In my last journal I announced Furs & Fantasies, a new project I'm working on. Hopefully if you haven't you'll take the time to go read it, because this journal gets into some specifics. For those who haven't read it and don't want to, the basic idea is:
Furs & Fantasies is a light, humorous, and smutty fantasy fiction series with elements of tabletop rpgs like Dungeons & Dragons, as well as reader-driven choices in the vein of Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) stories. It will focus on an adventuring party with a growing cast, who embark on quests, delve through dungeons, patronize seedy taverns, and manage to get themselves into raunchy and kinky shenanigans wherever they go. During the story, the success or failure of certain character actions will be determined by dice rolls, and each chapter will end with 4 choices for the audience to vote on, which will direct the outcome in some way and influence the direction of the next chapter. I'll also make it clear now that this series, like all my stuff, will be VERY GAY. Expect only M/M stuff here (and M/M/M, and M/M/M/M... you get the idea), though I may end up exploring some gender transformation. Never say never!
This purpose of this post is to introduce the first of 5 characters that I've come up, as well as the various stats and characteristics and how they will be used. I'll start by giving you the profile of the "main" character, a fox warlock named Cyrus Norwood, and then I'll follow up with an explanation of the stats provided. Tomorrow I'll follow up with a post that shares the 4 other characters who will be joining, and explain how the CYOA audience participation and voting will work.
Cyrus Norwood
Species: Red fox Age: 22 Height: 5'11" Class: Warlock
Description: Average build with typical fox coloring, except for a black crescent on his chest. Bright green eyes. He usually wears loose-fitting pants, a tunic, and a cloak, all made of fine materials with mage-ish designs. He wears an amulet around his neck - a silver disk with a pentagram and runes drawn on it and a large ruby set into the center. He has a canine cock that is 6 inches long, including the knot.
Bio: Cyrus was born to a fairly wealthy merchant family and his parents sent him to a prestigious academy when his magical potential was revealed. He quickly grew bored with his studies despite being a quick learner, and started searching for forbidden texts that would give him more power. This led him to the dark arts, and when he was discovered casting ritual to commune with a spirit of darkness, he was expelled. His parents were furious, but he assured them that his magic would bring their family great wealth - and it has. Since then they have let him do whatever he wants, and he went off in search of treasure, knowledge, and adventure.
Cyrus eventually tried the ritual again and successfully communed with a shadow demon named Xeth. They made a pact, and Xeth agreed to teach Cyrus about magic and lead him to ancient artifacts and texts in exchange for Cyrus letting the spirit inhabit his body and influence his actions on occasion. Xeth appears to him in various shadow forms, but no one else can see him. Xeth sometimes uses Cyrus sexually, but more often just leads him into erotic situations with others. Sometimes he pushes the young warlock to summon other beings who usually demand sex in exchange for their favors.
He is sexually versatile and doesn't have a preference between topping or bottoming. Usually he conforms to whatever his partner wants. He experiments with sex magic frequently, which sometimes has unexpected results.
Pleaser. (Is good at figuring out what people want and giving it to them.)
Sex magic. (Can use magic or potions in sexual situations.)
SO, what do all those numbers mean? Well, one of the main aspects of this series is that the success or failure of certain actions characters take will be determined by rolling a 20 sided die (a d20). These won't occur every time a character does anything; I'm not leaving everything up to chance. Mostly they will happen when I feel like it is dramatically appropriate, and most importantly, fun. When I make a roll, I'll include it as a note in the text so readers can see what the roll was!
These rolls will be modified by a character's stats, primarily their Attributes and Skills. Attributes are broad and represent a character's core strengths and weaknesses, while Skills are specific things they can do because of their class or profession. The score for an Attribute or Skill is exactly what will be added to the result of the d20 roll. Generally, a total result of 1-10 will be a failure, and an 11-20 will be a success. Furthermore, if a character rolls a 1 or a 20 (before modifiers) it will be a critical failure or critical success, which will be extra dramatic!
The Attributes should be familiar for most rpg players, with some variation:
Strength is a character's raw physical strength and athleticism, such as how much they can lift or how hard they can throw an unarmed punch. Agility represents how fast and nimble a character is, and how dextrous they are with tools or ranged weapons. Intelligence is a measure of a character's general knowledge and wit, used for recalling information or assessing evidence to deduce an answer or solution to a problem. Social describes how well a character deals with personal interactions, including how persuasive, convincing, or charming they are, as well as how well they read others. Magic is specifically a character's knowledge of magical spells, tools, creatures and rituals. Spellcasters can use this stat to perform minor or common magical spells, while others can use it to figure out how to wield a magical item or recognize a spell. Endurance represents how tough a character is and how much strain they can take, whether that's dealing with extreme temperatures, running a marathon, surviving poison, or imbibing alcohol and drugs.
In addition to attributes, each character has three unique Skills. Cyrus' skills are Shadow Magic, Summoning, and Telekinesis, but the other character all have different once. Unlike skills or abilities in a complex system like Dungeons & Dragons, these Skills are both specific to the character's class and broad in their application. Each skill has a brief description of what they can be used for, and I'm keeping this pretty open-ended for the sake of simplicity.
After Skills come Sexual Ability scores and Sexual Specialties. Sexual Abilities are descriptive ratings on a scale of 1 to 5. They are not applied stats, meaning that they will influence how I write a character and how they will relate to others sexually, but I won't be using them for dice rolls. A character with a higher domination score than another character will be more likely to end up on top, but sex scenes will be ultimately determined by what seems fun (and the occasional CYOA vote), not a random roll. The Sexual Abilities are described below:
Dominance describes how dominant a character is sexually. High dominance characters will end up in charge and on top more often, though not necessarily all the time. Submission, likewise, describes how sexually submissive a character is, and how often they end up giving up control or bottoming for other males. Experience is basically a rating of how much sex a character has had, and how much they know about it. Low experience characters are less skilled and knowledgeable, while high experience characters have been around the block more than a couple times. Stamina is, bluntly, how hard a character can fuck or be fucked, how long they can hold out before they cum, and/or how many times they can go, say, in one night. Some high stamina characters may cum quickly but can keep going over and over, while others may be able to take a lot and resist cumming too fast, but won't be able to get it up quickly afterwards. Seduction is how attractive a character is, and how good they are at getting people to have sex with them. Some characters may not be particularly attractive, but are very skilled at seducing people, while others may not have much charm but have an irresistible quality that makes people desire them.
Each character also has two Sexual Specialties. These don't have numbers attached to them at all, and are merely descriptive of some unique skill or sexual quality that will come up often.
Anyway, that's a rundown of what a character profile looks like and what the various stats are! I'll note that Cyrus Norwood isn't the "main" character in the sense of driving most of the action, but he is the core of the party and his goals and motivations are what bring them all together. It's also worth noting that the demon he has a bond with, Xeth, will sometimes influence him or other characters in devious and lustful ways.
The next journal post will describe how the CYOA votes will work, AND include the profiles of the 4 potential party members. The very first vote, which will occur before the story even starts, will be for all of you to vote on which of those 4 will start off as Cyrus' business partner and adventuring companion. The others will be recruited later on as the story progresses!
