Rita Torres, the nerdy girl

I made my choice, I press the name and agree to the popup.

Name: Rita
Surname : Torres
Gender: Female
Age : 22
Level 1 (0 / 10 xp)
Class: None
Perks : None
Perk Points : 0

Okay, I might look mean but let me explain my thought process. First she’s a girl, and seeing how the QuestMaster really wanted me to kiss Matt even though he’s a guy, I wanted someone I wouldn’t mind getting close with.
She’s also someone I don’t really know. I just had my first talk with her a few days ago, which means I won’t feel too guilty experimenting a little on her.
Then, there’s also the fact that she visits the library a lot, and I want to observe the effects of the quests.
And finally, she looks like she has a lot she could improve about her life in the process of doing quests. She looked particularly shy, and she could lose some weight as well, maybe even improve her vision to stop wearing glasses. I think glasses have their charm so maybe not the last one.

I also need to think about a class to give her. I check the classes again and there’s way too much.

At first I thought about making her my maid, but I already have Matt to clean and cook for me.
I also notice the bimbo class, the contrast would be strong with this one, but I also think about her engineering and I don’t really want to ruin her life.
I could give her a class to help, I saw the perfect student and mad scientist classes that would certainly make her schoolwork a breeze.
I could also choose something less conventional like the android class I saw a while ago, I’m pretty it would have a lot of unintended consequences though.
If I want the change to be big, I could also do something about her shyness, Actress seems like it would completely change her personality.
I also remember she dressed quite conservatively and I might want to change that instead, with a class like Goth or Cosplayer.

I’m overwhelmed by choice and I feel like choosing right now would be a mistake. I can’t change my mind once a class is set so I’ll just put the choice back a little. Since it’s already late, let’s say I have to make my choice tomorrow before bed. I hope with this additional time, the choice will be easier.

I go to sleep soon after, but I can’t seem to fall asleep as I imagine the different versions of the shy girl. I imagine her in a sexy cosplay, making poses while I take pictures of her. I can also see her as some kind of bimbo with exaggerated curves and broken sentences. I try to think about what she could look like as an android, I imagine her shy self disappearing in a flash as I she goes into a blank mode to obey my orders. Okay I guess I won’t be able to sleep like this. I grab a tissue and start masturbating to my fantasies.

As the post-nut clarity sets in, I feel dirty for being aroused at the idea of changing a stranger like that, but I fall asleep before my mind can actually process it.

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It’s still morning, but I’m coming up on my lunchbreak. Maria is fidgeting around, I guess she doesn’t want to start another task to stop it midway through.
I guess Rita isn’t coming today… But I’d like to at least talk to her one last time before I chose a class for her. I grab my phone and write her first quest.

Warning, “Have a discussion with John” might be too complex for target current level, success isn’t guaranteed but will grant more xp. Continue ? Yes / No

Is that really that hard of a task for her? It looks like she hates me… It didn’t seem like it last time, but she was avoiding my eyes, maybe she isn’t shy but she just doesn’t want to look at me.

I’m starting to feel anxious, but I still press yes on the app.

Rita will receive the following quest : “Have a discussion with John”

Select a reward from the three choices:

• A compliment and a hug from John
• John’s phone number
• 10 minutes of the Mind Read perk

Lot to unpack here, first I can’t give her the Mind Read perk even temporarily or I’ll get exposed so that’s out.

The other two are also a gamble, I think she hates me, so they might make her want to avoid talking to me forever, which would make her quest unfinished, and would block me from giving her anymore.

But if I had to choose one, it would definitely be my phone number, if she just doesn’t care much about me, she could still be curious about the quest and do it out of boredom.

Reward: John’s phone number

That will have to do. But that eliminates the possibility of seeing her today, if she wasn’t planning on coming, she wouldn’t come for my number.

It’s time for my lunch break, so I start leaving the library to buy a sandwich but Maria stops me.

“Hey John, wait a minute. You don’t have anything to eat right?” She asks.

“Nope, I’ll be back in a few…” I say, but she has something else to say.

