Remove ads

searching for a connection://AdequateEros

Reader mode
[X] Ignore him.

This guy isn't worth delaying sleep any further over.
 
Remove ads
Prologue: What Goes In Your Mouth
  • Threadmarks
    • ​


    [x] Ignore him.

    Frankly, you're not really in the mood to force yourself to like people who open conversations by undermining you. You decide to settle back into your seat, listen to a few songs from a band that used to open at your last favorite bar and finish your tea. It's lukewarm but still a little sweet, which somehow feels like a bit of a metaphor for your present state of mind.

    No sense in moping around forever, though. You click back onto your profile and decide to finish the information. There's some questions about your diet, pets, and what kind of people you're interested in it. At first brush it's a little inane, but you also realize that someone with a very different diet from yours could really complicate the logistics of dating or moving in together.

    Time to get to work.

    The first one to get to is the diet section, which also includes your attitude towards drugs, alcohol and whether you smoke or not. You suppose that given the huge variety of species in The City, it makes sense that eating meat might be considered a vice on the same level as taking drugs, and that people with especially unusual requirements might have to consume food in gaseous form, which superficially might resemble smoking or vaping. One of your alien exes was entirely photosynthetic, which mostly meant she drank a lot of water and spend a ton of time walking around naked under sun lamps to keep healthy.

    Your own needs are a little less strict since you're modified pretty heavily, but it's not like those are really an indicator of your preferences.

    What's your diet like?

    [ ] Omnivore
    [ ] Carnivore, meaning your diet is mostly meat.
    [ ] Vegetarian, meaning you avoid animal products except for dairy and the odd egg.
    -[ ] Pescaterian, which used to mean you included fish but mostly means you eat anything that doesn't have a complicated brain, capable of emotions or complex thinking.
    -[ ] Vegan, meaning you eat all-natural foods with no animal products or byproducts.
    [ ] Synthaterian, meaning you only eat cruelty-free synthetic or vat-grown foods.

    How about drinking?

    [ ] You don't drink.
    -[ ] You used to drink.
    [ ] You drink occasionally.
    [ ] You drink socially.
    [ ] You drink frequently.

    How about drugs?

    [ ] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[ ] You used to do drugs.
    -[ ] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.
    [ ] You take them occasionally.
    [ ] You take them frequently.

    And smoking?

    [ ] Don't smoke.
    -[ ] But used to smoke.
    -[ ] But will date a smoker.
    [ ] You smoke.
    -[ ] Only vape.

    It's a pretty trivial set of clicks as you steadily fill out the profile sidebar. Your still-empty profile description invites yet more work, and there's time before you'll absolutely feel the need to sleep. Then a ping flashes, and you get another message.

    --inbox 1/5000--
    [trey_bien] just messaged you!​

    It's been about an hour, but you're almost entirely sure the site doesn't tell people when their messages have been read. You feel a brief temptation to check, but decide to put it off and figure out what you'll do with the rest of your time before bed.

    What do you do?

    [ ] Oh hell, he's persistent. Let's read.
    [ ] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[ ] Answer some quiz questions.
    -[ ] Write some details about yourself in the About Me section.
    -[ ] Check to see if there's anything left in the sidebar.
    [ ] Whelp, enough of this. Time for bed.
     
  • Threadmarks
    • [x] Omnivore

    Can this be like, actually-omnivorous? Om-nom delicious wood?

    [x] You drink socially.

    [x] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[x] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.

    [x] Don't smoke.

    [x] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[x] Answer some quiz questions.
     
    [X] Synthaterian, meaning you only eat cruelty-free synthetic or vat-grown foods.
    [X] You don't drink.
    -[X] You used to drink.
    [X] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[X] You used to do drugs.
    -[X] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.
    [X] Don't smoke.
    -[X] But used to smoke.
    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Answer some quiz questions.

    straight eeeeeedge
     
    [X] Omnivore
    [X] You drink socially.
    [X] You take them occasionally.

