First of all thanks everybody once again for the interest and support you're showing me. Also, as promised, I'm doing a recap of the main characters of the story since it can be hard sometimes to keep track of them, especially when they're not featured for a few chapters and then suddenly show up. I hope it will be helpful and as always I hope you'll enjoy reading Turnons. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Characters
Alex Marshall: Alex is a PhD student at UCL who's been just given her first chance at lecturing thanks to a seminar named "The erotic impulse as a mean of liberation in Nietszche, Freud and Marcuse". You've been reading a lot about her thoughts, fantasies, fears, so I just wanted to point out something you might have missed in the meantime.
Laura Bennett: Alex's roommate and friend. She's frisk and easygoing. Laura thinks these last few days of turmoil in Alex's life are due to some new romantic interest, and she's really positive and supportive about Alex's new daring attitude.
Richard Croft: Alex's tutor and boss. He's the one who vouched for her to get her the seminar and he's in charge of Alex's PhD thesis.
Annie Haller: a senior lecturer from a different department. Alex admires her and it seems Annie's got her back with Richard even if in a patronising way. She's Richard's (almost) unconfessed love interest.
Professor Graham Grant: head of the department where Alex and Richard work.
Susie Grant: she's one of the students attending Alex's seminar and the niece of professor Grant. She asked Alex to review a paper she's writing and she has met her on several other occasions.
SubtleG: he's the first user on Turnons Alex accepted a dare from and who's been sending her a few more dares since.
DarkPassenger: a premium user on Turnons who seems to have a specific interest in Alex and her "journey" as he defined it.
Other characters: there's a bunch of characters that appeared or have been mentioned in the story, mostly friends of Alex (Andy, Fran, Nick) or Susie (Charlie, Troy, Amy).
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Chapter 14
I can't keep up with this kind of tension the whole time. I'll just break.
But that's exactly what you want, ain't it?
No, I'm not like that, I'm something else. I'm somebody else.
Are you sure? You're positive you wouldn't rather be a little broken slutty toy to be paraded around, trapped in dirty scenarios, facing impossible choices, making mistakes, inevitably revealing your true self?
No... I'm not like that.
You are a PhD student, right?
Yes...
On your way to become an esteemed professor, a young marvel on the rise, ain't you?
I...
Why are you so hesitant?
...
Is it because you don't stand that vibrator in your pussy anymore?
Please...
Please what? Please take that vibrator out and treat me with the respect my position deserves? Or please let me cum?
No, Susan, please don't...
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The linen was damp after a feverish night. Alex was still sleepy, she hadn't even heard Laura getting up but she smelled coffee. She used to wake up to the sound of the coffee maker, when she wasn't the one using it.
What time was it? She hadn't heard the alarm? And why was Laura up on a Sat... oh fuck you, fuck you, fuck you Nick for planting this idea in my head. Get your shit together Alex.
She reached for her phone and looked for a message or email from Richard. Nothing, no news on the classroom. Grant wasn't that clear the day before on schedule, and honestly she hadn't paid too much attention to her work lately. But that had to change.
She still had the morning off. It was time to find some time for herself and set her mind straight.
Turnons persistent notification was still there from last night.
She clicked on it and started taking a good look at the report. She was going to pay attention this time. She was going to find an opening.
Every bit of the report could be opened to learn details on her progress on Turnons.
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Your daily report
Hi SluttyAlex!
You are really getting into it! Your daily report has changed a little since you activated rules. Also remember you can now achieve optional goals to earn badges and perks. Find out more in the dedicated sections on your profile.
Here's your recap for today.
Daily Dares:
Your number of daily dares is now 5
Your number of daily dares is determined by your behaviour on Turnons. You can also increase the number of dares manually through your profile settings.
Completed Dares for the day:
0
Completed dares include dares successfully completed during the course of each day. At the end of the day active rules successfully followed during the course of the day will be taken into account as well. Each rule counts as 1 completed dare.
Active rules:
3
Rules like dares have instructions to follow and proof of completion, but they're not limited in time. While dares can include multiple requirements, rules can only include one instruction that you will have to follow every day until the rule stays active. They can be automated or given by users.
Once you accept a rule, it counts as a completed dare for each day you follow it and provide the required proof. If you reject a rule or fail to follow it, the rule expires, number of daily dares rises by 1, level of automated dares rises by 1.
If you fail to follow 2 or more active rules on any given day your account gets inactivated.
Here's a recap of your active rules. For each rule there's the rule name, the dare giver who proposed it and proof required. For the detailed version you can click on the rule name.