You'd had a blast playing through Harem Protagonist. The characters were funny well-written, and fleshed out, the CGs were excellently drawn... honestly you hadn't had a single complaint.
And your experience had only gotten better when you'd started your second playthrough! You'd totally forgotten, but the creator had promised players the ability to utilize the wishstone prior to starting their new saves as a reward for completing the game.
And while it had been a huge pain in the butt building your relationships with the girls up again, you'd managed it. At the very least, it had been really amusing seeing the story/universe adapt to the changes you'd made. You hadn't gone too crazy- some of the girls (not all) had received boosts to their bust measurements. It had been fun seeing an already huge-breasted girl like Izumi suffering even more embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions (though she'd slapped around your character a few extra times as punishment for peeking.) And you'd made the gamer chick and the inventor girl both have way bigger boobs- which had played out for some interesting scenes that you wouldn't have been able to experience in a 'normal playthrough.'
You'd also experimented with the 'panty-vision' a few times. As it turned out, that was shorthand for 'see through the girls' clothes, so it looks like they're in their underwear.' The game had released on Steam, so obviously graphic nudity hadn't been allowed.
You'd made other changes here and there and tried some paths you hadn't in your first playthrough. All in all, you'd had just as much fun in your second playthrough as you had in your first!
And now, you'd finally reached the end once again...
Sighing, you looked at the clock on your computer. Damn, you hadn't realized it was that late. Better head to bed. You'd have to find something else to pass the time with in the coming day (you couldn't say 'tomorrow' because it was already passed midnight.)
As you stood up, a bright flash of light from your computer caught your eye. Blinking in surprise, the wishstone that you'd been given at the start appeared on screen, and flashed once again- this time the light from your computer was so bright that it left you blinking and rubbing spots from your eyes.
A sudden wave of drowsiness came over you, and you had barely enough time to stumble backwards onto your bed before passing out.
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Your vision slowly returned. You weren't sure how much time had passed, because it was still dark out. Slowly, you sit up in bed.
A moderately heavy weight abruptly fell out of the air before your eyes and landed next to you on the covers with a soft thump.
"What the?"
Shining the flashlight of your phone on the object, you blinked in shock. Maybe you were still half-asleep...
Rubbing your eyes, closing and then opening them again, you shone light on the object once again.
Nope, it was still a spot on match for the wishstone item from Harem Protagonist.
But how the heck did it get in your room? Was it some kind of promotional item for beating the game? No, that might've explained what it was, but that didn't cover how it had shown up in your room. Had somebody snuck in?
Gulping, you got out of bed, still in your pajamas. Okay, you were going to open the blinds to your window and look outside. Maybe there'd be an unfamiliar car in the parking lot of your apartment complex...
Creeping over to the window in your bedroom, you slowly opened the blinds...
And promptly blinked in shock at the sight before your eyes.
"H-holy shit! What is this?!" Instead of the quiet street you'd normally see, stretching out before your eyes was an endless sea of stars! It was as if some omnipotent being had plucked your apartment- and yours alone, not the entire complex, out of existence and brought you into... well, into space!
/* WELCOME TO HAREM PROTAGONIST */
"Ack!" Without warning, floating words had appeared in the air before your eyes! You stumbled back in alarm, falling back on your bed for the second time in recent memory. Was this a dream? No, it felt too real- you were certain that you were awake- wide awake, now. But the floating, puffy pink letters (the same font as the 'new game' and 'load game' buttons on the game's title page, you idly recognized.
What the hell was going on? Was this a lucid dream of some kind?
/* YOU ARE NOT DREAMING. YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. REJOICE, FOR YOUR HEART'S DESIRES SHALL COME TRUE */
Oookay, now you were getting nervous. Either this was a crazy dream of some kind, or it was actually happening.
'Might as well see where this goes...' You thought.
"Chosen? Chosen for what?" You call out to the floating words. Hopefully there was an actual being there that you were talking to. If you started talking into thin air, you'd look pretty stupid.
/* THE GAME HAS BEEN COMPLETED. BUT YOUR STORY IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING. HOW IT GOES IS UP TO YOU. GRASP THE WISHSTONE AND MAKE YOUR HEART'S DESIRES REALITY. */
Was... was it possible? The rock lying on your bed wasn't just a rock that looked like the magical game item, it was the game item?! Then that meant... either the wishstone had been brought into your world... or you'd been brought into the world of the wishstone!
