Gimme gimme

From looking at the perks you unlocked at level 5 and comparing them against the ones that were now available, it seemed that you would be able to choose from one passive effect and one active effect every time you levelled. You would have normally waited to confirm your choices with Emma but you felt that one of the options stood out over the others and you couldn’t help but make the decision on your own. A decision you were pretty sure that Emma would agree on as well.

Limit Breaker -
Once every 48 hours, the user can choose a subject that will have their level up rate doubled, effectively having 2 seconds of growth for every second spent in contact with the user. The effect will last for 1 hour and the effect cannot be swapped to a new subject during this time. Limit Breaker will stack with other time-related effects.

Confirm the purchase of ‘Limit Breaker’(1 perk point)? Yes/No?
Yes

‘Limit Breaker’ purchased. New options now available on Subjects profile pages
Perk points total: 0

Having the option to speed up the rate at which your subjects levelled up was too big of a bonus not to take advantage of and with it taking longer and longer with each level they progressed, it seemed like an easy decision to take this perk as early as possible. It was also why it cost twice as much as the other perks but you felt it was a reasonable price to pay in comparison to the other effects.

You had already thought about taking ‘Eye of the beholder’ before and although it would be a fun effect to try out, you didn’t see any long term applications for it currently.

‘Give me a clue!’ on the other hand was actually an effect you would have considered taking if the limit breaker hadn’t outshone it. Having some hints on some of the more obscure achievements would allow you to get XP and point faster which in turn would lead to quicker level ups and more perk points but so far you had been able to stumble into some of the achievements anyway and finding them naturally was quite fun.

You smiled to yourself now that you had bought the upgrade for yourself but you were hit with a wave of realisation when you realised you couldn’t use it effectively right away. Sure you could go and try the effect on Mom, Sarah or Lucy but those 3 were the ones who you had no issue levelling up currently. Sure, Lucy was a bit further behind compared to Mom and Sarah but you could easily make that back up. With the 48 hour cooldown for the effect, you had to be more thoughtful about who you used it on, making both Grace and Rebecca your main targets at the moment.

Your hope was that the new passive effects you had acquired tonight would make tomorrow morning’s workout session a bit more ‘hands on’ and then you could use the effect on Rebecca but if it didn’t go to plan, then you would have a tougher choice on who to pick.

Both options would need to be tomorrow which meant… you could have just waited and confirmed with Emma, a choice you were now slightly regretting. Still, the other two perks wouldn’t have had as big of an impact in your future plans compared to the perk you picked so the regret faded pretty quickly.

For now you decided to delay using the perk for a better opportunity later but you were still left with another decision that you were now rethinking from earlier.

You had been planning to get into bed and use the ‘no time to rest’ power up to let you use Mom’s level 3 effects, specifically her sleepwalking active so that you could spend the night with her in your bed. What was making you reconsider was the fact that you had to get up early and head over to Emma and Grace’s for your morning workout.

One of the reasons you had decided to use the effect on Mom was to potentially have some fun in the morning but if she woke up alone in your room after you had left, you didn’t think she would react well. Especially if she didn’t remember ‘sleep walking’ into your room in the first place and expected to wake up in her own room.

The workout had slipped your mind while you were distracted with everything that had been going on. Between Lucy catching you looking at pictures of Grace and the plan for telling Sarah about Emma’s kink finally ending successfully, it was no wonder that it slipped your mind.

You considered again if you wanted to use the effect even with your hesitation about the morning after but you decided not to use it in the end. That effect had been in your possession for a while so you just hoped there would be another practical use for it in the future.

With the last issue of the day sorted out, you didn’t have anything else you needed to worry about before you did your nighttime routine. You quickly went to the bathroom to clean yourself up from what you had done with Lucy and then the usual bathroom duties before heading back to your room.

You knew you had a few things planned for tomorrow as you sat yourself back down on your bed but there was nothing you could think about at the moment to change how you planned for things to go, instead finding yourself with a bit of extra free time to yourself for a change.

With the new sleep power-up that you had acquired, you still had a few hours to kill while everyone else was in their rooms so with no subjects to tease or a need to plan ahead, you walked over to your computer and decided to spend some time relaxing like you did before the KDK showed up.

It felt weird to say but after spending time browsing the websites you used to frequent and catching up on some of the channels you watched, it didn’t feel quite as engaging as it would have a week ago. Sure the games you played still had the same spark as before but the things you did just to kill time didn’t seem as appealing to you as before. It could have been a few different factors that had made you change your mind, whether it be the intelligence upgrades affecting your mind or just how much fun you felt you were having now that a mind altering device had been randomly handed to you… probably the latter.

The more mundane time wasters were now ruled out so you went and played a few matches of your favourite game, chatting with a few online friends who you wanted to catch up with. You had to skirt around the topic of your absence from being online but you made it known that your new schedule was likely to continue for a while, if not the foreseeable future.

With all that said and done, you were surprised to see how much time you had actually spent playing around, looking at the clock to see it had been at least a couple hours and you felt another smile creep un your face. Knowing that some of your hobbies still made you just as happy as before, was an added bonus but you still needed to get up early so you left your desk.

You undressed and climbed into bed, remembering to active Emma’s effect after her continuous reminders as well as the upgrades you had promised to give her before you finally drifted off to sleep.