute my first experiment. I check the spread of the groping rule and it’s now fully overtaken the original version, having reached the same 98% that the first one plateaued at. Perfect.

The second experiment will be the one I’d already decided on earlier, trying to increase my authority over someone by using a direct belief. And for that, all I need to do is locate Ivy. My Parley has recharged by now, so talking to her won’t be difficult once I do find her. While I'll try not to use it if I can avoid it, it's really nice to know that I can always rely on it if things go south.

Finally, once I’ve implemented that first belief into her, I want to try something... slightly risky. Or rather something that seems too good to be true, and therefore probably is, but it's something that's been on my mind for a while and that I need to test out sooner or later.

But first things first, let’s get that BS.

I freshen up and leave my room, going immediately onto the quad. For my experiment to work, all I need is to find a few girls I don’t know, which shouldn’t be too difficult. It’s a Sunday evening, but the sun is still up, so there must be a few students still outside.

And sure enough, I spy a group of three girls I don’t recognise sitting on a bench just across the quad.

I make my way towards them and hear a conversation about how “Diane’s such a hardass.”

I assume the Diane they’re referring to is the school’s coach. I’ve never talked with her much, but she has quite the reputation for having unusually high standards for someone working at this school. Either you’re good at sports and she’ll try and develop your talent, or you’re not and she has nothing but contempt for you. Sink or swim. Needless to say, she tends to be very divisive. Some see her as tough but fair, while others simply see her as tough.

It’s fairly easy to tell who falls on which side of her binary worldview. If she sees you as worthy, she'll have you call her "Diane", if she doesn't, you better call her "Ma'am" unless you want to have a bad time.

And now that I think about it, these three girls seem quite familiar. I think they might be on the football team. I’ve only been to one match, but I seem to remember the tall, rail-thin girl with the curly, dirty blonde hair on the left to be the team’s goalie.

“Hello,” I greet them with a smile. “Can I bother you for a minute? I’m doing a survey on discipline and rewards in the school.”

They turn to me in slight confusion.

“You’re the IT guy, right?” The tall one asks, crossing her legs.

My eyes drift downwards onto them. That simple act would've gotten me in trouble a week ago, but now, it's a completely appropriate gesture, and god do I love leering in pervert abandon.

Plus, she's got nice legs.

“Computer science teacher," I correct her. "I’m also in charge of data collection and processing. We’re doing a study on students’ reactions to different forms of reward and punishment, and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions?”

“And you’re doing that on a Sunday evening?” The shorter girl with glasses and short, black hair in the middle asks with half-veiled suspicion.

“I mostly focus on teaching during the week so this is the best time for me to do this. Look, are you willing to participate or not?”

“Yeah, yeah, sure, it’s just kinda weird, but if it can make the school better...” The leggy one explains.

“That’s the spirit. Alright, what would you say is the discipline method that you find most effective?” I ask, pretending to read off a completely blank notepad.

They think for a second.

“Hmm, well, it’s not something that’s happened to me yet, but I’d say being bent over and spanked for a bit would get the job done. You know, it’s professional, it’s effective, and I think it’d feel good. Plus, you can’t beat the classics, you know?” The tall one says.

The tone of her voice and the way she's always the first to speak up tells me she's their leader.

“Spanking sounds alright, but I think slapping my chest or pinching my nipples would work better,” The one with the glasses says.

I nod earnestly as I dutifully pretend to take notes, although in reality I just wrote “ass” and “tits”, with some unsavoury doodles on the side.

When I’m done, I turn to the girl on the right. She’s actually a bit taller than Glasses, but her posture makes her look more diminutive. Her meticulously combed, jet black hair tightly tied back behind her head and her dark makeup and white tank top give her the air of a Russian ballerina.

Her cheeks are beet red, as if she was embarrassed about what she was about to say.

“I, erm, it wouldn’t really be practical in class, but I think I’d like a collar and... maybe handcuffs. Or a... blindfold?” She stutters uncertainly.

Oh! Hadn’t seen that one coming.

When you’re so busy turning girls into sex crazed versions of themselves, it’s easy to forget that some of them are already kinky to begin with, and the app is simply allowing them to more publicly embrace that side of themselves. Although it looks like as things stands, she still sees this as slightly risqué, and her friends’ amused smiles seem to confirm that.

“Thank you. And what would you say is your favourite reward?”

“Also spanking,” says Legs.

“Can I say money?” says Glasses.

“I’d... like to be called a good girl,” says Ballerina, still blushing.

Odd how we’ve gotten to the point where asking to be spanked is completely normal, but asking to be called a good girl is still seen as pushing the limits, even if only slightly.

“Thank you for your input. I’m... afraid I can’t give you any money, but I can offer the other two rewards if you’d like, to thank you for participating,” I beam.

