Lars examined the "character" menu a bit more. It definitely had a lot of choices, including the option of pasting in a photograph, or even a text description of a person.
There was a section that was showing Kelly's current emotions and feelings. "Neutral/Boredom" was the emotion listed. Her heart rate was 64 BPM. Her sexual orientation was "96% (Heterosexual)" and her current sexual arousal level was 8%.
Okay, now that had possibilities. He used his mouse pointer to grab the "orientation" slider bar and move it toward the "Lesbian" end of the scale until it sat right in the middle at "50% (Bisexual)."
When he let go of the slider, up in the main window, he saw a couple of objects briefly "flash," although the virtual Kelly seemed oblivious, still sitting at her desk studying. One of the objects was the Gwen Stefani poster that was on the wall behind her. Lars zoomed in on it and realized it was a different poster than before, with Gwen in a more skimpy outfit. He went around the room, and it looked like all the posters were different -- she hadn't had one of Mariah Carey's cleavage threatening to burst out of her dress, and the poster of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was new as well. Tacked to the bulletin board on the wall near her desk, he saw something else new -- a calendar showing a pro football cheerleader in her exceptionally skimpy uniform.
Lars couldn't imagine how they'd done the programming for this game to take account of all these variables. He wondered what would happen if he bumped up her current sexual arousal level to, say, 40%.
He did so, and things got a little more interesting: she started absentmindedly rubbing the crotch of her jeans with one hand.
But that wasn't enough for Lars. With a grin, he moved the arousal level as high as it would go, to 100%.
The effect was immediate. Kelly sat bolt upright and swiveled her chair away from the desk as she lifted herself up a bit so she could pull her jeans down. The high-definition graphics made it obvious that Kelly's face was flushed. She pushed aside her white cotton panties and started fingering herself through -- Lars was a bit disappointed to see -- a fairly thick carpet of dark brown pubic hair.
With her other hand, she pulled up her sweatshirt, pulled down her plain white bra, and started caressing her breasts. They were too small for Lars's usual tastes, just a couple of A-cup bumps on her chest, but the fact that they belonged to this virtual vision of the girl next door sent Lars's arousal up near 100%.
He only wished this game had sound -- and then he noticed that his computer speakers were off. He turned the volume knob almost all the way down, just in case, and then hit the power button.
The combination gasp-moan he heard sent him over the edge almost instantly.
Lars turned his attention away from the screen for some quick mop-up work with a couple of Kleenex, and by the time he got back, Kelly had apparently finished as well. She was pulling up her jeans and getting re-settled in front of her book, almost as if nothing had happened. The arousal level display was dropping quickly, and it bottomed out at 3% as she went back to reading.