Alternative Methods.

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Has sex become repetitious? Feeling sore in certain areas? Well, good news! Your boyfriend has sent you on a quest to find different ways of having fun gay sex. Yay!

Find the following people and seek out their knowledge:

• Arcade Israel Gannon (=D)
  
• Jimmy (Westside)
  
• Old Ben (Freeside)
  
• Doctor Alex Richards (Novac)
  
• Ignacio Rivas (Helios One)

Good luck, Wanderer!

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Stares. "...And I thought you would hit me if I made mention that you were taking it."

A beat. "Some men can feel really emasculated from that."

[goodfight]

Richards had said the same. "Because it's playing the woman's role," Neil repeats aloud. "To everyone else."

He shrugs. "I am taking it, aren't I? I barely do anything as it is." A fact the young man is hoping to adjust. "How am I supposed to get mad at that?"

[doubletap]

Staaaaaares.

"I... suppose. I really did assume you would think I was being a dick. And you definitely participate, Neil."

[goodfight]

"Well, before this week, probably. It does sound like an insult when you have no idea what being a bottom entails."

Neil mulls over the next claim. "If you were looking at this objectively," he begins, "how am I participating?"

[doubletap]

He doesn't take another beat of thought. "Sounds, holding on, gripping, grabbing, sounds, moving, loving, letting me inside of you... Also sounds."

[goodfight]

Staaaaaares.

"Do I really make that much noise?" Neil queries, suddenly self-conscious.

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He smiles. "You make the most euphorically energetic, passionate sounds that I have ever, ever heard."

[goodfight]

The most euphorically--

Neil pulls a hand away to cover his mouth. Red starts to blossom across his cheeks. "Shit." That's kinda embarrassing. "I don't actually go above a moderate volume, do I?"

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"Nah," he replies, reaching with a hand to thumb the red on Neil's cheek. He leans in to touch foreheads. "Don't be embarrassed. I love hearing you. It lets me know you like what I'm doing."

[goodfight]

"Oh, I don't mind you," Neil returns. "I just don't like other people knowing what we're doing."

Prying into their business. He drops his hand, however, eyes staying on Alex's. "You also know all that stuff is less active and more reactive," he adds.

[doubletap]

"If anyone ever heard," he offers sweetly, like the gentlest of loving words. "I could make it so they never hear again."

For the latter: "What are you telling me with that?"

[goodfight]

"...Are you going to fire off a double-barrel shotgun right next to their ear?" Neil asks eagerly. Mostly joking, of course.

He sobers at the next, frowning heavily. "Reacting takes less willpower," is the explanation. "Just feel like I don't actively participate is all."

[doubletap]

"Whatever you like," he croons to Neil. "It could be an anniversary present."

He listens to Neil's explanation, then shakes his head. "It's a two person dance. You're participating. Honestly."

[goodfight]

"Didn't we technically pass our anniversary already?" Neil suddenly cannot remember.

Hardly critical, however, as he glances away, eyes unreadable. "What should I do about this feeling, then?"

[doubletap]

"Wow, breaking the mood," he complains. "It was late--" Huh. "Late August." He is suddenly a little shy. "Which is now."

To Neil's question, Alex only responds. "Participate more, like you wanted. Take control until you're confident. Until you are comfortable showing how you feel in that manner."

[goodfight]

Slowly, carefully, Neil gives a sly smile. "So this quest came in at the perfect time," he declares. "How apropos." That a year since the last, they would be here, same place and not.

The thought has him showing more certainty at the suggestion. "Okay. Alright," he gives. "I will."

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That more or less settled has Alex focusing on the sudden anniversary thing. "So. Are you. Hm. Interested? In anniversary stuff?"

[goodfight]

"Sure," Neil pipes in. "Never had anniversary stuff for anything. What are we doing?"

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A small nervous laugh. He quiets it quickly. "What do you want to do?"

[goodfight]

Such a cute reaction. "Hang out with you. What we actually do is negligible to me. I'm fine just staying like this."

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No. No. Not blushing. Why would he be?

"It's also probably customary to give gifts..."

[goodfight]

There's color high on Alex's cheekbones, spreading back. Neil touches them on automatic. "Probably. Think I owe you two gifts since I missed your birthday."

[doubletap]

Alex actually looks surprised at this. He does nothing to dissuade the touching. "Oh, I meant more me getting you something. You don't have to get me any--"

He makes a face.

"...I'm doing it again, aren't I? The being weird about gifts."

[goodfight]

"Yes, sir," Neil answers, his fingers lightly running across the cheekbones. "There ain't anything wrong about gifts when they're from people you care about."

His expression transitions to melancholy. "Gifts can be a way to remember the giver, after all."

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The sentences affect, but the expression given needs a response. He slips his arms around Neil again, nuzzling. "No need to remember when I hold you in my arms like this."