“Well, I cooked and I made too much food, would you mind if I gave a portion to you?” She asks as if I was doing her a big favor.

Right the quest! I forgot because it’s been two days.

“If you don’t mind, I’d love to try your cooking then.” I answer and she smiles brightly.

We move to the break room and she opens two plastic boxes before handing one to me.
The meal doesn’t look too bad, a healthy salad with hard boiled eggs, chicken cut in small pieces, and some cheese.
I take a bite and it’s meh. Not impossible to eat, but also not very tasty. I hear a sound coming from her phone, and I know the quests count as complete when she smiles while looking at it.

“It’s pretty good!” I lie. And she seems happy with the compliment.

“Thanks, maybe I’ll cook more often.” She says as we eat, she seems to be staring at me, maybe checking that I don’t waste anything?

“How was your weekend?” I ask, trying some small talk.

“Didn’t do much… Well I did go to the gym once.” She says.

“Oh really, did you start recently?”

“Well it was my first time actually, I registered recently.” She explains.

“Was it good exercise?”

“I guess… But I was expecting more.” I look at her disappointed face. Doesn’t she have a perk that improves her training efficiency? Maybe it wasn’t a big enough boost for her.

“Well, getting in shape takes time. I was thinking about getting a gym subscription too.” I say, not expecting the change in mood.

“Do you want to go together?” She asks excitedly.

That’s the perfect invitation but I’m also very lazy. I know I’ll regret it but I do want the ability to observe her as she changes and exercise.

“Sure, we could do that. If you don’t mind.”

“Of course I don’t! I really think going with someone would help. So please come, I’ll text you my gym address.”

“Right, but please don’t expect me to come too often.”

“No worries, I just plan on going during the weekends.” She reassures me.

That’s manageable, I hope I won’t hate this later.

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As I said earlier, I wasn’t expecting to see Rita at all today, but when I came out of the break room, here she was, sitting on a chair close to the main desk.
I guess she was curious after all. I head to the desk, and start to check the books in the return box, most of them are the ones Rita took last time. Did she do nothing but read or does she have superhuman reading speed?

Once I’m done checking them, I grab the box and search the shelves to put them back. As I do so, I notice Rita glancing at me.
Is she angry she has to talk to me? Nevermind, I keep working, waiting for her to come talk to me, but the time never comes. Hours have passed and she’s just reading, she changed books twice since then.
Sometimes, when I look at her, she starts to turn toward me, but when our eyes meet, she turns back in a hurry.
If I want her to actually do her quest, there’s only one way left. I clench my fist, and come closer to her, acting like I’m searching for a book on a shelf next to her before turning to see her.

“Oh, Rita right? Good to see you, did you already finish the books you rented last time?” I fake surprise as I get close enough for a discussion to happen.

“Huh… H-Hello John. Y-Yes, I read them this week-end…”

Am I bothering her, she doesn’t seem that interested in talking.

“I see, did you enjoy them?”

“K-Kinda. A few were boring, but I really liked the last book from Natasha Blue.”

“Dream Delusion right? I haven’t read it yet. Is it worth it?”

“It’s great! She’s incredible at world building and I really liked the concept of the dream pills! I mean who wouldn’t want to become the best version of themselves.” She readjusts her glasses, and continues, wonder in her eyes.

“Obviously the book ask the question is it worth it to be the best version of yourself if it’s only your mind tricking you, making you isolate yourself from the rest of society, but I think everyone would want it if it existed in real life! Sure you might still look different to other people but at least you would be satisfied when looking in a mirror.” She speaks very quickly and if I didn’t already read the synopsis I would be lost. But I like hearing her talk excitedly like this, it’s charming.

“So that means you would take the pill if you could?”

“Obviously! Sure the book insist it’s only a delusion, and obtaining things too easily messes up with your feelings of accomplishment, but that’s pretty hypocritical when the author is a bombshell that sells books by putting herself on the cover.”
Okay, she might be a little envious.

