Saint James Infirmary 117: Not Enough Coffee in the Universe.

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My guess is that there are plans afoot to add Raven to the harem.  While Adrian has shown a remarkable capacity for thinking with his little head instead of his big one at some point he's likely to notice that the set of women throwing themselves at him is identical to the set of women he knows have been exposed to the mind-controlling watch, and that could raise suspicions the girls don't want.  Adding some more women to the harem that Adrian doesn't know have been near the watch mixes things up and makes it more plausible that his very successful sex life is just a matter of his personal charm and/or Axe body spray.  If Erin is aware of Raven's crush that would provide an obvious 'hook' for pulling her in.

Amy poses a different problem.  So far she's the only member of the harem whom we know with certainty had a previously-existing relationship with someone outside.  (Mallory/Marliese don't count since they're both in the harem now.)  Is Amy going to formally break up with Vik or just be Adrian's slave on the side, in secret?  Either way could give Vik a definite motivation to dig into Adrian and his social circle.  Also, timing.  Per #83 Vik and Amy had a date that night, the same night as Q and Kanti.  All of the subsequent events seem to be occurring the same evening, including Amy and Laura's tryst with Jacqui in #106/109/110.  So, did Vik get stood up, or did Amy make the date with him sometime between #97 and #106?  And what happened there?  I also wonder about the wisdom of PDAs between Amy and Laura -- what is Vik going to think if he hears about his girlfriend and his lab partner engaging in "hot lesbian action" in public?

Is it my imagination or does Laura exhibit a greater degree of self-consciousness about her status?  In #109 she's the one who raises questions about how harem life is going to work.  In #110 she's cracking a joke about being a sex-slave, and in #117 she's explicitly "awaiting further instructions".  Much more than the others she comes across as very self-aware of her slavery, almost like she's deliberately throwing herself into a role.  Which, come to think of it, actually feeds into jmundt's obsession over the aftermath of #83.

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[Daphne]

For the timeline, these three things were all supposed to happen on the same night, and this is the morning after:

1. Seraglio night at the Infirmary.
2. Laura, Amy and Jacqui's date.
3. Vik and Amy's date.

It is the morning of the day that Laura invited Raven to the Infirmary for dinner.

It's somewhat undetermined how long after the Night of the Watch it is.

[GodWilling]

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[Daphne]

Just to stop my mind from blowing, you do mean this is the morning of the dinner date, right?

Correct. #117 takes place in the Thursday morning that was referred to in #79.

[GodWilling]

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[jmundt29]

Looks like we're about to get a definitive answer on what happens when Watch programming and Sample 49 collide.  Some other questions--Is sample #49 the most recently developed one, or have they moved on to #50.  How much of 49 is left after Vik gave some to his sister (silly Vik).  What do the other samples do?  Have they been tested on humans?

Who's funding this experiment, and what's the goal?  Is this Yves looking for a new product, Claudia looking for new power, or a bored industrialist with too much time on his/her hands?

Oh, what happened on Amy's date with Vik?  Did she say she needed space?  Did she stand him up?  Did they break up entirely?  Did she get a phone call rescue from Laura?  What happened there?