/* UNDERSTANDING DAWNS ON YOU. MAKE YOUR CHOICES, BUT KNOW THAT THE WISHSTONE, WHILE POWERFUL, IS NOT OMNIPOTENT. MAKE WHATEVER WISH YOU WANT, BUT DO NOT COME TO RELY ON ITS POWERS. GREAT POWER WAS EXHAUSTED BRINGING YOU HERE. WHEN YOUR INITIAL CHOICES HAVE BEEN MADE, YOU SHALL AWAKEN IN THE HERO'S BED */
Holy crap! This was really happening! You were so excited you barely paid attention to what the mystery letters were saying! They were starting to fade into nonexistence out the corner of your eye. Guess they'd said what they wanted to.
Okay... what had you heard? Something, something... according to the voice, this space you were in must've been some kind of limbo, separating you from the rest of the world. No doubt so that you could make your wishes upon the wishstone and have them adapted into the reality of Harem Protagonist accordingly...
Wait, did that meant when you woke up you'd wake up looking like the protagonist?
Thoughts of what would likely soon be your appearance aside, you realized you had another big opportunity here.
The wishstone! In game, the protagonist had been rather perverted (as Harem anime protagonists went), so most of the wish choices you were allowed to make were fairly simple, if perverted ones. See a girls underwear through her clothes? Doable. Give a girl a magical boob job? Doable. But... maybe you could use the wishstone for something... more.
But now that you thought about it, the mystery words had definitely warned you against abusing its power. Evidently things could (and would) go wrong if you took it for granted.
...
......
Argh! Enough agonizing about this, you wanted to experience living in a world run by harem anime logic! The way you saw it, you had two very simple choices- either use the wishstone right away (and like in game, whatever choices you made would reshape the story accordingly,) or not to use the wishstone yet. Even if you didn't use it now, you'd still have access to it once your 'new life' started. Its powers would just be a little... limited. You were already set to enter the world of the game, maybe it'd be a better choice to try and adapt to life in your new world before going willy-nilly with the choices...
Although you'd better choose between those two options quickly. If the wishstone worked like it did in the game, if you wanted to make a big, reality-bending wish you'd only be able to do it now. The in-game wishes had all been fairly simple and straightforward (like the minor breast expansion and x-ray vision choices.)
Closing your eyes and counting to ten, you went over the two options one last time.
To wish, or not to wish, that was the question.
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1) Throw caution to the wind! You've been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you're using it! Make a big, reality-bending wish now!
2) Eh, you can't think of anything major that you want to change in the game world. You'll just save it for later.
And your experience had only gotten better when you'd started your second playthrough! You'd totally forgotten, but the creator had promised players the ability to utilize the wishstone prior to starting their new saves as a reward for completing the game.
And while it had been a huge pain in the butt building your relationships with the girls up again, you'd managed it. At the very least, it had been really amusing seeing the story/universe adapt to the changes you'd made. You hadn't gone too crazy- some of the girls (not all) had received boosts to their bust measurements. It had been fun seeing an already huge-breasted girl like Izumi suffering even more embarrassing wardrobe malfunctions (though she'd slapped around your character a few extra times as punishment for peeking.) And you'd made the gamer chick and the inventor girl both have way bigger boobs- which had played out for some interesting scenes that you wouldn't have been able to experience in a 'normal playthrough.'
You'd also experimented with the 'panty-vision' a few times. As it turned out, that was shorthand for 'see through the girls' clothes, so it looks like they're in their underwear.' The game had released on Steam, so obviously graphic nudity hadn't been allowed.
You'd made other changes here and there and tried some paths you hadn't in your first playthrough. All in all, you'd had just as much fun in your second playthrough as you had in your first!
And now, you'd finally reached the end once again...
Sighing, you looked at the clock on your computer. Damn, you hadn't realized it was that late. Better head to bed. You'd have to find something else to pass the time with in the coming day (you couldn't say 'tomorrow' because it was already passed midnight.)
As you stood up, a bright flash of light from your computer caught your eye. Blinking in surprise, the wishstone that you'd been given at the start appeared on screen, and flashed once again- this time the light from your computer was so bright that it left you blinking and rubbing spots from your eyes.
A sudden wave of drowsiness came over you, and you had barely enough time to stumble backwards onto your bed before passing out.
----------------
Your vision slowly returned. You weren't sure how much time had passed, because it was still dark out. Slowly, you sit up in bed.
A moderately heavy weight abruptly fell out of the air before your eyes and landed next to you on the covers with a soft thump.
"What the?"
Shining the flashlight of your phone on the object, you blinked in shock. Maybe you were still half-asleep...
Rubbing your eyes, closing and then opening them again, you shone light on the object once again.
Nope, it was still a spot on match for the wishstone item from Harem Protagonist.