    [X] Don't smoke.
    -[X] But used to smoke.
    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Check to see if there's anything left in the sidebar.
     
    [X] Omnivore
    [X] You drink socially.
    [X] You take them occasionally.

    [X] Don't smoke.
    -[X] But used to smoke.
    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Check to see if there's anything left in the sidebar.
     
    [X] Synthaterian, meaning you only eat cruelty-free synthetic or vat-grown foods.
    [X] You don't drink.
    -[X] You used to drink.
    [X] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[X] You used to do drugs.
    -[X] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.
    [X] Don't smoke.
    -[X] But used to smoke.
    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Answer some quiz questions.
     
    [X] Synthaterian, meaning you only eat cruelty-free synthetic or vat-grown foods.
    [X] You don't drink.
    -[X] You used to drink.
    [X] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[X] You used to do drugs.
    -[X] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.
    [X] Don't smoke.
    -[X] But used to smoke.
    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Answer some quiz questions.
     
    [x] Omnivore

    [x] You drink socially.

    [x] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[x] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.

    [x] Don't smoke.

    [x] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[x] Answer some quiz questions.
     
    [X] Synthaterian, meaning you only eat cruelty-free synthetic or vat-grown foods.
    [X] You don't drink.
    -[X] You used to drink.
    [X] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[X] You used to do drugs.
    -[X] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.
    [X] Don't smoke.
    -[X] But used to smoke.
    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Answer some quiz questions.
     
    [x] Omnivore

    [x] You drink socially.

    [x] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[x] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.

    [x] Don't smoke.

    [X] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[X] Answer some quiz questions.
     
    Hmm, from the look of it the votes are pretty split right now and I don't really want to have an upset happen while I'm mid-update.

    For the sake of sanity I'm closing this round now.

    The results will probably favor whatever's leading now and be influenced by the runners-up.
     
    Prologue: Hitting Polls, and a Flock of Cold Calls
  • Threadmarks
    • ​


    [x] Omnivore, Synthavore
    [x] You drink socially.
    -[x] You used to drink.
    [x] You don't do drugs (except for medical purposes, obviously).
    -[x] You used to do drugs.
    -[x] You're drug-friendly, despite preferences.
    [x] Don't smoke.
    -[x] But used to smoke.
    [x] Keep ignoring and finish profile construction.
    -[x] Answer some quiz questions.

    You list your dietary habits in short order, and describe your relationship with just about everything else that you could possibly ingest. When you were younger you were a bit of a party animal- it comes with the territory of being a high-spec posthuman strain with a lot of aftermarket body mods, and falling in with a crowd of the same or similar who could appreciate you.

    But you aren't anymore.

    Text boxes are a little unsophisticated at conveying that and what follows, so you consider that you might have to do a bit more work down the line to explain the situation, if you feel like it'll help your odds of finding someone good.

    You drank, you smoked and did a fat load of drugs, half the names of which are only pronounceable to you because your tongue is prehensile. Whatever you hadn't built an immunity to and wasn't going to cause irreparable damage was going into your system in the name of the next, bigger high. The drugs especially were pretty useful on jobs, especially the ones that raised your response times. You used to be pretty addicted to neurotransmitter enhancers before your sponsor in the chairmen quietly asked you to get cleaned up or get the fuck out of dodge, because the mood swings and paranoia were making you impossible to entrust jobs to.

    So you did, and mostly switched out of chemical enhancement to solid-state.

    Nanomachines and fiberoptics running along your nervous system give you the same performance as you used to have on the drugs, if not better, since you're a lot smarter and more experienced than you were back then. With the added bonus of not being a tweaked-out nut.

    Good food and odd drink now and then is your only vice. Actually, that's a lie. You have a huge collection of expensive teas and coffees, which are your actual vice. And a bunch of other vices that aren't directly consumable.

