Ch 2.7: Exhibitionist


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Oww!” Flora said as shended on the ground at the bottom of the cave, naked butt hitting the gravel. “It’s much less nice down here, you know.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Have to agree, actually,” Tira added, wandering through the cave for the first time. “It’s creepy.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina couldn’t help that, of course, just like she couldn’t help giggle at the sight of the nude Flora rubbing her backside as she stood up. It was so strange, seeing someone sofortable being naked, not embarrassed at all even as she stood around threepletely clothed girls. <i><span style="font-weight:400">Not even embarrassed as I got her off earlier either…</i>


    <span style="font-weight:400">She shook her head, focusing. “Come over here,” she said, walking towards the currently dim System in the center of the room. They didn’t know exactly what to say to Flora if she wasn’tpatible with the party, but they had to do their best to keep the secret. “There’s a rock here you can lean on.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina watched as the girl stepped forward in the darkness, noticing her eyes were even better in the dark than they were before. She barely had time to consider the implications before Flora reached the pedestal holding the orb and the System came to life, lighting up the entire cave. “System User confirmed as Star Blessed. Status: Aspected, ssless. Age: twenty-one years, four months, two weeks, two days. Partypatibility for System Administrator ina Weaver: Ny nine percent. Initiating protocol: ss Assignment.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“What the—”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Shimmering light appeared around Flora, and she looked on bewildered as it danced in the cave, circling her already nude body. It started to fade from top to bottom, revealing first a reef of blue and yellow flowers on her head, tied together with foxtails, her light brown hair now dry and braided. The crystal dust continued to give way, showing a shocked woman underneath it as it moved down her face, and her body, just as naked as it was before.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Florence Stouth


    <span style="font-weight:400">System Hierarchy: [User]


    <span style="font-weight:400">ss: Exhibitionist Engager


    <span style="font-weight:400">Level: 2


    <span style="font-weight:400">Aspects:


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Nature] - {Self Targeting}


    <span style="font-weight:400">User Skills:


    <span style="font-weight:400">[All Natural] - Rank 2 - Passive - User receives a power bonus of {x2} to all aspects when not covered by any armor or clothing.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Show Off] - Rank 1 - Active - User may expend mana to draw the attention of enemies hostile to her party. The effect is stronger the more exposed skin of the User the target can see.


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Body Paint] - Rank 2 - Active - User may expend mana to create illusions on the bare bodies of herself and her party members, so long as those illusions do not create the appearance of clothing.


    <span style="font-weight:400">User Equipment:


    <span style="font-weight:400">[Floral Attire]: A flower headband that grants the User increased awareness of enemies targeting her party members.


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina blinked, rubbing her head at the influx of information. It wasn’t a painful experience, but a very strong one nheless. “Uhm, girls,” Flora said, looking down at herself, as if she was trying to see if any of the crystal dust was still on her, “I think something happened to me, and I don’t know how to exin it.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah yeah,” Tira said, walking over and inspecting the now glowing crystal. “It happened to us three too. We all have sses now.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Wait, really?” Flora ran over to Carline, grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her as she spoke. “Carly, what’s yours, what’s your ss?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“It’s, uhm…”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Carline is a Voyeur Vitalist,” the System said, glow pulsing with each word. “ina is a Masochist Mage, Miss Strask is a Sadist Striker, and you are an Exhibitionist Engager. I am the System; pleasure to meet you.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Flora was ducking behind Carline, hiding from the System. “The ss giving rock talks.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I am not a rock. I am the System.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“This is so weird,” Flora said, walking out around Carline. “You can really talk? What’s your name?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I do not have a name. I am just the System.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well that won’t do!” Flora turned back to Carline, grabbing her again. “What’s her name? What have you been calling her?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Uhm… System?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Flora frowned, pouting as she pulled away from Carline and towards ina. “She needs a name.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“I do not need a name. I am the System.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“System…” Carline said. “Short for System. What about Sissy?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“No!” Tira said, eyes going wide as she burst intoughter. “Absolutely not, veto.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Well,” ina said, looking at the orb. It didn’t sound like it wanted a name, but it would make things easier if it did. “Still short for System… How about Temmie?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Yes!” Flora said, pping her hands and jumping into the air, small breasts bouncing and drawing ina’s eyes as she did. “No veto this time, Tira!”


    <span style="font-weight:400">Tira shook her head. “Temmie is fine.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina watched the System, waiting for any response. “Uhm, System, is that alright?”


    <span style="font-weight:400">The cave dimmed a bit, then the System grew brighter again. “This moniker is eptable, if it brings convenience to the System Users. But I am still the System.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">ina smiled. The System—Temmie—had a warmth in her voice just then, a warmth that ina didn’t think she’d ever had before. “Well, wee to the party, Flora. There’s a lot to go over.”


    <span style="font-weight:400">“Before we speak further, I must inform you of something, ina,” Temmie said. “The System subcore I have been tracking has disappeared.”