Ballerina gets even redder in the face, and Legs opens her eyes wide in interest.

I gesture for them to turn around, and they oblige. Each lowering their trousers before leaning forwards and resting their hands on the bench they were sitting on, sticking out their butts, all lined up in a neat, rotund row.

Red, green and black, a tricolour of underwear wiggles enticingly in front of me. And while Legs and Glasses have picked fairly plain options, it looks like Ballerina has a taste for lace, which I can only approve of.

I cross my arms and appreciate the sight for a few seconds, before approaching them and rewarding them as they deserve.

“Good girl,” I praise Legs as I let my hand fall on her ass with a resounding slap. She quivers enthusiastically under my touch.

“Thank you, sir!” She says zealously as I move on to my second target.

“Good girl,” I repeat, to Glasses this time. She doesn’t react as much to my spank, but she still seems satisfied as she politely smiles and responds:

“Thank you, sir.”

And as I approach Ballerina, I can’t help but grin. She’s squirming with anticipation, and I suspect her fluster to now be caused by a feeling entirely different from embarrassment.

This time I spank first, letting my hand land flatly on her cheek, and rest on it for a second, before I give my praise.

“Good... girl.”

“Hnnnn!”

She has to clench her jaws to muffle a moan. Moaning from verbal praise, this girl has potential.

I take a step back and take a look at the beautiful picture in front of me, these three girls, hiking their trousers back up blissfully after a man they'd never even talked to before spanked them in public.

Just what I needed to cheer me up after what happened down in the village.

+15 BS. 48 remaining.

“Thank you again for your participation, have a good evening,” I say warmly as I take my leave.

This first experiment has given me a lot of answers already.

Firstly, I know that I can use the groping rule on girls I don’t know, but that they’re still able to find my behaviour a bit strange if I can’t find a convincing reason for it. Glasses seemed especially circumspect at first. Of course, I could spend BS to make them think my behaviour is perfectly normal, but that would defeat the point of trying to get BS out of them. It’s good to know that I can grope pretty much anyone, but I’ll mostly keep it for emergencies, since rewarding or punishing girls I barely know all the time would probably give me a weird reputation. And in a school, reputation is everything. Tatiana will soon enough be living proof of that fact.

My second observation is that even when people get a new belief, they’re still allowed to keep their individuality about it. They all believe sexual harassment to be the most effective form of punishment, and they all enjoy it as a reward as well, but they don’t necessarily all like the same forms of sexual harassment. In the case of Glasses, while she definitely enjoyed the spank, she seemed like the least promiscuous of the three, and as such, her favourite reward isn’t even sexual at all, but monetary. I like that they’re allowed to keep that individuality. It means I can keep on setting up group rules without fear of all the women in this school becoming homogenous and interchangeable.

My final observation is about sexual acts done on groups. Usually, the first time I sexually harass a girl, I get 10 BS, but in this case I got 15, so only 5 per target. That confirms that I will get less BS per girl when I perform sexual acts on several at once. That’s something that I’ve suspected ever since I noticed that I got the same amount of BS from threatening my classes, regardless of the number of students in each. Now the question is how that affects the “diminishing returns” aspect on an individual level. If I were to go and spank Legs again, would I get a full 10 BS as if it were the first time, or slightly less? I’ll need to do some more experiments over the coming week to make sure.

I look back behind me at the girls I just left. Legs is rubbing her bottom with her hand, as if she were trying to remember the feeling, while Ballerina is still as bashful as ever, and Glasses is absentmindedly checking her phone, as our encounter seems to have already left her mind.

You know, I’m really liking these three random girls, maybe I should’ve asked their names. Or maybe I can just have my fun corrupting the football team as a whole later down the line.

Anyways, one experiment down, and I have just about the right amount of BS to my name to move on to the next two. All I need to do is find Ivy.

Hello everyone!

Thank you for reading this chapter and for your patience in waiting for it! As I've said in the comments to the previous chapter, the month of March is going to be quite heavy with work, so the chapters are probably going to be a bit more spread out in the coming couple of weeks.

Also, building on a suggestion by blastothehanar, I think I write things so that, going forward, I'd mostly focus on progressing the story during weekdays, but I'd keep the weekend for tying up loose ends and exploring some other, more experimental aspects of the story (the world outside the school, character building or forms of mind control that I'm not fully sure where they'll lead but would like to try out, foreshadowing upcoming events, etc). That way, while some weekends might not be interesting to everyone, you'll know that we'll be going back to the main plot in a few chapters' time.

Of course, this is all a rough guideline rather than an unbreakable rule, and the story's pacing will always come first, but I thought it'd be nice to give credit to blastothehanar for the idea if I'm going to take inspiration from it!

Anyways, thank you again for reading and I'll see you next chapter!