“Sure but I don’t know if I would take it, I mean looking buffed would be great but I would spend all my time frightened by the way other people see me.”

She mumbles and I don’t quite catch what she says as she blushes. Something about being perfect. But before I can ask her to repeat herself she continues.

“There’s actually a prominent character that thinks like you in the book, honestly you should read it when you have the time.” She says before hearing a sound coming from her phone.
I guess she finished the quest then.
Before I can do anything else, my mouth opens on it’s own and I’m not sure what I’m saying.

“In that case how about you take my phone number and we can talk about it some more after I read it?”

I didn’t want to say that, but she already has her phone out, hiding her face with it as she waits.
I give it to her, still unable to do as I want, and as soon as she finishes entering it, I can move my body on my own again.
That was so scary, what the hell? Okay, calm down John, everything’s alright, you just gave your number… That was part of the quest you gave.
Rita doesn’t seem to notice my panic as she glares at her phone while giggling.

“By the way, if you could take the pill, what do you think you would look like?” I ask her, and she starts blushing.

“H-huh… I think I would be taller, a-and I would have a great loud voice that people want to listen to. And… I’d be thin and beautiful…” She shrinks into herself in embarrassment.

“You’re already charming though?” I let out without thinking.

“I-I…” But she doesn’t let out another word. She stands up and before I can say anything she runs away.

Did I anger her somehow? I thought we talked well, but it seems I misunderstood. I should have shut up when the mood was still good, now I’m just standing there like an idiot.

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I arrive home, and open the fridge, but I notice there’s more than yesterday.

“Matt, I’m home! Did you buy anything?”

“Just a few things I forgot about!”

I look at the new ingredients, salad, soda, tomatoes. He might have been trying to trigger the permanent quest by buying groceries multiple times. I check his profile, and it only triggered once. I guess this magic app has a way to know if someone is trying to exploit it. I laugh as I imagine Matt going to the store multiple times today, trying to optimise the xp gain of the quest.

I wouldn’t have minded the xp but maybe permanent quests can’t be accomplished multiple times in a row. God I would love a tutorial for once, because figuring out those things is confusing.

I eat my meal and go to my room, let’s see…

Maria completed an advanced quest. [+7 xp] [+2 bonus xp]

Maria is level 3, physical description unlocked.

Rita completed an advanced quest. [+7 xp]

Level Up

I check my profile first.

Quest Master : John
Surname : Moore
Gender: Male
Age : 25
Level 6 (3 / 20 xp)
Class : None
Perks : Quest Designer I, Recommended Reward II, Class Designer, Public Unawareness
Perk Points : 3

I have even more perk points to spend.

Name: Maria
Surname : Finocci
Gender: Female
Age : 27
Level 3 (7 / 10 xp)
Class: Yoga Mom
Perks : Training Efficiency I, Cooking I
Perk Points : 2

I check her perk.

Cooking I : Cooking speed and meal taste improved by 20%. (Hidden: Small compulsion to cook for the people you like)

That seems useful, I still don’t know how strong a small compulsion is, but Matt seemed to really take to it, so she might even cook for others sometimes.
I feel like I should unlock the perk tree for targets soon, because Maria already has 2 perk points pending, and it would really help if she bought her own perks as well.

I also finally check Rita’s profile again.

Name: Rita
Surname : Torres
Gender: Female
Age : 22
Level 2 (0 / 10 xp)
Class: None
Perks : None
Perk Points : 1

She got a clean level up from her quest…
Okay I can’t spend any more time delaying it, I need to choose a class for her or I’ll miss out on bonus point.
Let’s make a non exhaustive lists of classes I could give her.

• Bimbo
• Perfect Student
• Mad Scientist
• Android
• Actress
• Goth
• Cosplayer

I think I spent an hour just looking at the classes. But at some point I need to make up my mind.

I take a deep breath and finally press the class I ended up with.

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Author's Note: Since last chapter's vote was already quite split between targets, I moved the class vote here. You can still propose other classes but I think you already have lots of choices with this list.