But how the heck did it get in your room? Was it some kind of promotional item for beating the game? No, that might've explained what it was, but that didn't cover how it had shown up in your room. Had somebody snuck in?
Gulping, you got out of bed, still in your pajamas. Okay, you were going to open the blinds to your window and look outside. Maybe there'd be an unfamiliar car in the parking lot of your apartment complex...
Creeping over to the window in your bedroom, you slowly opened the blinds...
And promptly blinked in shock at the sight before your eyes.
"H-holy shit! What is this?!" Instead of the quiet street you'd normally see, stretching out before your eyes was an endless sea of stars! It was as if some omnipotent being had plucked your apartment- and yours alone, not the entire complex, out of existence and brought you into... well, into space!
/* WELCOME TO HAREM PROTAGONIST */
"Ack!" Without warning, floating words had appeared in the air before your eyes! You stumbled back in alarm, falling back on your bed for the second time in recent memory. Was this a dream? No, it felt too real- you were certain that you were awake- wide awake, now. But the floating, puffy pink letters (the same font as the 'new game' and 'load game' buttons on the game's title page, you idly recognized.
What the hell was going on? Was this a lucid dream of some kind?
/* YOU ARE NOT DREAMING. YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. REJOICE, FOR YOUR HEART'S DESIRES SHALL COME TRUE */
Oookay, now you were getting nervous. Either this was a crazy dream of some kind, or it was actually happening.
'Might as well see where this goes...' You thought.
"Chosen? Chosen for what?" You call out to the floating words. Hopefully there was an actual being there that you were talking to. If you started talking into thin air, you'd look pretty stupid.
/* THE GAME HAS BEEN COMPLETED. BUT YOUR STORY IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING. HOW IT GOES IS UP TO YOU. GRASP THE WISHSTONE AND MAKE YOUR HEART'S DESIRES REALITY. */
Was... was it possible? The rock lying on your bed wasn't just a rock that looked like the magical game item, it was the game item?! Then that meant... either the wishstone had been brought into your world... or you'd been brought into the world of the wishstone!
/* UNDERSTANDING DAWNS ON YOU. MAKE YOUR CHOICES, BUT KNOW THAT THE WISHSTONE, WHILE POWERFUL, IS NOT OMNIPOTENT. MAKE WHATEVER WISH YOU WANT, BUT DO NOT COME TO RELY ON ITS POWERS. GREAT POWER WAS EXHAUSTED BRINGING YOU HERE. WHEN YOUR INITIAL CHOICES HAVE BEEN MADE, YOU SHALL AWAKEN IN THE HERO'S BED */
Holy crap! This was really happening! You were so excited you barely paid attention to what the mystery letters were saying! They were starting to fade into nonexistence out the corner of your eye. Guess they'd said what they wanted to.
Okay... what had you heard? Something, something... according to the voice, this space you were in must've been some kind of limbo, separating you from the rest of the world. No doubt so that you could make your wishes upon the wishstone and have them adapted into the reality of Harem Protagonist accordingly...
Wait, did that meant when you woke up you'd wake up looking like the protagonist?
Thoughts of what would likely soon be your appearance aside, you realized you had another big opportunity here.
The wishstone! In game, the protagonist had been rather perverted (as Harem anime protagonists went), so most of the wish choices you were allowed to make were fairly simple, if perverted ones. See a girls underwear through her clothes? Doable. Give a girl a magical boob job? Doable. But... maybe you could use the wishstone for something... more.
But now that you thought about it, the mystery words had definitely warned you against abusing its power. Evidently things could (and would) go wrong if you took it for granted.
...
......
Argh! Enough agonizing about this, you wanted to experience living in a world run by harem anime logic! The way you saw it, you had two very simple choices- either use the wishstone right away (and like in game, whatever choices you made would reshape the story accordingly,) or not to use the wishstone yet. Even if you didn't use it now, you'd still have access to it once your 'new life' started. Its powers would just be a little... limited. You were already set to enter the world of the game, maybe it'd be a better choice to try and adapt to life in your new world before going willy-nilly with the choices...
Although you'd better choose between those two options quickly. If the wishstone worked like it did in the game, if you wanted to make a big, reality-bending wish you'd only be able to do it now. The in-game wishes had all been fairly simple and straightforward (like the minor breast expansion and x-ray vision choices.)
Closing your eyes and counting to ten, you went over the two options one last time.
To wish, or not to wish, that was the question.
-------------------------
1) Throw caution to the wind! You've been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you're using it! Make a big, reality-bending wish now!
2) Eh, you can't think of anything major that you want to change in the game world. You'll just save it for later.
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