    Diet-wise you're really not picky, and eat basically anything except for people (prion diseases can still wreck your partially cybernetic brain). You'll actually eat anything, and kind of can thanks to your modified gut flora… although you'd at least prefer things meant for human consumption. You do prefer synthetic food, since it's cleaner, has more generous effort-to-nutrition efficiency and can be modified to taste, smell or feel like basically anything. The fact that no actual species were harmed in the making of your food is just gravy.

    Once everything is sorted out you mull over your options. You do want to answer some quiz questions to raise your match percentage and get people more suited to you, though, so you decide to click over to that submenu.

    You are immediately assaulted by the revelation that a 99% match requires around 300 answers total, but you've come this far. It's not the end of the world if you play the field a bit with low-end matches anyway.

    The menu itself is fairly simple, and the questions are simple multiple choice, not unlike what you've been doing before. Nine questions drop down, laid out in order for you to read.

    Every time a choice is made to answer more quiz questions, I'm going to post a new survey for the players to fill out. The survey will be open for about a week after posting after which I'll close the polling and add the results to the character file on page 1. Note that the answers chosen will not necessarily be reflective of the protagonist's personality, although they may cause future choices to become weighed. Their main impact is increasing matches with corresponding matching answers.

    Unlike real dating websites, Adequate Eros doesn't have the option for stating how important a specific questions answer is to you, and what answers are acceptable or not for potential matches. Instead assume that it's automatic, and based on the personality and backstory being developed in chargen. Since this is a quest, I'll mostly go by fiat!

    Those go over quickly, and you're satisfied to see your new match percentage. And… yet more mail.

    --POTENTIAL MATCH %: 18.01%--
    To increase your match percentage, fill out personal information and answer quiz questions!​

    --inbox 3/5000--
    [glycon4ever], +14 viewed your profile!
    [glycon4ever], +3 more like you!
    +3 are: sharklessy7777, lenouvakhyd, rob_casper13553
    [trey_bien] sent you a message!
    [glycon4ever] sent you a message!
    [sharklessy7777] sent you a mesage!    ​

    It's oddly satisfying to see it go up that quickly from just a few clicks, and you wonder if you could do them all tonight in one go. It's getting late though, and you notice yet more messages piling in when you aren't paying attention. trey_bien isn't letting up, although you're not going to speculate too much about the reasons. Maybe he's apologetic, maybe he's angry. Who knows? You're ignoring him. There's some new messages already from other people, which is kind of surprising.

    What do you do? Multiple options allowed.

    [ ] Answer more quiz questions.
    [ ] Try finish your sidebars before you go to sleep.
    [ ] Respond to trey_bien.
    -[ ] Block him.
    -[ ] Tell him off ASAP.
    -[ ] See what he's about.
    [ ] Check out and respond to glycon4ever.
    [ ] Check out and respond to sharklessy7777.
    [ ] See who likes you.
    [ ] Go to sleep, the weather is messing with you. Sunrise is probably only an hour or two away.
     
    Last edited:
  • Threadmarks
    • [X] Try finish your sidebars before you go to sleep.
    [X] Check out and respond to sharklessy7777.
    [X] Go to sleep, the weather is messing with you. Sunrise is probably only an hour or two away.

    Basics, sleep, and a peek at one of them. Not the first guy, not tonight. He (?) has already been downgraded to 'less interesting than sleep'.
     
    [X] Try finish your sidebars before you go to sleep.
    [X] Check out and respond to glycon4ever.
    [X] Check out and respond to sharklessy7777.

    sleep is for the weak
     
    ...and the sane.

    [X] Try finish your sidebars before you go to sleep.
    [X] Check out and respond to glycon4ever.
    [X] Check out and respond to sharklessy7777.
    [X] Go to sleep, the weather is messing with you. Sunrise is probably only an hour or two away.

    Is there a way to see which way the survey is going?
     
    Reader mode
    You must login or register to reply here.
    Remove ads
    Back
    Top