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Handler/Fetish CYOA V2.3 Handler/Fetish CYOA v2.3 You meet a stranger whose face you can't see. She explains to you that she is the "Handler", a being with the ability to manipulate people's minds, interpersonal relationships and society. She is usually fair and doesn't abuse her powers too much, but lately she's been really bored and wants to have some fun. So she offers you a deal: you pick one or more of the following "Fetishes" she has, and you can use the gained points to acquire boons from her in the same deal. You get to choose beforehand how long the deal should last. You get the boons while the deal is in effect, or if the deal lasts for at least 10 years, you get the boons permanently. You can also make multiple deals. You can delay when deals start (though of course you won’t get boons from it until it starts). You can only pick each Fetish once across all your deals, you can’t “reuse them”. You also have to make your deals now, before your first deal takes effect. tl;dr: You can make deals. Each deal has a start time, a length, one or more fetishes, suboptions for those fetishes, and zero or more boons. You can’t pick the same Fetish in two different deals. How do you use this opportunity? Category I Fetishes Each gives you 2 points. There are also suboptions you can pick, that give or subtract points if you pick them. For example “-1p” means that it subtracts a point. Exhibitionism Can't be picked together with Pet play. At random times, random people you know will expect you to strip down, give them all your clothes and stuff, and not have them returned until you do some tasks for them. They might involve other people to make them help out with these tasks. However, anyone not involved will still be shocked to find you naked, since it wouldn't be exhibitionism without the thrill of being found. It's not illegal for you to be naked in any circumstance, though. If you refuse to go along with a play like this, the person who wants you to do so will be offended. -1p: People now don’t really mind you having been naked when you’re clothed. They’ll still be appalled when you’re exposed, but once you’re covered again, they’ll go back to treating you normally. Chastity Can't be picked together with Forced to Orgasm or Milking. People now consider keeping you in chastity an important topic, roughly comparable to environmental change. More specifically, their goal is to keep you controlled regardless of what you want or do. You're not expected to hold yourself back, but people will try to do so, even going as far as holding fundraisers for getting you the best chastity devices possible. If you don't comply with their requests, they'll enact harsher measures. People will also casually inspect you every once in a while. You do get to orgasm, though. How often and how much is decided by public opinion, which is swayed by a lot of factors, including your overall behaviour and presidential candidates' campaign promises. At the start, you’re let out on Sundays. -1p: You’re guaranteed to be let out once a week, for at the very least five minutes. The quality and length of your “freedom time" is still up for debate, though. +1p: You orgasming is now seen as a national threat. However, your government will do some super secret “weapon testing” with you, which involves making you orgasm. Usually in a secret bunker far away from civilisation, just to be safe. At the start, these tests happen once a month. Pet play Can't be picked together with Exhibitionism or Monster person. You pick a kind of animal. When in public, people now act like you're a pet animal of that kind. If you do things the given animal wouldn't, they'll act like you're a misbehaving pet. For example, if you pick dog and walk around on the street, people will be wondering why you're not leashed, but they'll also be angry towards you for wearing human clothes and for not being on all fours. You aren’t considered a pet in private, at your workplace, or when visiting health professionals. Even when considered a pet, killing or abusing you is also considered the same as killing or abusing a person. Locking you up though, e.g. in an animal shelter, is completely legal. Oh, and picking whale and then lying down on a beach is not a good idea. -1p: You're considered a trained performance animal of some sort. You can get away with more things if you frame it as part of a show. +1p: Now you’re considered a pet even in private. Feet You can't greet people normally any more. If you do, it's seen as weird. From now on, people expect you to greet them by kneeling down before them, letting them take one of their feet out of their shoes, and kissing it. Of course, this is like a handshake, so if their feet are dirty, they won't expect you to do it. Not greeting people will alienate them, of course. People you're attracted to will also consider you worshipping their feet for hours as a kind of date. +1p: You’ll be expected to massage the feet of people near you when you’re free. Teasing Can't be picked together with Forced sex, Forced to orgasm or Milking. People who you find at least moderately attractive will now tease you, and this is completely normal and expected now. Even if someone caresses your genitalia in public right next to their significant other, no one will bat an eyelid. They won't go further than teasing though, and you doing things like masturbating publicly or not respecting the limits of people who tease you is still improper and illegal. If there aren’t enough such people, the criteria about attraction will be loosened over time. +1p: You’ll constantly have people casually checking whether you're aroused, and seeking to correct the problem if you're not. Bondage You're now expected to let yourself be restrained whenever someone wants to restrain you. The "Damsel in distress" game, with you being the titular "damsel", is now a common pastime for a small group of people. First a team captures you (usually at least a week after the end of your last capture, but it's random, and can range from minutes to a month), then while they keep you tied up but otherwise well, the other team playing the game looks for you. They have to rescue you within 24 hours, or the capturing team wins. A few times a year there’ll be specials where the time limit (and thus your maximum capture time) is increased to 1 week. You really do have to be restrained when captured, even if you wouldn't escape otherwise. They don't keep you in too tight bondage all the time though, and they take care to keep you healthy, even making you do exercises. They also spice up the restraints from time to time, with gags, sensory deprivation, stocks, shibari, you name it. And don't expect to get out of doing stuff for the other Fetishes you picked just because you're tied up. +-0p (TV show): “Damsel in distress” is now a nationwide television sensation. There’s a 24/7 live stream of you being subdued for everyone to see, etc. You now also get a salary for being the "damsel", it’s comparable to the salary of a Japanese salaryman. +1p (time limit): The time limit for rescuing you is now usually a week (168 hours). It can be even longer for specials. If you also picked TV show, your salary is doubled. +1p (competition): Instead of one team rescuing you, the teams now compete to have you in their custody at the end of the time limit. To keep up the thrill, though, the teams can now do activities to increase or decrease the time limit by a small percentage, and the exact time limit is not known to the teams or you. Soft Torture Requires Bondage. "Damsel in distress" now has an additional twist: you're told some sort of secret before being captured, and the capturing team is supposed to get that out of you by any means necessary. Where "any means necessary" means anything from tickle torture to sex toys and torture tools made specifically for light BDSM play. It’ll never lead to permanent damage. Now the detective team has to rescue you before you let the secret slip. However, if you tell it to them too early (less than what the time limit would be) or too often, you won't get paid, and the TV viewers and the Handler won't be too happy. Slavery You get to pick someone as your owner at first, but once the deal starts, you can be sold, rented out, and so on. You are expected to live with your owner and do what they tell you to do. Your owner won’t care too much about what you personally want, they’ll make you do things for their own gain (like ordering you to make them a sandwich), though they’ll still be required to keep you well.
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